Melissa: 3186 books

Story about an elderly lady and the bumps and potholes she has encountered on the winding road called Life.

Short, short children's story about the weather, sunshine, rain and lovers in love.

This is a short story about a woman found by a fisherman and his young son.  Suicide?  Or something more sinister perhaps?

This is a short children's story about someone with next-to-nothing opening her heart and giving to those with nothing-at-all.

Short story about a young child lost in a snow storm.

Story of a teenage girl working hard at a flower shop, her friends and the guy who turns heads.

Activism is alive and well in the United States, according to Melissa Checker and Maggie Fishman. It exists on large and small scales and thrives in unexpected places. Finding activism in backyards, art classes, and urban areas branded as "ghettos," these anthropologists explore the many...

Part of the highly regarded Specialty Imaging series, this fully updated second edition by Drs. Santiago Martínez-Jiménez, Melissa L. Rosado-de-Christenson, and Brett W. Carter, reflects the many recent changes in HRCT diagnostic interpretation. An easy-to-read bulleted format and state of the art...

If someone you know, love, could predict the future, would it frighten you? Would dollar signs flash in your mind or would you be genuinely terrified to learn of your neighbor's death just before it happens. Would you tinker with a future you didn't like? Data Benders obliterates the illusions massaged...

A brilliant scientist has invented a powerful fertilizer that will make roses poisonous. If someone is stung by this kind of a rose, she won’t be able to resist the nearest person. The only down side is that the effect isn’t permanent and it will cause a short term amnesia, making the subject...

Margaux Piper has been swindled out of her inheritance. All of it. With her mother languishing in hospital, Margaux’s unscrupulous husband Rowan, whose Gaugin-like fascination for young and pretty tropical woman has finally taken possession of him, has funneled the money offshore and promptly vanished. Truly...

Does a future exist for a man out of time? Charleston 1870… In far too deep with a dangerous man, Jacob Langston has twenty-four hours to repay hefty gambling debts or his family will be harmed. Desperate for funds, Jacob goes in search of the lost Confederate bullion rumored to be...

The decorations are up and the lists are being checked twice in preparation for Abby's first Christmas. Comfort and joy fill Mary with every passing day. That is until Sarah brings her tidings of caution and dismay: Alex is starting to feel like he is being pushed out of the picture to make room for...

The Door of the Valkyrie has been opened... Mæja and her unlikely band of rebels and sky pirates have finally arrived in Brightstone. They need to get to the next treasure of the Gods, Thor's hammer, before the Empire does. If they can't get the hammer first, then the Empire is one step closer to...