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No Long Goodbyes Pauline Hayton Wracked with guilt over the tragic deaths of her husband and young son, Kate Cavanagh leaves 1939 Britain to start a new life in Burma, where she falls in love and marries teak plantation manager Jack Bellamy, a widower with two young children. The 1942 Japanese invasion destroys their idyllic... |
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Beyond Our Degrees of Separation Judith Ravin & Muhammad Hassan Miraj A narrative weave of testimonial non-fiction, Beyond Our Degrees of Separation evokes points of intersection between the US and Pakistan. Hailing from oxymoronic bureaucracies, the co-authors transcend their respective realms of diplomacy and military... |
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The Same River Lisa Reddick Ever since a childhood tragedy bonded Jessica Jensen to Oregon’s mighty Nesika River, she has seen herself as its guardian. Now a courageous field biologist, she has just finished gathering scientific evidence that could bring about the dismantling of the massive hydro dam... |
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Spritzing to Success Annette Green Recognized as one of America's leading fragrance authorities and futurists, Annette Green served as Executive Director and President of the Fragrance Foundation, a non-profit, educational organization, for 40 years. In 1991 she was elected Secretary of the Board of Directors on which she... |
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A Little Sammy Music Suzanne Lane A Little Sammy Music is a dog book. Author Suzanne Lane is, by her own admission, a "born rescuer," having taken in, at various times, dogs, cats, a pigeon, a fiancé, and a husband. As one by one the objects of her rescue die or move out, she becomes determined to spare herself the... |
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Super Agents Safety Squad Denize Rodrigues When Denize Rodrigues found out about the sexual assault of her young niece, she was not only deeply troubled, but as a mother of two young children, she also wondered what resources existed to help kids better protect themselves. Not finding any, she was... |
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My Brother My Enemy Adrienne Nairn Adrienne Nairn is a former British resident now living in New Zealand. Her autobiography provides a record of her first hand experiences of the issues of elder abuse, the waste of Police and Social Services resources, misuse of Powers of Attorney and matters of how... |
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Some Rain Must Fall The fifth book of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s powerful My Struggle series is written with tremendous force and sincerity. As a nineteen-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and invests all of himself in his writing. But his efforts get the opposite effect — he wants it so much that he gets... |
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Mountain Green Corporate Blue L.J. Saunders Mountain Green Corporate Blue looks at love from varying angles and its consequences. There is parental love that decompensates into parental control and changes the course of Jane Dickenson's life and that of each of her children. Romantic love is called into question... |
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Behind Closed Doors Daniella DeChristopher This story is about an Italian Catholic family that came to America on vacation and never returned to their homeland. When their youngest unwed daughter became pregnant, her family disowned her. It was 1949. Abortions were illegal. She was seventeen when she... |
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Oscar: The Friendly Rottweiler David Lees Oscar: The Friendly Rottweiler, is a narrative recounting the life’s journey between David and his dog, Oscar, AKA, the "Big O" and the "Gentle Giant". During his very special life, which lasted nearly fourteen years, and is a near record for Rottweilers, Oscar... |
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How Fast Can You Run Harriet Levin Millan Set across a backdrop of refugee migration that spans Africa, America and Australia, How Fast Can You Run is the inspiring story of Michael Majok Kuch and his journey to find his mother. In 1988, Majok, as a five-year-old boy, fled his burning village in southern Sudan when the North... |
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Louisburg Square A. Dudley Johnson, Jr. How does a woman divorce her husband in a time when only men had the right to "grant divorces?" It’s the Gilded Age and Anna Tattersall has taken her two boys and left her husband who was seen in the embrace of one of her closest friends. She’s now staying with her true love, a wealthy... |
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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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My Heart Beats V. Maree Childhood trauma versus poor adult choices. What's the connection? Emotional and behavioral problems are among the most prevalent chronic health conditions of childhood that largely go unrecognized and undiagnosed until a child grows into adulthood. My Heart Beats is a... |
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Here on Moon Edward M. Krauss Betrayal, divorce, recovery. Here On Moon is the story of Carole, a wife and mother with a successful career who, in her mid-30s, is devastated by her husband Ken's infidelity and humiliated by his refusal to be forgiven. She has no choice but divorce, and we follow her through the... |
