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A young Lithuanian immigrant, full of hope, arrives in Chicago in 1904 to work in the stockyards. He and his family soon find themselves processed like the very cattle they slaughter, by the system they dreamed would save them.

In Storm Fury! we find Corrie captaining the frigate Swift, off the coast of the country we know today as "Greenland". Corrie has just seen her best friend Tom Potts struck down in a ship-to-ship action, and it seems to her utterly unfair that Tom should have died so young. She wonders if there life after death, and if there is, what has become of Tom? Is her friend in some nether realm? Is Tom even now waking up in the afterlife and wondering where he is? Sail the seas in this action-packed naval adventure of historical proportions.

The fifth book in the naval adventures of Corrie Harriman, a woman serving in Nelson's navy. The trouble with dressing as a male naval officer in a crowded ship with a crew of more than 180 men, women, and children, is that it leaves very little room for romance. No privacy! Even if you are the captain!

Corrie’s life is threatened by the evil Master-at-Arms Mr. Sly. Corrie meets the escaped slave Billy Brown, the captain of the Maintop, and wonders if Billy, too, is a woman in disguise. All the while, she feels the ambiance of a warship in the time of Nelson: scrubbing the deck, keeping watches, learning to speak the language, and to find her way from the cat lashings to the bilge hole.

Corrie is serving in the Royal Navy. She is an officer in the frigate Swift during the war with Napoleon. Because women are not supposed to serve, she has borrowed a spare uniform from her friend and fellow midshipman Tom Potts and has dressed herself as a man...During her first night watch at sea, Corrie has taken the ship into a heavily fortified bay to burn three enemy coasters, but an unfortunate shift in the direction of the wind has left the ship trapped in the bay.

Corrie’s War is a 16-part naval adventure series where Corrie joins the Royal Navy and must combat deadly enemies, navigate through hazardous storms, and even endure cruelty by the hands of her own crew. No one suspects that Corrie is actually a young woman - and she plans to keep it that way. In Enemy Ship!, her brother, James, battles a French captain aboard a hostile ship, and Corrie must save him from impending doom.

England and France have declared war, and Corrie Harriman joins in on the action. Corrie’s War is a 16-part naval adventure series where Corrie joins the Royal Navy and must combat deadly enemies, navigate through hazardous storms, and even endure cruelty by the hands of her own crew. No one suspects that Corrie is actually a young woman - and she plans to keep it that way.

The real love story of Frankenstein! Released from a promise to keep portions of her journey secret, Mary Shelley lays her soul bare in the intimacy of love, loss, and betrayal, the search for a mother's validation, and inspiration as a woman artist discovering her voice.

Have you ever noticed someone and clicked right away and you feel like that person is right for you? It feels like your prayers have been answered and the universe finally puts you in the right place at the right time. But what happens when that person does not show the same interest as you? The Attraction Factor takes you deeper into discovering the mysteries of the hidden secret most people have been searching for.

Three stories. Three women. Three very different lives. Liz is a career woman who is desperately trying to break through the glass ceiling in the world of finance, Betsy is the motherly figure with more than enough on her plate, while Ellie is a wild party girl, hooked on having a good time. As the lives of the three become increasingly interwoven, the sudden financial crisis creates a different set of problems for each one, as they battle to maintain their individual lifestyles.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic masterpiece The Scarlet Letter is set in 17th century Salem, Massachusetts, and concerns the public condemnation of Hester Prynne, who bears an illegitimate child. However, the story is not about adultery, nor is it specifically about sin. Rather it traces the effect of actual and symbolic sin on the mind and spirit of each character.