Three women. Three generations. Three secrets. A Stonewall Honor Book!Katie's life is falling apart: her best friend thinks she's a freak, her mother, Caroline, controls every aspect of her life, and her estranged grandmother, Mary, appears as if out of nowhere. Mary has dementia and needs lots of care, and when Katie starts putting together Mary's life story, secrets and lies are uncovered: Mary's illegitimate baby, her zest for life and freedom...

How often do we lie to ourselves? Say YES when our hearts say NO? Make up excuses for tolerating others' unacceptable behaviors? Deny our own needs and desires to please others? Give our power away to earn love and acceptance? Judge ourselves as not being good enough? We then wonder why we feel miserable and unfulfilled. Why spend years succumbing to chasing perfection to fulfill others' demands? Avoid the top dying regret of not living a life...

Tony Bartlett's story is thrillingly upside-down. Rather than the classic conversion narrative of escaping the world to dedicate your life to God, it is about escaping a collapsing institutional order to discover a different self and learning to be in the world. An extraordinary account with pivotal themes of sexuality, trauma, revolution, and relationship, Unbecoming a Priest spans eras, classes, continents, cities, wars, iconic figures, spiritualities,...

A raw, unflinching memoir by a former US Marine Captain chronicling her journey from dutiful daughter of immigrants to radical activist fighting for historic policy reform. After a lifetime of buckling to the demands of her strict Indian parents, Anuradha Bhagwati abandons grad school in the Ivy League to join the Marines-the fiercest, most violent, most masculine branch of the military-determined to prove herself there in ways she couldn't before. Yet...

Conduct Unbecoming is a military courtroom drama. Commander Mike DeMarco, the Navy's most successful criminal defense attorney, is fed up with the bureaucracy and contemplates retirement. However, he takes one last case for a young sailor, Joshua Miller, who is charged with the murder of a marine war hero and is facing the death penalty. The evidence is largely circumstantial, yet Miller, for some reason, refuses to cooperate in his own defense. DeMarco...

Are you trying to adjust to life after your spiritual awakening? Have you been through a major spiritual awakening, and you no longer see the world the same? The things you did, the people you surrounded yourself with, and even your job may no longer make sense to you or feel right for you. You have new beliefs and feelings about the world around you and you have a hard time fitting into the old world. You know you can't go back to how you were living....

Lt. Col. Robert Patterson-former Senior Military Aide to President Clinton-exposes how President Barack Obama's national security policies are weakening our military and endangering America's safety. From underfunding and misusing the military to his "Apology Tour" across Europe and the Middle East, President Obama has made America more vulnerable with both our allies and our enemies.

You were made for more. You were made to stand out! In a world where we're conditioned to believe without hesitation that success comes from following the rules and expectations dictated to us by others... I call BULL SHIT! Success, happiness & fulfillment are like fingerprints, unique to every one of us. This book is for 'us.' The badass creatives who did what we were told, followed the rules, and checked the boxes, only to realize we were meant...

Shy, bookish Sophie Brightwell is expected to make an advantageous match to improve her family's fortunes. However, Sophie's plans to make a spectacular debut go horribly awry when she and her three closest friends are expelled from a young ladies' academy for unbecoming conduct. Since the ton will be sure to close their doors on these disgraced debutantes, they determine that unconventional means need to be employed in the husband-hunting market....