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Eileen Eliot shares an intimate, 14-year history with Fran Sullivan, a member of the Irish Republican Army working out of Boston. He said she was safe from its tentacles. He was wrong. As Fran plots the way to an IRA ceasefire, avoids a murder attempt and “disappears” to Belfast, Eileen stands on the edge of his involvement, then the Organization arrives at her door. The IRA, without Fran’s knowledge pulls her into their system. Fran’s disappearance sets off her initiation into keeping her own secrets from her friends and risking a new relationship with a congressional Chief of Staff. In a novel that blends suspense, sharp wit, and characters and places that jump off the pages, experience life in the Organization from a new perspective, Eileen’s. As the saying goes, keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Arielle works for French immigration in Paris and has a reputation for a cold heart. She likes to entertain herself with the younger guys and never considers developing a relationship with a man. When she meets a wealthy and sexy middle-aged man who offers to give her everything, she finds the idea attractive but simply can’t commit. On vacation in Spain, she meets a desperate young Moroccan whose work visa is about to expire. Against her better judgement, she gives him advice, then help. But when she returns to Paris, she finds she has set a chain of events in motion that quickly spirals out of control. The young man’s feelings of inadequacy lead to jealousy, gambling, and a chance meeting with a mystery man, completely changing the course of his life.
After the tragic loss of her husband two years ago writer Hope Lovett picked up the pieces of her shattered life and started over by opening up an inn that serves as a shelter off the coast of Cape Cod while pursuing her dream of writing. There as she tries to help other lost souls she finds that she too takes refuge in continuing the legacy her heroic Navy Seal husband whose life mission was helping others. Things finally look up for her and her son Taylor when her best friend and confidant Dominic moves to Cape Cod to help Hope run the inn. However, mysterious murders begin happening on the island that mimic Hope's latest novel. Soon after, Hope and Dominic discover that this killer has been studying and watching Hope. As they investigate further, they realize that this murderer is closer than they think and could possibly be one of Hope's guests. Now she must figure out who and why she is being targeted before it's too late. --
Moving back and forth in time from the 1930s to the 1960s to the present, this luminous first novel uncovers the heartbreaking legacy of the Eagen family of New Orleans, Irish Catholics of "mixed blood" in a city where race defines fate. A haunting novel of family loyalty and relations between the races.
"Six friends, three couples... endless heart-warming adventures!" When you read Fighting the Barrier/Facing the Barrier, you'll enter the world of Jon and Brie, the first couple you will meet in the Lakeside Series book collection. Jon and Brie have been friends for years. She's just come home from college and Jon can't wait to see her again. But she's got something that has always been a separation factor and thinks it might be time to confront him about it. Will she be able to get passed the barrier she put up so many years ago, and will he be able to accept what it is she's going to tell him?
Before the "accident" Genie was an aspiring ballerina, a star pupil at her exclusive New York dance school, now she is a bitter teenager, permanently confined to a wheelchair, shutting herself off from her friends, her beloved teacher, and even her mother; but at physical therapy she meets Kyle, a gymnast whose traumatic brain injury has landed him in therapy--and through their growing friendship Genie realizes that she has to confront the things around her: like the booze her mother is hiding, or the fact that maybe her fall was not entirely accidental.
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)