Karen Brown

Twenty years after she and her best friend played a prank on a girl who subsequently disappeared, now-married Sadie begins to relive that nightmarish summer after a boy from her old neighborhood returns to town and unsolved mysteries begin to unravel. Original.

A Novel

The Longings of Wayward Girls

"A deliciously modern classic ghost story" —Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists The Clairvoyants is Karen Brown’s most hypnotic novel to date--gothic-inflected psychological suspense that unmasks the secret desires of a young woman with a mystical gift On the family homestead by the sea where she grew up, Martha Mary saw ghosts. As a young woman, she hopes to distance herself from those spirits by escaping to an inland college town. There, she is absorbed by a budding romance, relieved by separation from an unstable sister, and disinterested in the flyers seeking information about a young woman who’s disappeared—until one Indian summer afternoon when the missing woman appears beneath Martha’s apartment window, wearing a down coat, her hair coated with ice.

The Clairvoyants

Kate Morton

Douglas Kennedy

Patricia Scanlan

Thomas Keneally

Lucinda Riley

Katja Millay

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Christina Schwarz

Sahar Delijani

Abigail Tarttelin

Tamara N. Houston

Saira Shah

The Atria Summer 2013 Beach-Read Bag: A free collection of thirteen excerpts from novels by some of our favorite writers. There’s nothing that goes better with beach season than a delicious novel. With that in mind, we present Atria’s Summer 2013 Beach-Read Bag: a free collection of 13 excerpts from novels by some of our favorite writers. Selections include: The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally The Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwartz Five Days by Douglas Kennedy Children of the Jacaranda Tree by Sahar Delijani The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin The Lavender Garden by Lucinda Riley With All My Love by Patricia Scanlon The Mouse-Proof Kitchen by Saira Shah The Longings of Wayward Girls by Karen Brown Waiting for Jules by Tamara N. Houston No matter whether you’re on a plane traveling to your getaway destination or on your couch planted firmly in front of the air conditioner, we’ve got a great story guaranteed to whisk you away on a reading vacation.

A Free Collection of Excerpts from Some of Our Favorite Writers

The Atria Summer 2013 Beach-Read Bag

Applying a feminist and international approach to the interwar years (1918-1939), this collection explores women's art in a variety of mediums including design, print, illustration, murals, poster art, costume design, film, sculpture, and painting. These essays place a central concern on the history and theory of art and gender and have a coherent focus on women's role in the agency and mediation of artistic production between the wars.

Women's Contributions to Visual Culture, 1918-1939

A Loving Gift for Your Sister The observations in this book capture both the serious and the lighthearted bonds between sisters. Karen Brown's wit and wisdom showcase the special relationship sisters experience throughout their lives. Share The Joy of Sisters with your sister.

The Joy of Sisters

Nicole Franchini

Completely updated every year, Karen Brown Guides point you to the most charming inns and B&Bs in Europe and the USA. Loaded with tons of reviews and easy-to-follow itineraries as well as lively, personal descriptions of all inns, hotels, and B&Bs; accommodations in all price ranges, chosen for their charm and the warmth of their welcome; plus locator maps which help to plan inn-to-inn itineraries.

Charming Bed and Breakfasts 2004

Karen Brown's Italy

The Spanish accommodations selected in this book are not based on price, but rather on charm, comfort, location and, above all, on warmth of welcome. Each is described in detail and illustrated with a pen-and-ink drawing and accompanying maps.

Charming Inns and Itineraries 2004

Karen Brown's Spain

I am my Father's daughter! Brown Girl Rich! Walking in my God-given authority! When we step pass the veil and enter that place of grace that was originally designed for us from the beginning, we can see that our Heavenly Father gets so very excited. He says, "She gets it now! She is chosen to experience all the fragrant love, wealth, beautiful experiences, extravagant riches, and all the unique treasures I have set for her. This treasure chest is no longer sitting on the bottom of the ocean floor. It has now been retrieved from the enemy's hands, and she can open this hidden treasure chest of jewels that are designed just for her. She gets it now because she gets it. She understands who she is and who she is connected to."

I Am My Father's Daughter, I Am Walking in My God Given Authority

Brown Girl Rich

Clare Brown

Provides background information on hotels and inns in Austria, plus a guide to historic sights and itineraries.

Charming Inns and Itineraries, 1999

Karen Brown's Austria

Karen Brown's Austria Charming Inns and Itineraries, 1996

June Brown

Charming Inns & Itineraries

Karen Brown's Ireland

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Karen Brown’s Little Sinners, and Other Stories features a sad, strange mosaic of women and men grappling with the loss and pain of everyday existence, people inhabiting a suburban landscape haunted by ghosts: a mother who leaps from a ridge, a mistress found at the bottom of the Connecticut River, a father who dresses in a pale blue-custom suit—and disappears. The dead leave behind postcards, houses, bottles of sherry, bones. They become local legends, their stories part of the characters’ own: an expectant mother in an isolated cottage on Long Island Sound uncovers an unsettling secret in her backyard; a troubled housewife is lured to a dinner party by a teenage girl whose mother has vanished under mysterious circumstances; a woman and her lover swim the pools of their neighborhood under cover of darkness; a young heiress struggles with mortality and the abandonments in her past. These stories capture the domestic world in all its blighted promise—a world where women’s roles in housekeeping, marriage, childbirth, and sex have been all too well defined, and where the characters fashion, recklessly and passionately, their own methods of escape.

