As Irene's Pappi fights to save his family during the Holocaust, Irene's childhood is lost. Play is restricted. Family and friends disappear. Finally, with the Dutch police at their door comes the reality that Irene's father has not moved his family far enough from Hitler's Germany.By January 1945, the family is struggling to survive a death camp. Irene tends her ailing parents, cares for starving kids, and even helps bring clothes to her Amsterdam neighbor Anne Frank, before her family is offered a singular chance for freedom...providing the Nazi doctor says they are healthy enough. After two weeks of heart-lifting miracles and heart-breaking tragedies, Irene arrives in the Algerian desert to journey into redemption and womanhood, without her parents or brother.Irene's first person memoir, Shores Beyond Shores, is an account of how the heart keeps its common humanity in the most inhumane and turbulent of times. Irene's hard-earned lessons are a timeless inspiration. Views: 55
Julie sacrifices her innocence to keep the peace in her new family, but the real price might be her heart. Julie never expected her mom's marriage to a wealthy man to turn her world upside down. Now Julie finds herself living in a mansion, attending dinner parties, and Vince, her new stepbrother, hates her. Vince is crude, mean and irresistible. Julie knows she should stay away from him, but she needs to keep his anger under control so he won't spoil her mom's brand new marriage to Vince's father. But what has Julie gotten herself into? Once she puts herself in his power, she'll never be the same. Can Julie find the good guy inside before it's too late? Ever since his mother's tragic death, Vince has been filled with anger at his father and at every woman who tried to take his mother's place. Now there is a new woman in his father's life. When she becomes his father's new wife, Vince is consumed with rage. And who has just become his favorite target? Julie... Views: 54
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USA Today bestselling author Janette Rallison’s delightful novella, JOB
HAZARDS, Lydia Robinson is posing as a prostitute. Undercover of
course. Lydia’s job as a police officer hasn’t reeled in her prince
charming yet. That is, until Harrison Aldridge, old high school flame,
pulls up to the corner to rescue the fallen damsel. Lydia can’t exactly
give Harrison the truth without blowing her cover, and it takes a series
of mishaps and another whole set of misunderstandings before Lydia will
even consider letting Harrison back into her life.In Heather B.
Moore’s enchanting novella, A TASTE OF SUN, Winona Grant embarks on a
summer-long visit to NYC to house-sit for her great-aunt after a nasty
break-up with her boyfriend Paul. But when her aunt commissions neighbor
Steve Monti to tour Winona around, they strike a deal. Winona has too
many deadlines to play tourist, and Steve is looking for a distraction
from his looming gallery opening. So Steve goes on the tours by himself,
and Winona reports back to her aunt as if she’d gone too. The longer
this happens, the more Winona wants to change her mind. Seeing the city
with Steve might be the perfect solution to forgetting about Paul.In
Luisa Perkins’s sweet romance novella, DULCE DE LECHE, Marisol is
desperate for another nanny job after being unfairly fired from her
previous position. She has only two more semesters of college, but she’s
too proud to ask her wealthy parents for financial help. When her
potential new employer, a single father working long hours as an
anesthesiologist, decides she’s too young and pretty to hire, she
practically begs him for the job. Darius finally agrees, and as he
watches her work miracles with his Asperger’s son, he realizes there is
much more to Marisol than he first believed.In TAKE A CHANCE, a
captivating story by Sarah M. Eden, Miguel Santos has a stopover in New
York. When the announcement of delayed flights comes over the PA system,
Miguel is looking at spending several hours at the airport. Determined
to get comfortable for the long wait, he’s surprised when he spies a
familiar face amongst the stranded passengers: Jane Schoonenburg, the
last person he expected to see. Three months have passed since he asked
Jane to marry him—three months of misery. And now he knows that he must
talk to her, if only to find out why she broke his heart.Annette
Lyon’s entrancing novella, FIRSTS AND LASTS, begins with Dani’s last
week in New York. She’s failed in her dreams to catch a break as an
actress and is now ready to return home and dust herself off. As she
visits the places on her final to-see list, she meets Mark, another New
York City transplant with big dreams. Except Mark hasn’t given up on
his. As they spend the day together, Dani realizes that even though she
hasn’t hit the “big time” she might be living her dream after all. Only
problem: she has a one-way ticket back home.In Lisa Mangum’s
whimsically titled story: &, Lucy is riding a wave of success at
having found a bestselling novel in the slush pile at an exclusive New
York publishing house. If only her personal life was storybook perfect
as well. Her relationship with Devon is on the rocks, and even though
she's been put in charge of the house while her boss is gone on
