A woman deceived by her own therapist chronicles how she sought help for depression only to be manipulated by the man she came to trust with her secrets.

The Day I Went Missing

This eye-opening YA narrative nonfiction follows three first-generation college students as they navigate their first year—and ultimately a global pandemic. Making it through the first year of college is tough. What makes it even tougher is being the first in your family to do so. Who can you turn to when you need advice? Rising Class follows three first-generation freshmen, Briani, Conner, and Jacklynn, as they not only experience their first semester of college, but the COVID-19 pandemic that turned their Spring semester upside down. From life in the ivy league to classes at a community college, this nonfiction book follows these students' challenges, successes, and dreams as they tackle their first year of college and juggle responsibilities to their families back home. Eye-opening and poignant, Jennifer Miller writes a narrative nonfiction story that speaks to new beginnings, coming of age, and perseverance.

Rising Class

Imagine sitting down to play a game with no understanding of the pieces or the purpose and lacking the instruction manual. Can you picture the mayhem that might ensue? That is how most people approach marriage. They don't understand their roles, its purpose, and lack the instructions from the one who actually created it. No Longer Two is fresh take on this old subject. It reveals new insights into how men and women think and behave. It navigates you toward a stronger marriage by helping you understand the actual purpose of marriage. It also decodes the marriage instruction manual contained within our Bibles; the very one that most people lack, misuse, or misunderstand. This practical resource is easy to understand and fun to read, a definite must-have for any couple.

No Longer Two

Beneath the universe is the story of an SS officer, Blaz, raised to hate and love in the same soul. Through its chapters, readers may climb into the mind of his youth and the frustration of his adulthood. But his is not the only tale to tell. His neglected daughter, taught that by race she is perfection but by gender she will never be enough, battles her own demons while trying to live in her father's world. Blaz has never believed in his right to make his own choices. His life is one of tragedy, but order and control. Even the frightening answers are clear. But all that is about to change. Beneath the universe is a story that asks what is duty? What is strength? Most importantly it begs the question: when do our sacrifices become sins?

Beneath the Universe

A novel about men returning from war, and the women who love them, by “a young writer full of energy and promise” (Jennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach). Becca Keller is no stranger to the way war can change a man. Her Vietnam veteran father, King, suffered after his service, and as a result played only a limited role in his daughter’s life. Now Becca is marrying Ben, who is also just back from battle—and her mother, convinced that Becca is making the same mistakes she did, boycotts the wedding. Ben does indeed seem different after his second tour, and only days after she marries him, he turns dangerous. Desperate, Becca turns to her father for help. But he is heading west with his motorcycle buddies—out to a place they call Kleos, a mysterious desert compound ruled over by a guru-like commanding officer. It serves as a refuge for some soldiers, but it might be the death of others. There, Becca will be faced with the possibility that she may not know the real damage in her loved ones’ hearts. In finally seeing her father’s demons, she might just be able to start a journey back to peace with her husband.

The Heart You Carry Home

As soon as Jane turned 18, she hit the road. She wanted out of her town, out of her family, out of her life. She headed north to start over, to be someone new. But she failed to anticipate how all the ghosts of her past would follow her. It isn't until she meets a friendly truck driver willing to give her a ride that she is able to start finding peace. Bear witness to her spiritual journey as she moves from the valley of despair to the peak of joy, along the way wrestling with such heavy issues as why bad things happen to kids and how to forgive those who hurt you most.

Hitch Hikin'

2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title In The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books, Jennifer Miller identifies an archive of over 150 English-language children’s picture books that explicitly represent LGBTQ+ identities, expressions, and issues. This archive is then analyzed to explore the evolution of LGBTQ+ characters and content from the 1970s to the present. Miller describes dominant tropes that emerge in the field to analyze historical shifts in representational practices, which she suggests parallel larger sociocultural shifts in the visibility of LGBTQ+ identities. Additionally, Miller considers material constraints and possibilities affecting the production, distribution, and consumption of LGBTQ+ children’s picture books from the 1970s to the present. This foundational work defines the field of LGBTQ+ children’s picture books thoroughly, yet accessibly. In addition to laying the groundwork for further research, The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books presents a reading lens, critical optimism, used to analyze the transformative potential of LGBTQ+ children’s picture books. Many texts remain attached to heteronormative family forms and raced and classed models of success. However, by considering what these books put into the world, as well as problematic aspects of the world reproduced within them, Miller argues that LGBTQ+ children’s picture books are an essential world-making project and seek to usher in a transformed world as well as a significant historical archive that reflects material and representational shifts in dominant and subcultural understandings of gender and sexuality.

The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books

A little lie can change the course of everything. . . Like every other eighteen-year-old in love, Olivia has dreams of spending forever with the love of her life. Luke is all she's ever wanted - until she overhears something she was never meant to. In a matter of seconds, Olivia's heart is shattered. Olivia handles it the only way she knows how - she runs- leaving behind her family, friends and the boy she loves. Seeking comfort and an escape, Olivia finds it in resident bad boy Deacon. He's everything Luke isn't - and that's fine with Olivia. Now, seven years later, Olivia is older, wiser and headed back to Chicago looking forward to a fresh start and reconnecting with her best friend Pyper. What she doesn't expect, is to come face to face with the boy she left behind and discover that even though she may have left, her feelings for him didn't. Can Olivia put aside the pain in her heart and trust Luke? Will the ties to her past ever let her go, or will she continue to let her life be affected by pretty little lies?

