This is my story. It’s the unvarnished truth about my cultural heritage and it starts in the countryside of southeastern North Carolina. My parents and my entire family have always found things to laugh about in life. When I married my husband, we spent our first 15 months together in Casablanca, which proved a wonderful opportunity to explore another culture.Faye Lanier Gardner grew up on a small farm in Pender County, North Carolina, about 30 miles from the well-known beaches. This book is about her many unusual experiences growing up. As a very young child, she had typhoid fever, and …

An intrepid minority shareholder, Chase Michaels, undertakes a heroic campaign to protect fellow minority shareholders as well as the public from two national wireless service companies that have adopted a merger plan to exploit a predicted trillion dollar venture in advanced technologies. He finds himself trapped in a labyrinth created by official Washington’s dark corridors of lies, loss, lust, and murder. The corporate megamerger parties know they have an insurmountable advantage navigating these corridors, owing to the endemic indifference of official Washington to corrupt forces borne of addiction to power and money. When Michaels discovers the plan to cut out …

Ray Martin is an Englishman living and working in the U.S. Following a divorce he takes a new job and moves to a new city where he meets Grace, a much younger woman, and he falls in love. After two happy years together, Ray and Grace relocate again, this time to Washington, D.C., where Grace can pursue her career in the defense industry. The couple rent a condo owned by a secret service agent away on assignment. Ray discovers a 35-millimeter camera with film still inside, hidden in the back of a cabinet. When he jokes that they should develop …

Peu avant la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale, Georges rêve régulièrement d'une jeune fille, qui ressemble beaucoup à une danseuse dans un temple minoen. D'origine grecque, Georges est envoyé en Crète après l'occupation allemande pour organiser la résistance dans les Montagnes Blanches. Il commence à avoir des hallucinations de la même jeune fille. Il est attiré dans une situation imaginaire où il s'identifie avec la victime d'un sacrifice humain il y a 3600 ans. La jeune fille fut à l'époque la prêtresse du temple, détruit plus tard par un tremblement de terre. Georges n'est sauvé d'une deuxième mort suicidaire que par une …

Roger is a retired Professor of history. Once famous and admired as an academic star and a lifelong advocate for the rights of women, he has grown fat and self-indulgent, and is currently living in exile in Provence. A very public scandal of betrayal precipitated his fall from grace. His only hope of restoring his reputation is a memoir, or preferably a detached biography. He convinces his oldest friend, Clive, another retired academic, to write it.Roger's personal reflections take us back to the 1960s, where we learn of a life devoted compulsively to sexual adventure with countless women, mostly young …

Matthew was raised by a profoundly religious Mexican mother and Anglo father. In his 20s, he believes he has been called by God to embark on a mission to spread the gospel among the indigenous Tarahumaras in northern Chihuahua, Mexico. He leaves behind his family and sweetheart to walk "like Jesus walked." He also hitchhikes through the remote southern New Mexico desert and the rugged Sierra Madre into the Copper Canyon area. Matthew befriends Jesús and stays with his family, working with him in the field by day and engaging in long conversations at night. They discuss folk beliefs, the …

Murder in Tusmore Park is the first in the Biddy and Justin Series, the forerunner to the second book Pacific Incident 9-11-13. This novel has the same compelling characters and is a fascinating, well-plotted thriller with genuine suspense. Another page turner by author Pamela M. Arnold! Lively sixty-year-olds Biddy and Justin are embroiled in a series of homicides, two of which are committed in the park opposite Justin’s duplex. Due to Justin finding both bodies, the couple become police suspects. The murders continue and Biddy becomes an amateur sleuth to exonerate them both. Targeting Biddy, the wily psychotic killer eventually …

The real story of Frank (Cougar) Wright tells of a loud, brash, irreverent, pioneer to the Canadian Northwest from Wisconsin and the forests of Washington. Cougar swore like a trooper, and didn't believe in a higher power than his own strength, but he loved his family and wanted them to join him in his struggle to tame the wilderness in Canada. The book is filled with romance, adventure, even a ghost story, and there is a thread of mystery winding through its pages. Tempers run high in a drama of wounded love and jealousy in this rugged era. Cougar's family's …

School inspections are no laughing matter, until one comes to Milton Court Primary School, where nine-year-old Max is a pupil. He unwittingly causes major problems for his recently appointed head teacher, Mrs. Pugh, who has aspirations of becoming an inspector in the near future. The obstacles Max puts in her way are never deliberate. He just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time all too often. His best friend in the world is his great-grandmother, commonly known to all as Granny, who becomes public enemy number one to Mrs. Pugh. Somehow, between them, Max and Granny …

Growing up as a pastor's daughter has caused Rachael Watts to live an extremely sheltered life, even in Newark, New Jersey. All that changes as mid-summer approaches and her best friend, Jess, sets her up on a blind date. Carl Bart is a cute, sensitive, and charming accountant who works in busy Manhattan. However, his mask is soon removed as Rachael awakens from her night out in New York and discovers that she was raped. Heartbroken, the pastor's daughter deviates from her moral teaching, and in her quest for revenge, begins to commit a few crimes of her own. Eventually, …