Jennifer Miller

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.

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.

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.

Jennifer was supposed to be a Princess. Her father, having three sons already, rejoiced at the prospect of his only daughter becoming a spoilt daddy's girl. She would surely be raised to know love, to know how precious she is, and to always feel protected. But her mother's family had been crippled with tragedies, and who could have foretold the tragedies yet to come? How could she have been saved from her mother's heartache? How could anyone have prevented the imminent violations? This is the true story of a little girl born into grief-stricken circumstances, who was `spoilt' by tortuous abuse, and left with nothing but dread for her future. How did she find the courage to not only fight for survival as a child, but later for the sake of her own children, take control of the viciously belligerent voices inside herself, overcome her demons and break the cycle of despair?

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, fianc e 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

Sometimes we spend so much time and effort into planning our perfect wedding, we forget the importance of putting that same effort into our marriage. Couples who find themselves struggling after they say "I do," may assume that they've made a mistake, when in reality they simply failed to realize, marriage takes work. In the same way you can't expect to build rock hard abs by sitting on the couch watching TV, you can't expect to have the marriage of your dreams without putting in the time and effort it takes to get there. Bridal Bootcamp is a compilation of hard earned wisdom and stories from women who have learned marital lessons the hard way. This book is filled with tools and challenges to help you gain new perspective about yourself and your husband. These challenges were designed to help you tackle potential pitfalls in your marriage before they turn into quicksand. We will cover topics like:

Wee Waa and The Outback Roo is an adventure story set in the Outback of Australia, about a young kangaroo named Roo. But you see this isn't your average adventure story, and Roo isn't your average kangaroo. Born with an unusually long tail, Roo has endured years of relentless teasing and torment from his fellow kangaroo tribe, he knows his only option is to run away. There is nothing more Roo desires than the respect of his tribe. He decides the best way to prove his worth is to attempt to cross the Valley of the Winds, a place feared by all creatures of the Outback and for good reason. Here Roo must face the first, and one of the most frightening challeges he will face along the way... Wanambi (a giant and powerful snake). Roo's journey quickly turns into much more than he bargained for. What he thought would be a short journey to prove himself, turns into far more than he could have ever imagined. Wee Waa and The Outback Roo is a story of self acceptance, courage and everlasting friendship.

She said if we ever meet again, it was fate telling us to be together. Five years ago, I found therapy and solace in the arms of a dark-haired, green-eyed beauty in rehab. I entered ashamed and lost in the grip of greed, but we healed together before we walked away. Fast forward five years when we find each other again. Our chemistry is hotter than ever, and I can

A novel about surviving on the home front, fathers and daughters, and the limits and limitlessness of love Becca Keller is no stranger to the way war can change a man. Her Vietnam vet father, King, has been more out of her life than in. Her mother boycotts her wedding because Becca is making the same mistakes she did--yoking herself to a man just back from battle. And Ben is different after his second tour. Within days of the wedding he turns dangerous, and Becca runs to the only person she has left. King, though, 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 is a refuge for some soldiers, but 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 with her husband on their own journey back to peace. The Heart You Carry Home lays bare the violence soldiers bring home, as one woman fights for the men in her life who have been scarred by different wars in disturbingly similar ways. It "combines great storytelling with social questions that are both as current and as old as war" (Karl Marlantes). And it mines the trials of generations of American families to find hope for the next.