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Bill McDonald, an award-winning journalist, had no intention of writing about the internet dating he began at age 69. One first-time date met him, quite intentionally, while she luxuriated in a bath of soapsuds and bubbles. A luncheon date startled him with a fact not mentioned in her profile: she was the great-granddaughter of Mark Twain, having discovered the kinship only two years earlier. These and other noteworthy occurrences led the author to write the fascinating pause resister, Old Geezer Romancing in Cyberspace.

Three ballroom dancers were murdered over 40 years ago. Wow, that’s one old cold case. What’s more, the murderer who was thought to have been killed during a police chase has resurfaced in Pittsburgh. Yikes!

Eight true stories of amazing women in Northern Arizona who have not been written about before. Bess Siler (cover photo) was born in poverty in Michigan. She became a Harvey Girl and went on to become a prominent business woman and property owner in Arizona. Belle Mexicano’s life on the reservation is fascinating as well as her traditional Navajo wedding. Beautiful Cherie Blair was a rodeo champion and the American All Around Cowgirl of 1940.

Sedona, Arizona, one of the most beautiful towns on the planet. A destination known the world over. How did it come to be called Sedona? In this short audiobook, learn about the Schnebly family, who came to build a life in the Arizona Territory in the early 1900s.

Two 18-year-old boys find themselves sharing a room when they arrive at Oxford. Life draws them together at whirlwind speed as they find themselves playing opposite each other in a student production of Hamlet and, after a few false starts, playing together in bed. Love has many lessons to teach them as they grapple with their emerging sexuality, deal with the machinations of others, and dare to look at the face of lasting happiness.

A chance encounter on a country bus. A brush of thigh against thigh and a sideways, then a downward, glance. Nineteen-year-olds Tom and Mick could hardly have guessed the epic nature of the journey they were setting out on. A journey that would take them into business partnership together. A journey that would bring them little by little to the deepest reaches of the human heart. An adventure that would catapult them into the sweet and sometimes painful mysteries of life and sex and love.

Twenty-one-year-old Henry is hired by the wealthy Luccini family to tutor their younger son Sandro in English. On the shores of Lake Garda he joins a world he has only dreamed of before now - a world of yachts, grand opera, and fast cars, and the world of the beautiful Luccini brothers, Michele and Sandro. As he learns to sail with them on the blue waters of the lake, he falls in love with both of them. Yet can he even have one?

They lived happily ever after - the last line of every fairy tale, every romance. But how happily can you live? How long can "ever after" last? This third and final audiobook in the Dog in the Chapel series finds Tom and Christopher still together during the middle section of their lives: a very ordinary couple living in France. But there are challenges aplenty to face: disaster aboard a big ship; the tiniest of enemies, the AIDS virus. The struggle to make a living renovating Dordogne cottages; the task of making relationships work.

At age 36, Clara Brown was separated from her beloved husband, Richard, and three children on the auction block. After being freed at the age of 57, she begins a tireless search for her only remaining family member, her daughter Eliza Jane. Clara worked her way west on a wagon train bound for Colorado by doing laundry and cooking for 26 single men who were on the wagon train. What Clara accomplishes in her 28 years of freedom will simply astound you

From gilded youth to 30-something. Young gay couple Tom and Christopher are steering through the minefield of changes in social and sexual mores of the 1960s and ’70s. Experimentation is the keynote of the age and Tom and Christopher dive in with a will as they move in and out of relationships and jobs in Britain and France, Channel-hopping, and bed-hopping through the years.

In 1896, Philip Johnston, age four, arrived on the Navajo Reservation with his parents, William and Maggie. In 1901 William brought Navajo leaders to Washington to plead their case to expand the borders of the reservation. Nine-year-old Philip did all the translating and interpreting between the Navajos and President Theodore Roosevelt. This is a fascinating audiobook about Philip's life growing up on the Navajo Reservation and the equally fascinating story of his role with the amazing Navajo Code Talkers.

Fiona Quinn arrives at her parent’s home in Daytona, Florida for a short visit only to be informed that their usually quiet retirement community has been besieged with robberies - cash, jewelry, and more. Her mom told all the neighbors Fiona is a wiz at catching bad guys. Yikes! Can Fiona crack the case? Hopefully, but what’s an amateur sleuth supposed to do when her Maltese, Harriet, shows up decked out in the stolen goods? Double yikes! Join Fiona, her parents, Harriet, and some pretty crazy old ladies for a real jewel of a quick mystery!

“I’m sorry to say you have breast cancer - an infiltrating lobular carcinoma to be exact,” said her doctor delivering the tough news right before Christmas 2013. “And there’s three ways we deal with breast cancer - cut, poison, and burn.” Such was the start of Jennifer McDonald’s "Big Breast Adventure", the name she gave to a series of blogs penned while going through two years of treatment. This audiobook is a compilation of these posts, hailed as a must-hear for anyone facing a life or health crisis and those who care for them.

The Forty Elephants were unique in the annals of British crime. Known also as the Forty Thieves, they were the country's only all-female crime syndicate, a gang of tough but glamorous young women who plundered the fashion stores and jewel shops of the West End, took their lovers from the among London's most notorious gangsters, and terrorised their rivals, male and female alike. Their roots lay with the Elephant Gang, a band of highwaymen who once haunted the Elephant and Castle coaching inn south of the Thames and whose reputation descended through generations of cutthroats.

Another planet. Zero survival skills. Would you survive? Or would you do your best to find your own happy place and pretend that nothing has changed? Until you are staring blankly into the eyes of all that has changed. Would you go on a murderous killing spree or would you allow yourself to be someone else's dinner? With help from the remnants of an extinct civilization and the emotional support of others that refused to be meals for the Goran, the protagonist fights a few battles both internal and outwardly for the benefit of those that have become his family.

USA TODAY BESTSELLER In the vein of Big Little Lies and Reconstructing Amelia comes an “atmospheric, absorbing page-turner” (Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author) about a mother unraveling the truth behind how her daughter became brain dead. And pregnant. A search for the...

This is a practical, step-by-step guide to basic marketing concepts. Its goal: to help you create a practical marketing plan for your business using the think/do/measure method of marketing.

Modern gods and goddesses, remote, revered - and like the pantheon of heroes and heroines of ancient myth - possessing great power tempered with flaws. Now, find within this anthology great tales by gifted and award-winning authors who move superheroes from the four-color panels of comic books to the fantastic pages of fiction, stories that will remind anyone who ever wanted to wear a cape or don a cowl of the extraordinary powers of the imagination!

George the Pony lives among the tall beautiful thoroughbreds at Pap-pap's farm. In spite of his short stature, George has a big personality, which makes him the boss. It doesn't take long for George the Boss to learn about the downside of being bossy.

Poor George the Pony. He has to go to pony camp! Not only does he not want to go, but there are strange creatures there - creatures that are different from him!