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Four recent college graduates take on their first job, helping two retired businesswomen turn their dream of an upscale life-care retirement facility into reality. As soon as they choose a location, their project moves ahead quickly. Construction begins in earnest, and the little group navigates through issues with subcontractors, personnel situations, and damaging legal issues. The little group survives the challenge of working closely with potential...
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Villa Paradiso is a life care retirement facility. It's the brainchild of two retired businesswomen who pooled their resources to bring it into reality. Just when everything seems to be going well, it isn't. The co-founders and their staff of four recent college grads, a retired attorney, and an assortment of helpers, have all they can do to keep everything under control. This is book four of the series and addresses issues such as: does someone at...
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Four college grads take charge of the daily operations of a life-care retirement center called Villa Paradiso. Working under the guidance of the two founders, they quickly find out that keeping pace with the residents is hard work and they must learn to cope with issues not found in college textbooks.
Just when they think they have a handle on everything, a threat appears on their financial horizon. If left unchecked, it can spell complete disaster...
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Two retired businesswomen from Austin, Texas, share a dream. They'd like to build a life-care retirement facility that caters to world-traveled individuals who are extremely active even when at home, like themselves.
They team up with four recent college graduates to bring their dream to life. As soon as the plan is in motion, the little group discovers that turning a concept into a reality is not a task for the faint of heart. Obstacles loom at every...
5) Paradiso
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Italy, 1937. In a tiny village in rural Lombardy, Graziella Ponti is born into a loving family. Though they are not rich, and life is full of challenges, Graziella and her family are content and safe, surrounded by the tightly knit community of Pieve Santa Clara.
But when the shadow of World War Two falls across the village with the arrival of Nazi soldiers, nothing in young Graziella's life will ever be the same again... Paradiso is Graziella's...
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Italy, 1950. The dawn of a new decade brings with it the promise of lasting peace and prosperity as the hardships of war are consigned to the past. In Pieve Santa Clara, a tiny village in rural Lombardy, Graziella Ponti, now a teenager, lives a simple life with her widowed mother and aunt. But Italy is transforming around Graziella at great speed and, as her childhood gives way to the start of her womanhood, she must learn to navigate this ever-changing...
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