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From WATER STREET PRESS At the age of 21, Gus Weesfree witnessed a brutal crime in his hometown of Tradition, Ohio, and fled. Now an old man, exhausted by a life on the run, he is compelled to confront his past only to find most of his memories buried by urban sprawl. He seeks solace in Mabel, the sister he abandoned, a lifelong alcoholic who presumed him dead. As the surviving Weesfree family exhumes their history, Gus finds that not all was as it seemed in Tradition. The love and betrayal of his youth ran far deeper than he ever imagined. Moving seamlessly between present-day and the 1930s and '40s, award-winning author Marci Blackman reveals the powerful force exerted by the past on the present. Tradition gracefully uncovers the Weesfree family secrets-and how race, family, and loyalty can shape a life.

From WATER STREET PRESSJill's daughter is getting married. The two women with whom Jill has been best friends since they were little girls-Deanie, a successful novelist, and Trick, who struggles with bipolar disorder-arrive to help celebrate the happy event. The bride, however, has a bigger role than 'wedding guest' in mind for them all-she has decided she will make up her wedding party by honoring the women who raised and nurtured her.Throughout the week of pre-nuptial parties, Jill and Deanie and Trick relive the events that have shaped their lifelong friendship-their marriages and relationships, the births and losses of their children, the tragedies and joys that have forged their bond. The women discover the true depths of this bond-and how the wish of one unconventional young bride has transformed them all.Cate Quintara invites you to be a guest at a unique and wonderful wedding, and to celebrate a jubilant life milestone-one made possible only because of the lifetimes of ordinary, every day love that have preceded it.

More than 101 Apple Cider Vinegar Benefits with How-to descriptions, directions and ingredient list Why is Apple cider vinegar called "Weight-loss-in-a-Bottle"? Apple cider vinegar has been a staple in many families for generations. Better Health with our favorite Recipes From old wives'tales to a few current citations the listed benefits are clearly structured with an easy-to-follow format. Get Beautiful, Glowing Skin with Apple Cider Vinegar The cider vinegar uses I selected come from personal favorites with added comments and included ACV recipes 1) Adhd 2) Age Spots 3) Aids 4) Allergies 5) Anxiety 6) Asthma 7) Athlete's Foot 8) Back pain 11) Bed wetting 12) Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia 13) Bladder infection 14) Bleeding 15) Body odor 16) Boils 17) Bronchitis 18) Breast cancer 19) Bruising 20) Bunions 21) Burns 22) Bursitis 23) Cancer in general 24) Candidiasis 25) Canker sores 26) Carbuncles 27) Carpal Tunnel Syndrome 28) Cataracts 29) Cellulite and many more benefits, uses from Beautiful Skin to Weight Loss Included: Why Bragg's Organic Apple Cider Vinegar Apple Cider Vinegar benefits - It's in all in there with easy 'how to' step by step instruction, so you can benefit yourself from this amazing product. A major use of apple cider vinegar is that it helps thousands of people to lose weight through an ACV diet. You can keep it simple with my simple, sugar FREE, but naturally sweet ACV drink recipe included. Readers with diabetes report more even blood sugar and up to a 20% reduction in measurable blood sugar within the first week of use -- That's GREAT news for those of us who have to watch our diets closely. To exploit the full vinegar benefits, be sure to use raw, organic, unfiltered and unpasteurized vinegar. This high quality, exceptional apple cider vinegar has the 'mother of vinegar' content and contains the highest amount of nutrients, enzymes and helpful bacteria. Hold a bottle up to the light. You should see the cobweb-like strands("The Mother") within a murky amber liquid, that may look strange, but it is your key to getting the many apple cider vinegar benefits waiting for you. Clear, sparkling-looking apple cider vinegar such as Heinz is not what we want here. Heinz makes excellent catsup, but the highest quality apple cider vinegar comes from companies such as Bragg's. Raw food diets can use apple cider vinegar as a naturally fermented source of great additional nutrition. Natural and organic apple cider vinegar is also great news for Paleo diet food lovers. Recommended: Alice Michaels - Apple Cider Vinegar Diet Handbook: 2 Day Diet for Fast Weight Loss, Glowing Skin, Healthy Hair! Better Health with Apple Cider Vinegar Benefits, Uses, and Cures http: //www.amazon.com/Apple-Cider-Vinegar-Handbook-ebook/dp/B00CC0JBQ0

