Reason Simon, a Photographer, meets a handsome architect, Didier Gauthier one morning at a bagel shop, he invites him to his gallery & falls for him. They start a whirlwind romance & soon a photograph he took 3 years earlier becomes the center of a mysterious winery and mansion that has no heir. Can he solve the mystery & keep the romance going? Set in 1999.Reason Simon, a Photographer, meets a handsome architect, Didier Gauthier one morning at the bagel shop, he invites him to his gallery and falls for him. They start a whirlwind romance, wining and dining and soon a photograph he took three years earlier becomes the center of a mysterious winery and mansion that has no heir. Can Reason solve the mystery and keep the romance going. Can he keep it together? Set in 1999 this fast paced novel will make you hungry and thirsty for more. First of three novels.

The forth book of poetry by Paul Chapman. The poems writen over a period of one year when living in a small town on the coast of Spain. many of the poems are funny some philosophical about life. laugh at my uncle Fred the Pirate and the Seagull or be moved by the Beggars Mass and Small Change.Other poetry books by Paul include Poems of the Seaand A taste of Junk Foodcollection of 14 stories, perfect for the Holiday, along with bonus material. Collection includes, The Bainbridge Witch, The Vampire Bureau, Ol’ Jack, Witch’s Brew, The Dress’s Curse, Retribution, Trapped, The Dragon’s Claw, Hide and Seek, A Prank Gone Too Far, Temptations, Dare, Ageless and Reverie, A Graystone Manor Short.Bonus Material gives you free sample reads of Progeny, The Second Wave: A Post-Apocalyptic Tale, Blood Lust and Undead Ahead, a collaboration of stories by Lisa McCourt Hollar and Jeffrey Hollar.

I Become One is a collection of confessional, lyric, free verse and concrete poetry exploring ecological, social and personal experiences and issues that we face as individuals and as a global community in our world today. These poems call us to remember our individual connection to the Earth and to join in personally to create change that moves towards a more sustainable and peaceful planet.Dirty Little Deeds in Love and Marriage tells the story of the narrator’s ill-fated relationship with Sahar, a Persian expatriate who fled the hostility of Iran with her husband, daughter and the dreams of a new life in America. Single and 26, he is eager to come to the rescue of the eye-catching motorist who needs assistance with her car. What begins with a pleasant conversation and a cup of coffee at the local diner soon emerges as one desperate woman’s effort to end her marriage and the deadly scheme into which she attempts to drag her new American boyfriend. Dirty Little Deeds in Love and Marriage takes readers into the world of a regular guy caught up in the makings of a murder for hire. But as his grandmother always said, “If you dance, sooner or later, you’re gonna’ pay.”

Short story. 2,300 words, 10 pages approx. When Charles Lawson, formerly the notorious heroin dealer known as 'God' is released from jail, he lives quietly with his cats until old age forces him into a home for the elderly. There, he reflects on his life and, as he dies peacefully, imagines he is reunited with his wife Angela, who passed over some years before him. Short story, 2,300 wds 10 pages.Short story. 2,300 words, 10 pages approximately. When Charles Lawson, the notorious heroin dealer known as 'God' is released from jail, he lives quietly with his cats until old age forces him into a home for the elderly. There, he reflects on his life and, as he dies peacefully, imagines he is reunited with his wife Angela, who passed over some years before him. Short story, ten 2,300 words, 10 pages approximately.

Yifan, like many eleven-year-old girls, wishes she was a Princess. Then she meets Vicky and becomes part of an adventure that began over two thousand years before. But who is Vicky? Is she Yifan from the future - or is she something even more mysterious? And even with Vicky's help, Yifan can't avoid the threats to herself and her family that the revelations of the past can bring.Most young girls like to think that they are really Princesses. For Yifan, the dreams become a reality when she meets her future self, Vicky, who tells her about a mysterious pot which has been handed down through her family for years.When she finds the pot, Yifan is propelled into an adventure that imperils her whole family; and even with Vicky's help there is no guarantee that any of them might survive the clash between the old Empire and the new.But Vicky is growing up faster than Yifan, and her work as an archaeologist takes her deeper into danger than even she can deal with. It's up to Yifan to save her kidnapped family in one world, and Vicky in the other as she pursues grave robbers into the tomb of the First Emperor of China...

