Summer, 1938, and for the second time, Britain is threatened by war with Germany. This time civilians too will be in the front line. In London, two very different families are brought together by the war. Doctors, Amy and Dan, have twins, eighteen year old Tessa and Charlie. Nora, a working-class wife and mother, has a twelve-year-old daughter, Sara whose dream is to become a doctor, a wild idea for a working-class child. Together, and helping each other, the two families struggle to survive and endure the six years of war, and Sara fights to reach her impossible dream. Views: 32
Bandit troubles intensify as Caleb Bender's family tries to settle into their new life in 1920s Paradise Valley. When El Pantera kidnaps Rachel and leaves her brother, Aaron, for dead, Jake Weaver and the Mexican native Domingo pursue the bandit leader to his mountain stronghold in a hopeless rescue attempt. Jake and Domingo manage to escape with Rachel, with the bandits hot on their trail. In a desperate attempt to avoid recapture, Domingo puts himself squarely in harm's way, giving Jake and Rachel time to get away. This is not the quiet life Caleb Bender envisioned when he led his family out of Ohio. What is a father to make of his daughter's obvious affection for a man outside the fold? And how will a pacifist Amishman like Caleb respond to the events that threaten his family and their way of life? Views: 32
For single mother Katie Wells, there are two Hurricane Andrews wreaking havoc on her heart Hurricane Andrew rages through Southern Florida with the force of God's wrath. In the blink of an eye, Katie Wells's Miami home is destroyed, her former life gone. All she wants now is to make sure her young son stays safe. Rescue arrives in the form of Andrew Cunningham, the architect who built her house. As neighbors work together to rebuild, Katie realizes she's starting to fall for Drew. But something doesn't add up. With devastation all around them, why did a few houses—including his—remain standing? Her quest for answers uncovers a twisting trail of sabotage and cover-up that conceals the shocking truth about Andrew. Heather Graham uses her firsthand knowledge of one of the last century's worst natural disasters to weave an unforgettable love story that's a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. This ebook features an... Views: 32
In book three of the Faithgirlz series ---the Girls of 622 Harbor View ---Carlie makes a new friend. Chelsea Landers lives in a mansion and isn't always very kind. Carlie would like a best friend, but will Chelsea fit in with her other friends? When Carlie is betrayed by Chelsea, she learns how much she appreciates her friends in the Rainbow Club. This is a story about forgiveness and accepting differences.In book four of the Faithgirlz series ---the Girls of 622 Harbor View ---the girls find out their to Views: 32
NZ Post Children's Book Award-winning young adult novel about a young girl's journey back from anorexia to health and independenceJohanna is in hospital, writing letters to her best friend, Issy: letters because for Johanna, most things that we take for granted have turned into privileges. She can only have visitors, leave her room, or even use the phone, if she starts to eat. Johanna suffers from anorexia, and her condition has reached a point where doctors, nurses, and counsellors have had to find new ways to encourage, bribe, cajole-or, as she thinks, punish her-into returning to a normal weight. As Johanna exchanges letters with Issy, and her own family, the novel is also peppered with extracts from Johanna's diary, quotations from the hospital notice boards, poems, and even bathroom graffiti. Johanna offers us wry, insightful portraits of her fellow patients in the ward. Counterbalancing her experience, Issy offers us a picture of a full family, school and social life,... Views: 32
For years Dickens kept the story of his own childhood a secret. Yet it is a story worth telling. For it helps us remember how much we all might lose when a child's dreams don't come true . . . As a child, Dickens was forced to live on his own and work long hours in a rat-infested blacking factory. Readers will be drawn into the winding streets of London, where they will learn how Dickens got the inspiration for many of his characters. The 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth is February 7, 2012, and this tale of his little-known boyhood is the perfect way to introduce kids to the great author. Here is historical fiction at its ingenious best.From the Hardcover edition. Views: 32
