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London, 1860. Griffin, thirty year old Earl of Devonwood, has a gift. He is a seer, a person endowed with the ability to glimpse the future by touching inanimate objects, a birthright inherited from his mother “just as directly as his raven hair and storm gray eyes.” [...] 
When a driven and dominant Daniel, and a yielding and selfless Léa met, they were immediately drawn to each other like an arrow to its target. Daniel is the young and ambitious kitchen protégé of an acclaimed three-star restaurant with an unfailing will. Léa is the owner’s young and adoring daughter, creative and artsy, full of sweet charm and pliant warmth. [...] 
After a whirlwind romance with child psychologist Matthew Frazier, midwife Ava Whalen moves in her husband’s ancestral home on the lovely St. Simons Island, off the coast of Georgia. While trying to adjust to the new environment and to her new life as a married woman, she stumbles across secrets and ghosts that have deep roots in the past and grave repercussions in the present. [...] 
When Maddie Kimble fell in love with Aidan James, cocky and bold mountain climber, she knew from the start that she would loose him. A six year marriage and a son later, Aidan is still selfishly pursuing his career as a professional climber, and despite Maddie’s ominous premonitions he’s off to a new expedition on Mt. McKinley, Alaska. [...] 
There’s no question that the line between art and work, the division between the left and right brain, is getting hazier. It’s a divide marketing guru Seth Godin confronts in his latest “The Icarus Deception,” out December 31. [...] 
(Photo Credit: Zebra Books) Ava Garrison is a fractured and grieving woman. It’s been two years since her two year old son Noah mysteriously vanished from her house on Church Island, off the Washington coast. With no ransom ever requested and no corpse ever found, police investigations had ended in a blind alley [...] 
Miss A presents Bibliotheca–a curated list of books the savvy woman wants to add to her bookshelf or ereader. Today’s edition focuses on six books that empower a woman to feel her best, look her best, and be her best. Essentially, this edition is all about the art and power of being a lady. [...] 
In its ambition to treat human infertility and genetic disorders, Madison Hospital Medical Center has pioneered advanced and acclaimed techniques for the early diagnosis and treatment of birth defects and inherited diseases. But in doing so, it may have crossed the line of what is considered ethically legitimate. [...] 
Sometimes the most riveting stories don’t need to be pieces of pure fictional fabrication populated by imaginary characters. In 2008, heart-attack and breast-cancer survivor Karen Baldwin decided to leave her San Francisco life behind and spend three months in a rural village in South Africa teaching English at a local elementary school. [...] 
Christmas wreaths and red bows will soon be taken down, leaving our bare walls to endure the rigors of the wintry winds. What about keeping that festive and warm spirit alive with few more holiday readings? [...] |
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January 18th, 2013 
