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WHAT STELLA WANTSA successful P.I. business. A sexy man she can love and trust. Relatives who stay safely at home. And good friends she can count on.WHAT STELLA'S GOTAn anemic trickle of clients. An infuriatingly secretive (but hot!) former special forces soldier who may or may not be around in the morning. A feisty elderly aunt whose love life is w…a…ay more on track than Stella's. And an old high-school rival who's just hired Stella, only to be blown up in what seems to be a...
| Автор | Nancy Bartholomew |
Criminalist Billie Quinn lived and breathed the evidence. People lied. But DNA never let her down. Or could it?For the case that put her fight for justice in the media spotlight also brought her to a killer's attention. A very special killer–one who claimed to know the truth about her mother's disappearance many years ago. And who was now determined to show Billie exactly what happened…in a reenactment starring Billie herself.It was up to her to choose–learn the truth and die, or bring...
| Автор | Erica Orloff |
Men are like shoes–the best ones fit perfectlyIn all my thirty-five years, I, shoe designer Rochelle Gardner, havenever had so many men interested in me! My teen son's dad is back in my life after suffering from amnesia (yes, really). The church deacon has had his eye on me for years (and never said a word). And the young waiter (from the restaurant I've visited for singles' events) is trying to steal my heart. I've been struggling with my faith, trying to figure out which...
| Автор | Marilynn Griffith |
All her life, Geneva Patterson was an outcast in Haven's End. Plain, awkward, thought to be unmarriageable, she endured the townspeople's cruel taunts in solitude. But then she encountered a man who made her dream of more….Once a respected sea captain, Caleb Phelps had been accused of a shameful crime. He still held his head high, but pain shone in his eyes. Believing in his innocence, Geneva longed to help this proud man find redemption–through God's grace and a woman's...
| Автор | Ruth Axtell Morren |
After years of friendship, the women of the SAHM I Am e-mail loop are finally meeting in person. But with two new moms trying to blend in with Dulcie and the gang, there's bound to be trouble!Earth-mother Iona and young mom Hannah are thrilled to join the weekend getaway sans hubbies and kids. But sparks fly when Hannah's know-it-all attitude clashes with the Queen of Ego, Rosalyn. When things go from bad to worse, one mom must step in to save the weekend from total disaster!
| Автор | Meredith Efken |
Something was terribly wrong with the shy, scared little girl. Every day, she came to Haven, Sam Hawke's inner-city youth center. But the former marine couldn't get Flora to open up. So he turned to newspaper reporter Ana Burns, hoping that her skill at asking nosy questions about him and his mission could be put to better use.Flora quickly captured Ana's heart. As did Sam and his dream of providing a haven for children with nowhere else to go. Ana's questions were soon...
| Автор | Catherine Palmer |
His teenaged son is on the run–from a murder charge. Widowed rancher Cole Strong might not win any father-of-the-year awards, but he knows his boy.His son's only crime is caring too much about people and the world. Something Cole has forsaken. Now, a corrupt food supplier will do anything to protect its secrets and lies–including killing the kid who knows too much. The only person who can help is the dedicated teacher who'd been reaching out to his child: Jill Pruitt. A beautiful woman...
| Автор | Catherine Palmer |
"Just once I'd like to have a plan go my way. Is that too much to ask?"Smart-mouthed P.I. Stella Valocchi is finally in business, with the office and the aggravating employee–former fiancé Jake Carpenter–to prove it. And when a client with a sob story hires them to find her brother, success is one missing man away–until the search becomes hazardous to Stella's life. Threats, gunshots and car chases won't put her off the case. Neither will Jake's insistence that they be...
| Автор | Nancy Bartholomew |
Nova Blair–code name, Dove–is known as the ultimate, tough-as-nails agent who always gets her man. So when ten prominent American tourists are kidnapped in Brazil, Nova launches into a race against time to rescue the innocents and uncover the identity of their sociopathic captor–one whose true motive may be to instigate global warfare.But Nova's mission hits a snag when the CIA assigns a fellow agent to the case–Joseph Cardone. The man Nova loved but walked away from. Nova and Joe must put...
| Автор | Judith Leon |
For the members of a stay-at-home-moms' email loop, lunch with friends is a sandwich in front of the computer. Where else could they discuss things like…Success: Her workaholic husband is driving Dulcie Huckleberry around the bend. It's hard to love someone when he's never home!Art: Let children express themselves, opines Zelia Muzuwa, and then her son's head gets stuck inside a kitty scratching post….Health: Surely aches and pains are normal in an active little boy, yet...
| Автор | Meredith Efken |
Ellie Waters usually juggled career, family and church commitments with ease. But when her mother fell ill, coping suddenly seemed overwhelmingly difficult. For help she looked to the past–and within her deepest self.Charlene Butler, wife, grandmother and businesswoman, was enjoying a bright, new chapter of her life. But her aunt Dorothy's medical crisis suddenly made Charlene wonder how solid the foundation of her world really was.On their journeys of discovery, these two very different...
| Автор | Marilynn Griffith |
Just moments from the hangman's noose, Jonah Quinn escapes from infamous Newgate Prison. Taking prison volunteer Florence Hathaway hostage is a masterstroke, but Jonah intends to end their acquaintance once he's free. God, however, has other plans.The caring spinster's mission is to turn Jonah's life around. The burly fugitive scoffs at the notion he can be groomed into respectability, much less win a royal pardon. He knows that donning a waistcoat and cravats does not change...
