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Dina Reigns allowed her past to determine her future. Orphaned, adopted, then losing her adoptive parents in a tragic accident, her future appears grim. Her grandmother became her guardian and guided her through her turbulent teen years. Dina never wavered, determined to become a person of value. Educated as nurse, she seeks a Ph.D. in nursing as her ultimate goal; she contracts with a childless couple to become a surrogate mother and uses the money she earns to finance her goal. Drew Tyler is a football player, a wide receiver for the Boston Anchors, a professional team. When he scores the winning touchdown to win the League Championship for the team, in his exuberance, he throws the ball into the stands. That is when he sees Dina, standing, smiling at the red-haired youngster who catches the ball. Stunned by her beauty, he knows that he has to meet her. After many false leads he finally finds her, but she is already pregnant. Can he convince Dina that his love for her is real or does she continue to cling to her goal of proving herself?
Pastry chef Lili Hart hasn't been satisfied with what she's accomplished with her siblings at Hearts and Flowers. She yearns for independent success, so she seeks to take on clients of her own not tied to the family business. Excited about her first client, her celebration is short-lived when she sees dreamy eyed Dominic Ballard again. Charming and talented singer/songwriter Dominic Ballard majored in music in college despite the discouragement of his mother. Eventually, he moved to California to pursue his dreams of superstardom. After the sudden death of his father, Dominic finds himself back in his hometown of Taylor, Indiana assisting with the family's chain of restaurants. When he's offered an opportunity to collaborate on popular R & B singer latest CD he feels closer to realizing his dream. But, his life is further complicated when he runs into the one who got away. . .feisty Lili Hart.
At its most intimate level, music heals our emotional wounds and inspires us. At its most public, it unites people across cultural boundaries. But can it rebuild a city? That's the central question posed in New Atlantis, journalist John Swenson's beautifully detailed account of the musical artists working to save America's most colorful and troubled metropolis: New Orleans. The city has been threatened with extinction many times during its three-hundred-plus-year history by fire, pestilence, crime, flood, and oil spills. Working for little money and in spite of having lost their own homes and possessions to Katrina, New Orleans's most gifted musicians--including such figures as Dr. John, the...
After the death of their rock star father from a drug overdose, three very different sisters are forced together to decide what to do with their inheritance. But who was Mik DeSalle? Even though they share blood, they did not have the same father – Evelyn Shelton's father was Richard Shelton, a young man from Pittsburgh's working class who had a dream; Lucille Williams' father was Mik DeSalle, the famous guitarist with Sheffield Steel who left Richard Shelton behind as soon as he left his first family and boarded a plane to Los Angeles; Soleil DeSalle's father was a musician past his prime, slipping into drugs and apathy with his new Hollywood wife. Once the sisters decide to work together...
Raphael Remeris is a Chicago policeman with a dark secret of childhood abuse. The abuse lead him to his vocation to protect the innocent. Angela Reed is a free lance writer from a nearby Chicago Suburb. When her brother is arrested and found guilty of gang activity and locked away in Statesville Penitentiary Angela goes on a crusade to prove him innocent and to find the dirty cops her brother swears framed him. With time running out her brother is pressing her to increase her efforts and convince her to move into a rough Hispanic area of Chicago. Angela runs into officer Remeris again and again, her hatred of him fueling a battle for dominance. But she soon finds that Raphael fuels more than her anger. He's started a fire in her heart. As Angela and Raphael work together to find evidence that will free Angela's brother Raphael wants to prove to Angela that there's always Two Sides To Every Story. . .
Peri Reed is a survivor. The next time a good looking man crosses her path, she's going to smarter and wiser. However, when a very good-looking man of Irish descent crosses her path, Peri is at a loss. Sure Brendan Donovan is good looking, stable, and is an art director at a prestigious museum in Dallas, Texas, but she's still waiting for the other shoe to drop. With each date, Brendan is wearing down her resistance and Peri finds she's drowning in a sea of love. Brendan knows he has his work cut out for him. Peri is a beautiful woman, scarred but beautiful. Was getting to know this brown- eyed beauty worth all the trouble she was putting him through? Yes, he decides, after the first kiss, Peri was worth getting to know. He just had to convince her that he is nothing like her previous lover. When said lover makes a reappearance, Brendan's protective side comes out and he's ready to protect her at any cost. In that instant Brendan realizes that he wants Peri in his life permanently. He knows it's possible. He'd just have to show her the art of love.
Marnie Edwards thinks she has her life together. Then State Trooper Scott Randall starts asking mysterious questions at the same time she learns her mother has been hospitalized with cancer. When a bedside confession reveals she was adopted, suddenly Scott's investigation into child-trafficking becomes personal. Every time Scott turns around, he learns Marnie has something to do with his current investigation. Finding himself falling for the beguiling, strong-willed brunette isn't helping, especially when he's still nursing the wounds of his failed marriage. When he and Marnie find themselves thrown together to help a pregnant teen who's being blackmailed into giving up her baby, they have to figure out what's important and who they are to each other, before it's too late.
This book provides synopses and basic bibliographical information for the 40 Oz books in the original series and a number of related books by the Royal Historians of Oz; synopses and credits for live performances, radio shows, performances on audiobook or vinyl records; theatrical films, and TV seriers; educational films; comic adapatations, electronic games; websites; and scenes on TV or in movies that have an Oz element.
As usual Lowell Green, one of Canada's best selling authors and the Country's most honoured broadcaster, rushes in where angels fear to tread! His latest book, (his sixth best seller) "Here's proof only we conservatives have our heads screwed on straight" makes you shake your head with disbelief as writes about the truly magnificent screw-ups the granola-crunching, tree hugging, thug huggers have plunged us into over the years. "Thank heavens," he says, "that with people like Churchill, Thatcher, Reagan, Giuliani, Merkel, Harris and hopefully Harper and maybe even Cameron, there's almost always been a clear-thinking, fearless, principled Conservative or conservative thinker to rescue us from...