A cowboy for Christmas...or another year in the Amish Spinster Club?Nanny Sarah Kuhns has her hands full with kinder, her overbearing brothers and her big dreams. And it only gets worse when she takes on the care of an injured cowboy. For Amish traveling horseman Toby Christner, tight-knit Harmony Creek represents everything he's run from. Until he heals, he can't leave...but will falling for Sarah make him want to stay? Views: 22
The fourth novel in a fiction series based on Animal Jam, the popular online game enjoyed by over 65 million users! The adventures continue as the Alphas, brave animal leaders, head out on an exciting and dangerous voyage to find a hidden treasure.When an ancient treasure map is discovered deep in the Chamber of Knowledge, the Alphas set sail to uncover the mystery!But this adventure has its dangers for these animal heroes. Faced with ocean storms, mysterious islands, and pitfalls around every turn, they will have to use all of their smarts and teamwork to complete their search. And it appears that the Alphas aren't the only ones who have taken to the sea... Based on the popular online game Animal Jam, both longtime players and newcomers are sure to love this fast-paced adventure story.Fans of the popular Animal Jam game (as well as newcomers) are sure to love this book that expands the online world. And readers will be given exclusive access to new... Views: 22
Life's not always a piece of cake... Meet Lucy, master wedding cake baker, idealistic school canteen crusader, and someone whose broken heart just won't seem to mend... Lucy is quietly confident that she has made the right choices in life. Surrounded by friends and family in a small town by the sea, Lucy can easily suppress the feeling that something is missing from her life. But when a blast from the past arrives in the form of her estranged husband, international celebrity chef Oliver Murray, Lucy's carefully constructed life begins to crumble beneath her like overbaked meringue. Is Oliver's return all business or is it motivated by something more? A Recipe for Disaster starts long after most love stories would have ended, proving it is never too late to offer someone a second slice of cake or a second chance. Views: 22
"[Norman Lock's fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights." —NPR"Lock writes some of the most deceptively beautiful sentences in contemporary fiction. Beneath their clarity are layers of cultural and literary references, profound questions about loyalty, race, the possibility of social progress, and the nature of truth . . . to create something entirely new—an American fable of ideas." —Shelf Awareness"The Wreckage of Eden is a huge and dark fresco of an army chaplain's journey through very difficult and troubling periods of American history (normally denied us in school), and all the while this fine angle of approach is like a slow cinematic zoom and track onto an elusive Emily Dickinson ensconced in her Amherst." —The Brothers Quay, award-winning film directorsWhen U.S. Army chaplain Robert Winter first meets Emily Dickinson, he is... Views: 22
This is a novel of historical fiction. A group of avengers set out on a mission to find and assassinate escaped Nazi war criminals. The avengers are based on real people. The Ghost is an actual historical person responsible for directing the escape strategies for the entire Nazi network organized from his official seat at The Vatican. Had they not escaped, these Nazis would have been assassinated by Israeli killers or prosecuted. Most wound up in South America or Middle East. In the story are a series of assassinations, a kidnapping, a love story, and many dramatic twists and turns. Both sides find themselves in a race to acquire a coded microtape containing information which would expose all the escapees and where they are throughout the world. The reader will stay with it until the compelling conclusion of this adventure. Views: 22
