epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-23 | Author:Judith R. Bernstein [Bernstein, Judith R.]

By the second week after Sid died, Joe went back to both his regular job and his part-time job. I still couldn’t even feed myself or my daughters. I resented ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-07-08 | Author:Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Three generations of fun And at some point, Mother Mary rests her head on my shoulder and falls asleep, like a small child. I stay as still as possible, so ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-17 | Author:Mary Alice Monroe [Monroe, Mary Alice]

Dora stood motionless in the dressing room, her body shaking with hurt and shock and anger at Harper’s outburst. How dare she say those things to her? Harper didn’t like ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Spungen, Deborah [Spungen, Deborah]

Chapter 14 We didn’t need a therapist to tell us that Nancy was going to have to find something to do with herself. She got very upset when I suggested ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-01 | Author:Marie Osmond & Marcia Wilkie [Osmond, Marie & Wilkie, Marcia]

WXR-Pee Each year for Halloween, I go green as Witchelina. The year I did my radio show, Donny dressed up as me. Scarier than my witch garb by far, mostly ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-04 | Author:Kelly Corrigan [Corrigan, Kelly]

I wake up the next morning feeling energetic, you might even say hale, so I decide to leave the car at home and pick up the kids on foot. “We’re ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1950-01-01 | Author:Pearl S. Buck

III I CAME TO MY own country as a stranger. There was disadvantage in this, for I had no friends to guide me, nor any who knew in any way ...

epub |eng | 1999-03-25 | Author:Barbara Park [Park, Barbara]

“Do not stand on your chair, Junie B.!” she said. “And please don’t fight about valentines. If someone didn’t send you a card, it was just a mistake. No one ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-30 | Author:Claire Fontaine [Fontaine, Claire]

CHAPTER NINE Avignon Pentimento Def: A visible trace of earlier painting beneath a layer, or layers, of paint on a canvas. From Italian, literally “repentant.” If happiness were a landscape, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-23 | Author:Claire Fontaine [Fontaine, Claire]

It’s the first cool night in a while and before taking a walk, I dig out the big, black writing sweater my mother knit for me. It’s oversize with a ...

epub |eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Laurie Notaro [Notaro, Laurie]

• If you are sitting behind me in a movie and you feel the need to converse as freely as if you are in your living room, I will “Shhhh!” ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Jennifer Grant [Grant, Jennifer]

Willie Watson, circa 1973. Not a false bone in her body. My favorite nanny, Willie Watson, put it best with her sage advice about people: “Don’t you pay them no ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Pat Brown [Brown, Pat]

WE COULD PLACE a stranger in Mary Beth Townsend’s apartment just three weeks before she was discovered strangled and left in a closet. And he was on trial for strangling ...

mobi |eng | 2009-03-05 | Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

The key turned soundlessly in the lock as she let herself into the museum. She set down her shoulder bag and flicked on the panel of lights. Her palms were ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-28 | Author:Mary Pipher

In my first ten years as a therapist, I never saw a client who mutilated herself. Now it’s a frequent initial complaint of teenage girls. Girls deal with their internal ...