Nita Prose

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Florida

A Novel

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * "A heartwarming mystery with a lovable oddball at its center" (Real Simple), this cozy whodunit introduces a one-of-a-kind heroine who will steal your heart.
 
"The reader comes to understand Molly's worldview, and to sympathize with her longing to be accepted--a quest that gives The Maid real emotional heft."--The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
 
"Think Clue. Think page-turner."--Glamour

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, PopSugar, Kirkus Reviews

In development as a major motion picture produced by and starring Florence Pugh

Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by.

Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life's complexities all by herself. No matter--she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Her unique character, along with her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette, make her an ideal fit for the job. She delights in donning her crisp uniform each morning, stocking her cart with miniature soaps and bottles, and returning guest rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel to a state of perfection.

But Molly's orderly life is upended the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find it in a state of disarray and Mr. Black himself dead in his bed. Before she knows what's happening, Molly's unusual demeanor has the police targeting her as their lead suspect. She quickly finds herself caught in a web of deception, one she has no idea how to untangle. Fortunately for Molly, friends she never knew she had unite with her in a search for clues to what really happened to Mr. Black--but will they be able to find the real killer before it's too late?

A Clue-like, locked-room mystery and a heartwarming journey of the spirit, The Maid explores what it means to be the same as everyone else and yet entirely different--and reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart.

The Maid

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Rebecca Serle

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Good Morning America, FabFitFun, and Marie Claire Book Club Pick “In Five Years is as clever as it is moving, the rare read-in-one-sitting novel you won’t forget.” —Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists ​Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One Day—a striking, powerful, and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever. Where do you see yourself in five years? Dannie Kohan lives her life by the numbers. She is nothing like her lifelong best friend—the wild, whimsical, believes-in-fate Bella. Her meticulous planning seems to have paid off after she nails the most important job interview of her career and accepts her boyfriend’s marriage proposal in one fell swoop, falling asleep completely content. But when she awakens, she’s suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man. Dannie spends one hour exactly five years in the future before she wakes again in her own home on the brink of midnight—but it is one hour she cannot shake. In Five Years is an unforgettable love story, but it is not the one you’re expecting.

In Five Years

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Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

Introduces the author's Emotionally Focused Therapy technique, explaining how to assist couples by treating their relationship as a love-based, attachment bond that can be healed through a reestablishment of safe emotional connections.

Hold Me Tight

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Vol. XXII, No. 1

Zone 3, A Literary Journal 

Before the manuscript crossed her desk, Bess Harper's life was busy but predictable. Nick, the agency's owner, had always handled the well-known author's work, but since sending himself into early retirement, it was all up to Bess. Every manuscript was on her desk, including the well-known author's. Her desk covered, it was the well-known author's manuscript she grabbed before Betty could put another bundle down. Reading she was spiraled back to a forgotten time. To 1974 when she was eight standing at her bedroom window watching her father drive away in his blue Ford pick-up truck to work with a friend while ridding alcohol from his life. Now, thirty years later, she was a New York City editor and busier than ever, and the well-known author's script she was reading was engulfing her in dÉjÀ vu. Dismissing her feelings she passes them off to just being tired and desires more than ever to buy a plane ticket not presents for the upcoming holiday. But the manuscript won't let go of her, weaving itself in and out of her thoughts. Back at her desk, putting the manuscript down, she opens a letter from the realtor telling her that her father's property sold. Without much thought she decides to travel down to the eastern shore of Virginia to close on the property, even though it's just days to Christmas. Visiting his house one last time brings him back again. Then leaving, driving down his long dirt driveway for the last time her eyes peer into the rearview mirror until his house is completely gone from view. The worst day of Bess's life wasn't the day she watched her father drive away. It was the day they told her he died. And now thirty years later a manuscript is calling up all of those memories.

The Manuscript

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Art, Music, Drama/Theater

On the Psychology of Singing and Teaching Singing

With a Song in My Psyche studies the psychology of singing and teaching singing. It describes the musical brain, the singer's mind/body interaction, the crucial early musical development, the adolescent singer, gender factors, psychology of performance, and the psychological basis for attaining greater artistry.

In these descriptions, a number of psychologically motivated factors are explored that lead either to poor singing or to excellent healthy singing: personality, temperament, managing the singer's life-style, building a character, perfectionism, performance anxiety, motivation, memorizing, breathing, stage movement, body messages, body image, timing, musical and poetic meanings, self-image, confidence, concentration, consistency, creativity.



ForeWord Clarion Review

ARTS & MUSIC

With a Song in My Psyche:
On the Psychology of Singing and Teaching Singing
Pearl Shinn Wormhoudt
Xlibris
202 pages
Softcover $19.98
978-1-4010-4094-9
Four Stars (out of Five)

Thorough knowledge of the psychological and physical underpinnings of great singing is essential for voice teachers and for singers at all stages of their careers, whether they are already welcomed on the great stages of the world or just beginning the often laborious climb to peak performance and public recognition. Pearl Shinn Wormhoudt's excellent volume, With a Song in My Psyche, takes the mystery out of both success and failure in pursuing one's singing goals and offers voice teachers a well-stocked arsenal of tools and wisdom to successfully help students resolve the issues, both personal and professional, that are critical to their success.

Wormhoudt presents a template for guiding budding musical talent, from descriptions of what happens in the brain of a musician, and what it is that calls certain people to a musical career in the first place, through the developmental stages of the brain, body, and soul, including the critical stages of growth that must be navigated at the correct times in order to achieve the full realization of one's potential.

Although her work is dedicated to singers, and its physiological information is geared to the production of beautiful vocal sound, the principles she expounds are applicable to all musicians. Some of her revelations may surprise readers, including the results of research showing that performing musicians are more likely to be introverted in nature than are teachers of music, and that, rather than favoring the male gender, true creativity is most often found in those who exhibit androgynous traits.

The author's discussion of the importance of the difficult adolescent years to a musician's development will be especially helpful to teachers and to young people who may be struggling to conform to a world which may not appreciate the characteristics they possess. "Not only are the musically gifted strong in intuition and feeling," Wormhoudt writes, "they may share with other gifted adolescents traits of curiosity, good memory, energy, thirst for knowledge, adaptability, sense of humor, imagination, and problem-solving ability."

Wormhoudt elucidates not only what personal qualities, training, and support one needs to develop a healthy, whole musical personality, but she includes information on "how this musical personality, with the musical brain, its marvelous mind/body functioning, its childhood musical experiences, goes to work to make a performance," and describes what is needed in talent, training, temperament, and environment to build a successful career.

Her guidance is educated, insightful, firm, and compassionate, and will aid in removing hidden stresses and blockages that all too often keep singers and other performing musicians from achieving their full potential.

Pearl Shinn Wormhoudt is a professor emerita at William Pe

With a Song in My Psyche

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My Journey from Torture to Truth

The Blindfold¿s Eyes is the searing memoir of Sister Dianna Ortiz, an American nun who was abducted and tortured in Guatemala. Her ongoing search for healing and justice offers proof that at the core of the human spirit there is a force stronger than violence and fear.

The Blindfold's Eyes

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Relates the story of a young African woman who fled to the United States to escape ritual genital mutilation and was imprisoned for sixteen months

Do They Hear You When You Cry

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When a woman goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, her diary reveals hidden turmoil in her marriage, while her husband, desperate to clear himself of suspicion, realizes that something more disturbing than murder may have occurred.

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