Author: Kristine Ireland Waits
Publisher: Endurance Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
If you're eager to have a baby, doesn't the title say enough? Laugh, cry, share, relate - LOVE this book and all it offers to your soul. It's wit, wisdom and warmth from an author you'll quickly see as your sincere fertility-challenged friend. This information-packed, inspiring story is for women who are struggling with infertility and for those trying to support them. Enjoy an easy-reading journey you'll remember throughout life. Overwhelmed at the idea of dealing with friends' baby showers, insurance, husbands, needles, tears, heartbreak and surprises? This book captures it all in a delightful way that's packed full of truths and challenges to keep you moving forward. Indulge in a journey - reading this book - that will have you throwing your head back in laughter, curling up in the comfort of feeling understood, having raw honesty give you permission to be exactly who you are. Indulge. You deserve this! Get one for your best friend and your mom too.
Every Drunken Cheerleader
Author: Kristine Ireland Waits
Publisher: Endurance Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
If you're eager to have a baby, doesn't the title say enough? Laugh, cry, share, relate - LOVE this book and all it offers to your soul. It's wit, wisdom and warmth from an author you'll quickly see as your sincere fertility-challenged friend. This information-packed, inspiring story is for women who are struggling with infertility and for those trying to support them. Enjoy an easy-reading journey you'll remember throughout life. Overwhelmed at the idea of dealing with friends' baby showers, insurance, husbands, needles, tears, heartbreak and surprises? This book captures it all in a delightful way that's packed full of truths and challenges to keep you moving forward. Indulge in a journey - reading this book - that will have you throwing your head back in laughter, curling up in the comfort of feeling understood, having raw honesty give you permission to be exactly who you are. Indulge. You deserve this! Get one for your best friend and your mom too.
Publisher: Endurance Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
If you're eager to have a baby, doesn't the title say enough? Laugh, cry, share, relate - LOVE this book and all it offers to your soul. It's wit, wisdom and warmth from an author you'll quickly see as your sincere fertility-challenged friend. This information-packed, inspiring story is for women who are struggling with infertility and for those trying to support them. Enjoy an easy-reading journey you'll remember throughout life. Overwhelmed at the idea of dealing with friends' baby showers, insurance, husbands, needles, tears, heartbreak and surprises? This book captures it all in a delightful way that's packed full of truths and challenges to keep you moving forward. Indulge in a journey - reading this book - that will have you throwing your head back in laughter, curling up in the comfort of feeling understood, having raw honesty give you permission to be exactly who you are. Indulge. You deserve this! Get one for your best friend and your mom too.
Every Drunken Cheerleader: Why Not Me?
Author: Kristine Ireland Waits
Publisher: Endurance Publishing
ISBN: 0615274064
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
If you're eager to have a baby, doesn't the title say enough? Laugh, cry, share, relate - LOVE this book and all it offers to your soul. It's wit, wisdom and warmth from an author you'll quickly see as your sincere fertility-challenged friend. This information-packed, inspiring story is for women who are struggling with infertility and for those trying to support them. Enjoy an easy-reading journey you'll remember throughout life. Overwhelmed at the idea of dealing with friends' baby showers, insurance, husbands, needles, tears, heartbreak and surprises? This book captures it all in a delightful way that's packed full of truths and challenges to keep you moving forward. Indulge in a journey - reading this book - that will have you throwing your head back in laughter, curling up in the comfort of feeling understood, having raw honesty give you permission to be exactly who you are. Indulge. You deserve this! Get one for your best friend and your mom too.
Publisher: Endurance Publishing
ISBN: 0615274064
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
If you're eager to have a baby, doesn't the title say enough? Laugh, cry, share, relate - LOVE this book and all it offers to your soul. It's wit, wisdom and warmth from an author you'll quickly see as your sincere fertility-challenged friend. This information-packed, inspiring story is for women who are struggling with infertility and for those trying to support them. Enjoy an easy-reading journey you'll remember throughout life. Overwhelmed at the idea of dealing with friends' baby showers, insurance, husbands, needles, tears, heartbreak and surprises? This book captures it all in a delightful way that's packed full of truths and challenges to keep you moving forward. Indulge in a journey - reading this book - that will have you throwing your head back in laughter, curling up in the comfort of feeling understood, having raw honesty give you permission to be exactly who you are. Indulge. You deserve this! Get one for your best friend and your mom too.
