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A famous but fading comedienne elects to go on a PBS television program that traces the ancestry of celebrities in order to "find their roots.” Although her goal was simply to increase her exposure for an upcoming comedy coming tour, Fiona—adopted as a young girl—inexplicably finds herself fascinated by the story of her previously unknown family heritage as it takes a number of unanticipated twists and turns throughout time, starting with a 16 year-old Molly O’Hara immigrating to America from Ireland in 1898. Over the following decades, her life is revealed—with both incredible ...

Portland, 1954. By day, Francine Avery is the picture of poise, penning etiquette columns for Charm magazine. By night, she is a hunter stalking a ghost in the rain. Three months ago, Francine’s world was shattered when a Green Jaguar struck her six-year-old son, Mikey, and sped away, leaving him in the street. Now, as the police file the case away as an unsolved tragedy, Francine’s grief has hardened into a cold, jagged resolve. The sympathy cards are ignored and the prayers are discarded. In the silence of her empty home, she isn’t writing about spring place settings anymore. Armed ...

On a fog-swept night on the ledge of the Golden Gate Bridge, a despondent man—about to be indicted for embezzlement and ready to end it all—is stopped by a mysterious woman in a silk scarf and evening gloves. She is Celeste Ainsley, the glamorous wife of a wealthy and powerful financier. Struck by his despair and intrigued by his calm resignation, she persuades him to come home with her instead of jumping. At her palatial Marin estate, the man—Miles Redding is offered a second chance: a bailout from his money troubles by her philanthropist husband who believes in second chances. But ...

When shy, feebish Arthur Dingle—the butt of every joke at McDuff Manufacturing—is sent to a “Productivity Seminar,” his future looks bleak…until he is accidentally mistaken for Matt Golden at a high school reunion taking place at the same hotel. Matt—the Golden Boy—was the undisputed BMOC and star quarterback and Arthur makes a fateful decision to simply assume his persona and live the life he had always dreamed of. That is until his worlds begin to collide. When reality starts to set in and the real Matt comes barreling in his direction, Arthur has to figure out how to keep ...

A blind heroine, a man tormented by guilt, and a relentless killer with a vendetta—Echoes of Mercy blends pulse-pounding suspense, deep romance, and unwavering faith into a breathtaking Christian thriller. Julianna Luna, blind but fiercely independent, must outwit a murderer in total darkness, relying on her heightened senses to survive. Carey Kittridge, burdened by a life-altering secret, risks everything to protect the woman he loves. Their desperate escape leads them through high-stakes chases, near-abductions, and a deadly miscalculation at sea—where a single mistake turns their ...

Val was just like any suburban housewife in 1947—counting the minutes until her loving and devoted husband finished his shift. She fills her time by cleaning, playing records, listening to radio dramas—exhausted but satisfied, and most definitely in love. Making fresh coffee to fortify herself through this long evening, however, she is unaware that not all dangers announce themselves or just walk through the front door. The House Guest is a classic-styled psychological thriller that revives the elegant menace of mid-century suspense for a contemporary audience—where obsession enters ...

Martin Milton Madellbaum—or Fartin’ Martin as he was un-affectionately called by the very few people who knew him or even cared to—worked in Room 246 on the thirteenth floor of a corporate mega-tower at a company for whom he was invisible. Daily pushing his mail cart mindlessly, as if on a pre-determined and unchangeable track, his life was lived out in a human habitrail of obscurity. There was no present, no future for poor Martin. Or was there? What whizzed and whirred under that mask of blank expression? Against a backdrop of corporate greed and abusive power, one simple man ...

This is the untold story of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s “Lost Weekend.” In September 1959, in the midst of filming the latest in a long line of movies, the brightest star in the celebrity universe disappears. Simply vanishes. The police say kidnapping. The movie-mags think secret tryst. Friends fear a mental breakdown. All the while, his agents and handlers are furiously attempting to keep the entire saga under wraps and hidden from millions of adoring fans. But behind it all, there is a mysterious but beautiful story of love and promise set in rural Mississippi. Hilarious in ...

When a self-absorbed executive gets stranded in the snow in the Rocky Mountains during a blizzard, he hikes to a nearby cabin in order to survive. There he is greeted by an old man who invites him to wait out the storm and to join him and his other friends for what they call their Game Night. All of the men turn out to be retired legal minds—judge, defense attorney, bailiff, investigator, and prosecutor. In the cold, winter evenings, they stage mock trials and argue both sides. What this stranger does not know is that the men have put the stranger on trial for a crime demanding the death ...

Henry Allen Carruthers had just celebrated his sixth birthday eleven days after he started first grade in 1955, and for him life was simply grand. But his idyllic existence would inexplicably grow dark with an unexpected life turn and the impact would slowly begin to change this sweet and lovable child.

