An imaginative, emotional debut novel for fans of Ann Patchett about one woman's fight to save her daughter from repeating a deadly fate. What if you had one chance to save someone you lost? Isolated in the aftermath of tragedy, Erin Fullarton has felt barely alive since the loss of her young daughter, Korrie. She tries to mark the milestones her therapist suggests--like today, the 500th day without Korrie--but moving through grief is like swimming against a dark current. Her estranged husband, Zac, a brilliant astrophysicist, seems to be coping better. Lost in his work, he's perfecting his model of a stunning cosmological phenomenon, one he predicts will occur today--an event so rare, it keeps him from being able to acknowledge Erin's coinciding milestone. But when Erin receives a phone call from her daughter's school, the same call she received five hundred days earlier when Korrie was still alive, Erin realizes something is happening. Or happening again. Struggling to understand the sudden shifts in time, she pieces together that the phenomenon Zac is tracking may have presented her with the gift of a lifetime: the chance to save her daughter. Unable to reach Zac or convince the authorities of what is happening, Erin is forced to find the answer on her own. Erin must battle to keep the past from repeating--or risk losing her daughter for good.

Serving aboard the U.S.S. ELDORADO in San diego shortly before the Gulf War, Petty Officer Cheevers becomes involved in a shipboard scandal that ruins his career. He's been blamed for inticing his shipmate, Seaman John Trout, into hanging himself in the ship's brig. Only Cheevers knows the real story梩hat Seaman Trout experienced a past life vision of himself dying in a battle nearly two hundred years previously. Although Cheevers explains these details to the ship's captain in an investigation, still resulting in a demotion and his dismissal from the ship in disgrace, he withholds the key information that has shattered his perception of reality. Seaman Trout predicted Cheevers will die, too, in a trap set by fate that is impossible to escape. Cheevers learns that his life hangs in the balance of being able to circumvent destiny by proving his shipmate's prophesy wrong, and surviving the conflict that erupts in the Persian Gulf initiated by Saddam Hussein. AUTHOR BIO: Paul William Darby's passion for writing novels began while he served in the Navy. He later became a staff member with news services in Europe. His novels evolved from his many personal experiences he discovered were necessary before he acquired the voice by which to speak.

A fascinating look at the stories behind the dedications of 50 literary classics. Mary Shelley dedicated Frankenstein to her father, her greatest champion. Charlotte Brönte dedicatedJane Eyre to William Makepeace Thackeray for his enthusiastic review of the book’s first edition. Dostoyevsky dedicated The Brothers Karamazov to his typist-turned-lover Anna Grigoyevna. And, as this collection’s title indicates, F. Scott Fitzgerald dedicated his masterpiece The Great Gatsby to his wife Zelda. Often overlooked, a novel’s dedication can say much about an author and his or her relationship to the person for whom the book was consecrated. Once Again to Zelda explores the dedications in fifty iconic books that are an intrinsic part of both literary and pop culture, shedding light on the author’s psyche, as well as the social and historic context in which the book was first published.

"Snow" previously published under the pseudonym Tracy Lynn.

The Wandering Vine trilogy is based on three aspects of a spiritual journey through life. Even My Family, book one, is about finding your own path and following it. Cries of Freedom, book two, is about surrounding yourself with unconditional love. Once Again, book three, is about releasing negative karma. In Once Again, book III, the heroine, Elizabeth Randolph, continues on her path; a path that contains fear and heartbreak, as well as joy. She must release the urge to blindly follow her emotions if the joys of life are to continue to open up for her. She must not struggle. She must allow peace into her soul, but will she? Her anxiety is fueled by her nightmares. Or are they memories from a life long ago? Ruben Stone’s continued presence, after what Elizabeth believes he has done, keeps her from letting the joys of her life to unfold. Is it her mind or her memory that makes her hate him so? Will she let him destroy her? Rebeccah Wickford, now a young woman, must face her lineage or hide it forever. Will she continue to live as the Boston Brahmin her friends and neighbors believe her to be? Or will she acknowledge her lineage, possibly leaving her in the abyss between the white and black communities, never accepted by either one? George Parkman always deferred to John Appleton, Elizabeth’s husband, in the past. Will he continue to acquiesce his future to others? Or will he step up and finally make his feelings known? Will this family, created by Elizabeth, let their hearts determine their paths? Or will their joys be strangled by the past?

This memoir takes us on a journey of an Indian-American woman having endured an abusive marriage for decades. Viera Gossai narrates firsthand the effects of cultural norms, conventions, expectations after her divorce, and finally her restoration and awakening to a sense of herself. There are numerous predefined social norms created by our society that far too frequently accepts the distressed and depressed life of an abused married woman, but often rejects divorce, particularly in the Indian-American community. This memoir is a poignant reminder that one cannot and should not abandon hope in the face of the suffering and the unraveling of oneself and one's identity. Once Again invites readers to believe in the hope that new beginnings are possible and the assurance that abuse will not be the last word.