"Greed, power, and sex-that's all some strive for, all they desire. And eventually it destroys-or kills. Welcome to the world of entertainment, Hollywood style." -Catherine Winter, Private InvestigatorThe divorce of a gifted singer and songwriter leads Catherine Winter into the dark shadows of drugs, sex, and power. Determined to find the killer of an entertainment attorney to Hollywood's elite, Catherine discovers the multifarious and convoluted connections between several people as she searches for truth and justice. Working closely with the Los Angeles Police Department, and teaming up with former cop and private investigator, Joe Copp, the hunt is on to find a killer. Catherine Winter has seen it all in her many years as a Southern California private investigator, and now in her sixties, she's as determined and dedicated as ever. "Having worked in the music industry in Los Angeles, I felt a particular connection to Linda Pendleton's latest novel, Shifting Focus. While music is an art form, promoting the artists is more about profit than talent, and where money rules, danger often follows. You'll feel like you're right there on the edge of corruption with Private Investigator Catherine Winter as she pulls back the curtain on Hollywood's steamy secrets." -Chelle Thompson, Author and Editor"Linda Pendleton's first private eye novel is a brilliant debut. Shattered Lens is good enough I hope it becomes a series." -Richard S. Prather, Author of the Shell Scott Mystery Series.Book Three of the Catherine Winter Series.Linda Pendleton writes fiction and nonfiction. s
Catherine Jewell's grandfather is in a nursing home now, where two residents are murdered. Her fiance, police chief John MacDougal wants her to keep out of it, but knowing Catherine, can she?
A young woman who's lost everything. A rancher with a tragic past. A chance to find love in the unforgiving west.No nineteen-year old should have to spend her birthday like Catherine Lamott, burying her entire family after a devastating illness took their lives. After her father's debtors left her almost penniless and her fianc broke their engagement, Catherine considers it fate when she learns about the mail order bride program from a stranger.Catherine corresponds with Samuel Cardwell, a businessman looking for a wife and partner to help manage his mercantile in booming Texarkana. Having decided it the perfect match for a St. Louis born and bred, educated young woman, she catches the train to meet her suitor. But she does not bargain for the man waiting at the end of her long journey.Jackson Trimble is content on his ranch, raising cattle and working hard from sun up to sun down to help him forget the tragedy of his past. When he hires a young innocent woman who is down on her luck to be his cook and housekeeper, he does not anticipate that his feelings for her would go beyond a purely business proposition.When his actions put her life and safety at risk, and unable to cope with the tragic memories of his past, Jackson tells Catherine he is sending her home, a decision she has no choice but to accept despite her growing feelings for the introspective rancher with the secretive past.Catherine's story is a clean short read western historical romance in the "Courageous Orphan Brides" series. Each story is a complete standalone story.
Book Synopsis: Lord Edward Bannister finds his wife and her maid in the convict colony of Botany Bay in Australia. When he discovers them, Lady Catherine is desperately ill. After seeing to Catherine's recovery, Edward makes it his life's purpose to bring to justice the men and women responsible for the women's unjust imprisonment and transport to Botany Bay. Edward and Catherine examine the bond the two women share, and their lives and experiences, as Edward finds and gets vengeance from those who abused them. The story also engages the reader in the class struggle of the times and the impact it had on the lives of Lady Catherine and her maid.Autobiography: Helen has always enjoyed historic English Literature and has taken a deep interest in her English ancestors. She attended the University of Ballarat where she completed a degree in Professional Writing and Editing. She enjoyed it immensely. Over the course of several decades she has written several stories, though this is her first book of this length. She has always had a passion for writing. Thanks to a loving Husband her confidence has blossomed. She enjoys the time she has for writing. Most of all she has wanted to follow the advice of her dear Mother before she died some years ago: 'Don't give up your writing' Offering words crafted in her more mature years, she is happily married and lives in Tucson, Arizona with her husband. She is Australian by birth and has two adult sons and one grandson living in Australia.
Set in eighteenth-century London, England. This fictional novel touches on the life of the upper crust and those who served them. As they both come together, foolish choices and harrowing consequences take two women-one an aristocrat and the other her servant-into a storm of trial, scorn, and tribulation. Stripped of title, recognition, and value, one wonders who the heroine really is, Catherine or Betsy? Catherine repeatedly asks, "How will Lord Edward find us?" A twisted and perverse judge condemns these two women to the Australian colonies. What is his motivation? Why would he want to hurt two women he'd never seen before? When everything about her life and station no longer has meaning, tears flow for Catherine. What has she done? Her foolishness has bought shame both on herself and her dearest friend, Betsy. How can she go on if they are parted? As Betsy looks back in time, her memories share love, concern, and deep anxiety. As she looks forward, she questions, "Am I worthy of kindness above my station?"
Russian-American professor Nicholas Krylov encounters a host of unusual characters while doing summer research on the 2018 World Cup Football Games to be held in multiple Russian cities. A serious stray dog problem threatens to derail the Games in Yekaterinburg (Catherine Town). Head city veterinarian Dr. Ivan Krastov is devising new methods to capture and kill or train and adopt the strays. He is also trying to modernize the city's animal control services to prevent danger to the visiting sports fans. Nicholas learns that Dr. Krastov is working on the side to create a new species of dog, the latest specimen that walks upright and talks. Th is success has generated high-level Kremlin support for his research, especially for its applied uses to save the prestigious Games from bad publicity. But Krastov's success has also attracted jealousy and animosity. His program is threatened, along with his and Nicholas's lives. The threats come from violent animal rights groups...but also from people in Krastov's own animal control facility, colleagues who are trying to steal Krastov's ideas and methods. During his stay Nicholas has befriended police inspector Simon Petrovsky, as well as Anna Irtenev, a professor from the university where he is doing his summer research. Together they fight back against those trying to derail Krastov...if they can survive long enough to succeed.