business, Lucy isn't sure she's up to the task. It will take a chance
encounter with a handsome wordsmith to help Lucy claim the courage that
has always been a part of her heart. Views: 54
Mack Stone can't believe he's just walked in on Kindra in Flagrante computer delicto. When they're mistakenly signed up for sensual couples counselling, co-workers Jared and Candy are shocked. Views: 54
Chantel, Adam, Holly and Owen are eager to begin the next stage of their adventure. "The Stones have stirred," Ava, Hawkwoman and Wise One, tell Owen, "The time is near for the Circle Dance." The stones are the ancient stone circle of Avebury in England. But the Dark Being approaches, and her servant, a wraith, blocks the children's progress. When Ava is hurt, the children are thrown back on their own resources. They must discover the ritual that will release the circlet. Each child has a part to play in finding the circlet and holding back the Dark Being. Views: 54
6 blazing good stories about 6 of our favorite couples. What happens in Corbin's Bend during the most loving of all holidays?Valentine's Surprise by Constance MastersErin and Zach have had a busy but happy year. Her loving husband has promised her an amazing Valentine's Day weekend. Will the surprise be the best she's ever gotten? Or will this particular white elephant gift go down as the worst Valentine's Day gift in the history of bad gifts?Roy & Teri's Staycation by Kate RichardsRoy and Teri Simms are finally going to take their vacation and renew their romance! With their adopted son Ben safely stowed with neighbors for a week, they are taking a romantic cruise to the Caribbean and this time Teri is on board with the plan. But one thing after another happens to keep them from leaving town. Will they still be able to find any time to try out all the new toys? Or will the constant interruptions result in spanking interruptus?Past Interference by Kathryn R. BlakeWhen Jerry... Views: 54
On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas' and unite the world in Confucian harmony.Their journey would last for over two years and take them around the globe but by the time they returned home, China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. And so the great ships were left to rot and the records of their journey were destroyed. And with them, the knowledge that the Chinese had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan, reached America seventy years before Columbus, and Australia three hundred and fifty years before Cook...The result of fifteen years research, 1421 is Gavin Menzies' enthralling account of the voyage of the Chinese fleet, the remarkable discoveries he made and the persuasive evidence to support them: ancient maps, precise navigational knowledge, astronomy and the surviving accounts of Chinese explorers and the later European navigators as well as the traces the fleet left behind - from sunken junks to the votive offerings left by the Chinese sailors wherever they landed, giving thanks to Shao Lin, goddess of the sea.Already hailed as a classic, this is the story of an extraordinary journey of discovery that not only radically alters our understanding of world exploration but also rewrites history itself. Views: 54
For her acclaimed collection of stories, Red Ant House, Joyce Carol Oates hailed Ann Cummins as a master storyteller." The San Francisco Chronicle called her startlingly original." Now, in her debut novel, Cummins stakes claim to rich new literary territory with a story of straddling cultures and cheating fate in the American Southwest.Yellowcake introduces us to two unforgettable families—one Navajo, one Anglo—some thirty years after the closing of the uranium mill near which they once made their homes. When little Becky Atcitty shows up on the Mahoneys' doorstep all grown up, the past comes crashing in on Ryland and his lively brood. Becky, the daughter of one of the Navajo mill workers Ryland had supervised, is now involved in a group seeking damages for those harmed by the radioactive dust that contaminated their world. But Ryland wants no part of dredging up their past—or acknowledging his future. When his wife joins the cause, the messy, modern lives of... Views: 54
December 1938. Moscow. Josef Stalin has lost some gold. He is not a happy man. He asks his henchman Beria to track it down. September 1940 London. Above the city the Battle of Britain rages and the bombs rain down. On the streets below, DCI Frank Merlin and his officers investigate the sudden disappearance of Polish RAF pilot Ziggy Kilinski while also battling an epidemic of looting unleashed by the chaos and destruction of the Blitz. Kilinski's fellow pilots, a disgraced Cambridge don, Stalin's spies in London, members of the Polish government in exile and a ruthless Russian gangster are amongst those caught up in Merlin's enquiries. Sweeping from Stalin's Russia to Civil War Spain, from Aztec Mexico to pre-war Poland, and from Hitler's Berlin to Churchill's London a compelling story of treasure, grand larceny, treachery, torture and murder unfolds. Eventually as Hitler reluctantly accepts that the defiance of the RAF has destroyed his chances of invasion for the moment, a... Views: 54
