Download or read book America My Love America My Heart written by Daria Peoples-Riley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America, do you love me? Acclaimed author-artist Daria Peoples-Riley invites readers to answer timely—and timeless—questions beating inside the hearts of children across America. Exquisitely illustrated, with a powerful, lyrical text, America, My Love, America, My Heart will challenge readers of all ages to examine and evaluate personal beliefs and attitudes toward the many different colors of America. America, do you love me? My black. My brown. My pride. My crown. What begins as a single question from a single child multiplies as America, My Love, America, My Heart sweeps across the country with every page turn, inviting in more and more children of color—and their questions. Does America love them when they speak? Or whisper? Or shout? When they stand? Does America love them just as they are? Inspired by the questions of her own childhood, author and artist Daria Peoples-Riley has created a powerful and important book for Americans of all ages—an essential addition to every bookshelf and classroom. Her poetic text encourages readers to confront bias, prejudice, and discrimination and invites readers to reflect and respond with their own answers, while honoring the identities of black and brown children and people of color. The unforgettable monochromatic oil paintings incorporate patriotic colors—red, white, and blue—to evoke deeply felt emotion and unique perspective. This rich, resonant book is a conversation starter for children, for families, for classrooms, and for communities.

Download or read book THE CHAPEL OF LOVE BOX SET written by Hope Ramsay and published by Forever. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in one volume, three heartwarming novels from USA Today bestselling author Hope Ramsay. A Christmas Bride 'Tis the season in Shenandoah Falls, but widower David Lyndon has a bah-humbug approach to the holidays - until he's shown the spirit of the season by his daughter and her godmother, Willow. Paired up to plan a Christmas wedding for friends, David finds it harder and harder to stay immune to Willow's charms, especially when he sees how much joy she brings his daughter. After a simple kiss under the mistletoe turns into something more, David is hoping he can turn the magic of the holiday season into the love of a lifetime. A Small-Town Bride Amy Lyndon is tired of being the Poor Little Rich Girl of Shenandoah Falls. In her prominent family, she's the ordinary one. But when her father tries to marry her off, she knows it's finally time to stand up for herself, despite the consequences. When Amy shows up looking for work with his landscaping crew, Dusty McNeil thinks there's no way such a pampered princess will ever get her hands dirty. But as Amy proves him wrong, Dusty wonders whether a high-society woman like Amy can ever fall for a man like him. Here Comes the Bride Laurie Wilson never imagined being left at the altar by longtime boyfriend Brandon Kopp. In the aftermath, she does what any sensible woman would - she swigs champagne and considers keying his car. Until someone knocks on her door with a much better idea for revenge . . . Best man Andrew Lyndon decides to help Laurie feel better - and make Brandon jealous - by setting Laurie up on a string of "dates." But Andrew's plan works a little too well because suddenly he's the one falling for Laurie. Includes a sneak peek from the next book in the Chapel of Love series, The Bride Next Door. "Happiness is a new Hope Ramsay series." -- FreshFiction.com

Download or read book The Power of Love written by Clark Selby and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of Love tells the story of how love can give you the ability to do things you never thought you were ever capable of doing. Chance and Ann married at sixteen and had been married for almost fifty years when Ann became paralyzed and Chance became her full-time caregiver. This story tells of the efforts to find a cure for her illness and the struggles to keep Ann alive and to endure to have some kind of life again. Chance learned to care for his paralyzed wife. He did everything that was required to take care of her even though he never thought he could do such things. Only the power of love could do that. Against all odds they were able to celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary. They continued going from doctor to doctor and hospital to hospital to find a way to keep Ann alive. Finally, they had success with Barnes Jewish Hospital and the doctors from Washington University in St. Louis. The doctors were able to stabilize Anns condition and stop her disease from progressing further. Although Ann continued to be paralyzed, they found they were able to have somewhat of a normal life together even with her requiring twenty-four-hour-a-day care and with no hope of her ever being able to regaining her ability to stand or walk. Then without any warning, Ann suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and passed away, leaving Chance alone and lost. Chance and Anns good friend, Susan OHara, had lost her husband over eighteen years before Ann passed away. After Susan lost her husband she went to college and earned her degree, graduating summa cum laude. Susan vowed never to date again or ever get married since she never wanted to go through the anguish of losing another love. This story tells how two people who never expected to find love again discovered how the power of love could let them love again and begin a new life together. Their story gives hope to everyone who has ever lost their loved one.

Download or read book Unveiled Love written by Anida M and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of love after loss. It shows love, courage, strength and a will to learn to live with the new normal after child loss. It shows that just because one's world comes crashing down it doesn't mean that we have to do it alone. Each poem has a time and date stamp, so that other grieving parents know that it is all normal in grief. Grief doesn't have time when it comes and goes, it's like tidal wave that overtakes your heart. It is all normal, because it is all love. No parent should grieve alone, and I hope that this book gives the reader the comfort that was intended to provide. For those that haven't lived through loss, this is glimpse of our world for you to comprehend a little better. From one grieving mama to another, or just someone who cares about us.

