Books by "Susan Green"

12 books found

First Star I See Tonight

First Star I See Tonight

by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

2016 · HarperCollins

A star quarterback and a feisty detective play for keeps in this sporty, sexy, sassy novel—a long-awaited new entry in the beloved, award-winning, New York Times bestselling author’s fan-favorite Chicago Stars football series. Piper Dove is a woman with a dream—to become the best detective in the city of Chicago. First job? Trail former Chicago Stars quarterback, Cooper Graham. Problem? Graham’s spotted her, and he’s not happy. Which is why a good detective needs to think on her feet. “The fact is . . . I’m your stalker. Not full-out barmy. Just . . . mildly unhinged.” Piper soon finds herself working for Graham himself, although not as the bodyguard he refuses to admit he so desperately needs. Instead, he’s hired her to keep an eye on the employees at his exclusive new nightclub. But Coop’s life might be in danger, and Piper’s determined to protect him, whether he wants it or not. (Hint: Not!) If only she weren’t also dealing with a bevy of Middle Eastern princesses, a Pakistani servant girl yearning for freedom, a teenager who just wants of fit in, and an elderly neighbor demanding Piper find her very dead husband. And then there’s Cooper Graham himself, a legendary sports hero who always gets what he wants—even if what he wants is a feisty detective hell bent on proving she’s as tough as he is. From the bustling streets of Chicago to a windswept lighthouse on Lake Superior to the glistening waters of Biscayne Bay, two people who can’t stand to lose will test themselves and each other to discover what matters most.

House on the Hill, The

House on the Hill, The

by Susan Duncan

2018 · Random House Australia

In this memoir, Susan Duncan reaches an age where there's no point in sweating long-term ramifications. There aren't any. This new understanding delivers an unexpected bonus - the emotional freedom and moral clarity to admit to hidden and often fiendish facts of ageing and, ultimately, to find ways to embrace them. It also unleashes an overwhelming desire to confront her intractable 94-year-old mother with the dreadful secrets of the past before it is too late, no matter the consequences. It is the not-knowing, she says, that does untold damage. Interwoven with stories from the land - building a fully sustainable eco-house in the mid-coast of NSW with her engineer husband Bob, and grappling with white-eyed roans, dogs, bawling cattle markets, droughts and flooding rains, not to mention blunt-speaking locals - this is a book about a mother and daughter coming to terms, however uneasy, with the awful forces that shaped their relationship. As the inconstancies of age slow her down, Susan Duncan writes with honesty about discovery and forgiveness and what it takes to rework shrinking boundaries into a new and rich life.

Shining Through

Shining Through

by Susan Isaacs

2009 · Harper Collins

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From bestselling author Susan Isaacs, Shining Through is a novel of honor, sacrifice, passion, and humor—made into a movie of the same name starring Melanie Griffith, Michael Douglas, and Liam Neeson It's 1940 and Linda Voss, legal secretary extraordinaire, has a secret. She's head over heels in love with her boss, John Berringer, the pride of the Ivy League. Not that she even has a chance—he'd never take a second look at a German-Jewish girl from Queens who spends her time taking care of her faded beauty of a mother and following bulletins on the war in Europe. For Linda, though, the war will soon become all too real. Engulfing her nation and her life, it will offer opportunities she's never dreamed of. A chance to win the man she wants...a chance to find the love she deserves. This is vintage Susan Isaacs, a tale of a spirited woman who wisecracks her way into heroism and history—-and into your heart.

Great Escapes

Great Escapes

by Dixie Lee Brown, Tessa Dare, Gaelen Foley, Stephanie Laurens, Julie Anne Long, Lynsay Sands, Candis Terry, Lori Wilde, Jude Deveraux, Johanna Lindsey, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

2013 · Harper Collins

Great Escapes: An Avon Summer eBook Sampler Celebrate summer love and sunny skies! Avon Books is delighted to present this free e-book sampler, which includes excerpts from classic Avon tales as well as eight new or upcoming Avon and Avon Impulse novels, and a special introduction from bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips. You'll find: An Introduction from Susan Elizabeth Phillips Excerpts from New Summer Releases When I Find You by Dixie Lee Brown Any Duchess Will Do by Tessa Dare My Notorious Gentleman by Gaelen Foley And Then She Fell by Stephanie Laurens It Happened One Midnight by Julie Anne Long An English Bride in Scotland by Lynsay Sands Anything But Sweet by Candis Terry Love at First Sight by Lori Wilde Avon Classics The Black Lyon by Jude Deveraux Love Me Forever by Johanna Lindsey Nobody's Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips Shanna by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Not a Girl Detective

Not a Girl Detective

by Susan Kandel

2009 · Harper Collins

"I spent my entire youth idolizing Nancy Drew. I'm pushing forty now, but some fantasies die hard." Besides her beloved collection of vintage designer clothing, there is nothing Cece Caruso cherishes more than her childhood memories of Nancy Drew. Her near obsession with the fictional teenage sleuth led her to become a professional biographer of classic mystery writers. And now that she's working on a book about Nancy's pseudonymous creator, "Carolyn Keene, " Cece's in heaven. At the L. A. home of another rabid Drew-ophile, Cece finds a treasure trove of useful memorabilia, including one unique and somewhat shocking collectible. Later she finds a dead body -- and a puzzle that would sorely test the skills of her spunky girlhood heroine. Now she'll have to channel her former idol and unmask a murderer, and the killer may be coming for Cece next.

