Sharon: 4072 books

Hungry for Ecstasy: Trauma, The Brain, and the Influence of the Sixties by Sharon Klayman Farber explores the hunger for ecstatic experience that can lead people down the road to self-destruction. In an attempt to help mental health professionals and concerned individuals understand and identify the...

A woman examines a box of her mother’s personal photos that has been sitting unopened in her basement since her mother’s death. Now, as she discovers images once meaningful to her mother, she begins to piece together stories of the girl her mother once was and to reveal questions to which she...

Though Jeanne hasn’t seen or spoken to her ex-husband in years, learning of his death brings up memories of their past. Jeanne remembers the happiness of their early days together and how alive they had been, the memories contrasting with the life she is now leading—she is single, out of touch...

As a child, Charlotte spent her summers with her cousins in a house that was the polar opposite of her own. Where her household was organized and ran according to schedule, her cousins lived in a state of constant chaos. For Charlotte, this was both exciting and frightening, especially when her aunt’s...

After winning a literary prize, George Barrett is pulled from obscurity and into the spotlight. When the attention impedes his ability to write, George buys an old house that once belonged to a writer he admires, intending to shut himself away and write in peace. Instead, he finds himself part of...

Though happy in her current marriage, a woman remains unable to truly move past her first marriage—feeling constantly like she is living a double life: one internal and one external. Her struggles with the breakup stem not from the loss of love, but from the one-sidedness of the split, which leaves...

A woman recounts her childhood growing up with four sisters, little money, and parents who fought constantly until her father finally left. Even as adults, the sisters do not know how to cope with harmony, and not one of them is able to fully escape the impact of a childhood lived in discord. Fever...

While on a business trip in Calgary, Cecilia’s husband, Colin, falls suddenly and seriously ill. With Colin in the hospital in a fevered sleep, Cecilia feels stunned and disconnected, and she finds herself striking up a sexual relationship with another guest at the hotel that leaves her questioning...

Sharon Hoffmans life changed drastically when her husband of thirty-six years was diagnosed with lung cancer and died just five months later. In her poignant account of her journey through terminal illness and grief, Hoffman offers a compelling personal narrative on how she learned to not only survive...

Akron and Summit County's classic hot spots have satisfied palates since the early twentieth century. Akron alone could sit up to thirty thousand people at once during the golden age of the '50s and '60s. Marcel's made a name for itself with its scampi, and Icaomini's became synonymous with lobster....

Words carry powerful energy and have an astonishing impact on your life. With Power Words, you can generate new actions and lightning-fast results! Use them to create more influence at work, increase your energy, start new projects, deal with difficult people, break old addictions, attract relationships,...

This book explores the significance of the now-lost pavilion built in the Buckingham Palace Gardens in the time of Queen Victoria for understanding experiments in British art and architecture at the outset of the Victorian era. It introduces the curious history of the garden pavilion, its experimental...

The 1920s Jazz Age is remembered for flappers and speakeasies, not for the success of a declining labor movement. A more complex story was unfolding among the young women and men in the hosiery mills of Kensington, the working-class heart of Philadelphia. Their product was silk stockings, the iconic...

In our busy 21st Century lives, burdened as they are with electronica and specialty coffees, there seems to be less and less time to sit down and read. Where does one find the time to not merely scan a story or dutifully bookmark it in our device of choice for a later reading that we never actually...