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As an adopted child, Emma battled a lot with her own emotions. Especially her question about her foster parents' love towards her, that it was never real, and being bullied in school as she grows up and not having anyone to talk to was traumatizing. Emma wanted to do a lot of things as she was growing up, but never had her mother's support and she was never, not once, there for her. It took her years to pursue the things she has been longing f...

For Francesca, nothing is more important than her son. Now he is staring death in the face, she has to relive her past in the hope it will offer a solution. It may be possible, but what lengths will Francesca be prepared to go to, and how many lives will it affect or relationships will it destroy? The reader will unravel the thread of mystery and emotions that entangle Francesca and Tony's existence. Amor, Caravaggio's Cupid, with his ambiguou...

As Australian vinyl record dealer Shane Stark approached fifty, he didn't think much of his humble and uneventful life thus far. Harbouring a mild level of grief for the rock star, father, partner and career man he could have been, he found it hard to think of the life he had lived to date as anything other than 'ordinary'. But then one day he sat and pondered on all the records he had enjoyed (indeed obsessed over) over the last fifty years...

From his childhood in a small village in Sierra Leone in the last days of British colonial rule to his work with the United Nations in South Africa, Croatia and Bosnia, James Kanu shares his experiences and thoughts about his life. The themes of education and poverty are ever-present in his narrative as he tells of the small boy born poor who became an Oxford-educated graduate who would travel the world.

A year after losing his job as manager of the Blues, Crawford Kelly is itching to return to football. But the offer on the table is not exactly what he had in mind. Will it be enough to lure him from his blissful life in the French Riviera? And is it really a good idea to return to the scene of his previous, murderous crime? Meanwhile, his wife is battling demons of her own. A chance encounter throws Florentina's perfect existence into turmoil...

Tina Brown thought she had it all. She had married the love of her life and had a brand-new baby boy. On Tina's first day back to work after her maternity leave, she vanished from the staff parking lot of the restaurant she worked at, never to be seen again. When Taylor Duncan, the cop who led the investigation into Tina's disappearance gets promoted to take over the cold case division, he brings Tina's case back to life. Taylor and h...

A "feel happy, happy " story of two teenagers falling in love during high school. They carry it forward through college and university. They get married while in the university and nurture a lasting relationship of bonding with a passionate affection of a lifetime. They cruise through the many storms of life with determination and enjoy meeting every challenge life throws at them. Their combined struggle leads them always to success and achi...

Gabriella is born as one of thirteen children into a poor family who suffer many trials while she is growing up: freezing conditions in winter, limited space and sibling rivalry for love and affection. Her mother believes the family is cursed, thanks to the words of an old neighbour. Gabriella survives the early loss of her father, terrifying abuse and poor treatment in her relationships, to eventually begin to make use of her incredible singi...

Life after the apocalypse is anything but easy. Claire has survived the end of the world - a plague that destroyed the human race, leaving them dead or worse - and now her life is a constant battle to stay alive, to stay one step ahead of the creatures, to make it to the city where she believes there may be other survivors. But the creatures are not the only threat and staying alive in the city is harder than she thought. Can she find survivor...

Out of the terrible fire of loss and betrayal, something beautiful and life-changing can emerge. The author, Joy Alway, takes the reader on a journey that is sometimes painful but always lovely, as she shows how she rebuilt her life after her husband of more than thirty years left her for another woman. The simple benevolence and humanity of this author, who, though wronged, still tried her very best to do right, is a lesson all of us can and ...

A family in need. A handmade Ouija board. A dangerous affair. It's 1920 in Newark, New Jersey and ten-year-old Ruth lives in fear. Her family is on the brink of starvation. Her brother and uncle are doing dangerous work, smuggling illegal alcohol for the mob. Her mother is gripped by madness and obsessed with contacting the dead. As Ruth tries to hold her family together, things continue to get worse. Her brother Willie falls in love with the ...

Seven Years of Silence is a collection of poetry written about the horrid abuse that occurred between a forty-two-year-old predator and myself when I was fifteen years old. I spent seven years waiting for my criminal trial, which ended in a miscarriage of justice. These poems detail the thoughts and feelings I experienced while on the path to healing. Seven Years of Silence highlights the suffocating waves of depression, anxiety, and self-isol...

Birmingham people can be found all over the world. The majority stay at home and live in the area where they were born. Some venture to London or other parts of England, Scotland, Ireland or Wales. The more adventurous go to English speaking countries and some to non-English speaking countries. Industrial Birmingham during and after Victorian times was a tough hard working city. Birmingham people generally speak with an accent and there were m...

This is the true story of Charles Lucky Luciano, the man who organized crime. An immigrant Italian child, growing up on the filth-ridden, poor and deadly streets of New York city's infamous Lower East Side, in Manhattan. Through brutality, street smarts, manipulation, treachery, and murder, he became the leader of the American underworld and the most powerful crime boss of all time. The back drop to his rise to power was the glitz, glamour, fu...

Birmingham people can be found all over the world. The majority stay at home and live in the area where they were born. Some venture to London or other parts of England, Scotland, Ireland or Wales. The more adventurous go to English-speaking countries such as the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or South Africa. Some go to Europe but they still have easy and quick access to home. Even in English-speaking countries, there are many differences...

Lemon Tree Conversations Volume 3 follows Volume 1 and 2, all of which are essentially commentaries presented in conversations. This volume continues to build on the reflections on a deeper discovery of the nature of ideas, all part of being gifted with a journey, acknowledging it as the purpose, the pursuit, the growth of the reflections in depth. This volume has a strong Christian undertone stemming from the revelation of Messiah as the best...

Joe and Sam are both foster kids in a bad situation. Their only escape is their passion for urban exploring with their friends, Finn, Ana, and Oli. But Joe's having dreams about a portal to a new world...a world where his cruel foster mother can't reach him, where he can start over after everything he's lost. And that portal exists in an abandoned psychiatric institute. He convinces Sam, who is also eager to escape, to check it out. Their frie...

These poems show how deeply imbedded Stock is in the natural world. The work is unique, passionate and intimate, accessible, yet intelligent. His subject matter is universal. The book offers an exquisite buffet for a reader's diet. It buzzes with creativity. Stock extrapolates an emotional energy line by line. His use of personification is superb. There is humour and playfulness. Don't bother with a bookmark, here is poetry that will tempt you...

When Evie loses her mother, her world changes forever. Alienated from her grieving, angry father and drifting away from her school friends, she struggles to make sense of the new world she finds herself in, reflecting on her life through writing and introspection. But how much does a world have to change before there's no coming back? Who is the mysterious, charming boy with the stunning blue eyes who comes along and gives her hope in ways she...

Emma Thorpe was born in the Cotswolds and raised by her grandparents. She believed she was an orphan... but her mother's old locket, a faded memory, and a mysterious bank account lead Emma to the colourful, exotic world of Singapore in search of answers to her past. She loses her heart to a charming British Army captain, James Barrington, and they search together... but as their love deepens, James must report for duty on the Malay/Thai border...