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Quest to the Unknown Annelies George Quest to the Unknown revolves around up-and-coming Dutch reporter Jessie Golden, ready for her first holiday with business mogul and playboy Carlos Gomez, with whom she is engaged in a budding romance. Her journey begins when she finds a folder full of information on a mysterious... |
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Night Rhythms Shalanda R. Sims Zora can't go back to sleep. Her brain keeps thinking about the bad dream she had and her heart feels as though it’s beating out of her pajamas. That’s when her mother, Mrs. Johnson, gives her a unique blanket called a quilt. Before Zora can figure out what makes the quilt special, it... |
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Marion Hatley Beth Castrodale To escape a big-city scandal, a Depression-era lingerie seamstress flees to the countryside, where she hopes to live and work in peace. Instead, she finds herself unraveling uncomfortable secrets about herself and those closest to her. In February of 1931, Marion Hatley steps off... |
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The MacBrides: Logan and RJ J.L. Petersen Logan, the eldest of the MacBride clan, is thrilled at his brother Clay's pending nuptials to Sandy. But when Sandy's sister RJ arrives at the family's ranch, Logan's world is turned upside down. However, the sisters' shared past has created scars and barriers against love... |
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Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos? J. Michael Springmann They come from across the Middle East, South Asia, North Africa—floods of refugees seeking sanctuary in Europe. Most are men. Some are terrorists. And all represent an ethnopolitical nightmare for the European Union. What drives these migrants? Why... |
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The Idea of Socialism The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet today it seems to have lost much of its appeal. Despite growing discontent, many would hesitate to invoke socialism when it comes to envisioning life... |
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A Mother Goddess for Our Times Judith T. Lambert More than 18 million people have traveled to the tiny Bosnian village of Medjugorje to witness daily apparitions of the Virgin Mary and experience her healing powers. Author Judith Lambert, a skeptic, was among them. Events that occurred during her four pilgrimages there... |
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Across Great Divides Monique Roy Across Great Divides is a timeless story of the upheavals of war, the power of family, and the resiliency of human spirit. When Hitler came to power in 1933, one Jewish family refused to be destroyed and defied the Nazis only to come up against another struggle — apartheid in South Africa. Sixteen... |
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Godmother Odile Atthalin Odile Atthalin was a young woman from a prominent, bourgeois family in Paris when she decided to leave home in search of meaning. All she knew was that she wanted to go East; but once she had separated from France and committed to creating a new life for herself, opportunities fell into... |
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Alien Hitman Jay Cannon This prequel to the Euclidian series follows the exploits of Adar, an alien from the Ossuary System, hired as an elite assassin aboard the Euclidian resource ship Andrea. Adar was sent to retrieve, dead or alive, renegade aliens who started a gang war on their home planet and killed a group of... |
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America's War for the Greater Middle East From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East. Since 1990, virtually no American soldiers have been killed in action anywhere else. What caused this shift? Bacevich, one of the... |
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Civil Law in America Larry A. Berglas The littlest of law books, a single-cup-of-coffee read, Civil Law in America: A Minimalist Law Book is a creative, simple, and uniquely concise expression of the law. Only sixty brief pages in length, the book is not a law treatise, casebook, "how to," substantive reference, or primary... |
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Because of the Horses Patricia McGrane Because of the Horses is a complex family story set in 1863 East Tennessee, a uniquely different and independently minded part of the state. Many local citizens still fiercely support the Union despite the rest of the state having voted to secede and join the Confederacy. Some... |
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Zulu Way Robert M. Murphy The year is 1858. Zulu Way is the story of Danny, a young man sent on an adventure by his father up the Mississippi on his Uncle's new steamship to sell his family crops to the mills in Baton Rouge. Circumstances take him past Baton Rouge up to Vicksburg, then up the Mississippi to Memphis... |
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To the City, with Love Steve Slavin This is a book filled entirely with stories about New Yorkers – some real, some imagined – who have passed through the author’s life. Among them are: A professional basketball player who decides to play his last game stark naked. A moral philosopher who must resolve his own... |
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You'll Do Anything for Him Maureen E. Hosier & Berta Hosier Conger Dearest, What I want most is to feel cared about and loved by you. I've tried everything, but it's not working. What more can I do? I love you so much, but I don't feel like there are two of us in our relationship. When you fell for him, were you so crazy in... |
