The Off Balance series chronicles the life of an elite gymnast, her journey to the Olympics, and the illicit affair she has with her coach.

Adrianna Rossi is no stranger to the rigorous demands required of her body. Years of pain and determination make her one of the best. Olympic glory is the ultimate goal, and she'll do anything to achieve it. Even if that means leaving home to attend World Cup Academy of Gymnastics, a training center that serves one purpose-producing champions.

Perfection, precision, and dedication are required of his athletes. When two time Olympian Konstantin Kournakova is persuaded into training the young hopeful, he immediately regrets it. She doesn't come close to his high standards. As the relentless pursuit of her dream keeps her striving, a passion is ignited within him.

Every interaction can be misconstrued, but there's no mistaking the darkening of his gaze, the lingering of his touch, or the illicit image of his bare skin pressed against hers. Integrity is on the line. They try to disentangle themselves, but the tension between coach and gymnast mounts, engulfing them both in a forbidden world of deception and passion.

Me imagino que muchas personas se preguntarán porqué

he decidido escribir este libro en esta etapa de mi vida.

El llegar a este punto en mi vida es precisamente la razón por la

cual decidí escribirlo. Desde hace mucho tiempo tenía en mente

escribir un libro acerca de las experiencias propias y de mi familia

en el mundo de la música, pero lo había ido aplazando

año tras año. Pensé que sería criticado y acusado de sacar beneficio

de la historia de mi familia. En mi corazón sabía que

eso no era verdad, pero ese pensamiento sí me detuvo. Luego

escuché que alguien dijo-La historia es creada por aquellos

que la escriben.

He leído muchos relatos acerca de mí y de mi familia que

realmente no son verdaderos. La historia que esos falso relatos

detallaban no era nuestra verdadera historia. Sólo nosotros

podemos contar nuestra historia. Además, a mis ochenta y dos

años de edad, con una vida entera de experiencia bajo el escrutinio

público, llegué a la conclusión de que todos debemos

ser valientes y ser propietarios de nuestras vidas. Escribí este

libro para que el público conozca nuestra historia tal y como la

vivimos. Lo escribí para que todos sepan de nuestras batallas,

nuestros éxitos y nuestras creencias. Una vez que decidí era el

tiempo de sentarse y contar nuestra historia, ya no podía dar

marcha atrás.

The Genocide House by Robert Kloss

In The Genocide House-the American-maelstrom-The world-delirium-

Villages-slaughtered and burned-Cities eradicated-in atomic flame-

Young women lie-yearning-in valleys-incinerated-

Dying men-dream of war-murder-Their-dreams of blood pooling-Their dreams-of bodies-posed-erotic-

Visions of flame-Clouds atomic-rising and swallowing-cities-Television screens-winking and shimmering-visions of flame-clouds-atomic-

Aged women-their recollections-sweltering-

Young men-languid-vile-Licking-devouring-Their humid minds-shimmer with-war-murder-Dreams of blood-pooling-Their bodies-posed-erotic-

PRAISE FOR THE GENOCIDE HOUSE

Book after book, Robert Kloss has been excavating the horrors of American history in inventive and fractured prose. The Genocide House is poetic and hallucinatory, a visceral novel of visionary power.

- Babak Lakghomi, author of South

What even is this book? Is this the tale of an American Tiresias? An Orlando? Is this book playing with the legacy of McTeague? Sometimes an alternate history, sometimes an exploration of a substructure-American historical fiction is simply and always horror, because American history is just a genocidal machine-sometimes an experimental novel that close-reads formal instability and its relationship to Early America and TV's ever-shifting montages. A wind of murder does come to course through this other you that is the disgusting evil at the root of our national identity, and as these murderous, fucked up Claras run rampant through history, you're constantly asked and asking, Are you speaking - or am I -

- Johannes Göransson, author of Summer

Robert Kloss is one of the greatest living American writers--unflinching and visionary and utterly unique. In four previous novels, Kloss has charted the depths of outrage and suffering, and with The Genocide House, he has given us a masterpiece that captures the vastness of the American nightmare. This novel is a black and brilliant jewel, with each slashing sentence carving facets one darker and sharper than the next. As important a book as will be released this year, The Genocide House deserves to stand alongside novels like Pierre Guyoutot's Tomb for 500,000 Soliders as a masterwork of brutalty.

- Kent Wascom, author of The Great State of West Florida

He has nothing to live for.

