Marcia: 774 books

Janice Althorpe is mourning the death of her employer, and fiance, publishing magnate Charles Fallmont. Today she is at Charles’ funeral, sitting alone, watching the proceedings from afar in the church. While Charles’ daughter Maureen welcomes Janice’s presence at the funeral, son Jackson resents...

It is one year since both Elissa and Marius lost their spouses in a plane crash, which has left them reeling and confused. On the one year anniversary of their spouses’ loss they both see a dream where their late spouses are pushing them towards each other, even though Elissa and Marius do not know...

Emmanuel is the chauffeur for Elaine Masterson, and is driving her to the reading of the will for her late husband, Edward. This will be anything but a conventional will reading, as Edward’s wayward, greedy relatives have also been invited, having a sense of entitlement which is larger than the...

On the day of her wedding, feisty Mariel Crain discovers that her fiancé, Duane Davenport, has been carrying on an affair with best friend Melissa Meadows behind her back. All hell breaks loose at the church, as Mariel gives Duane and Melissa a piece of her mind, to mother Aretha’s delight, who...

Margaret ‘Molly’ Hastings is a fan of TV personality Charlie Castle, following his life religiously, to the amusement of roommate Gina. A competition is held where the winner wins an evening with Charlie which Molly refuses to participate in, but she does a dummy recording with Gina. Molly believes...

In the week before Christmas, Georgina Allan has been assigned by her advertising company to develop a campaign in the serenity of a lush woodsy hotel. As another work colleague cannot attend, Georgina will be working on the campaign with fellow work colleague Jeremiah Jacobson, whom she detests with...

How much trouble can a handsome man cause without even trying? In this case, lots...Mike Anderson gives the term dressing down a whole new meaning, but for totally unintended reasons on his part. Mike has just lost his job as a broker after fifteen years, and attempts a complete career change, with...

Cute, spunky university student Alby Martin likes nothing more than to take life as it comes, with a big smile, and heart to match. One day at the park he encounters Faire, a young woman with a troubled home life, and Alby becomes enchanted with the ethereal, but unsettled young woman. A central thorn...

Diandra Gray has just moved into a new house in a pleasant estate, and is getting to know her neighbors. She finds out about her new neighbor, Cameron Bassett, from another neighbor, Marlena, and that he is someone to avoid at all costs. Diandra finds the handsome Cameron fascinating, to Marlena's...

For as long as she could remember, Cassie had fallen asleep listening to the river sighing and whispering beneath her bedroom window. She had discovered if she laid her ear on one of the logs that made up the wall separating her room from the swirling current, the sound was clear, as though it were...

Maddie Samuels is woman of – and ahead of – her time. She knows she doesn't belong in the kitchen, and she refuses to become trapped in a secretarial pool. In mid-sixties New York City, she's not only determined to succeed in a man's world, but to prove her work is as good – or better – than...

De prachtige kust van Devon als de perfecte achtergrond: een voorschotje op de zomervakantie! Liv, de jonge moeder van een wel zeer levendige tweeling, kijkt ernaar uit om de zomer door te brengen in de Beach Hut, een huis aan de kust van Devon. Maar als haar man Matt zegt dat hij het te druk...

* *In Commonwealth and Covenant Marcia Pally argues that in order to address current socioeconomic problems, we need not more economic formulas but rather a better understanding of how the world is set up — an ontology of how we and the world work. Without this, good proposals that arise lack political...

When Tim forgets to double check on their tickets home for the holidays, he and his wife are stunned to discover they'll be stuck in a small northern community for Christmas. His wife isn't going to forgive him for this one anytime soon. His attempts to make it up to her keep on failing....