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Jessica, Ellie, Shereen, and Yolanda were the brightest stars of the Theta Phi Kappa Sorority at Howard University. Now, ten years later, they seem to have it all. Jessica is in the limelight, a TV personality whose star is on the rise. Ellie is an optimist, happily engaged in the quest for love. Shereen is a stunning and powerful executive, and Yolanda, the strong-willed leader of the group, has defied her roots to capture her vision of the American dream. But years before, these four women banded together to keep a devastating secret-and now, ten years later, someone will do anything to...

In Stuart Perrin's multicultural suspense novel "Little Sisters," the protagonists are drawn into the dangerous world of international sex trafficking. Beyond revealing the nightmare of sexual slavery, it's a story of four sisters and how each of them is transformed by the horrors of life in a Mumbai brothel in dramatically different and unpredictable ways.

"When children (no matter what their nationality, ethnicity or religion) are forced to...

"I Wrote the Script, but I Want to Change the Ending" is her inspirational autobiography, telling the story of a woman determined never to let her past dictate her future. Using her unique voice, Perrin depicts her challenges as a single woman living and working in small Canadian cities from the 1940s to the late 1990s. She details her struggles with patriarchy, chauvinism, institutional systems, and living with multiple...

Geheimnisvolle Drachen, grüne Magie und ein altes Zauberbuch

Enna beherrscht die Magie der grünen Tinte - und als jüngstes Mitglied der geheimen Gesellschaft der Geschichtenwandler hat sie London schon einmal vor dem Untergang gerettet. Da begegnet ihr plötzlich eine ganz neue Art der Magie: Auf dem Wochenmarkt beobachtet sie, wie aus dem Dampf einer Pfanne ein Drache aufsteigt - und von einem fremden Jungen angelockt wird. Und dies ist nicht der einzige Drache, der zum Leben erweckt wird. Was hat es mit dieser mysteriösen Drachenmagie auf sich? Zusammen mit...

Stella Carrington, young and beautiful, feels that life is passing her by in the repressed Victorian household of her grandmother and spinster aunts. A casual flirtation shocks and horrifies the elderly ladies, and they summon Robert Crayfield, her godfather, who is an officer in the Indian Civil Service, to make suitable arrangements for her to be a missionary or governess. But, tantalized by her beauty and disregarding the difference in their ages, he offers to marry her instead, scandalizing the village. 

Stella, indifferent to romance, is most excited by the prospect of...

In the spring of 1991, Noel Perrin flew from Vermont to California to pick up his newly outfitted electric car, a former gas-guzzling Ford. It would not be easy, but Perrin planned to drive Solo--as the car was soon dubbed--home, a 3,100-mile drive. Here is the picturesque story of the trip--from Solo's struggle with gravity at Donner Pass to an encounter with a man with four electric cars in Rotterdam, New York.