To fall in love is to be young again. To count the cost is to die a little bit inside. In Speak Softly My Love, Inspector Gilles Maintenon goes out for a quart of milk and stumbles across a dead man. The trouble is, when the dead get up and walk away. They have one too many missing-person reports, too many wives, girlfriends and other mysterious blondes. Enticing as it is, Gilles has a heavy court schedule. Without a body and a firm identification, what can they really do? It’s a time of budget restraint and limited resources—and the work keeps piling up. The suave but inexperienced Detective Hubert, and the raw but persistent Detective Tailler must handle the case. All Maintenon can do is keep his mouth shut and let them give it a shot. In this, the fifth in the noir Inspector Gilles Maintenon Mystery Series, author Louis Shalako transports the reader into the gritty reality of murder in Paris, 1931. An unforgettable mystery, one that is dark, witty and entertaining.

Our children constantly twist with needs and wrestle with life's challenges. Dr. William Baughman's new book "Speak Softly, Love Loudly: UnCommon Sense for Raising Healthy and Successful Kids" addresses these challenges. The world too often is void of necessary answers, but full of useless substitutes, dangers and distractions. So, how can we put our children on the path to happiness, health, and success? What will keep them there so that they may reach their God-given potential? We must return to the forgotten principles of common sense. These are proven means of guiding children that today have become uncommon. Through the pages of "Speak Softly, Love Loudly" the reader will: - Learn the principles that most parents and many experts have forgotten. - Recognize what truly motivates and works to mold children. - Understand the difference between what children want and need. - Touch the hearts and minds of children with love through discipline. - Know how to overcome the obstacles to their happiness and success. - Protect children from the dangers of the world as well as themselves. - Savor the satisfying difference made by uncommon sense. 'He has the unique ability to take the clinical and make it practical...he is a professional who speaks to you rather than at you.' C.S. Turner

POEMS FROM THE HEART When you walk with the one you love for fifty years and more A lifetime is locked in the memory’s store, Some of the difficult things you shared before, And the tender things you shared with the one whom you adore. Looking back over all the passing years, at all the joys and fears You recognize that underneath you both are God’s everlasting arms, That have carried you, and kept you both from everlasting harms. Such love, long lived, is a precious thing That makes the humble heart dance and sing.

Speak Gently is the story of a young girl from a wealthy New York family, growing up on a dairy farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Her seemingly idyllic childhood shatters when her parents separate, and she and her brothers are kidnapped by their father, and then taken to a town in New Mexico called Santa Fe. The ensuing war between her parents creates deep wounds within the family. As tensions increase, she is shuffled off to a boarding school for children with special needs, the Anderson School, in Staatsburg, New York. Here she is forced to keep afloat in an environment where she feels she doesn't belong. Balancing humor and heartbreak, this moving memoir recounts a unique family history from the eyes of a teenage girl trying to come to terms with her life. A story about the traumatic effects of divorce and kidnapping, it highlights the human spirit to survive.

Actress and model Cynthia O'Neal was living her dream life—married to the famous stage and screen actor Patrick O’Neal, the mother of two young sons, resident of the Dakota downstairs from John Lennon, owner of the successful Ginger Man restaurant, and frequent guest at dinner parties with Leonard Bernstein and Rudolf Nureyev. And then she changed course suddenly, surprisingly, and completely. The AIDS epidemic hit the arts community hard, and after seeing the multitude of people facing an unfamiliar and stigmatized disease completely alone, Cynthia walked into the fray. With the support of longtime friend Mike Nichols, she founded Friends in Deed and soon found herself spending her days in hospitals, cramped rooms, and dirty apartments, anywhere a patient needed a hug, a hand held, or confidence boosted. And when Patrick became ill and passed away in 1994, Cynthia had to work through her own grief instead of someone else’s and found her life transformed again. Talk Softly is the story of a life well-lived—with passion and compassion, in celebration of the joy of each moment, and with the ability to surprise yourself when you least expect to.

America's cities are awash in a flood of Panamanian cocaine. Navy vet John Kincaid has been selected by the White House to head an specialized undercover team to steal organizational and bank records for the world's largest drug network. A Night in the Tropicsis a tale of romance, sultry tropical nights, and unflagging dedication.