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Communications expert Michelle Tillis Lederman offers listeners an essential guide to business networking. The ability to build authentic relationships is…
vital for successful business communication. By learning how to tap into their likability, patience, and curiosity, listeners can start conversations with ease, make new friends, and have a lasting first impression. 2012.
When Stosh travels back in time to 1941 in hopes of preventing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that brought…
the United States into World War II, he meets Ted Williams, one of the greatest hitters in baseball history. Includes notes about Williams' life and career. Sequel to "Roberto and me", followed by "Willie and me". Grades 4-7. 2012.
Lady Hannah Chesterfield finds herself on the run with the beguiling Lieutenant Michael Thorpe. Once she was forced to suppress…
her desires for this dashing officer, but now Hannah has joined him on a quest to discover his true birthright. Could he be a prince? And if so, will he make her his royal bride? 2011.
Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural…
Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money to adopt a Romanian orphan. Grades 5-8. 2011.
When Ranger Andy Pickard is sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings and cattle thefts, two prominent…
cattlemen are prime suspects. But the rise of a gang of masked vigilantes and the arrival of a notorious hired gunman complicate matters. Sequel to "Other men's horses". 2011.
Successful entrepreneur Dani Pembrooke joins forces with security expert Zeke Cutler to discover the truth about her mom's disappearance 25…
years ago. But Dani doesn't know that Zeke has his own motive for this search--or that they're on a collision course with a killer who will stop at nothing to keep the secret buried. 2010.
One day, after weeks of secret planning, seventeen-year-old Annika Dietty leaves home at dawn to run away with her boyfriend,…
the charming and popular Dylan Sopick. She tried telling her friends and family how amazing Dylan is, but after they all seem set against the relationship, she's decided their only chance is to run away together. But not everything goes according to plan, and Dylan seems to be having more and more trouble dealing with every obstacle they encounter. At first Annika is sympathetic, knowing that he's had a harder life than she has, but very soon Dylan's behaviour becomes unsettling, and Annika realizes that her safety is at stake. She finally admits to herself that Dylan needs help she can't provide. She wants to get him to help--if she'll get the chance. For senior high readers. 2018.
At ninety years of age, Elinor, a Saskatchewan Cree artist, inveterate roll-your-own smoker, and talker to rivers and stuffed bison,…
sets out to find something that was stolen almost a lifetime ago. With what little time she has left, she is determined to find the child taken from her after she, only a child herself, was raped at a residential school. It is 1968, and a harsh winter and harsher attitudes await Elinor, her daughter, and her granddaughter as they set out on an odyssey to right past wrongs, enduring a present that tests their spirit and chips away at their aboriginal heritage. 2016.
On April 5, 1999, Serbian police found a truck half-submerged in the Danube River. When they looked inside, they found…
it filled with human bodies. Following orders, they hid the truck and its contents. Two weeks later, on the other side of Serbia, the same thing happened. The full picture would only emerge years later, when the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia investigated and prosecuted the chief architects of the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo. These cases, which formally came to a close in 2014, exposed a secret campaign to hide terrible crimes by transporting and concealing the bodies of the dead. Eliott Behar examines the causes and consequences of mass violence, identifying a powerful and disturbing connection between the justice we seek and the injustices we commit. 2015.
Horse breeder Tobin McMurray doesn't venture too far from his homestead. But when a Texas senator offers Tobin handsome compensation…
to deliver a horse to his daughter and teach her how to ride, he grudgingly agrees. Soon Tobin finds himself falling in love with the beautiful woman--but their budding romance is headed straight for danger. Sequel to "Texas rain", followed by "Tall, dark and Texan". 2010.
Orphaned at age five, Lucinda, now fifteen, stands with courage against the man who took everything from her, aided by…
a thief, a clever goat, and a mysterious woman called the Witch of Amaranth, while the prince she knew as a child prepares to marry, unaware that he, too, is in danger. Junior High. 2010.
Texas Ranger Travis McMurray prefers chasing outlaws to being cooped up in domestic life. But all that changes when he…
meets Rainey, a stunning beauty who steals not only his heart, but his horse. On the run from an arranged marriage, Rainey wants to start a new life in the West, but will Travis be able to track her down before she disappears for good? Followed by "Texas princess". 2010.
Alison loves her husband and their three children. But the emptiness she feels is tied to her decision to run…
away with Marc, her best friend's man. On the verge of divorce, Catherine loves her children as well, yet still pines for Marc, the love of her life. Alison and Catherine have kept their distance for 15 years, but now that Alison is moving back home, things will come to a head - for better or worse. 2009.
Shelby, a sheltered and idealistic 25-year-old, doesn't want to fall for a man like Luke. And 38-year-old Luke, a battle-hardened…
Blackhawk pilot, fears being hurt by a young lady like Shelby. Includes sex and strong language. Sequel to "Second chance pass", followed by "Paradise Valley". 2009.
Woman physician Taylor Bestman receives a cold welcome from the citizens of Gooding, Texas, and especially from Karl Van der…
Vort, the town blacksmith, who becomes her first patient ... against his will. Though hesitant to believe in Taylor's doctoring skills, Karl finds himself oddly protective of this surprising and determined woman. 2010.
A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls…
in love with him. For junior and senior high readers. 2008.
Things are going nowhere for lowly MIT research assistant Matt Fuller - especially not after his girlfriend drops him for…
another man. But then while working late one night, he inadvertently stumbles upon what may be the greatest scientific breakthrough ever. His luck, however, runs out when he finds himself wanted for murder - in the future. 2008.
Cardshark Ty Butler continues his migration to California, while stopping at every gambling hall along the way. This time his…
chips might be cashed in early, however, as he gets caught up in a deadly fight between two notorious criminals. Sequel to "Denver draw". 2009.
A controversial artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous installation. No suspects, no motive, no evidence…
- it's business as usual for the Peculiar Crimes Unit's partners, Arthur Bryant and John May. But this time there's a witness who says the killer was a cape-clad highwayman atop a black stallion. 2007.