It’s still Friday so all is good. Even if the freebies ate all my lunch.
Hart’s Desire (La Fleur de Love)
by Lori Leger
(9 Reviews)
Genre: Romance
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It’s late 1974, and high school student, Melinda Dawson is in serious trouble. Within two hours of revealing her suspected pregnancy to her parents, she’s whisked off against her will to a home for unwed mothers in Texas.
Back in McCray, Washington, Greg Hart is one confused young man. His girlfriend vanished in the middle of the night without so much as a see ya later….no explanation and no phone call. When six long months brings no word from her, he hopes to put his broken heart behind him by serving his country in the U.S. Marines.
After nearly dying during the birth of her child, Melinda can’t face returning to her hometown without her baby. She stays in Texas, eventually making a career out of being a live-in nanny for two children in a wealthy couple’s home.
Thirty years later, Melinda is back in McCray to care for her ailing father. Within a few days she runs into Greg, now retired from the military and mayor of the tiny town. Immediate sparks erupt at their first meeting, rekindling the smoldering embers of a strong mutual attraction. Can the two of them bypass old feelings of anger, bitterness, and abandonment in order to find the most precious part of themselves?
Hart’s Desire is a sweet, romantic short story that introduces characters you’ll meet throughout the rest of my La Fleur de Love series.
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The Seasons Series
by Denise Domning
(61 Reviews)
Genre: Historical Fiction | Romance
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Denise Domning’s Best Selling Medieval Series in a box set.Includes:
Winter’s Heat: In this story, the first in Denise Domning’s 5 book series, the author addresses the absolute power of medieval men, fathers, brothers, and husbands. In the opening scene a father literally drags his daughter out of a convent where she had lived for most of her life. Although people object, no one tries to stop him. The book goes on to show the absolute power a father had over the choice of whom his daughter married. As was typical at that time, the father’s interest was the groom’s property. The groom’s interest was the bride’s dowry. They both were interested in furthering military alliances and social position. No one, including the groom, worries about whether the groom and bride will even like each other.
Summer’s Storm: The second book in this series, addresses the plight of medieval child brides. The heroine is married at age 12 into a family living far from her parents. (Among royalty, the bride was often much younger. It was not unusual for a 3-year old royal child to be married and living with her in-laws.) The groom is much older, although not as old as often occurred. Domning shows that the consequences of this custom could be dire. The bride’s family had no idea what was happening to her and never checked. In this story, a land dispute brings the girl’s situation to her own family’s attention and enables them to rescue her. In actuality, many young girls like the heroine probably just suffered until they died. Although the plot is fairly simple, the descriptions of medieval life are detailed and the characters, except for the truly evil people, are mostly sympathetic.
Spring’s Fury: The third and most complex novel in this series. It is about the value of land, the effects of a weak central government, forced marriage, fostering, and medieval war.
Autumn’s Flame: The fourth book in this series, Ms. Domning again addresses the absolute power of Medieval men….in this case, government officials (Sheriffs). In it Ms. Domning tackles the fate of aristocratic widows without family. Apparently widows were not allowed to continue living by themselves in the home of their marriage. The property was given to the male heir and she had to leave.
A Love for All Seasons: The fifth book in Denise Domning’s 5 book season series. Unlike books one through four, it can stand alone. The other 4 books in the series only tangentially relate to this one. In it Ms. Domning addresses marriage among the merchant class, merchant issues, the result of maternal death from childbirth, starvation following local crop failure, the result of liaisons between noble men with non-aristocrat women, such as maids, and their offspring. She revisits the terrible consequences of fathers arranging marriages. Among the merchant class, as among the nobility, the fathers’ criteria for selection were purely economic. The feelings of the bride do not enter into the equation. She also visits the role of religion, a topic she rarely touches in her other books in this series.
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The Girls Come Marching Home: Stories of Women Warriors Returning from the War in Iraq
by Kirsten Holmstedt
(17 Reviews)
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs | Women’s Studies
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Deeply personal and emotional accounts of more than a dozen American soldiers returning home from the war in Iraq; includes women from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard Inspiring stories of courage while recovering from both physical and psychological wounds along with the frustrations of navigating the military bureaucracy to get help How combat affects someone’s entire life, including her family and friends.
In her award-winning Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq, Kirsten Holmstedt described how female soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines are fighting on the front lines in Iraq despite the military’s ban on women in combat. Now Holmstedt tells the stories of America’s fighting women as they come home from Iraq. Some return with grave physical wounds, but all struggle with the psychological toll of battle while readjusting to life at home. As Holmstedt so poignantly shows, these women may have left the war, but the war will never leave them.
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Out of Time – 2 Strange Tales
by Milo James Fowler
(13 Reviews)
Genre: Science Fiction
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Out of Time collects two “un-timely” tales. In the first, “One More Tuesday,” Josef finds himself trapped with only one way out, and a life or death decision once he discovers how to free himself. In “Leap Day,” Joan experiences a time distortion in her own apartment, and she must weave her knowledge of the past and future in order to survive the present.
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A Touch of Magic
by M. Ruth Myers
(12 Reviews)
Genre: Mystery & Thrillers | Romance
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A dazzling sleight-of-hand artist is recruited by the State Department to pit her skills, and wits, against a master terrorist. He’s about to receive a piece of stolen film used to make US passports, film that could open the door to terrorists around the world.
Although Channing Stuart is the fourth generation in a family of acclaimed magicians, she’s the first of them not to turn pro. Eye-to-eye with a killer, will she have the nerve and nimbleness to pull off a switch that finally proves her worthy of her bloodline?
Special agent Bill Ellery is irritated to find himself suddenly teamed with this amateur whose passion to succeed is as great as his own, and whose penchant for the unpredictable unsettles him as much as the woman herself. In an upscale resort where every enticement hides a trap, they play cat and mouse with enemies known and unknown as a time bomb ticks. Hundreds of lives depend on the deftness of one woman’s fingers and … A TOUCH OF MAGIC.
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The Hamsa
by E.S. Kraay
(5 Reviews)
Genre: Action & Adventure | Historical Fiction
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Bronisław Czech is a dashing Polish highlander born in 1908. His father teaches young Bronek the secrets of the Tatra Mountains while his father’s friend, The Captain teaches the boy to ski. He learns well and represents Poland in three Winter Olympic Games, which teach him as much about life as about the sport he loves. He is honored to lead his team and carry the Polish flag into the stadium at Germany’s 1936 games in Bavaria. With him always is the hamsa, a good luck charm he receives as a boy in 1923 from a young Jewish girl. When Germany invades Poland in 1939, Czech’s mountain skills make him a valuable asset to the Polish resistance and a target for Hitler’s SS. From the majesty of Europe’s greatest mountains to the shores of America and back, from the height of Olympic glory to the depths of human cruelty and suffering, The Hamsa spans four decades of one man’s struggle to preserve his dignity in the face of ‘the final solution.’
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Logan And The Magic Fish
by Otto Scamfer
(20 Reviews)
Genre: Children’s eBooks
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Join Logan on an exciting fishing expedition in the Pacific Northwest on the cool waters of Blue Lake. Logan’s trip becomes strange and wondrous when he catches a large orange fish who claims to be magic. The creature grants Logan three wishes if the boy will let him go. Logan gladly agrees, but all is not what it seems. Is the fish truly a magic fish? Logan begins to have his doubts. You can help him decide!
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