Rita: 1575 books

Nicolette Burgolinni has always been impulsive and even a little reckless at times. Her habit of jumping on opportunities hasn’t always worked out for the best. Creating an alter ego and applying for a job as a nanny just to prove to herself that she could do handle taking care of kids had disaster...

Collection of short stories about the many misadventures of a failed domestic goddess.

Christmas Fireside Stories is a delightful festive collection of short stories that includes delicious Christmas recipes recommended by the authors as well as extracts from Pan Macmillan's favourite saga novels. Christmas at Briar Farm by Diane Allen Christmas preparations are in full...

From the top-ten bestselling author of Snowflakes in the Wind comes a heart-breaking saga set in WWII Britain. In Rita Bradshaw's Beneath a Frosty Moon, it’s 1940 and Britain is at war with Germany. For Cora Stubbs and her younger siblings this means being evacuated to the safety of the English...

Thirty years after it was first published, the issues raised in The Jury and the Defense of Insanity remain pertinent. Rita James Simon examines how motivated and competent juries are, how well jurors understand and follow judges' instructions, their understand-ing of expert testimony, and the extent...

The obstacles to assimilation and treatment of immigrant women are major issues confronting the leading immigrant-receiving nations today-the United States, Canada, and Australia. This volume provides a range of perspectives on the concerns, the sources of problems, how issues might be addressed,...

While on assignment, the last thing Marine Major Honey Thornton expected was to be called away for a meeting with the acting station chief in Istanbul. Even more surprising was the former CIA operative she met there, the ruggedly handsome and built-to-last Jack O’Brien. When attraction sizzles and...

Marine Major Honey Thornton is nobody’s fool and when she’s brought in to discuss an off-the-books mission by a manipulative two-star general, she is wary. When she learns the job is to investigate a military contractor who could have ties to the recent kidnappings of military children she signs...

The author hopes this latest collection of poems, "Say Yes To Time", will reveal a positive approach to life, to say "yes" to the evolution of everything. "We have come a long way since the Big Bang and we have so far to go", is her pep talk. We all need to compose on...

On a hot summer day, and on a popular beach; while soaking in the beauty of nature, Colin encounters an entity different from his kind. He is cast under a spell by a mermaid and sucked beneath the beach water where he is taken to an unknown world. He is assigned on a mission against his human kind,...

Aisha is a young girl forcefully married to a wealthy forty-year-old man. The poverty in her family is heightened by the drought in her country. Daily, she visits her mother’s dry farmland, praying for rain to fall and moisten the soil. She knows all hope is lost. Having sustained her family...

AUTHOR: RITA B. half English half Italian lives in Romagna Italy with her husband Umberto since 1980. DARK GAMES PEOPLE PLAY is the third volume of six short stories. Volume 4 to follow. Stories that reveal the dark side of human behaviour... leading up to an unexpected outcome.

Mary Luton, hermana del conde de Rohard, debería ser una de las mujeres con más pretendientes de toda Inglaterra: es hermosa, inteligente y nada la detiene, ni siquiera su impedimento para caminar. Cuando su hermano parde viaje de bodas, le solicita a Diego Lezcano, su socio y amigo, que vigile...

Dog Is God Spelled Backward: 101 Notes to Self leads its readers through a collection of musings on the deep structures, issues, aspirations, and possibilities that give shape and meaning to the universe and to daily life. By making her way along this path of exploration and creating 101 insightful...