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A wide range of women—actors, athletes, academics, CEOs, writers, small-business owners, birth workers, physicians, and activists—share their experiences of becoming mothers in this multifaceted, moving, and revealing collection.

Cassie McBee is a freshman, brand new to campus, and it doesn’t take her long to figure out that the rules are only set to be broken at PSU. A pre-med bio major, she’s got more important things to worry about than joining a sorority or partying at fraternity houses. But her best friend is rushing, and when she tags along, she discovers there’s more to Greek life than she thought.

Four college football romance novels in one epic box set: The Red Zone Rivals series is spicy, fun, and addictive.

Stacy Keach stars in this shocking tale of a Polk Street dentist and his wife in 1899 San Francisco. Frank Norris’ powerful insights into the depths of the human soul make this a story of compelling narrative force. This seminal novel about murder, obsession and the destructive effects of greed features an all-star cast including Stacy Keach, Edward Asner, Ed Begley Jr., Bud Cort, Hector Elizondo, Teri Garr, Katherine Helmond, Helen Hunt, Amy Irving, Carol Kane, Marsha Mason, Richard Masur, Judge Reinhold, and more.

At a college in sunny South Florida, the weather is hot, and the guys are hotter. Cassie McBee is a freshman, brand-new to campus, and it doesn’t take her long to figure out that the rules are only set to be broken at PSU. A pre-med bio major, she’s got more important things to worry about than joining a sorority or partying at fraternity houses. But her best friend is rushing, and when she tags along, she discovers there’s more to Greek life than she thought.

Spring Break is on the horizon, and if the PSU crew thought last year was crazy, they have no idea what’s in store for them this time. Adam and Cassie face a whole new set of challenges that will define their relationship once and for all. Ashlei makes an enemy at her internship that could cost her everything. Bear tries online dating while Jess looks for a distraction from her heartbreak.

Cassie faces a ghost from her past in her new Genetics class while Adam fights for his brothers’ respect as second-term president. Jess has some fun with her latest distraction, Erin discovers an unexpected friend at therapy, Ashlei deals with a threatening new intern, and Skyler balances her new job with her new long-distance relationship.

Macon and Bess are two mail-order brides, lured to the West of the 1860s by the promise of new beginnings through marriage to men they've never met. While waiting for their respective husbands-to-be, one bubbling with optimism, the other mousy and plain, the two women become instant best friends. As Abundance follows the two women through their friendship and adventures for the next 25 years, this Western epic unearths the dark underside of American mythology.

Spring Break always means chaos for the Palm South University crew, but this year is a little different...for many reasons. After the shocking discovery last semester, Jess finds herself torn between what feels like an impossible choice, and she's not the only one. Some hearts break while others are made whole in the most explosive season of Palm South University yet.

New York dilettante Marjorie Taub, a middle-aged doctor's wife, is hooked on culture - mornings at the Whitney, afternoons at MOMA, evenings at BAM. Plunged into a mid-life crisis of Medea-like proportions, she's shaken out of her lethargy by the reappearance of a fascinating childhood friend.

Amy L. Williams has spent three decades doing ministry with youth in gangs and prisons. While most of society sees high-risk youth through lenses of fear or disregard, she has come to see them through God's eyes as having tremendous value and potential. Worth Seeing provides an up-close look at her work—successes, losses, lessons, and embarrassing mistakes. Through personal narrative, Amy reveals the lives of youth who are often pushed to the margins of society.

Elliot is a first responder in New York, a man running from past failures and struggling to do the right thing. Emma is a pregnant singer preparing to headline a benefit concert for victims of a growing outbreak - all while questioning what kind of world her child is coming into. Owen is the author of a best-selling novel with eerie similarities to the real-life crisis, and as fact and fiction begin to blur, he must decide whether his lifelong instinct for self-preservation has been worth the cost.

Eva couldn't quite understand why this quiet outsider was so mysterious. Why did he leave the Englischer life behind? Why did the townsfolk talk about him in hushed tones as he walked by? Eva convinced her friends to accept the stranger, to help him find Gott and heal his soul.... Then Hannah went missing.... The townsfolk searched and found her lifeless soul...hidden deep in the woods. Was it the stranger? Is she in danger? Despite her fear, she knows that she, like all of us, must face the stranger inside....

Assaulted, left for dead, and amnesic, the woman who thinks her name is Alex, may be the only surviving victim of a killer who’s targeting prostitutes and leaving their bodies without fingertips to complicate their identification. Denver Homicide Detective Blake Halloran is sure she is connected to the other killings but he can’t identify her, even with her fingertips intact. And she can’t remember anything - including the face or name of the man who tried to kill her.

It’s a new year at Palm South University, and a new chapter for Cassie—who’s excited to take her relationship with Grayson to the next level. But when he asks her to make an impossible choice between him and Adam, loyalty will be tested, and hearts will be broken.

Erin fights for justice while Bear continues to fight his demons in order to be the man he wants to be for the woman he loves. Skyler considers what will come after graduation—and whether or not Kip will be a part of the plan. Cassie and Adam navigate their newfound long distance relationship, and find the path to be bumpier than expected.

Parties. Romance. Friendship. Everything seems perfect on the surface. But after last semester, Ashlei finds herself in trouble she can’t get out of on her own, Erin faces a choice that will change her life forever, and J-Love is falling deeper than she ever expected for her sexy teacher.

The characters in Mary Miller's debut short story collection, Big World, are at once autonomous and lonesome, possessing both a longing to connect with those around them and a cynicism. Her writing is unapologetically honest and efficient, and the gut-wrenching directness of her prose is reminiscent of Mary Gaitskill and Courtney Eldridge - if Gaitskill's and Eldridge's stories were set in the South and reeked of spilled beer and cigarette smoke.

Whether you are learning to meditate, guiding a group meditation, or healing your body and life, Amy Williams’ Conscious Embodiment Meditations offers a guiding hand in the journey to a higher vibe in life. Meditation is a multi-faceted journey that while touted for all its positive benefits is often the spiritual practice that people avoid because they feel like they can’t do it right.

This collection of tales is a tribute to the unique bond of the woman-woman relationship called girlfriends. Often the most valuable relationships in women's' lives, girlfriends make each other laugh, always lend a supportive shoulder, and sometimes know each other better than they know themselves. The inspiring and revealing tales told here explore the values these relationships are built upon - acceptance, forgiveness, loyalty, honesty, and much more.