What, if one day, your daughter, who has been missing for two years, received an unexpected greeting card in the mail? Would this be the awakening of new hope of her return, or is this the beginning of closure? During the last weeks of 1979, Alan Albright sends a Christmas card to Jennifer Tavistock, a close friend he knew in St. Andrews, Scotland, during the summer of 1969. Jennifer's father, Dr. Martyn Tavistock, a famed Boston cardiologist, contacts Albright the moment he receives Albright's card. Dr. Tavistock demands to find out what any other father would want to know: what does Albright know about his daughter, who has been missing for two years? Meanwhile, in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, we meet the Widow, a charming, urbane, and brilliant classical pianist who is committed to guarding what's known as the Secret of St. Andrews. With the power that she possesses, she has the ability, and nerve, to destroy anyone whom she considers to be a threat. Even though ten years have passed since Albright last spoke with Jennifer, a chain of events unfolds that takes the reader on a journey that begins in a small Midwestern college town to the creme de la creme of Boston society, through the gilded world of Paris to Edinburgh, home of the Widow herself, only to end up in Jackson, Tennessee, where the reader learns once and for all about the Secret of St. Andrews. Inside this novel, the reader will be introduced to a mystery that occurs in a time where patriotic fervor is on the rise due to the outrage of American hostages being held in Iran as one decade is ending and a new one about to begin. We enter a world where big secrets are kept in small towns and ordinary people are often placed into extraordinary circumstances.
This book puts in your hands the expanded resource materials used in the author's acclaimed workshop on grant proposal development. Read it, mark it up, dog ear the pages and redefine the way you go after assets for your nonprofit. You'll get your hands around the powerful concept of connecting proposal development and organizational development at the same time, and strengthening both in the process. Not your garden variety grantwriting book...
In his first novel, The Secret of St. Andrews, Harvey Grant Wall introduced to the world his unique style of writing. Now Wall is back, delivering six unique and original tales of mystery and suspense, loaded with unexpected twists that leaves the reader craving for more.
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It took me 50 years to achieve my original dream.and not without some bumps along the road. I believed, as did many others, that I could have been a very successful entertainer. A visit with Vic Damone convinced me that I would have to give up a normal family life to achieve that success. So, I built a series of businesses and threw myself into philanthropy, while limiting my performing to friends and family. And then the opportunity finally presented itself and there was no stopping me. Without an agent, I promoted myself to some of the leading entertainment venues in the country, developed a following and am now living my dream. The one constant, throughout, has been my dedication to my family and the difference that, I hope, I have made in their lives. But what a trip....producing Sammy Cahn on Broadway, headlining at Lincoln Center and Michael Feinstein’s Club, friendships with Cary Grant, the families of George Gershwin, , Oscar Hammerstein ,Marvin Hamlisch, Leonard Bernstein, and a host of show business greats. And, I can’t forget what happened with Madoff and Harvey Weinstein. So, come along for the ride while I tell my story.
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United States Navy SEAL Lincoln Devereaux leads a clandestine unit of Special Operators, CIA and FBI, code named Task Force Black Talon, on a mission to capture an Indonesian narco-terrorist named Sandaf Phan and prevent his terror network from detonating suitcase size nuclear weapons in Western metropolitan centers.
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