It’s 1912 and on-board the Titanic are two women from very different walks of life. Alice Higgins is an impoverished music hall performer, heavily pregnant and running away with her bounder boyfriend to start a new life in America. Nesta Villiers is the wealthy wife of a brutal man, and is escaping to New York to avoid him committing her to an asylum.
In a small Oregon river town the local paper’s advice column generates a storm of controversy every week, because the letters in it are about real people and their real problems—but the subjects didn’t write the letters. The columnist, “Mrs. Bambi,” eavesdrops on conversations in public places and answers the letters that the subjects might have written, if they were willing to subject themselves to her snarky responses
Sadie Francé has known nothing but pain all her life. Good things just didn't happen to people like her.O
Ella Jacobs is an enchanting woman in her late twenties. She is a devoted believer, an icon in her church and a role model to hundreds of sisters.
Elizabeth Maine 1950s starlet, 70s sex symbol and 80s US soap queen has been lured out of retirement to star in Eastwood Avenue, a British soap opera.
David Herbert Lawrence was an English writer and poet. His writing explores issues such as love, sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. The author also wrote the controversial romance novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, which is available free on Obooko.
I’m profoundly grateful to God for the gift of life. It’s a huge privilege to be a vessel unto honour in His hands. May God’s name be praised forever, Amen.
Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1928. The first edition was printed privately in Florence, Italy, with assistance from Pino Orioli; an unexpurgated edition could not be published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960. (A private edition was issued by Inky Stephensen's Mandrake Press in 1929.) The book soon became notorious for its story of the physical relationship between a working-class man and an upper-class woman, its explicit descriptions of sex, and its use of then-unprintable words.
At age 18, Juliet looks as innocent as a spring morning. It would be such a shame if someone were to spoil her, but that is exactly what Juliet hopes for as she joins an occult club at her university.
A collection of poems about love, hope and life.
In an attempt to find his way back into his ex-girlfriends life, Adam offers Dalia the opportunity of a lifetime. She will direct a television show that will air nationwide, earning her power and money she never dreamed of having.
With the Olympic Games over, the competition for Dalia's heart begins.
Following a mail truck after he gets seriously lost in rural Washington state, Kevin finds himself in a tiny, remote town that has no phone service, no Internet, no regular mail service (the mail truck is private), and a population of 32. But it does have paved roads, a Town Hall that could service a city of 30,000, a vegetarian cafe, a tasteful bar, a resident artist, and a Montessori school. And right outside the grand Town Hall is a six-foot statue of a marmot.
GOING HOME, written in screenplay format, is aimed at helping readers broaden their thinking about guardian angels, dream interpretation, and eternal love connections.
After the death of her beloved cousin, Lana Andrews has to get away to be alone, to grieve. She rents a quaint little beach house in Plymouth MA. Little does she know that she will meet that one special love—an unexpected love. That one true love is Mike Ramsey, and he's a U.S. Marshal and the beach house owner.
There are two subjects that should be taught to the world’s children before they reach puberty. One is fluency of spoken expression, and the other is economics, as both will be pivotal to their development in their future lives.
Unrequited love: defined as love not reciprocated or returned in kind. Unrequited love becomes the bane of police detective Tess Champion’s existence in the town of Aurora, Colorado. Unrequited love will soon become the bane of several other women’s existence as well.
Dreamer is a story about a woman who solves the mystery of her mothers death through dream interpretations. In doing so, she liberates herself from the trauma that has haunted her all her life, and grows spiritually as well as emotionally.
Seventeen-year-old Lucy Ryman's world seems to be crashing in around her. Childhood sweetheart, James McIntyre, decides to trade her in - for an older model. She discovers a secret that could tear her eldest brother, Matt's, family apart. Her younger sister, Sarah, is out of control.
Before the multi-million, runaway bestseller The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown set his razor-sharp research and storytelling skills on the most powerful intelligence organization on earth--the National Security Agency (NSA)--in this thrilling novel, Digital Fortress.
