Bøger af Charles Sheehan-Miles

Andrea Thompson is smart, assertive and beautiful. She's also desperately lonely. Raised in Europe by her grandmother, she struggles knowing neither of her parents wanted her, and she has no idea why. When Andrea receives an urgent call from her older sister Carrie, she agrees to fly to the United States to help. Carrie's newborn daughter Rachel needs a bone marrow transplant. What Andrea doesn't know is that her return to the United States will launch a chain of events that will uncover secrets hidden for decades. Secrets which will rock the Thompson family and ignite a political firestorm. Secrets that some will kill to protect.

Crank Wilson and Julia Thompson love each other madly. But after Crank's huge mistake during the summer, on the road with Crank's rock band Morbid Obesity, they aren't getting along. Sean Wilson and Carrie Thompson are the seventeen year old younger siblings of Julia and Crank. Carrie is on her way to New York to start college at Columbia University and Sean is on his way home to Boston. For the next five days, they're stuck in a car. Along the way, they'll contend with screaming matches, giant spiders and a 240-pound pissed off Marine. And the whole way, Crank will be faced with one question. After he screwed up so badly, is there any way he can win Julia back?

In the chaotic and crime-ridden settlement of Boxtown on Mars, Minty Storey witnesses a bar fight she has no idea will change the course of her life. Halfway across the planet, Janet Pilgrim and the Volunteer Space Rescue Service struggle to do something about the pirate menace on the spaceways between Earth and Mars. But the problems both face are much bigger than pirates and bar fights. When a leader of Earth's Manifest Destiny movement makes an appearance on Mars, events begin to roll to a climax that will hold the fate of the planet in the balance.

When Janet Pilgrim's boyfriend was killed in a training accident at the space academy, she thought she was going to be thrown out. Instead, she soon found herself shipping out as a junior astronaut on the forty-year old spacecraft Windy City bound for Mars. But freighters and passenger ships aren't the only craft plying the spaceways. When the Windy City is attacked by pirates on the way to Mars, Janet finds herself in more danger than she could ever have imagined.

"e;A few years in our future, Ken Murphy is a National Guard Colonel and senior manager at a factory in tranquil Highview, West Virginia. When the local economy is thrown into a tailspin by a plant shutdown, Murphy is thrown out of work, with no way to pay for medical care for his son.In an attempt to prove they can operate on their own, the workers move in and occupy the factory. The government intervenes, escalating the labor dispute into a deadly confrontation.As the conflict intensifies, politicians on both sides refuse to back down or compromise, tipping the nation into a bloody civil war."e;

Crank Wilson saiu de sua casa em South Boston aos dezesseis para começar uma banda punk e queimar sua raiva no mundo. Seis anos depois, ele ainda está em desacordo com seu pai, um policial de Boston, e nem sempre fala com sua mãe. A única relação que realmente importa é com seu irmão mais novo, mas cuidar de Sean pode ser um trabalho em tempo integral. A única coisa que Crank quer na vida é ser deixado em paz para escrever sua música e direcionar sua banda para o sucesso. Julia Thompson deixou um segredo para trás em Pequim que explodiu em um escândalo em Washington, DC, ameaçando a carreira de seu pai e dominando a vida de sua família. Agora, em seu último ano na Universidade de Harvard, ela é assombrada por uma voz do seu passado e se recusa a perder o controle de suas emoções novamente, especialmente quando se trata de um cara. Quando Julia e Crank se reúnem em um protesto anti-guerra em Washington, no outono de 2002, a ligação entre eles é tão poderosa que ameaça destruir tudo ao redor.

Andrea Thompson is smart, assertive and beautiful. She's also desperately lonely. Raised in Europe by her grandmother, she struggles knowing neither of her parents wanted her, and she has no idea why. When Andrea receives an urgent call from her older sister Carrie, she agrees to fly to the United States to help. Carrie's newborn daughter Rachel needs a bone marrow transplant. What Andrea doesn't know is that her return to the United States will launch a chain of events that will uncover secrets hidden for decades. Secrets which will rock the Thompson family and ignite a political firestorm. Secrets that some will kill to protect.

Four days ago, Andrea Thompson agreed to fly to the United States to help her sister Carrie. Four days ago, everything changed. Now Andrea is lost and on the run. Dylan Paris is missing. Julia and Crank Wilson are under investigation by the Internal Revenue Service. The Thompson family is scattered and in danger, and Andrea's very identity may hold the key to unlock decades of buried secrets. Andrea, the youngest member of the Thompson clan, sets out on a search to find answers. Who is attacking her family? Who is trying to kill her and why? As Andrea seeks her answers, everything she thought she knew about her family will be turned upside down.

Insurgent is the riveting sequel to the surprise bestseller Republic: A Novel of America's Future.Three months after the end of the West Virginia civil war, Valerie Murphy faces her worst fears as the violence escalates. Former Congressman Al Clark, now Governor of the bankrupt state, must quell an insurgency even as he struggles to put the state back together. In a small town south of Charleston, West Virginia, Corporal Jim Turville meets a young ballet dancer who dreams of moving beyond her small coal mining town. As the young couple grows closer, their love and their lives will be at risk as insurgents move to disrupt the town with shocking violence.

THE DRAMATIC CONCLUSION TO THE SAGA OF THE THOMPSON SISTERS A little more than a week ago, Andrea Thompson returned to the United States, unknowingly setting off a chain of events that put her entire family in jeopardy. Now Andrea is desperately seeking answers. Who is her father? What happened to Adelina Thompson? Above all, what took place thirty years ago in Afghanistan that is now tearing her life apart? In this final chapter of the Thompson Sisters saga, everything you've come to believe about the Thompson Sisters will be turned upside down.

Dylan Paris is a working class kid from Georgia. A former high school dropout who is trying to clean up his act, Dylan is stunned to be selected for a six-week foreign exchange program to Israel. Alex Thompson is the daughter of a wealthy US Ambassador and San Francisco socialite. She chafes against the restrictions and expectations of her life. Several weeks overseas with an exchange program is just the right opportunity for her to examine new identities. The last thing either of them wanted or needed was to fall in love.

From the bestselling author of Just Remember to Breathe and The Last Hour, a shocking and poignant story of a family on the brink of destruction and the transformational events that could bring them back together-or tear them apart. Every day, Cole Roberts reminds himself that life wasn't always this bleak. He was once passionately in love with Erin. Sam used to be an artistic and lively kid. They hadn't always lived in a shabby two-room house in rural Alabama, where he runs a mediocre restaurant in the middle of nowhere. That was before Brenna disappeared. It was before Cole lost his job and they lost their home. Every day it gets worse. Erin drinks wine out of the bottle and spends her days with a tormented expression, searching the web for signs of their daughter. Sam hides in his room and rarely speaks. And Cole works himself to a stupor for a paycheck a fraction of the size of his old salary. Until one day a phone call changes everything. winter flower is at once a tragic tale of the disappearance of a child; struggling with gender identity; of the dark world of sex-trafficking and the transformation and healing of a family. Sheehan-Miles's longest novel delves into the depths of family life-and how, sometimes, we can heal and find restoration.