When Grace Kirkman’s husband disappears under suspicious circumstances, she plays the grieving wife with convincing ease—but behind her perfect smile lies a calculating mind. As the investigation unfolds, Lieutenant Peroski begins to suspect the crime scene was staged, the body moved, and the truth artfully concealed. Grace, a poised 1950s housewife with a dark streak, knows just how to deflect suspicion while maintaining her grip on control—and her secrets. With the case growing colder and Peroski’s gut telling him something’s off, a deadly game of cat and mouse emerges. Is Grace...

Della Adderly was a 20-something aspiring art director who was anxious to make her mark in the advertising world of the late 1960s. Tired of laboring behind men who took the credit for her work, she took a risk and strode into the office of Miss Veronica Landon—a sharp, no-nonsense creative director for one of the fastest-rising agencies in Manhattan—and demanded an interview.

Vacationing in a five-star resort in the Rocky Mountains, film mogul Kenneth Edward Westland and his new, young wife, Delilah, find themselves trapped in the hotel after he becomes ill during a raging snowstorm. The resort, now abandoned for the winter, proves to be the last piece of the puzzle in a plot for Delilah to murder her husband and gain his fortune.

In The Quisling, Jerry Jamison delivers a gripping tale of sacrifice, betrayal, and redemption set against the harrowing backdrop of the Vietnam War. Captain Gordon Edward Lowell, Jr., a decorated officer from a proud military family, finds himself accused of the ultimate crime—treason. Branded a “quisling” for allegedly collaborating with the enemy during his time as a prisoner of war in the infamous Hanoi Hilton, Lowell faces a court-martial that will determine his fate. Through vivid storytelling, Jamison explores the psychological torment and unimaginable conditions endured by ...

In a delightful holiday story that stretches through eras, generations and families, the author cleverly connects historically based stories into one continuing tale built around a snow globe that comes to be passed along. Through it, the reader discovers a window into the lives and souls of those who once owned the precious item…and eventually propelled it forward from the 18th century until the present time. Filled with humor and warm sentiment as well as stirring situations with which we all connect, Jamison delivers a moving storyline that has been said is "impossible to set down for ...

Set in the wild and unpredictable world of the 1960’s college campus life, a young and quite hip professor falls for a carefree student and they take off for a summer road trip to enjoy nature and explore untouched worlds by following the Appalachian Trail as it winds through several states. Their attempt to “discover themselves," however, takes some wicked turns as they encounter odd and indecipherable strangers along the way—some of which introduce new terrors to their relatively tranquil lives.

On a very ordinary day in a very ordinary year, Aaron Matheson, successful Chicago ad-man, unearthed a journal from a dusty box that he had written in 1967 at the end of his high school era. During evenings it offered an interesting diversion as he followed the same dates—exactly 50 years apart—until his two worlds inexplicably began to merge. Simultaneously thrilling and terrifying, Aaron enjoys dipping his toe back into memories of growing up in a carefree beach town during the fascinating sixties, but soon realizes the dangers of time travel for each trip back takes a piece of his ...

Queen of Camellia Court is a Southern gothic noir steeped in heat, guilt, and long-buried sins.Camellia Court is a fading roadside motel on the edge of nowhere, a place people come to disappear—or to be reborn under a different name. Its bungalows bake beneath the southern sun, its neon flickers at night, and its walls remember everything. Especially Room Six. Mavis LaRue rules this crumbling kingdom with a steady hand and a watchful eye, presiding over a transient population of drifters, dreamers, war-haunted men, and women running from their pasts. But when a troubled stranger arrives ...

It was the summer of 1963 and one movie crashed into the world of teen America. After that, nothing would ever be the same. With babes in bikinis and tanned, muscled guys slicing through Southern California waves, the "Beach Blanket" phenomena exploded onto the scene and instantly everyone in America—from Minneapolis to North Platte—became a bitchin’ beach boy or a bronzed beach bunny. That was the first of eleven memorable surf movies that rewrote the script for an entire generation.Then came along Comic-Con and the 35th Reunion of the cast of those cult classics and, well, no one ...

As World War II rages throughout the globe, safely tucked away in one-of-a-kind cottage carved out of the cliffs of Monterey, California, is the serene and secure Casa Encanta. Its only inhabitants are two lonely women—a spinster with secrets and a young college student with dreams. But all of that changes when a dashing and delightful officer arrives on the scene with his betrothed to reserve their honeymoon suite. Then, without warning, fate intervenes and the worlds of everyone are turned upside down—some for better, some for worse—in this moving, picturesque novel. "If you are a ...