Christensen: 447 books

Just because you are over fifty doesn't mean there isn't any romance and sizzle left to be had. This book makes you believe in second chances and never giving up no matter how old you get. Rosa Taylor is celebrating her fiftieth birthday with champagne. By the river. On her own. After...

Three Wives. Three families. Three troubled marriages. Set on Sydney's North Shore, this collection of full-length novels explores the challenges faced by three wives in their families and marriages. Anna's safe and secure world collapses when her husband of twenty-five years leaves...

No one told him there would be dragons—especially alien dragons. William’s dreams of adventure are crushed when he’s assigned to a boring library job. Instead of protecting the innocent and seeking glory as a member of the heroic Guard, he spends his days writing reports by candle light....

National Bestseller and Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Oscar Feldman, the renowned figurative painter, has passed away. As his obituary notes, Oscar is survived by his wife, Abigail, their son, Ethan, and his sister, the well-known abstract painter Maxine Feldman. What the obituary...

Hugo Whittier–failed poet and former kept man–is a wily misanthrope with a taste for whiskey, women, and his own cooking. Afflicted with a rare disease that will be fatal unless he quits smoking, Hugo retreats to his once aristocratic family’s dilapidated mansion, determined to smoke himself...

Fragments of a Childhood presents a collection of short stories offering an intimate glimpse into author Gerda Christensen's childhood in Denmark. She reminisces about the sacrifice, love, and the close-knit ties that can only be created by the strength of family. She talks about the greatest trauma...

Germany, WWI and WWII: War devastates the lives of ordinary citizens. While the country’s face was changing and men died in battle by the millions, the women’s psyche and role was also changing. Ursula Meister, an insatiably curious child, has an innate sense of independence and is a keen observer....

In 1987, homicide detective Lucan Kade's wife tragically disappeared never to be recovered the last-known victim of a serial killer dubbed by the media as, The Cipher. The killer carved various religious symbology into the skin of young women then buried these victims alive, leaving behind a severed...

Coordinative Practices in the Building Process: An Ethnographic Perspective presents the principles of the practice-oriented research programmes in the CSCW and HCI domains, explaining and examining the ideas and motivations behind basing technology design on ethnography. The focus throughout is on...

A fallen angel resurrected. Human worshippers of inhuman evil. The only woman to stop it has lost faith in herself. In eighteenth century Spanish Louisiana, Anthony of Languedoc stops a cult from opening a spectral doorway to the Second Heaven, where the Watcher—a fallen angel—is...

Harriet is in denial over her daughter turning sixteen. She does everything to avoid accepting the day finally arriving - including unwittingly casting a spell. Realising her mistake and in desperation she tries to fix what is no longer in her hands.

For a telepathic human has-been who will live forever, Richard Gazebo doesn't know is just how lucky he is to lose command of his outmoded intergalactic warship. If spaceships could be as leaky and creaky, his was, and the thousands just like it were the first and last defense of the Galaxy. Smarting...

Being open to consider things which differ from one’s own beliefs is crucial in a search for truth. This is the story of how faith grew in a boy as he grew towards adulthood and left behind many beliefs of his upbringing. Brought up in a church-going family, he did not end up rejecting Christ or...

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