Following the author's real life experiences living in a mortuary in Northern California and raising her young daughter on her own, All the Wrong Places is a semi-autobiographical story of a single-mother and her journey to self-discovery, independence and a true understanding of love. Driving aimlessly through the stormy suburbs of San Francisco, Casey Wheeler is fleeing from her abusive and unfaithful husband with her five year old daughter Maddy asleep in the backseat. With nowhere to go and no one to turn to, Casey loses control of her emotions and her car, crashing into a hillside below a mortuary. Desperately seeking shelter, and more so independence, she finds herself taken in by the mortuary director who apprehensively offers her a job and a place to live. As she stumbles through the ins and outs of her new and morbid surroundings, Casey is forced into a hostile custody battle with her relentless and increasingly violent husband. In the midst of all the chaos, she finds a new family and even love in the eccentric and protective people of Golden Oaks Funeral Home. But just when she has found all she could hope for, she will have to fight to the death to protect it.

Unlike any Vietnam coverage ever read, Fenton's reporting from the abandoned American embassy in Saigon is typical of his in-the-middle-of-it-all view of Cambodia, Siagon, the Philippines, and Korea.

Three cheating girlfriends in a row have given skateboarder Brennan Cross the same excuse: he wasn’t meeting their needs. Desperate and humiliated, he goes to the professionals at the local sex shop for advice. Zafir Hamady, a sales clerk at Red Hot Bluewater, has an unusual theory: he doesn’t think Brennan is a bad lover. In fact, he doesn’t think Brennan is heterosexual. Or sexual at all, for that matter. He also can’t stop thinking about Brennan. But even if he’s right and Brennan really is asexual, that doesn’t mean Zafir has a chance. Brennan’s never dated a man, and Zafir’s never met anyone who’s game for a Muslim single father with a smart mouth and a GED. Brennan’s always thought of himself as straight. But when sex is explicitly out of the mix, he finds himself drawn to Zafir for the qualities and interests they share. And Zafir can’t help enjoying Brennan’s company and the growing bond between Brennan and his son. They work well together, but with so many issues between them, doubts creep in, and Brennan’s struggle with his identity could push away the one person he didn’t know he could love. This book was previously published.

It's an epic day of failure for American-born, Australian-raised Rachel Kennedy.She starts out with an eviction notice, followed by screwing up her latest audition, losing her job, and catching her boyfriend in bed with her nemesis.Jobless. Homeless. Single. All in one day. Fantastic.Things start to look up weeks later when she stumbles into the well-built arms of Christian Whitmore, a hot cop with a sinful smile, impeccable timing, and, as it turns out, a twin brother.Christian is always there to rescue her when she needs saving, but for everything that's right about him, there's something wrong too. It really doesn't help when she finds out his twin is everything he's not.Or is he?Although Christian and his brother are complete opposites in every way, they are both harbouring secrets and Rachel's having trouble trusting either one of them. Can she overcome the deception or will she just add both Whitmore brothers to her long list of spectacular fails?

Hailed by Ann Rule as "one of the masters of the kind of suspense that goes beyond stark terror," Donna Anders returns with an electrifying thriller about a woman whose fame attracts a fan's murderous attention.... Home-shopping fans everywhere adore Carolyn Langdon: she's the beautiful, outgoing hostess of the Atlanta-based National Neighborhood Network. Gifted with a perfect look and a vivacious on-air personality, her phenomenal success is owed to one simple thing: her fans love the way she shares her life stories, and how she makes them feel like her friends. But Carolyn may have shared too much. She's receiving strange phone calls at home, and has the feeling that she is being watched wherever she goes. After a series of unsettling and frightening coincidences push her to the edge of paranoia, Carolyn realizes that someone out there wants much more of her than she's willing to give. And if she cannot be had, she most certainly can be killed....

