FICTION · ROMANCE
Nina Pykare
Also known as: Ann Coombs, Nina Coombs
Nina Coombs is a pseudonym of Nina Coombs Pykare, Born Dec. 27, 1932, to Edwin Charles Coombs and Grace Sharpnack Coombs, Nina graduated from Bazetta High School, Youngstown State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree and Kent State University with a Ph.D. She worked as secretary for the religious studies department at Cleveland State until she left to write full time. She was an accomplished writer of over 50 novels under various pseudonyms. During her career, she taught the Writer’s Digest Correspondence Course in novel writing classes at the Kent State branch and the YWCA. When her students did not want to stop meeting for classes, they started the Warren Writer’s Group, which is still functioning today. She was an active member of First Presbyterian Church of Warren, where she helped with the community lunches and served on many committees. She was instrumental in beginning a recycling program and the annual offerings of letters for Bread For the World, an organization focused on helping the hungry. Nina loved horses and dogs. She enjoyed time with her family, reading, crocheting baby blankets and watching old movies on TV.
Confucius told his disciple Tzu-kung that three things are needed for government: weapons, food and trust.
— from A question of trust
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The Rake's Companion
Faith Duncan travels north to become a companion to an elderly woman. The Earl of Moorshead suspects that Faith is not what she seems. Faith struggles to do her job and not succumb to the Earl's charms, even as strange events start to haunt the castle's inhabitants.
Sun Spark
Electricity sparked instantly between them, and Lucia was certain -- despite Rock's mask of icy reserve -- that here was a man worth knowing. Her intuition was proved right in a wildfire night of exquisite passion that went far toward destroying Rock's bitterness over a marriage and a business gone bad. With the passing days, Lucia and Rock began to build a rapturous new dream all their own. But then Rock was offered a chance to reclaim his past -- a chance that threatened all Lucia hopes for their future ...
A question of trust
"We say we can no longer trust our public services, institutions or the people who run them. The professionals we have to rely on - politicians, doctors, scientists, businessmen and many others - are treated with suspicion. Their word is doubted, their motives questioned. Whether real or perceived, this crisis of trust has a debilitating impact on society and democracy. Can trust be restored by making people and institutions more accountable? Or do complex systems of accountability and control themselves damage trust? Onora O'Neill challenges current approaches, investigates sources of deception in our society and re-examines questions of press freedom. This year's Reith Lectures present a philosopher's view of trust and deception, and ask whether and how trust can be restored in a modern democracy."--Jacket.