Bøger af Pinkie Paranya

Jennifer Kileen, a young woman from an Ohio farm, journeys to Alaska with her younger brother during the gold rush to find her twin, Jeremy. He'd left home to seek his fortune and she knew he was in trouble. They survive a storm at sea, are pursued by a relentless unknown villain, and in spite of grizzly and wolverine attacks, she feels at home in Alaska with the rough miners who befriend her. Two men fall in love with her, but will she choose the right man? Does she find Jeremy?

She hadn't expected anyone to read the love messages she tossed away...but he did. Recuperating from an abusive marriage, Casey Nichols flees with her asthmatic, six-year-old son Jake to Colorado, hoping to improve his health. She moves them into an isolated cabin on a remote ranch. It's a lonely life, and Casey resorts to putting notes in the ever-present tumbleweeds, casting them to the winds in an effort to ease some of the pain in her heart. But when the poems she thinks will never be read are found by the one person she doesn't want to see them, her whole world is turned upside down. He hadn't expected anyone to get close enough to hurt him again...but she did. Matthew Tyree is a reclusive rancher who lost his wife and unborn son in a car accident. Devastated, he has vowed never to love again-a vow he keeps until Casey and Jake worm their way into his heart. But his hopes for a second family are dashed when Casey mistakes his marriage proposal as nothing more than a convenient business arrangement. Unable to express his feelings in the words Casey needs to hear, Matt watches his chance for love crumble like the mysterious poems he's been finding inside the tumbleweeds. Can these two wounded souls learn to trust again or will their only chance for happiness fade away like love letters cast to the winds?

AMAZON TREASURE She's in Brazil on a secret mission for her father... A quiet, conservative teacher who's lived in one small Virginian town all her life, Marisa Elliott plunges into a desperate adventure when she meets Scott Dunbar a devilishly handsome pilot, who is apparently down on his luck. Marissa tells him she's searching for her Confederate ancestors who fled to Brazil during the Civil War. She persuades him to take her far into the jungles of the Amazon, but she doesn't tell him her relatives have offered to give back the bank money they absconded with so long ago-money her father wants her to bring home to clear the Elliott name. He has an agenda all his own.... Once burned in a bad marriage, Scott Dunbar hates commitment of any kind. To him, work is a four-letter word. He wants Marissa, though he knows she's not the kind of girl to settle for a one night stand. Or is she? He's hiding something, but then, so is she. He just can't figure out what. Is she really here to find her missing relatives? Or is her mission something much more sinister?

When a lonely orphan boy becomes friends with a huge, noisy rooster, he learns to get rid of the chip on his shoulder and to fight for those who cannot help themselves. Roberto and El Grande travel together along with a little hen named Esmeralda, and find trouble, danger and excitement along the way.

An archeologist searches for a lost treasure in the Mayan jungle through many adventures, encountering a fascinating man from another time who teaches her to love again. She travels back in time to Palenque and the golden age of Mayas.

A collection of short stories, essays & observations, ranging from humorous to inspiring, but all thought-provoking as are much of Pinkie Paranya's longer works in novels. None of her writing will ever leave you suspended in mid-air at the end, waiting for a satisfying closure. Her essays have been printed in newspapers, her views are her own, but she wants to share them with her readers. Some will agree, some will not, but that too is thought-provoking and challenging. In the Retro Computer section, since she started computing in the 80s when personal computers were a new phenom, here's hoping some of you will fondly recall those early days and the newbies may get a rare glimpse of where it all started. In traveling years before it became common and ordinary, she had adventures serious, odd and humorous. Even if you never travel, you can enjoy her experiences. The PET chapter is self explanatory. An innate respect for all of God's creatures raises us up from the mundane to the extraordinary

Can Celeste trust Sebastian in their marriage of convenience which flares with unexpected passion while a threatening presence prowls at night in the old house. Celeste Beaumont travels to an isolated vanilla plantation to meet her estranged grandmother. When she arrived she found her dying grandmother whispering fearfully about nightly intruders wandering the rooms of the old mansion. What could they want? Was her grandmother lucid? Sebastian Beaumont, an orphan of the city streets and adopted by Celeste's grandparents, seemed to have had the life Celeste's mother should have enjoyed. Educated in England at a fine school, he returned to manage the plantation. The tall, darkly handsome man did not try to hide his suspicion that Celeste came at an opportune time to grasp her share of the thriving plantation that he had worked so hard to bring to profit for his adopted parents. The grandmother manipulated the two from the grave, forcing them into a marriage of convenience in order to protect the interests of the plantation. Between Sebastian and Celeste flared an unwanted passion that neither could control. Although her feelings toward Sebastian blossomed, her trust in him remained divided. Who was walking through the halls at night and why did Sebastian refuse to believe it?

