The second novel by the author of Puppies are for Life, is another light-hearted comedy of manners. Following a change in her husband’s career, Marjorie Benson suddenly finds that she has to uproot herself in mid-life and start afresh.Marjorie Benson is a product of her generation. Born in the Forties with few educational qualifications she was raised to be a wife and mother only.She is married to ‘old dog’ Phil, a marketing director who fancies himself as much as he is fan...

Light-hearted contemporary woman’s issues novel about a couple who, on the brink of enjoying semi-retirement, find themselves inundated by their grown up children returning home from unemployment and broken marriages.Far from suffering from empty-nest syndrome, middle-aged Susanna is trilled to be able to move to a smaller, more manageable house and give up her boring job as a pay clerk in order to realise her life-long ambition designing mosaics. This, she believes, is her time. B...

Some friendships are forged in trust—others in betrayal.When Ember Pines wakes up in Seward, Alaska, with no memory and a strange affinity for the wild creatures around her, she has no idea who she is or what she's running from. Taken in by the kind and rugged Tyrus McKendry, Ember begins a quiet, healing life on his remote ranch. But even in the stillness of the Alaskan wilderness, danger stirs.There’s something extraordinary about Ember...something not entirely h...

“It’s a funny thing.” Words that haunt Brucie Clark. Carefree to being stalked by a murderer, she is stuck with an arrogant, way too serious agent who is assigned to protect her life, and help solve the case he pushed aside. A continuation of Marry Christmas, welcome back the gang, plus new faces. Chute Pond and the trail Brucie takes to hide from the killer are real places.

Everyone except for Galaxas Gaylord’s parents and best friend considers her a freak. To avoid the constant stares and ridicule for her natural gray/green hair and skin, and eyes the color of sunrays, she chooses to live a life of seclusion in the wilderness close to Seward, Alaska.Convinced she’ll never find the man of her dreams, Galaxas ends her relationship with her abusive boyfriend and looks to the stars. When strange things begin to occur, Galaxas’ mother reveals the secrets ...

Growing up with an undiagnosed learning disability and a name that screams intelligence, Britanica Jaymes suffers ridicule as a child. If that wasn’t bad enough, she was made fun of because she was pudgy, a face plastered with freckles and frazzled hair. Thankfully she had the love and support of her parents, brother, Webster, and best friends Emmy and Gene. And there was one more problem: candy canes are her poison. Desperate, she made a secret Christmas wish. Most everything is coming tr...

The words “good to go” will change two people’s lives forever. For the good or for the bad. Talia has lived so many years in abduction (twice). Heaven above favored her with a natural sparkle.Marquess Chatwin has gone missing and on a quest to get revenge for a despicable cover up, but can he carry out the revenge now that he has developed feelings for his prisoner. Can love soften the beast inside of him?The story has a Beauty and the Beast flavor. You will hate Chatwin an...

She walked up to the door, unlocked it, and began to enter, but froze standing just outside her door. It was getting dark outside, but the darkness inside her house was black as tar and suffocating. She felt a sudden panic of fear, gasping, trying to breathe. She stood there staring into her house (that she loved so much), but felt an evil presence, everything inside her telling her to turn and run. Then she felt like she couldn't catch her breath and thought she was seeing a blanket of bl...

Hagan Bennett didn’t believe in a “feeling.” Facts and evidence. No compromise. After finding his best friend and girlfriend together and because of the long, long hours that goes into his profession, a relationship is out of the question. To deal with his heartbreak, he takes a cruise and a woman of unusual beauty and mannerisms literally falls into his arms.She has turned his world upside down. Now, believing in a feeling and the thought of being in a lasting relationship fight a...

How many people do you know who studied French in school or spent a year abroad in college but now regret losing the language they once loved? Maybe you're one of them. Your eyes stay glued to the subtitles during a French film. Classes seem scary, expensive, or both. A week in Paris, let alone a year in Provence, seems beyond reach. So what could keep your fervor for language alive or reignite it after such a long hiatus?In The Heart of an Artichoke, Linda Phillips Ashour and Cla...

When a poor street mouse named Angus accidentally wanders onto the stage of the opera, he scares the soprano so much that she sings a record-breaking high note. Word gets out, and soon the soprano, Minnie McGraw, becomes world famous, and goes on tour with Angus as her secret. But things go wrong when Angus becomes famous in his own right and Minnie grows jealous. Minnie and Carlo, the scheming tenor, come up with a plan to mousenap Angus! Trapped in a cage backstage, will Angus be able to...

Science education at school level worldwide faces three perennial problems that have become more pressing of late. These are to a considerable extent interwoven with concerns about the entire school curriculum and its reception by students. The rst problem is the increasing intellectual isolation of science from the other subjects in the school curriculum. Science is too often still taught didactically as a collection of pre-determined truths about which there can be no dispute. As a con- ...