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  • Polysecure

    Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

    by Jessica Fern ...
    Attachment theory has entered the mainstream, but most discussions focus on how we can cultivate secure monogamous relationships. What if, like many people, you're striving for secure, happy attachments with more than one partner? Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern breaks new ground by extending attachment theory into the realm of consensual nonmonogamy. Using her nested model of attachment ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Other Significant Others

    Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

    by Rhaina Cohen ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERAN INDIE BESTSELLER"An arresting work of compassion and insight." ―Lori Gottlieb"I loved and recommend [The Other Significant Others] to everybody." —Ezra Klein**"I feel like I've been waiting for this book for my entire adult life." ―Anne Helen PetersenWhy do we assume romantic relationships are more important than friendships? What do we lose when we expect a spouse to meet ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Polyamory and Kink

    The Polyamory on Purpose Guides, #4

    by Jess Mahler ...
    Series Book 4 - The Polyamory on Purpose Guides
    Like it says on the front, this is a book about polyamory and kink. More specifically, this is a book about adding kink to your polyamorous relationships.Whether you are curious about kink yourself or have a partner who is entering a kink relationship and you want to know what to expect, this book will cover the bases. Including-- what is kink-- healthy vs unhealthy kink-- how kink will impact ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • North of Normal

    A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both

    Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person’s compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wilderness—a searing story of physical, emotional, and psychological survival.In the late 1960s, riding the crest of the counterculture movement, Cea’s family left a comfortable existence in California to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Mommy Man

    How I Went from Mild-Mannered Geek to Gay Superdad

    by Jerry Mahoney ...
    As a teenager growing up in the 1980s, all Jerry Mahoney wanted was a nice, normal sham marriage: 2.5 kids and a frustrated, dissatisfied wife living in denial of her husband’s sexuality. Hey, why not? It seemed much more attainable and fulfilling than the alternative—coming out of the closet and making peace with the fact that he’d never have a family at all.Twenty years later, Jerry is living ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Truck: A Love Story

    by Michael Perry ...
    “A touching and very funny account. . . . Thoroughly engaging.”—New York TimesHilarious and heartfelt, Truck: A Love Story is the tale of a man struggling to grow his own garden, fix his old pickup, and resurrect a love life permanently impaired by Neil Diamond. In the process, he sets his hair on fire, is attacked by wild turkeys, and proposes marriage to a woman in New Orleans. The result is a ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

  • Unwanted: Part 3 of 3: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child?

    by Cathy Glass ...
    Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she was put into foster care. The care system failed Lara and now she is failing her son.Lara and her one-year-old son, Arthur, are brought to experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, by their social worker. Lara has fled an abusive relationship and Arthur has suspected non-accidental injuries. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Gender Born, Gender Made: Raising Healthy Gender-Nonconforming Children

    A groundbreaking guide to caring for children who live outside binary gender boxesWe are only beginning to understand gender. Is it inborn or learned? Can it be chosen—or even changed? Does it have to be one or the other? These questions may seem abstract—but for parents whose children live outside of gender “norms,” they are very real.No two children who bend the “rules” of gender do so in quite ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Loving Her

    A Novel

    A groundbreaking novel of two very different women, one black and one white, and a remarkable love threatened by prejudice, rage, and violenceA struggling African American musician, Renay married Jerome Lee when she discovered she was pregnant with his child. Yet even before their daughter, Denise, was born, Renay realized what a terrible mistake she had made, tying herself to a violent, abusive ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scattered Seeds

    In Search of Family and Identity in the Sperm Donor Generation

    As typical as donor-conceived children have become, with at least a million such children in the US alone, their experiences are still unusual in many ways. In Scattered Seeds, journalist and writer Jacqueline Mroz looks at the growth of sperm donation and assisted reproduction and how it affects the children who are born, the women who buy and use the sperm to have kids, and the sperm donors who ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • In Her Shadow

    Hannah Brown thought she had put the past behind her. But now it's coming to find her…Hannah never dreamed she'd have a best friend like Ellen Brecht. Ellen is everything Hannah wants to be - beautiful, daring, glamorous and poweful. Growing up together in windswept Cornwall, life seems perfect. But their idyllic childhood is shattered by obsession, betrayal and, ultimately, a terrible tragedy ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unwanted: Part 2 of 3: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child?

    by Cathy Glass ...
    Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she was put into foster care. The care system failed Lara and now she is failing her son.Lara and her one-year-old son, Arthur, are brought to experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, by their social worker. Lara has fled an abusive relationship and Arthur has suspected non-accidental injuries. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Shooting Out the Lights