The memorial of Catherine Stewart is about the legacy of Catherine Stewart and how her life influenced her grandson Jy'Quan Stewart to leave an example of what Godliness is and why we should leave a Godly Legacy. We live in a generation where preachers and deacons claim to be men and women of God. They live and act just like the world and do not know what it means to be born again. Every born again believer is called to fight the good fight of faith and run the race. Before Catherine died she passed the baton on to Jy'Quan now he had to finish well fight for the faith. Jy'Quam Arnay Stewart was born July 1, 2001 at St Peter's Memorial hospital in Albany, New York. He was prophesied over as a child by Pastor Chapman to be the man of God. He was raised in Rensselaer, New York in poverty. Jy'Quan Stewart got saved at a young age by God using his grandmother as a witness. He always had a hunger for a deeper walk with God not merely just going to church but being the church. Being filled with the fullness of God and pouring into other lives. He attended Rensselaer City School District. God has used many things from his past to shape him into the man he is today and is a work in progress.
My Dear Friend: Thy book has appeared just at a time, when, from the nature of my engagements, it will be impossible for me to give it that attention which so weighty a subject demands. Incessantly occupied in prosecuting a mission, the responsibilities of which task all my powers, I can reply to it only by desultory letters, thrown from my pen as I travel from place to place. I prefer this mode to that of taking as long a time to answer it, as thou didst to determine upon the best method by which to counteract the effect of my testimony at the north-which, as the preface of thy book informs me, was thy main design. Thou thinkest I have not been 'sufficiently informed in regard to the feelings and opinions of Christian females at the North' on the subject of slavery; for that in fact they hold the same principles with Abolitionists, although they condemn their measures.
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The second book in the Captives series is the descendants of the captive Sara Hanson and her husband Jean-Baptiste Sabourin. Sara, her mother Elisabeth Meador and two or three other children were taken captive by natives on August 7, 1724 at their home in Dover, New Hampshire and taken on a rigorous march to Quebec. Sara's mother and siblings were rescued by her father John Hanson in 1725, but Sara remained in Quebec. Jean-Baptiste Sabourin and Sara dite Catherine Hanson dit Enneson were married at Oka, Quebec on on July 27, 1727. Ten children were born to this couple. Two daughters and one son married and had children. Six generations of their descendants are included in this book with many families recorded in Quebec in the 1850s. Their descendant Michel Hermenegilde Villenueve was in the 1835 Red River Settlement census.
Happy Birthday Catherine is a personalized kids activity book, it includes personalized crosswords, word searches, number puzzles, jokes, drawing and coloring >It is suitable for children between 6-11 years old It is the perfect birthday present for Catherine, and is a great keepsake for parents to remember their child's early years and birthdays This personalized book is available for other names also This is a great gift for children and an amazing keepsake for parents Happy Birthday Catherine
Catherine (Kay) Marie Kisak (nee Svaranowic) was a loving Daughter, Sister, Wife, Mother and Aunt (Auntie Sis) who came from a large loving family.Catherine loved cooking, entertaining, singing and dancing.When Catherine Marie SVARANOWIC was born on May 6, 1928, in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, her father, Peter, was 18, and her mother, Catherine, was 18. She married Paul Francis KISAK on September 17, 1955, in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. They had two children during their marriage (Paul & Robert). She died on August 28, 1992, in Brighton, Michigan, at the age of 64, and was buried in St. Marys Cemetery of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania with her husband.Her brother Francis (Frank) George was born on November 11, 1933, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when Catherine Marie was 5 years old Frank went on to serve in The USA (Korean War) and raise 3 children with his wife Nina (Peter, Cathy & Terry). Catherine was of Slovakian & Lithuanian descent. She acted in a school play, was an active volunteer, an athlete, a devout Catholic, a vocalist and choir member. She explored numerous ventures towards becoming an independent business woman. She loved her family deeply. This memoir is meant to celebrate her life and help those doing genealogy research.Catherine's genealogy record is located at https: //www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/105351359/family.
Set in eighteenth-century London, England, this fictional novel touches on the life of the upper crust and those who served them. As they both come together, foolish choices and harrowing consequences take two women-one an aristocrat and the other her servant-into a storm of trial, scorn, and tribulation. Stripped of title, recognition, and value, one wonders who the heroine really is, Catherine or Betsy? Catherine repeatedly asks, How will Lord Edward find us? A twisted and perverse judge condemns these two women to the Australian colonies. What is his motivation? Why would he want to hurt two women he'd never seen before? When everything about her life and station no longer has meaning, tears flow for Catherine. What has she done? Her foolishness has bought shame both on herself and her dearest friend, Betsy. How can she go on if they are parted? As Betsy looks back in time, her memories share love, concern, and deep anxiety. As she looks forward, she questions, Am I worthy of kindness above my station?
Set in eighteenth-century London, England, this fictional novel touches on the life of the upper crust and those who served them. As they both come together, foolish choices and harrowing consequences take two women-one an aristocrat and the other her servant-into a storm of trial, scorn, and tribulation. Stripped of title, recognition, and value, one wonders who the heroine really is, Catherine or Betsy? Catherine repeatedly asks, How will Lord Edward find us? A twisted and perverse judge condemns these two women to the Australian colonies. What is his motivation? Why would he want to hurt two women he'd never seen before? When everything about her life and station no longer has meaning, tears flow for Catherine. What has she done? Her foolishness has bought shame both on herself and her dearest friend, Betsy. How can she go on if they are parted? As Betsy looks back in time, her memories share love, concern, and deep anxiety. As she looks forward, she questions, Am I worthy of kindness above my station?
