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My Secret Life is the author's account of his personal struggle to overcome societal norms that overwhelmed him throughout his life and almost defeated him.
His struggle, while unique and personal, required courage, resilience, and strength and is one that can be related to and recognized by all. His powerful, open, and compelling account of his battle to overcome the psychological, mental, and emotional effects caused by living a secret life, and...
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This is a journal spanning from October 30, 1942 to October 29th 1945 through which the author recounts his days abroad serving in the U. S. Army during WWII. Kennedy begins his memoir by admitting to a reluctance toward fighting in the war before bringing readers down a path fraught with detailed descriptions of life aboard a warship and in various countries around the world. Whether describing the war-littered desert streets of Tobruk, Africa, the...
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When Steven Armstrong tells his children he has fallen in love, he expects them to be happy that his life as a lonely, sixty-five-year-old widower is over. Instead, their father's intended-thirty-three-year-old personal trainer Charlene Hendricks-is exactly the kind of woman they fear. Through marriage, she becomes not only the stepmother to these three grown children, but the rival for their father's world-class fortune. Suddenly, an attack is made...
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A psychological thriller on a yacht. Two couples rent it, complete with captain, for a Caribbean cruise. The captain turns out to be a diamond smuggler and when things go wrong, he imprisons the passengers and changes course. At first the four try to outwit him, but the lure of the illegal cargo proves irresistible and they turn on each other. By the author of Guard of Honor.