![]() While going through her grandmother’s belongings, Genny finds a mysterious key with a red ribbon. And to complicate matters further, she’s falling for David. If she can’t find a way to save her grandmother’s house, Genny will be forced to give up the fresh start she so desperately wants. Everything Genny holds dear is threatened. As if personal threats aren’t bad enough, a foreclosure proceeding looms, and a fire flashes in the night. Genny refuses to sell, but the land developer isn’t taking no for an answer. ![]() ![]() A local developer wants to buy her land and demolish her house. ![]() But during a meeting with her grandmother’s estate attorney, David Worth, she learns of a threat to her property. When nurse practitioner, Dr Genny Sanders inherits her late-grandmother’s house, she moves back to her hometown of Worthville, Georgia, determined to leave her past-and her scheming ex-behind her with a new job and new friends. ![]()
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And frankly, one of the best things about it was to remind me that people, underneath the cloaks of different names and accents, are actually the same. While her humor is often not "laugh out loud" it was "funny" in the sense of irony, observation of the misunderstandings that take place between people of different origins. And I see in her story an updated version of what it must have been like for my own grandparents to come here from a foreign land, and try to make their way in the cauldron of America. Firoozeh's voice and story make me feel like I know her, and share her experience. Now 40+ years later, I have met my second Persian, and based on my experience listening to this memoir, I am happy to say my first impression was correct. ![]() ![]() He was a sweet, gentle person, and while I know it was wrong of me to judge an entire nation by this one encounter, his charm certainly disposed me kindly towards his country. I met my first Persian in 1965, a fellow student at the University of Wisconsin, and when he told me he was Persian, I didn't know where it was, or what it meant. I am on a quest to read memoirs, and my search through Audible turned up this one, which I had not heard of before, but based on the blurb, thought it would be interesting. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Palace's investigation plays out under the shadow of 2011GV1, we're confronted by hard questions way beyond "whodunit. ![]() The first in a trilogy, The Last Policeman offers a mystery set on the brink of an apocalypse. He's investigating a death by hanging in a city that sees a dozen suicides every week-except this one feels suspicious, and Palace is the only cop who cares. People all over the world are walking off the job-but not Hank Palace. 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Now, on the book's 40th anniversary, this fully revised and expanded edition illuminates further the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest.Īlongside portraits of Boadicea, King Arthur, Alfred the Great, Athelstan, and William the Conqueror, the story of England is expanded further to include new voices, with all-new chapters on fascinating characters such as Penda of Mercia, Aethelflaed Lady of the Mercians, Hadrian the African, Eadgyth of England, and Wynflaed. Now, on the book's 40th anniversary, this fully revised and expanded edition illuminates further the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans. In Search of the Dark Ages is an unrivalled exploration of the origins of English identity, and the bestselling book that established Michael Wood as one of Britain's leading historians. In Search of the Dark Ages is an unrivalled exploration of the origins of English identity, and the bestselling book that established Michael Wood as one of Britain's leading historians. From Boudica to William the Conqueror, this is the definitive story of the Early Middle Ages and the hidden history of it's people. The bestselling classic In Search of the Dark Ages expanded and revised for the book's 40th anniversary. ![]() |