He answers to no one… No one has ever truly touched Jack Traviss heart or soul…until Ella Varner comes along. She appears one day on his doorstep with fury in her eyes and a baby in her arms. Her troubled sister is the mother and, according to Ella, Jack Travis is the father. But when […]
The tightly knit community of Virgin River has been a safe haven for more than a few lost souls over the years — and theres always room for more . . . A decorated U.S. Marine reservist, LAPD officer Mike Valenzuela was badly wounded in the line of duty, but has found hope and healing […]
“Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowskis ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain […]
The windy city isnt quite ready for Phoebe Somerville??the trendy, outrageous and curvaceous New York knockout who has just inherited the Chicago Stars football team. And Phoebe is definitely not prepared for the Stars head coach Dan Celbow ?? an Alabama-born former gridiron legend and blond barbarian. Calebow is everything Phoebe abhors ?? a sexist, […]
You met star quarterback Kevin Tucker in This Heart of Mine. Now get ready to meet his shark of an agent, Heath Champion, and Annabelle Granger, the girl least likely to succeed. Annabelles endured dead-end jobs, a broken engagement . . . even her hairs a mess! But thats going to change now that shes […]
Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard is the luckiest man in the world: a bona-fide sports superstar and the pride of the NFL with a profitable side career as a buff billboard model for End Zone underwear. But life in the glory lane has started to pale, and Dean has set off on a cross-country trip […]
Setting: small city in Ohio Thirty-three-year-old Minerva Dobbs is annoyed when her current boyfriend dumps her three weeks before her sisters wedding. But shes downright furious a few moments later when she overhears her now “ex” boyfriend bet hunky Calvin Morrisey that he cant take her home and bed her. In fact, shes so angry […]
It takes guts to write a novel that combines an ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss Conseil Europ??en pour la Recherche Nucl??aire, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of anti-matter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a beautiful Italian physicist and […]
“Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood,” writes Frank McCourt in Angelas Ashes. “Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.” Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to recent Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt, Frank grew up in Limerick after […]
“Somewhere,” muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonight, “there were people making love.” Anyway, head elsewhere for Great Literature, but if youre in the market to get your heartstrings plucked, look no further.?ÿThe Notebook, a Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful Allison Nelson stay […]
Keep the Change The uncoolness of her name plagues B. Damayanthi, along with the bunch of unsuitable prospective husbands her Amma throws at her, a dead-end job as an accountant in a decrepit firm, the oppressiveness of Chennai. When she finally jettisons her job and some of her inhibitions to join a bank in Mumbai, […]
Amazingly, former arch-swindler-turned-Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig has somehow managed to get the woefully inefficient Ankh-Morpork Post Office running like . . . well, not like a government office at all. Now the supreme despot Lord Vetinari is asking Moist if hed like to make some real money. Vetinari wants Moist to resuscitate the venerable […]
To be young, good-looking, carefree, working, single and a woman in a new city has its shares of trials and tribulations, surprises and joys. Nearly a decade ago, when journalist-columnist Sushmita Bose decided to move from Calcutta to Delhi, She was excited in an apprehensive kind of way. Soon, she would have to find her […]
For most children, summer vacation is something to look forward to. But not for our 13-year-old hero, whos forced to spend his summers with an aunt, uncle, and cousin who detest him. The third book in J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter series catapults into action when the young wizard “accidentally” causes the Dursleys dreadful visitor Aunt […]