    A Memoir

    by Kim Fairley ...
    Kim Fairley was twenty-four when she fell in love with and married a man who was fifty-seven. Something about Vern—his quirkiness, his humor, his devilish smile—made her feel an immediate connection with him. She quickly became pregnant, but instead of the idyllic interlude she’d imagined as she settled into married life and planned for their family, their love was soon tested by the ghosts of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Unwanted: Part 1 of 3: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child?

    by Cathy Glass ...
    Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she was put into foster care. The care system failed Lara and now she is failing her son.Lara and her one-year-old son, Arthur, are brought to experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, by their social worker. Lara has fled an abusive relationship and Arthur has suspected non-accidental injuries. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Anxious Person’s Guide to Non-Monogamy

    Your Guide to Open Relationships, Polyamory and Letting Go

    by Lola Phoenix ...
    'Invaluable' RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL'Refreshingly honest, comprehensive and realistic' MEG-JOHN BARKEREmbarking on a non-monogamous relationship can be a daunting experience, opening old wounds that cause anxiety, fear and confusion, something Lola Phoenix knows about all too well.In this all-you-need-to-know guide to exploring non-monogamy, polyamory and open relationships, Lola draws upon their ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Becoming Sister Wives

    The Story of an Unconventional Marriage

    The uncensored, New York Times bestselling memoir by the polygamist stars of the hit show Sister Wives, Kody and his four wives openly discuss what it’s like living in a plural marriage.**A SINGULAR STORY OF PLURAL MARRIAGESince TLC first launched its popular reality program Sister Wives, Kody Brown, his four wives—Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn—and their seventeen children have become one of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

    by Michael Lewis ...
    "Lewis has such a gift for storytelling...he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons."—Janet Maslin, New York TimesOne day Michael Oher will be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When we first meet him, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Love Times Three

    Our True Story of a Polygamous Marriage

    From a familythat inspired Big Love’s story of Bill Henricksonand his three wives, this first-ever memoir of a polygamous family captures theextraordinary workings of a unique family dynamic, and argues forthe acceptance of plural marriage as an alternative lifestyle. Readers ofCarolyn Jessop’s Escape, Elissa Wall’s StolenInnocence,and James McGreevey’s Confession,as well as fans of shows like Big ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

  • The Tender Bar

    A Memoir

    Now a major Amazon film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar, in the tradition of This Boy’s Life and The Liar’s Club—with a new Afterword***.***J.R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • The Old Girls' Network

    The top 10 bestselling funny, feel-good read from USA Today bestseller Judy Leigh

    by Judy Leigh ...
    The USA Today and Top 10 bestseller It's never too late to change…After a health scare, 77 year-old spinster Barbara goes to convalesce in the sleepy picture-perfect English country village of Winsley Green with her sister Pauline. The sisters are chalk and cheese - Barbara, outspoken and aloof and Pauline, good natured and homely – so it’s not long before the tension starts to rise.When ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Will You Love Me?: The story of my adopted daughter Lucy

    by Cathy Glass ...
    This eleventh memoir and latest title from the internationally bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass can either be read as a full eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts. Will You Love Me tells the true story of Cathy’s adopted daughter Lucy.Lucy was born to a single mother who had been abused and neglected for most of her own childhood. Right from the beginning Lucy’s mother couldn’t ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Villa of Sun and Secrets

    A warm escapist read that will keep you guessing

    **It's never too late to live the dream...'Unputdownable, a heart-warming story of love, family and friendship in the glorious south of France. What’s not to love!' Lucy Coleman**Carla Sullivan’s 50th birthday is fast approaching when her whole world is turned upside down. Discovering her feckless husband is having yet another affair and following her mother’s death, she is in need of an escape. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kids Books: The Lion and mosquito

    Kids books Series, #1

    by Emma Clover ...
    Series Book 1 - Kids books Series
    Bedtime Stories the seriesThe Lion and MosquitoThis is Shot Story and Photo Book for Bedtime of Children"Away with you, vile insect!" said a Lion angrily to a Gnat that was buzzing around his head. But the Gnat was not in the least disturbed."Do you think," he said spitefully to the Lion, "that I am afraid of you because they call you king?"The next instant he flew at the Lion and stung him ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Jealousy Workbook

    Exercises and Insights for Managing Open Relationships

    From the initial stages of trying to agree who can do what with whom, through advanced issues such as coping with logistics and seeking compersion, every relationship sooner or later confronts jealousy – and some relationships do not survive the confrontation. Between these covers you will find forty-two exercises with supporting text, developed by a professional relationship counselor and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD