Another novel of international love and intrigue by the prize-winning author of A Hundred Veils.In 1969 Japan, Emiko's father has gone to Tokyo to support students protesting the Vietnam War-but hasn't come back. Then suddenly her mother dies. Alone and in despair, twenty-year-old Emiko abandons her factory job to go searching for her missing father.To survive in Tokyo, she stays at a hostel in the seedy Sanya neighborhood and takes a job as hostes...

Book 1 of a cozy mystery novel series. Anne has returned to Westport, the quaint maritime village where she grew up, to do two things she loves-teach in its multi-cultural elementary school and race her small sailboat in in the Westport regattas. For years, she's lived quietly in the friendly village. But after an important women's regatta that attracts many sailors, a teacher from Anne's school is found dead, hanging from a hook at Anne's boat club.Anne has never remarried after h...

This edition contains all three novels in the Shady Park Chronicles:First World Problems - When Emma uncovers a conspiracy of real estate developers to get Charles away from her and get her friend's property away from him, it is up to her to stop it.Shady Park Panic - A school shooting and groundswell of demand to arm teachers challenges a young reporter for the Shady Park Ledger to find out and r...

"A darkly humorous farce with satirical undertones and an unconventional love story."In 2024, Alexey, a young Russian of draftable age, is sent on a mission to Istanbul to retrieve the true head of Saint Sergey of Radonezh, the patron saint of Russia. At the same time, Angela, a young CIA officer, is sent to Istanbul to receive a secret device from a Russian defector.Angela at first mistakes Alexey for the defector but soon realizes her mistake. Alexey and Angela, who has l...

A high school teacher in danger of being fired for objecting to the new alt-right textbooks steps up to defend a student who has been receiving unwanted nude pictures on his phone from a girl he hardly knows—and then she starts receiving nude pictures herself. Nicole loses her job but meets Ralph, the editor of the Shady Park newspaper, who suspects that a member of the board of education has been confiscating nude pictures from students for his own pleasure and profit. Nicole falls in lov...

From the prize-winning author of A Hundred Veils-Nebulous Enemies is a suspenseful story of love and intrigue in Afghanistan as aid workers fear the looming withdrawal of American forces protecting them from the Taliban.In Baltimore, Roger's wife suddenly disappears, and although their relationship was never normal, he leaves the States to pursue her in Afghanistan, suspecting she has run off with...

The Islamic revolution in Iran did not arise out of thin air. For years, the country had seethed with repressed resentment of the Shah's heavy-handed, authoritarian policies. Illegal societies operated underground, some tracing back to the beginning of the Shah's reign. Nationalists, socialists, Marxists, and Islamic leftists and reformers--all with somewhat different agendas--juggled for influence and support. The universities, mosques, and tea houses were filled with discussions that ran...

This contemporary take on Flaubert’s Emma and Charles Bovary quickly becomes a satire of suburban American life in the immediate pre-Trump years.Emma Bovant has lost her job but struggles to keep up appearances even though her family can’t match the pampered lifestyle of her friends from “the Estates.” Her dissatisfaction with her position in society, like Emma Bovary’s, is caused partly by reading—in this case of articles like “Exotic Vacation Getaways to Enrich Your Life” and “De...

A school shooting and groundswell of demand to arm teachers moves the satire of suburban America into the Trump era in Shady Park Panic, Book 2 of the Shady Park Chronicles Series.Anthony, the reporter from Book 1, First World Problems, now becomes the focus. When he submits his report that it was unarmed teachers who subdued the assailant while two parents who had claimed to be armed for personal protection fled ...

Book 1 of a cozy mystery series. Anne has returned to Westport, the quaint maritime village where she grew up, to do two things she loves—teach in its multi-cultural elementary school and race her small sailboat in the Westport regattas. Anne has never remarried after her husband died fifteen years ago in his twenties and she has lived quietly in the friendly village. But after an important women's regatta that attracts a large number of sailors, a teacher from Anne's school is found dead ...

It's 1969, and Emiko's father has gone to Tokyo to support student protests against the Vietnam War--but hasn't come back. Then suddenly her mother dies. In despair, twenty-year-old Emiko abandons her factory job to go searching for her missing father. In Tokyo, Emiko meets Juan, an American soldier recovering from a battle injury. Now she is in love with a soldier in the war she and her father have been denouncing for years.

A young American professor at the University of Tehran falls in love with an Iranian artist and is thwarted by social, political, and religious forces that seem beyond his control. Set in the time of the Shah, this is a heart-warming picture of the Iranian people who befriend, guide, love, and laugh at the naive foreigner who wants more than anything to fit in.