Marlene: 466 books

A coming of age short story.It was a time of decision making and Marlee Sweet was confused...very confused. Her heart was split between two lovers and it was time to make a choice. Roaming the streets of downtown New Orleans and trying to choose which one would have her heart was a tremendous weight...

Life holds many roads and many choices. In these three short stories, each woman learns a valuable lesson that helps her carry on. Mary Jordan has had a long, full life, but she misses her husband Louis, who is now gone. At 84, hardship has fallen upon her but through her creativity she finds...

Susie is hosting Thanksgiving dinner this year, but Susie can burn water. Will the dinner go on as planned, or will they eat hamburgers for Thanksgiving? "As someone whose adventures in the kitchen do not always go as planned, I felt a lot of sympathy and empathy for the intrepid, if naive,...

The second novel in the Time Travel Journal series When Sam Altair went back in time to 1906, he created a second universe, one with its own alternate future. In this universe, humans surpass the technology of the first, so that by 1980, their world is cleaner, more free, and less populated...

Imagine being there before the Titanic set sail. Now imagine being there before she’s even built. Sam Altair is a physicist living in Belfast, Ireland. He has spent his career researching time travel and now, in early 2006, he’s finally reached the point where he can send objects...

Savannah Harris knew she was living on the dangerous side of life when she escaped from her father's mansion and walked the streets of New Orleans. However, she did not realize just how perilous life could get until she met Broderick Blanchard. Drawn towards him like a magnet, young and innocent,...

Marlee Sweet is finally pursuing her dreams of finding lasting love with Joe Fontaine. With her travels and disappointments behind her in the southern states, Marlee returned to Canada to wonder if her dreams would ever come true. After making some tough decisions which included marriage, a...

Kelly thought when she married Tom that it was a match made in heaven. A beautiful country home, lots of land for her daughter to run and play on. A new dad for her daughter. It all seemed perfect. But it turned out to be an illusion tainted with pain, heartache, a miscarriage, broken dreams and a...

Shortlisted for the 1990 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes) Marlene Cookshaw is a Cheshire cat of a poet whose naturally realized details illuminate a shifting wholeness on the "singing edge" between dream and waking. Hers is a quilted language at once covering and revealing our fascinating...

Kyle wasn't like his friends. He wasn't going to be staying in his small hometown. He wanted . He found it when his friends got him a when he was home for the summer from college. . However, that wasn't the surprise. Kyle discovered, much more! Kyle loved adventure and this as much as Kyle could...

Jill finally admitted to herself that she was a lesbian when she was almost thirty. Her life had become so much better since, but she regretted wasting her youth. However, as the young girl downstairs comes of age, Jill sees a chance to recapture her wasted youth. The question is can Jill seduce...

At the age of thirteen, Gerri Oxley has come home to stay after having lived her entire life in institutions for the mentally handicapped. That day her twelve-year old brother Neil, the narrator of this novel, knows that his own life has changed forever. "It's not going to be easy," his father...

More than three million people in the United States stutter. In excess of a million students from ages 3-21 receive school services for speech and language problems. Another five million Americans live with a disability from brain injury, which usually includes communication difficulties. Half a million...

Cajun artist Nicole Dubois's life is turned upside down by a simple fax. Life has been straight and simple for her and she's planning a June wedding with New Orleans psychiatrist, Ansel Bernard. Then her grand-father leaves her valuable shore frontage in Nova Scotia. A stipulation in the will's codicil...