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The Good Time Girls Featured
A novel of wild women, the bonds of friendship, a harrowing road trip, and help found in the least likely places.
In 1905 Kansas, ex-dancehall girl and outlaw Ruby Calhoun has settled into a (mostly) quiet and (mostly) lawful life. But out of the blue her past comes hustling into town when her ex-friend and ex-dancehall partner, Pip, shows up with a grim message and dangerous mission: Cullen Wilder, an old enemy with a long memory, wants them dead and the only way to survive is to kill him first.
With Cullen’s henchman hot on their heels, Ruby and Pip highta ...
Vienna on Fire Featured
ESCAPE FROM NAZI VIENNA IS GRETA KOLBE’S ONLY HOPE
March 12, 1938: German troops swarm into Austria, and 18-year-old Jewish Greta Kolbe's comfortable life, along with her parents and the city's other 250,000 Jews, sinks into a nightmare of intimidation and terror.
Faced with arrest for joining the Austrian resistance, Greta flees Nazi Vienna and embarks on a harrowing journey to the Netherlands for a ship bound for America. A spiteful ex-boyfriend-turned Nazi and the Gestapo are only a few steps behind her.< ...
From the moment a fairy wren drops his lost wedding ring at his feet, Paul realises there's more magic to the world than he thought...
When Paul Fischer receives a strange phone call asking for help, from a woman who might be his estranged wife Rachel, he's drawn into a mysterious search that threatens not only his struggling bookstore, but long-buried dreams too.
Unfortunately, the only help comes from a shady best friend, an Italian runaway and a strange blue fairy wren that seems to be trying to tell him something - yet the further he follows the cl ...
In the heart of darkening Europe on the eve of WWII, Vienna on Fire tells the riveting story of Greta Kolbe, an eighteen-year-old Jewish woman whose life was upended when German troops annexed Austria in 1938. AudiobookReviewer.com has awarded VIENNA ON FIRE the 2024 Best Team Award.
Her peaceful existence is replaced by a nightmare of terror as she, along with Vienna’s Jewish community, faces an ordeal of intimidation. Greta’s journey of resilience begins as she flees Nazi Vienna to escape arrest for her resistance activities, embarking on a dangerous trek to The Netherlands, with ...
