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In the gripping novel "Karma," Elston Amos finds himself at a crossroads as the haunting truth behind Brenda Vander's murder unfolds. With his family's fate hanging in the balance, Elston must confront his own demons amid a backdrop of political turmoil in Baltimore City....

It wasn't night when the world shattered.It was midday-sunlight, sirens, and the smell of burning rubber.Stacey Olson survived the crash that killed her best friend, Deidre.But survival isn't the same as living.Years later, the grief still gnaws.Then a haunting temptress named Asp appears-her voice...

Adventures of Snuggs is a fun and playful view of the world through the eyes of a sweet little girl, her cat and lovey she named "Snuggs." She can face anything if she has Snuggs by her side! It is a book for children...

Mzee Ajabu has built a multi-billion-shilling corporation. He also has a wife, three kids, and two glamorous lovers. He thinks he is at the height of his life but his corporation is at the brink of sinking, his wife loathes him, his kids are...

Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and...

'[Mukherjee] captures with sensitivity and humour the fragile equations in a marriage, between mothers and daughters, friends and lovers--and equally, the world of Hindi cinema. This is also the tale of four cities--Benares, New Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai. A rich and engrossing saga.'--Shabana AzmiMee's...

'A breezy novel with snappy dialogue and mercurial twists of plot' ---Bapsi Sidhwa All Mrinalini Singh wants, she has. A loving husband, a competent cook, the vague hope of a book deal one day. But when her old roommate Jahanara accuses her of being...

Vaibhav Kulkarni has had few accomplishments worth boasting about in his modest life and career. Yet, his happy universe lies intact in the love and pride his ten-year-old daughter inspires in him. Nisha Kulkarni justifies every reason to be the favourite child of Pune's...

"The Custom of the Country" by Edith Wharton is a scathing social critique and a compelling exploration of the Gilded Age's high society in early twentieth-century America. The novel revolves round Undine Spragg, a charming and formidable female from the Midwest who ascends the...

The Return of the Native became one of Hardy's most famous and recognised novels. It was published in 1878. The story is set on Egdon Heath, a fictitious sterile couple in Wessex in southwestern England. The local of the title is Clym Yeobright, who...

When Lucas moved to a small village in the middle of nowhere, he did not expect that it to present him with a mystery that would unravel some of his own family history.Aided by his girlfriend Louellen, he sets about to discover why so...

A blackmail letter arrives at an inopportune moment, and the recipient's name is blurred out. Who is the ruthless missive meant for?In the powerful sequel to Watching Glass Shatter, Olivia is the first to read the nasty threat. When the mysterious letter falls into...

In 1950's Westburn, Scotland, Tim Ronsard only has a few months remaining until he leaves St. Mary's School.Bored and listless, he's anxious to get away. His life changes when a new music teacher is appointed: Isobel Clieshman, a Protestant working in a Catholic school....

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellISBN-10: 3752575980ISBN-13: 9783752575989Publisher: Salzwasser-VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/25/2022Pages: 606Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.73lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 1.35d

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.Author: Charles DickensISBN-10: 3752530928ISBN-13: 9783752530926Publisher: Salzwasser-Verlag GmbhLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/2021Pages: 640Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.82lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 1.42d

Reproduction of the original: Mr. Meeson's Will by H. Rider HaggardAuthor: H. Rider HaggardISBN-10: 3752306041ISBN-13: 9783752306040Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/17/2020Pages: 156Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.36d

Reproduction of the original: Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth GaskellAuthor: Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellISBN-10: 3752300442ISBN-13: 9783752300444Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/2020Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.21d

Reproduction of the original: Dream Days by Kenneth GrahameAuthor: Kenneth GrahameISBN-10: 3734097991ISBN-13: 9783734097997Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2019Pages: 94Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Reproduction of the original: The Bostonians by Henry JamesAuthor: Henry JamesISBN-10: 3732696944ISBN-13: 9783732696949Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/23/2018Pages: 190Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Reproduction of the original: Ghosts by Henrik IbsenAuthor: Henrik IbsenISBN-10: 373269044XISBN-13: 9783732690442Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/23/2018Pages: 74Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

Teacher Alistair Veale is just coasting along in his 20 year marriage to Ann. His two sons Tom and Jake are growing up fast and have their own interests, but he still enjoys a close relationship with 13-year-old daughter Jessie, his 'Princess'.When Alistair takes...

Jasmine (Jaz) Lee is the star of her parent's life. She's the volleyball team captain, the class valedictorian, and will soon be heading off to university to fulfill her parents' dreams and become a surgeon.There's just one problem. She's pregnant. When her parents find...

Carrie, Lisa, Maria, and Jaz know that friendships can come from unusual places. You don't need to have a lot in common to create lifelong connections. But when Jaz comes up with a radical idea for helping vulnerable people, they agree it's an almost...

'Just Socks', a true story within a modern-day story, tells and shows with vivid illustrations the experiences of an early nineteenth-century homesteader, lumberjack and WW1, Vimy Ridge soldier. It is a great book for young people and elders to share on Remembrance Day, at...

"PASSION ", MAGIC to SECRET, seed stored invisibly. In silent sunlight of inner soul, direct outburst of shell to unspoken peek. Drum breath cry echo enter in beauty of upcoming human world, Welcome pour into a stream of passions surrounded in growing.In this book,...

