Best Book of the Year NPR • Wall Street Journal • Boston Globe • Library Journal • CrimeReads • LitReactor • Air Mail Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick An Instant New York Times Bestseller New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott's exquisite new novel, “dark and juicy and tinged with horror” (The New York Times Books Review), set against the hothouse of a family-run ballet studio. With their long necks, sheer tights, and taut buns, Dara and Marie Durant have only known the course of a well-bred dancer. Not much changes when their parents face death in a tragic accident. As Dara and Marie take over their mother's duty of running the Durant School of Dance, along with Charlie, Dara's husband and once their mother's prized student, the sisters perfect a fine dance, circling around one another, six days a week, keeping the studio thriving. But when another eerily suspicious accident occurs, just at the onset of the school's annual performance of The Nutcracker—a season of tense competition, provoked anxiety, and wild exhilaration—an interloper arrives and threatens the sisters' delicate balance. With its uncanny insight and writing that haunts, The Turnout is Megan Abbott at the height of her game—a sharp and strange dissection of family ties and sexuality, femininity, and power, and a sinister tale that is both alarming and irresistible.

Most women don't have the opportunity to turn their husband or boyfriend into their fulltime sissy maid. But we all can enjoy the pleasure of a part-time sissy maid. In Sissy Maid Weekends Janice Parker shares with us her relationship with a new friend and she shares the sizzling story of how to turn a husband into a weekend sissy maid. You'll listen to Carol while she admits her lack of understanding of the subject. Then you'll follow along with Janice while she enlightens Carol with her own sissy maid experience.Yes, women can have a weekend sissy maid! Even a sissy maid can gain valuable insight on her own behavior when she reads how well Janice explains those erotic fetish yearnings.Return to the world of Mistress Parker where Woman is always capitalized and Women reign supremely in authority. You'll enjoy this erotic, informative and entertaining reading suitable for both Dominant Women and their submissive sissy males.

The scandalous true crime story about the Papin Sisters, as told by one of comics' most stylized talents. Christine Papin, an overworked live-in maid, is reunited with her younger sister, Lea, who has also been hired by the wealthy Lancelin family. They make the estate's beds, scrub the floors, and spy on the domestic strife that routinely occurs within its walls. What starts as petty theft by the maids ― who are flashing back to their tumultuous time in a convent ― shortly turns into something more nefarious. Madame Lancelin’s increasingly unhinged abuse ignites the sisters' toxic upbringing and social class exploitation and explodes into a ghastly double murder, an event that shocked and fascinated 1930s France and beyond. Maids has high bravura and high intrigue, all drawn in Skelly’s highly stylized manner, which combines the best of pop art, manga, and Eurocomics.

The Winters siblings were always close to one another, and each had a special bond to their sister Vera. Coming from a family of modest means, Ruth, the eldest of the siblings, is plagued with newfound wealth, opulence, and some deadly secrets. A figure of physical beauty, she quickly marries after college and starts a life with a powerful businessman. Identical twins Matthew and Marc couldn't be more opposite from one another. Matthew is in the throes of a raging ethical battle. His career is the most important thing to him, even though he hasn't achieved it all on his own. Marc knew he wanted to marry Lucy the first time he saw her. He knew he was completely content to settle down, have a family, and put his career on hold. Their sister Vera, always putting the family first, is nave and trustworthy. Accustomed to taking backseat to her siblings' happiness, familial circumstances constantly keep her occupied and single. After years of putting others first, even in her professional work with a non-profit, Vera's life is quickly escaping her until she meets a mysterious man. Will the Winters siblings band together to restore the life of the Winters sister who has been torn apart by deception and corruption? Will Matt learn how to balance a thriving career and his personal life? Will Vera get to be with the man she loved From Day One? Join author Jennifer Taylor Wojcik as she weaves a fiercely romantic novel laced with deceit.

At a very young age, Olivia left her family and traditions in Mexico to live with her mother, Carmen, in one of Los Angeles's most exclusive and nearly all-white gated communities. Based on over twenty years of research, Romero brings Olivia's remarkable story to life. We watch as she struggles through adolescence, declares her independence and eventually goes off to college and becomes a successful professional. Much of her story is told in Olivia's voice and we hear of both her triumphs and her setbacks. Romero explores this story about belonging, identity, and resistance, illustrating Olivia's challenge to establish her sense of identity, and the patterns of inclusion and exclusion in her life. Romero points to the hidden costs of paid domestic labor that are transferred to the families of private household workers and nannies, and shows how everyday routines are important in maintaining and assuring that various forms of privilege are passed on from one generation to another. She shows how mythologies of meritocracy, the land of opportunity, and the American dream remain firmly in place while simultaneously erasing injustices and the struggles of the working poor. From publisher description.

A classic bestselling resource for every household, Home Comforts helps you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home. “Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food.” —USA TODAY Home Comforts is an engaging and comprehensive book about housekeeping. It is a lively and readable guide for both beginners and experts in all the domestic arts. From keeping surfaces free of germs, watering plants, removing stains, folding a fitted sheet, cleaning china, tuning a piano, lighting a fire, setting the dining room table—this guide covers everything that people might want to do for themselves in their homes. Further topics include: making up a bed with hospital corners, expert recommendations for safe food storage, reading care labels (and sometimes carefully disregarding them), keeping your home free of dust mites and other allergens, this is a practical, good-humored, philosophical guidebook to the art and science of household management.