The dual challenges of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis that threatens the world and the unexplained loss of parents that threatens a family are the driving forces behind the lives of two boys and their grandfather. Willie, Denny and their grandfather, Pop, have lived together for nine years, ever since the boys’ parents died in
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The Crossing is a powerful and haunting love story of surprising discovery set in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen during Prohibition. Irish-born Johnny Flynn, a former British soldier, is banished from his homeland and sent to America on a ship so riddled with disease that he realizes the voyage was meant to murder him. When he survives the
A healthier life can be can be achieved! As a practicing stroke neurologist, Dr. Ramirez knows all too well that it is better to prevent disease than it is to treat it. Heart disease, strokes, cancers—which together take over a million American lives every year, and many more around the world–share many common risks. By
Through 30 compelling essays authored in the prisoners’ own words, Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row offers stories of brutal beatings inside juvenile hall, botched suicide attempts, the terror of the first night on death row, the pain of goodbye as a friend is led to execution, and the small acts of humanity that keep hope alive
If you could change time to save your first love – even if it meant turning your back on the universe – would you? It is time for the Vechey youth to earn their place as time-guardians. The near-immortal Vechey protect the universe from the devastating Manipulators – devourers of souls, mindless seekers of chaos.
I love you. God help me, but I do.” The air lay heavy between them. Her eyes were glossy with moisture, his intense with emotion. “Tell me, if you can, you do not feel the same,” he whispered so low, it might have been silence. “And make me believe it.” Sometimes, love crosses boundaries, breaks
“….a well-crafted, enjoyable and intriguing mystery that, for better or worse, is a little heavy on the protagonist’s breast-level view of the world.” (IndieReader) It’s easy to be a nobody when you’ve got nothing to lose, but with his life and potential redemption on the line, can Monk be a somebody people will remember? A
What dark secret is hidden in her past? What evil has been handed down through the generations? Emily Burton found happiness in a small, picturesque town on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Her sense of peace and security is shattered when she’s brutally attacked, and an innocent person is murdered. The authorities believe the
For five years, life is strenuous for Kansas Moore as she travels with her team and saves more people from the clutches of the revolutionists. On the downtime, they construct and enlist for their own cause. When the general assigns her to search for Mago, she turns to the team, and what they find overturns
El Buscador has long been legendary for revealing, to select visitors, New York’s secrets. Now he confronts his greatest challenge: The real estate mogul Timothy Terrance Tolland has been erecting skyscrapers at an alarming rate. Tolland’s mysterious construction at Canal Street threatens to tear the city’s fabric. Aided by a group of investigative reporters, El