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The Strange Beautiful
From debut fiction writer Carla Crujido comes a delicately intertwined, fairytale-inspired collection of short stories. Part vivid historical drama, part melancholy fever dream, The Strange Beautiful centers on Mount Vernon Apartments in Spokane, Washington, offering a glimpse into the lives of ten tenants over a period of one hundred years. In the opening story, "The Songbird," we meet the building's caretaker, a WWI veteran trying to rebuild his life amidst the Spanish flu pandemic. "The Telephone" takes us inside Apartment B, where a 21st-century poet's longing for a bygone era nurtures a friendship that transcends time. A 1930s department store mannequin navigates the challenges of woman...
The Strange Beautiful
From debut fiction writer Carla Crujido comes a delicately intertwined, fairytale-inspired collection of short stories. Part vivid historical drama, part melancholy fever dream, The Strange Beautiful centers on Mount Vernon Apartments in Spokane, Washington, offering a glimpse into the lives of ten tenants over a period of one hundred years. In the opening story, "The Songbird," we meet the building's caretaker, a WWI veteran trying to rebuild his life amidst the Spanish flu pandemic. In "The Telephone," a 21st-century poet's longing for a bygone era nurtures a friendship that transcends time. A 1930s department store mannequin navigates the challenges of womanhood in the surreal, darkly hum...
Nonwhite and Woman
Editors Darien Hsu Gee and Carla Crujido bring together 131 personal narratives written by established and emerging women of color. In 300 words or less, these true stories speak to otherness, familial relationships, impossible beauty standards, ancestral heritage, coming of age, and owning one's place in the world. This singular collection, inspired by Lucille Clifton's luminous poem, "won't you celebrate with me," sings to the beauty of how these women live and thrive in the world, and how they make their lives their own. Includes author commentaries, discussion questions for further exploration, resources for additional reading, and a guide to writing micro essays.
Today We Go Home
"Today We Go Home shines an illuminating light on history and the female soldiers who have served this country from the Civil War to Afghanistan today. Kelli Estes passionately brings the past to life, interweaving the story of two women from different centuries whose journey towards hope is timeless."—GWENDOLYN WOMACK, USA Today bestselling author of The Fortune Teller and The Time Collector In this evocative work of historical fiction, USA Today bestselling author Kelli Estes pairs two military women who—in the Civil War and Afghanistan—share determination, honor, and a call to serve the United States, no matter the cost. Seattle, Washington: Larkin Bennett has always known her place...
Spiritual Reliability ~ Learning to Become God's Employee
The world is leaving the age of communication and evolving into the age of intuition. More and more people are hearing the divine whispers and are being called to take their life to a greater higher level. In this deeply profound eye-opening book, award winning teacher and Master Life Coach Richard Seaman teaches you how to utilize your life for the greater, higher purpose and become God's employee. Discover and learn how to release yourself from the constraints that traditional religions may have placed on you. The limited container of religion can push you away from having any spiritual grounding, and leave you feeling unanchored, unmoored and drifting through life. Part metaphorical teaching, part spiritual wisdom and part philosophy this book shines a light of truth on struggles you may be facing in your own life, and teaches you how to rise up and over them. Spiritual Reliability will help you to connect or reconnect to your own truth and find your own spiritual anchors.
See No Stranger
An urgent manifesto and a dramatic memoir of awakening, this is the story of revolutionary love. Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize • “In a world stricken with fear and turmoil, Valarie Kaur shows us how to summon our deepest wisdom.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love How do we love in a time of rage? How do we fix a broken world while not breaking ourselves? Valarie Kaur—renowned Sikh activist, filmmaker, and civil rights lawyer—describes revolutionary love as the call of our time, a radical, joyful practice that extends in three directions: to others, to our opponents, and to ourselves. It enjoins us to see no stranger but instead look at others and say: You ...
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! "A powerful debut that proves the threads that interweave our lives can withstand time and any tide, and bind our hearts forever."—Susanna Kearsley, New York Times bestselling author of Belleweather and The Vanished Days A historical novel inspired by true events, Kelli Estes's brilliant and atmospheric debut is a poignant tale of two women determined to do the right thing, highlighting the power of our own stories. The smallest items can hold centuries of secrets... While exploring her aunt's island estate, Inara Erickson is captivated by an elaborately stitched piece of fabric hidden in the house. The truth behind the silk sleeve dated back to 1886, when Mei Lien,...
The Fourth Child
“A beautifully observed and thrillingly honest novel about the dark corners of family life and the long, complicated search for understanding and grace.” —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation and Weather “The Fourth Child is keen and beautiful and heartbreaking—an exploration of private guilt and unexpected obligation, of the intimate losses of power embedded in female adolescence, and of the fraught moments of glancing divinity that come with shouldering the burden of love.” —Jia Tolentino, New York Times bestselling author of Trick Mirror “A remarkable family saga . . . The Fourth Child is a balm—a reminder that it is possible for art to provide a nuanced explorat...
El loto de piedra
Segunda edición - Septiembre 2023. Tras una operación fallida, Carla Romero se enfrenta a una dura realidad. Rechazada y relegada al ostracismo en el Centro Nacional de Inteligencia de España, se ve obligada a encontrar un nuevo sentido a la vida. Cuando descubre accidentalmente que la historia familiar de su abuelo es falsa, rápidamente se obsesiona con encontrar una verdad que puede resultar muy peligrosa. Tendrá que embarcarse en un viaje que la llevará fuera de España hasta Vietnam. A medida que se desarrolle el misterio familiar, será consciente de que fuerzas poderosas están en contra de ella y de toda su familia. ¿Podrá descubrir toda la verdad? Preparaos para adentraros en...
