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Plump, unattractive, and underachieving, Sharon Mathers isn't the kind of girl usually found in glossy women's magazines. She is the kind of girl found reading them, usually while drinking beer in the backroom of her friend's double-wide trailer/beauty parlor. Born to a single mother in a small town where family ties run “deep enough to be genetically suspect,” Sharon grew up on the social fringe. Unfortunately, marrying a hometown boy and “by extension, almost half of the town,” didn't help. Sharon's longing for deep and authentic ties of kinship takes her farther and farther from ...

Daisy McLean, a young librarian at a branch library in Oklahoma, unexpectedly learns that a world-famous novelist might have been her birth father. Her adoptive parents expose a long-held family secret that upends Daisy's comfortable world. She sets off to meet her estranged father using her mother's hand-written diary and her father's latest novel as guides. Homeless is the story of Daisy's journey through the history, literature, and geography of The South on her search to find a family she never knew she'd lost.

"Homecoming" is the story of Caitlin Pearson, a college freshman on her first visit home who discovers, to her dismay, that "out of sight did not necessarily guarantee out of mind." Over the course of her visit, Caitlin endures an overly-controlling mother and her latest redecorating project - Caitlin's oversexed younger cousin, a humiliating stint as her former high school's returning Homecoming Queen, and an old-fashioned booze-and-jealousy spiked family Thanksgiving. These adventures force Caitlin to confront old wounds and new fears, as well as a future filled with uncertainty, promise,...

The Yummish Faith is a small, but growing movement. You may have noticed Yummish people in your community – holding hands, eating ice cream cones, petting fluffy dogs, stopping to smell the roses... or the doughnuts. Perhaps you're interested in pursuing your own path to The YUM. Or maybe you're just looking for a collection of quirky, funny, occasionally inspiring essays to read in your all too brief moments of downtime. The Yummish Faith aims to give readers a new way of approaching the chaos of everyday life, with a more open, tolerant, and cookie-centric worldview. Wine and chocolate ...