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After years of struggle and betrayal, Sophia's love is re-awakened by Maria. Maria is kind, intelligent, and passionate, but she's also her husband's sister! Sophia has finally left her small-town village in Germany and completed nursing school in Berlin. She marries an American, Ricardo, and discovers he's a lying, cheating scoundrel. Maria is committed to serving the US, as a negotiating military officer stationed in Berlin. When she meets her brother's wife, Sophia, she falls head over hills and jeopardizes her entire career. While Sophia and Maria plan their escape, Ricardo threatens to reveal their secret and falsely claim that Maria is a spy for the Soviet Union. Will they take their chances or call it off?
Anthony Young has spent half his life as a member of a gang. When fate and circumstance intervene, Anthony finds himself on the end of another bargain: belong to Valery Balen for a week. The cost of his freedom from the gang may be more than his body. It might just be his heart and soul.
Collects over ninety recipes for smoothies of all kinds, including tips for judging their flavor and a glossary of ingredients.
Healing grief through social activism. Gabriel Constans interviews 15 people who have transformed personal grief into social and political reform following a death in the family.
A heads-up, hands-on exploration of the male member that is both amusing and informative. Men speak of their feelings about sexuality, gender experience of being male with honesty and insight.
The story of three girls - Sheila, Phil and Mary - growing up into the new emerging post-conflict Belfast of money, drugs, high fashion and crime; and of their lives and loves. Sheila, a supermodel, is kidnapped. Phil is sent to prison. Mary, surviving a drug overdose, has a spiritual awakening. It is also the story of the men who matter to them - John Branagh, former candidate for the priesthood, a modern Darcy, someone to love or hate. Will he and Sheila ever get together? Davy Hagan, drug dealer, ?mad, bad and dangerous to know?. Is Phil also mad to have anything to do with him? Although from different religious backgrounds, starting off as childhood friends, the girls manage to hold on to that friendship in spite of everything. A book about contemporary Ireland and modern life. A book which both men and women can enjoy - thriller, romance, comedy, drama - and much more ....
Sexually enlightened embryologist, Savarna, is in a complicated relationship, with two different women, when she is told that she MUST have a baby. Her conservative East Indian American parents are desperate for her to conceive, in spite of her "not being married". They insist that she is the last in line of a great spiritual lineage. In the process of choosing her lover and having doubts about her ability, or desire to conceive, Savarna begins to question the necessity of biology and lineage within her parents' beliefs and becomes forever fascinated with the process of conception and the definition of family. Threads of Dan Brown (DaVinci Code), Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Sister of My Heart) and The L Word (TV series) flavor this colorful tale of awakening, romance and mystery.
We see, hear, know and think about death almost every day of our lives. We see and hear it on TV, radio and movies. We read about it in newspapers, on the Internet and in non-fiction and fictional books. We know it with every personal change and loss we experience. And we think about it consciously or unconsciously when the reality of mortality hits home. Good Grief - Love, Loss & Laughter is a collection of commentaries, stories and true-life events from the highly acclaimed newspaper column Good Grief. These are not your run-of-the-mill Ms. Manners type advice letters, though some are surprising and humorous. Good Grief includes real people, diverse circumstances and practical solutions. Y...
Even as a young man, Hamid Farsi is acclaimed as a master of the art of calligraphy. But as time goes by, he sees that weaknesses in the Arabic language and its script limit its uses in the modern world. In a secret society, he works out schemes for radical reform, never guessing what risks he is running. His beautiful wife, Noura, is ignorant of the great plans on her husband’s mind. She knows only his cold, avaricious side and so it is no wonder she feels flattered by the attentions of his amusing, lively young apprentice. And so begins a passionate love story of a Muslim woman and a Christian man.