A delightful story of growing up, getting old, and every step in between, from the acclaimed author of Man at the Helm and Love, Nina.After succeeding in her quest to help her unconventional mother find a new "man at the helm," fifteen-year-old Lizzie Vogel simply wants to be a normal teenager. Just when it looks as if things have settled down, her mother goes and has another baby. On top of that, Lizzie's best friend has deserted her for the punk craze, which Lizzie finds too exhausting to commit to herself. But Lizzie soon gets more commitment than she bargained for when she takes a job as a junior nurse at Paradise Lodge, a ramshackle refuge for the elderly that has seen better days. It's no place for a teenager, much less one with as little experience emptying a bedpan as Lizzie. What begins as away to avoid school and earn some spending money (for the finer things in life, like real coffee and beer shampoo) quickly turns into the education of... Views: 28
"This was no suicide," says Detective Michael Bennett. A man plunges to his death from the roof of a Manhattan hotel. It looks like a suicide--except the victim has someone else's fingerprints and $10,000 in cash. Enter Detective Michael Bennett. BookShots
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**About the AuthorJames Patterson has written more bestsellers and created more enduring fictional characters than any other novelist writing today. He lives in Florida with his family.
Since the debut of his first novel The Narrowback, Michael Ledwidge has written fourteen additional novels, a dozen of them New York Times bestsellers co-authored with James Patterson. Views: 28
This novella is a standalone that is part of The Club series. To learn more about The Club, visit www.theclub.website or www.facebook.com/theclubseries From New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Nicole Blanchard Nothing satisfies me anymore. I'd abandoned my dreams of making it big in New York, freed myself from my last relationship, and swallowed my pride by returning to my hometown of Karim, Texas. A chance to forget about my failures and make a fresh start. By accepting an invitation to an exclusive establishment known only as The Club, I want to indulge in my forbidden passions. Maybe one night exploring my fantasies will finally allow me to move on to the respectable doctor I'd just met. But after one encounter with the mysterious stranger in the secluded room, I fear one taste of him will never be enough. Caught between the dream man my heart is falling for and the stranger who satisfies me in ways I’ve only dreamed of, I learn the cold, hard truth. No one can ever cure me of my darkest desires.** Views: 28
The Awakening of H. K. Derryberry is the inspiring story of how one man was willing to step out of his upper middle-class world into the life of a young, disabled boy with a dismal future. Little did Jim Bradford know the transformational potential of that friendship—for HK and himself.H. K. Derryberry came into the world with the odds stacked heavily against him. He was taken from his unmarried mother's womb three months prematurely when she was killed in a car wreck. After ninety-six days of seesawing between life and death, HK's grandmother took him home.One Saturday morning Jim Bradford, a successful businessman in his mid-fifties, happens into Mrs. Winner's Chicken and Biscuits and sees a nine-year-old's head pressed down against a black plastic boom box with a crooked antenna and three strips of silver duct tape stretched across the battery cover. He can't help but notice the long, white plastic braces on each of the child's legs.... Views: 28
Romancing the SEAL: The Complete Box Set
**“If we die here, I’d rather not be found naked,” She smiled at Ty.
He reached a hand up and pushed his thumb across her cheek, “You won’t die here. Not today.”
Léonie nodded, “I know. I believe you.”
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The Romancing the SEAL Box Set includes all volumes (1,2,3) of the trilogy.
Ty is an American navy SEAL, whose job takes him far and wide. On mission overseas he finds himself brought into action when a devastating bomb hits the local children's hospital. Is it fate that brings together Ty and Leonie, a nurse, in such terrible circumstances?
Together the fight for survival brings them together, an unlikely romance. However what will the future hold for the pair and is this the first test for romancing a SEAL?
Find out in Romancing the SEAL: The Complete Box Set
WARNING: It contains mature language and content, intended for 18+ readers only!
A Military Romance novel
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The brand new compelling novel from the Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly Court. Lottie Lane is all alone in the world. As a chambermaid at one of London's busiest inns, condemned to a life of drudgery and at the mercy of a vicious landlady, Lottie is too worn out to even dream of a better life. Until one night an injured soldier is brought to The Swan. Lottie nurses him back from the dead and suddenly everything changes. She finds herself following the drum of the soldiers, all the way from the docks of Chatham to the darkness and despair of a far flung battlefield. When tragedy strikes, Lottie is alone once more and thrown back into the jaws of London's streets. With the threat of destitution nipping at her heels, Lottie is in dire need of a miracle . . . Views: 28
An American executive is silent in his
own defense, even though he was found in a Tokyo love hotel with the body of a
young model. Mick Sanchez is left to find out why he refuses to speak and to
discover the real killer. The investigation leads to corruption in the highest
levels of bureaucracy and in the Tokyo police department. His own life and that
of a woman he has come to love are imperiled as the investigation descends into
an outcome where no one is a winner except, perhaps, justice.
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