Vassoula Galangau Books

At once a loving legacy and an unsparing depiction of a devastating illness, Danielle Steel’s tribute to her lost son is a gift of life, hope, healing, and understanding to us all. “This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold, and a tortured soul. It is the story of an illness, a fight to live, and a race against death. I want to share the story, and the pain, the courage, the love, and what I learned in living through it. I want Nick's life to be not only a tender memory for us, but a gift to others. . . . I would like to offer people hope and the realities we lived with. I want to make a difference. My hope is that someone will be able to use what we learned, and save a life with it.”—Danielle Steel From the day he was born, Nick Traina was his mother's joy. By nineteen, he was dead. This is Danielle Steel's powerful, personal story of the son she lost and the lessons she learned during his courageous battle against darkness. Sharing tender, painful memories and Nick's remarkable journals, Steel brings us a haunting duet between a singular young man and the mother who loved him—and a harrowing portrait of a masked killer called manic depression, which afflicts between two and three million Americans.

JUDE DEVERAUX entwines the fronteir adventures of two unforgettable sisters -- demure beauty Houston Chandler and her independent, hot-tempered twin Blair -- discover heartfelt passions as powerfully as compelling as ice and fire.... Twin of Fire While dreaming of practicing medicine, Blair falls in love with her placid sister's fianceé, himself a doctor. Blair's impetuous spirit has won her a medical degree in a man's world -- and captured Lee Westfield's heart. But even as the couple's ardor grows, there are nights when Lee disappears only to return exhausted, haunted. His silence imperils their love, but the truth would imperil her life.

Three women who were inseparable during their college years meet again after 20 years at a ranch in Wyoming to find courage, healing and truth as they reach out to one another and rekindle old relationships.

From shattered dreams to lasting love. Every time Samantha went back to the flat, John's words rang through her head- 'I can't live with you any more- I've got to get out.' He's been seeing another woman, and now she was promising him the one thing Sam couldn't give: a child. The man she had shared her life with, her love and laughter had lied to her. When the agency gave her four months on a ranch she thought they were crazy. Did they think a holiday would change her? She knew she was wild and untamable, a lone free Palomino- until she met the man who could break any horse on the range and entered a world of endless and enduring love...

In the late 1930s in New York, Marielle Patterson shares her life with her husband Malcolm and their little boy Teddy. But their lives are filled with secrets. Haunted by a past she has kept secret even from her husband, Marielle secretly lights a candle each year for a child who died in a tragic accident when he was scarcely more than a baby. Then Marielle runs into her first love, American expatriate Charles Delauney. And when her little Teddy is kidnapped Charles is first blamed, then arrested, as the Pattersons, the New York Police and the FBI turn the country upside down, looking for Teddy. A terrifying court drama seeks to put Charles Delauney behind bars, as a series of revelations begin to unravel the truth about Marielle, Charles, and Malcolm. Piece by piece the uncovering of their pasts creates a complex mosaic of the motives and passions controlling their lives.

On the evening of her mother's funeral Grace Adams decides she has had enough and shoots her father when he tries to molest her once again. After two years of prison, it looks like Grace is going to be able to go on with her life, but the past seems to keep resurfacing

From small-town America to a world on the cusp of World War II, Wings is an uplifting story about one woman's fight to fulfil her dreams. Risking her life, in a world preparing for the Second World War, she decides to chart her own course and pursue her own destiny, whatever it might cost her .

As a partner at a prestigious New York law firm, Alexandra Parker balances her career, marriage, and her three-year-old child, feeling blessed with her life. However, a routine medical check-up delivers devastating news that turns her world upside down. Her husband, Sam Parker, a successful venture capitalist, takes pride in their marriage but is thrown off balance by Alex's illness. Terrified of losing her and haunted by his past, Sam struggles to provide the emotional support she needs, leading to a growing distance between them. As their relationship deteriorates, Sam's career also faces a catastrophic downfall, challenging his identity and future. With everything at stake, Alex must confront her feelings for Sam and decide if their love can endure the turmoil or if she must forge a new path alone. This narrative delves into the uncertainty faced by a family when their lives are threatened and examines whether love and marriage can survive life's unexpected challenges.

Peter Haskell has everything.. power, position, a career and a family that mean everything to him and for which he has sacrificed a great deal. Compromise has been key, and integrity is the base on which he lives. Olivia Thatcher, the wife of a famous senator, is trapped in a web of duty and obligation, married to a man she once loved and no longer even knows. Peter and Olivia meet in Paris, after bomb threat at the Ritz. Their lives become briefly enmeshed.. 5 days in Paris is all they have ... they go back to their separate lives, but nothing is the same. They both pursue their lives despite challenges, compromise, and betrayal, until they realize they must stand fast against compromise and face life's challenges head on

Single Mom Stephanie juggles two children and a job, giving her little time to find romance. But a spur of the moment trip to Paris changes everything when she meets Peter Baker, a handsome high-tech entrepreneur, and falls in love. She is shocked to discover there are two Peters - which one is real and which one a clone?