190 Ergebnisse - Zeige 61 von 80.

Dinah closed her eyes tightly, trying to sort out the voices, the sounds. As though she had to. Grimacing, she stood. She'd have to go downstairs. Not for the first time did she wish Ross was here to run interference."Di, are you listening? What the hell's going on? I need a little sympathy here, okay?" Mirelle's voice had morphed into a squawk from the receiver. "Are you there?"Perry burst into the room from the landing, his pale face flushed...

Jomana Ismail quits her job and has the luxury of being spontaneous. Three young men in Jomana's circle of acquaintances decide to cross Egypt on foot to raise awareness about issues related to population growth. Jomana makes the last minute decision to join the 900 kilometer trek from Aswan to Cairo. She has always wanted to travel her country but she never envisioned seeing it on foot.While flying from Cairo to Aswan in the winter of 2018, J...

Bullying is no good, " Roy stated with conviction, as a classroom full of fourth-graders stared at him in rapt attention. "Other kids can be mean. They make fun of you for anything that is different. They call you names and make you feel bad about yourself. And that's no good. They tell you things that aren't true, but it still hurts." They told him he was stupid. They told him he was worthless. They were wrong.Roy Irwin was institutionalized ...

Theresa looks back at her new ghost friend. "I'm sorry, could you repeat that, Stanley?" She listens, and a slow smile begins to grow. "Really? No, we weren't planning on it."What?" I pull some more tissue from the box. "What weren't we planning?"A trip to England. He says we'll be going soon."We are?" Doubtful, but not one to argue with ghosts, I blow my nose and say, "That's nice. I haven't seen my gran for over a year."A few weeks later, St...

One train. Two riders. A bitter winter night. It might be any late commute, but it isn't.Here is your ticket to twenty-three stories of love, loss, and revenge, told by a stranger on a train. Inside are witches and politicians, movie stars and con artists, mischievous creatures great and small, and a sinister house on a hill. Anything could be waiting around any curve. Nothing may be what it seems.Trust no one. It's dark on the Midnight Limited.

Tilda has been angry with the Power and its mages ever since Pa died. Why didn't the mages use the Power to save him?Determined to find out, she sails to Ring Isle with her Uncle Vanya, steward to the mage Silviu of Ambak. But finding answers isn't easy, especially when a rogue mage attempts to steal all the Power of the five rings for himself and leaves the remaining four mages trying to cope with the aftermath of the attack.When Tilda tries ...

With the help of sixty-year-old black jazz man Lucius, Mary Kaye O'Donnell, an eighteen-year-old Irish-American woman and aspiring jazz singer in Chicago, finds her way toward dealing with an unwanted pregnancy and the death of Sister Michaeline, her voice coach, jazz mentor, and only guide through the bedlam of her childhood.Mary Kaye's neighbor, Judge Engelmann, introduced her to the work of James Baldwin and the nuns exposed her to the burg...

A sequel to Shell Game, Darren--socially awkward, exiled noblewoman turned pirate queen--and Lynn sorta kinda Darren's slave girl, sorta kinda Darren's life coach, and altogether the bossiest backseat helmsman that ever set foot on a pirate ship are at it . . . again.Darren receives a message delivered by her dying brother pleading for her to warn their father about a traitor. Meaning Darren has to return home to Torasan Isle, and to the fathe...

Diana was raised on a Minnesota dairy farm, but it was a pig that started her career path. She went from sewing a tiny pig flap into a heart valve, to engineering a new concept modifying the orifice of the valve, to founding her own medical device company.In Too Damb Dumb To Think, Diana shares intimate and relentless questions that plagued her as she faced the traumas of hostile corporate board meetings, an arduous backpacking journey in the ...

Noreen Stanton and Claire Christopher, well-known geneticists, had been successfully funded until 1992 when grants that should have been theirs were diverted to Dr. Clovis down the hall. They try to discover what work he was doing, including an attempted break-in, to no avail. They enlist their friends, who help discover Clovis is working with Sertoli cells and is able to manipulate sexual differentiations. Further investigation finds the mili...

LodeStar is a collection of poems that seeks to juxtapose the light and dark moments of life. Patricia Taylor Wells explores the longing of a broken heart as well as the magical power of infatuation. She addresses the complexities of faith, hope, and loss alongside the simplicity of creation. Like a light guiding us out of darkness, there is no better lodestar than a poem.

Dear Sophie is the continuing memoir of The Jagged Years of Ruthie J. as Ruth fights to get enrolled into medical school. She finally succeeds by being one of a few students to be accepted at a new type of medical school at the University of Calgary. Being admitted turns out to be the easy part as she continues to face sexual harassment and discrimination during her schooling. Told in letters to her niece Sophie, Ruth weaves a feminist story o...

When sixty-three-year-old Alma, a failure at all she undertakes, decides to run away from her controlling and impatient husband, the result, like most of her efforts, is a disaster. She ends up in rehab in Glen Willow Gardens nursing home among the other "inmates" who mostly suffer from some form of dementia.As Alma recovers from both an accident and a subsequent stroke, her kindness and humor lead her to enjoy unfamiliar successes in caring f...

Marcy Thorpe is not exactly the kind of dog walker you want to give your house keys to. She's distracted, anxious, too curious, and has an attitude that always leads to trouble. But she's great with dogs and town elites hire her because, well, no one knows about her small transgressions. Her life is challenged by the responsibility of looking after her endearing, yet difficult, mentally-ill brother and non-coping mother. Marcy's life is turned...

Lorelei Bauer is a modern day woman with a penchant for Sylvia Plath, a woman struggling with the injustices of the fifties with her marriage, her role and status as a poet, her "job" as a mother, and her mental illness.Lorelei's own mother suffered from mental illness and when Lorelei learns of her mother's breakdown and illegal abortion, she goes on a quest to better understand her as a parent. Lorelei soon discovers her life is paralleling ...

The Uh-Oh Squad describes the 1970s working environment of Terros, a Phoenix, Arizona drug abuse agency. Anecdotes provide insight into the lives of staff employed at the agency. The book also provides analysis of categories of drugs and explains the effects of different substances on some of the people who use them, including drugs available now on the street. Terros is still providing mental and medical care for people with substance abuse p...

A multigenerational mystery set in the Pacific Northwest.Months after spying a bottle wedged into a fallen cottonwood snag in the Columbia River, Ernest pulls it from the river. The bottle's note connects Ernest, an old man living in a tiny Oregon town, to teenage Annie, and provokes a mysterious and sudden friendship between Ernest's daughter Amelia with Sarah, the daughter of the most recent resident of the home Annie once occupied.The two m...

Keine Beschreibung.

Diana was raised on a Minnesota dairy farm, but it was a pig that started her career path. She went from sewing a tiny pig flap into a heart valve, to engineering a new concept modifying the orifice of the valve, to founding her own medical device company.In Too Damb Dumb To Think, Diana shares intimate and relentless questions that plagued her as she faced the traumas of hostile corporate board meetings, an arduous backpacking journey in the ...

Laura has it all: a great job, a loving family, a new husband, and a house in her hometown, where she can watch her sister, Taylor, grow up. But one month after her wedding, Laura and her family receive shocking news: Taylor has Batten disease. A rare, fatal disease that will cause Taylor to go blind, suffer seizures, and lose the ability to walk and talk. There is no cure. Laura thought she'd get to watch her baby sister grow up, but instead ...