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Sing to Me, Papa
Gretchen Muellers chronicle begins in the present in her Southern California garden with her granddaughter, Megan, and flashes back to Chicago in the late thirties. The Muellers are a happy family then and Papa (Gerhard) sings and tells stories of his boyhood in Furth im Wald, in eastern Germany, and also of his admiration for Adolf Hitler. During WWII U. S. authorities cannot tolerate Papas allegiance to Germany and Gretchens happy life becomes a series of painful changes and adjustmentsshe is a German in America and an American in Germany. Through the years, adversities are overcome with the help of new friends, neighbors and a tender reconciliation.
The Seventh Port
Karen Stewart flies to Buenos Aires to join Aunt Marguerita Phillips on a South American Christmas cruise at the request of Jordan Dilbeck, newspaper publisher, who is Karen’s business associate and Marguerita’s nephew.Karen soon realizes Marguerita has vanished from the ship and attempts to sort facts and suspicions, with the help of Charlie Webber from the U.S. Consulate. Intrigue, jewel smuggling and murder complicate their efforts.What of the innocence or guilt of the Greek officers and crew of the M/S Helena? Does Marguerita really break her leg in a fall on the Santos dock as reported by the three ladies from Coral Deck? Where is the unusual ring Marguerita wrote about and what clu...
Ten Going on Twelve
Claire's story of the challenges encountered by her large family as she and her siblings grew up through the Great Depression to the end of World War II.
The Port of No Return
Lori Stewart accepts the offer from her boss at the newspaper to travel on a Baltic Sea cruise, and to pose as a Secret Agent's wife, a man she's never met. She feels exhilarated and even a little noble. Their assignment is to rescue Alex Stepenski, trapped in Russia and in immediate danger. But other forces know of their mission, forces that will stop at nothing to prevent the escape of Alex Stepenski--even if it means murdering Lori.
Pedro and Mac
This is the story of Maclovio Lopez and Peter Scott, both eleven, during one summer at Big Bay Island. Maclovio, of Mexican descent, is a foster child in the Scott home. For different reasons, each boy is wary of the other, feels threatened by the other, and each in turn is defensive and aggressive. Their angers, frustrations and torments, as well as their devotion to T-Bone, the beautiful collie dog, plus their fun adventures to a dangerous jetty, an old 'castle', foggy dunes and a deserted canal, eventually bring them to mutual understanding and respect. Both come to realize they are not so different under the skin after all, and each has finally earned the trust of the other. They are at last friends.
Weekend on the Moon
Weekend on the Moon is a potpourri of travel essays by Patricia McCune Irvine. Thoughts and views, sights and memories, of both unique and familiar places, forever hold intact the beauty, nostalgia, sometimes heartbreak, but also fun and laughter from her many years of traveling the world. Life's passages do have endings but as long as memories can be recalled nothing truly ends.
Beyond The Greenest Hill
Princess Loralyn lives in the large stone Palace with her father, King Bevan, her mother, Queen Avia, and her younger brother, Galen, who will some day be the king. Loralyn desires not only to learn the secret of what a lovely princess is and to understand the task of becoming one, but wishes to visit her very own valley, north beyond the Greenest Hill, which also seems impossible. As time passes, she meets the Simple Ones who fear a Dragon in the forest, the wise River Lady who tries to help, and the princes who come one by one to win the hand in marriage of the lovely princess-a fairy tale.
The Haunted Pavilion
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Heartland
During World War II, the US government confined thousands of Japanese-, German- and Italian-Americans to isolated, fenced and guarded relocation centers known as internment camps. At the same time, it shipped foreign Prisoners of War captured overseas to the US for imprisonment. Heartland reflects on the intersection between these two historic events through the story of a German-born widow and her family who take in two German Prisoners of War to work their family farm. But the German-American family and the POWs bond too well for the townspeople to accept, and the widow is arrested, interned and eventually suffers a breakdown, which tears her family apart. Based on true stories, Heartland ...