Dear Reader, You are about to embark on a journey that will take you to Jamestown, Virginia; the Chesapeake Bay; Washington, D.C.; London; Munich; Avignon and various other spots in between-in the here and now. You will also observe Jacobin London and the founding of the Jamestown colony in the 17th Century. You will get insights about what was happening from a David and a Molly from both the past and the present-contemporary David is writing a novel about that other David, the one from the 17th Century; and Molly is transcribing the diary of that other Molly, the one who is her ancestor and a member of the Jamestown colony. There is also the narrative of a Native American, Opechancanough, who was taken to Spain as a young man and educated in the ways of the white man. How is it possible that he inserts himself in the here and now to become very important to Molly and David's narratives? Gene Farrington mashes the past and the present as only a postmodern novelist can, always conscious of the impact of words, even as he fractures time and melds characters in such intricate ways that you will be amazed at how time means nothing... how the traits and qualities of ancestors get passed along-through time, through blood. By breathing life into historical figures as well as the fictional ones, Farrington forces us to reconsider: what is history... what is fate?

From WATER STREET PRESS In 1872, French painter Edgar Degas is disillusioned by a lackluster career and haunted by the Prussian siege of Paris and the bloodbath of the Commune. Seeking personal and professional rebirth, he journeys to New Orleans, birthplace of his Creole mother. He is horrified to learn he has exchanged one city in crisis for another-post-Civil War New Orleans is a corrupt town occupied by hostile Union troops and suffering under the heavy hand of Reconstruction. He is further shocked to find his family deeply involved in the violent struggle to reclaim political power at all costs. Despite the chaos swirling around him, Degas sketches and paints with fervor and manages to reinvent himself and transition his style from neoclassical into the emerging world of Impressionism. He ultimately became one of the masters of the new movement, but how did New Orleans empower Degas to fulfill this destiny? The answer may be found in the impeccably researched, richly imagined historical novel, Creole Son.

From WATER STREET PRESS What would you give to shoot the moon in the greatest city in the world? F*ck Art (Let's Dance) is a chronicle of ten slam-bang years in a very slam-bang part of New York City, and of one young painter's crusade to make that place her own. This memoir, by a former Village Voice writer and critic, starts in 1977 with the Summer of Sam and ends with the Tompkins Square Park riots-two notorious incidents that defined an age. After a last, desperate summer in the beach towns of Long Island, the naive young wannabe artist borrows her dad's El Camino, finances a trip to Manhattan with the change on his cufflink stand, and rents an apartment on East Tenth Street with a floor so crooked that everything that falls off the kitchen counter rolls under the bathtub. And then she begins to paint, eat, dance, and feel her way around New York. F*ck Art might remind you of what it feels like to be a beginner in a land of crooks and geniuses.

From WATER STREET PRESSNew Yorkers open their Sunday morning paper to find a photo of Virgil Quinn, teacher of history at St. Lucy's School for Boys, splashed all over the front page. How did he get there? Scandal, of course. Virgil has made enemies-the Cardinal of New York not the least among them. The Cardinal's research reveals that Virgil has lived many lives, all of them scandalous. Was he really a ranking nun in the Sisters of Mercy of Baton Rouge? Did he really walk the ramps of Seventh Avenue as the city's highest paid supermodel? Just how did he come to know all those men whose names appear in his notorious (and deadly convenient) Black Books? Virgins & Martyrs is shrewd and malicious fun, a wicked commentary on love, life, gender and the history of our nation, a work in which the peripatetic and intrepid-yet all-too-human-Virgil Quinn lets no one off the hook.

