LIBROS DEL AUTOR: tom milton

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  • Margo’s Café
    Tom Milton
    Margo Walsh, an elderly widow who lives with a daughter and a granddaughter in the house where she grew up, is struggling to pay property taxes that keep increasing because people with a lot of money are moving to her village from the city and bidding up prices of homes. With the influx of these wealthy people the village is becoming unaffordable for working-class people. Margo...
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    13,47 €

  • Voices in Ramah
    Tom Milton
    Emma Fernández is standing at the sandwich counter of the cafeteria at a private high school in Washington, D.C., where many of the students are children of members of Congress. She became an employee of this school to carry out a plot to get Congress to ban assault weapons. Less than a year ago a man with an assault weapon blasted into the elementary school where she was teach...
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  • A Residue of Hope
    Tom Milton
    Marika Bonetti is preparing dinner when she gets a phone call from the police informing her that the EMS has taken her daughter, Jessica, to the emergency room of the local hospital. Dropping everything, Marika drives to the hospital, where she learns that Jessica is in a coma from a drug overdose. Though her daughter has often gotten into trouble, Marika didn’t know she was ta...
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    11,36 €

  • Blind in Granada
    Tom Milton
    Jim Wyatt, a prominent state senator from Minnesota, is kidnapped on a visit to New York City by an Islamic human rights group who mistakenly believe that he is a CIA agent. They hold him hostage in return for the release of a Muslim cleric who was convicted and imprisoned for inciting violence in connection with the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. Through a series o...
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    11,03 €

  • A Contrite Heart
    Tom Milton
    The story of a woman who committed a major crime against the military government in Argentina during the Dirty War in the 1970s. After twenty-five years she still feels guilty for what she did, and since it led to the deaths of other people, including the father of her child, she’s unable to forgive herself. She’s living in New York City now, and as she’s leaving for work one m...
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  • Milos and Amira
    Tom Milton
    Milos and Amira are refugees from the war in Bosnia. Milos is a Serb, a Christian, and his family suffered losses from acts of violence committed against them by Bosniaks, the major ethnic group in their city. After losing his uncle in the war he was able to escape with his family and come to America. Amira is a Bosniak, a Muslim, and her family suffered losses from acts of vio...
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    11,40 €

  • The Lost Summer
    Tom Milton
    After her sophomore year of college Brigid McBride spends the summer with her best friend Laura Hughes, living in New York City and demonstrating against the war in Vietnam. It’s the summer of 1968, a summer of love and a summer of violence when the nation is divided on the issue of the war and a new generation is rebelling against the order imposed by the previous generation, ...
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  • The Lineman
    Tom Milton
    Everything changes for Paola and her family when her husband Danny, working as a lineman for the electric company, falls from a cherry picker onto the pavement and crushes his shoulder. After two major surgeries, and months of pain and physical therapy, Danny hopes that the company will let him resume working as a lineman, which is more than just a job for him—it’s his identity...
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    10,06 €

  • The Last Resort
    Tom Milton
    Elsa Romero, a college professor, is attending a demonstration in New York City to protest the government’s immigration policies. Karl Reinhardt, a white nationalist, is standing across the street from her, displaying a sign that says MAKE AMERICA WHITE AGAIN. In response she displays a sign that says LOVE WILL PREVAIL. As they confront each other a gun is fired by someone on K...
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    11,40 €

  • The Godmother
    Tom Milton
    Gina Moretti begins to worry when her goddaughter, Marisol, doesn’t come home from work at the usual time and doesn’t respond to text messages. There is evidence in Marisol’s room that she plans to stay overnight with someone, and since she has no friends from school or from the neighborhood, she might have gone to stay with someone she met on the internet. But the girl has tak...
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    11,40 €

  • Eden Valley
    Tom Milton
    Lena McLean, who raises goats and produces cheeses in a beautiful valley in southeastern Minnesota, has her life disrupted by the discovery in the region of rich deposits of the sand used for oil fracking. This frac sand is found nowhere else in such abundance, so mining companies are willing to pay a lot of money for the land of struggling dairy farmers, who see a onetime oppo...
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    11,23 €

