 | Families of Two
Publication Date: September 21, 2000Families of Two: Interviews with Happily Married Couples Without Children by Choice,takes us into the lives of the growing number of couples who are choosing not to have children, and dispels the myths commonly associatedwith this choice. Families of Two provides insight for couples who are deciding whether to have children, and to friends and family of couples who have chosen or may choose not to have children. It celebrates the many people who are living lives that do not include parenthood, and the many ways to live happily ever after. ...
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|  | America's Dream
Release Date: April 25, 1997América Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up after wealthy foreigners who don't look her In the eye. Her alcoholic mother resents her; her married boyfriend, Correa, beats her; and their fourteen-year-old daughter thinks life would be better anywhere but with América. So when América is offered the chance to work as alive-in housekeeper and nanny for a family in Westchester County, New York, she takes it as a sign that a door to escape has been opened. Yet even as América revels in the comparati...
|  | He's Just A Friend
Release Date: June 7, 2005In her sizzling bestseller Soul Mates Dissipate, and its smoking sequel, Never Again Once More, Mary B. Morrison blazed a new trail in African American erotic fiction. Now she introduces a sassy, unstoppable heroine who vows to marry money and status--when what she really needs is love...Fancy Taylor wants to settle down. And after having dated twenty-six men in fifty-two weeks, she has enough experience to know that if a man is married, he's bad news. Unfortunately, irresistible Byron Van Lee--who has a big car, big income, big ego, and big youknowwhat--neglects to...
|  | Sisters of Holmes County Omnibus
Publication Date: December 1, 2011| Series: SISTERS OF HOLMES COUNTYEnjoy the pleasure of owning the complete Sisters of Holmes County series all under one cover. Be able to follow the Hostettler family’s mysterious struggle against an unseen enemy from start to finish. Along the way, watch as love triumphs out of tragedy for the three Hostettler sisters, and see how God keeps His hand on the Ohio Amish family through it all. ...
|  | The Colour: A Novel
Publication Date: April 1, 2004Newlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from England to New Zealand, along with Joseph's mother Lilian, in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch where they settle threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in a creek bed, he hides the discovery from both his wife and mother, and becomes obsessed with the riches awaiting him deep in the earth. Abandoning his farm and family, he sets off alone for the new goldfields over the Southern Alps, a moral wilderness where many others, under ...
|  | In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd
Publication Date: April 12, 2002Pushcart Prize winner Ana Menendez landed firmly in the literary landscape last year with the hardcover publication of In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd. Reviewers overwhelmingly agree that she is an important new voice in American fiction: hers is "a bright debut that points to even brighter accomplishments to come" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times), a tour de force that is "poignant and varied, emotionally vivid and hauntingly melancholy" (San Francisco Chronicle), and "a Cuban odyssey that conjures up Eugene O'Neill-like drama" (Kirkus Reviews). In these...
|  | Life Is Short But Wide
Release Date: March 24, 2009Beloved writer J. California Cooper has won a legion of loyal fans and much critical acclaim for her powerful storytelling gifts. In language both spare and direct yet wondrously lyrical, LIFE IS SHORT BUT WIDE is an irresistible story of family that proves no matter who you are or what you do, you are never too old to chase your dreams.Like the small towns J. California Cooper has so vividly portrayed in her previous novels and story collections, Wideland, Oklahoma, is home to ordinary Americans struggling to raise families, eke out a living, and fulfill their dr...
|  | What Love Sees
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|  | Jim the Boy: A Novel
Publication Date: June 1, 2000Both delightful and wise, Jim the Boy brilliantly captures the pleasures and fears of youth at a time when America itself was young and struggling to come into its own. ...
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