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Hello, My Love!
Literature & Fiction
Bright, blonde, beautiful Elise Halverson, focused on a law career and inexperienced in love, distrusts playboys like Greg Thorpe. Dark, good-looking, internet-business owner in the San Francisco Bay Area, he finds Elise intriguing, so unlike his fiancée Lori, the type of dark-haired, seductive beauty he escorted around. Elise and Greg butt heads at her parents’ dinner parties. She discovers someone more than a flashy playboy and, he finds that she touches him at his core like nobody else has. A strong attraction grows between them and leads to an unexpected night together two days before his wedding. Lori threatens revenge. Her machinations tear Greg and Elise apart, revealing doubts and insecurities they have within themselves and forcing them to make choices. They reunite but Greg is in for a surprise and their lives are thrown again into disarray when Elise becomes the victim of a hit-and-run. The specter of Lori’s revenge looms. This modern-day pastiche of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell novels is an engaging romp into deep powerful love, with a good dose of realism and a twist of mystery.
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Mom, I'm Pregnant, Unmarried and ...Help!
How do you talk to parents about a decision you've made that they will surely interpret as throwing your future away? Elise is bright, independent-minded, in law school, with a promising career ahead of her. But one unexpected night of passion leads to a pregnancy. Her parents are upset and she's upset because they're upset. But she intends to keep her baby and needs her mother's help.
Cell Phones Run Our Lives
I've noticed a curious thing as I sit in my car waiting for a stoplight. Just before they cross the street, pedestrians whip out their cell phones to check messages. How many people have you seen on streets talking or reading something on their cell phones?
Hello, Agnieszka!
Literature & Fiction
A son’s attempted suicide shocks the Halverson family and uncovers lifelong secrets of love, rivalry, and betrayal in the mother’s early life. Agnieszka’s children learn that as a young woman, she suffered from knotty relationships with her conservative Polish mother and became an instrument in the rivalry between her and her talented, irrepressible grandaunt Jola who awakened her passion for the piano. That passion saved her from the ravages of a repressed childhood and shattered dreams. She tells them about Lenny Weisz, a consuming first love at the root of her secrets—a love that ended tragically but gave her strength to move on, grow, and look forward to the future. Fortuitous encounters at a concert hall and at a music store offered her a second chance at happiness with Charles Halverson. But does Agnieszka ever forget that compelling first love? Baring her soul brings Agnieszka closer to her daughter, Elise, a bright and independent-minded lawyer who knew her only as a caring mother with an exceptional talent for the piano. Hello, Agnieszka! is a sequel/prequel hybrid to the novel, Hello, My Love! that has been written to be read on its own.
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How would you react to an attempted suicide of a l
This novel opens with a character receiving news of the attempted suicide of a beloved brother. Although we all react in our own individual ways, this is always devastating news. In this story, the main character feels compelled to reveal long-buried secrets. The sad fact is, in the US, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death. It occurs 4x as often among men, and more among the white population than any other ethnic group. And for every suicide, there are 12 attempts of people to harm themselves.
Margaret of the North
Literature & Fiction
A sequel. An enduring romance. A guilty pleasure. As it does all this, Margaret of the North tries, as well, to show that even in Victorian times, some women asserted their individuality to curb a niche for themselves in a society that effectively negated them except as housewives and mothers—the nurturing background against which men did their thing. While it can be read on its own, this historical romance does take off from the much more compelling ending of the BBC miniseries of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. The characterization, however, of the main protagonists owe a lot to and is developed further from the book. The honeymoon in a vibrant mid-century Paris and days of ease in Cadiz help change the characters' outlook
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Your mother-in-law doesn't like you―deal with it
Juggling issues with a mother-in-law who clearly is uncomfortable with you―or worse, who may not like you―has been a problem for as long as anyone can remember. You're the new addition to a family that has existed longer than your relationship with your husband/wife. How you deal with it is as unique as you are. You can simply ignore it and grit your teeth or try to fix it, which won't necessarily work.
Welcome, Reluctant Stranger
Literature & Fiction
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To each, his own
We all have our quirks, those characteristics that set us apart from others. For some of them, we have inborn tendencies. Others develop in childhood. The main character in this new novel is focused inward. She's not really shy, but she prefers to be alone. She observes, has vicarious experiences. Could there be much fun in that? Depends on you.
