Small Life

Ruby Slippers is a 32-year-old woman trapped under the thumb of her controlling, narcissistic mother. Bound by guilt and a lifetime of unmet expectations, her world revolves around her mother’s demands, leaving little room for her own dreams. Her only respite comes from her job at Berston’s Grocery store, where she finds a glimmer of solace. When Ruby stumbles upon a list of goals she wrote at twelve—goals like learning to roller skate and finding love—she realizes how far her life has strayed from her youthful aspirations. In an effort to please her mother, she agrees to a blind ...

You've seen the photos, you've imagined the scenario... a place to really call your own, no more cleaning for hours on end, freedom to pick up and travel when you choose, more money to invest or spend as you please, a smaller footprint, a more sustainable life... but are you ready to make the change? This book will inform, guide and share valuable ideas about making the move to a smaller or even a tiny house, what benefits you can expect, and even how to make your new home more sustainable. This book offers insights about the realities of small house living, how tiny houses help the ...

A Wall Street tech leader explains how small behavioral changes lead to major self-improvement. Whether trying to lose weight, save money, or get organized, we' re always setting goals and making resolutions but rarely following through on them. Determination and willpower aren't strong enough to defeat our mass of ingrained habits; to succeed we have to learn how to focus our self-control on precise behavioral targets and overwhelm them, according to longtime Wall Street technology strategist Caroline Arnold.

Truth: Sherri Griffin and her daughter, Katie, recently moved to the idyllic beach town of Newburyport, Massachusetts. They’ve been welcomed by Rebecca Coleman, unofficial former leader of the Newburyport Mom Squad, and her teenage daughter Alexa, Katie’s new babysitter. Truth: Alexa has time on her hands after a falling-out with her friends involving her popular YouTube channel.

From drinking and running away from her problems to finding redemption, healing, forgiveness, and independence, Ethel Mae's life takes a dramatic turn in 1950 as she embarks on her last train ride. Facing yet another failed marriage, despite harsh judgment from family and community, she drops her children off at her mama’s small mountain farm one last time because she plans to bring their daddy home. During a train ride from the mountains of North Carolina, bound for New York, she reflects on and shares her miraculous birth, mountain raising, and tumultuous coming of age with fellow ...

I was given the moniker "Micro" in gym class, and it stuck through my formative years. It's still in my head as an adult, ever-present, and a constant reminder of the taunting I endured from the other boys in grade school. I eventually grew up and moved on but was never able to shake the committee of young boys laughing at my penis in the locker room. I had a successful study in university, and I was able to have normal relationships throughout high school and college. After a beginning wonderful marriage and having three beautiful children, my wife and I decided that it was time to shake ...

A desperate jilted man. His summer rent-a-girlfriend. Their own beach town. Single thirty-something Sebastian Langston hires his sister’s best friend to be his fake girlfriend for the summer in order to win back his ex-fiancée whom he lost to a billionaire. The desperate jilted man… Restaurateur Sebastian Langston cannot believe that his ex-fiancée, Talia, would leave him again. They’ve broken up so many times that he is sure she’ll return to him…until he sees her with a billionaire. Now he has to fight to get her back. Sebastian cooks up an idea in which he hires a beautiful ...

When Sheriff Flint Cahill's lover Maggie disappears, he knows his ex-wife is behind it. But with a winter storm coming, can he find her before it is too late?

Rule #1: Never sleep with your roommate. Rule #2: Especially when he's your best friend's brother. Rule #3: Oh, who are we kidding? After a string of dating disasters that would make a therapist weep, Ghita Russo has created an ironclad rulebook for her love life. Men who kick her cat, request inappropriate photos, and throw tantrums over mini-golf have taught her that protecting her heart requires strict boundaries. The most important rule? Her best friend's ridiculously hot brother is absolutely off-limits. But when her rent skyrockets and her bestie suggests the perfect solution—...

Virgil Ray and Martha Mae Pickers are basically good people. Still, like most basically good people, they’re subject to the siren calls of fame, fortune and — not least — impressing their neighbors. In this laugh-out-loud novel of linked stories reminiscent of the unforgettable characters and sense of place portrayed in stories by Fannie Flagg and Garrison Keillor, the Pickers and their Oakley County neighbors find themselves in outlandish predicaments, however well-intentioned. A faked resurrection, a return to high school at age 60, a visit by Elvis, helping the US Treasury bust a ...

