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Can a woman be smart, empowered, and "happy"? Determined to find out, Ariel Gore began her own study into the feminine history, science, and experience of happiness.

Matthew and Alex Graham go to the West Indies to find a young man neither of them knows but who faces imminent death on a sugar plantation, condemned to slavery for treason.

While Matthew struggles to come to terms with the fact that Scotland of 1688 bears little resemblance to his lovingly conserved memories, Alex is forced to confront unresolved issues from her past,

This is the mostly unknown tale of Jackie Cochran and Jerrie Cobb--two accomplished aviatrixes, one generation apart, who each dreamed of being the first woman in space, but along the way battled t

Chris Liddell-Westefeld and dozens of other staff and volunteers dedicated every ounce of their time, intelligence, and limited resources to helping elect Obama, as what started in Iowa spread nati

Insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter has seen enough suicides to know that a journalist as successful as Adam Streeter would never take his own life.

During a high-stakes paintball game, a hardcore supremacist gets accidentally hit by a very real bullet, but insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter knows that a man this hated seldom dies by chan

A well-digger and policeman in a bleak New Hampshire town, Wade Whitehouse is a former high-school star gone to beer fat, a loner with a mean streak.

Get to know the colorful cast of characters at the Granite State Trailerpark, where Flora in number 11 keeps more than a hundred guinea pigs and screams at people to stay away from her babies; Clau

Not far from Luella and Effie Tildon's large family mansion looms the House of Mercy, a workhouse for wayward girls.

After her sister is raped and murdered, Lily Wong dedicates her life and ninja skills to the protection of women.

In a land torn between magic and alchemy, Sepha is an exceptional alchemist, able to bend the rules in ways no one else can.

A reserved debutante and a former soldier make an unlikely but fated match as they hasten for the Isle of Skye.

When ladies' academy dropout Arabella Jardine encounters Gabriel Holmes-Fitzgerald, she soon learns the only thing worse than getting married to an unrepentant rake would be to fall in love with hi

Edited by two theologians with pastoral experience, this volume invites engagement with these issues and more by drawing on real-life experiences, and offering a range of responses to some of the m