Denise Lauron

"Just three dates. That's all I'm asking. One boy shares your sense of humor. Another has similar interests and ideals. The third boy has a helpful heart like yours." When Aditi Gupta comes home late from work as a pediatric resident one night and her grandfather offers this pitch, she reluctantly agrees. She's far too busy with med school to be dating, and besides, she dreams of a love for the ages, like her parents, not an arranged marriage. And yet she finds herself agreeing to three dates because she loves her grandfather. All she has to do is make herself utterly ineligible.

When Kate wins an item at her children’s elementary school auction - an all-inclusive trip to SeaView at Sandpiper Bay - she thinks it’s just what her family needs after a decade of career disappointments and a marriage on its last legs. She has no reason to believe that said trip is a Fyre Festival-level fraud and, in fact, the catalyst to her unraveling. But it is. Oh, but it is.

Five Thanksgiving stories for kids and Thanksgiving jokes!

Thanksgiving is a special time of year when family gets together, we eat lots of yummy food, and we spend quality time together. This is a cute rhyming story about a "normal" family Thanksgiving, but you will quickly see how familiar it will be. Grab a slice of pumpkin pie and enjoy.

The Tickle Monster. But the tickles are not meant to be mean. To turn you into a sad jelly bean. The Tickle Monster just wants to bring you joy. Happiness to every girl and boy. The Tickle Monster brings laughs that linger. He is known as the laugh bringer. The Tickle Monster is a cute, fun, and rhyming bedtime story about a special friend named the Tickle Monster. He makes you smile and laugh and always bring happiness and good cheer!

Victor Rios grew up in the ghetto of Oakland, California, in the 1980s and '90s. A former gang member and juvenile delinquent, Rios managed to escape the bleak outcome of many of his friends and earned a PhD at Berkeley and returned to his hometown to study how inner-city young Latino and African American boys develop their sense of self in the midst of crime and intense policing. Punished examines the difficult lives of these young men.