From WATER STREET PRESS In 1972, professional dancer Joan Wulfsohn underwent a double mastectomy. And her soon-to-be-ex-husband abducted their three children and spirited them away to a foreign country. "I should have died," Joan writes. But she didn't. Stalking Carlos Castaneda chronicles her journey back to life by way of lessons learned from stunning transvestites and music hall dancers, teen porn stars, a brain damaged boy, Eastern holy men, Western supermodels and a certain aging sorcerer. It is the story of how one woman learned to live a magical life-bound not by spells and hexes but rather filled with wonder and transcendence.

The Art of Positive Puppy Training Have A Well-Behaved Dog for Life Learn the #1 Puppy training command to teach immediately Discover how to establish and keep yourself as the pack leader Learn the Do's and Dont's about socializing How to socialize your new puppy the right way How to teach the 10 most important puppy skills now Conquer difficult training mistakes every puppy owner makes How to housebreak your puppy in 7 days using these 8 proven gentle steps Is there anybody you know who really does not love puppies? When things aren't going just right, all I need to do is turn to my puppies and the world is good again. I started training puppies years ago, when I saw my best friend's brother give trouble to my friend's thirteen-pound, Jack Russell terrier, named TIMMS. I told myself that I never wanted to give this beautiful terrier a reason to fear me, to doubt me, or to question my motives in any way. I would never hit her, yell at her, make startling noises to get her attention, take food from her, or lock her away in dark, secluded rooms. I wanted to earn her love and trust, while I gave her mine. Just before the winter holidays a year later, my friend passed on from an accident. His family moved and took TIMMS with them. I did not see them for almost another year. When I walked into their house, TIMMS wailed loudly at me, made a mess on the floor and begged me to pick her up. That was a magnificent reward to me for having loved TIMMS so easily. Some breeds need more assertiveness than other breeds, but I was never aggressive with TIMMS. That entire experience created my philosophy on Training Puppies that I describe in this book. Michael Bronn Many owners disagree on the top 10 items a puppy must learn quickly. Lists do vary, but they aren't significantly different except for this one item. Establish yourself as the pack leader Establishing yourself as the pack leader is possibly the most important lesson you can teach your puppy right away. It isn't difficult to do, but it can be a little heart rendering. Includes my book to you FREE "How To Care For Your Dog - 37 Proven Lessons" http: //www.m8u.org/PuppyLessons/

Before the television age, when “crime of the century” meant something, the public was unduly fascinated by murder. This was especially true during the Great Depression, when Americans were desperate for escapist fare. The more bizarre or glamorous the crime, the greater their fascination, and few intrigued them more than the events of August 4, 1932 in Natchez, Mississippi. The brutal shooting of spinster recluse Jennie Surget Merrill grabbed instant headlines with tales of fabulous wealth, beautiful women, European royalty, Southern aristocracy, a U.S. President and the Confederate President, army generals and ambassadors, not to mention madness, incest, racism, bitter internecine feuds, vertiginous falls from grace and eccentricity in spades. The case became known as the Goat Castle Murder.  Michael Llewellyn has taken the known facts of the case, breathed life into these eccentric Southerners, and created a fascinating novel, The Goat Castle Murder.  

Travis Mitchell lands on the Thai resort island Samui with a broken wrist, a bag of cash and a seriously pissed off Hong Kong crime boss on his tail. His quiet hiatus in a tropical paradise ends when Trav bumps into Mazy, a yoga instructor with a penchant for booze and abusive boyfriends. Trav is convinced he needs to save her from Gordon, a cockney Londoner developing K-Love, the world’s perfect date-rape drug. Mazy flees Gordon’s villa, but running away with Trav triggers a hunt by Thai gangsters, Chinese triads, Samui cops, and a pathetic janitor who cleans up after the tigers in the local zoo. As her escape brings them all into collision, Trav wonders if the beautiful yoga teacher is worth it – while Mazy, unsure if she should trust him, decides to take matters into her own unsteady hands.

