Home to one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, Arizona is a beacon for outdoor enthusiasts--the desert landscape is brimming with opportunities for exploration and adventure. In this guide we join travel writer Roger Naylor as he takes us through the state parks of this amazing region. The parks featured throughout this book offer some of the best hiking, camping, fishing, boating, stargazing, and wildlife watching in the state. It's no surprise...

Sedona Arabella Miller Schnebly followed her husband west when their small Missouri town condemned his Presbyterian religion. Arriving in Arizona Territory in 1901, they planted orchards and hosted early tourists in what is now named Sedona. This vivid journal of her life introduces you to a pioneer family, from their gentle upbringings through adventures with rattlesnakes, trappers, and colorful travels. With 30 photographs from family collections,...

March, 1953. Nettie Gilbert has cherished her time studying to be a music teacher at Columbia College in South Carolina. But just days before her senior recital, she gets a letter from her mama telling her that her childhood sweetheart is getting married ... to her own sister. Devastated, Nettie drops out of school and takes a job as live-in help for two old-maid sisters.

The summer of 1977 finds divided Germany locked in a fierce espionage battle. West Germany?s premier spy hunter, ambitious SABINE MAIER, faces off against ruthless Stasi General WERNER HEINRICH. Sabine has filled half a prison with her prodigious arrests of communist spies. Heinrich is the mastermind behind a small army of spy gigolos who prey on lonely women working in the West German government?s most secret divisions. Caught in the middle is ladies?...

Dust from the demolished Berlin Wall has barely settled, the East German police state is teetering on the edge of collapse, and Stasi General HOLGER FRANTZ will stop at nothing to save it. Caught in his intrigue are two unlikely heroes: American lawyer ROLF KELLER, recently divorced, fresh off the bottle, and mysteriously dispatched by his senior law partner to coordinate document drops by a defecting Stasi agent, and aspiring opera diva SYLVIA MAZZONI,...

"June, 1947. Charleston is poised to celebrate the biggest wedding in high-society history, the joining of two of the oldest families in the city. Except the bride is nowhere to be found ... Unlike the rest of the debs she grew up with, Vada Hadley doesn't see marrying Justin McLeod as a blessing--she sees it as a life sentence. So when she finds herself one day away from a wedding she doesn't want, she's left with no choice but to run away from the...

A foretold prophecy. A girl with the legendary power of the Flame. An orphaned mind reader. The first book in the Wishner Prophecy Trilogy brings mystery, intrigue, and adventure in a world of enchanting Visions, brutal griffin wrestling, and Scarab amulets that are soon to replace all Wishners' Hearts. Dive into the spellbinding Wishner World! Lurking deep in the Decayer fortress, the Thief of Hearts yearns for one thing. One thing that Arobithia,...

"It's mid-July and Dr. Kate Pomeroy is in town for the final fitting on her wedding gown. She and Jeremy plan to marry the following weekend, an event that Kate is looking forward to with all her heart. But unbeknownst to her, she is being stalked and, as she walks to the water taxi stand, is accosted, incapacitated and stolen away to an uncertain and dangerous future. Will she survive the mental and physical torture she will be forced to endure?...

Zora Adams leaves home and enrolls at a beauty school on the coast where she becomes fast friends with another stylist and falls in love with a young widower with a drinking problem.