From USA Today bestselling author Julianne MacLean comes the next instalment in her popular Color of Heaven Series, where people are affected by real life magic and miracles that change everything they once believed about life and love. Having spent a lifetime in competition with his older brother Aaron—who always seemed to get the girl—Jack Peterson leaves the U.S. to become a foreign correspondent in the Middle East. When a roadside bomb forces him to return home to recover from his wounds, he quickly becomes the most celebrated journalist on television, and is awarded his own prime time news program. Now, wealthy and successful beyond his wildest dreams, Jack believes he has finally f...
Central and Van Buren is a classic murder mystery novel set against the backdrop of Phoenix, Arizona in the late 1980's. It was a time of slow, expensive computers, floppy disks, no cell phones and no internet. The novel opens up with the fresh discovery on a normal Saturday morning of the homicide of Jack Peterson, a high-power attorney with the prestigious law firm of Casey and Bennett. He has been murdered in his office early, three telltale shots having done their lethal work strategically piercing his head, heart and groin. Jack's best friend and former law partner, Will Scott, is summoned by Jack's wife Marla Peterson to visit with the police, then look into the mysterious death of ...
Winner of the Thinkers50 2023 Leadership Award One of Thinkers50's Ten Best Management Books of 2023 A timely, actionable book on the virtues that every great leader needs to learn. —ADAM GRANT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife Leadership is simply a series of moments, and this book gives you the tools to turn each moment into an opportunity to leave a positive legacy for those you lead. In this ground-breaking book, award-winning leadership expert and business leader Kirstin Ferguson has written a much-needed practical guide for every modern leader. Whether you are the head of one of the largest companies in the world, supervising a ...
Bon Echo: The Denison Years documents the era when famous artists, intellectuals and theatrical personalities visited the strikingly beautiful Lake Mazinaw area in Ontario’s rugged Land O’ Lakes district, to both play and work. From the construction of Bon Echo Inn by American Dr. Weston Price to the creation of today’s Bon Echo Provincial Park, the author has been privy to the "inside" story. The struggles and ideals of the early Toronto feminist Flora MacDonald Denison and her author-playwright son, Merrill, are well recorded in this important book. The author, a good storyteller, obviously learned plenty from the old master during her many years as his manuscript typist, a relationship that ended with Merrill Denison’s death in 1975.
When Eddie Lieb, a bar pianist and retired professor has a chance argument with small time racketeer Frank Devito and a young dancer named Arnold he is drawn into a dangerous political conspiracy that threatens to topple the federal government. The Lazarus Operation concerns the unraveling of a major political conspiracy as seen through the eyes of two ordinary citizens, Eddie Lieb and Fred Giammatti. Lieb is a recovering alcoholic, formerly a professor of chemistry and now working as a bar pianist. Through a chance encounter with the son of a right-wing presidential candidate and a small time racketeer he becomes embroiled in a big time political plot. Unable to do anything himself he turns...
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