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La Rana ('The Frog') is two street blocks located between Crenshaw Boulevard and Van Ness Avenue in Torrance, California. La Rana has a colorful history of immigrants who settled in 1908 from various parts of Mexico with the following surnames: Torres, Ordaz, Grajeda, Flores, Alvarez, Duarte, and Solis. These families fled the Mexican Revolution and religious persecution in search of a brighter future for their children. They attended Torrance...

Selwyn Robertson hunts ghosts for a cable television show. Tonight his team chases a rumor into the Missouri backwoods. The rumor of a vampire. And none of their high-tech toys will save them. Hunting Monsters, an intense dark urban fantasy novel of vampires, psychics, folk magic and starry wisdom, that will remind you why people across the world fear the dark. A standalone Edge of Humanity novel from Stefon Mears, author of the Spells for Hir...

Spoilt and willful Arabella Farraday hopes the fortune she inherits upon her father's death will help her find her mother who disappeared when she was just a child. But she has not counted upon the trustees her father appointed: Miss Finch, her puritanical governess, and Sir Henry Warder-Mull, her father's lawyer, who hopes to marry Arabella. But nothing can stop Arabella from going after what she wants. Every action she takes plunges her deep...

Cecily Hawthorne, desperate to escape from a dreadful position as a nursery governess, agrees to model for prominent Society portrait painter, Devin Sheridan, despite the opprobrium attached to that occupation. Cecily becomes Devin's Pandora, his vision of a temptress, and he must paint her if only to shock London society with a tantalizing portrait that makes her the envy of the ladies and the talk of the town.Set In the colorful salons of Ke...

The two youngest of the seven Merrell sisters, daughters of the Earl and Countess of Corrough, have been looking forward to their debuts in London for many years. It isn't long before they discover that what goes on in polite society is often neither polite nor social. The machinations of their chaperone, Mrs Pleet, and the scandal that surrounds the disappearance of their older sister, Kitty, dampen their prospects. Sibilla is determined to f...

High-spirited Thalia Horrocks, desperate to escape from the restrictions of the conventional middle-class life she lives and the loathsome suitor her stepfather and mother have chosen for her, decides to write a novel on a most scandalous subject.She prevails upon her fast cousin, Lynton, to introduce her to the "pretty horsebreakers, " the courtesans who flaunt their wares in Hyde Park every afternoon. Unexpected complications ensue as Lynton...

Regina Hawkins has lost her little boy, gone missing in the wilderness of the Louisiana bayous. Rumors abound shortly thereafter that the child fell victim to a dreaded local curse, and that his soul has been lost forever. Three years pass, and the grief-stricken mother stands on a bridge, ready to end her own life and so join her son in heaven. Only divine intervention, it seems, can save her from this tragic fate.

HARRY CAIN is indomitable -- the Litigator to the Rich and Infamous who talks faster that a speeding bullet and conquers Hollywood studios, the legal system, and almost Death itself in a single bound." --Mario Puzo Harry Cain is back. Los Angeles's legendary litigator, a.k.a. "The Sunset Bomber, " he is Sam Spade with a Harvard degree, Perry Mason in an Armani suit. In a town where money and influence talk but a rousing performance screams, Ha...

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George F. Braxton was a renowned chef, who, among other places, worked at The Algonquin Resort during the late 1800s. Chef Braxton is thought to be the first African-American to lead a kitchen in a luxury resort. The Algonquin Resort began in 1889 in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada, and still exists today as a luxury retreat. Sadly, not a great amount of detail is known about Braxton's life. He was born in Virginia during the late 1850s or ...

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When Florence's boyfriend dumped her, she cried, she drank tequila, she even stabbed a voodoo doll a couple of times, but she didn't murder the bastard. Unfortunately, the jury didn't see it that way. Now an inmate at Coffee Correctional Facility, Florence has just one chance at regaining her freedom: the mysterious Rehabilitation Seminars. All she has to do is be on her best behavior and she'll be able to return home and resume her life of ad...

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This book gives you principles that you can use, whatever diet you choose. Whether you're Paleo, gluten-free, sugar-free, elimination, or any other kind of diet, the strategies I share with you in this book will help you to bring that diet to your family dinner table, with no complaints."--Page 4 of cover

One day at a time and 12 Steps can add up to years of freedom and happiness for countless numbers of people locked in many forms of addiction. This life change requires no expensive treatment. The no-cost meetings of like-minded addicts give the participant support and love from people who are bound by living a few simple precepts that have changed their lives forever. The only requirement for attending these meetings is to have honesty and to...

Niger Mineral, Mining Sector Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic Information, Regulations, Opportunities

Contagious Fire challenges the Church to enflame the hearts of its members with the love of God and mobilize that love in outreach to those who desperately need Jesus. Enriched by contributions from many Church and Ministry Leaders, Contagious Fire provides the insights and resources to empower Christian leaders for the coming fulfillment of the Great Commandment and Great Commission in the Church.