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Nothing to Declare traces the story of Mila, a victim of the poverty of post-WWII Finland. Sold by her mother, sent alone across the world to a seemingly better life, she is adopted into a family ruled by a malevolent woman who makes Mila's growing-up years a living hell. The book alternates between Mila's life in America and her beloved brother's life in Finland where he fights a deadly disease. An uplifting story of the bonds of family and h...

Michael Michener was born with the ability to see, feel, and sense things that others could not. Passed down to one child of each new generation, his ancient lineage had chosen him to carry on this special gift. But, it came with a price. The powers of evil were always on the look out to destroy him and others of his kind. Not understanding the source of his abilities, Michael finds comfort with his new found friend and actress, Madeline Van S...

Two years after the death of artist Mattie Wickham's teenage son, she realizes her marriage has not survived the crushing weight of grief. Searching for a new way to live her life, she follows her heart into the Appalachian foothills of Southeast Ohio where she joins a tight-knit group of nature-loving, historical reenactors. They fill their days with storytelling, music, and laughter while making a living re-creating eighteenth century accout...

A divertingly comic entertainment with a bittersweet bite... Fine escapist fare from a pro." - Kirkus Reviews In Hot Fudge, the third book in the Loretta Kovacs thriller series, parole officer Loretta falls for her partner, Frank Marvelli. A sexy fellow parole officer "borrows" Marvelli for an assignment in San Francisco, and jealous Loretta tails them. Marvelli is kidnapped, and the women team up to fin him and nab the fugitive in question, a...

A cast of kooky, dangerous characters worthy of Elmore Leonard or Carl Hiassen... A funny, often harrowing crime novel." - Booklist In Double Espresso, the second book in the Loretta Kovacs thriller series, Loretta races to keep one hitman from killing another. The intended victim is a valuable government witness against the mob, and a dirty FBI agent is helping the baf guys. Loretta must fend off the advances of an amorous mob boss while baby...

Bruno's characters are more than just quirky dressing for the plot... it moves fast and furious, but along the way his characters' struggles with their own doubts and failings anchor the reader to them." - The Nashville Banner In Devil's Food, the first book in the Loretta Kovacs thriller series, it's make-it-or-break-it time for zaftig Loretta when she's assigned to the ragtag Parole Violators Search Unit, a.k.a. the Jump Squad. All her butto...

One day I started to crave peanut butter cookies the way my mother made them. Then weeks later, I had a dream about the hard fudge we used to make back in the 1950s when I was growing up on the South Side of Chicago. And what ever happened to mayonnaise cake? My psyche was trying to tell me something. And this book is the result. What my psyche has called me to do is gather my goodies into this cookbook- to pass on the recipes that my family m...

Emeralds of life are contained and held in this book, pearls of artful wisdom spoken through the words of a poet who shares them gladly! Enjoy and share with family and friends. Sometimes only a poem can express the complex emotions of this journey called life." Enlighten yourself read a poem everyday.

JUST...GONE FISHING In 1984, when my father turned sixty-five he bought one of the first personal computers on the market. At the time manufactures like IBM, and Texas Instruments were not sure if the computers would sell. They did not know why any body would want one, much less what they would do with it. My father knew. He had been writing poems since he was about six years old. He wrote them on scraps of paper, handwritten, typed, with ever...

This volume offers a fascinating, impressively detailed, account of the professional and personal life of a prominent historian of Latin America. It covers his youth, contacts with a young Leonard Bernstein, and his education at Boston Latin School and Harvard. He served in WWII, rising from private to master sergeant, ending up in a three-man military intelligence unit on Okinawa. There he held in his hands the first aerial photos of atomic-b...

Two years after the death of artist Mattie Wickham's teenage son, she realizes her marriage has not survived the crushing weight of grief. Searching for a new way to live her life, she follows her heart into the Appalachian foothills of Southeast Ohio where she joins a tight-knit group of nature-loving, historical reenactors. They fill their days with storytelling, music, and laughter while making a living re-creating eighteenth century accout...

Twenty five year old Miles Breckinridge has been non-sighted for over eighteen years and feels his life will never change. That changes, one afternoon when he is the wrongful victim of a vicious attack. Three nights later, his sight miraculously returns, but only at night. Realizing he has a second chance at a sighted life he begins the search for the perpetrator. His path leads to a group of religious zealots, led by a high profile local evan...

Michael Michener was born with the ability to see, feel, and sense things that others could not. Passed down to one child of each new generation, his ancient lineage had chosen him to carry on this special gift. But, it came with a price. The powers of evil were always on the look out to destroy him and others of his kind. Not understanding the source of his abilities, Michael finds comfort with his new found friend and actress, Madeline Van S...

This book is about the dream of a young boy to one day play football for the great Michigan Wolverines and their lengendary coach, Bo Schembechler. It is a true story. Follow the dream from it's roots to the day of walking into the coaches office to announce the boy's intention to play. The dream comes true and the most unusual journey begins to unfold. The book takes you into the locker room, out on to the field, to playing in front of hundre...

This book is about the dream of a young boy to one day play football for the great Michigan Wolverines and their lengendary coach, Bo Schembechler. It is a true story. Follow the dream from it's roots to the day of walking into the coaches office to announce the boy's intention to play. The dream comes true and the most unusual journey begins to unfold. The book takes you into the locker room, out on to the field, to playing in front of hundre...

This is a book of "short stories" that tell of life in a land of awesome beauty, of life lived, often exposed, along the east and north coastline of Labrador in Canada. These "stories" are all true and reflect the lives of the people who live here and a northern nurse who grew to love them, and their land, a young man from the "mainland" of central Canada who served them, and found his home among them. These are also "stories" of a group of pe...

I've done things that I'm not proud of, but I can't apologise for. This is my journey. Every step I've taken has led me toward the person I was destined to become. For better or for worse, I am a lap dancer. I've done it all. I've lived the high life and partied with celebrities. I've performed lesbian acts for clients and had threesomes simply because I was curious. I've snorted so much cocaine that that I thought my nose would fall off. But ...

In an anarchical society of independent states, unilateral measures play an important role. Fortunately, this does not mean that most states act unilaterally most of the time, on the contrary, cooperation is the key word in most areas of international relations and international law. However, in the absence of a comprehensive judicial system or effective enforcement system, states have and will continue to take unilateral measures to enforce l...

Imagine using tools already at your disposal to significantly enhance relationships at all levels of your life. Nothing new to learn-not really. The vignettes in 'Care' from a Hall of Fame football quarterback to company CEOs to participants in homeless shelters renew our faith and lead to action in utilizing care factors in our lives starting right now. The intended audience is includes parents, educators, anyone in social services or the med...

Alphonso Taylor's third book, Sexual Freedom dives deep into the dirty and raw side of sex, sexuality and occasionally the love relationships that accompany it. Although Mr. Taylor does not sugar coat the very sexually charged scenes that make up his newest release, his purpose is not to inundate the reader with over the top sexual images. Quite the contrary, Mr. Taylor attempts to fight the world's sexual repression by challenging it from the...