Zak Hendricks has a reputation-a black-ops soldier willing to take on the hardest, dirtiest, most suicidal missions. But when his final mission goes sideways, he's discharged back to his hometown of Steam Valley, CA, with half a leg and a bad attitude.

She has everything to fight for.

Dog trainer Anna Rawlings has done her level best to avoid Zak since he crushed her teenage heart, but then he's court-ordered to enroll in her Paws for Vets program at Redwood Coast Rescue, and she has no choice but to help him. Because if she can't rehabilitate the town's most notorious bad boy, she'll lose everything she's worked so hard to build.

Can an unpredictable K9, marked for death, rescue them both?

Zak doesn't want a service animal any more than Ranger, a former military working dog, wants to become one, but they both love Anna. When a missing persons case lands her in the crosshairs of an obsessive killer, the damaged soldier and unruly K9 have to learn to trust each other-and the entire Redwood Coast Rescue team-if they have any chance of rescuing her.

Searching for Rescue is the first book in the Redwood Coast Rescue romantic suspense series, but it can be read as a standalone. If you like broody, damaged former military men with quirky canine partners and the kick-ass women who bring them to heel, then you'll love this sizzling, action-packed adventure by Tonya Burrows!

An Archaeology of Holes is an excavation and an evisceration of love, loneliness, alienation and what it means to be human. Working between fabulism, dark realism and autofiction, these stories propose the creative and liberatory possibilities of holes, which are everywhere: in bodies, in the ransacked earth, in erased lives and memories, in forgotten loves and lovers and the endless massacres.

I welcome the way Stacy Hardy's fiction gives me the shivers, disturbs my understanding of myself and the world around me. Her stories guide me, sometimes lodestar, other times mischievous will-o-wisps, always revelatory. Through lenses both forensic and fantastic, Hardy holds up to her strange light the human body and the body politic. For fans of writers like Clarice Lispector, Leonora Carrington, Rikki Ducornet, Kathryn Davis, or Carmen Maria Machado, for fans of crossing the veil to slip off their skin and dancing around in their bones, of picking through their own trash, of rediscovering themselves after despair, heartbreak, and loneliness, Archaeology of Holes is a most perfect companion.

- Danielle Pafunda, Author of Along the Road Everyone Must Travel, Winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize

Audacious and masterful, every story collected in Stacy Hardy's An Archaeology of Holes delivers a new and unexpected euphoria. Each story promises intellectual enticement and emotional entanglement, brutal and ugly and real: Stacy Hardy is prophetess and I will follow her anywhere.

- Lily Hoang, Author of Changing, Winner of the PEN Open Book Award

These wild, weird, amazing stories create life, create the best and most vibrant art, out of the many ways that death is absorbed into our worlds, our minds, our bodies. From bullet holes to black holes, from mouth holes to safe holes to buildings with holes in their centers, Stacy Hardy's writing blasts its way from absence into vital and unforgettable presence. When the extreme violence of misogyny and racialized capitalism becomes a normal part of our life and landscape, it is art and great writing that helps us see both our damage and our potential escape routes. Archaeology of Holes is a collection that will stay with me for a very long time.

- Daniel Borzutzky, Author of The Performance of Becoming Human, Winner of the National Book Award

A timely collection of stories and observation that apply to today's immigration situation. The stories told here Look at life from the Hispanic

perspective

From the Forword by Pepe Serna:

Tales from the Tortilla Curtain and Other Stories, is a timely collection of stories and observations, especially as they apply to today's immigration situation. Set in the not-too-distant future, the first section, Tales from the Tortilla Curtain, addresses the issues that eventually lead up to the creation of a thirty-foot-tall, twenty-foot-thick wall known as the Tortilla Curtain, or el Muro de la Tortilla.

Divided into three distinct sections, the book then proceeds to tell the stories of two Chicanos who get their hands on a time machine in A Través del Tiempo: Across Time. The message here is that it is never too late to do something to change your life. The third section, Hazte el Behave o te Espanqučo! takes a more humorous look at the Chicano experience on this side of the border. Here the author recounts a few stories from his childhood and poses some vital questions about what we say and how we say it in Spanglish.

Timely in its commentary, poignant in its realistic depiction of Mexicans and Mexican Americans, and laugh-out-loud funny in its observation of Chicano life in this country, Tales from the Tortilla Curtain and Other Stories, Volume I is a must read for anyone scarching for a unique perspective of Hispanic/Chicano/Latino life today and in the years to come.

