June 2007


New Books From Virtualbookworm!

The Feud
by G. Elliott Nations

Newspaper reporter Blake Murphy set out to write a story about a shooting in the small town where he was born and raised. The shooting is the latest episode in a feud between two families that has been going on since the Civil War. With help from an elderly former slave, he learns the root cause of the feud, a tragic event that occurred when the son of each family fought on opposite sides during the Civil War. While learning about the people involved in the feud, and the anguish it brought both families, he also learns a long held secret that could change his life forever.

 

Edmundo: From Chiapas, Mexico to Park Avenue
by Robert Huddleston

This is a biography of Edmundo Lassalle, a Mexican who came to the U.S. in 1935 to attend Columbia University, married the daughter of a college dean, became a student/teacher at the University of California earning a Phi Beta Kappa key. He became a U.S. citizen and an assistant to Nelson Rockefeller, then a member of the Roosevelt Administration before becoming an American espionage agent in Spain while employed as the European Representative of the Walt Disney Company. At the end of the war, he divorced his first wife in order to marry a German princess whose father was an early supporter of Adolf Hitler. Later, he divorced the princess to marry the first of two wealthy American heiresses. Financially secure, he took up residence on the upper east side of Manhattan to devote his time and talents to the preservation of ancient monuments. In 1974, divorced from his fourth wife and failing in health, he took his own life in London.

 

Fantasy Football Guidebook
by Sam Hendricks

How to Play, Enjoy and Win your Fantasy Football League Every Year! A handy, concise and informative source book. Expertly organized and full of hard facts, helpful tips and valuable strategies. This guidebook is for the novice or the expert who wants to learn more about how to play and win fantasy football. It is your single source for every strategy, tip, rule or league variation available. It is the best book of its kind.

 

Rhythm of Emotion
by Dawn Lovett-Whitney

How does a beautiful, young party girl, who has never been denied a luxury, approach life after educational testing has shown her to have a higher than average IQ, but daily choices have confirmed her astounding lack of common sense? Meet Alley, a clueless genius who still lives as carefree as a university freshman until a life threatening event forces her to deal with the lurid events of her past and present. Alley traces her current perils of loneliness and illness to a string of misadventures that began in college.

 

The Healing City: A Cowboy Christmas Story
by Joseph Ransom

Con-man Stew Thomas left Ronan, Montana years ago under a shroud, returning now with a new name and a secret plan for the town. But Stew Thomas isn’t the only one in town with a secret. Will Ronan’s secrets destroy the town or will it become The Healing City?