Rita Lakin was a pioneer a female scriptwriter in the early 1960s when Hollywood television was exclusively male. For years, in creative meetings, she was literally "the only woman in the room." In this breezy but heartfelt remembrance, Lakin takes readers to a long-forgotten time when women were not considered worthy or welcome at the creative table...

After being beaten and left for dead, Steven finds himself stranded alongside the 101 in a small Northern California town. When a mysterious stranger named Quinn offers a hand in exchange for help reuniting with his daughter in San Francisco, Steven gets in the car and begins a journey from which there is no return. 

Quinn has an agenda all his own and he's...

What would you do to save your child?

Detective John Penley and his new partner, Detective Paula Newberry, of the Sacramento Police Department are tasked with leading the investigation into a local serial killer who has dumped three bodies in the past six weeks--and all of them are missing their internal organs. But while pursuing a lead, the detectives...

Hamas has taken power in Palestine, and the Israeli government is rounding up threats. When Palestinian policewoman Rania Bakara finds herself thrown in prison, though she has never been part of Hamas, her friend Chloe flies in from San Francisco to get her out. Chloe begs an Israeli policeman named Benny for help—and Benny offers Rania a way out:...

The age-old question about alien existence and human contact is explored in a new way in this collection of six novellas, previously anthologized in Analog Magazine When disillusioned aerospace engineer Adrian Mast buys a book at a remainder sale, the last things he expects to find in its appendix are alien spacecraft designs. With the help of the...

A family is forever changed in the summer of 1956

The edge of the orchard, where the last row of trees stood on the old lake bluff, delimited the edge of the real world. The orchard's orderly realm clashed and stood in mortal conflict with the Michigan woods spread below. One would win in the end. The boy understood the battle: the orchard is man's domain;...

In 1952, after a year on the run, disgraced Chicago Police Officer Elliot Caprice wakes up in a jailhouse in St. Louis. His friends from his hometown secure his release and he returns to find the family farm in foreclosure and the man who raised him dying in a flophouse. Desperate for money, he accepts a straight job as a process server and eventually...

"In a world shrouded by soot and smoke, young Makarria has literally been forbidden to dream...

Legend has foretold the demise of Emperor Thedric Guderian at the hands of a sorceress with royal blood, and the Emperor has made it his legacy to stamp out all magic from the Sargothian Empire in favor of primitive coal fired smelters and steam powered machines...

For Jungian analyst Gellert (Modern Mysticism: Jung, Zen and the Still Good Hand of God), America is at a fateful crossroads: will it allow the vision of its Founding Fathers "to be diffused through the cults of novelty, freedom, happiness or prosperity," or will it reconnect to its spiritual roots "moral integrity and integrity of good, balanced living"?...

What if you could choose your heaven now? Go on a celestial shopping trip of sorts? Thirty-five-year-old Vivienne does just that, as she lies in the ICU; a fatal walk into the path of a truck. In her final week of life, Vivienne treks through the Heavens of a priest, a best friend, a homeless child, and a lover who never was. Vivienne's guardian angel...

In Facehooked: How Facebook Affects Our Emotions, Relationships, and Lives Dr. Suzana Flores explores the worldwide phenomenon of “likes,” “dislikes,” and the complex universe that is Facebook. This groundbreaking book addresses the alarming increase psychologists have seen in Facebook related complaints from their clients, and will change the way the 128...

A scientist develops a cigarette that cures lung cancer

and tries to push it out to the market before Big Pharma thugs get to him first.

Kerry Stine heads to her job at San Francisco General Hospital to discover a patient has gone missing on her watch from ICU. She’s blamed for the disappearance, immediately suspended, and there’s a warrant for her arrest...

The life and times of a trailblazing feminist in American law. The first female Stanford law professor was also first director of the District of Columbia Public Defender Service, one of the first women to be an Assistant Attorney General of the United States, and the biographer of California’s first woman lawyer, Clara Foltz. Survivor, pioneer, leader, and...

In Skinny, Fat, Perfect: Love Who You See in the Mirror, Laura Fenamore teaches women how to love their bodies, and more importantly, how to love themselves. This book combines life coaching with personal experience, and gives readers a relatable guide to self-love and weight release.

Skinny, Fat, Perfect: Love Who You See in the Mirror follows one...

From Edgar Award-winning Author Susan Wolfe...

When does the Con become the Artist?

Georgia Griffin has just arrived in Silicon Valley from Piney, Arkansas on very bald tires, having firmly rejected her beloved father’s life as a con artist. Her father is in jail and a certain minister is hugging her mother for Jesus while eyeing Georgia’s...

Beyond Belief!

This book examines what forces in us drive us to believe in mystics, healers and gurus. What unconscious impulses lead us to join cults, and reveals how feelings become beliefs in the brain. Dr. Janov discusses all of this through the autobiographies of patients who have lived it. He also examines how the government functions as a cult with...

A story of leadership and compassion witnessed following Hurricane Katrina

Herrington weaves gripping details of the lives of people, businesses, and entire cities that were temporarily reversed and permanently altered by one of the most catastrophic storms in U.S. history, Hurricane Katrina.

But from the destruction emerged a humanitarian response on...

France is steeped in refined traditions, with its rich history, exquisite art, robust culture, and varied cuisine. Writer Erin Byrne was changed by traveling around this country with the ghosts of artists and historical figures who shared with her their guides to living.

WINGS: Gifts of Art, Life and Travel in France (Travelers Tales | March 15) is a...

Meet Lennox Cooper. She's a smart poker player, a smart detective, but she's got issues. A year ago her affair with a married cop got her fired from the Portland Police. Now she's trying to build a new life as a private investigator, but all she'd landed so far are surveillance gigs.

The murder of a wealthy developer gives her a chance to reestablish...

Welcome to the Silicon Valley law firm of Tweedmore & Slyde, where multimillion-dollar deals are the order of the day, ambition runs high, and stabbing a colleague in the back could be taken all too literally.

T&S is a hot firm making a bid to be a major national player when Leo Slyde—the company’s chief rainmaker, its king of the “billable hour”—is...

It’s been over sixty years, but three people remain haunted by what he did.
Was it treason…or something far worse?

Raised with shame and silence, Annette Revoir refuses to confront her terrible legacy—her grandfather’s execution as an atomic bomb spy in the 1950s. But when she finds an old family photo album that reveals a very different portrait of her...