Bøger af Karen Ross

Mary Rusconi lives a charmed life in Tuscany. On the day her husband, Luca, departs for a business trip to the United States, Mary stops in to see her closest friend - a wise and psychic 92-year-old woman named Dorotea. She tells Mary a young lady is about to enter her life with a devil riding one shoulder and a powerful angel on the other. Then Dorotea tells Mary that she is the only person who can help chase away this lady's devil. A few days later an artist from New Orleans named Jessie Morrow walks into Mary's small Tuscan art gallery. From the moment they share their first glass of Chianti, the lives of these two strong and creative women - and their friends and family - become connected in miraculous ways that will make your heart beat fast and bring tears to your eyes. "Because of Tuscany" is Karen Ross' second novel. Readers love the characters from her first novel, "Chianti Souls," and their stories of romance and friendship continue in the heartwarming sequel. Karen takes you on a journey from Tuscany to New Orleans, to Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia, and back to Tuscany. Enjoy the ride.

Chianti Souls is a magical tale of love, surprises and fate set in the heart of Tuscany -- in Chianti -- home of legendary wine and passionate Italian souls. When artist Mary Sarto visits for the first time she unexpectedly becomes tangled in vines of timeless love after she meets Luca Rusconi at a fifteenth-century Chianti farmhouse. An inexplicable connection rattles them, as if their love story continues from another lifetime...but neither is looking for love. Mary is visiting Italy with her boyfriend Garrett Hansen, who promised a dream vacation, and Luca is recovering from a recently broken engagement with his Florentine girlfriend. When Garrett is forced to return home early to Philadelphia for a work crisis, she boldly stays alone, and Luca shows her an enchanting Italy not found in a tour book. After the week in Italy, her heart is torn between the two men while her head is clouded with misjudgment of both, complicated by lies and betrayal. It is only when Mary discovers secrets hidden in two mysterious keepsakes she found in Tuscany and Venice that her destiny is love is revealed. Chianti Souls is a debut novel by Karen Ross, and will have you dreaming of falling in love, and even better, magically falling in love in Italy... In this romantic travelogue, Karen gives you an insider's view of beautiful Tuscan hill towns and villages that she has visited, and then she weaves them into a passionate tale of timeless love. Dare to turn the page...

Imagine running away to the Mexican Caribbean and never coming back. That dream became a reality for author Jeanine Kitchel and her husband who traveled to the Yucatan in 1985 and a decade later, left their jobs in Silicon Valley to pursue a relaxed lifestyle in Puerto Morelos, a small fishing village on the Quintana Roo Coast south of Cancun. Chance links them with a contractor who offers to build them a beachfront house, and this is where the true story begins. After side-stepping disaster on several fronts, they build their home, settle into Mexico, and then travel deep into the heart of Yucatan to explore the Mayan ruins. Share their dreams, their heartaches, but most of all, see how they cope with buying land, building a house, and retiring in a foreign country. This evocative adventure is a cockeyed love letter to Mexico, thier adopted homeland.

Undertaker Nina Sherwood is full of good advice. For example, never wear lip gloss when you're scattering ashes.

Jewish-Palestinian youth encounter programs that flourished in the wake of the Oslo Accords now struggle to find support, as their potential to create positive social change in Israeli society is still unknown. In this volume, Ross considers the relationship between participation in Jewish-Palestinian encounters and the long-term worldview and commitment to social change of their participants.

Karen Ross provides the necessary historical context against which to read recent sex- and gender-based media phenomena such as Big Brother, Terminator, girls' use of mobile phones, women news editors, the Wonderbra generation, the Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin phenomena, and so on.

I often think my mother would prefer colonic irrigation to hanging out with me... Beth Jackson is a national treasure, celebrated for her television shows and winning the Mother of the Year Award three times in a row.Only, her daughter just wishes that Beth would be more like a normal mum...

Takes both a chronological as well as thematic approach, in order to explore the ways in which the audience, as an analytical concept has changed. This book also examines the relationships which audiences have with texts and the ways in which they exert their power as consumers.