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Dr. Morrison has been fired as a husband, father and doctor. What now: quiet philosophy reading, alcoholism and suicide? A fountain of youth, exotic woman and compassion draw the doctor deep into the Darien jungle, where his morals break one after another. A drug-trade, sex and love for a child mix...

Can you ever relive the past? Can a woman go back in time and rekindle a passion that was once cruelly extinguished? Can a man, no matter how wealthy and powerful, recreate the world he knew when he was young? Miranda Ferri is the inheritor of a famous name in California’s Santa Margarita valley—but...

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Set in the County of West Lothian in Scotland, against the background of a 15th Century mansion called "Strathalmond", Book 1 [1430-1460]tells of the Ingrams who built it and the Douglases who almost caused its destruction. Book 2 [1912-1972] is about Strathalmond Oil Company in the town...

No one could deny that Sarah Ballenden was beautiful. Nor that she was elegant and charming. And as the wife of Chief Factor John Ballenden, she was at the very pinnacle of society in the Hudson's Bay Company. She was the chatelaine, the mistress of the officers' mess at Upper Fort Garry in Rupert's...

“These are not literary productions, these are yarns. Told in a conversational, buttonholing style, they tend to start with some outrageous hook: "During childhood, one of my best friends was a stone"; "A friend of mine dated Death"; "Met God's ex-wife once"; "The...

This is your wake-up call. Are you ready to remember? A necessary - and timely - tale of how amazingly powerful we humans truly are once we dare to remember our awesomeness. With down to earth-honesty, irony, wit and love, the author openly describes the journey of remembrance, self-exploration...

As a Cold War era military intelligence agent investigating a double homicide, and the disappearance of a nuclear weapon from a major Army munitions depot in Germany, Bruce Highland manages to lose the main suspect. Years later, the main suspect, and the weapon, resurfaces, leading up to an extortion...

A debut novel that forms an intriguing introduction to the girl currently calling herself Kathryn Blake. Kate is a flamboyant traceuse, a nerveless pickpocket, an unrivalled cat-burglar . . . Kate is whatever she needs to be; what better place to meet her than Vienna, that city of a thousand faces?...

A somber man wishing to fulfill certain urges for the first time in his life. A wooden box containing the means for that fulfillment. An intrusive cousin. An impeccable lawn. A garden shed. An embarrassing plaster statue of the goddess Athena.

Danny's a movie star, a huge star, he's too important and glossy and ridiculously hot to still be hung up on a guy he left behind in college six years ago. Isn't he? Short, sweet romance, approximately 7200 words.

What happens when you take three men in their thirties and turn them loose together. The wives have gone on a seven day get-a-way vacation and left their husbands to fend for themselves. Can these grown "boys" behave and not get themselves into trouble? Follow them as they go on their outing which leads to an ordeal of survival in the bush.

This book examines the situation of the Hitler Youth and its generation in the postwar period.  Many historians and writers, influenced by the postwar division of Germany and quick recovery of the western part of the country often did not focus upon the lives of youth following the collapse of the...

In our darkest hour, sometimes we need something to help us get through: to heal the pain. 04:30 The Darkest Hour does just that! It is filled with thoughts written in someone's darkest hour to get through the day, to hang on to life. The poetry book explores themes such as: love,...