Sweet America

The girl everybody loves to hate has returned to the town she'd sworn to leave behind forever. As the rich, spoiled princess of Parrish, Mississippi, Sugar Beth Carey had broken hearts, ruined friendships, and destroyed reputations. But fifteen years have passed, now she's come home -- broke...

Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War, giving birth to a son in Mississippi and never forgetting who had put her in this position. By 1869, Wood had obtained her freedom for a second time and returned to Cincinnati, where she sued Ward for damages in 1870. Astonishingly, after eight years of litigation, Wood won her case: In 1878, a Federal jury awarded her $2,500.

America The Dead contains books seven and eight of the series. While seven was released, eight was not and can only be purchased in this volume as there are no plans to release it as a single book. The Zombie Plagues: Donita walked down Eighth Avenue towards Columbus Circle. Behind her a silent army followed, numbering in the thousands. From the circle they would take the park. There were thousands of the living camped out in the park. She could smell them on the air that flowed past her face as she walked. They had believed they were safe in their numbers, and for a time that had been true...

In Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of America in 11 Pies, food writer Rossi Anastopoulo cracks open our relationship to pie with wit and good humor. She traces the pies woven into our history, following the evolution of our country across centuries of innovation and change and examining how America’s relationship with this iconic dessert impacted culture across eras—and vice versa.

America The Dead Survivor Stories One contains the first two books of the America The Dead series. Begins The End: When a catastrophic natural disaster looms on the near horizon, the government releases an airborne virus designed to make the human race better able to survive. Those that do survive are picking up the pieces of their world, and those that have died lay in their death sleep, but in their bodies the virus works on, mutating, setting the stage for a second catastrophe far worse that the first. Los Angeles: An apocalypse of epic proportions has shaken the Earth to it's core. In ...

America The Dead Survivor Stories three contains books five and six of the Series. War at Home two: Donita: The hunger was terrible, all consuming, and it came in crashing waves. The impulse to feed seemed to be the only coherent thought she had. It was hard to think around, hard to think past. It was all she could do not to rush from the trees, find the smell that tempted her and consume it. Eat it completely. Leave nothing at all... Zombie Fall: Arlene’s Journal: It's the night before the six will leave to go back to the outside. I think of it that way... The outside. This place ...

When the world crumbles, a broken man finds hope where he least expects it in the grit and quiet strength of a small Montana town. Cole Ramsey thought he’d left rural life behind for good. He poured his soul into big tech solutions for a cutting-edge smart city, only to be cast out as a scapegoat amidst corruption and scandal. He's blacklisted and adrift when a letter about his grandfather’s death pulls him back to the family ranch he had long abandoned. What he finds in Bridger’s Pass isn’t a simple homestead in disrepair. It’s a community clinging to old ways. Neighbors who ...

John watched as Bear helped the girls move their sleeping bags and back packs over to a clear space on the factory floor. He didn’t see what Madison saw in Cammy, but it was her choice, and she wouldn’t get a second chance with him. He came close to slamming his fist into the cement floor. Not frustrated at all, he told himself. Not even a little. He was about to roll out his sleeping bag and go to sleep, maybe tomorrow would have a different spin, he thought briefly, when Bear walked over and dropped down in a squat next to him. He moved so fast and easy for a big man. “Hey,” John ...

Teresa July has led a hard life, but now she has a chance to put her train robbing past behind her. Armed with a new job as a cook to one of Philadelphia's elite families, Teresa is determined to start her life anew, and nothing––not even her boss's stuck–up (and far too handsome)...

If you love Pride and Prejudice, you'll love this series! Elizabeth from America is a serial series, with new episodes every few weeks. Join us for an entertaining romp around Regency England in this sweet and clean romance. In this episode we find out what happened to Katherine (Kitty) Bennett! Need we say more? Of course we do! Will Elizabeth go to Pemberley as scheduled? Will the two engagements lead to marriage, or will something else happen? Will Mr. Darcy put his foot in it again and ruin his chances forever? What happens when Elizabeth comes of age? Will she return to Boston ...

