Sam Saadoun, a closeted Jewish-Arab from Los Angeles, travels to Beijing to study. He is in pursuit of a romantic gay dream, desperate to escape the United States. When he arrives he is harassed by shadowy characters. All the while a disturbing murder mystery is unfolding in the halls of the university's most curious building.
Jessie Malone, still contending with the loss of her husband, hopes to be one of the first folklorists to trace an urban legend back to its original source. She encounters one about a WWII veteran who never made it home to his wife. And as she tries to solve the mystery, she finds a Christmas miracle like no other.
Recently widowed, the beautiful and flirtatious Lady Susan Vernon seeks a new marriage to make her way into high society. Jane Austen’s first novella presents a delightful journey of Regency manners through the author’s timeless expression of elegance, charm and wittiness.
A novel of family change, and the permanence of Love. It tells the story of a once close-knit family of siblings losing connection with one another after their parents die.
A World War II Thriller of Love, Compassion, Courage, Leadership and Red
Liberation by Emilio Iodice was inspired by actual events during World War II relating to the freeing of fascist Italy. It is a work of fiction, based on facts. As a boy growing up in an Italian section of the South Bronx, Emilio sat around family tables listening to stories about the adventures of young people, immigrants, Italy, and, most of ......
"It's like . . . like a miracle. Like some kind of weird, freaky miracle." Christmas is a time when anything can happen . . . even if you think the entire idea of a holiday miracle is laughable. Janie Mason just wants to get through the season. She's under enormous pressure at work, her boss is brilliant but self-centered, and the holidays bring ......
Becca finds herself in the classic bind of a successful career and life-style but no relationship and no children. Her typically tough and cynical solution is to search her list of ex-boyfriends for the one approximating most nearly to an Alpha male and arrange a financial deal with him to give her a baby.
"As the sun started to shine across the still shoreline something buoyant seemed to be hovering on the surface. Whatever it was kept floating and drifting towards the shore with the natural current and tide. A gentle wave gave it its last little push wedging it onto the golden sand where it snuggled motionless.