Aperture, a slightly askew, slightly perverted bildungsroman, is the story of Garnie, who at ten speaks with an affected English accent and lives in a dilapidated house in a small town in Iowa. It is the 1940s and the war arrives, and even in rural Iowa lives are altered. Garnie's Auntie Rye is a tall person who shaves as she reads gothic fiction to him, and she has a penis. Auntie Rye is extremely rich (old Chicago money) and Garnie wants for nothing. Nothing except better living conditions, indoor plumbing, and to find out what happened to, and where in the world his Mommy and Daddy are. Their life together progresses through the explosion of their home, prejudice against Auntie Rye's Communist leanings, their travels to Chicago and New York, along with their weekly sojourns in a 1934 Dodge sedan across the Mississippi on the suspension span into Wisconsin, somewhat curtailed by gas rationing. They encounter the famous and the interesting in their travels, along with more than slightly unusual common folk. Through it all, Garnie, the gifted progeny of someone (Garnie has trouble determining whom) pursues his love of photographic art. The pair's lives and choices are shaped by the Second World War. And while Garnie's interest centers on the war, photographically, he also has an intense interest in the penis, his own and others. As Garnie passes through puberty and arrives into his teenage years filled with baseball, visions of war and death, music, Catholicism, and distinctive town folk, he also discovers who he is and what he's about. This is his adventure, his story as told by him. But the war must end and so must his story, not with a whimper, but a bang.

In Famous Rapes: from Mesopotamia to Steubenville, author and artist Andrea Baker reflects on the history of how rape has been depicted. In Famous Rapes: The Coloring Book, Baker transforms her paper cutout art into a therapeutic adult coloring book. A portion of the profits from this book will benefit the District Alliance for Safe Housing in Washington, DC.

Suspended FBI Task Force Agent Dean Wister just wants to heal his wounds and mourn his dead wife. But he’s enlisted by Wyoming Presidential candidate, Tom McGraw, to conduct a shadow investigation—a hunt for a piece of evidence that will derail McGraw’s candidacy if it’s discovered by the FBI, or the Jackson Hole billionaire who is McGraw’s avowed political enemy. The investigation by Dean—and the sultry new partner, Melinda, McGraw assigns to him—takes them on a chase from Jackson Hole to Chicago, Key West to Las Vegas, and ultimately to Shenzhen, China and an international incident with geo-political stakes.But will the extortionists who trail them all along the way get to McGraw before Dean can get his hands on the evidence?And just who does the assassin who leaves all those bodies in his wake really have in his sights?The Grand Prize is a global high-stakes crime story that will grab you by the throat and not let go until its shattering finale.

Clint Kennedy, ex-banker, ex-con, and American ex-pat living in Mexico’s glorious White City, is summarily exiled North, to Miami, by his boss, the drug kingpin Pablo Navarro, to get him out of the way at the breakout of a brutal, intercartel war.Miami is no safe haven, however—a dirty lawyer, abetted by a corrupt judge, is trying to blackmail Clint; an erstwhile FBI agent is trying to make sure he and his fellow closeted Miami gay elites aren’t outed at a wake Clint’s throwing for one of his former employees; and Clint’s abhorrent, older “stepbrother”, currently serving a prison sentence for embezzlement from the family bank, would rather blow up the family business than see Clint succeed in saving it.There’s also the worry that Clint might be the next target of a rival cartel that keeps him on his toes—and looking over his shoulder.This rowdy, international thriller, reminiscent of the works of Harlan Coben and Don Winslow, picks up where Calderwood’s first novel in the Clint Kennedy series leaves off—and keeps the reader riveted through the bracing last pages.

Clint Kennedy, ex-banker, ex-con, and American ex-pat living in Mexico’s glorious White City, is an adrenaline junkie—but his desire for adventure could end his life at the hands of a ruthless killer. When Clint devises an ingenious plan to launder millions in cash into the family business, his life becomes a high stakes game of cat-and-mouse rampaging through the roaring bull rings of Merida, a seedy Mexican jail, and the gleaming towers of Miami’s most prestigious banks. Someone is going to die. Clint just needs to make sure it isn’t him. This page-turning thriller, reminiscent of the works of Lee Child and Don Winslow, will have you on the edge of your seat.