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|  | | A Rare Passion
Passion flares between Linden Bradly, an American biologist, and Cole Dominguez, a Brazilian rancher as Linden rescues and treats animals flooded out by the new dam. Cole metes out justice to a cattle-rustling neighbor.
Linden Bradley, an American biologist, is invited down to Brazil to help rescue animals dislodged by flood when the biggest hydroelectric project in the world goes online. She meets Cole Dominguez, a rancher who dreams of beating Argentina's monopoly on the export of beef. Linden has a one-year sabbatical from her research facility in New York State. She and Cole fall deeply in love, but both have a lot of old wounds to work through before their love has a chance. Cole has been cynical about marriage since his beloved mother divorced his equally loved father, and Linden is divorced | |  | | Farrago: More Stories
Second literary collection since Pastiche: Stories and Such
As in her collection, Pastiche: Stories and Such, Lucille Bellucci continues her oblique observations of the world. There is hard truth in some of them, and a fond embrace of feline innocence in her homage to Pinky and the Gang. In between, Bellucci delivers a riot of experiences. She favors a mix, and that is what stands between these covers.
| |  | | Journey from Shanghai
When her father dies, Rafaella Bardini at age 18 finds herself taking charge of resettling in Italy with her mother, Mai-yeen, who has bound feet and no Italian. Learning and surviving engage all of Rafaella's wit.
The Good Old Days in China are over by the time Rafaella Bardini turns eight. Exiled by the Communist government, the Bardinis arrive in Italy with one suitcase each and $150. Her adventure began on the ship transporting them; deserting French Foreign Legionnaires attack her; she meets Stefano, Eurasian like herself, with whom she falls in love; and a brother and sister, German nationals, who also are repatriating to a country they have never seen. What happens to them all is a story that is absorbing and astonishing.
| |  | | Meow's Way
A little tortoiseshell cat from next door pursues me until we catch each other.
Pinky is followed by siblings Tango and Loaner, and raccoons and sundry other critters. Make no mistake, cats own heart and souls.
| |  | | Meow's Way Redux
Redux adds more episodes to the original "Meow's Way."
Whereby Pinky's beau comes calling, Loaner learns the value of a wiggle, , and Tango's "Haroos!" meets new challenges. Those three scamps--and one more-- are stars merely by being themselves.
| |  | | Pastiche:Stories and Such
collection of stories, essays and poetry. Several are award winners. Bellucci has earned nine first-place awards.
I did a terrible thing once. I lent money to a friend. The amount was not huge, nor was it insignificant; just enough to cause the word "friendship" to feel like a dress that didn't fit right no matter how much you took it in or let it out. That admonition spoken by Polonius to his son, Laertes, to "Neither a borrower, nor a lender be..." must have dawned, too late, on an awful lot of other people as the most farsighted advice ever given to a human being.
| |  | | Stone of Heaven
Sequel to Journey from Shanghai. Rafaella and Mai-yeen emigrate to America. This is the Place! for them. At last they come to rest. But a nasty surprise awaits them.
Stefano put aside his croissant and looked as she stood for his inspection. She had dressed carefully and his eyes showed his feelings. It was hard to think of losing him again in two days.
| |  | | The Snake Woman of Ipanema
Every night thousands of terreiros (spirit rituals) take place throughout Brazil. Maggie Dalton takes a torturous path and risks her soul.
When Maggie Dalton finds a slaughtered black cockerel on her car, Tonia, her maid, warns, "Someone means you harm." Jon Dalton's affair with a Brazilian woman is skewing Maggie's soul. She broods on the occult. Beneath the surface of Rio de Janeiro's good life runs the cult of spiritism, brought over 450 years ago by captive slaves from Est Africa.
Far from her Michigan home, Maggie learns of that Brazil when she seeks her answers from the priestess who rules the underground. Only Tonia realizes where Maggie is headed. She is terrified, yet conscience compel | |  | | The Year of the Rat
Too soon after the second Big War and occupation by the Japanese army, Shanghai in 1948 faces occupation by Mao Tse-tung's army. The affluent foreigners believe business will continue as before; hasn't it always, after every conflict? But the Russians, the stateless ones who fled the Bolshevik revolution in 1918, believe the Communists will kill them.
For Maria Conti and her family, the executioner wears a different countenance. They could die of starvation. Their only income is the little she earns from her share of a saloon catering to American and British servicemen. When they leave China, the business will go with them. The Contis get no rents from their tenants. Nor can Mr. Conti sell the building, for in these uncertain times no one will buy. Maria's little sister, Nola, helps her father manufacture ersatz liquor in their dining room. Her mother, Ming Chu, knows her family's Italian citizenship is useless; the Contis are trapped./ |
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The Survivors
by T. Weber
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 A young mother dreams of bringing back a world lost to catastrophic climate change, but is thrust into a nightmare beyond her imagining. |
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The Apostate
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 Chris has been fostered at the Crowley boot camp since he turned seven. At sixteen, he is finally ready to run away because his foster father is an abusive person who works Chris and the other children to the point of exhaustion. All he has left of h |
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