Valerie: 1603 books

Faced with her two-year-old toddler's precipitous bout with epilepsy and his puzzling behaviors, Valerie Paradiz took a bold and unusual path, coming to terms with and ultimately embracing the strange beauty of her son Elijah's special neurological disorder, which was diagnosed as Asperger's syndrome,...

This heart wrenching novel will take you into the cruel world of mental abuse. You will experience the suffering and the pain "Tanya" endured throughout her seventeen year marriage.Although the scars of psychological abuse cannot be seen, they run deep. Damaging another human being, especially...

Jen, a teacher, has broken away from a stifling relationship with Harris, who runs a gym. Naively, she tried to help him sort out his life, but did not realise that the man was a liar and a control freak until it was too late. Jen walked out on him determined to enjoy her independence once more when...

Trying to escape her simple life and recent failures in Alabama, Susan DeMarcus embarks on a long journey, visiting various parts of the globe. Her adventures come to a halt, however, when she meets and resides with Daniel Freeman in London. Daniel, a freelance writer who dabbles in exposing the city's...

1812, in the North Yorkshire market town of Gorebeck, Miss Molly Mason is approaching her twenty-first birthday. After her father died her care was left in the hands of Mrs Dorothea Cresswell who owns a successful dressmaker’s establishment in the newer part of the town. The two women resent and...

Lydia works hard at Bagby Hall to keep her father, an ailing tenant, from the poorhouse. She is racked with guilt as she has to watch her friend, Georgette, being abused by Lord and Lady Bagby. Lydia longs to aid Georgette as she fears her life may be in danger - but how? The arrival of the mysterious doctor, Samuel Speer, adds to her dilemma as Lydia's concern for her friend grows.

Felicity Moon strikes the Lord of the manor in self defence and is forced to leave his household. Squire Moon, her father, is in gaol charged with bank-rolling smugglers and storing contraband. Felicity has one last chance to save herself from ruin in the form of a reference to Mr Lucas Packman, a man her father dislikes. She has a stark choice to make: trust Packman or her obey her father.

Hannah, a cosseted daughter, has grown up in the sheltered world of Harpham Hall. Headstrong and blinkered to dangers, she triggers the dismissal of her personal maid and is saved from harm by a tenant’s son, Tobias Jenkins. Her avaricious stepmother, Lady Alicia Harpham, uses this incident to add...

Miss Chloe Branton has been found a position as a laundry maid in a wealthy country house. Although she dislikes the life, she respects her father’s wishes, knowing the position will be temporary as she has been hidden away for her own safety. The workload is heavy and more physically demanding...

Professor Hinkle, unable to resist forbidden feminine virgin student charms, finds himself caught in a clandestine affair with lesbian Felicity, eighteen but looking younger. The instructor of mathematics has met his equal, as she chooses him to be her first man. Trouble enough until Felicity...

Hailey’s world is thrown into chaos when Kate, her sister, chooses to move to London forgoing her placement at university. After raising Kate this leaves Hailey, at 29, free of commitments. Meanwhile an accident causes James, a successful PR Manager, to miss his holiday flight. A kind act surprisingly leads to another. Hailey and James lives change as they move on and discover love.

In DON'T HIDE SON Blake is not sure what his next decision should be because he doesn't want to disappoint his mother, Lucy by destroying what she built. In another, Blake has to figure out what it's a safe decision to take down their rivals without losing their power and reputation...

Which comes first for you? Words or pictures? In this anthology of paintings and their poems, the artist and poet, Valerie Losell invites you to start with either and enhance your enjoyment of both. Her watercolours and pastels and the poems that deepen their meaning will challenge you to see the...

In July 1932, MGM producer and notorious nice guy Paul Bern marries the love of his life, screen icon Jean Harlow. Two months later, he is found shot to death in their Benedict Canyon home, the victim of a Hollywood cover-up that eventually portrays him in the media as a sick, impotent wife-beater. Modern...