"The Offering" by Angela Hunt~Surrogacy & IVF Story

SUMMARY :One innocent mistake . . . a lifetime of consequences.After growing up an only child, Amanda Lisandra wants a big family. But since she and her soldier husband can’t afford to have more children right away, Mandy decides to earn money as a gestational carrier for a childless couple. She loves being pregnant, and while carrying the child, she dreams of having her own son and maybe another daughter. . . .Just when the nearly perfect pregnancy...

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"Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage" The "Titanic's" First Class Passengers...by Hugh Brewster

SUMMARY :THE TITANIC HAS OFTEN BEEN CALLED "AN EXQUISITE MICROCOSM OF THEEdwardian era,” but until now, her story has not been presented as such. In Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage, historian Hugh Brewster seamlessly interweaves personal narratives of the lost liner’s most fascinating people with a haunting account of the fateful maiden crossing. Employing scrupulous research and featuring 100 rarely seen photographs, he accurately depicts the ship’s...

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iPad CoverCase~The Snugg!

THE SNUGG!!!   I found this darling pink iPad cover/case online recently and love it to pieces.  It's a stand as well and has several handy features:  a stylus holder, two different variations of stand, and it can be turned into an in-car entertainment center.I loved the pink color, but it comes in a variety of colors.  It also has a lifetime guarantee.  This cover is specifically for the Apple iPad 2, but there...

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Book Haul~HUGE!!! Week of May 24th

This was a great week for books of every variety and I was so thrilled to have them!  The weather is heating up here in Naples, the Southwestern part of Florida...although we get the breezes from the Gulf Coast.  It's still beginning to be in the 80 degree category.  Life at the pool is looking very tempting every day.  So, I'm taking my books there to read on a regular basis.  Life couldn't be better!I have been very blessed...

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"Black Venus" by James MacManus~Baudelaire in Love

SUMMARY :A vivid novel of Charles Baudelaire and his lover Jeanne Duval, the Haitian cabaret singer who inspired his most famous and controversial poems, set in nineteenth-century Paris.For readers who have been drawn to The Paris Wife, Black Venus captures the artistic scene in the great French city decades earlier, when the likes of Dumas and Balzac argued literature in the cafes of the Left Bank. Among the bohemians, the young Charles Baudelaire...

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"Murder As A Fine Art" by David Morrell~Thriller!

SUMMARY :GASLIT LONDON IS BROUGHT TO ITS KNEES IN DAVID MORRELL'S BRILLIANT HISTORICAL THRILLER.Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier.The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts." Desperate to clear his name but ...

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"Call Me Zelda" by Erika Robuck~ Brilliant!

SUMMARY :Everything in the ward seemed different now, and I no longer felt its calming presence. The Fitzgeralds stirred something in me that had been dormant for a long time, and I was not prepared to face it.... From New York to Paris, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald reigned as king and queen of the Jazz Age, seeming to float on champagne bubbles above the mundane cares of the world. But to those who truly knew them, the endless parties were only a...

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