A book of memories; tearful, joyful, and thought-provoking that most women, young and old, can relate to. Regrets in life don't have to overshadow our later years but can help us begin to understand our purpose in life.

What do you get when you mix a beautiful gossip reporter; an amnesiac bag lady with a dangerously mysterious past; a forty-something, cranky, bumbling, New York private investigator with phobias about germs, animals, and most people; and a dog who defies description with a personality to match? A riot! Budding sleuth Alexander "Mac" McBee-who trained by watching re-runs of Magnum P. I., The Rockford Files, and other old detective series-needs an attitude adjustment, and his new partner Herr Schnoodle could be just the dog to reform him. Together the reluctant McBee and Herr Schnoodle must solve a series of neighborhood dilemmas, including discovering who bag lady Apple Sally really is before whoever's after her catches up, while McBee tries to make his heart do what he wants it to. Can Herr Schnoodle help him there, too? Perhaps. No problem seems to be too large for this unlikely, loveable canine PI.

Tiana, Gift of the Moon is the second novel in the Women of the Northland trilogy. In this story of the earliest people in North America, Pinkie Paranya weaves her tale of Inuit customs and superstitions into those of the Athabascan Indians, who also live in a harsh climate. Tiana is fierce in battle, gentle in temperament, and has a quiet strength. She embodies the spirit of the Raven Mother and accepts the challenges before her with faith in her ancestry and the powers she has inherited. Tiana must face the trials of being a woman shaman in a male dominated society. After tragedy befalls her, she sets out alone to find her lost daughter who must continue the Raven line. But can Tiana find the child in time?

In ancient Alaska, before it was known to anyone but the Inuit people, a child Umiak is the only survivor of a starving clan who ventured too far onto dangerous, unknown waters to find food. Washed ashore with nothing but her raven-feather talisman, she is discovered by strangers, taken to their village, and forced to serve the elderly shaman. During her lonely, perilous ordeal with the hostile tribe, Umiak is visited by the Raven Mother, who bestows upon her the spirit of the Raven Woman, a power that is to be passed down through the generations to come. Now Umiak must find the strength to survive and pass on her influence and power to her own daughter when the time comes. Pinkie Paranya gives the reader a magical, mystical journey, blended with humor, adventure, and heartbreak, but always with a faith in the future, in this first award-winning book of the trilogy, WOMEN OF THE NORTHLAND.

She hadn't expected anyone to read the love messages she tossed away...but he did. Recuperating from an abusive marriage, Casey Nichols flees with her asthmatic, six-year-old son Jake to Colorado, hoping to improve his health. She moves them into an isolated cabin on a remote ranch. It's a lonely life, and Casey resorts to putting notes in the ever-present tumbleweeds, casting them to the winds in an effort to ease some of the pain in her heart. But when the poems she thinks will never be read are found by the one person she doesn't want to see them, her whole world is turned upside down. He hadn't expected anyone to get close enough to hurt him again...but she did. Matthew Tyree is a reclusive rancher who lost his wife and unborn son in a car accident. Devastated, he has vowed never to love again-a vow he keeps until Casey and Jake worm their way into his heart. But his hopes for a second family are dashed when Casey mistakes his marriage proposal as nothing more than a convenient business arrangement. Unable to express his feelings in the words Casey needs to hear, Matt watches his chance for love crumble like the mysterious poems he's been finding inside the tumbleweeds. Can these two wounded souls learn to trust again or will their only chance for happiness fade away like love letters cast to the winds?

Arizona in the 40s. A lost gold mine, a brooding cowboy, a resident ghost in a spooky ranch house, and a city-bred woman who must stay alive long enough to solve the mystery.