When a vicious alcoholic dies in a suspicious house fire, Rev. Olympia Brown and Father Jim Sawicki stretch the boundaries of their religious vows to prove his death is accidental and not murder. But evidence to the contrary is mounting and the curious clerical twosome have little time to learn the truth and prevent the daughter that the man abused for years from ending her own life.
Olympia and Jim confront unspeakable realities of incest, domestic violence and dark family secrets set against a tapestry of misconstrued Catholic dogma and the Irish culture of silence as the two colleagues struggle to untangle a hideous web of shame, guilt, and broken lives.
And through all of this, Olympia continues with the restoration of her antique home in Southeastern Massachusetts. Miss Winslow, Olympia's nosy and outspoken house-ghost, begins to reveal more of her own story. Olympia's search for her lost daughter takes a curious turn. Frederick Watkins, Olympia's gentleman friend from England is planning a purposeful return visit. And Father Jim Sawicki, Olympia's partner in amateur sleuthing and best friend forever, struggles with issues from his own tragic past. Views: 45
Family, Clayton StyleRaising four-year-old triplets and an abandoned teenager, single mother Arabella Clayton Michaels has her hands full. She loves everything about her big family in tiny Clayton, Colorado. But when a Denver surgeon arrives with the news that her beloved teenager is his long-lost niece, Arabella worries she'll lose the girl—and much more. Jonathan Turner's harrowing past makes her want to open her heart to him. But will the handsome doctor accept a bigger ready-made family than either dreamed was possible? Views: 45
Maddie Grande, who was raised to be a thief on the streets of New Orleans, now lives in the bayou. She longs to change her life, but her twin 'brothers' have forced her to become involved in a kidnapping. When she falls for the detective assigned to the kidnapping case, her world is turned upside-down. Views: 45
2 girls + 3 guys + 1 house – parents = 10 things April and her friends did that they (definitely, maybe, probably) shouldn't have.If given the opportunity, what sixteen-year-old wouldn't jump at the chance to move in with a friend and live parent-free? Although maybe "opportunity" isn't the right word, since April had to tell her dad a tiny little untruth to make it happen (see #1: "Lied to Our Parents"). But she and her housemate Vi are totally responsible and able to take care of themselves. How they ended up "Skipping School" (#3), "Throwing a Crazy Party" (#8), "Buying a Hot Tub" (#4), and, um, "Harboring a Fugitive" (#7) at all is kind of a mysteryto them.In this hilarious and bittersweet tale, Sarah Mlynowski mines the heart and mind of a girl on her own for the first time. To get through the year, April will have to juggle a love triangle, learn to do her own laundry, and accept that her carefully constructed world just might be falling apart . . .... Views: 45
After gaining entrance to Blackstone Keep and recovering the legendary Thinblade, Alexander Ruatha must seek out the Sovereign Stone, and quickly.Contained within the ancient teardrop ruby is the secret of Wizard's Dust, the source of magic and the one thing that will ultimately decide the final battle of the Reishi War. Prince Phane will stop at nothing to lay claim to the Stone and with it the world.Sovereign Stone is the story of Alexander's struggle to retrieve the Stone from the aether where it's been lost since the Reishi Empire fell two thousand years ago and prevent Phane from learning the most dangerous secret in the Seven Isles. Views: 45
The year is 2057. Endless wars have torn the USA apart and enslaved Americans to the CCR, the Confederation of Consolidated Republics. Growing up in the wasteland of war has made 14-year-old Cody Pierce wise in survival skills, and now he's the White Fox, rebel leader of the children's barracks in a CCR prison camp. Once he escapes, life with the underground teaches him new skills in weaponry and strategy as he plays cat-and-mouse with the CCR. Every day brings him closer to capture, as well as to his goal: to return and liberate the children he left behind.From the Hardcover edition. Views: 45
Without a job or a date in sight, freelance writer Jaine Austen is equally out of luck in finance and romance. So when her friend Lance offers to treat her to brunch at the Four Seasons, Jaine leaps at the invite. They've barely made it through the menu when Lance spots his friend Bunny, who is the new trophy wife of mattress maven Marvin Cooper.When Bunny generously offers Jaine a gig writing Marv's new advertising campaign, Jaine accepts the job, and an invitation to her upcoming soirée. But at the party Bunny cruelly rules the Cooper mansion and before the evening is over, someone poisons Bunny. The police arrest Lance, but Jaine knows his murderous urges end at her closet door. Setting out to clear his name, she soon discovers a list of suspects longer than Bunny's credit card bill. . ."Zany. . .series fans will find Jaine as funny as ever." --Publishers Weekly"If you love a good mystery, this book is for you." --New York Journal of Books Views: 45
