Showing results by publisher "Waldorf Publishing" in Literature & Fiction

Life is full of ups and downs. If you don't stop to look around, it is easy to find yourself walking through life on autopilot. To truly experience life, we must recognize and celebrate the fleeting moments of beauty and acknowledge the trying times as part of our journey. Monique has been inspired by the words of other writers - they have helped her get up when she has been knocked down, assured her that she was not alone when questioning everything, and helped her see beauty in all aspects of life.

The year is 2102. Due to widespread use of sex robots, men and women live solitary lives of sterile pleasure. In this new world, people's bodies and minds are tightly regulated. Hannah is a "natural", as in a naturally conceived human being; all her life, she has been a social outcast. She is 20 years old, just starting her career as a nurse; she and her nostalgic mother deeply desire a baby. Hannah is willing to go through the humiliating tests and painful procedures and to pay unexpected costs. She unwittingly involves herself in gruesome experiments and secret government programs.

This book is a collection of poetry that explores pain, love, and growth through the different phases of the moon: the new, the waxing, the full, and the waning. Each phase takes the listener through the stages of their own life, sparking an inner conversation. Each poem carries within it its own universe and its own whispers to the listener. It is simply planting the seedling of a constellation within all of those willing to taste the moonlight.

The novel goes back and forth, with the past and present intertwining in order to fully bring this story to the listeners. What happened to get Lil imprisoned? There are so many stages where you think Lil will survive, only to have it quickly reversed. Just at the end when you think all is well...the most horrific event happens.

Los Angeles-based romance/crime/drama. This is an easy-to-listen-to and fast-paced novel that makes you ponder how greed controls our lives. Blood and Butterflies is a contemporary story about a strong Latina woman that works for the police department and is caught up in an unfolding crime drama. Affairs, murders, and spontaneous uncontrollable events flutter in and out of the characters' lives.

Stockton Clay receives a mysterious invitation to the world premiere of a secret prototype supercar. At the gala event in Southern France, one of his colleagues is killed in a bizarre accident, and Clay is secretly led to CIA agents who tell him that he was the real target in the murder. Clay then discovers he suffers from a rare disease that can only be cured by the blood cells from a direct relative. Clay's search for his biological father leads him to Japan, where he is caught in the crossfire between the CIA and a mad Russian scientist trying to sway the balance of world power.

Before Cyrano de Bergerac became a famous swordsman, poet, inventor, and iconoclast hero, he was an awkward teenager just like the rest of us. Find out what adventures turned him into the courageous, self-assured, hero we know and admire when you listen to Young Cyrano. Follow him on his teenage exploits with his best friend, Le Bret, and his first love, Roxanne. Adventure! Mysteries! Romance! Freemasons! Poetry, and of course, swordfights! 

This second installment of the After: The New Earth series, Journey to the Jungle City, finds our characters bound for Green Hell; a land of impenetrable jungles and endless grasslands. Here they will again face the Bishop; a mysterious, malevolent figure, yearning for world domination under the guise of protection, order, and love. Here you will travel with Kel, Lyria and young Raven along unexpected paths, searching for mysteries hidden since the dawn of time.

Ruby Schmidt has the talent, the drive, even the guts to enroll in art school, leaving behind her childhood home and the beau she always expected to marry. Her life at the academy seems heavenly at first, but she soon learns that societal norms in the East are as restrictive as those back home in West Texas. With the Panic of 1893, the nation spirals into a depression, and Ruby's career takes a similar downward trajectory. After thinking she could have it all, Ruby now wonders how she can salvage the remnants of her life. Pregnant and broke, she returns to Texas.

In this nostalgic tale of traditional Gothic horror, follow young Nicholas Wescott as he tries desperately to maintain his sanity after being chosen to host a tortured and deviant entity. As the entity within pulls the strings, Nicholas struggles to retain control but soon the parlor tricks begin to take a deadly turn. Nicholas desperately clings to his once mundane reality as dark forces seeming out of his control pull him further and further away....

