Black Forest

      Valérie Mréjen

A man decides he is old enough. A woman returns early from a lovers' retreat to a bottle of pills at home. And how should you explain the nuances of contemporary Paris to your mother, twenty – five years dead? Valérie Mr éjen 's Black Forest is a book of mourning that isn ' t morbid or sentimental, but rather an elegant and wryly humorous brace against the void. With a paradoxically detached intimacy, Mr éjen follows death's dark and twisted path through the lives it touches, wringing out every possible meaning—or non–meaning— along the way. A writer at the height of her career who draws comparisons to Georges Perec and Nathalie Sarraute, Mr éjen has cemented her status as an auteur with a singular voice, guiding us through the Black Forest of ghosts that populate her subconscious.

    The School of Life

      The School Of Life

Discover everything you were never taught at school about how to lead a better life...

Introduced and edited by the bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The Course of Love

'Alain de Botton likes to take big, complex subjects and write about them with thoughtful and deceptive innocence' Observer

We spend years in school learning facts and figures but the one thing we're never taught is how to live a fulfilled life. That's why we need The School of Life - a real organisation founded ten years ago by writer and philosopher Alain de Botton. The School of Life has one simple aim: to equip people with the tools to survive and thrive in the modern world. And the most important of these tools is emotional intelligence.

This book brings together ten years of essential and transformative research on emotional intelligence, with practical topics including:

- how to understand...

 Falling For Her Manny: A Sweet Workplace Romance (Single In the City Book 2)

      Tia Souders

Ever since her husband left the day after giving birth to triplets, life hasn't been easy for Mel Clark. But when her parents decide to move to Florida, life is about to get a little harder. Looks like Mel's days of subsisting off of Ramen aren't over because now she has to pay a nanny. To make matters worse, her children have somehow turned into little monsters overnight. So when the deliciously handsome bike shop owner Blake Roberts applies for the job, she has her doubts. Let's count the red flags, shall we?

1. He's a man

2. He rides a motorcycle

3. He's a man

Though Mel's distrust of men tells her he's no good, as it turns out, he only wants the job to prove to his girlfriends elitist family that he has what it takes to be a good husband and father. If he needs to wrangle three highly spirited children to do that, he's willing.

So they strike a deal. He'll give her one month, then help her find a solid replacement.

But what she didn't plan on was falling for her Manny.

Fading Into the Night

      Vannetta Chapman

When a cyber terrorist targets the Amish town of Shipshewana, an Amish farmer and a seasoned agent join forces to stop the attack.

How do you defend yourself against an attack you can't see?

Nora Brooks has been sent to the small town of Shipshewana to stop a cyber-attack that could kill hundreds. She doesn't realize that she'll need an Amish farmer to do so. Ben Lapp is walking around the corner of his barn when he comes face to face with a woman dressed in black, bleeding from a wound on her right arm, and aiming a gun at him. When he learns why she's there, he wants to do more than stay out of her way. He wants to help her stop this threat to the community and the people that he loves. But the man who is threatening Ben's community has faded into the night, and it's going to take every bit of cunning and instinct these two possess to find and stop him.

This story first appeared in the Summer of Suspense Anthology. Already read it? Check out the continuing...

Dead Wrong

      Vannetta Chapman

Who killed Russell Dixon?

When Agatha Lapp's brother and sister-in-law are tragically killed in a buggy accident, Agatha relocates to the new Amish community in Hunt Texas, nestled in the Texas Hill Country.  She's there to make a success of her brother's dream—an Amish B&B. Agatha is friendly, efficient, and capable. She's also a fifty-five year old widow who has learned to be independent. When she discovers Russell Dixon's lifeless body in Cabin 3, she runs next door where retired detective Tony Vargas lives. The police determine that her guest died of natural causes, but as Agatha and Tony put together the events of the previous two days they become convinced that the police are Dead Wrong.

Dead Wrong is a story of discovering new friendships and embracing a different path in the midst of tragedy. Above all else, it's a story of God's grace and provision.

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