Marion: 1935 books

Xanadu. Not the Xanadu of Coleridge's poem, but-to the half-forgotten space drifter who discovered the place thirty years ago-a reasonable facsimile. It was a cloistered nun of a city, hidden behind a wide skirt of the most impassable mountains on Mars. And the city was more impassable than the mountains....

How should one reply to an invitation - or behave at a Hindu wedding, or select an appropriate anniversary gift, or write a letter of condolence, or eat tricky foods like artichokes?The Penguin Book of Etiquette is the definitive guide to modern manners in Australia. Entertaining and witty, it guides...

Dunkle Wesen, funkelnde Träume, tausend Gefahren. Entdecke neue und alte Welten, geh auf Reisen und lass dich verzaubern. 32 Kurzgeschichten voller Liebe, Fantasie und Abenteuer und spannende Leseproben aus dem Drachenmond Verlag erwarten dich.

This book is about recovery from loss. In the aftermath of a death, Ann Patterson's family is becoming unglued. To save it, the hot-tempered librarian splurges on a trip to Desolation Sound. The trip turns out far different from her expectations. With the help of a ghostly adviser, Ann must face her own shortcomings and get a grip on the realities of her life.

Seeing Is Believing When Alexandra Prescott's innocent sketch made her and her son targets for murder, the independent-minded widow needed someone to depend on. The most unlikely candidate? Luke Quinian, new neighbor, pin-striped lawyer-and definite preference of her adolescent son, badly in...

This eBook edition of "Knock Three Times!" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Molly is a young girl who craves for a silver bracelet, and she expects to get it for birthday from her Aunt Phoebe. However, despite her great desire,...

When things go wrong…but it feels just right. Abby and the Bachelor Cop Bride-to-be Abigail Callahan has her life mapped out. Good career, wealthy fiancé—it’s perfect. Then sexy bad-boy-turned-cop Raff Finn reenters Abby’s life, landing her with an adorable homeless dog called...

When an unwed mother is abandon and gives birth to her new born twins,with HIV she goes on a obessive search to find the man who affected her.But every path she ventures down, looking for him only leads her back to it. It s finally after learning the values of friendship and self-determination, that...

Kah-nung-da-tla-geh—the great Cherokee chieftain known as the Ridge—was born with one foot in each of the two worlds. The first was that of his ancestors, the great Cherokee Nation, who once settled across the lower plains, their culture flourishing, their position secure. But the arrival of the...

Tomos and the younger members of his family stand at the rail of the departing vessel. Through their tears, they wave goodbye to the rest of the family left standing on the dock and watch as the shoreline of their beloved homeland soon becomes a distant blur. Many weeks later, after a wretched...

A double homicide in a hotel parking garage in Columbia, South Carolina, is proving to be troublesome to investigators. The female victim is found shot in her car; the male is a rent-a-cop, paid to protect the parking garage from breakins and bandits. They had nothing in common, and although the brutality...

Enigmatic and attractive, her temporary neighbor, Blake Samford, is a complication that midwife Maggie really doesn’t need. Not only is she single-handedly trying to care for her isolated community with the flood waters rising, she’s also juggling the needs of her younger siblings. But when Blake...

Jim, the main character, wakes up on Christmas Eve to the miracles of St. Nicholas where he begins to learn that the meaning of Christmas lies in the meaning of life. The story unfolds as Jim discovers the letter that he had written to Santa when he was a young boy. Santa writes back an unusual letter...

This is a story that they tell on the solitary farms on the borders of the Catskill mountains, where I grew up. It is a mistake to think that country is settled and modern, just because the big highways stretch from city to city, and the factories hold out clean jobs that pay better than the scratch-the-soil...