The Noon God

Living in the shadow of greatness can be a difficult thing. Just ask Desdemona. When her father the magnificent J. Caesar Fortune is found murdered inside the offices of the Faculty of Art there is no shortage of people who carried a grudge against him.[]

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Reflections at Sunrise

February 25 2005 dawned cold and crisp. I'd lain awake for hours that morning overcome with grief and loss. I'd been a widow for two months. Something compelled me to crawl from the warmth of my bed and find pen and paper. I will always cherish the closeness I felt to my husband that morning as I poured out my heart. It was as though he was there beside me as I wrote the words that became my lifeline and brought proof that love survives death.
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The End of Normal

An explosive heartbreaking memoir from the widow of Mark Madoff and daughter-in-law of Bernard Madoff the first genuine inside story from a family member who has lived through- and survived-both the public crisis and her own deeply personal tragedy.

When the news of Bernard Madoff 's Ponzi scheme broke Americans were shocked and outraged perhaps none more so than the unsuspecting members of his own family. After learning that their father's legendarily successful wealth management company was "all just one big lie" Mark and Andrew Madoff turned their father in and cut off all communication with both parents. Mark and his wife Stephanie strove to make a fresh start for the sake of their two young children but Mark could not overcome his sense of betrayal and shame-he and other family members were sued for $200 million in October of 2009. He hung himself on the two-year anniversary of his father's arrest. Left to raise her children as a single mother Stephanie wrote this memoir to give them a sense of who their father really was defend his innocence and put her personal statement on record once and for all. In this candid insider account she talks about her idyllic wedding to Mark on Nantucket what it was really like to be a part of the Madoff family the build-up to Bernard's confession and the media frenzy that followed. It is about the loss of the fairytale life she knew adjusting to life with a man she hardly recognized anymore and the tragic and final loss of her husband.

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Broken Laces

Everyone deserves a second chance.

Jack "The Cannon" Kennedy thinks he's living the American Dream. A fancy house in the Houston suburbs. A promising career. And a loving wife who tolerates his long hours and selfish ways.

In one horrific instant he loses his wife. Then his job. Then his hope. And that just leaves Kellen the young son Jack hardly knows or understands.

Jack realizes he must reconnect with Kellen or they'll never get past their shared grief. But Jack's biggest obstacle is staring back from the mirror.

Desperate to reach Kellen he turns to baseball the game he once loved. With Jack a win-at-all-costs former star pitcher coaching his son's Little League team what could possibly go wrong?
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Salvation Creek : An Unexpected Life

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MY KIND OF CRAZY: Living in a Bipolar World

"The author lures us into her Bipolar world by injecting humor into the serious subject of mental illness. She acts as a tour guide and takes the reader on her manic journey and then steers us straight into the abyss of her depression." --Diane Urban PhD NYS Licensed Psychologist Adjunct Professor at Manhattan College and Westchester Community College SUNY

"MY KIND OF CRAZY is an important contribution which sheds light on the often hidden world of mental illness. The line between reality and psychosis is impossible to comprehend unless one has seen the world from both perspectives. The author unlocks the door to a locked psychiatric facility and allows the reader cross the threshold. The story is further enhanced by glimpses of her experience through the eyes of her husband and son." --William M. Dince Phd NYS Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Neuropsychologist[]

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Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man a Young Man and Lifes Greatest Lesson

Maybe it was a grandparent or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older patient and wise who understood you when you were young and searching and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom that person was Morrie Schwartz his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe like Mitch you lost track of this mentor as you made your way and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again ask the bigger questions that still haunt you? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - MItch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE is a magical chronicle of their time together through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world.[]

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On Berryhill Road

Fallon McKniere is a person you probably wouldn’t favor with a second glance if you saw her on the street. She’s not only petite in stature she’s toothpick-thin and her clothes say “thrift shop.” Her stance says “don’t mess with me.”

But if you take a closer look you’ll see a haunted expression in her eyes.

Donovan Pfarr takes a closer look. And can’t turn away when he realizes that she goes hungry most of the time. He feels compelled to help her.

But he wonders: how did Fallon end up living in a run-down trailer taking care of her mentally-unbalanced mother barely eking out an existence on her meager paycheck from the convenience store where she works?

The answer comes when a man involved in an event from Fallon’s childhood learns he is dying. He tries to make peace with his conscience by setting up an anonymous trust fund for Fallon. And unleashes a force that puts Fallon and Donovan in deadly peril.[]

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Seven Days To Say I Love You

Essential reading for those dealing with the loss of a loved one this is a memoir that will touch everyone who sometimes struggles to say those magic words.
Seven Days to say ‘I Love You’ is the diary of a son who finds himself at the centre of a family crisis when his Dad is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
In a compelling account of the last week of his father’s life the author takes the reader on an emotionally-charged journey towards the inevitable.
Poignant and insightful and written with heartfelt honesty this is a true story which you will never forget and which may just change your life.


'A stunning read’
'Beautiful in its simplicity'
'An uplifting story'
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The Last Lecture (Thorndike Nonfiction)

A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow what would we want as our legacy?

When Randy Pausch a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon was asked to give such a lecture he didn't have to imagine it as his last since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"--wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles of enabling the dreams of others of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.

In this book Randy Pausch has combined the humor inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt just how we play the hand." --Randy Pausch

• The Last Lecture


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