A Year in the (Infertility) Life
Author: Nikki Zurawski
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1638673977
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A Year in the (Infertility) Life By: Nikki Zurawski Infertility. It usually takes a year or more of “trying” to get pregnant to get to that word, and no one wants to hear it. Once the doctor says it out loud, life can change as you know it. Poking and prodding. Early morning appointments. Ovulation tracking. HSG dye tests. Ultrasounds. Expensive Consultations. Fertility drugs that you can’t even pronounce. Painful procedures. Fertility clinic referrals. Treatment cycles. Intrauterine insemination. Polypectomy. Too many follicles. Cysts. Injections. Hormone Support. Surgeries. Consultations on in-vitro fertilization. Even loss. That’s just the physical side of it. The emotional side? Trying to navigate rescheduling work meetings for last-minute appointments based on baseline data each cycle. Tough conversations with friends, family, and your boss. Deciding when to allow your body a “break” from treatment cycles, even if just to give your health savings account a chance to catch up. Overthinking. Sleepless nights. Worrying that in the end, none of it will work. Trying to find a way to stay sane in the midst of all of it while literally filling your body with hormones.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1638673977
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A Year in the (Infertility) Life By: Nikki Zurawski Infertility. It usually takes a year or more of “trying” to get pregnant to get to that word, and no one wants to hear it. Once the doctor says it out loud, life can change as you know it. Poking and prodding. Early morning appointments. Ovulation tracking. HSG dye tests. Ultrasounds. Expensive Consultations. Fertility drugs that you can’t even pronounce. Painful procedures. Fertility clinic referrals. Treatment cycles. Intrauterine insemination. Polypectomy. Too many follicles. Cysts. Injections. Hormone Support. Surgeries. Consultations on in-vitro fertilization. Even loss. That’s just the physical side of it. The emotional side? Trying to navigate rescheduling work meetings for last-minute appointments based on baseline data each cycle. Tough conversations with friends, family, and your boss. Deciding when to allow your body a “break” from treatment cycles, even if just to give your health savings account a chance to catch up. Overthinking. Sleepless nights. Worrying that in the end, none of it will work. Trying to find a way to stay sane in the midst of all of it while literally filling your body with hormones.
Julia's Fight
Author: Kristine I. Waits
Publisher: Endurance Publishing
ISBN: 0692326596
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Julia Ellis wants to have a baby. Actually, it was David’s idea first. Like the day he proposed, David got down on one knee and asked Julia to be the mother of his children. However, with each negative sign on a home pregnancy test, Julia slips further into depression, crippling the couple’s bond. She loses a friend who can’t understand the pain and bitter jealousy she is experiencing and she harbors strong resentment toward her sister who clearly cannot sympathize. Spying on a fertility support group, Julia discovers new friendships and insights. After a year of failure and loss, she lies to her husband and begins fertility treatments. This is a fight Julia needs to win to save her marriage and to save herself.
Publisher: Endurance Publishing
ISBN: 0692326596
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Julia Ellis wants to have a baby. Actually, it was David’s idea first. Like the day he proposed, David got down on one knee and asked Julia to be the mother of his children. However, with each negative sign on a home pregnancy test, Julia slips further into depression, crippling the couple’s bond. She loses a friend who can’t understand the pain and bitter jealousy she is experiencing and she harbors strong resentment toward her sister who clearly cannot sympathize. Spying on a fertility support group, Julia discovers new friendships and insights. After a year of failure and loss, she lies to her husband and begins fertility treatments. This is a fight Julia needs to win to save her marriage and to save herself.
The Mother Blame Game
Author: Vanessa Reimer
Publisher: Demeter Press
ISBN: 1772580333
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Mother-Blame Game is an interdisciplinary and intersectional examination of the phenomenon of mother-blame in the twenty-first century. As the socioeconomic and cultural expectations of what constitutes “good motherhood” grow continually narrow and exclusionary, mothers are demonized and stigmatized—perhaps now more than ever—for all that is perceived to go “wrong” in their children’s lives. This anthology brings together creative and scholarly contributions from feminist academics and activists alike to provide a dynamic study of the many varied ways in which mothers are blamed and shamed for their maternal practice. Importantly, it also considers how mothers resist these ideologies by engaging in empowered and feminist mothering practices, as well as by publicly challenging patriarchal discourses of “good motherhood.”
