The daughter of a powerful industrialist seeks to live on her own terms in this entertaining portrait of the American home front during World War II Polly Fulton, the daughter of one of America’s most successful and admired businessmen, lives with her parents and brother in a thirty-room apartment on New York City’s Park Avenue. Yet she despises the superficial trappings of wealth and delights in defying convention. In the months before America enters World War II, she shocks her family and friends by dumping her longtime boyfriend, Bob Tasmin, and marrying radical journalist Tom Brett. As the war rages on the other side of the globe and dominates the thoughts of everyone at home, Polly comes to realize that she acted out of pride and contrariness, not love. But with Bob stationed in Guam, it may be too late to correct her terrible mistake. A richly detailed, elegantly crafted tale about the search for happiness in the chaos of wartime, B.F.’s Daughter is one of John P. Marquand’s warmest and most empathetic novels.

Set mostly in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, "The Shaman's Daughter" weaves the lives of two Cherokee teenagers separated by time in a coming-of-age story. In the 19th century, Cistoo becomes the first female shaman of her tribe. Though European settlers begin to encroach upon her tribe's land, Cistoo finds the strength to lead her people west to safety. Lokie, a contemporary Cherokee teenager, faces the threat of a modern highway tearing through sacred land. The highway forces a church to relocate their cemetery. When the graveyard crew digs up a century-old mystery, Cistoo and Lokie's lives become inextricably linked.

A rich and fascinating account of the lives of Victorian governesses, exploring nineteenth-century attitudes to women, family and class. If a nineteenth century lady had neither a husband to support her nor money of her own, almost her only recourse was to live in someone else's household and educate their children - in particular, their daughters. Marooned within the confines of other people's lives, neither servants nor family members, governesses occupied an uncomfortable social limbo. And being poor and insignificant, their papers were mostly lost. But a few journals and letters have come down to us, giving a vivid record of what it was to be a lone professional woman at a time when such a creature officially did not exist.

"Cemetery Road is a power novel. Beginning to end, it never loses its grip . . . The book is a wonderful achievement" Michael Connelly When Errol 'Handy' White returns to his native Los Angeles to attend the funeral of his old friend R.J. Burrow, who has been brutally murdered, a terrible secret threatens to reveal itself. Twenty-six years earlier, Handy, R.J. and O'Neal Holden pulled a heist that went horrible awry, and Handy's been waiting for it to come back and haunt them ever since. Was the murder linked to the past? Handy knows he can't leave until he finds out for sure.

A recently transplanted law enforcement officer finds life in rural New Mexico perplexing, difficult and sometimes hilarious. Her letters home chronicle her discoveries, victories and obstacles as she tries to navigate an entirely foreign culture.

The cities of Mumbai, Delhi and, Kolkata are in jeopardy due to a serial killer on loose. James, a cop tries to unravel this mystery. Then from Tower to tent every inch of Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata are under the control of a master criminal. He is a cause of human suffering caused by humans. In his path of destruction, he had disrupted the lives of three modern-day high profile young police officers. Sathyadev had lost a loved one. Ajmal who was part of the cyber-security whose girlfriend was brutally raped and murdered. James who is witty and fast to action had also lost so much to azdonbul but there is something else that connects the two. The two keep crossing paths often and till now James had been able get the upper hand. In Mumbai modern society a group of teetotalers frustrated by the declining self-respect of men wage their war against the impure. As the saying goes ‘desperate times need desperate action’, the teetotalers seek the help of a notorious gang who calls themselves robinhoods. The teetotalers and Robinson join hands to take over a several pubs in Mumbai to strike fear into the hearts of the impure.

Military brats' childhoods are often scarred by alcoholism, abuse, and an ever-present threat of a parent's loss to war. This eye-opening, sometimes shocking exploration tells what life is really like for the stepchildren of Uncle Sam. A new recovery group, Adult Children of Military Personnel, Inc., has been formed as a direct result of this book's publication.