Tell Me Something I Don’t Know Book One in Love on The Edge Series **Spicy Language, Spicy Scenes** Selene DeWitt has just been burned. After a career-ending PR disaster in the city and the rude awakening that her friends - and even her long-time boyfriend - weren’t the supportive people she thought they were, she needs to hit the reset button. Her escape? A job in the country with her mom’s friend’s son. No distractions, no high expectations. Just a chance to clear her head and start over. She’s spent years climbing the ladder, and she’s not about to abandon it for a quiet life...

Finally! Develop good habits that stick! Do you find yourself trying to adopt good habits only to abandon them down the road? Are you frustrated because you seem unable to develop them in the first place? If so, there's a simple solution: starting small. This effective, time-tested method is described in detail in Small Habits Revolution: 10 Steps to Transforming Your Life Through the Power of Mini Habits!

A bachelor’s life… Because of a not-so-happy childhood, Logan McCall never wanted kids. His sister’s dying wish was that he raise her twin girls. Paralyzed by grief, Logan turns the girls over to their deadbeat dad. He’s regretted that decision ever since, but what can he do? They’re gone. A nanny with dreams… Nanny Thea Gayle is just trying to make ends meet while she works on her PhD. When her employer goes missing and the only family member she can find is the twins’ Uncle Logan, she takes the girls from Seattle to Silver Bend, Idaho. But once there, she’s not sure Logan ...

His attractive neighbor is tugging at his heart-strings. A wealthy widow is pursuing him with hot casseroles. And his red-haired Cousin Meg has moved into the rectory, uninvited.

Discover the hidden magic of timing with "Small Delays, Big Destinies," an enlightening exploration into how the smallest delays can set the stage for monumental outcomes. This captivating eBook reveals the often-overlooked impact of timing on every facet of life, whether it be personal growth, professional endeavors, or creative pursuits. Dive into Chapter 1 and uncover the invisible power of timing, learning how subtle shifts can create ripples impacting your destiny. Then journey through the nuances of personal development, where patience and synchronicity can transform your self-...

Alaska Inferno is Book 2 of the Blazing Hearts Wildfire series and a Kindle Book Award winner for best indie romance! Can a series of arson wildfires lead to true love under a midnight sun? Jon Silva is back as a wildland fire investigator, along with his well-earned reputation as a crack firefighter and notorious serial dater. But things have changed in Jon’s world. Now, there are only two women in his life—the one he wants, and the one who wants him—at any cost. Liz Harrington returns to Alaska’s Aurora Crew, fighting wildfire to earn seed money for her new business. She resisted ...

Silkworm Secrets Series - Boxed Set - Book 1 and 2 Book 1 - Silkworm Secrets 'The ancient trees with their rough bark wrap around me like silk cocoons. Their solid trunks and tendril roots grip the ground as if to say, I will hold you, I will not let go.' In the 1960s the rural suburbs of Brisbane should have been an idyllic place for Ruby and Bobby to grow up. Their treehouse retreat, set high in a mulberry tree is a place to share friendship and watch the events of the yards nearby. However as the two become teenagers, the naive Ruby is exposed to the sinister events that Bobby has to ...

After 17 years at sea, Linda Greenlaw figured it was time to take a break from her career as a swordboat captain. She felt she needed to return to Isle au Haut - a tiny island seven miles from the Maine coast with a population of 70 year-round residents, 30 of whom were her relatives. She would pursue a simpler life; move back in with her parents and get to know them again; become a professional lobsterman; and find a guy, build a house, have kids, and settle down. But all doesn't go as planned.

Have you ever experienced a moment when a seemingly random event also seemed strangely meaningful or even miraculous? Whether it was as simple as anticipating a phone call, or as dramatic as rekindling a lost love, what you experienced may be more significant than you thought. It may be nothing less than a small miracle -- possibly the work of angels, or a message from a higher power.

Single mom Heather Donovan’s dreams of home and family are tantalizingly within reach when she settles in Chesapeake Shores. The welcoming arms of the boisterous, loving O’Brien clan embrace her and her son. But accepting their support seems to further alienate her son’s father, Connor O’Brien. His parents’ divorce and his career as a high-powered divorce attorney have left him jaded about marriage. Then everything changes. Will the possibility of a future without Heather make Connor look at love and his career differently?