A Rendezvous To Remember

A Rendezvous To Remember
Author: Geri Krotow
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2007-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426808356

"My dear Melinda, I hate to see you throw away what may be the love of your life...." Melinda Thompson knew that her grandmother had always adored Nick. But Grammy's gone now and Melinda's on the verge of divorce.... When she comes home to her widowed grandfather, Grandpa Jack hands her a leather-bound journal—and invites her to look into some family secrets. Grammy's voice rings out from the journal, begun when she was in her twenties and living in Nazi-occupied Belgium. Breathlessly, Melinda reads the story of a young woman involved in the Resistance and the British airman whose life she saved. The story of passionate love and a wartime promise. One that saw her grandparents, Esmée and Jack, through World War II. And a marriage of more than sixty years. With the example of her grandparents' lives, Melinda looks for the courage to believe again. In the love of her life.

A Rendezvous in Haiti

A Rendezvous in Haiti
Author: Stephen Becker
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2016-01-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504026934

Two veterans of World War I fight for love and honor in a Caribbean country torn apart by rebellion Lt. Robert McAllister of the US Marines first encounters Paul Blanchard on a parade ground in Belgium in 1918. Awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Victoria Cross for his service at Ypres and Passchendaele, the British sergeant coughs blood onto his commanding officer’s boots and curses the war. A year later, McAllister commands a platoon of marines in occupied Haiti, where a peasant uprising threatens to topple the American-backed regime. Led by a charismatic revolutionary named Martel, the rebels, known as the Cacos, have a secret weapon: a white Caco who fights with a terrifying combination of cunning and courage. When the mysterious mercenary abducts a marine colonel’s daughter, McAllister rushes to save her. It is more than his duty—he and Caroline Barbour are in love. The deeper he journeys into enemy territory, however, the more McAllister realizes how little he understands, not just about this country of breathtaking beauty and staggering violence, but about his own heart’s desire. The biggest shock of all, though, waits for him at the end of the jungle trail: Paul Blanchard, hero of the Great War. Rich in the exotic colors of the Caribbean, A Rendezvous in Haiti is an enthralling tale of adventure, romance, and rebellion from master storyteller Stephen Becker.

A Rendezvous to Die for

A Rendezvous to Die for
Author: Betty McMahon
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2011-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1257931326

Award-winning mystery full of twists and turns Smart and sassy Cassandra Cassidy is armed with only her cameras to solve a mystery. Cassandra Cassidy's a new photographer in town. She does weddings -- but only to pay the rent. Her passion is more artsy stuff, and she'll go to a lot of lengths to get the perfect picture. Which gets our reckless heroine in a lot of trouble. She has a newspaper assignment to cover an 1830s Rendezvous reenactment and jumps at the chance. Lots of interesting characters -- and a chance to add to her "Indian" portfolio. And that's where the trouble begins. Surreptitiously checking out a sweat lodge when no one's around, she points her camera inside, clicks the shutter, and finds the body of her nemesis with a tomahawk in his loathsome head. She can't help but think "good riddance," but the local constabulary makes our meddling photog is the main suspect. Soon she's up to her f-stops searching for the real killer -- with her only investigative skills camera-related.

Our New Human Consciousness

Our New Human Consciousness
Author: Terry Sands
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2011-05-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1456844466

Every few thousand years, our human culture experiences a massive evolutionary transformation. In the next few years, our consciousness will change very rapidly and move us beyond anything we can presently imagine. This change of consciousness is happening naturally to each of us now, and it will affect every aspect of how we think, how we live, and how we love. We are a culture in search of its spirit, and this change of consciousness is evolutionarily next for humankind on this planet. When the awareness opens, one may search many avenues and attractions for truth and enlightenment and find the search lacking in result. The next step may be the path of Self-discovery. But the direction on this path will not be given to us by a great teacher who comes down from the mountaintop with answers cast in stone, but rather by lots of little great teachers who could be called pathfinders. And to move into this new consciousness, we will transform the mind and the way it works with new mental skills and mental technology. Our success is inevitable. The ease or difficulty with which we achieve this success is still in formation. We will survive the transition physically. The question is whether we will survive psychologically. Psychological survival in this transition depends on only one thing: Developing the ability and inner discipline to completely, instantaneously, unquestioningly and continuously adapt to change.

Memory

Memory
Author: Sven Bernecker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2010
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199577560

Sven Bernecker presents a new causal theory of memory, examining a number of metaphysical and epistemological issues crucial to the understanding of propositional or factual memory. This book provides sophisticated and comprehensive coverage of a much neglected area of philosophy, and will also appeal to cognitive scientists and psychologists.

Structural Information and Communication Complexity

Structural Information and Communication Complexity
Author: Thomas Moscibroda
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2013-11-09
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319035789

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 20th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2013, held in Ischia, Italy, in July 2013. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. SIROCCO is devoted to the study of communication and knowledge in distributed systems. Special emphasis is given to innovative approaches and fundamental understanding, in addition to efforts to optimize current designs. The typical areas include distributed computing, communication networks, game theory, parallel computing, social networks, mobile computing (including autonomous robots), peer to peer systems, communication complexity, fault tolerant graph theories and randomized/probabilistic issues in networks.

What Family Means

What Family Means
Author: Geri Krotow
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2009-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426828209

To Debra Bradley, marriage is being with the man you've always loved—despite the odds. Despite what other people think. And marriage is about family, about protecting your children from a sometimes hostile world. To her husband, Will Bradley, family is about creating a safe haven. Where it doesn't matter that one of you is white, the other black. Where it's never mattered… All these years later Will and Debra are still in love, still each other's best friend. They've made a good life for themselves and their children. But their daughter, Angie—pregnant and estranged from the husband she loves—has to discover for herself what family means….

Who I was Supposed To Be

Who I was Supposed To Be
Author: Susan Perabo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2001-04-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0743213246

"Both sardonic and moving...Perabo clearly recalls how to hit home runs." —The New York Times Book Review "A stunning collection of short gems, revealing a world both foreign and familiar." —Chicago Tribune Behind every face in Who I Was Supposed to Be is a singular quirk to explore, a peculiarity to celebrate. In Susan Perabo's world, nothing can be taken for granted: here, a retired grocer takes up jewel theft in his twilight years; a data processor squanders her inheritance on one of Princess Diana's gowns; a mugging victim feigns amnesia to win back his wife. In the tradition of Lorrie Moore, Susan Perabo's slightly off-center lens looks hard at the banal and the bizarre, and at the human condition, where she finds extraordinary magic within the smallest of gestures. Sharply written and overlaid with a mischievous wit, Who I Was Supposed to Be is an unforgettable homage to laughter, love, and wonder.