Sheldon: 545 books

NINA, TRAIL OF RED PETALS, is a fictional novel based on one young Venezuelan girl's experience being tricked and sold into sexual servitude as high profile Trinidadian escort. Nina will fall in love for the first time with a handsome Trinidadian man only to discover that it was the biggest mistake...

While characters like James Bond (Bond 007) get all the notoriety in films and books, others like our protagonist, Shelly Cohen, do the everyday nuts-and-bolts work of the spy business. Join our hero as he shares his adventures with you. Theres no fanfare for his achievements, but nevertheless, his work is very important for the preservation of our democratic way of life.

The cookies are baked, the shopping done. The tree is up, the balls are hung. There are cards, and sweets and baubles bright. Everything's ready for Christmas night. It's Christmas Eve! Follow Dottie-small as she discovers the magic of Christmas in this timeless, enchanting picture book.

In Irish fiction, the most famous example of the embrace of damnation in order to gain freedom—politically, religiously, and creatively—is Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus. His "non serviam," though, is not just the profound rebellion of one frustrated young man, but, as Brivic demonstrates...

In her late teens, Meredith Berg-Olsen had had all the makings of a runway model. Now in her late forties, after everything she had been through – including horrors that John could only guess at – she looked bloodless instead of pale, skeletal instead of slender, more dead than alive.John Penrose...

During the lowest point of his life, Sky Logan meets Claire Miller, a teenage Amish girl who lives at the Dark Lake Wildlife Preserve. Despite their conflicting beliefs, they fall in love and spend time with each other almost everyday. One day Claire disappears after an accident, and the authorities have no record of her and her familys existence. Who is Claire and why did she disappear?

It is 1977 and the 200-mile Fisheries Conservation Zone law has just passed. In New England everyone sees dollar bills jumping out of the ocean and all the hustlers, sharks, conmen and schemers are loose in the industry. Jim Hunt wants the bigger boat. Basil Banyon wants to reclaim earlier glories...

C.I.B. Agent Pell used his head, even if he did rely on hunches more than on the computer. In fact, when the game got rough, he found that to use his head, he first had to keep it....

Skyy's a freak. She'll tell you so herself. Her past - a mystery. Her future - uncertain. Having spent most of her life avoiding humans in an effort to conceal her wings, she wants nothing more than to end it all, leaving behind the solitary life she's been forced to live. But numerous attempts to...

The breathing difficulty continued, and he couldnt get up. It seemed as if he was being held down. He felt a sense of panic, but at the same time, he felt as if he was drifting into a deeper phase of sleep. For a short time, he fought these conflicting sensations, but eventually he surrendered to...

Physicians are not always successful establishing a diagnosis. An eighteen-year-old girl develops bizarre symptoms puzzling one doctor after another. The family watches in helpless despair as the young lady goes downhill rapidly. This is a book of fiction based on actual cases reported in the medical literature. Will anyone save this patient—or can she be saved?

It is hoped that the material presented in this book will provide the reader with a detailed description of the published research pertaining to the metabolic effects of dietary fructose, will define future research needs, and will stimulate interest in further research aimed at evaluating the advisability of the intake of fructose by humans.