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McKenna Stafford thinks she’s content with her world as soon-to-be chief of orthopedic surgery, living alone in the family mansion in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio. Men don’t matter now, having experienced disappoint in her father’s eyes and failing to deliver a healthy baby to her now ex-husband. Her world is the hospital and she claims to be happy without a family to call her own.
Tetsuro Takamitsu thinks he’s happy with the world of taiko drumming. Having become one of the featured performers, he’s traveled the world several times on tour and experienced what other cultures have to offer. Handsome and viral, he’s also experienced what female fans have offered. A mistake thirteen years ago still haunts him, denying him the one thing in the world he wants--a family.
When Dr. Stafford is called to the emergency room to repair the crushed hand of a performer, she never thought she’d be bringing her patient home with her. Unable to join the touring company until his hand is mended, Tetsuro lives with his doctor in an uneasy plutonic relationship. Slowly the housemates come together as they learn about the other’s culture. Showing McKenna the way to mend her heart as she mends his hand, Tetsuro finds his own beat mended by her love.
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Corie Rickman grew up sheltered and indulged in a privileged Los Angeles suburb. Chaffing under parental admonishments to avoid the wrong side of life, she married a man who beat her senseless one time too many. Now, with the help of her real estate baron father, Corie tries to put her past behind her by running her bookstore, A Literal Haven. Now her evil ex looking for the evidence she has of his illegal doings.
Police Lt. Laine Tanizaki hasn’t been worked undercover for two years, not until his best friend was killed during a drug operation Laine ran. Now to make amends with his conscience, he wants to complete the sting by going undercover at a fast food restaurant in a Beverly Hills Mall. He hadn’t counted on the bookseller who has a secret of her own across the upscale mall.
Knight in shining armor Laine rescues Damsel in Distress Corie and the attraction begins. So does the subterfuge. Can they keep their secrets and still fall in love?
When Narcotics Detective Laine Tanizaki rescues the owner of the independent bookstore in Beverly Center Mall, he doesn’t know what he’s in for. The last thing Corie Rickman needs is a man who works at the burger joint fighting her battles. But there he is, soda in hand, putting his muscular body between her and a thug from her past. The attraction begins. So does the subterfuge. Can they keep their secrets and still fall in love?
Corie Rickman, from a prominent African American family, has a sheltered and indulged upbringing in LA. Once on her own, she sowed her wild oats by marrying a | |  | | The Seabird of Sanematsu
Aderyn Aquilla, a sixteen year-old of Welsh Portuguese decent, is stranded on the island of Kyushu in 1490 Japan. Scared and alone, she used her wits and her knowledge of Japanese to make friends with her captors.
Sanematsu Yoshihide is the samurai lord of Nishikata, is tired of war, having see too much in twenty-five years of life. When the strange foreign girl arrived on the coast of his domain, he protected her as an interesting distraction.
Little did either know they would fall in love and have to fight the whole of Japan to remain together.
Aderyn watched the man who had been such a mystery before leave. The guard was Hikita! Lord Sanematsu! She had spied on him these past nights. Sachi said he would leave at late morning of the third day. Why did he leave now, long before midnight? Could something have gone wrong with him and Tsuta? Dare she hope?
The long osode, the outer robe of the same lavender uchiki she had worn the night Sanematsu spoke with her alone in his sleeping chamber, unfolded as she stood. Aderyn liked the traditional costume most at night, after bath and before bed, the only time she could handle the se | |  | | The Season of Sanematsu
Aderyn Aquilla is finally back where she belongs. At the side of Lord Sanematsu Yoshihide. Now joined with the daimyo of the Satsuma provinces, she faces the obligation of providing an heir. She also finds herself in the position to help her husband govern his domain, an upsetting notion to the male dominated society of Japan.
Sanematsu Yoshihide finds strength and support in the love of his seabird, a woman he now called Ko-tori. But he also fears the danger joining with a barbarian will cause. Still, he forges on with his long-term plans, all based on the product of her womb.
Can Ko-Tori and Sanematsu survive the discord their joining has caused? Will Ko-tori succeed in giving her lover the hair he sought since the age of 15? Can Lord Sanematsu’s strategies bring peace to the Satsuma Provinces and Japan?
Only their love and strength will carry them through THE SEASON OF SANEMATSU.
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All Claire Ferris wanted to do was translate old Japanese literature.
All Kentaro Ikuta wanted to do was play American baseball.
All the media wanted to do was talk to him.
Can Claire and Kentaro overlook their differences to learn to talk together and fall in love?
"Excuse me," she blurted out in English then repeated, "Sumimasen."
Ikuta turned. He stood, his T-shirt wadded in his hands before his midriff, unconcerned that he was bare-chested. Claire was surprised an inch long gold cross dangling from a chain around his neck then realized she had fallen into the trap of stereotyping Ikuta as a Buddhist. Thoughts about his religion flew out the window though, as she noticed his slacks were unbuttoned, the fly half-zipped.
"I seemed to have made a wrong turn," Claire said easily in conversational Japanese. She hoped he didn't |
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Operation Oboe
by Miller Caldwell
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 A delightfully rare Historical Novel. 85% a biography of a spy, musician, mother and her neice trapped behind German lines in World War I. This background led to a diplomatic post in World War II. Aged 92, Vera disclosed her past life one year before |
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