Retired, bored and a little lonely Thurston decides to write a book. He plans a tell-all tale about what it's like to grow old. In it, he decides, he will defiantly voice his own down-to-earth concerns about where old folks fit in today's rapidly...

Max is all excited that a new community playground is opening up. His two best friends, Sophia and Xavier, meet him at the ribbon cutting ceremony as they wait earnestly to enter the playground. Once the ribbon is cut, Max pushes his wheelchair with...

"A Taste of Bread" is a continuation of the 2014 Readers' Favorite International Gold Award Winner "The Little Girl Praying on the Hill."It is the bittersweet, authentic story of a desperately deprived upbringing as seen through the eyes of a little girl, who manages...

The Marshall triplets have livened things up again. They found a box on the Holy Redeemer playground with a momma cat and six kittens. They decided to put the cat and kittens in the nativity scene. It wasn't their best idea.Come on back to...

Alex Stone is unemployed, divorced and broke. In his desperation he remembers how he and his now ex-wife thought of a ploy to obtain a very valuable wrist watch from his father before their divorce. Unfortunately his father is now resident in a care...

The Loftons and the Wades, two families of brothers brought together through adoption, begin their first summer together as one family!Author: Karen AnkerISBN-10: 1981836004ISBN-13: 9781981836000Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/30/2018Pages: 388Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.86d

My parents split up when I was three years old. Living with my father's sisters was magical. Then, when I was six years old, my mother wanted me back. I did not want to live with her. I wanted to stay with my aunts....

In this heartwarming sequel to Autumn, 14 year-old Ramsey Wade is starting his new life with the five Lofton brothers. Ramsey and his older brother Brad spent years on the run being raised by their abusive brother Carl. Brad left, and the young teen...

Autumn is the first book in a series about two sets of brothers growing up without their parents in mid-80s South Dakota. Ramsey Wade is a neglected and abused 14 year-old. When his mentally ill brother Carl allows him to go to school for...

Marie and Edmond are a young couple dating in the 1960s. Their romance is suddenly interrupted by a pregnancy-and then adoption. Years later, that baby, now grown, Allison, embarks on a twenty-year journey for answers about her birth parents. The stories of unwed mothers...

A Bemis Double-HeaderWhat is better than a Helen A. Bemis novel about mystery and romance in Riverview, home of the Riverview Animal Shelter? Two Bemis novels.For those who like their fiction in larger than 100-page doses, we have put together two of Helen's novels,...

For many, the term "family" refers to those with whom they share a blood relation. For others, close friends can also qualify. For Ryan Collins, who is in the midst of the biggest life change he's undergone as he begins his career as a...

Baby boomer generation managing aged parents with dementia is a common phenomenon in today's world. Take that piece of dough and twist it into a pretzel, boil it up in a kettle of heartbreak, sprinkle it with zesty garlic salt, and dip into a...

His father's homecoming from war and angry threats issued by his mother prompt a boy to run away. He is followed into the unknown by his grandfather whose unfortunate mishap prompt the boy to act beyond his years. The boy struggles emotionally at first,...

Mom has just died, is a patch of floating dust on the Columbia slough. We see the world through the eyes of her ex-hockey player son: divorced, depressed, ready to settle in for thirteen more weeks of unemployment checks, beer, and reading his mother's...

An old woman, not that she thinks of herself that way, sits quietly reading as she has done every evening for years. The night is rainy, dark, but she ignores the weather, as she does most negative scenes, until she hears a knock, a...

Half of Jan Morrison's life is pure chaos, the half that has to do with her family, her sense of wifeliness, motherliness, womanliness. The other half, the half in which she counsels children whose own lives are as chaotic as hers, is the core...

The prevalence of Uterine Fibroid among black African women of childbearing age has dimmed their hope of conception and destroyed many marriages, homes, and lives. Many of these women did not realize the presence of this deadly scourge in their uterus until it became...

This suspenseful, touching, quirky little tale of Christmas is a fast-moving, frequently shocking, account of a children's crisis hospital on one Christmas Eve. This one night of the year has a mysterious power, from millennia of pre-Christian harvest festivals and ancestor worship, when ghosts...

McGinty Family Secrets dives into Samantha McGinty and Kenneth 'Gunny' Gunther's closets. Sam's hidden secret dates back to the year Gunny came to Benton: 1926. He is in the dark until his cousin Tig Taylor reveals the dark truth. Sam is forced to face...

Barney and December both know what it's like to live with loss and change. All her life, December has been at the mercy of her free-spirited hippie mom, who continually moves her from one school to another-she met her father only once, when she...

When her parents are killed by a drunk driver, Jocie is thrown into an unstable world of hardship and horror that no young girl should have to endure. At the mercy of a broken foster care system, she is left without a roof over...

Third in a series of Misadventures of a very active septuagenarian Yia Yia and her obnoxious Cock-a-Poo, Lucey. Still in the Witness Protection Program, she embarks westward under the protection of her court appointed guardian, Sarge.Facing a number of twists and turns before finally...

Calico Beaumont and her family face conflicts in a small Mississippi Delta town in the early 1950's. Calico's Cherokee ancestry plays an important role in her upbringing. She explores the woods with her bow, arrows, and dogs, and makes a shocking discovery. The neighbors...