The prize-winning author of Fire Season returns with the heartrending story of his troubled years before finding solace in the wilderness. In his debut Fire Season, Philip Connors recounted with lyricism, wisdom, and grace his decade as a fire lookout high above remote New Mexico. Now he tells the story of what made solitude on the mountain so attractive: the years he spent reeling in the wake of a family tragedy. At the age of twenty-three, Connors was a young man on the make. He'd left behind the Minnesota pig farm on which he'd grown up and the brother with whom he'd never been especially close. He had a magazine job lined up in New York City and a future unfolding exactly as he’d hoped. Then one phone call out of the blue changed everything. All the Wrong Places is a searingly honest account of the aftermath of his brother's shocking death, exploring both the pathos and the unlikely humor of a life unmoored by loss. Beginning with the otherworldly beauty of a hot-air-balloon ride over the skies of Albuquerque and ending in the wilderness of the American borderlands, this is the story of a man paying tribute to the dead by unconsciously willing himself into all the wrong places, whether at the copy desk of the Wall Street Journal, the gritty streets of Bed-Stuy in the 1990s, or the smoking rubble of the World Trade Center. With ruthless clarity and a keen sense of the absurd, Connors slowly unmasks the truth about his brother and himself, to devastating effect. Like Cheryl Strayed's Wild, this is a powerful look back at wayward years—and a redemptive story about finding one's rightful home in the world.

Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.S. Bill of Rights appears to contain only a long list of prohibitions on government. American constitutional rights, we are often told, protect people only from an overbearing government, but give no explicit guarantees of governmental help. Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places argues that we have fundamentally misunderstood the American rights tradition. The United States actually has a long history of enshrining positive rights in its constitutional law, but these rights have been overlooked simply because they are not in the federal Constitution. Emily Zackin shows how they instead have been included in America's state constitutions, in large part because state governments, not the federal government, have long been primarily responsible for crafting American social policy. Although state constitutions, seemingly mired in trivial detail, can look like pale imitations of their federal counterpart, they have been sites of serious debate, reflect national concerns, and enshrine choices about fundamental values. Zackin looks in depth at the history of education, labor, and environmental reform, explaining why America's activists targeted state constitutions in their struggles for government protection from the hazards of life under capitalism. Shedding much-needed light on the variety of reasons that activists pursued the creation of new state-level rights, Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places challenges us to rethink our most basic assumptions about the American constitutional tradition.

Looking For Love In All Th e Wrong Places is an inspirational book for females of all race and age groups. Many females struggle with acceptance and love and because of this they end up involved in different types of unhealthy relationships. This book will teach females that if they put their trust and love in God first then the right type of love and acceptance they desire will come. Included in this book is scripture reference for each chapter, so the reader will have a bible basis to reflect on. Also there are discussion questions at the end of each chapter for studying and reflection. Danyelle Newtons struggle for looking for love in all of the wrong places is reflected throughout the pages of this book. This book is not only her testimony of the wrong love she looked for because she didnt have her trust and faith in God, but it reflects her journey towards finding the right type of love as well. Once she found Christ, her views on love changed and the love she was searching for didnt have to be found because it was right inside of her all along.

For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This book looks for law in the “wrong places”—sites and spaces in which no formal law appears. These may be geographic regions beyond the reach of law, everyday practices ungoverned or ungovernable by law, or works of art that have escaped law’s constraints. Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places brings together essays by leading scholars of anthropology, cultural studies, history, law, literature, political science, race and ethnic studies, religion, and rhetoric, to look at law from the standpoint of the humanities. Beyond showing law to be determined by or determinative of distinct cultural phenomena, the contributors show how law is itself interwoven with language, text, image, and culture. Many essays in this volume look for law precisely in the kinds of “wrong places” where there appears to be no law. They find in these places not only reflections and remains of law, but also rules and practices that seem indistinguishable from law and raise challenging questions about the locations of law and about law’s meaning and function. Other essays do the opposite: rather than looking for law in places where law does not obviously appear, they look in statute books and courtrooms from perspectives that are usually presumed to have nothing to say about law. Looking at law sideways, or upside down, or inside out defamiliarizes law. These essays show what legal understanding can gain when law is denied its ostensibly proper domain. Contributors: Kathryn Abrams, Daniel Boyarin, Wendy Brown, Marianne Constable, Samera Esmeir, Daniel Fisher, Sara Ludin, Saba Mahmood, Rebecca McLennan, Ramona Naddaff, Beth Piatote, Sarah Song, Christopher Tomlins, Leti Volpp, Bryan Wagner

This book is about a teenager who finds herself in an abusive relationship. It is a compelling story as she discovers that the man she loves is a jealous, controlling abuser. Eventually she has enough of his abuse, and devisesa plan to leave him.In between having a baby, trying to survive and planning her escape,shebegins a relationship with God. It is her relationship with God that enables her to leave her abuser. At times a tear jerker, this book is also inspirational to anyone who is or has been in an abusive relationship. It offers hope and shows what strong faith can help one overcome.