Pretty Little Lies

There is a place in all of us where our deepest secrets lie in wait for their moment to surface, and surface they will. After living through a real live nightmare, Olivia wants nothing but to forget. Forget and move on. But how do you forget something that has stained your soul and forces you to lie to your loved ones? Even if your intentions are to spare them the horrors of the truth? Luke knows Olivia is not as recovered as she would have him believe. He can see the pain she tries to keep hidden behind her eyes, and knows she has not told him everything. But how do you save someone who won't let you in? Where shame holds Olivia captive, Luke suffers through the guilt of not protecting the one person he loves more than anything. Can two people who have suffered so dearly find a way to come together or will they risk the dreams they have placed in each other's hearts? Can love find a way where forgiveness cannot?

Pretty Little Dreams

Road Trippin'

It's been five years since I've seen her. Five years since we lost everything. Five years since I sold my soul to the devil and broke her heart to save her. The years have been long, the sacrifice and loneliness have been crippling...and now, she's back. I'm not supposed to see her, talk to her - I'm not supposed to want her. It will only break open wounds I've fought to keep closed, but I can't stay away. I tell myself I only want to see her face, to know my sacrifice has been worth it. Because I sold my soul, and sometimes I'd do anything, even if it means hurting her again, to get it back.

Fighting Pride

Named one of Cosmopolitan's Best Books of 2018 From the husband and wife writing duo Jennifer Miller and Jason Feifer comes Mr. Nice Guy, a funny and all too real comedy about the pursuit of success in life--and love--in today's working world. Lucas Callahan, a man who gave up his law degree, fiancée and small-town future for a shot at making it in the Big Apple. He snags an entry-level job at Empire magazine, believing it's only a matter of time before he becomes a famous writer. And then late one night in a downtown bar he meets a gorgeous brunette who takes him home... Carmen Kelly wanted to be a hard-hitting journalist, only to find herself cast in the role of Empire's sex columnist thanks to the boys' club mentality of Manhattan magazines. Her latest piece is about an unfortunate—and unsatisfying—encounter with an awkward and nerdy guy, who was nice enough to look at but horribly inexperienced in bed. Lucas only discovers that he's slept with the infamous Carmen Kelly—that is, his own magazine's sex columnist!—when he reads her printed take-down. Humiliated and furious, he pens a rebuttal and signs it, "Nice Guy." Empire publishes it, and the pair of columns go viral. Readers demand more. So the magazine makes an arrangement: Each week, Carmen and Lucas will sleep together... and write dueling accounts of their sexual exploits. It's the most provocative sexual relationship any couple has had, but the columnist-lovers are soon engaging in more than a war of words: They become seduced by the city's rich and powerful, tempted by fame, and more attracted to each other than they're willing to admit. In the end, they will have to choose between ambition, love, and the consequences of total honesty. "The Devil Wears Prada meets Sex and the City — a page-turner that's part sex diary, part coming-of-age story." — Carolyn Kylstra, editor in chief, SELF "I COULD NOT PUT THIS BOOK DOWN!!! It totally messed up my week, it messed up my deadlines, but I absolutely loved it." — Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians

Mr. Nice Guy

Some girls like to throw caution into the wind, let fate take them where she wants them to be. But not Pyper Lexington. She's all about the plan. Graduate college and own a successful business have been marked off the list. All that's left of her perfect little plan is marrying a man equal to her father in success and wealth. And of course, adding to that the 2.5 children and picket fence, every girl wants that-right? But fate has other ideas and like the old saying goes, 'the best-laid plans often go awry.' In walks Rixton Andrews, a cocky bartender with a sexy, southern drawl. He makes his intentions clear after a night they both can't forget. He wants Pyper - and he's determined to make her want him too. But can a man of Rixton's status convince a princess like Pyper that he's the man she's been waiting for and that love can't be planned? Will the secret Rixton's keeping tear them apart? Or will Pyper's need to please others make her deny what her heart really wants?

Perfect Little Plan

A study of the relationship between learning English as an additional language and the ways in which immigrant students are able to represent their identities at school. In high schools, how such students are heard by others may be just as important as how they speak. This text raises questions about language and identity in schools and should be of interest to researchers, teachers and students. It seeks to build a bridge between SLA and sociocultural approaches to discourse and identity.

Audible Difference

A darkly witty mystery set at a New England prep school: "Part Dead Poets Society. Part Heathers. Entirely addictive" ( Glamour). "Do you know what it took for Socrates' enemies to make him stop pursuing the truth?" "Hemlock." The fiercely competitive Mariana Academy was founded with a serious honor code; its reputation has been unsullied for decades. But now, a long-dormant secret society called Prisom's Party seems to have reemerged, threatening the school's placid halls with vigilante justice, exposing students and teachers alike for even the most minor infraction. Iris Dupont, a budding journalist whose only confidant is the chain-smoking specter of Edward R. Murrow, feels sure she can break into the ranks of the Devil's Advocate, the Party's underground newspaper, and there uncover the source of its blackmail schemes and vilifying rumors. Some involve the school's new science teacher, who also seems to be investigating the Party. Others point to an albino student who left school abruptly ten years before, never to return. And everything connects to a rare book called Marvelous Species. But the truth comes with its own dangers, and Iris is torn between her allegiances, her reporter's instinct, and her own troubled past, in this "darkly comic romp" filled with double-crosses and deeply buried secrets ( The Washington Post).

The Year of the Gadfly

A foundational look at the way children's books shaped views of the LGBTQ+ world