Books like Goodness had nothing to do with it by Mae West

Marcus Danvers, a security consultant, is hired to uncover a corporate spy at Kline Electronics—only to find that the mole is his former lover, Veronica Richards, stirring old passions and new secrets.

Three teenagers in 1992 bond over a sci‑fi film, each chasing love, ambition and self‑discovery as their lives intertwine across decades and continents.

Rita Cosby’s investigative biography uncovers the true story of former Playboy playmate and celebrity Anna Nicole Smith, revealing the circumstances of her death, her legal battles, and her complex life as a Texas-born star.

Ava Johnson returns to her Michigan hometown after a decade in Atlanta, confronting love, family obligations, and rising troubles, while her community faces the looming threat of AIDS.

"Mary Ellen Pleasant arrived in Gold Rush-era San Francisco a free black woman with abolitionist convictions and an aptitude for entrepreneurial success. Behind the convenient and innocuous disguise of a mammy, she transformed domestic labor into enterprise, amassed remarkable real estate, wealth, and power, and gained notoriety for her work in fighting Jim Crow.". "Pleasant's legacy is steeped in scandal and lore. Was she a voodoo queen who traded in sexual secrets? A madam? A murderer? In The Making of "Mammy Pleasant," Lynn M. Hudson examines the folklore of this remarkable woman's real and imagined powers. Emphasizing the significance of her life in the context of how it has been interpreted or ignored in American history, Hudson integrates fact and speculation culled from periodicals, court cases, diaries, letters, Pleasant's interviews with the San Francisco press, and various biographical and fictional accounts.". "Through Pleasant's life, Hudson also interrogates the constructions of race, gender, and sexuality during the formative years of California's economy and challenges popular mythology about the freewheeling sexual culture of the American West."--BOOK JACKET.

A speculative twist on a frontier crisis, "Outlawed" blends alternate history with the looming threat of influenza, exploring how communities and midwives confront disease, infertility, and social marginality on the American West's frontier.