The publication of Jarhead launched a new career for Anthony Swofford, earning him accolades for its gritty and unexpected portraits of the soldiers who fought in the Gulf War. It spawned a Hollywood movie. It made Swofford famous and wealthy. It also nearly killed him. Now with the same unremitting intensity he brought to his first memoir, Swofford describes his search for identity, meaning, and a reconciliation with his dying father in the years after he returned from serving as a sniper in the Marines. Adjusting to life after war, he watched his older brother succumb to cancer and his first marriage disintegrate, leading him to pursue a lifestyle in Manhattan that brought him to the brink of collapse. Consumed by drugs, drinking, expensive cars, and women, Swofford lost almost everything and everyone that mattered to him. When a son is in trouble he hopes to turn to his greatest source of wisdom and support: his father. But Swofford and his father didn't... Views: 32
Science Fiction. 105860 words long. Analytical Laboratory Award Winner, Hugo Award Nominee Views: 32
See More about KL Mabbs at www.KLMabbs.comRobert Scott is on the run from the army for stealing advanced military tech -- a personal adaptive computer that can heal in the field, act as communication, and update combat suits that are already state of the art. Thing is, Robert made the P.A.C. units, five of them actually, and sent four of them to his son without the army knowing. A P.A.C. Unit learns from the person it bonds with; Michael Scott and the three men in his Recon unit were Robert's best choice to train his new tech. He thought he would get them back.He was wrong. The recon team is part of a military task force used to manage the limited oil resources of the world so everyone benefits. That's the idea, at least. The Oil Wars end with Michael's best friend dying, and life goes back to normal, almost. Michael’s forgotten his part in the war for some reason. He takes up writing, wintering in the Canadian Rockies. Over the next three years the rest of his recon unit all end up dead and their P.A.C. units missing. Now someone want Michael’s. But Michael has help, a woman he found in a trap line. She's beautiful, feral, and not what she seems. He was following wolf tracks that day. They stopped at the trap. But the woman, Faelon, has enemies too, and secrets. They both have PAC. It's not a fair fight, but the army, Robert Scott, and a Navajo shaman named White Bear Dying doesn't know that. Views: 32
The dramatic story of the Norman conquest of Ireland in the 12th century. Full of battles and warfare, but a story of love, too, between an unlikely pair - wilful and wild Irish princess Aoife, and Strongbow, the greatest of the Norman knights to come to Ireland. A clash of cultures and a vivid story of one of the Greats of Irish history. Views: 32
In the 23rd Century, the Superpowers of Earth vie for control of occupied space and the vast resources of the colony worlds. Darius Jax is a senior officer and hero of the Marine Corps, veteran of countless battles fought throughout occupied space. But once he was a raw private fighting his first battle on a planet so deadly, so hellish, its own occupants called it Tombstone. This is his story, before fame, before glory. The fighting on Tombstone is brutal and deadly, and Jax must find his inner strength if he is to survive. As he struggles through an unwinnable war he learns to rely on himself as he never has before, and he begins to understand just what he is – and is not – fighting for.Tombstone is a novella of approximately 24,000 words, and prequel to the best-selling Crimson Worlds series, set in the years just before the Third Frontier War and the events described in Crimson Worlds Book I: Marines. The Crimson Worlds Series:Tombstone (Crimson Worlds Prequel) - Available now.Marines (Crimson Worlds I) – Available now.The Cost of Victory (Crimson Worlds II) – Available now.A Little Rebellion (Crimson Worlds III) – December 2012The First Imperium (Crimson Worlds IV) – March 2013 Views: 32
Australia's best-known private investigator, Cliff Hardy, might have his licence back but does he still have what it takes to cut it as a PI on its seedy streets?Cliff Hardy has his PI licence back - but does he still have what it takes to cut it on the mean streets of Sydney?Cliff reckons the skills are still there, if a little rusty, and actor Bobby Forrest's case looks promising. Bobby's a nice-enough guy, but why is he being stalked by a red-hot brunette? And why did he have to go online to find a date?When Bobby is murdered, it comes as a shock. Cliff's only solid lead is a white Commodore, the most ubiquitous car around. When a surprising connection with his own past surfaces, Cliff is forced to put some of his skills to the test. But is he heading in the wrong direction?Somehow he has to put it all together without losing his licence again, but in true Hardy fashion he's managing to find his way into trouble, not out of it. Views: 32
