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Violet Osborne, a successful lawyer and workaholic, has given up all hope of ever finding a man she can love and trust. Things change dramatically for her when she decides to go on a dream vacation to Europe. Her idealist romantic notions have made her believe that the right type of man did not exist. Until she met the wrong type.

On a beautiful spring morning in 1989, neurosurgeon and spine expert Volker Sonntag was just finishing rounds at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. At that same moment 16 miles away, a hard-charging boy named TJ veered his bike into the path of a speeding pickup truck. The impact all but killed the boy, leaving him with a shattered leg, severe internal injuries, a massive blood clot near the brain stem, and - but for the fragile spinal cord - a complete separation of the skull from the spine.

So, you're thinking about filing bankruptcy? Well, go for it! I have personally file bankruptcy three times in my life and you still can buy a new car and even a home. I'm going to give it to you straight! So, download my audiobook and let me show you the way!

What if President Truman had withdrawn American forces from the Korean peninsula in 1950, rather than holding fast in a fight that cost more than 30,000 American lives? The unfolding story is witnessed through the lives of an American Foreign Service officer, Tom Crandall, and a young, South Korean woman, Soon Hi Chung, who finds herself a displaced person in Japan, trying to come to grips with the communist victory that has forced her from her homeland, and torn her family apart.

Odds and Endings: Fiction Short and Otherwise is Joe DeRouen's first short story collection, and contains 13 all-new tales of magic, murder, and mystery. The compilation includes one novella and 11 short stories, one of which takes place in the Small Things universe and involves some of your favorite characters.

With an eye for quirky detail, Helen W. Mallon presents four lively characters who are all, in different ways, on a blindfolded hunt for intimacy. Izzy, the burned-out mother of twins in "Did You Put the Cat to Bed?" tries to provoke her clueless husband by painting the town red. In "You Say You Want a Revolution", Sarah, a motherless child of the '70s, flaunts her sexual liberation, refusing to admit she's being used by an older man....

Gabby Banks is a writer, whose post-apocalyptic book - Ice Blue Eyes in the Desert Sun - is being made into a film. She's invited down to Arizona to observe the filming and meets British actor, Robert Shepard, who is playing one of her heroes. He read the book and fell for her picture on the cover, but Gabby has a ton of secret baggage from her last relationship that could make anything with Robert impossible.

Three magical romances set in the contemporary English countryside and the fight for good versus evil....

Hannah Stevenson inherits a home in the Cotswolds when her grandmother, Violet, passes away, and leaves her job as a cruise-ship lounge singer to start her own herbal bath and body business there. She knows about some of the extrasensory powers she's inherited from Violet, but not about the resident malevolent goddess, Maeve, bent on destroying her. She's surprised to learn that she's not the only person of the craft in the area, either - and then there's her new, very intriguing neighbor, Edward.

Recently escaped from an abusive marriage only to return to her abusive mother, this time with a disrespectful, guilt-tripping teenage son in tow, Cecily is broke, depressed, and hopeless. When a door opens in the tree she always thought was enchanted, how can she not go through it? In a land of wild magic where legends walk and ancient tales come true, Cecily will find new friends and new dangers - and come face to face with all her old nightmares.

Cassie Holmes has made a big change. She left sunny, warm Arizona and moved to Seattle to join three friends in a new endeavor. Her first case involves the disappearance of a 14-year-old girl, Cami Reynolds. Her mother is desperate to find the young girl and, even though she doesn't have much money, hires Cassie for the job. The new private detective finds a dark underworld lurks under the viaduct that runs along the Seattle Waterfront.

Renee Mills hires Shay to save her daughter. Renee believes her daughter, Beth, a straight-A student, dropped out of college to strip. Her mother blames the owner of the club and drugs. Shay goes undercover as a waitress at the club in hopes to save Beth and crack open a drug operation. An inevitable mutual attraction with the bartender, Dante Pierce, is a distraction. But is he involved in the drug operation?

This empowering program will demonstrate that the way a person thinks can radically transform their life; it is an easy to follow guide that will help get anyone on the path to creating greater success and abundance. It is a step-by-step manual filled with real life examples that will leave a powerful and lasting impact in the listeners mind.

Homicide Detective Gage Hamlin takes pride in his job; he closes cases and fosters justice. All that changed the day River Nightingale sauntered into his office. River has him questioning his pride, his cases, and his aversion to private detectives, especially beautiful private detectives. River's client thinks Gage got it wrong, and River is forced to prove Gage missed a murder. Will River and Gage find a way to play nice, or will River be forced to leave Gage behind?

As a retired midwife, Caryn has had to deal with heartbreak on a grand scale. Shutting herself off from the rest of the world brought her to volunteer at the shelter; Caryn finds a measure of comfort as she cares for the cats and kittens there. Could dating Dan lead to disaster?

Madi Wilson's life had been perfect - or so she thought. After 35 years, her husband left her for a younger version of her. Her husband, Dr. Nick Wilson, head of cardiology, saved hearts but crushed his wife's. Madi devoted her life to being a loving mother and wife. Her only other passion, chairing the hospital foundation, ended with the divorce. Now she's alone in a big home with no one to love.

Faith Daniels leaves a successful Silicon Valley career to follow her life's dream: In Cedar Grove she builds a foster home for unwanted and abused dogs. She knows dogs have the ability to love even after being abandoned. Abandoned by her fiancé and friends, Faith wishes she could learn to love and trust again.

The Monday Mystery Society attracts ten diverse individuals, all attractive in their unique ways - and all of them single. Five stories of love in a small town.

Mary Gardner is a successful career-oriented woman with a passion for work and books. She is part of the Monday Mystery Society at Acorns, the local bookstore in Oakville. Her life is perfect, in her opinion, till she meets Stefan. Things start going downhill as he infiltrates her work, her life and her heart.

Daisy Mazlo faces a dilemma. She's met the man of her dreams in Cooper MacNeill, a gentleman in every sense of the word: tall, handsome, wealthy, witty, and very interested in her. But Daisy can't accept his love, so she runs away, moving back to Oakville, where she grew up, to sort out her feelings. Will the small, loving community of her past help her find herself? Will Cooper come after her? Will a letter be pivotal in resolving Daisy's dilemma?