Rolando Josué Díaz Rodriguez, Ph.D. was born in Allende, Coahuila, Mexico and raised in Eagle Pass, Texas. Growing up physically, culturally, and linguistically between two worlds, Rolando developed an appreciation for and an understanding of both the Mexican and the American societies. He currently lives in Durant, Oklahoma with his wife, Lewanda.

He is a tenured Associate Professor of Spanish, Humanities, and English and Chair of the Department of English, Humanities, and Languages at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.

This is a book about resilience, determination, and love. Love for one's country, family members, and fellow brothers. A love that cannot be severed, even in death. This is the story of Major James Capers, JR (USMC RET.).

Born to a family of sharecroppers who were subjugated to prejudiced legal systems, Jim's family fled to Baltimore, Maryland for new beginnings. Their new home would become Jim's pathway to adulthood, marriage, parenting, and leadership. Deemed an American hero, he gleaned courage and humility throughout his time in service. Despite fatalities, battle scars, and post-traumatic experiences, Jim attributes all outcomes to his team's ability to work in unison, and his relentless faith in God to guide him through the storm.

Major Capers, an African-American Reconnaissance Marin, through this book will serve as an inspiration to all who aspire to achieve their dreams.

-Major General Cornell Wilson, USMC (Ret.)

The day hot-headed Abby Carter blows up her carefully curated life in Chicago, she takes a pair of scissors to her too-small Spanx. If she's walking out on the advertising career she once loved, she's going to be comfortable doing it. Was she too hasty? That's her first thought after her epic departure from Cromby, Pillar and Sax. So, sitting on a park bench outside the company's offices, she messages her ride-or-die friends, the Leading Ladies.

Abby's heart returns to its normal rhythm when the Leading Ladies tell her she's done the right thing. Come home to Logan's Creek, they tell her, where they're all waiting. Her spirits lift; she is, after all, a small-town girl, and the big city has worn her down. But then she remembers she hasn't told her laidback boyfriend (no labels) Ian, who looks like actor Liam Hemsworth, if Liam were better looking. Through a series of misunderstandings, she and Ian part ways. (Ian can be clueless, and there's Abby's temper to deal with, so what can I say?)

When she returns to Logan's Creek, she runs into her first love, Josh. He's too handsome for his own good, and he knows it. But in the decade since Abby left town, he's not been able to forget her. Not that he hasn't given a trove of women a chance. Josh, with his dimples and dark eyes, likes the ladies as much as they like him.

Josh is running for mayor. Abby needs a job, so the two make a deal. Abby will run his campaign. A win/win, right? Not so fast. The current mayor is as crooked as a corkscrew, and is willing to do anything to win. If that means undermining Josh and threatening Abby to step away from the campaign, then so be it.

In the meantime, Ian decides Abby means more to him than he realized. And maybe, just maybe, their casual arrangement wasn't the best idea. He shows up in Logan's Creek, intent on winning her back. He may even be willing to commit. Stranger things have happened. Abby, however, just might be falling back in love with Josh. She already loves his family, shares his values, and her parents still invite him over on holidays.

As much as Abby wants to figure out her love life (#tornbetweentwolovers), there's a bigger problem. If the current mayor wins reelection, it could be terrible for Logan's Creek. So she puts romance on the back burner, recruits the Leading Ladies to help shake up the electorate, and runs across an anonymous blogger who writes laugh-out-loud gossip about the town.

As the election draws near, Abby tries to concentrate on messaging, and town hall meetings. But that darn heart of hers keeps flip-flopping.

Will she end up with Josh? (#loganscreekforever) Or will she return to Chicago with Ian? (#hestoosexyforhisshirt) How do you choose between the homecoming king and the man who can make you forget your own name with just the touch of his fingertips?

I promised myself I'd never chase love.

Until I meet John.

I try to resist his Southern charm, but he works his way under my skin. He's rough around the edges, a sweet talker with a protective heart. He gave me hope when I thought all was lost.

John says I'm his other half. I believe him until a reckless night of fun alters our lives forever. His grief sends him into a downward spiral, pushing me into the arms of someone who does more harm than good.

Without a word, John disappears. He wants me back when he returns months later, but it's complicated.

Things are different now.

I'm pregnant, and I don't know if the baby is his.

