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Serendipity
Serendipity: Moments in time and place A diverse blend of storytellers from around the world share their experiences with the mystery, magic, and power of serendipity.
In Her Shoes
Madonna Dries Christensen’s poignant memoir, In Her Shoes, is a superb model for the preservation of personal family memories. Anyone who wishes to record his or her own family history should read this book first. With precise writing and awe-inspiring photos, Madonna has created a cherished keepsake for her immediate family as well as for posterity. As she aptly states in this memorable memoir: “We become who we are because of who we were; a culmination of the momentous and the minutiae.” —E. P. Ned Burke, author of seven novels and editor of Yesterday’s Magazette and Writer’s Magazette This beautiful collection of stories creates, piece-by-loving-piece, the picture of a life we...
Toys Remembered
In this companion book to Dolls Remembered, men reminisce about the boyhood toys and games that still hold a place in memory.
Lost Resorts of the Iowa Great Lakes
Since the first rustic vacation retreat for hunters and fishermen was built in 1871, Okoboji and the Iowa Great Lakes have been a drawing card for families, generation after generation. Over the decades, dozens of vacation resorts, from the magnificent Hotel Orleans on Big Spirit Lake to the iconic Inn on West Okoboji, have lured happy summertime visitors. Just mentioning the name of a resort often evokes memories of swimming, boating, fishing, waterskiing, or just good times spent with friends and family. However, most of these vacation resorts are now gone-The Inn, Manhattan Beach Hotel, Templar Park, and Crandall's Lodge have all been demolished. Vacation Village has become Village West, and the Crescent Beach resort, which at one time boasted over 100 apartments or cottages, now has fewer than 30 motel-style units. Gone too are dozens of friendly mom-and-pop cottage resorts all around the lakes, replaced by condominiums and private residences.
Patricide
A spare, elegantly simple exploration of father-son love and father-son hate. Equally strong passions, left unbridled, one can be harmful, the other deadly. Based on a real event, Patricide begins with a brutal homicide on the Iowa prairie in 1920. Told by several observers, the subject is handled with the respect befitting these salt of the earth people bewildered by the horrifying act of fifteen-year-old Carl Jess. What drove this boy to patricide? What was his motivation? Did he believe he had something to gain, or was he totally deranged? While the community wrestles with these questions, attempting to sort fact from speculation, the five men closest to the case examine their relationshi...
Imminent Reprisal
In an unfamiliar city, Jessica Langdon, an aeronautical engineer, has just seen her daughter murdered. Her vow of vengeance rockets her into a tidal wave of danger and deception. With only a set of initials and two words to go on, she takes an alias and tracks down the killers. Fear is her only companion until she meets Special Agent Hunter Rawls. But he wants her to stay out of his ongoing investigation of "the corporation," a mammoth organization whose powerful members will stop at nothing to achieve their purpose--- a plot of conspiracy that threatens a takeover of the United States government. And she will stop at nothing to stop them all.
Masters of the Breed
When a friend’s Triple Crown winner is found mutilated, her ovaries surgically removed, and a security guard shot to death, private investigator Jessica Langdon and FBI agent Hunter Rawls team up to find the guilty party. That same night, a veterinarian is reported missing, and uncannily, Jessie is hired by his wife to find him. His car is pulled from the Kentucky River, and now his wife and child have disappeared. Doctor Jonathan Richards, a distinguished geneticist, whom Jessie has known briefly is leaving disturbing messages on her answering machine. When she learns he is friends with Leo Lowenthal, the veterinarian’s employer and owner of Camelot, a well-known race horse farm, she becomes suspicious that he may know something about the murder of the Triple Crown winner, and the missing vet. Her search comes to an abrupt end when the death of a man she swore to bring to justice for her daughter’s murder turns up dead, and she is arrested, handcuff ed and driven away by the two arresting officers. A short time later, they are found full of bullet holes and Jessica is missing. Only one man knows who killed them and where they have taken Jessica.
Masquerade
George Robert Gabor successfully impersonated famous people to defraud the wealthy. J. Edgar Hoover caught him, but did he successfully con Hoover in exchange?
Raincrow
The raincrows warning rode upon a chill wind down the Kentucky mountainside to Katelin Stone that Indian Summer day. The rain would come, and her world as she knew it would end. There would be a new beginning for her. Her mothers death sets into motion the events that become her hell. Her fathers surprise marriage brings into their home a calculating and money-grabbing woman and her troubled teenage son, who terrorizes Katelin with vicious attacks and cold-bloodied threats that force her to forsake Walter, her true love, and at sixteen to marry a man she hardly knows. Her abusive marriage becomes her prison. She secrets her dreams and her love for Walter in a broken heart and almost loses he...
Nothing Is Forever
In Theres a Witch in My Room, the author laments that during her formative teenaged years she had to share her bedroom with her eighty- year-old grouchy Oma. The Bachelor tells the story of the familys beloved confirmed bachelor who falls in love at sixty-nine with a nineteen-year-old niece of his cousin and disrupts many lives. What Do You Think? is a humorous account of working in an exclusive boutique shop when an odd couple comes to shop. Ali, Nai Nai, Susie reports the loving and sometimes grueling trip in China that Helga and her daughter, Susie, made to bring the newly-adopted Ali to Sarasota. The Glorious Fish is a fun piece following Helga, the New York fashion designer, and her boss to an exclusive restaurant where, unbeknownst to her, all eyes are transfixed while she dissects and eats a whole fish head tail eyes at the table.
