Standing here in front of you today, sharing my story; this wasn't supposed to be my reality. There's not a day that goes by that I don't ask myself; what can I have done different? Was there anything that I could have done to prevent this heartache; to prevent this tragedy? To wake up and feel whole again; and regardless of every possible scenario I came up with, there was always a way around it." Yvonne said as she wiped tears from her eyes and composed herself. "I shouldn't be standing before you today. I shouldn't feel this pain; but because this is now my reality, I'm sharing my story with you." She's only 15.

Jimmy the Weasel works the beat in Little London, a neon-soaked post-war city rife with crime and corruption. It also has its bad points. Datsik is a nine-hundred-pound Kamchatka bear that thinks he's Winnie the Pooh. Emil Lanksy is a Tulpa, the outsourced personality of a very dull young man. All Bravilor Bonamat wants is to LightJockey at Rancids and get through another shift without being dragged into criminal activity. Over the next few nights, shipping containers of human cargo will tie them all together and end up redefining reality itself.

This is a collection of 12 short stories - general fiction.

As Fibromyalgia affects millions of people throughout the world, and we look toward the medical community to help those who suffer from it, what happens at home? If there are so many unanswered questions at the doctor's office, how are we supposed to explain it to our loved ones? This is Patricia Jacobson's journey and how her whole family was along for the ride, whether they wanted to be or not. As she still battles with her pain, she recalls all the pivotal moments in her life that made her realize Fibromyalgia is much bigger than we ever imagined

From New York Times Bestselling author and Queen of Suspense, Lisa Jackson, comes If Only She Knew, a novel that will having you holding your breath as you turn each page. Perfect for readers of The Silent Patient and Then She was Gone! If She Only Knew, introduces the Cahills, a wealthy San Francisco family—rich in money, twisted secrets, and hidden agendas. Now at the center of their tangled world is Marla Cahill—a woman with no memory of who she is, what she’s done, or why she could be the next to die . . . It begins on a dark stretch of highway in northern California. Caught in a blinding glare of headlights, two vehicles swerve and crash—leaving one woman dead, and another in a coma. When the surviving woman awakens, her memory is gone and her face has been reconstructed. Her family tells her that her name is Marla Cahill—but they’re all strangers to her. Recuperating in her isolated San Francisco mansion, Marla waits for something to trigger recognition. Yet the only thing she’s left with is the unshakable feeling that she is not who everyone says she is, and that something is very, very wrong. Marla knows her life isn’t just different—it’s in danger. And as her fear builds, a killer waits for the perfect moment to strike—the moment Marla remembers . . .

Mother’s Statement: This book is about our experience with my daughter Debra’s walk with cancer. It is every mother’s nightmare — losing a child. It began the first day my daughter was diagnosed. Never did I consider the possibility that my diary would serve any purpose other than to try to understand the mystery and confusions, or lack of information, or misinformation during her treatments; also our hopes, disappointments, the roller-coaster of emotions, and the confusing medications. We have never been able to verify her treatments, as after numerous requests, we were not given Debra’s medical records.

Adel, a Christian Lebanese-American, devastated by the religious war in Lebanon and tormented by his Jehovah witness wife, Nadia, in California, got drunk and lost in the dark streets of South Central Los Angeles. He met Lisa, a Jewish blonde American, in a miraculous way. She stormed him up with love and converted his miserable life into a rainbow of happiness. His wife caused him to go to jail. He told his life story in jail to an inmate, John Webb; how his life was a valley of tears and Lisa took him to the new world which he depicted in his dreams. Many strange events occurred during their relationship concerning his wife, daughter Jane, and her son Brian. For Adel, life and death make the first chapter of the book of life and there is no happiness without a true love. Lisa was for him a sphere and all life in rhythmic fragments moved within her. She sang with the days and dreamed with the nights. She walked on the shores of life and the wind of the ocean cannot erase her foot-prints, they will remain forever. She was a sweet thought in the mind of God before he sent her into the world through a womb of a chosen woman.