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My Hollywood fairy tale definitely has a villain.The final book of the series from six-time USA Today bestselling author Deanna Roy It's a done deal.I'm marrying Blitz Craven, reality TV show star, dancer, my love.Except Blitz comes with a price.His contract. Which we have...

Frank relishes fast success and early retirement, but struggling to preserve his life's work thrusts him into a desperate battle to protect the people he cares about most. Beverly seeks a new beginning in Tarpon Springs-until those she trusts steal control of her destiny,...

Schoolboy is Martin Keaveney's fifth book. It follows the novels Delia Meade (2020) and The Mackon Country (2021), a novella, Caravan (2022) and a short story collection, The Rainy Day (2018), all published by Penniless Press. Stage and screen credits include Ireland's national broadcaster...

In the blistering summer of 1911, City stockbroker George Chesshyre moves his family to a new house in south London. George looks forward to a life of domestic bliss but a continuous chain of events conspires against him and his yearned for reverie is...

'Can't Explain' is an invaluable resource for all parents going through difficult times associated with family breakdown. It tells the story of a father's tortuous fight to win the right to retain contact with his only child after his marriage break-up. Although the characters...

Hit n Run tells the story of what can happen when lives collide. An accident has spiralling consequences that change the life of the victim and everyone around him forever. This insightful book shows the world through the eyes of the two people closest...

An immigrant family find themselves in a culture of hate... There's one chance of redemptionA mother and her two sons walk-through war-torn countries, cross borders and oceans witnessing the worst of humanity... all for the chance of a better life. Any life.Their home in...

Terry has a relatively comfortable life. He is still not yet thirty and he has a job he enjoys and a girlfriend he adores with whom he lives in a house he inherited from his grandmother. He spends his leisure time attending auctions and...

When your life has been filled with secrets and lies - even the ones you tell yourself - you choose what you know you can handle. But when all that is challenged by one man, maybe it's time to open your heart - before...

"Such an amazing storyline both moving and heartbreaking . . ." NetGalley Review (5 stars)When you first meet Fifteen-year-old Midnight Madison, you notice the short purple hair, the multiple earrings in each ear, the steel exterior. Your first thought is probably that girl is...

In his evocative debut novel, Light on a Part of the Field, Kevin Holowack introduces us to a family grappling with artistic ambition, mental illness, and rifts that may not be possible to mend. Set in BC and Alberta in the 1960s and 1970s,...

When musician Marcus Lewis buys the derelict farmhouse next to Jodie' Eriksson's riding school he doesn't know whether to be amused or irritated by her angry reaction to his plans. Then her sister Izzie visits him and makes things a whole lot worse...or is...

Near the end of World War II, a little girl is kidnapped during the chaos of the Russian army's advance on Berlin, Germany. Severely abused by her kidnappers - a depraved, evil butcher and his cold, complicit wife - the strong-willed girl survives by...

Everyone learns that what's done in the dark doesn't always stay in the dark. Jackie Lewis, Peace Evans, Lisa Taylor, and Shonda Smith learn that their pasts will come back to haunt them when they least expect it. The longtime friends encounter life-changing events...

Tuesday is a beautiful, talented and obedient child star, ordered around by her bipolar stage mother, Constance, and her agent, Uncle Monty. The two adults are Tuesday's entire, lonely, rule-filled world until the singer meets Zelda-the daughter of Tuesday's housekeeper and a fellow teenager-who...

Millicent Rose Foraukis was her momma's sweet child and her daddy's babygirl - and together, they were her everything. Albeit raised with a heavy hand to fear the Lord and love that ran as deep as the day is long, little Millie Rose recounts...

In an idyllic suburb in Northern California, tragedy strikes the Sheppard family when Abby, the mother of three daughters and wife to Dalton, is killed in a car accident. Charlotte, the middle daughter, is in the car with her mother and survives without physical...

"Emerald Green" is an inspiring and encouraging story that shows the challenges and difficulties associated with facing adversity and prejudices. But, more importantly, it's a story that proves that love and faith in humanity can grow in us, even while we are undergoing the...

A determined widow faces the challenge of a new life to regain the confidence and independence of her youth, but finds that life, unlike knitting, doesn't always follow a pattern.After twenty-five years of being the perfect wife and mother, Martha LeBeau finds herself unexpectedly...

ROCKSTAR MARRIAGE IMPLODES- RUMORS OF INFIDELITY RUN RAMPANTJase and Talia have overcome many challenges to get to where they are. Now, with their marriage imploding, communication between them has vanished. There are two sides to every story, but will they overcome one more challenge,...

The "Emmy's Story" series begins when Emmy isfour-years-old and quickly progresses to focuson her teen years and beyond. In this book, "Gideon's Tree: Emmy's Story, Part 15,"Emmy's comfortable life is changed by an online article."What are you looking at? Have you been crying?" Kenny...

"About time you called me. I miss you. What's up?" Liz asked."You know I've been helping out at SoHam First, right?""Yes.""Well, they don't want me back. I don't fit in with their style of worship,"Emmy said with some bitterness."I thought you were only filing...

"The living room was an unfriendly room, but then the whole house was built to be unfriendly. It was built to say, '"Look what I have and you don't.'" This house, built in the early 1880s, is the setting for "A House, But Not...

Based on real-life events, this book takes us on a journey with two women, in a relationship, who embark on the a path toward motherhood. They experience fertility treatments, three pregnancies and three very different maternity leaves. This unbiased book also allows us to...

