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More than 5,000 people retire every day--yet there have been no retirement books that are both informative and motivational until now. 101 Secrets for a Great Retirement encourages and inspires retirees to simplify their lives and pursue their dreams. The authors cover all the essential topics, including health, social life, relationships, financial matters, legal issues, and more.

A freelance writer and journalist, Vicenta ( Vicky ) Lumiere has moved beyond her upbringing in the diverse Irish Channel neighborhood of New Orleans. But a visit to her childhood friend Lonnie Cavanaugh in the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women brings back a flood of memories.In "Navel of the Moon," the follow-up to her acclaimed debut "The Fifth Sun," Mary Helen Lagasse turns to the 1950s and 60s, where a young Vicky learns that the complicated people that we become as adults and the complicated world that adults create are shaped by events in childhood. The adults around her,...

Winner of the 3rd Annual Miguel Marmol Prize from Curbstone Press, Mary Helen Lagasse's "The Fifth Sun" is an inspiring story of an immigrant who struggles valiantly for a better life for herself and her family. The young Mexican woman, Mercedes, leaves her village to work as a housemaid in New Orleans. This fast-paced novel takes her through her adventures in New Orleans, her marriage, her struggle to raise her children, her deportation, and her attempt to re-cross the river and be reunited with her children."

Despite the depression, the Richardson's enjoy a rewarding life on the Tasmanian coast in Harrison's Way a small, seaside community. Mary Richardson has to deal with the grief of her friend Lily's death in childbirth, but looking into the newborn's eyes, she dares to hope that little Rowie's life will be happier. Love and romance bless Lily's eldest daughter Kathryn's life, when she meets Jim an itinerant worker. But her happiness is tainted when she becomes the first victim of a brutal predator. Mary's daughter Frances also falls prey to these crimes. Can they find this man in time to...

An Antarctic research vessel sinks and all aboard perish in the freezing waters of the Patagonia. A popular priest is murdered inside a Puerto Montt cathedral. Prominent Washington, D.C. lawyer, Stephan Brent, pleads for his assistant, Emmanuelle Solis, to hand-deliver incriminating files to him in South America where he is in hiding.

But when Emmanuelle arrives in Chile, her simple plan to help Brent quickly goes awry. Brent's body is found on the Argentine-Chile border, and the FBI and Interpol are linking Emmanuelle to a radical conspiracy implicated in his abduction and murder....

"Church movies we saw were mostly westerns--old westerns, in black and white. Father Mueller drove to 'Los, ' as we called Los Angeles, to pick up the films and assorted reels. He never explained why western movies were all he got; I figured he knew a cowboy."

It's the 1940s. Little Mary Helen Ponce and her family live in Pacoima, a Mexican American barrio near Los Angeles. Unmindful of their poverty, Mary Helen and friends Beto, Concha, Virgie, la Nancy, and Mundo sneak into the circus, run wild at church bazaars, snitch apricots from the neighbor's tree, and poke fun at Father...

Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Award and the Writer's League of Texas Fiction Award

A February 2015 Indie Next Selection

A January Apple iBook Selection

An Austin American-Statesman Selects Book

A powerful debut novel about a group of 30-somethings struggling for connection and belonging, Migratory Animals centers on a protagonist who finds herself torn between love and duty.

When Flannery, a young scientist, is forced to return to Austin from five years of research in Nigeria, she becomes split between her two homes. Having left behind her...

Smith Street sits on the outskirts of the small town of Burston, which lies back from the coast of North West Tasmania. The street's long-time residents are a quirky lot, and their lives blend in numerous ways.

Kathy Smith inherited her home from her parents and has lived there on and off all of her life currently with her nineteen-year-old son, Robert. He is about to spread his wings and move to a unit a mere stone's throw from Smith Street. Robert's adventures with his unsavoury and devious mate, Bazza, cause major problems for him and his mum. In a nearby home lives John, who has...