Follow the clerk's adventures through vast government offices as he struggles to make a name for himself on a secret mission for the director. The clerk promised his betrothed he would build a life for them in the city when he moved away from his parents' farm, so he refuses to let any absurd situation prevent him from doing his job so well that he'll be promoted to senior clerk. 

A school project begins a journey for Sarafina Garcia that will change her life forever. In an attempt to gain a scholarship to a prestigious school, she is thrown headfirst into a labyrinth of family history that will confuse and deepen her search. Don't dig up old bones was the response Sarafina received from her mother when she asked for help. What was it in the family history that was so horrible that she wouldn't discuss it? Only by delving into historical records will she solve the lingering mystery of her parentage and mend the broken branches of her childhood one last time.

Nostalgia comprises 48 of Pagès' short poems. Her words speaks of her nostalgia for England's landscape when she came to live in the US, as well as her awe of natural beauty, in general. Her poems speak of gardens full of gnomes, fairies, and moonlit messages, as well as birds, water, and trees to assure us of nature's continued companionship and support throughout disappointments, trials, and losses. They us of a beauty that changes but never fades and of continued hope even during times of loss.

Garwood would soon be captivated by this homeless man living on the streets of Montreal. What power did he have and why did Adam take him on with no retainer or promise of future payment? Much against the advice of his partner and friends, he delves into and uncovers the corruption, cover ups, and payoffs involving top executives working for one of Canada's largest pharmaceutical companies. As the story unfolds, Adam is disillusioned with Gritty when his true identity is revealed. Murder, exploitation, and the stealthy night life of the rich and famous come to play as Adam watches them navigate Montreal's secret passageways searching for lust and medicating themselves in order to deal with the light of day.

The Marketer follows the youngest Chief Marketing Officer in Armitage Communications history, Benjamin Harrington. As an executive for a national software giant, his life seems perfect: a cushy office, good pay and access to all the exclusive functions. Managing the corporate brand was his official job description, with the freedom to achieve this by any means. However, when their main competitor releases a new product early, their success and popularity threatens the very survival of Armitage.

The future is bright and nothing like the dark, impoverished, and crime-filled past that occasionally haunts her sleeping form. It was a bright vision, infallible...until a series of tragedies and terrible events including murder and attempted rape start to plague Keturah's life. Trust is replaced with distrust. Hopefulness is replaced with fearful hopelessness. Prestige is wrongly replaced with accusations and infamy. Love is replaced by heartbreak. What she doesn't know is that a force of darkness trails and follows behind her....

As Wade Hampton's phobias almost render him housebound after a swift break-up, he decides to move from Arizona back to his hometown in California. Once there, Wade meets Sophia Syros. He is immediately attracted to her, but a severe panic attack on their first date almost does Wade in. A relationship forms between the two from opposite upbringings and Sophia agrees to help with his affliction from panic attacks, depression and impending agoraphobia.

The economies of Earth's nations were tanking. It was a world full of desperate people; the homeless and dispossessed were everywhere. It was a world ripe for human Separatists, whose survival depended on building a legion of human fighters, to go recruiting. The Separatists broke away from the rest of humanity centuries ago and developed their own technology, but now they must return to the home world in order to build an army.

Dan Greenberg was a promising medical student who was derailed by Catherine - a bizarre, schizophrenic patient whose delusions about patients in danger at hospitals all around Chicago were startlingly specific. Drawn by both curiosity and compassion, Dan investigates, discovering that they were exactly where Catherine said they would be. Who are these people? Why are they in danger? Are they connected with each other? He will learn just how far powerful people will go to stay in control, and the high price of the truth.

The centurion who speared Christ also guarded the tomb. When the body is missing, Pilate orders his arrest. He flees. The spear has special powers. An angel orders him to write a manuscript and hide it. He writes a second manuscript and hides it, before being captured by the Romans in Ephesus. He writes his final testimonial, then hides it along with the spear. After an earthquake in 2030, one of the manuscripts is found by two American archeologists. A hunt for the other manuscripts and the spear begins.