Contract Bridge is one of the most popular card games in the world. But getting started can be daunting for beginners. Bridge for Beginners is the perfect book to have beside you during the early days of your playing career. Get started on becoming a Master with Bridge for Beginners beside you on your Smart phone or Ebook reader.Covers such subjects as Learning the Value of your Hand, Scoring, Opening Bids, Responding to Opening Bids, Overcalls, Strong 2C Openings, Blackwood and Ger...

The Swan Garden tells the story of a young woman who survives a brutal assault and rape, gives birth in a mother-baby home, and the abuse she receives in a Magdalene Laundry. After finding a way to escape, she attempts to create a life for herself, but never forgets who was taken from her and why. As the years pass, she learns truths once denied her.

Ireland holds the keys ... to love and to life.A late-night phone call, pulls her back to Dublin. A fall in the park; lost memories … a mother’s long buried fears.Catherine is going home.Things become complicated, as she re-discovers family dynamics overlooked as a teen. The middle of three sisters, she navigates between control and jealousy; an abusive husband, and the chance meeting of a past love.Dublin also holds secrets, long hidden, that can heal or de...

***Shared Gardens***brings the Garden Trilogy full circle. Claire's journey in search of her birth-mother is chronicled in this intense fictionaliztion of the authors own story of abandonment and adoption.Alice's story of The Swan Garden and that of her daughters in Garden of Nails, are brought together from Finn's perspective, the child deprived of family by antiquated views of morality.It is heart-breaking. It is maddeni...

Bridge is the ultimate card game. It is truly a mind sport, as taxing on the brain as a decathlon is to the body. Bridge for Beginners is the ultimate introduction.Learn how to play bridge with this simple step-by-step guide. While good bridge classes are, of course, of great value, this book is itself the complete tutorial. It will help you to learn properly without other help and give you a solid foundation on which to start playing this absorbing game. Work at your own pace. Unde...

Learn how to play bridge with this simple step-by-step guide.While good bridge classes are, of course, of great value, this book is itself the complete tutorial. It will help you to learn properly without other help and give you a solid foundation on which to start playing this absorbing game.Work at your own paceUnderstand the key basic principlesLearn about the Acol system of biddingDiscover how to play a hand, both as declarer and in defence

Caught between two husbands, a woman must choose between duty and desire in this sexy Regency romance.Sophie, the Duchess of Calton, has finally moved on. After seven years mourning the loss of her husband, Garrett, at Waterloo, she has married his cousin and heir, Tristan. Sophie gives herself to him body and soul . . . until the day Garrett returns from the Continent, demanding his title, his lands—and his wife.Now Sophie must choose between her first love ...

Set in the Carolinas in the 1940s, this riveting novel of historical fiction from the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Saints of Swallow Hill is a beautifully written, evocative account of a young woman reckoning not just with the unforgiving landscape, but with the rocky emotional terrain that leads from innocence to wisdom.For fourteen-year-old Wallis Ann Stamper and her family, life in the Appalachian Mountains is simple and satisfying, though ...

San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright is on the case when a rare edition of Rebecca leads to murder in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling Bibliophile Mystery series.Brooklyn and her hunky husband, security expert Derek Stone, have just returned from a delightful trip to Dharma, where the construction of their new home away from home is well underway, when a little black book arrives in the mail from Scotl...

New York Times–Bestselling Author: A woman vows never to be a victim again in this romantic suspense novel that "generates genuine thrills" ( Publishers Weekly).She won't be a victim ever again . . .Four years ago, Skye Kellerman was attacked in her own bed. She managed to fend off her knife-wielding assailant, but the trauma changed everything about her life. As a result of that night, she joined two friends—also survivors—in starting The L...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Walked In and Belong to Me comes a profound and heart-rending story about a horrific tragedy that marks one woman and her hometown and about the explosive secrets that come to light twenty years later.Ginny Beale is eighteen, irreverent, funny, and brave, with a brother she adores and a circle of friends for whom she would do anything. Because of one terrible night, she loses them all—and...

A death-bed secret throws her life into turmoil…Before unearthing a mystical book, skilled Civil War nurse Ainsley Byrne was focused on treating patients and keeping her magic hidden. Now, her life’s upended by a prophecy that foretells her unusual destiny. How can someone travel through time? When Ainsley encounters two witches with enlightening answers, it only leaves her more uncertain. And then there’s the handsome, dark-haired English surgeon whose entrancing ...