How had things become so complicated? 
Charlotte Adamsley thought that booking a writing workshop at their charming Adirondack lodge was perfect for shoring up sagging finances. What’s more, the creative vibes might remind her she could be more than bookkeeper, wife, and mother, inspiring her to finish her novel. But only weeks ahead, she discovers the author leading the workshop is a man from her youth. When another figure from the past appears at the workshop, along with aspiring writers, two anxious to pen a who-done-it…will Charlotte be able to salvage her manuscript or marriage by the time the week is over? Will she want to?\nPeopled with intriguing characters, Blackbird Lodge buzzes with romance, old loves reappearing, betrayals, cruelties, accidents, and surprising insight into the complexity of human relationships and love within and beyond the writing life. Hicks’ novel vividly and unflinchingly explores the writing life and the disconnect between expectations and the reality of a life first assessed as a disappointment but actually one that was well-lived. 
—Nancy Avery Dafoe, recently published memoir Unstuck in Time, A Memoir and Mystery on Loss and Love and contemporary fable/novella Naimah and Ajmal on Newton’s Mountain.

Unexpected Guests at Blackbird Lodge: a novel

Literature & Fiction

Hicks, Joyce

Contemporary

Encore Books

FIRST PLACE: FictionNational Federation of Press Woman Communication Contest, 2018The year after octogenarian Betty Miles' exit from senior living as told in Hicks' Escape from Assisted Living, she's staying in Chicago. Her daughter Sharon D'Angelo is busy with Sharon's Desserts, her new shop in Elkhart, Indiana, funded by a legacy from her father. This equanimity between Betty and Sharon may be short-lived after a stranger makes an astonishing claim. Will mother and daughter work through this mystery together? Of course not. They have protected each other from upsetting truths their entire lives.With her hands full--catering clients making moves on her husband Vince, her mother-in-law meddling in the desserts, and a visitor sleeping over--Sharon encourages her mother to stay away. Time isn't right for revelations of the goings-on in Elkhart that have propelled Sharon's Desserts from the red to the black. Betty's happy in her city life with friend Eleanor. She's speed dating, making new friends, and reconnecting with an old one. She's also sleuthing family history, but her suspicions she keeps from Sharon because a good wife and mother should not tarnish a reputation. When all the women meet by accident in Chicago, results of past transgressions come to light. They must ask what does it take to forgive, or move on, or rekindle romance? And do second chances offer just deserts? The Miles and D'Angelo experience with rewritten family history offers answers.

One More Foxtrot: a tale of second chances

Literary

Learn the Art of Seeing and tap into the beauty of the everyday! The scenes around you don't have to be perfect to inspire beautiful watercolor paintings. In Painting Beautiful Watercolor Landscapes, Joyce Hicks shows you how to transform ordinary landscapes into gorgeous, lush works of art. First you'll learn to look differently at the world around you by slowing down and seeing beauty in the every day to find settings you can't wait to paint. Then, by learning to understand design elements and principles, use color and make the most of artistic license, you'll gain the confidence you need to create light-filled watercolor landscapes. Finally, Joyce shows you how to add fine details to make the painting distinctly yours. With Painting Beautiful Watercolor Landscapes, you will: • Discover your inspiration in a scene by training yourself to see it differently and creating a workable simplified composition. • Practice techniques like glazing, color mixing, developing an inviting composition and more. • Complete 12 step-by-step projects to create you signature watercolor style. Begin to paint from the sacred place within...with Painting Beautiful Watercolor Landscapes.

Painting Beautiful Watercolor Landscapes: Transform Ordinary Places into Extraordinary Scenes

Arts & Photography

Painting

North Light Books

From the landmarks of Chicago to the wrong side of the law, Betty Miles’ escape from assisted living and her daughter’s quest to bring her home will test everyone’s assumptions about old age, family, and the kindness of secrets. 
Sharon D’Angelo thought it was a solid plan to move her mother into a senior care facility, but after just three weeks, the octogenarian is already planning her exit.
Bored with craft projects and the kitchen utensil band, Betty buys a train ticket to Chicago. But having spent her life as a model mother and housewife, she worries about misbehaving; a good mother wouldn’t disappear like this. Then Betty learns that her late husband—a respectable man—did a little misbehaving himself: there’s a safe deposit box stashed away in Chicago, filled with who knows what. Betty has to find the truth, no matter the consequences. 
Sharon is devastated to find Betty gone; a good daughter wouldn’t lose her mother like this. She and her husband Vince trail after Betty, discovering along the way that their struggling marriage has its own secrets to confront and that a journey can change a family just as much as it can change an individual.

Escape From Assisted Living

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Some of these cranial nerve pairs will send off sensory information to the brain and body, such as the intricate details on sights and what you have seen throughout your day, certain smells that may have sparked a memory or left a bad or good impression, a taste that you may know and love or completely despise or that you may remember from way back when in your childhood, or a sound that you find to be familiar for some reason, but maybe you can't quite put your finger on it. In this book you will learn: - Nervous system - Cranial nerves - Vagus nerve - Anatomy and significance of vagus nerve - Vagus nerve as part of body's natural healing system - Vagus nerve and its role in treatment of epilepsy - Vagus nerve and its role in treatment of inflammation - Vagus nerve and its role in treatment in gastrointestinal inflammatory diseases - Vagus nerve and its role in treatment of depress and ptsd The vagus nerve represents the main component of the parasympathetic nervous system, which oversees a vast array of crucial bodily functions, including control of mood, immune response, digestion, and heart rate. It establishes one of the connections between the brain and the gastrointestinal tract and sends information about the state of the inner organs to the brain via afferent fibers.

Vagus Nerve Healing: A Guide to Stimulate Your Vagus Nerve and Declutter Your Mind (Stimulate Your Vagus Nerve for Better Health, Gain Fisical and Emotional Benefits)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Tomas Edwards