When I Grow Up, I Want To Be A ... is the first in a series of children's stories masterfully designed by the author to meet two primary goals. The first is to aid Spanish-speaking children in their pursuit of English, and English-speaking children...

Like a face in the crowd, Rajanikanta Mohanty stands obviously apart from the host of golden daffodils of Odia story tellers. Because his apprehension of the multifoliate reality cascading rhythmically all around is, by all means, novel but natty. His sensitive response as a...

"Reagan . . . are you there?""Yes. I'm still here. Matthew, I can't come. I'm sorry." There was an awkward silence that seemed to last for hours.Finally Matthew said, "Okay, Reagan." And then as if he had one last card to play before the...

Austin and Conner thought they knew what it meant to be brothers. Only seven and ten-years-old, they've already carried each other through losing their father. The worst of their lives was supposed to be over. Then a confrontation with a bully goes horribly wrong....

Intriguing, Interlocking StoriesAuthor: Dennis MustISBN-10: 1636283225ISBN-13: 9781636283227Publisher: Red Hen PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2025Pages: 170Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.56d

Route 66 Looking-glass, the third volume in the series At Home and Away, is set in mid-1960's America, a time of turmoil for the nation and of challenge for the Lindbloom family. The father (the "Route 66 Dreamer" of Volume Two) and the mother...

The story of three generations of the Brangwen family, set against the decline of their traditional rural English existence in the face of Britain's ever-growing industrialisation. Lawrence openly examines attitudes to relationships, sexuality and religion in a restrictive, conforming society, looking deeply into the...

Full text.This D.H. Lawrence's matserpiece follows three generations of the Brangwen family (a dynasty of farmers and craftsmen) living in Nottinghamshire, particularly focusing on the individual's struggle to growth and fulfilment within the confining strictures of English social life.Censorship: Lawrence's frank treatment of sexual...

LAST summer I happened to be crossing the plains of Iowa in a season of intense heat, and it was my good fortune to have for a traveling companion James Quayle Burden-Jim Burden, as we still call him in the West. He and I...

"THE BOTTOMS" succeeded to "Hell Row". Hell Row was a block of thatched, bulging cottages that stood by the brookside on Greenhill Lane. There lived the colliers who worked in the little gin-pits two fields away. The brook ran under the alder trees, scarcely...

Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death. The story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27, whose family is moving to lower expenses and get out of...

Danah visits a psychic healer with a friend and is told her father was probably murdered. Before she even arrives home she decides her stepfather did it. This one leap of bad faith leads Danah to examine all the unspoken thoughts she has about...

History repeats itself in an uncanny way when Dawson McKay finds himself haunted by his dead father's demons. The eerie similarities in the lives and the deaths of Dawson's mother and his wife rear the old question of the iniquities of the father revisiting...

A children's book about a little girl planning a birthday party. And think she's too big for help from her mother.Author: Amber/ A. Renee/ R. GriffinISBN-10: 1508733929ISBN-13: 9781508733928Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2015Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.07d

Whether it's repairing a home or taking care of clients' other needs, Twin Cities handyman Sam Haney is in demand from his mostly female clientele. Despite Sam's lothario reputation, love isn't part of his portfolio. He's built a lot of walls in his time,...

FORWARD "Reverse Guilty Plea" is a story about an unusual family feud based on petty differences which led to the wrongful incarceration of one of its own causing turmoil behind the curtains of the Wilson family home. The protagonists Charles tried to do the...

Emotionally shattered, a soldier slowly repairs her life in the picturesque town of Perfect, Indiana...Cory Marcel worked tirelessly over eight grueling years to develop a successful military career. After her commanding officer violently assaulted her, she lost everything--especially her trust in people. Despite the...

First published in 1895, "Select Conversations with an Uncle" constitutes Wells' first literary publication in the form of a book. It comprises accounts of twelve fictional conversations with a witty uncle who has recently come back from South Africa, returning with some degree of...

In late 1920s England, on the verge of the Great Depression, John Oakley owns a small manufacturing plant that has fallen on hard times. Taxes are rising, orders are dropping, and the firm is gradually heading towards bankruptcy. But his grown children--Alway, Frida, Elsie,...

The most powerful memories of my life were the teenage years that I spent with my brother Bruce. He was my mother's favorite son, born with multiple sclerosis (MS). I used to take him swimming almost everyday, being weightless in the water made him...

Lavinia V1 is a novel written by Giovanni Domenico Ruffini. The book is set in 19th century Italy and follows the story of the titular character, Lavinia, a young woman from a wealthy family who falls in love with a poor artist named Cesare....

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Painted Shadows is a novel by Richard Le Gallienne, originally published in 1907. The book is set in the late 19th century and follows the life of a young painter named Arnold Beverley. Arnold is a talented artist, but he is also a sensitive...

The Crooked Branch is a novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell, published posthumously in 1859. The novel follows the story of two sisters, Maggie and Mary, who are separated at a young age when their mother dies. Maggie is taken in by her wealthy aunt...

Set against the stark beauty of Dartmoor in England, Eden Phillpotts's "The Three Brothers" explores the intricate bonds and simmering tensions within a rural family. This classic work of literary fiction delves into the heart of familial drama, painting a vivid portrait of life...

Set against the stark beauty of Dartmoor in England, Eden Phillpotts's "The Three Brothers" explores the intricate bonds and simmering tensions within a rural family. This classic work of literary fiction delves into the heart of familial drama, painting a vivid portrait of life...