This thoughtful, poetic book uses metaphors and beautiful imagery to explore the reasons for our tears. In a soft voice, Mario asks, “Mother, why do we cry?” And his mother begins to tell him about the many reasons for our tears. We cry because our sadness is so huge it must escape from our bodies. We cry because we don’t understand the world, and our tears go in search of an answer. Most important, she tells him, we cry because we feel like crying. And, as she shows him then, sometimes we feel like crying for joy. This warm, reassuring hug of a book makes clear that everyone is allowed to cry, and that everyone does.
Elise loves the farm that is her home. There is always tea in the silver teapot, gin and tonics are served on the veranda and her days are spent listening to stories of spirits and charms told by her nanny, Beauty. As a young white girl growing up in Zimbabwe, her life is idyllic. However, this dream-world of her childhood cannot last. As Elise gets older, her eyes are opened to the complexities of adult life, both through the arrival of her step-father, and through her growing understanding of the tensions in Zimbabwean society. As the privileged existence of the white farmers begins to crumble into anarchy and farm invasions begin, Elise is forced to confront difficult choices and the ancient unforgiving ghosts of the past.
The power of five compels them… One terrible, magical day: one heart beating its last beats; one queen passing on her crown; one pirate testing his apprentice; one hunted Wiccan, barely alive; one prisoner far from home. All rely desperately on five strangers, and the strangers rely on each other—whether they know it or not. Where magic, intention, and morality intertwine, five people discover that even in their darkest moments, they can be a light for others. Triumph will not be won on a battlefield, but by redeeming one moment at a time, until the day—and the world—are better than they began.
Enjoy all 3 books with one click! "Gill presents a smooth blend of fast-moving action, dramatic suspense, mystery, plot twists, and romance." -- Reader's Favorite review "This is a unique story, fresh and imaginative...it concludes with a well-crafted ending, with surprising twists at the satisfying conclusion and all the story lines were neatly tied up." --InD'tale Magazine Behind Lead Doors --- He's undercover to save lives, but can he complete his mission without sacrificing his family? Ex-military Taddeo Pravo volunteers to go undercover inside Italy’s most prominent crime ring to bring the leaders to justice. He's stunned to find his sister held captive. Although frantic to free her before she disappears forever, he can’t compromise the mission. His dilemma: watch his sister be sold to the highest bidder to save hundreds, or put hundreds of women and children’s lives on the line to save the one he loves most. On Wings of an Avalanche-- When the lies unravel, who will be left standing? Dr. Madison Cote and Chip Chapman are desperate to escape their warlord captor, but his international reach robs them of a place to hide. When Madison ruins Chip's plan for escape, he's forced to choose between helping a fellow victim or saving himself. In the mix of stunning betrayal, lies, and desperation, who will survive? Or who will die trying? The Apricot Underground-- Would you try to rescue a girl who dumped you via proxy? Recent university graduate Sasha Zatkov is supposed to be living out her dream in Sofia, Bulgaria. Instead, her adoption agency is in a freefall and she can’t seem to find the ripcord. When a gorgeous Greek man offers her agency an ideal partnership to get around the stricter Bulgarian adoption laws, a problem-free future is within her reach, until her best friend recruits her for an underground mission in Athens, Greece she can’t turn down. Not everyone can be saved, and she doesn’t get to choose the survivors. A work-study program in Italy sounds like the perfect way to avoid another soul-sucking summer job to Damon Radov. But what starts as an adventure of a lifetime turns into forced labor, and his push for answers leads to an unexpected enemy holding a gun to his head. In hindsight, getting dumped by his girlfriend via proxy becomes the least of his worries.
When Hard Lilies Cry describes my 26 years journey battling two cancers and preventing two more. Diagnosed with breast cancer. How do you deal with that? How do you wait for weeks not knowing whether you will live or die? How do you inform your children and raise them while going through treatment? How to cope with your family during chemo and radiotherapy? Can you accept the alteration of your figure after mastectomy? Will your husband leave you? How do you handle your family and friends desire to “help” you through it? What do you do when a family member or friend is diagnosed with cancer? How do you come to terms with it as a person of faith? Why me? Oh God, I don’t deserve this! For a woman of science do you base your vital decisions on science or gut feeling not listening to your doctors’ advice? This book helped me and will guide you to evaluate ourselves deeply and understand the boundaries of our comfort zone. It will also be an inspiration and a benefit to you, your family, and friends in handling the tensions and complexities of life. Writing this book made me and now you, more confident and empowered in facing and dealing with hard times or life-threatening situations. It helped me expand my comfort zone and will do for you too. I hope to offer you some guidance to address some of the challenges you are facing and provide comfort as much as possible. This book helped me and will guide you to evaluate ourselves deeply and understand the boundaries of our comfort zone. It will also be an inspiration and a benefit to you, your family, and friends in handling the tensions and complexities of life. Writing this book made me and now you, more confident and empowered in facing and dealing with hard times or life-threatening situations. It helped me expand my comfort zone and will do for you too. I hope to offer some guidance to address some of the challenges you are facing and provide comfort as much as possible.
Joining forces is the only chance they’ve got Cries in the Night Haunted by her daughter’s cries in the night, Melany Jackson will stop at nothing to track down her child. And if that means joining forces with Ryan Braxton—the man she still loves—then so be it. Melany and Ryan must quickly unravel the clues in the case. But what Melany fears more than her attraction to Ryan is that he might discover her child…is also his. Person of Interest By performing facial reconstruction surgeries for the CIA, Dr. Elizabeth Cameron provided new identities for agents whose covers had been blown. But someone wanted one in particular dead—and now Elizabeth is in jeopardy. As the danger escalates, her only hope rests with Agent Joe Hennessy, the one man she swore never to set eyes on again…
John Barnes, the detective in charge of the case, is frantic, willing to try anything to catch his killer. With time running out, he looks desperately for answers. Will John get them before it's too late?
A sensational collection of stories of the American experience from the Depression to the aftermath of 9/11, by one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. John Updike mingles narratives of Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel: “Personal Archaeology” considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and “The Full Glass” distills a lifetime’s happiness into one brimming moment of an old man’s bedtime routine. High-school class reunions, in “The Walk with Elizanne” and “The Road Home,” restore their hero to youth’s commonwealth where, as the narrator of the title story confides, “the self I value is stored, however infrequently I check on its condition.” Exotic locales encountered in the journeys of adulthood include Morocco, Florida, Spain, Italy, and India. The territory of childhood, with its fundamental, formative mysteries, is explored in “The Guardians,” “The Laughter of the Gods,” and “Kinderszenen.” Love’s fumblings among the bourgeoisie yield the tart comedy of “Free,” “Delicate Wives,” “The Apparition,” and “Outage.”
