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Americans by Choice is the story of Josefina (Dedieu) Vazquez. Her childhood in Cuba and her life in the United States are chronicled in this autobiography. She married a fellow graduate of Havana Medical School, Hiram Vazquez. The reader will follow her in her quest for a better life for herself,...

This book offers the expert of Haitian studies new perspectives on the imbricated relationship between Caribbean, francophone, and French studies. It also offers the reader unfamiliar with Haiti a comprehensive interdisciplinary study of twentieth and early twenty-first century Haitian thought, including...

One Halloween the US Navy would like to forget, played a terrible trick on LIEUTENANT DAVID PORTER, in 1803. He, along with 306 other shipmates aboard the 38-gun frigate USS Philadelphia, including Captain William Bainbridge, were caught by pirates at Tripoli It took guile and courage to free them...

After the Second World War and the occupation of Eastern Europe by the Red Army, the new Romanian communist regime ordered every medical graduate to serve in a remote village for a minimum of three years. No one had a choice but to comply with the new, draconic law. Failure to do so would have translated...

The unexpected arrival of America, the most famous yacht in the world,  in a Florida backwater creek, imperiled the lives of all within the Confederate community. One false move could bring the wrath of a Union gunboat upon the residents of Walaka. Only the firm leadership of a cavalry captain and...

Chance is a fine thing, thought the nurse who had watched wealthy Muriel Probert die in her Fifth Avenue apartment, so she took that chance – along with other fine things – and ran. To Lennox Kemp, Muriel’s ex-husband, the string of gambling casinos in Las Vegas left to him in her will seemed...

When her fiancé’s dangerous secrets turn her work upside down, a beautiful doctor must choose between her own safety and the man she loves—and thought she knew. Dr. Carrie Markham’s heart was broken by the death of her husband two years ago. Now, just as her medical practice is taking...

As elegant as his bestselling How to Know God and as practical as his phenomenal The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, this groundbreaking new book from Deepak Chopra contains a dramatic premise: Not only are everyday coincidences meaningful, they actually provide us with glimpses of the field of infinite...

As elegant as his bestselling How to Know God and as practical as his phenomenal The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, this groundbreaking new book from Deepak Chopra contains a dramatic premise: Not only are everyday coincidences meaningful, they actually provide us with glimpses of the field of infinite...

Is it possible to venture beyond daily living and experience heightened states of awareness? In his latest book, Deepak Chopra says that higher consciousness is available here and now. **“Metahuman helps us harvest peak experiences so we can see our truth and mold the universe’s chaos...

On a battlefield strewn with corpses, a ragged figure, dressed in wolfskin and intent on death, slips past the guards into the tent of the Emperor and draws his sword. The terrified citizens of Constantinople are plagued by mysterious sorcery. The wolves outside the city are howling. A young...

Faces in the Night some nights endlessly empty some nights fatalistic forlorn some nights full, capable, fantasy some alone, abandoned, shopworn dreams they come unbidden unchained, escaped, uncloaked mirroring my anxieties wreathed, evanescent, drugged smoke langorous, bemused, befuddled abed within...

Who wants to lose a few pounds? I do, I do! Who wants to read about weight loss? Um… Look. I know where you're coming from. Doctors like me should get all excited about slimming down, but if you ask me to count calories or eat like a cavewoman, I sprint for the door....

Meeting new people can be a nervous undertaking, even for the most confident and extroverted person. It’s even worse for the shy and withdrawn. Still, we can’t go through life completely alone. Instead, we must find a way to understand the people we meet and connect with them on different levels...