Showing results for "Messages" in Genre Fiction

THE MESSAGE HAS DISAPPEARED. SO HAS YOUR BEST FRIEND . . . You receive a text from your best friend: Can’t speak… don’t text or call… pls just come But as you race to her house, the message is deleted. She answers the door, insists everything’s fine. She says she never sent a message...

China, 1941. While war rages in Europe, Japan has established itself as the supreme power in Asia. The beautiful province of Hangzhou has become a stronghold of the Japanese puppet government. One day, five officers from the code-breaking department are escorted to an isolated mansion outside...

For tens of thousands of years, the message had been sent. Across silent skies and empty seas, etched in stone, whispered through dreams. And yet none could understand.

As a journalist, Paxton Andrews would experience Vietnam firsthand. We follow her from high school in Savannah to college in Berkeley and then to work in Saigon. For the soldiers she knew and met there, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways they could never have imagined. For the...

For years, Alfred Ludens has pursued mathematician and philosopher Marcus Vallar in the belief that he possesses a profound metaphysical formula, a missing link of great significance to mankind. Luden's friends are more sceptical. Jack Sheerwater, painter, thinks Marcus is crazy. Gildas herne, ex-preist, thinks he is evil. Patrick Fenman, poet, is dying because he thinks Marcus has cursed him. Marcus has disappeared and must be found.

Hana’s home has gone up in flames; the little bakery at the heart of the city is no more. Smoke curls into the sky and the buildings around her burn. But Hana has already lost far more – her blue-eyed fiancé was wrenched from her arms at the start of the war and her brave father was murdered by the Nazis. She’s determined to protect her younger sisters but every day more people are being killed… Hana realises that one person alone won’t win the war and she has to accept her sisters are playing their own part in the resistance.

David Chance can see messages in the sea of words around him, messages that warn him of future events. Words are everywhere - on labels, magazines, sign posts, t-shirts - everywhere. And as much as David Chance would like to hide from them, he can't. Words keep leaping off objects around him, forming messages in his mind. But how is this possible? Has his brain suddenly taken an evolutionary leap forward, or are the mysterious messages proof of divine intervention?

After the Messages is the long anticipated sequel to Behind the Messages. Following the aftermath of Behind The Messages, this novel explores Harriet and William’s stories as they battle not only their final year of school, but the broken relationship they now have.

If you could send a message to your past self, what would it contain? This is the question on Henry and Georgia's minds as they wait in line to implant a gadget that will allow them to receive a single message from the future. As they get closer and closer to the end of the line, they must decide: Will they listen to the message, or will they control their own destiny?

The message is hand written on a scrap of paper stuffed in an envelope. It reads: 'Are you blind to the truth?' I study the shaky capitals, attempting to winkle out some clue about the sender, then I stow it in the filing drawer with the others. The messages are delivered when I'm out. They lie on the doormat waiting for me in their cheap manila envelopes, the flap tucked in rather than stuck down.

A single mother sets out to find the North Carolina man who sent a message meant for someone else ... and the journey may change her life forever, in this moving romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Notebook. Divorced and disillusioned about relationships, Theresa Osborne is...

In a moment of desolation on a windswept beach, Garrett bottles his words of undying love for a lost woman, and throws them to the sea. My dearest Catherine, I miss you my darling, as I always do, but today is particularly hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together.... But the bottle is picked up by Theresa, a mother with a shattered past, who feels unaccountably drawn to this lonely man. Who are this couple? What is their story?

Each Surf’s Up novella takes the listener to a beach locale, weaving romance and adventure into a soul-soothing journey of hope. Includes: A Tide Worth Turning and Message in a Bottle.

Old Raliv, isolated and angry, lives alone in a hunting cabin. When he discovers someone poaching rabbits on his land, he sets off to eliminate the intruder, but finds himself engaged in an unexpected epistolary exchange with an unusual visitor named Pan. What will develop from this encounter? And just who is this Pan? Pan and the Message Chair is very human commercial fiction as it recounts one man’s growth through grief and sorrow to hope with the help of a mysterious friend with whom he exchanges gifts and notes by placing them on a log chair in a meadow.

The remodel continues as Abby and Georgia start to make plans for a grand opening celebration. A specialist is brought in to refurbish the century old fireplace mantel and makes a startling discovery. Meanwhile, Lonnie is looking to adopt, Colt has a new mystery to solve, and Velma comes face to face with a blast from her past.  

Six months ago, Mia Rhodes was a Seattle office manager, toiling away from nine to five and spending her weekends managing her online political competition, Ameritocracy. Now, that competition is spreading across the American political landscape, making Mia a celebrity and giving Ameritocracy a real shot at upending the two-party system in the 2020 election. But as the final voting draws near, Mia is betrayed by one of the people she trusts most, throwing Ameritocracy into disarray, and possibly ending her dream of changing American politics forever.

A killer has arrived in Atlanta and set in motion a chain of events that can only be described as a roller-coaster nightmare. Detective John Williams, a diehard Southerner, has been tasked with solving the crimes, a job made more complex given his responsibility as a single parent to his preschool daughter, Boo. When you add a new know-it-all partner straight out of the New York City Police Department to the mix, it makes matters even more difficult. 

The untold love story between two of the most powerful figures in history. Over the centuries, Mary Magdalene has been reduced to a minor role, often maligned, misunderstood, and dismissed. But what if they got her wrong? In Mary's Message, she emerges not as a footnote, but as a master teacher—deeply connected to the mystical traditions of her time and profoundly intertwined with the life, teachings, and mission of Jesus of Nazareth.

The first section of this book is telling us what to look for in making our life better, as we live this Christian journey in the kingdom, right here on Earth. Meaning, we don't have to die before we taste it, and whether we know it or not, this life is embedded right here within us. Now, ain't that something? Why are we waiting to die before we go there? The second section of the audiobook is about a little boy called AC who has discovered that there is heaven here on Earth, for those who are looking for it.

Morgan Calhoun and her parents are whisked away in the middle of the night, something Morgan always knew was a possibility because of her father's CIA job. But she'd always thought if such a scenario played out that she would have time to say goodbye to those she loved - particularly her boyfriend, Kyle. Adding to her unbearable situation, several weeks after the move, Morgan finds out that she's pregnant.