Real Writing Interactive

Real Writing Interactive

by Susan Anker

2015 · Macmillan Higher Education

Real Writing Interactive Update Edition offers practical coverage of paragraph-to-essay writing skills in a brief, interactive, and affordable format.

Real Writing with Readings

Real Writing with Readings

by Miriam Moore, Susan Anker

2021 · Macmillan Higher Education

Real Writing with Readings delivers a powerful message to students: Good writing skills are both attainable and essential. Concise “Four Basics” boxes, together with mode-specific graphic organizers, “Paragraphs versus Essays” graphics, and engaging paragraph- and essay-writing chapters, present the writing process both visually and in words as a clear, easy-to-follow process. The “Four Building Blocks of Effective Sentences” (Chapter 16) and other sentence-level chapters cover grammar in a lively and supportive way, with plenty of opportunities for practice and application. And now, Achieve with Real Writing puts student writing at the center of your course and keeps revision at the core, with a dedicated composition space that guides students through drafting, peer review, source check, reflection, and revision. Achieve is a flexible, integrated suite of tools for designing and facilitating writing assignments, all in a single powerful, easy-to-use platform that works for face-to-face, remote, and hybrid learning scenarios. Fully editable pre-built assignments support the book’s approach and an e-book is included.

The House on the Hill

The House on the Hill

by Susan Duncan

2016 · Random House Australia

The third memoir from the author of bestsellers Salvation Creek and The House at Salvation Creek. The third memoir from the author of bestsellers Salvation Creek and The House at Salvation Creek. In The House on the Hill, Susan Duncan reaches an age where there’s no point in sweating long-term ramifications. There aren’t any. This new understanding delivers an unexpected bonus – the emotional freedom and moral clarity to admit to hidden and often fiendish facts of ageing and, ultimately, the find ways to embrace them. This, in turn, unleashes an overwhelming desire to confront her intractable 95-year-old mother with the dreadful secrets of the past before it is too late, no matter the consequences. It is the not-knowing, she says, that does untold damage. Interwoven with stories from the land – building a sustainable eco-house on the mid-coast of New South Wales with her engineer husband, Bob, and grappling with white-eyed roans, dogs, bawling cattle markets, droughts and flooding rains, not to mention blunt-speaking locals – this is a book about a mother and daughter coming to terms, however uneasy, with the awful forces that shaped their relationship. As the inconstancies of age slow her down, Susan Duncan writes with honesty about discovery and forgiveness, and what it takes to rework shrinking boundaries into a new and rich life.

The Flicker of Old Dreams

The Flicker of Old Dreams

by Susan Henderson

2018 · HarperCollins

High Plains Book Award Winner for Fiction • Western Writers of America Spur Award Winner for Best Contemporary Western Novel • WILLA Literary Award Winner in Contemporary Fiction • Montana Book Award Honor Book With the quiet precision of Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres and the technical clarity of Mary Roach’s Stiff, this is a novel about a young woman who comes most alive while working in her father’s mortuary in a small, forgotten Western town. "The dead come to me vulnerable, sharing their stories and secrets . . . " Mary Crampton has spent all of her thirty years in Petroleum, a small Western town once supported by a powerful grain company. Living at home, she works as the embalmer in her father’s mortuary: an unlikely job that has long marked her as an outsider. Yet, to Mary there is a satisfying art to positioning and styling each body to capture the essence of a subject’s life. Though some townsfolk pretend that the community is thriving, the truth is that Petroleum is crumbling away—a process that began twenty years ago when an accident in the grain elevator killed a beloved high school athlete. The mill closed for good, the train no longer stopped in town, and Robert Golden, the victim’s younger brother, was widely blamed for the tragedy and shipped off to live elsewhere. Now, out of the blue, Robert has returned to care for his terminally ill mother. After Mary—reserved, introspective, and deeply lonely—strikes up an unlikely friendship with him, shocking the locals, she finally begins to consider what might happen if she dared to leave Petroleum. Set in the American West, The Flicker of Old Dreams explores themes of resilience, redemption, and loyalty in prose as lyrical as it is powerful.