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Something More: Excavating Your Authenticself Self
No matter how spectacular their lives may be, women today are plagued by the nagging feeling that there must be something more to happiness. And they're right. In this insightful and eloquent book, Sarah Ban Breathnach explores the nine stages necessary to living authentically: Sensing, Surviving, Settling, Stumbling, Selling Out, Starting Over, Searching, Striving, and finally, Something More. Through storytelling and interpretation, she leads women on a path to becoming Archaeologists of Themselves and helps them discover that something more was deep within them all along. By providing women with this knowledge, she offers readers a way to profoundly change their lives; forever.Simple Abundance (Warner, 1995) has sold over three million hardcover copies, and is a #1 Globe and Mail and New York Times bestseller. Sarah Ban Breathnach has appeared five times on Oprah, and her Journal of Gratitude has inspired a recurring segment. She has also been a guest on Dini, Good Morning America and The View, and has been featured in Time, People, and the Washington Post, as well as many other national publications. The author writes a regular column on everyday spirituality in Good Housekeeping and will start a national newsletter for fans of Simple Abundance.The Simple Abundance Charitable Fund, founded by Sarah Ban Breathnach, has donated $685,000 to charity. Something More is a One Spirit Main Selection.Also available as a Time Warner AudioBook read by the author.Sarah Ban Breathnach (pronounced Bon Brannock') is the author of the bestselling Simple Abundance and the founder of the Simple Abundance Charitable Trust, a non-profit bridge-group between charitable causes and the public. She has appeared on numerous television shows, including six appearances on Oprah, and has been profiled in such magazines as Time, Maclean's, and People.
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The China Bride
Born to a Scottish father and a Chinese mother, Troth Montgomery dreamed of someday traveling to Scotland, until the death of her father condemned her to a shadowy life as an interpreter in Canton. Then Kyle Renbourne, viscount and adventurer, discovers Troth's true identity and persuades her to be his guide on a dangerous journey into the heart of the Celestial Kingdom. A meeting of the minds flares into searing passion, an idyll that ends when Kyle is captured and condemned to death. A reckless prison cell marriage the night before his execution sends Troth to England, where she arrives at the estate of Kyle's brother. Though accepted as bride and widow, she is haunted by the memory of her dashing husband. Then the past reaches out to Troth, bringing passion, despair, and danger. Now she must draw on her unique heritage to save all she holds dear--and become the woman she is destined to be. . . . About the Author A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author, Mary Jo Putney is a graduate of Syracuse University with degrees in eighteenth-century literature and industrial design. She has won numerous awards for her writing, including two Romance Writers of America RITA Awards, four consecutive Golden Leaf awards for Best Historical Romance, and the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Historical Romance. Her books have also received frequent awards from online reader sites such as The Romance Reader, All About Romance, Romance Readers Anonymous, and Under the Covers Awards. The author of twenty-four novels, Ms. Putney lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Nobody Knows
Nobody Knows The Dark Secrets. Cassie Sheridan has all a television news reporter could want: an important beat in Washington D.C., and a skyrocketing career. But then, she makes a critical mistake. Suddenly, her career is in shambles. Nobody Knows How Far A Murderer Will Go. Cassie is transferred to Miami, separated from her family, her friends, and the power of Washington. But in an unsuspecting Gulf Coast town, a killer is watching...and waiting. Nobody Knows Who WIll Be Next. While covering a hurricane that's moving up the Florida Coast, Cassie meets eleven-year-old Vincent, who has just made a grisly discovery on the beach. In one week, Cassie traces the connection between Vincent's "treasure" and a secret operation in the dark shadows of sunny Sarasota-a story that has national significance and maybe, just maybe, will enable her to put her life back together. But nobody knows how fierce the coming storm will be. Nobody knows if a young woman's murderer will stop at nothing to keep the crime a secret. And nobody knows if Cassie will get out alive....
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Probable Cause
"Entertaining...Fast, fascinating." THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE When the profits of his law firm dip too low, ex-public defender Gideon Page is fired--but not before he steals a case that has all the makings of a media nightmare. Dr. Andrew Chapman, a black psychiatrist, is charged with manslaughter when a severely retarded girl dies in his care during a risky--and some say barbaric--elctro-shock procedure. When it turns out that the doctor and the girl's mother were having an affair, the press is about to have a field day. That is, unless Gideon can unravel the many twisted threads of truth, battle a county steeped in racial strife, and lock horns with a tough, ambitious, female prosecutor in a courtroom set to explode....