Hodge Podge touches on the deeper movements of our time. It is sprinkled with insightful poetry and playful looks at creation and life amid suffering.Hodge Podge is a mix of poems and writings on various spiritual topics and movements in our time. There is a section on Fundies and poems about homelessness. There is a section on God's wise path of creation and on why we live in a messed up world. Deep insights echo throughout this Hodge Podge of thought.

"a warm place to self-destruct" is a collection of poems about suffering. The poems follow the narrator through rough times of being broke, sexual encounters, losing identity, losing family, and everything in between. The narrator is an asshole and smokes...a lot.I devoured the quite satisfying "warm place to self-destruct" in mere hours, and it is time well spent in the theatre of imagination. Weasel’s poems transport you into this hypnotic, darkly erotic, elegiac, fatalistic netherworld; an invitation to his private purgatory of fears and desires. Do yourself a favor and curl up with this passionate monster of a book. It will resonate with you long after you've turned the last page.—Brian Kehinde, author of Synchronicity In Violence.Weasel is like Charles Bukowski with a twist – he focuses on the sensuality of experience but also manages to reveal decadent natures of sexuality and the self. "a warm place to self-destruct" has an affinity for the cosmic and the devastating. It is the gateway between worlds through its meditative style of poetic exploration. This collection has its roots firmly planted in an environment which Weasel interprets as sensuous, raw and terrifying. It acts as a warning against the comfort of familiarity which can eventually push a man into the depths of despair. These poems read as a yearning for excitement and adventure and ponder the possibility of reaching beyond the boundaries we set ourselves, to overcome our inner lethargy to discover a more fulfilling existence.—Nathan Hassall, author of The Flesh and Mortar Prophecy

Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play, by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay in 1930s Depression England. Suddenly her routine shatters and Dorothy finds herself down and out in London. She is wearing silk stockings, has money in her pocket and cannot remember her name. Orwell leads us through a landscape of unemployment, poverty and hunger, where Dorothy's faith is challenged by a social reality that changes her life.

A World to Win is the seventh book of the epic historical narrative in Upton Sinclair's World's End Lanny Budd series. This spellbinding book covers the period or 1940-1942 following the Nazi partial occupation of France and the formation of the Vichy government. Lanny Budd, the protagonist in this classic series is the debonair, suave and wealthy American peace lover. He is intimately connected to every powerful political and military figure on the European continent and the corridors of power in the United States. As a renowned art expert as his camouflage, he is secretly Presidential Agent 103 for President Roosevelt. The story opens with Lanny meeting with the French leaders, politically and militarily, following the German occupation of Paris. He flies to London and meets with his closest friend Rick, a left wing journalist, and finds himself in the middle of the horrendous bombing of London by the German Luftwaffe. Winston Churchill is now the undisputed leader of the British Empire and determined to defeat the Nazi's, after years of appeasement by the ruling aristocrats and politicians in Britain. Lanny is "in the loop" as Rudolph Hess is tricked by British intelligence services into descending into Scotland in a misguided attempt to prevent an all out German-British war. Lanny is captured by French underground patriots who believe he is a Nazi agent and has a harrowing escape. Ironically, he is attempting to give money to this underground resistance movement when he is captured. By itself this part of the story is compelling and clearly illustrates Lanny's cleverness, ingenuity and persuasiveness in the face of grave personal danger. In his most dangerous mission as a presidential agent, Lanny is briefed on the development of the Atomic Bomb project headed by Albert Einstein himself. On his mission to Germany to ferret out German advancements in developing the bomb, Lanny's plane crashes in the arctic waters off the coast of Newfoundland and he is severely injured. A long recuperation follows. A fabulous around the world cruise follows Lanny's long hospitalization. The cruise aboard the yacht Oriole is owned by a wealthy Baltimore man who wants Lanny to marry his daughter Lizbeth. Lizbeth, her father and Lanny are startled to learn at the last minute before the yacht sails that her cousin, Laurel Creston will be joining the cruise. The reader will remember Laurel as the anti-Nazi journalist whom Lanny ingeniously help to escape the Gestapo in Dragon's Harvest. On December 7, 1941 the Oriole is anchored off the coast of Hong Kong as the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. As I mentioned in my review of Dragon's Harvest, you the reader were going to meet the future Mrs. Lanny Budd. Read how the astrological warning by a Rumanian living in Germany predicted several years earlier that Lanny would die in Hong Kong almost comes about. It almost comes true but Lanny and Laurel narrowly escape a besieged Hong Kong with a laborious journey through China, war-torn Yenan to find themselves guests of Stalin in friendly Russia. This book concludes with a lengthy interview between Stalin and Lanny. Follow all of the characters that make for Lanny's extended families. From Beauty Budd and her wonderful husband, Parsifal Dingle, Robbie Budd, Rick and Nina, Rosemary, Irma and "Ceddy" and the rest of the rich cast of wonderful characters we have grown to love from the very beginning with World's End. A World to Win captures that period in world's history that is must reading. No one can describe the times like Upton Sinclair has done with these classics. The best is yet to come with Presidential Mission, One Clear Call, O' Shepherd Speak! and The Return of Lanny Budd. Please visit our website coming soon at: www.uptonsinclair-lannybudd-completeh.... There you can order any or all of the Lanny Budd series books at 20%, 25% and 30% off with free shipping.