Publisher: Demeter Press
ISBN: 1772580333
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Mother-Blame Game is an interdisciplinary and intersectional examination of the phenomenon of mother-blame in the twenty-first century. As the socioeconomic and cultural expectations of what constitutes “good motherhood” grow continually narrow and exclusionary, mothers are demonized and stigmatized—perhaps now more than ever—for all that is perceived to go “wrong” in their children’s lives. This anthology brings together creative and scholarly contributions from feminist academics and activists alike to provide a dynamic study of the many varied ways in which mothers are blamed and shamed for their maternal practice. Importantly, it also considers how mothers resist these ideologies by engaging in empowered and feminist mothering practices, as well as by publicly challenging patriarchal discourses of “good motherhood.”
The Cheerleaders
Author: Kara Thomas
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 1524718343
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
"Sharp, brilliantly plotted, and totally engrossing."--KAREN M. MCMANUS, New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying "A crafty, dark, and disturbing story."--KATHLEEN GLASGOW, New York Times bestselling author of Girl In Pieces "A little bit Riverdale and a little bit Veronica Mars."--RILEY SAGER, bestselling author of Final Girls A Goodreads Best Young Adult Book of the Year Nominee From the author of The Darkest Corners and Little Monsters comes an all-new edge-of-your-seat thriller set in upstate New York about an eerie sequence of seemingly unrelated events that leaves five cheerleaders dead. There are no more cheerleaders in the town of Sunnybrook. First there was the car accident--two girls dead after hitting a tree on a rainy night. Not long after, the murders happened. Those two girls were killed by the man next door. The police shot him, so no one will ever know his reasons. Monica's sister was the last cheerleader to die. After her suicide, Sunnybrook High disbanded the cheer squad. No one wanted to be reminded of the girls they'd lost. That was five years ago. Now the faculty and students at Sunnybrook High want to remember the lost cheerleaders. But for Monica, it's not that easy. She just wants to forget. Only, Monica's world is starting to unravel. There are the letters in her stepdad's desk, an unearthed, years-old cell phone, a strange new friend at school. . . . Whatever happened five years ago isn't over. Some people in town know more than they're saying. And somehow, Monica is at the center of it all. There are no more cheerleaders in Sunnybrook, but that doesn't mean anyone else is safe. More Praise for Kara Thomas: "Gripping from start to finish . . . with twists that left me shocked."--VICTORIA AVEYARD, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Queen "You'll be up all night tearing through the pages."--BUSTLE "This deliciously deceptive thriller...is a must-have."--SLJ
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 1524718343
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
"Sharp, brilliantly plotted, and totally engrossing."--KAREN M. MCMANUS, New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying "A crafty, dark, and disturbing story."--KATHLEEN GLASGOW, New York Times bestselling author of Girl In Pieces "A little bit Riverdale and a little bit Veronica Mars."--RILEY SAGER, bestselling author of Final Girls A Goodreads Best Young Adult Book of the Year Nominee From the author of The Darkest Corners and Little Monsters comes an all-new edge-of-your-seat thriller set in upstate New York about an eerie sequence of seemingly unrelated events that leaves five cheerleaders dead. There are no more cheerleaders in the town of Sunnybrook. First there was the car accident--two girls dead after hitting a tree on a rainy night. Not long after, the murders happened. Those two girls were killed by the man next door. The police shot him, so no one will ever know his reasons. Monica's sister was the last cheerleader to die. After her suicide, Sunnybrook High disbanded the cheer squad. No one wanted to be reminded of the girls they'd lost. That was five years ago. Now the faculty and students at Sunnybrook High want to remember the lost cheerleaders. But for Monica, it's not that easy. She just wants to forget. Only, Monica's world is starting to unravel. There are the letters in her stepdad's desk, an unearthed, years-old cell phone, a strange new friend at school. . . . Whatever happened five years ago isn't over. Some people in town know more than they're saying. And somehow, Monica is at the center of it all. There are no more cheerleaders in Sunnybrook, but that doesn't mean anyone else is safe. More Praise for Kara Thomas: "Gripping from start to finish . . . with twists that left me shocked."--VICTORIA AVEYARD, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Queen "You'll be up all night tearing through the pages."--BUSTLE "This deliciously deceptive thriller...is a must-have."--SLJ
Confessions of a Gator Cheerleader
Author: Bess Auer
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595355234
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Confession #1: A Gator cheerleader never tells all...or does she? Author and former Gator cheerleader Bess Harbin Auer exposes life at Florida under Steve Spurrier's first year as head coach. Although the Gator Nation becomes locked in the chaotic grip of brutal serial killer Danny Rolling, the cheerleaders strive to create an atmosphere of team spirit deep in The Swamp. Go behind the scenes as the cheerleaders prepare for Gator Growl, work out in the sacred South End Zone weight room, and practice in the O'Dome. Follow the squad to Tennessee and see how they find a way to take the ultimate revenge on the football field at Neyland Stadium. And don't forget the eight-foot snake on the loose in Yon Hall!
