Download or read book A Highly Respectable Widow written by Melinda McRae and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1992 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Defiant Miss Foster and a Highly Respectable Widow written by Melinda McRae and published by Signet. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in one volume comes "The Defiant Miss Foster, " a brand-new Regency romance, and "A Highly Respectable Widow, " one of the genre's most beloved classics. Original.
Download or read book A Widow for One Year written by John Irving and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole woke to the sound of lovemaking—it was coming from her parents’ bedroom.” This sentence opens John Irving’s ninth novel, A Widow for One Year, a story of a family marked by tragedy. Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character—a “difficult” woman. By no means is she conventionally “nice,” but she will never be forgotten. Ruth’s story is told in three parts, each focusing on a critical time in her life. When we first meet her—on Long Island, in the summer of 1958—Ruth is only four. The second window into Ruth’s life opens on the fall of 1990, when she is an unmarried woman whose personal life is not nearly as successful as her literary career. She distrusts her judgment in men, for good reason. A Widow for One Year closes in the autumn of 1995, when Ruth Cole is a forty-one-year-old widow and mother. She’s about to fall in love for the first time. Richly comic, as well as deeply disturbing, A Widow for One Year is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotional force. Both ribald and erotic, it is also a brilliant novel about the passage of time and the relentlessness of grief.
Download or read book The Notorious Widow written by Allison Lane and published by Signet. This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earl of Rockhurst comes to the aid of Catherine Parrish, a respectable young widow being harassed by a vicious scoundrel out to tarnish her reputation, and unexpectedly finds himself falling in love. Original.
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Download or read book The Widow s Offering an Authentic Narrative of the Parentage Life Trials and Travels of Mrs Elizabeth Hill written by Elizabeth Freeman Hill and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Widow s Cross written by Umejesi, Ike and published by Spears Media Press. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently widowed, Angelina Ibe, a smart, evangelical Christian and school teacher goes on an early morning evangelising mission and intentionally kills a python, one of the major totems in her community, Umuocha. This abominable act – at least viewed from the community’s perspective, brings her into direct collision with Umuocha’s guardians of tradition, led by the arch-conservative prime minister of Umuocha, Mazi Ikenga. Inevitably, the Igwe (King) of Umuocha, formerly a lawyer with a thriving practice in England, is embroiled in the drama. Whose side will he take and how far does Angelina’s battle go? Find out as you read this epic battle of wills that pits Angelina against time-honoured patriarchal institutions and individuals, determined to get their way by every means and at all cost.
Download or read book Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Widow s Son written by Samuel Woodworth and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Widow S Walk written by Kenneth Spillias and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reverend Jim Donovan escaped his troublesome past as well as the care of the evil Dr. Pere and moved with his family to the peaceful town of Paradise, South Carolina. Jim considers Paradise to be a fresh start. But although he feels happy with his marriage, his children, and his role as religious guide, he still finds himself drawn to the seductive Widow Chievers. Feelings of sin stir within him, and he is soon engaged in a torrid love affair with the lovely widow. He feels his life again falling apart, but the storm around him is not just of his own making. Dr. Pere has found him again, and after years of manipulation, the doctor is ready to collect his due. But someone else now fights for the salvation of Jims soul. Norma Hutchins, a psychic octogenarian, is intent on stopping the destruction of the reverend. Jim finds himself facing his own battles as a supernatural storm rages on, causing him great peril on the widows walk. Will he rise above his demons and find forgivenessor will his own sin destroy him, along with all the people he loves.
Download or read book Hindu Widow Marriage written by Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the passage of the Hindu Widow's Re-marriage Act of 1856, Hindu tradition required a woman to live as a virtual outcast after her husband's death. Widows were expected to shave their heads, discard their jewelry, live in seclusion, and undergo regular acts of penance. Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar was the first Indian intellectual to successfully argue against these strictures. A Sanskrit scholar and passionate social reformer, Vidyasagar was a leading proponent of widow marriage in colonial India, urging his contemporaries to reject a ban that caused countless women to suffer needlessly. Vidyasagar's brilliant strategy paired a rereading of Hindu scripture with an emotional plea on behalf of the widow, resulting in an organic reimagining of Hindu law and custom. Vidyasagar made his case through the two-part publication Hindu Widow Marriage, a tour de force of logic, erudition, and humanitarian rhetoric. In this new translation, Brian A. Hatcher makes available in English for the first time the entire text of one of the most important nineteenth-century treatises on Indian social reform. An expert on Vidyasagar, Hinduism, and colonial Bengal, Hatcher enhances the original treatise with a substantial introduction describing Vidyasagar's multifaceted career, as well as the history of colonial debates on widow marriage. He innovatively interprets the significance of Hindu Widow Marriage within modern Indian intellectual history by situating the text in relation to indigenous commentarial practices. Finally, Hatcher increases the accessibility of the text by providing an overview of basic Hindu categories for first-time readers, a glossary of technical vocabulary, and an extensive bibliography.
Download or read book The Widow s Kiss written by Jane Feather and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Feather has won legions of fans with her irresistible romances that deftly blend mystery and intrigue with exquisitely passionate romance. Now the New York Times-bestselling author of The Least Likely Bride has penned another seductive tale, the unforgettable story of a beautiful noblewoman who has lost four husbands under mysterious circumstances, and the man who is sent to find out if she is an unlucky victim of fate -- or a black widow whose abundant charms hide a heart of ice.... As a lone and wealthy widow in Henry VIII's kingdom, Lady Guinevere Mallory knew that she was in a precarious position. But she never imagined that when danger arrived, it would be in the form of Hugh of Beaucaire, a man with the bluest eyes she'd ever seen. A man of such power and determination that when he rode up to Mallory Hall, intent on claiming a vast tract of her land, Guinevere couldn't suppress a frisson of fear ... or deny a shiver of anticipation. A seasoned soldier, Hugh had seen his share of battle and known his share of women. But nothing had prepared him for the reality of Guinevere -- a woman so elegant and alluring, with luminous eyes and hair the color of palest wheat. And when she smiled her damnable smile, so filled with invitation, Hugh found himself confused, aroused, and infuriated. For he suspected that the widow had committed the blackest of crimes. How else could a woman of eight and twenty have been so unfortunate as to bury four wealthy husbands? How else could she have managed to persuade each of them to sign a marriage contract she herself had drawn up -- documents that ensured she would inherit everything they owned upon their deaths? As Guinevere stalls for time, Hugh begins to investigate her mysterious and tarnished past. Yet even as they try to fathom each other's motives, temptation explodes into a consuming passion, clouding their minds to the coming peril. Whatever Hugh uncovers, he must escort Guinevere to London to face the king and the terrifying and ruthless power of the Lord Privy Seal. And if Guinevere is indeed charged with murder, Hugh knows there's only one way he can save her -- by taking the risk that he will become the next victim of the widow's kiss....
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