About the Book

Are you hurting, with pain that strikes your body every day as you rise? Do you experience pain that you've tried to explain to doctor after doctor, always searching for someone who could understand and offer you compassion? Yet, time after time, no help comes. No one knows, understands, or even searches for information about the Monster that brings you to your knees, making you grab and hold onto anything to get through the unrelenting attacks that often make you think you cannot survive. There is help for you. I write this to let you know we sufferers now have hope. For six and a half years, I lay in gripping, deathly pain, but praise God, help finally came.

Read on-you can also be helped if this is your story.

About the Author

I'm definitely a country girl and proud of it. However, with my husband's job at J.C. Penney Co., we've moved from one side of the country to the other, seeing much and learning to meet people from all over the world. We had a great time showing our two children some wonderful sights in this amazing country!I love all the people, but nothing has impressed me more than the upbringing I had in our small country area outside of Maryville, TN. I credit my mother. Studying every afternoon was her lifeline. She often reminded us how the Bible teaches us to live. This is my most cherished memory and has certainly contributed to the person I am today-not perfect, but always forgiven.

Alannah is a country girl who loves to go horse riding. However, her favourite horse, called 'Horry', is hard to handle and his bad behaviour results her getting into some serious situations. Allanah's parents see that she needs some help in handling Horry and so they arrange for some professional training. Find out how all ends well for Allanah and her horrible horse.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Henry James is the pen name of a school teacher from Sydney, Australia. After 45 years in the classroom, and having authored a number of science text books, Henry has now retired from face to face teaching and, as a hobby, has taken to writing rhyming stories for children. His earlier published story books include Alexandra's Accident, Possum Panic, Poco the Perky Pussycat, Donny the Dopey Doggie and Buddy the Brainy Budgie.

One rainy night, everyone in the United States and Canada heard the booms of bombs going off.

The next day, houses and buildings lay in ruins, leaving paths of dead people. A great number of the survivors fled to the woods.

The people split off and formed camps, with each camp choosing a special name. Everyone began scavenging for food and water in stores that hadn't been demolished.

Meanwhile, soldiers from another country were holding the President of the United States captive. The survivors knew they needed to do something to rescue the President, but the question remained, would they be able to bring him back in one piece?

About the Author

I am a retired school teacher and principal in the country where I live. I hold a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Middle School Education, along with an Educational Specialist degree in Supervision of Teachers and Leadership.

As a lifelong resident of Calhoun, Georgia, I raised my two sons here and have always been passionate about reading any book I can get my hands on. When my sons were young, I often made up stories to tell them at bedtime.

Now, I am a proud grandmother of four and cherish every moment with them. Although retired, I continue to teach first and second-grade students in Sunday School every Sunday, and I also sing in the church choir.

This is a book about weaving techniques. The reader will notice that throughout the book references are made to Latvian examples where certain techniques apply. The reason for this is that both my parents are Latvian and my mother, Anna Apinis, is a weaver who studied in Latvia graduating from the Latvian State High School for Applied Art at Liepāja in 1933.

After the Second World War she immigrated to Australia in 1950, bringing her knowledge of weaving and weaving loom with her. In this book I want to document some of the wealth of information collected during my mother's years in Latvia and add what knowledge of weaving I have gained from the Melbourne College of Textiles, where I attended a course in hand loom weaving between 1984 and 1986.

The aim of the book is to present as many Latvian designs as possible using between four and eight shafts. A short but important chapter is devoted to the drawloom technique, which enables the weaver to easily manipulate up to seventeen shafts. Anna Apinis brought the drawloom shown in this book with her when she came to Australia.

It was built in Germany just after the war from wood found in the war-torn airforce barracks of the displaced persons camp, Memmingen, where she resided until the move to Australia. Basic definitions of loom parts and weaving equipment are included with a short description of drafting, which forms the groundwork for putting theory into practice.

The Autobiographical Journey Of One Man's Life Experiences, Family Ties, And Associations

With Three U.S. Presidents, The Mafia, A State Senator, A Nobel Peace Laureate, Athletes,

Entertainers, And More.

Medicare can be a pain to understand. The right plan could save you time, money, and stress. Meanwhile, the wrong decision could mean lifetime penalties, shoddy coverage, and lousy healthcare.

It's Not That Complicated is a short guide that teaches you how to pick the right plan for your situation. The author, Ari Parker, is a Stanford Law School graduate and Medicare expert who has helped thousands of people sign up for Medicare and save thousands of dollars. In his book, Ari breaks down Medicare into bite-sized chunks, comparing it to pizza dinners and stepping you through three key decisions until you realize ...Medicare really isn't that complicated.

Regardless of whether you're a senior enrolling in Medicare for the first time, a financial advisor helping clients optimize their healthcare spending, or anyone else interested in learning about the benefits of Medicare, It's Not That Complicated is the only book you'll need to make the right Medicare choice for your loved ones, your clients, or yourself.

The selected title of this book, The Quanders - Since 1684: An Enduring African American Legacy, is self-explanatory and becomes more so once the reader delves into the content. Tracing the legacy of Henry Quando and Margrett Pugg, his wife, and their progeny, from 1684 to the present, unfolds a story of triumph and sustained accomplishment beyond and in spite of whatever racially-inspired obstacles were placed as inhibitors on the road to success.

Get out on the trail with the author in this day-long, book-length letter to his son concerning families, failure, love, duty, obligation, history, heritage, hunger, and harvest

The traveling cousins, who meet each year, were sitting in Olive's living room when Jas had an epiphany of some sort.

She told the girls that she thought the girls could make some money by helping people with jobs that not just anyone would want to do.

We could do the jobs and charge $1500 per job unless it was something minor, like getting a cat out of a tree.

The girls agreed to doing the odd jobs to help people. Jas got right on the ball and put an announcement on the internet. It didn't take too long before they were in business.

They couldn't wait to get their first job. They knew they could do most anything when they were all together.

They thought they might need help at times. They decided they would call their friends, the Picklemore sisters. They met them in Louisiana at a haunted Mansion. They were older than us, but they were still spry. The girls made sure the older ladies had a lot of fun.

At the end of the trip, they found out the four ladies were sisters and then they found out the older ladies were FBI agents working undercover. They knew who they should wanted to help them. Evelyn, Julie, Kathy, and Frances Picklemore.

The legacy of the players who perished in the 1970 Marshall football plane crash transcends wins and losses. Their tragic deaths squashed the likelihood of a bloody race riot on campus. Students at Marshall University had no idea that the horrific events on the night of November 14 would change their lives forever. The team's plane crashed into the side of a mountain and there were no survivors among the 75 passengers. Unless you were there, you could never comprehend the full gravity of grief that engulfed a college town in the days following the worst aviation disaster in the history of American sports. I know a lot about it. For two seasons, I was a Marshall football player. But for personal reasons, I decided that 1969 would be my last hurrah. As things turned out, it proved to be a life-saving choice. Had I not walked away from the game, I know it could have been me on that plane. When the school started to pick up the pieces of the football program, it was a no-brainer for me to return and become part of the rebuilding process in the spring of 1971. Media projects devoted to the Marshall football crash generated well-deserved exposure. Even so, there are glaring omissions in those presentations. Through this book, the record is set straight. Former Marshall defensive back Craig T. Greenlee provides insights and recollections that you simply will not find in other media accounts about the tragedy and its aftermath.

This collection of Carmeline's work reflects the lessons experienced as she has continued her lifelong study of Truth, and integrated the principles of metaphysical and mystical teachings into her life.

Always striving to be the student, as well as the teacher, she has learned, applied, and refined what she has studied. Some lessons were repeated over and over; others were immediately absorbed.

Her Journey to the Light has brought her stability, peace, and a permanent way to resolve Life's challenges. It has also brought her joy, because it has enabled her to do what she loves-write about it.

Carmeline was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She spent the first part of her life in theatre, working professionally as a theatrical lighting designer and stage manager. Marriage and raising a family of three boys and a girl led her to a new career as a songwriter and poet. Her first book of poetry Reflections on Myself was published in 1990; her second, TruthTeller (Xlibris) in 2000; and her third, Oneness in 2021. Like many poets, sensitive to the needs of humanity, Carmeline has been a social activist, environmentalist, and philanthropist for most of her life. To date, she is a Life member of the International New Th ought Alliance, and coordinator of its worldwide prayer ministry. In 2003, she received the prestigious Impresa Award from the Joint Civic Committee of Italian-Americans for her lifelong contribution of service to humanity and her career as a writer. The artwork found within Journey to the Light was designed by Carmeline's son, Charles Anthony Pusateri. It is with great pride that she shares his work as well.