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595355234
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Confession #1: A Gator cheerleader never tells all...or does she? Author and former Gator cheerleader Bess Harbin Auer exposes life at Florida under Steve Spurrier's first year as head coach. Although the Gator Nation becomes locked in the chaotic grip of brutal serial killer Danny Rolling, the cheerleaders strive to create an atmosphere of team spirit deep in The Swamp. Go behind the scenes as the cheerleaders prepare for Gator Growl, work out in the sacred South End Zone weight room, and practice in the O'Dome. Follow the squad to Tennessee and see how they find a way to take the ultimate revenge on the football field at Neyland Stadium. And don't forget the eight-foot snake on the loose in Yon Hall!
Squad
Author: Mariah MacCarthy
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 0374307504
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
*A Barnes & Noble Teen Blog's Most Anticipated LGBTQAP YA Book of 2019* Jenna Watson is a cheerleader. And she wants you to know it’s not some Hollywood crap: they are not every guy’s fantasy. They are not the “mean girls” of Marsen High School. They’re literally just human females trying to live their lives and do a perfect toe touch. And their team is at the top of their game. They’re a family. But all that changes when Jenna’s best friend stops talking to her. Suddenly, she’s not getting invited out with the rest of the squad. She’s always a step behind. And she has no idea why. While grappling with post-cheer life, Jenna explores things she never allowed herself to like, including LARPing (live action role playing) and a relationship with a trans guy that feels a lot like love. When Jenna loses the sport and the friends she’s always loved, she has to ask herself: What else is left?
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 0374307504
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
*A Barnes & Noble Teen Blog's Most Anticipated LGBTQAP YA Book of 2019* Jenna Watson is a cheerleader. And she wants you to know it’s not some Hollywood crap: they are not every guy’s fantasy. They are not the “mean girls” of Marsen High School. They’re literally just human females trying to live their lives and do a perfect toe touch. And their team is at the top of their game. They’re a family. But all that changes when Jenna’s best friend stops talking to her. Suddenly, she’s not getting invited out with the rest of the squad. She’s always a step behind. And she has no idea why. While grappling with post-cheer life, Jenna explores things she never allowed herself to like, including LARPing (live action role playing) and a relationship with a trans guy that feels a lot like love. When Jenna loses the sport and the friends she’s always loved, she has to ask herself: What else is left?
Dare Me
Author: Megan Abbott
Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books
ISBN: 0316203238
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
From the award-winning author of The Turnout and Give Me Your Hand: the searing novel of friendship and betrayal that inspired the USA Network series, praised by Gillian Flynn as "Lord of the Flies set in a high-school cheerleading squad...Tense, dark, and beautifully written." Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy's best friend and trusted lieutenant. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. Now they're seniors who rule the intensely competitive cheer squad, feared and followed by the other girls -- until the young new coach arrives. Cool and commanding, an emissary from the adult world just beyond their reach, Coach Colette French draws Addy and the other cheerleaders into her life. Only Beth, unsettled by the new regime, remains outside Coach's golden circle, waging a subtle but vicious campaign to regain her position as "top girl" -- both with the team and with Addy herself. Then a suicide focuses a police investigation on Coach and her squad. After the first wave of shock and grief, Addy tries to uncover the truth behind the death -- and learns that the boundary between loyalty and love can be dangerous terrain. The raw passions of girlhood are brought to life in this taut, unflinching exploration of friendship, ambition, and power. Award-winning novelist Megan Abbott, writing with what Tom Perrotta has hailed as "total authority and an almost desperate intensity," provides a harrowing glimpse into the dark heart of the all-American girl.
Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books
ISBN: 0316203238
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
From the award-winning author of The Turnout and Give Me Your Hand: the searing novel of friendship and betrayal that inspired the USA Network series, praised by Gillian Flynn as "Lord of the Flies set in a high-school cheerleading squad...Tense, dark, and beautifully written." Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy's best friend and trusted lieutenant. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. Now they're seniors who rule the intensely competitive cheer squad, feared and followed by the other girls -- until the young new coach arrives. Cool and commanding, an emissary from the adult world just beyond their reach, Coach Colette French draws Addy and the other cheerleaders into her life. Only Beth, unsettled by the new regime, remains outside Coach's golden circle, waging a subtle but vicious campaign to regain her position as "top girl" -- both with the team and with Addy herself. Then a suicide focuses a police investigation on Coach and her squad. After the first wave of shock and grief, Addy tries to uncover the truth behind the death -- and learns that the boundary between loyalty and love can be dangerous terrain. The raw passions of girlhood are brought to life in this taut, unflinching exploration of friendship, ambition, and power. Award-winning novelist Megan Abbott, writing with what Tom Perrotta has hailed as "total authority and an almost desperate intensity," provides a harrowing glimpse into the dark heart of the all-American girl.
The Third Reading
Author: M. S. Evans
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1642140317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Three of the four central characters of The Third Reading are heirs to an immense fortune. However, they discover that their benefactor has divided the reading of his last will and testament into three sections, each to be read one month apart. Should any of them miss a reading, their share is to be divided between those that remain. You do remember Janice Macauly, the most oftaEUR"quoted psychoanalyst of the eighties and the fiancée of the deceased? But it wasn't always so. You see, although brilliant, she found it next to impossible to become a member of the maleaEUR"dominated club of those times. Disillusioned by their chauvinism, she authored what was to become a best seller entitled Head aEUR" The Male Ego. As if that wasn't enough, she also agreed to an exposé on Head for Playboy Magazine, which was accompanied by a full nude centerfold! "That's the end of that boisterous bitch," the club prophesied. Jan was then, and remains to this day, a stunningly beautiful woman, and she went on to take "Playmate of the Year" honors. Her career was launched. Brian, the newly departed, had inherited several hundred millions of dollars, then through shrewd and barely legal means had soon finagled his way into a billion. He would have gone on destroying careers and devouring the competition had he not met someone who transformed him from a complete parasite into an environmentalist and philanthropist to worthy causes worldwide. That someone was his brother, Robert, who had vanished some two decades earlier. Those years had been spent in India, Africa, the Far East, Central America, and among Native American Indians delving into the metaphysical and spiritual aspects of life. Then there is Doc, Jan's counterpart, who himself was well renowned in analytical circles, but for reasons far different than she. He had become famous in Hollywood, seemingly overnight, by way of a colossal misunderstanding. An athletic sixaEUR"footaEUR"two and bearing a striking resemblance to the cowboys of old, he became the therapist to see in Glitter City. Everyone who was anyone had to have Doc as their shrink. Unfortunately, he hadn't a clue as to what in the hell he was talking about! However, that shortcoming did little to slow the stampede of the rich and famous who clung to his every word. The Third Reading revolves around the lives of these three during the course of one year in which they become intimately intertwined. Along the way you will meet a dozen or so of Doc's patients, including the worldaEUR"renowned attorney who built his fame and fortune defending the rights and privilege of white supremacists around the country. J. W. Brown III never lost a case. He was the master of ceremonies at every convention from LA to New York. The fact that he was black made little difference to John Brown. All he cared about was the green. Make no mistake, this tale goes far beyond psychiatry, metaphysics, and sex. Among many other subjects, it introduces us to an original and scientifically plausible sister theory to reincarnation. The Third Reading also tackles the question of humankind throughout recorded and prerecorded history: Who or what is God? Moreover, where do we fit into The Plan? About the Author Mark Evans was born in the small Midwestern town of Kewanee, Illinois. In Winnebago Indian speak, that means "prairie chicken". The highlight of each year was Hog Days when the carnival came to town. After graduating