| Автор | Ruth Axtell Morren |
In 1888, Colorado was a dangerous place for a girl on the run. But Honor McCall had to escape from her drunken uncle. She never imagined that she'd be rescued by a handsome young minister or find a place to call home in his church.The Rev. Jethro Peters' kindness was more than she could ever repay. So how could she stay on–accepting charity while hiding the truth about the danger that stalked her and hiding her love for a man who might never return her feelings?She had to leave, but...
| Автор | Molly Noble Bull |
For ten years, the Suicide King murder case was considered closed. then technology caught up to a previously untestable piece of evidence: a trace of DNA.Ordinarily, criminalist Billie Quinn would dispassionately analyze the evidence and report the results. But this case defied ordinary. The Suicide King's crimes conjured up memories of another victim: her mother. Billie needed to look into convicted killer David Falco's eyes to see if he was man or monster.She saw an innocent man.Not...
| Автор | Erica Orloff |
I marry a gorgeous executive, have a baby, lose all the weight (most of it)–and move to a fine house in the suburbs with a welcoming new church. Wait–did I say welcoming? One teeny waaah! and new mothers and their crying babies are exiled to a separate room.At least there's some enlightening conversation. Like about my husband and issues I didn't even know about! And then there's my aptly named mother-in-law, Queen Elizabeth, who can't stand me. I'm about to lose my...
| Автор | Delia Parr |
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a lady of rank and distinction is no match for an impoverished preacher. Yet Damian Hathaway is entranced from the moment he spies Miss Lindsay Phillips entering his church.She doesn't appear any different from the other pampered society ladies–and she's betrothed to a gentleman of the ton. But Damian is determined to find the pure heart he's sure exists underneath all the ruffles and lace. The unlikely friendship formed by Damian and...
| Автор | Ruth Axtell Morren |
I, Molly MacKenna, am a pregnant woman's dream–and one man's nightmare!From the moment we met, obstetrician Clay Reynolds scorned my profession as a birthing coach. His scathing remarks left me crying on the shoulder of my potbellied pig, Gertie! It seems only the handsome doc's eight-year-old son, who thinks I hung the moon, can make Clay be civil to me.Clay is a great doctor and loving father. And we're finding a lot in common as we volunteer together at a free clinic. But...
| Автор | Judy Baer |
Magiczna powieść science fiction, w której postapokalitycznym światem odległej planety zawładnęli mściwi hinduistyczni bogowie Ziemia jest daleko. Na skolonizowanej planecie grupa ludzi zyskała kontrolę nad środkami techniki i zyskała nieśmiertelność. Teraz rządzą tym światem jako bogowie hinduistycznego panteonu – Brahma, Kali, Kriszna, a także ten tego, którego kiedyś nazywali Buddą, a który teraz odważa się wystąpić przeciwko ich tyranii, i nazywa się Mahasamatmanem, Poskromicielem Demonów,...
| Автор | Roger Zelazny |
For Ari Silverman, the past has never really passed. After 20 years, the trauma from a childhood assault resurfaces as he grapples with the fate of his ex-husband, a colleague accused of sexually harassing a student. To gain perspective, Ari arranges to reconnect with his high school crush, Justin Jackson, a bold step which forces him to reflect on their relationship in the segregated suburbs of Detroit during the 1990s and the secrets they still share. An honest story about recovery and coping...
| Автор | Aaron Hamburger |
The Dale Earnhardt Memorial Pilgrimage is the last trip Judge Bekasu Holifield would have chosen for her vacation. But this year it's her sister Justine's turn to make their plans, and soon Bekasu's boarding a silver cruise bus for a tour of Southern stock car speedways with Justine, their cousin Cayle, and a group of strangers–all of whose lives have somehow been touched by the legendary racer they never met. . .For Shane McKee, the tour is a chance to get married at the speedway...
| Автор | Sharyn McCrumb |
BJ, a talented college basketball player, lives and breathes the game. For BJ, life means nothing without hoops. Her mother—an abstract painter—doesn’t get it. Or at least she pretends she doesn’t. Everything changes when BJ accidentally discovers her dad, a man who’s been a shadowy presence throughout her life. As if that’s not enough of a surprise, she begins to suspect that two of her teammates, and her best friends, may actually be her half-sisters. As BJ struggles to keep her eye on the...
| Автор | Lucy Jane Bledsoe |
Training for adulthood is not for wimps.<br><br> When you are eleven years old, is there anything more humiliating, or bound to cause a fight, than shopping with your mother when your body is in full-throttle warp? Yes, there is: picking out the school-required underwear. Or worse, your mother’s male co-worker shows up at the scene. Or even worse: your brother wants to TALK about it at the dinner table.<br><br> Rites-of-passage are difficult for any young girl, and Jun-li...
| Автор | May-lee Chai |
Individuals are tools of production and consumption, relentlessly looking for pleasure that never comes. Their same "self" vanishes while attempting to fill up the emptiness of their existences completely dehumanized and possessed by the totalitarian law of profit. Neither old nor new values will never appease their plight while the social regime remains unaltered. Until the social room we all occupy is humanized, there is no chance for Man to finally be born, we'll...
| Автор | Bob Mazzei |
First published in 1719, Daniel Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe” is a pioneering work of realist fiction and one of the most popular adventure novels ever written. When it first appeared it was widely believed to be a true account of actual events. While it is thought to have been inspired by the real life story of Alexander Selkirk, a castaway who lived on an island in the Pacific for four years, the story is in fact completely fictional. At the beginning of the novel we find Robinson Crusoe desiring...
| Автор | Daniel Defoe |