America The Dead Survivor Stories Five contains books Nine and Ten of the series. Both of these books were unreleased.The Fold Book Two: Rodney stood slowly from Mamma's grave where he had been kneeling, and turned to the people behind him. Jessie stepped out and the small crowd fell silent.“It's time,” she said simply, “it's time to leave.” She turned back to the others and they climbed inside her SUV. A few moments later she backed around, came back up onto the rutted dirt road and started slowly out of the settlement.Most of the inhabitants had left soon after Mamma had died. ...

If you love Pride and Prejudice, you'll love this serial series! This is a sweet and clean Regency Romance which includes all of your favorite Pride and Prejudice characters, and many more. In our last episode, Elizabeth traveled to Hertfordshire to meet her Bennett relations. She grew to love them all, even if Aunt Fanny was a bit high strung for her taste. It was a bit of work to help her realize that she would never have to be cast into the hedgerows, but she must keep her family’s wealth a closely held secret. The visitors to Netherfield were as usual per canon, but this time ...

“A magnificent piece of writing, a beautiful tapestry of prose in which the stories of two of Atlanta’s most celebrated families have been woven densely into the history of the city itself.” —The New York Times The Intersection of Peachtree Street, historically the residential and...

♥The Candy Beach Series ♥ What would you do if you suddenly became a single mom to a seven-year-old child? Overnight, Monica Crawford finds her neatly organized life is turned upside down. Her sister abandons her blind son, Scotty, leaving him on Monica's doorstep. Caring for a child was not in Monica's carefully-laid plans. After all, she's working on her MBA while pursuing a marketing director job at The Chocolate Dreams Candy Company. However, caring for a disabled child brings unexpected conflict-and unexpected joy. When John French volunteers to tutor Scotty, he's drawn to Monica. ...

If you love Pride and Prejudice, you'll love this series! Elizabeth from America is a serial series, so start with book One. where Elizabeth finds herself an orphan, and her father's final wish is for her to sail to England and find her family. Adventures ensue almost immediately. You won't want to miss a single episode. In book four, our dear couple(s) and their families will entertain the London season. Spring is lovely in London, and there are hundreds of activities to keep everyone entertained. Of course, Elizabeth will have the most exciting time, with rogues and rakes aplenty to keep ...

This is book 15 of the serial series Elizabeth from America. If you love Pride and Prejudice, and sweet and clean Regency Romance, with adventure, intrigues, and humor, you'll love this series! A new episode comes out about once a month, rather like the periodicals of regency times. Each episode leads right into the next as we travel all around Regency England, and in this book, the continent also! Join Jane Austen's most beloved characters, and many others, as we travel together. In this episode, we will have another wedding, as well as a traveling honeymoon on the ship Cormorant. The ...

From both the right and the left today there is pressure to constrain, control, censor, and crimp private charitable giving. A decade where some philanthropy became politicized has convinced certain politicians that our donating habits need to be reshaped by government. Careful reforms could indeed be useful, and this book offers some suggestions. But there is a danger that voluntary giving in America—one of the deepest sources of our national success—could be badly damaged by political manipulators. From our founding right up to the present moment, our nation’s independent charitable...

If you love Pride and Prejudice, sweet and clean Regency romance, or historical fiction, this series is for you! If you haven't tried Jane Austen Fan Fiction (JAFF), you are missing out! Elizabeth from America is a serial series, with new episodes out every few weeks, just like in the old periodicals of the day! This book contains episodes 11 through 14 under one cover. Only the compilations are offered in print form. The novellas are released in eBook. This is the third compilation. In this series, Elizabeth is not a Bennet...or at least not completely. After her father passes away, she is...

If you love Pride and Prejudice, and sweet, clean Regency Romance, you'll love this series! What if Elizabeth wasn't a Bennet? What if Elizabeth was an American? What if Elizabeth sailed to England to find her Bennet family? What if Miss Darcy met Elizabeth at Ramsgate before she could get into trouble? What if there are a dozen new characters who were not in the original Pride and Prejudice? (but of course we'll see many of our old favorites) What if Mr. Darcy doesn't like Americans? Come visit this new Jane Austen Fan Fiction series and see what other "what if's" there are as Elizabeth ...

The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals are enforcing on our democracy. All across America, a storm is gathering: from book bans in school libraries to anti-trans laws in state...