Alex Hastings, probation officer and idealist, still believes in the good in other people, but the little town of Highpoint is becoming a very dangerous place for her.
The haunting and beautifully crafted tale of a girl's feral childhood in 1960s Lancashire, and her friend Jack's search for the missing homeless adult she becomes.
Kate becomes a crucial witness to a brutal murder, setting off a deadly game of cat and mouse as she becomes the target of criminals seeking to silence her.
Two people who share a past-and a determination to protect one little boy-must face a killer in this romantic suspense thriller by a USA Today bestseller.
In 1933 Berlin and Munich, fifteen-year-olds Katarina and Maria, who have never met, share the same dream: to become nurses who care for all regardless of race, creed, or colour.
Humans and Asterians construct a huge starship, Andromeda, and set out on a voyage of discovery to the Cold Spot in the Cosmic Microwave Background-first stop, the star RAN in the constellation Eridanus.
The Chair Volume IV, Punt, Pass, & Kick tells of a gala retirement ceremony for an employee held on a railroad trestle, a fishing expedition under the Idlewood Arch & Aqueduct, the bravery, battles, and bastions of the Texas Revolution, a quinceanera celebration near Matamoros, a standoff gun-boat battle on the Rio Grande between the Armada de Marina de Mexico and Americans, an all-girl rock band from Topeka, a Thanksgiving dinner in 1971 Beverly Hills, a brunch with mimosas at the Pierre Hotel on 5th Avenue, a lunch at The Horse tavern in Baltimore, a docu-drama about a high-school football team in East Texas, intimate mother and daughter correspondence, an English suffragette who becomes an ocean-liner titan, four brothers from Italy creating a family olive-oil and wine-exporting company, the creator of synonym, antonym, and hyponym awareness for women entrepreneurs, a courageous cattle drive from South Texas to Wyoming, a seascape watercolor painter, and a teenage writer whose unpublished manuscript is found and read by Lana McCracken, the prime character in The Chair pentalogy, a story that can only be found in an old trunk between the real and imagined, a story for all times.
In diesem Geschenkbuch für die schönste und besinnlichste Zeit des Jahres hat die beliebte Theologin und Bestsellerautorin Margot Käßmann wunderbare Weihnachtsgeschichten und -Gedichte zusammengestellt, die ihr persönlich lieb und wichtig sind.
Gairfield is a paranormal fantasy set in the Midwestern north shore town of Garfield and shifts to the parallel world of Gairfield, where the pace of time is but a fraction of that in Garfield and which favors between its people replace the concept of an exchange medium and their lifetime spans thousands of years.