Museums and Women gathers twenty-nine short stories from the 1960s and early 1970s. It is John Updike’s most various collection, a book as full of departures and surprises as the historical period that produced them. Some stories, such as the title piece, have the tone and personality of essays. Others objectify the chimeras of middle-class life, especially life in a fictional New England enclave called Tarbox. The illustrated jeux d’esprit in the section called “Other Modes” place Updike somewhere between Robert Benchley and Donald Barthelme as a toymaker in prose. Crowning the collection are five scenes from the marriage of Richard and Joan Maple, a story sequence with the narrative interest and cumulative power of a novel.

In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of emigrants led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows of the season closed the pass ahead of them. In early December, starving and desperate, Sarah and fourteen others set out for California on snowshoes and, over the next thirty-two days, endured almost unfathomable hardships and horrors. In this gripping narrative, Daniel James Brown sheds new light on one of the most infamous events in American history. Following every painful footstep of Sarah's journey with the Donner Party, Brown produces a tale both spellbinding and richly informative.

Why does disaster so often follow success? This is the question that Philippa Talbot asks herself repeatedly in the dark days that follow her triumph at Covent Garden. On that evening she sees her husband in conversation with Elizabeth Rusman, a young violinist from the orchestra. She discovers that they were once lovers, and she and Nicholas have a jealous quarrel. But by morning Elizabeth is dead and Nicholas in custody, accused of her murder. As the evidence builds up against him, Philippa begins the fight to prove his innocence - a fight which gradually exposes her to terrible danger . . .

*I used to think that I was doing pretty well for myself, especially considering the tragedies of my past. I was on a fast track to a promising career. Then my world imploded. * When twenty-two-year-old Rona Quick finds her plans for her future destroyed, her world goes into a tailspin. Five months later, she’s found a tentative home and a simple life as a private investigator, but when a case brings handsome billionaire Jalen Larsen into her life, she discovers that things aren’t going to be as easy as she’d hoped.

He vowed he′d never marry. To Vane Cynster, Bellamy Hall seems like the perfect place to temporarily hide from London′s husband hunters. But when he encounters irresistible Patience Debbington, Vane realises he′s met his match ... She vowed no man would catch her. Patience isn′t about to succumb to Vane′s sensuous propositions. Yes, his kisses leave her dizzy and his caresses made her melt; but Patience has promised herself she′ll never become vulnerable to a broken heart. Is this one vow that was meant to be broken?

For her entire life, Dawn has struggled with epilepsy and viewed it as a curse. Never once did she ever think that her disease would give her a gift beyond measure, the perfect goodbye.Hiding under the china hutch, she tries her best to ignore him. Her body is tormented by her shape-changing, and her heart tormented by their changing relationship. But the man she once loved has a final kindness to offer.