Don’t panic! Here are the essential techniques you need to cope with a short-term survival situation.The Pocket Outdoor Survival Guide provides the essential knowledge that hikers, campers, canoeists, hunters, anglers, and anyone who spends time in the outdoors needs to deal with short-term survival situations. This handy guidebook will give you the knowledge to make it through any outdoor adventure, planned or unplanned. Discover everything you need to know about: • Trip planning • Survival kits • Search and rescue • Coping with bad weather • Emergency signaling • Shelter • Sleeping warm • Fire • Dealing with insects • Safe drinking water • Food • Avoiding hypothermia • Countering fear • And more! Don’t be caught without a copy of J. Wayne Fears’s The Pocket Outdoor Survival Guide on your next outdoor adventure! 160 color and 50 black-and-white photographsReviewFears' book can give the reader the knowledge to survive, and that knowledge can give one the will to live....the book makes an excellent stocking stuffer for any outdoors person. -- Tom Mitchell, The Leader Times, November 23, 2007If it's basic survival techniques you need to survive a short-term crisis, read this book - then keep it close at hand. J. Wayne Fears is a search and rescue official trained in survival skills in the military, so his tips are backed by Army training. From preparing for local weather and emergency signaling to avoiding hypothermia and dressing for the unexpected, any planning a camping trip or outdoors venture must have THE POCKET SURVIVAL GUIDE: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE FOR SHORT-TERM SURVIVAL in the backpack. -- Midwest Book Review, January 2007J. Wayne Fears has some potential life-saving advice for anyone who finds himself lost in the woods: "Stop, sit down, think, remain calm, don't panic and plan to stay put." It's not as easy as it sounds, but after reading Fear's "The Pocket Survival Guide" you'll at least know what to do. This handy 128-page booklet is packed with information and tips on how to keep safe and relatively comfortable during an unexpected night in the woods. This is a bare bones pocket manual written on the premise that most people reported missing are found within 72 hours or less. So Fears, who once was stranded in the Alaskan backcountry when his fly-in outfitter failed to return, keeps each of his chapters short and direct. There's no flowery prose, no "this happened to me" survival stories. Just he basics, including: How to Assemble Your Own Survival Kit, Prepare Your Signals, Construct a Shelter and Build a Survival Fire, Avoid Hypothermia and, most important, Dealing With Fear. Fears is trained in search and rescue. -- Gary Garth, Courier Journal (Louisville, Kentucky), September 23, 2004This pocket guide provides vital information dealing with short-term survival situations for hikers, campers, backpackers, canoeists, hunters and anglers. In fact, this book is great for anyone who spends time in the wilderness. Every year some outdoor enthusiasts find themselves faced with unexpected emergencies. They get lost, injured or stranded and suddenly find themselves depending on survival skills. This compact book covers skills and gear you need to stay alive until help arrives. This crucial resource covers everything from shelter and building a fire to finding water and the survival supplies you should always carry. If you find yourself facing that unplanned night in the woods, this little book can prepare you to stay comfortable...and survive. -- Mike Roux, Outdoor Guide MagazineYou've finally embarked on your Colorado elk hunt and now you're in the thick of it, at dark, and your GPS batteries are dead. You're going to be spending at least one night on the mountain. Do you know what to do? According to survival-training expert J. Wayne Fears, you should reach in your pack for his new book to replace panic with comforting knowledge. From building a shelter to surviving off the land until rescued, Fears gives all the tricks he's learned from a career of search-and-rescue missions in this pocket-sized manual. -- American Hunter, November 2004About the AuthorJ. Wayne Fears is a wildlife biologist by training who has organized big-game hunting camps, guided canoe trips, and run commercial getaway operations. Former editor of Rural Sportsman magazine, he has written more than more than twenty books on a variety of subjects ranging from cabin building (including How to Build Your Dream Cabin in the Woods) to survival (The Pocket Outdoor Survival Guide) to cookbooks (including The Complete Book of Dutch Oven Cooking), and more than four thousand articles for major outdoors magazines. A member of the International Dutch Oven Society and an accomplished writer and skilled outdoorsman, Fears lives in Cross Creek Hallow, Alabama. Views: 45
For Jimmy Pecatti, joining the mob doesn’t seem so bad. The street tax on his old man’s business drops to zero, he pulls down more cash in a week than he used to see in half a year--and, if he’s gonna learn to channel his innate talent for magic, the underworld is the only place to do it. It seems like everything he could ask for. But Jimmy has no idea what he's about to get into... Views: 45
