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When timber baron Reuben Burke finds himself at the seaside Hotel del Coronado - a forced vacation arranged by his siblings - he discovers he's forgotten how to relax. For the last ten years, he's been too caught up in raising his younger brother and sister and building up the family business in Seattle to have time for himself, much less romantic attachments. But a chance encounter on the beach with a young widow from San Diego puts his life on a new course.

Set in Sarajevo in the early 20th century. Yelena finds herself in the midst of failed arranged marriage attempts and fleeing from the love of her Austrian crush. After running all night, she is taken in under the care of a woman she would soon learn to love like a mother.

Il Casanova di Schnitzler è un uomo rivolto al passato, incapace di affrontare il presente. Giunto alle soglie della vecchiaia...

Octobre 1962, États-Unis. Les murmures apeurés des adultes au sujet de la menace russe envahissent les rues et les foyers. Les enfants, qui ne comprennent pas vraiment ce que peut bien être une "Guerre froide", se disputent comme leurs parents au sujet du conflit.

Marie Jenson is no longer the naive college student whose life was turned upside down by terrorism many years ago. When she is personally caught up in the throes of the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, Marie is forced to come to terms with deep scars she carries. While risking the loss of everything she holds dear, Marie is catapulted onto a new path that will have deep implications for her personally and for the nation's security.

No longer a child but not yet an adult, Roland learns the pain of loss and the indescribable joy of first love. He begins to understand the need of forgiveness and acceptance in the face of an often confusing world. Enticed by more temptations than ever, Roland still seeks that quiet morality of his grandfather's belief that faith that isn't a thing to be displayed to the world, but is a quiet and unwavering belief that all things work for the good of those who seek good.

Manitoulin Memories is a collection of coming-of-age stories set in Canada in the 1950s. They are about a man who's recalling his father and take place in Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada, which is now dead, consumed by civilization. After WW II, tourists came to the island from the States for a summer getaway. Manitoulin Memories deals with those who came and what they found and how they ended up; it makes use of a middle-aged man who returns to the Manitoulin to see how it is and to learn who he was when he lived there.

Stories of Colonel Hooper, a surprisingly honest horsetrader in the Old West, and an unlikely fast horse named "Grandma." Find out what makes Grandma run... and read all 7 stories. These are entertaining, heart-warming tales in the authentic voice of the Old West. Anyone of any age who enjoys a good yarn, will enjoy reading these horse tales, or having them read to them.

Frank Pettingell reads pages from David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Martin Chuzzlewit, Great Expectations and The Pickwick Papers.

Stupisce che questi quattro racconti di Scerbanenco non siano stati notati e ripubblicati prima d'ora, per la verità che portano, nonché la loro importanza di testimonianza su come fu vissuto un periodo storico. Forse perché furono pubblicati nell'unica edizione nel 1946, tempi difficili e fragili di passaggio. Forse perché la successiva fama di inventore della "Milano calibro nove" mise in ombra l'altra, importante, produzione dello scrittore. Sono racconti di guerra, ambientati negli anni feroci.

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There might be gold in them thar hills, but curmudgeonly San Francisco business tycoon Caden Caldwell treks to Alaska in a fit of rage looking for his free-spirited son, Colt, who has struck out for the Klondike Gold Rush. What Caden finds is something else altogether. Orphaned children. Wayward women. Quirky prospectors. Tlingit Indians. Isolated with this motley crew when early winter weather hits, he has no choice but to re-evaluate his life in ways that terrify yet intrigue him. Will he ever be the same? Does he want to be?

De la mano de uno de los narradores que mejor ha contado el drama de la guerra del Pacífico, estos ocho relatos recrean los fragmentos más humanos y desgarradores del conflicto y del desierto de Atacama como escenario de guerra: soldados buscando el cuerpo del comandante Eleuterio Ramírez entre cadáveres carbonizados, el sangrador que intenta curar a los soldados chilenos en Antofagasta, el teniente Godoy empampado y mirando volar a los cuervos que esperan el momento de su muerte, la toma del Morro de Arica, el arribo a Lima y un ejército intoxicado con las aguas del río.

How many times can a boy lose his home? When Jacques is transferred to the Buckners Orphans' Home in 1916 at the age of six, he hopes that he's finally found a place to belong. Unfortunately, he couldn't be more wrong. Jacques' only choice is to run away to Dallas and live on the streets. He has no future, no guarantee he will even survive. Then he stumbles on a once-in-a-lifetime chance to change everything—if he dares to take it. Origin/Prequel novelette for Black Jade - A Daiyu Wu Mystery. Stand-alone fiction.

A friends-to-sweethearts and an almost-missed-opportunity story set near Prescott, Arizona Territory in 1893. Penny Larson only had eyes for one man, Nathan Cahill, until he moved away. After waiting for him with no word for eight months, she gives up and gives her heart to another man. Weeks before her wedding, her world is turned upside down when her true love shows up on her doorstep. Will she choose to honor her word to her fiancé, or will she choose her childhood friend? Nathan Cahill finally settles in at his parents’ new ranch, far from his best friend, a woman who stirred his ...

Synopsis - A traveling wise man gives each customer the service they need, and teaching his apprentice a valuable lesson about externality. After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions. Podcast discussions of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and Youtube. ★★★ If you enjoy this story, subscribe via our website to "After Dinner ...

Filled with suspense, these stories are at times comforting and humorous, or horrifying. The Other Side of Down Home is a collection of seven tales that stir the imagination and keep readers thinking long after they are over. Each story is unique and compelling. The contents include the previously published stories Better Off Dead, Ride The Wind, The Tenant, Creative Minds, Mask of Mitwaba, Redneck Reunion, and Kentucky Feud. -- “I have become a huge Ryan King fan and this did not disappoint. I liked the characters and the plot keeps your attention to the very end.”

Ever think about starting over with someone you left behind? How about if you could avoid all those mistakes -- because you remember them? Here's how it all starts.

When the debased Njoumen seeks sanctuary in his grandfather's royal palace, her number one concern is her mental health. As she glosses in her recovered status as a princess and unleashes the full force of her free-spiritedness, her unfamiliar ways make her the source of attention. But nobody has an idea of what would make her contented in life. That is until she engages her grandfather the king. What she wants most is a man to make her feel fulfilled in life, a sense of worth her husband never stirred in her bosom. So, when three years later, Njoumen's dejected husband challenges this ...

On the storm-swollen Aisne in northeastern France, an alcoholic actor combats both his demons and nature’s tempests. Along the Main and Rhine in Germany, a kindhearted logger has but one wish: to travel with the lumber from his small Franconian hometown to the end of the river in the Netherlands, where it feeds into the majestic North Sea. In a bucolic vale in the French region of Brittany, two families, divided by religion and an unnamed stream, sustain a centuries-old feud, their resolve no match for the constantly shifting flow of water.