  • The Silver Locket
    Tom Milton
    Esperanza Vargas is happily walking along a path that overlooks the Hudson River, feeling safe because she’s on a college campus, when suddenly from behind her a strong arm locks around her neck and chokes her unconscious. The next thing she knows, she’s being raped by four guys, who have blindfolded her, gagged her, and stripped her naked. When all except one of them have take...
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    11,32 €

  • Orphans of War
    Tom Milton
    Rosario Suárez, an orphan adopted by an American couple, returns to her native village in Guatemala with two missions: to teach in the school, and to find out what happened to her mother, who along with all the people in the village disappeared one night fifteen years ago. The village, Dos Arroyos, is in a region of the country where for many years the military fought a brutal ...
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    10,16 €

  • Invisible Wounds
    Tom Milton
    Nora Malone has waited eight months for her fiancé, Ryan Walsh, to return from his second deployment to Afghanistan. When she meets him at the bus station after his discharge from the army, he looks the same as he did before, and he has no visible wounds. But soon she notices symptoms of a problem: he has frequent nightmares from which he wakes up screaming, he is easily startl...
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    11,44 €

  • Leave of Absence
    Tom Milton
    Ronan Byrne has taken a leave of absence from his profession and has come to the Dominican Republic, where instead of finding peace in the coastal town of Santa Cruz he gets involved in conflicts over issues of social justice. Instead of just hanging out with the expatriates who sit around all day at a beach bar drinking and talking and doing nothing, he develops relationships ...
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    10,09 €

  • Outside the Gate
    Tom Milton
    Carol Delaney confronts a parent’s worst nightmare when her twelve-year-old daughter and a friend go missing from a gated resort on a Caribbean island. The local police believe the girls were abducted by a global organization that has a branch on the island and is involved in criminal activities, including human trafficking. A yacht belonging to local members of the organizatio...
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    10,05 €

  • The Golden Door
    Tom Milton
    Maya Méndez, who has lived with her family in Alabama for fifteen years as an illegal immigrant, suddenly faces an uncertain future when the state passes an immigration law that will make it a crime for her parents to work and will prohibit her from attending a public university. Maya has recently graduated from high school, and in two months she plans to start at the Universit...
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    11,23 €

  • Sara’s Laughter
    Tom Milton
    Despite warnings from her mother that if she waited too long to get married she wouldn’t be able to find a husband, Sara waited until she found the right man, but now she is thirty-five and she is having trouble getting pregnant. She has tried everything except technologies that are not approved by her religion. Under pressure from her widowed father to give him a grandson, she...
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    11,43 €

  • A Shower of Roses
    Tom Milton
    Eva was following the way of her patron, St. Therese of Lisieux, by doing little things for people as a pediatric nurse in a New York hospital when she fell in love with Marek, a Polish exile. They are married and living in London in the spring of 1981, and Marek is trying to foment a popular uprising in Poland to liberate his home country from Russia. Though he drags Eva into ...
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    11,45 €

  • Infamy
    Tom Milton
    Fenly Aquino, an American security agent, is working in Madrid with Raquel López, a member of a Spanish security team that has heard about a planned terrorist attack. The plot involves the use of laundered money to buy weapons of mass destruction that will be directed at a target in New York City. The key to stopping the attack is to find the trail of money and follow it to the...
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    11,22 €

  • All the Flowers
    Tom Milton
    A gifted young singer with unshakable faith tries to stop her twin brother from enlisting in the army and going to fight in Vietnam to prove to his father that he is a man. Accompanied by a pianist who falls in love with her when he hears her sing, she tries to save her brother but her faith is tested by events. ...
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    11,14 €

  • The Admiral’s Daughter
    Tom Milton
    Kristy McKay, a young woman from Mississippi living in New York in the early 1960s, is trying to expiate the original sin of slavery on which her family fortune was built. She is active in the civil rights movement in direct conflict with her father, a retired admiral who was a hero in World War II and is now a proponent of white supremacy. Kristy’s relationship with her father...
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    10,97 €

  • No Way to Peace
    Tom Milton
    A novel about the courage of five women in Argentina’s war of terror during the 1970s. Their lives are observed by an American banker who has stayed in Buenos Aires after most foreigners have been evacuated. He falls in love with a young woman, a refugee from another country who is living in Argentina under a false identity. They try to build a life together but are drawn into ...
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    10,92 €