Nova: 115 books

"Just Think, I Could Have Been Normal" is Nova Bannatyne-Eng's poignant story about growing up with cerebral palsy and, in particular, her challenges and triumphs. Nova was one of the first students with a significant disability to be integrated into, and graduate from, public school in British...

Warren Hodges, head of International Pictures, lives in a house like a Norman castle with a view of the Pacific. Marta Brooks, blonde and beautiful, takes classified ads for the Romance Advertiser.Victor Shaw has spent time in Soledad state prison but understands that his future lies in blackmail. Taylor...

**“Shiver-inducingly delicious.”—The New York Times Book Review “[Suma’s] narratives are subtle, quicksilver creatures, her language is elegant, and her characters keep more secrets than they reveal. If this book was a dessert, it wouldn't be a chocolate chip cookie or a vanilla birthday...

Tornado Alley is a story of a man and a woman who are on a dangerous collision course. Marie Boule is a love-starved young woman who grew up in a small, impoverished town in Pennsylvania, and her one desire is to find a comfortable, easy life. She thinks she is capable of hardening her heart and making...

"It's a wonderful life . . ." Joy, fear, love, children, fishing, friends, and the constant writing of books are some of the elements of this revealing memoir by novelist Craig Nova. He began this book as a letter to his children but it soon became a credo, a belief in the way an American...

“Honor, destiny, caprice, oblivion—Nova’s novel parlays them all into a life-and-death struggle” in this New Yorker Best Book Pick (The Seattle Times). What does it mean to be a decent man? To love well, with fidelity and constancy? These are the lessons posed in this emotional metaphysical...

The Bible doesn’t tell us anything about Mary Magdala before she met Jesus and was healed. After being healed, Mary became a very important person in Jesus ministry, but her presence is noted more than her activity. Because Mary was a common name during Jesus lifetime, scholars sometimes assign...

A collection of fascinating short stories from JC Nova that you will not forget in a hurry. A young priest with hidden skills and a double life is forced to face what he has run away from for so long. Nightmare becomes reality when a single girl stumbles on a creature that wants all of her. A member...

Genesis 35:8 in the Bible records the death and burial of Rebekah’s nurse, Deborah. How could a woman who was probably a slave, become so important to Isaac and Jacob’s family that her death and burial are recorded in Scripture? Retired United Methodist pastor Nova Wells was so fascinated that...

This ebook contains legal documents from the Startup Forms Library provided by Orrick - an international law firm in San Francisco.This collection of documents is meant for US-based entrepreneurs & includes:•Corporation Formation•Founders’ Stock Purchase Agreements•Director and...

Ray is a real life supervillain. He acts exactly like characters like Ozymandias and Lex Luthor, at least when it comes to their speech patterns and belief sets.Not their catlike agility and billion dollar empires-Yet.Dialogue and actions of Ray are real. They did actually happen,...

Chloe's older sister, Ruby, is the girl everyone looks to and longs for, who can't be captured or caged. When a night with Ruby's friends goes horribly wrong and Chloe discovers the dead body of her classmate London Hayes left floating in the reservoir, Chloe is sent away from town and away from Ruby. But...

Seventeen-year-old Lauren is having visions of girls who have gone missing. And all these girls have just one thing in common—they are 17 and gone without a trace. As Lauren struggles to shake these visions, impossible questions demand urgent answers: Why are the girls speaking to Lauren? How can...

Cloud native infrastructure is more than servers, network, and storage in the cloud—it is as much about operational hygiene as it is about elasticity and scalability. In this book, you’ll learn practices, patterns, and requirements for creating infrastructure that meets your needs, capable of...