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Madeleine Talmage Force is just 17 when she attracts the attention of John Jacob "Jack" Astor. Jack's mother was the Mrs. Astor, American royalty and New York's most formidable socialite. Despite their 29-year age difference and the scandal of Jack's recent divorce, Madeleine falls headlong into love. On their honeymoon in Egypt, the newlyweds finally find a measure of peace away from photographers and journalists. Madeleine feels truly alive for the first time - and is happily pregnant. The couple plans to return home in the spring of 1912, aboard an opulent new ocean liner.

Bitcoins I Shift Deleted is a fictionalized memoir inspired by real events—a story of what it's like to hold magic in your hands…and let it slip away.

Rentrée Littéraire d'Hiver 2022. 19 avril 1945. L'Armée rouge marche sur Berlin. Adolf Hitler et Eva Braun sont réfugiés dans leur bunker. La fin de règne approche. Hitler a déjà planifié son suicide, mais pourquoi Eva, sa douce ingénue, devrait-elle subir le même sort ? Le Führer orchestre alors la fuite de sa maîtresse. Et rien ne se passera comme prévu.

Daniel Patterson was a civilian prisoner captured by Confederate Commander John Mosby and held hostage at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, as a future exchange. Within two months, a life-threatening illness strikes Daniel, yet he recovers only to be sent to Salisbury Prison in North Carolina. A stormy night in the autumn of 1862 distracts the guards as he escapes. He walks at night, 400 miles north to Union lines, and returns home to his wife in New Hampshire. Weak. Carrying the burden of trauma and the miracle of reaching freedom, alone but not alone.

Echoes of Armageddon: Voices from the Second World War plunges listeners into the heart of history's most devastating conflict through a unique and gripping collection of fictionalized interviews. This is not a typical retelling of battles and dates; it's an exploration of the human experience of war, told through the imagined voices of those who lived it.

The title Still Busy Steering just popped into my head when I was writing Changing My Perspective. And this is what each of the characters in these stories are doing. They are each “steering” God’s power in a certain direction—to accomplish their own goals in life.