Ergebnis für "Touchpoints" in Belletristik

Once A Homecoming Queen is a darkly humorous novel about addiction and redemption, featuring a 75-year-old, Francine-Reynolds-Richelli-Freeman, whose extreme alcohol consumption leads to a bevy of problems including her latest—a fall that breaks her neck, leaving her daughter and those who care about her to help Francine make peace with her past and re-imagine her future.

In 1969, during the crux of the Vietnam war, Jack Tagger is on the run. As the war in Southeast Asia rages on, he has made the moral decision to resist the draft. In his effort to avoid the authorities and the war, he seeks refuge on a desolate coastal barrier island where unbeknownst to him, while avoiding one war, he finds himself unwittingly caught in the middle of another deadly land-war between two very powerful men at Sunset Beach, North Carolina.

Sitting in a jail cell, uncertain of his innocence, Hume Rankin finds himself lost and a long way from home as he recalls dismissing the blind old negro woman’s warning and is haunted by the possibility that he may have played a part in how own demise.

The millennium is approaching and 23-year-old Amanda, a gifted mathematician and amateur astronomer, cannot seem to move forward with her life. Her obsession with astronomy and the power of imagination break through boundaries to reveal a family secret her parents, unable to deal with, have never discussed.

Parker Wilson has nothing more to worry about than his marketing job and donating bone marrow to his nephew who is fighting leukemia. Then he meets Marcus, a little boy dying of a brain tumor who spends most days alone in a hospital room. Because of this child's life and then death, Parker is forced to step outside his suburban comfort zone and confront the struggles, not only of one family, but of an entire community.

Maggie, a National Park Ranger, is back at the Castle—an ancient Native American pueblo carved into the face of a limestone cliff in Arizona. Maggie, who suffers from depression, has been through several traumas. As part of her therapy, Maggie volunteers at the local rape crisis clinic. She has several men in her life: the baker Jim Casey, always with sweet delicacies; Brett Collins, a scuba diver doing scientific studies in Montezuma Well; Dave, with whom she’s had a one-night stand; and her new boss Glen. One of these men is a serial rapist, and Maggie is his next target.

Rachel Collins has inherited the care of her newborn niece after her sister and brother-in-law are tragically killed. Having already lost her parents in a tragedy, Rachel feels abandoned by the God her family had served so faithfully. Two years later, her niece's uncle shows up at her door, claiming to have just found out about his niece. When his wealthy parents threaten to sue for custody of their newly discovered granddaughter, Rachel faces loss once again. Luke thinks he has found a way to help Rachel keep little Brooke.

But there in the forest...that’s where it all began.... Max Tyler, single father and former SWAT team leader, and Beth Collins, brilliant infectious disease specialist, rush headlong into an accelerating vortex of intrigue and danger to rescue Max’s kidnapped daughter, Megan, from the final steps of a horrific genetic manipulation experiment. Viral Dreams rockets in pace and intensity, captivating and propelling the listener on a kaleidoscopic journey of mystery, suspense, and wonder.