Are you happy? Or neglecting your desires? My Tender Loving Self-Care Journal: The Workbook that Makes Self-Care Easy helps you effortlessly feel more peace and joy, no matter what stands in your way.

“A beautifully written and well-researched cultural criticism as well as an honest memoir” (Los Angeles Review of Books) from the author of the popular New York Times essay, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy. What really makes love last? Does love ever work the way we say it does in movies and books and Facebook posts? Or does obsessing over those love stories hurt our real-life relationships? When her parents divorced after a twenty-eight year marriage and her own ten-year relationship ended, those were the questions that Mandy Len Catron wanted to answer. In a series of candid, vulnerable, and wise essays that takes a closer look at what it means to love someone, be loved, and how we present our love to the world, “Catron melds science and emotion beautifully into a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation” (Bookpage). She delves back to 1944, when her grandparents met in a coal mining town in Appalachia, to her own dating life as a professor in Vancouver. She uses biologists’ research into dopamine triggers to ask whether the need to love is an innate human drive. She uses literary theory to show why we prefer certain kinds of love stories. She urges us to question the unwritten scripts we follow in relationships and looks into where those scripts come from. And she tells the story of how she decided to test an experiment that she’d read about—where the goal was to create intimacy between strangers using a list of thirty-six questions—and ended up in the surreal situation of having millions of people following her brand-new relationship. “Perfect fodder for the romantic and the cynic in all of us” (Booklist), How to Fall in Love with Anyone flips the script on love. “Clear-eyed and full of heart, it is mandatory reading for anyone coping with—or curious about—the challenges of contemporary courtship” (The Toronto Star).

SLAVERY...POLYGAMY...PROSTITUTION...and THE PLAGUE The Golden City Has Its Secrets. A 2017 RITA Finalist in Mainstream Fiction 1903: San Francisco's Chinatown is teeming with vice just blocks away from the Golden City’s aristocrats, but wealthy Will Firestone sees the district as a potential market for his shipping enterprise. Dazzled by an exotic young widow from Canton, he is drawn into the immigrant enclave, a decision that will rock his foundation and lead him down a treacherous path. Country girl Mandy Culpepper is only fifteen when she’s orphaned and brought under the protection of the Firestone name. Grateful for her privileged status, she’s determined to give back by helping Chinese immigrant girls in jeopardy, even if it means facing dangers that put her at odds with both her guardian and those in power. Following their own divergent paths, Mandy and Will are caught up in the rising tension between city power brokers and the reviled foreigners. But an intruder no one bargained for will bring them together in a fight against a horrifying disease – a scourge that cares nothing for race or social standing or the love one person feels for another. Who will survive? Who will not? ADDITIONAL RECOGNITION FOR The Depth of Beauty: Shelf Unbound 2016 “Notable Indie” Bookstores without Borders Lyra Award for Historical Fiction Chanticleer Book Reviews Goethe Award – First in Category: North American Turn of the Century The Depth of Beauty is Book Two in A.B. Michaels' historical fiction series "The Golden City." Other titles in the series include The Art of Love, The Promise, The Price of Compassion, Josephine's Daughter and The Madness of Mrs. Whittaker. All titles in this series are stand-alone reads. For more information, please visit the author's website.

A photographic celebration of the love and relationships of queer people of color by a former New York Times multimedia journalist “Thank you, Jamal Jordan, for showing the world what true love looks like.”—Billy Porter Queer Love in Color features photographs and stories of couples and families across the United States and around the world. This singular, moving collection offers an intimate look at what it means to live at the intersections of queer and POC identities today, and honors an inclusive vision of love, affection, and family across the spectrum of gender, race, and age.

Family comes first. Until it kills you… Rusty Caldwell is a lonely victim of tragedy. After losing his wife and kids to a drunk driver, he spends most nights towing drunks to keep them off the streets. His one-track existence takes a turn when he finds out his estranged sister Mandy has committed suicide. After flying out to offer his support, Rusty learns there’s much more to the story. It turns out his sister had been cheating on her husband Chris with Travis Calloway, the rich CEO of the biggest company in town. Before Mandy died, she claimed that Travis fathered one of her children and demanded that he pay up… While Rusty is trying to figure out the truth, Mandy's friend Laura offers to help look into Travis. Sparks start to fly between her and Rusty, and soon neither can deny the attraction. Before they can catch a break, they receive death threats. With Travis and Chris both looking guilty, Rusty better find out the truth before he or Laura are the next one to fall. No Return is a compelling suspense dealing with themes of love, loss, and forgiveness. If you like gripping page-turners, twisted villains, and surprising twists and turns, then you’ll love Stacy Claflin’s latest chilling creation. *This is a standalone spinoff from the USA Today bestselling Gone Trilogy. It can be read by itself.*

Anna is finally happy—newly married to a wonderful, supportive man and living in her dream home. Just as her husband begins to announce a big surprise, his heart ceases, her future dissolves, and she plunges into grief. Grief has her stuck between what was and what is. From past experience, Anna knows how easy it is to get lost in a grief that causes odd behaviors, lost chunks of time, and forgetfulness. This time, is it a sign she is in the throes of early dementia? When past horrors resurface and collide with Anna’s uncertain present, she wonders if something sinister is at play. Discovering the truth sends her on a harrowing odyssey where each step forward unlocks another terrible memory. Successfully confronting the ghosts from her past will be key to her survival.

When nothing is off limits! Chaz Diaz was named the sexiest man alive. Not only is he rich, famous, and incredibly hot, he's also the man of Aspen's fantasies. Now he is offering to pay her a million dollars to be his escort for one month, but there is a catch or two. The Caribbean resort known as Desire is one of the most beautiful places on earth, and it is where the elite go to live out their deepest darkest fantasies. Absolutely nothing is off limits. Desire will take you wherever your imagination dares to go. Those who can pay the price, can have anything they desire. Some pay the ultimate price. Up until her sister disappeared from the Caribbean resort town of Punta Cana, Aspen Johansson had never traveled anywhere. Now she is thousands of miles from home, and searching for her wayward sister. The one person she suspects of knowing where her sister is, also happens to be the guy she has been swooning over since she was sixteen years old. Chaz Diaz can't remember the last time he was spurned by a woman, so when the spirited and beautiful Aspen declines to have casual sex with him, his mild curiosity turns to outright obsession. Now he is determined to have her, but there is another reason he wants to keep her close. Keeping her close might be the only way to keep her alive.