from Lakeland College in Wisconsin with a double major in psychology/sociology and a minor in Behavioral Psychology, he pursued his lifelong dream aEUR" traveling. To date he has made good on that desire, visiting over 100 countries, nine of which he made home for more than a year. His business concerns, also allowed him to live in nine of the fortyaEUR"five states he has traveled. Retiring at the ripe old age of fiftyaEUR"one, Mark lives in the southwest corner of Florida with the love of his life. He first met Lisa while working on the island of St. Maarten in 1985. They lost one another. However, by sheer happenstance, they reunited thirty years later, almost to the day on January 15. They have yet to spend a day apart. Mark is currently working on The Fourth (And Final) Reading, which will be available midaEUR"2019.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1642140317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Three of the four central characters of The Third Reading are heirs to an immense fortune. However, they discover that their benefactor has divided the reading of his last will and testament into three sections, each to be read one month apart. Should any of them miss a reading, their share is to be divided between those that remain. You do remember Janice Macauly, the most oftaEUR"quoted psychoanalyst of the eighties and the fiancée of the deceased? But it wasn't always so. You see, although brilliant, she found it next to impossible to become a member of the maleaEUR"dominated club of those times. Disillusioned by their chauvinism, she authored what was to become a best seller entitled Head aEUR" The Male Ego. As if that wasn't enough, she also agreed to an exposé on Head for Playboy Magazine, which was accompanied by a full nude centerfold! "That's the end of that boisterous bitch," the club prophesied. Jan was then, and remains to this day, a stunningly beautiful woman, and she went on to take "Playmate of the Year" honors. Her career was launched. Brian, the newly departed, had inherited several hundred millions of dollars, then through shrewd and barely legal means had soon finagled his way into a billion. He would have gone on destroying careers and devouring the competition had he not met someone who transformed him from a complete parasite into an environmentalist and philanthropist to worthy causes worldwide. That someone was his brother, Robert, who had vanished some two decades earlier. Those years had been spent in India, Africa, the Far East, Central America, and among Native American Indians delving into the metaphysical and spiritual aspects of life. Then there is Doc, Jan's counterpart, who himself was well renowned in analytical circles, but for reasons far different than she. He had become famous in Hollywood, seemingly overnight, by way of a colossal misunderstanding. An athletic sixaEUR"footaEUR"two and bearing a striking resemblance to the cowboys of old, he became the therapist to see in Glitter City. Everyone who was anyone had to have Doc as their shrink. Unfortunately, he hadn't a clue as to what in the hell he was talking about! However, that shortcoming did little to slow the stampede of the rich and famous who clung to his every word. The Third Reading revolves around the lives of these three during the course of one year in which they become intimately intertwined. Along the way you will meet a dozen or so of Doc's patients, including the worldaEUR"renowned attorney who built his fame and fortune defending the rights and privilege of white supremacists around the country. J. W. Brown III never lost a case. He was the master of ceremonies at every convention from LA to New York. The fact that he was black made little difference to John Brown. All he cared about was the green. Make no mistake, this tale goes far beyond psychiatry, metaphysics, and sex. Among many other subjects, it introduces us to an original and scientifically plausible sister theory to reincarnation. The Third Reading also tackles the question of humankind throughout recorded and prerecorded history: Who or what is God? Moreover, where do we fit into The Plan? About the Author Mark Evans was born in the small Midwestern town of Kewanee, Illinois. In Winnebago Indian speak, that means "prairie chicken". The highlight of each year was Hog Days when the carnival came to town. After graduating from Lakeland College in Wisconsin with a double major in psychology/sociology and a minor in Behavioral Psychology, he pursued his lifelong dream aEUR" traveling. To date he has made good on that desire, visiting over 100 countries, nine of which he made home for more than a year. His business concerns, also allowed him to live in nine of the fortyaEUR"five states he has traveled. Retiring at the ripe old age of fiftyaEUR"one, Mark lives in the southwest corner of Florida with the love of his life. He first met Lisa while working on the island of St. Maarten in 1985. They lost one another. However, by sheer happenstance, they reunited thirty years later, almost to the day on January 15. They have yet to spend a day apart. Mark is currently working on The Fourth (And Final) Reading, which will be available midaEUR"2019.