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THE DRIVER: Many forces drive us into the decisions we make: infidelity: new opportunity, chance meetings, rebel causes. Dr. Louise Hammel, an American-Australian, takes a job in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines, as a Regional Long-Term Advisor for an educational program called PROMES. Her assigned Filipino driver, Rico Bernales, becomes enamored with a Muslim widow whose uncle is the leader of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Rico is unwittingly...
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In 1998, Professor Humes and Doctor Ryals traveled with Edward Nixon, the brother of the President, to the People's Republic of China. While retracing Nixon's steps, they interviewed those Chinese Foreign Service experts who had planned the president's meetings with Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai. These protZgZs of Chou En-lai ended their diplomatic careers as envoys in Anglophone nations such as the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia. During interviews...
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Evenwood, a luxurious estate near Philadelphia, becomes the focal point around which the adventures, loves and fortunes of three young men revolve. There, Morris Halstead becomes the builder of a fabric and clothing empire and employs his wealth to create the area's most admired gardens. There, German immigrant Caspar Ritter works with his uncle to create Evenwood Gardens and is lovingly drawn into the family circle and business. And from there Rolf...
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You Are the Parent. Now It's Time to Take Back the Reins. Is the relationship you have with your child slipping through your grasp? Do your child's behaviors seem out of your control? Are you unhappy with the way you behave as a parent? Have you tried every piece of parenting advice only to feel even closer to failure? Have you thought about giving up and letting others take your parenting reins? As a licensed clinical social worker in private practice,...
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Nadine and Jonah, two siblings find adventure and magic within the Black Forest Mountains of Lansth, when the portal is opened by the creature that resides within the mountain caves. The Soul keeper of the mountain guides them through their journey, as they make their way to the Kingdom of Lornadia.
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The smartest particle physicist works with a small group of superintelligent scientists in Geneva Switzerland at the CERN Hadron supercollider on research aimed toward discovering the Higgs boson. During the operation of the Hadron supercollider which smashes protons together at nearly the speed of light the small group of scientists find themselves traveling back in time some 60,000 years to Burundi Africa. Join our scientist as they navigate the...
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Winding up an interpreter in Bassano del Grappa at a conference on artist Jacopo da Bassano, a famous native son, Rick Montoya looks forward to exploring the town. And it would be fun to look into the history of two long-missing paintings by the master, a topic that caused the only dust-up among the normally staid group of international scholars attending the seminar. Bassano has much to offer to Rick the tourist, starting with its famous covered...
10) Return to Umbria
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Hector Belascoaran Shayne has danced with the dead. Luke Estrella does the rumba in white patent leather shoes. Together, they make the perfect pair to lead each other into an inferno under an azure Acapulco sky: a hell populated by mariachis and machine guns, incompetent bikini contest judges, and at least one killer who is closer to Hector than he thinks....
11) Roman count down
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Rick Montoya, eager to experience more of his Italian mother's culture, heads to Rome to start his own translation business. He's armed with curiosity and an appetite for local food and wine. Rick's maternal uncle is a Roman cop with one eye to his nephew's welfare and another to how Rick might be useful, perhaps widen his career choices. So Commissario Piero Fontana pulls Rick into an investigation: the murder of Count Umberto Zimbardi. The wealthy...
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The turbulent decade of the 1930s in France saw the decay and final collapse of the once proud nation. Caught up in the maelstrom of Nazi occupation, ordinary citizens were forced to walk the narrow line between obedience and collaboration. No-one faced a more difficult set of choices than Nanette Lemond, a young singer and fashion designer living in Paris. Forced by circumstances to associate daily with German officers, her lonely existence made...
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"Translator Rick Montoya is looking forward to a quiet weekend away in beautiful Urbino with his girlfriend, Betta, an art fraud investigator for the Italian Culture Ministry. While Betta does have official business-namely, collecting a priceless Piero drawing from a wealthy Spanish collector-she asks Rick to join her "in case she needs an interpreter," but with other, less-official intentions in mind. When the Spaniard is found murdered and the drawing...
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"Astrologically inclined cozy fans will find a lot to like."-Publishers Weekly
Someone is bumping off rock's wrinkled royalty. The latest victim? Freddie Finger, 63-year-old lead singer for Rocket Fire. Seeking answers, Freddie's daughter, movie actress Vivian Younger, retains astrologer detective David Lowell to help catch her father's killer.
Freddie wasn't well liked, and Lowell has plenty of suspects. Among them are Freddie's ex-wives, who seem...
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