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Chloe Valcourt drifts between two worlds: the dark reality of her domineering mother and feeble father and the vivid fantasy of her imagination. With her condition comes the harsh observation of doctors who intend to cure her of it. But a chance encounter with a handsome and vaguely familiar young man in her dream world hints at the possibility of hidden truths-and a life she can't remember. As her drifts become a greater escape from the cruelty of the real world, Chloe finds herself lost between what is real and what is imagined, questioning her very existence. Can she remain in the lush new imagined landscape to find happiness in a realm of her own invention? Is she doomed to return to the harsh reality of the outside world forever? Or will she become trapped somewhere between the two...unable to return to either?
AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR THIS IS NOT A DRILLPiercing sirens led to cries for help. The pungent scents of burning oil would be seared into our memories forever, and the meaning behind loss was incomprehensible on that infamous day.?Twenty-year-old Elizabeth Salzberg, a nursing student and strong-willed Jewish woman, lived under the strict guidance of her father, a naval commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Oahu, Hawaii. For the five years following her mother's untimely death, Elizabeth had struggled to abide by society's expectations of a woman's duties. While spending her days preparing meals and keeping a clean house for her father and brothers, Elizabeth desired a more profound sense of...
Very few people can say they were born inside a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Disease, starvation, and much worse, prevented most prisoners from surviving. For infants, it was nearly impossible.I became an anomaly. I shouldn't be alive. As a child, I didn't know my life was different from that of others. I had nothing to compare it to, and I had no insight about the day I was born ... until the moment I overheard the truth.In a split second, I became a stranger to my reflection, my name, and my reason for being. I was not Annie anymore, and the people raising me were not my parents. Even the blue sky I cherished became an unfamiliar sight.I felt utterly alone in a foreign world, but that changed when I met another person who was lost, like me. Fisher offered his hand to hold and began to prove his theory of, "When two missing people find one another, they can consider themselves found."Fisher enlightened me, and through him, I gained a deeper understanding of life. Now, I know there are two sides of the beautiful, blue sky. I'm on one side, and my lost loved ones are on the other, but at the end of it all, we'll be together again under the one and only sky.
For readers who enjoyed The Nightingale, Sarah's Key, and All the Light We Cannot See.Last Words, where Non-Fiction meets Fiction, and the lines in between are blurred by forbidden love. Amelia - 1942: The inside of my closet held the last bit of my freedom before I was torn from my home and shoved onto a dark train. Our destination was even darker. "Women and children to the right. Men to the left," they shouted at us. Everything was taken from me, leaving only the smoke filled air, piercing screams, and soul-burning cries. I was slowly starved and weakened to the bone, but there was a man-a Nazi-who brought me extra food. He called himself a prisoner too, but he scared me, and I wondered i...
Could I have saved him? When my life changed in that smoky second, confusion rained down around me like sparks from a fire. But yet, I found myself falling for a sexy stranger I met in a dark park, and blatant lies I didn't know existed culminated into unfortunate truths. At twenty-five, I thought I had life, men, and my future figured out. It turns out, I didn't. In Shari J. Ryan's latest Romantic Suspense, Red Nights, you wonder how dark your world can get before all you see is red.
I've made mistakes. Some of those mistakes have ruined lives, including my own. Because of this, my past is something I have kept to myself, so when I found a woman who also wanted her past to remain hidden, it felt like the universe was pushing us together. It turns out the universe had nothing to do with that. If a person's past doesn't exist, the present may not unravel the way it should. I found out the hard way, when I learned that my wife is not who I thought she was...living with a past I should know about. Her continuous self-destructive behaviors let me know she clearly has a plan-possibly one I never should have been a part of. I keep trying to save her, but she's making it hard. Now, both of our pasts have simultaneously rolled into the spotlight-colliding head-on, and causing the present to come crashing down on top of us. I learned that since our pasts are part of who we are, they will always be the foundation of our present and our future. The question I have is, will either of us walk away in one piece?
I was born with a bad heart, one that would not keep me alive through adulthood.Then, the one day every person on a transplant list waits for...came for me. Someone else's heart would give me more time, second chances, and a new life.A new life with a man whose world was taken away and given to me.A new life where I tell the perfect man I can never be his. Our situation is beyond the bounds of forbidden love. It's unthinkable.My happily ever after doesn't end with a kiss or a promise.It ends with far more than I ever could have hoped for.
Author Shari J Ryan reunites the colorful cast of friends and family in Book 2 of the Schasm Series with a powerful tribute to the power of the mind and heart in this romantic, suspenseful, and engaging novel. Chloe has come close to finding her ultimate escape-or, so she thinks on the vibrant streets of Paris. Finally in a relationship with Alex, a man she fell in love with in Schasm, Chloe thinks life is coming together. As she battles her own demons, she attempts to repair the damaged man she's grown to love. But as his clouded past abruptly crashes into their lives and falls heavily upon their budding romance, Chloe must fight to save her relationship. Although even when the problems begin to subside, she comes to realize certain things cannot be escaped. Just as Chloe believes she might have sealed the doors of darkness once and for all, new questions, new findings and new inceptions arise. Whether or not Chloe wants to continue forward with the path her life seems to be taking, she quickly learns that any choice she makes will ultimately land her in a place she never knew she was destined to be.
"Women and children to the right. Men, to the left," I once said.From 1942 to 1944 I was what some called a Jew killer. Though, I have never hurt a soul, I was responsible for separating Jewish families, ensuring they would never see each other again. Those who were sick, were sent to their death ... by me because I was forced to follow the enemy. The war stole my right of beliefs, my goals for a future, my left arm, and the love of my life.I saved Amelia ?? then I lost her.And after more than seventy years, I'm told she's alive and asking for me.Will love be enough to overcome the silence of more than seven decades?
They were told there was no way out, but they are determined to find one. For Reese and Sin, finding a way out means entering into a world they aren't prepared to face...a world nobody could be prepared for. Their story is frightening and nerve-wracking, yet, also full of hope and love. The saying: "No news is good news," is proven wrong in every way possible. When held in confinement and isolation for several years, just about anything can happen in the oblivion outside of Chipley's prison walls. In this case, anything turns out to be a reality more terrifying than either one could have imagined. In this epic novella series, No Way Out, Shari J. Ryan takes you to a reality you won't want to remain in.