Little Sinners, and Other Stories

Jack Bullard

With its four seasons and geographic diversity, New England is a wonderful travel destination at all times of the year, though many consider that it is at its most outstanding in the fall. Six regional itineraries cover the six states from Cape Cod and the Byways of Coastal Maine to glorious fall foliage routes. Over 160 personally selected places to stay, from sophisticated bed & breakfasts to upmarket city hotels.

Exceptional Places to Stay and Itineraries

Karen Brown's New England

"In Mad Dogs and Meerkats, Karen Brown links the increase of rabies in Southern Africa to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Her study shows that the most afflicted regions of South Africa have seen a dangerous rise in feral dog populations as people lack the education, means, or will to care for their pets or take them to inoculation centers. Ineffective disease control, which in part depends on management policies in neighboring states, has exacerbated the problem. The book traces the history of rabies in South Africa and neighboring states from 1800 to the present and shows how environmental and economic changes brought about by European colonialism and global trade have had long-term effects"--Provided by publisher.

A History of Resurgent Rabies in Southern Africa

Mad Dogs and Meerkats

June Eveleigh Brown

Beth Knutsen

The Pacific Northwest, a captivating corner of North America. Endless stretches of windswept sandy beaches, dense expanses of sylvan forests, dramatic river valleys, gently rolling hills and towering snow-capped volcanoes. Travel just north of the border to Victoria, Canada, visit the San Juan Islands, sample the cosmopolitan delights of Portland and Seattle. Experience America's Shakespeare Country--Ashland Oregon. Featuring nearly 100 hand-picked places to stay.

Karen Brown's Pacific Northwest

After 40 years of protest and debate, we all know one thing for certain about abortion: it’s a women’s issue. Right? Wrong, says Brian Fisher in his groundbreaking reexamination of men and abortion. He reveals long-forgotten or never-known facts to show that abortion is very much a man’s concern. And it’s part of a long and tragic pattern of male oppression of women. Exactly opposite what you’ve been told. And why the original author of the Equal Rights Amendment, feminist Alice Paul, called abortion the “ultimate exploitation of women.” Fisher shows that a select group of compassionate men led the way in the 19th century to pass laws strengthening the criminalization of abortion—and worked with feminists of that era to do so. And it was men, not women, who drove the campaign that led to the 1973 Supreme Court ruling giving women an unqualified right to end the lives of their pre-born children. So what’s in it for men? As feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon observes, abortion “does not liberate women; it frees male sexual aggression.” Abortion is the ultimate get-out-of-jail free card for men with non-committal sex lives. Another agenda is at work as well. Men use abortion to advance their racist, eugenic, and population control dreams and schemes, as Fisher shows, citing their own words. And, if men gave us abortion, men can end it as well. Fisher outlines why and how, and urges men to take up the task with courageous women. He lays out a five-point plan for men to “with humility, faithfulness, and relentless perseverance, commit our time, resources, energy, heart, and testimony to ending abortion in America.”

Karen Brown's Mid-Atlantic

Eat, sleep, and drink France-enjoying lovely scenery and unusual sights. Eleven itineraries from touring the chateaux of the Loire to exploring the hilltowns of Provence-we've got an itinerary for you. Over 200 magnificent places to stay: elegant chateaux, cozy inns, refined manors and elegant small hotels. Take full advantage of this opportunity to live France every minute, twenty-four hours a day.

Karen Brown's France Hotels

This new edition includes Karen Brown's incomparable selection of the finest bed and breakfasts in England with rates, directions, and all the information needed for a wonderful stay. Enjoy reasonable prices, together with the reliable warmth of welcome and old world ambiance that are the Karen Brown trademark.

Charming Bed and Breakfasts 2005

Karen Brown's England

Soul of a Broken Woman is a story of healing, overcoming, and perseverance. It is a story about how one woman survived broken marriages, mental, physical, and emotional abuse. This book is a source of motivation and encouragement to women going through similar situations or women who need to be encouraged to get back up after struggling through abuse and personal trauma.

Soul of a Broken Woman

Karen Brown's New England Charming Inns & Itineraries""A Pioneer and still leader in the category of high-quality small inns and bed and breakfasts." -- Gourmet ""Books to dream over, but also to use." -- Washington Post Completely updated every year, Karen Brown Guides point you to the most charming inns and B&Bs in Europe and the USA. Tons of reviews and easy-to-follow ititneraries as well as lively, personal descriptions of all inns, hotels, and B&Bs.Accommodations of all price ranges, chosen for their charm and the warmth of their welcome.Locator maps help to plan inn-to-inn itineraries.

Karen Brown

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