Download or read book Select Notes written by Mary Abby Thaxter Peloubet and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Semiotics of Love written by Marcel Danesi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Semiotics of Love brings together work on early symbolism, literary practices, and contemporary communication on the theme of romance and the idea of love to forge an understanding of the semiotic-cultural side of romance. Moving beyond psychological and neuroscientific scholarly analyses of love, Marcel Danesi works to interrogate the cultural constructions of love across societies. This book analyzes romantic love from the general perspective of semiotics—that is, from its more generic interpretive angle, rather than its more technical one. The specific analytical lens used is based on the notion that we convert our feeling structures into sign structures (words, symbols) and sign-based constructions (texts, rituals, etc.), which then allow us to reflect upon something cognitively, rather than just experience it physically and emotionally.

Download or read book A QUESTION OF LOVE written by Elizabeth Sinclair and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Love To Last a Lifetime… Seven years ago, Honey Kingston and Matt Logan had a passionate affair that ended abruptly when he left town to join the rodeo. And though the strong-willed beauty tried to forget Matt's warm gaze, she couldn't help but remember their love…each time she looked into her little boy's blue eyes. So when the former rodeo daredevil returned to town, Honey found herself engulfed in a whirlwind of deep-rooted emotions, unable to distance herself from the father her son so deserved. Would too many memories send Honey running—or could they rekindle a flame that once burned so brightly?

Download or read book The Tapestry of Love written by Rosy Thornton and published by Review. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm and uplifting story of how a woman falls in love with a place and its people: a landscape, a community and a fragile way of life. A rural idyll: that's what Catherine is seeking when she sells her house in England and moves to a tiny hamlet in the Cévennes mountains. With her divorce in the past and her children grown, she is free to make a new start, and her dream is to set up in business as a seamstress. But this is a harsh and lonely place when you're no longer just here on holiday. There is French bureaucracy to contend with, not to mention the mountain weather, and the reserve of her neighbours, including the intriguing Patrick Castagnol. And that's before the arrival of Catherine's sister, Bryony...

Download or read book Summer of Love written by Caro Fraser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dark days of the war are over, but the family secrets they held are only just dawning. In the hot summer of 1949, a group of family and friends gather at Harry Denholm's country house in Kent. Meg and Dan Ranscombe, emerging from a scandal of their own making; Dan's godmother, Sonia; and her two young girls, Laura and Avril, only one of whom is Sonia's biological daughter. Amongst the heat, memories, and infatuations, a secret is revealed to Meg's son, Max, and soon a terrible tragedy unfolds that will have consequences for them all. Afterwards, Avril, Laura and Max must come of age in a society still reeling from the war, haunted by the choices of that fateful summer. Cold, entitled Avril will go to any lengths to take what is hers. Beautiful, naive Laura finds refuge and love in the London jazz clubs, but Max, with wealth and unrequited love, has the capacity to undo it all.

Download or read book Who Wrote the Book of Love written by Lee Siegel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Wrote the Book of Love? is acclaimed novelist Lee Siegel's comedic chronicle of the sexual life of an American boy in Southern California in the 1950s. Starting at the beginning of the decade, in the year that Stalin announced that the Soviet Union had developed an atomic bomb, the book opens with a child's first memory of himself. Closing at the end of the decade, when Pat Boone's guide to dating, 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, topped the bestseller list, the book culminates just moments before the boy experiences for the first time what he had learned from a book read to him by his mother was called "coitus or sexual intercourse or sometimes, less formally, just making love." Between the initial overwhelmingly erotic recollection and the final climactic moment, all is sex—beguiling and intractable, naughty and sweet. Who Wrote the Book of Love? is about the subversive sexual imaginations of children. And, as such, it is about the origins of love. Vignettes from the author's childhood provide the material for the construction of what is at once comic fiction, imaginative historical reportage, and an ironically nostalgic confession. The book evokes the tone and tempo of a decade during which America was blatantly happy, wholesome, and confident, and yet, at the same time, deeply fearful of communism and nuclear holocaust. Siegel recounts both the cheer and the paranoia of the period and the ways in which those sentiments informed wondering about sex and falling in love. "Part of my plan," Mark Twain wrote in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, "has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked." With the same motive, Lee Siegel has written what Twain might have composed had he been Jewish, raised in Beverly Hills in the 1950s, and joyously obsessed with sex and love.

Download or read book Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence written by Rebekah Compton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Rebekah Compton offers the first survey of Venus in the art, culture, and governance of Florence from 1300 to 1600. Organized chronologically, each of the six chapters investigates one of the goddess's alluring attributes – her golden splendor, rosy-hued complexion, enchanting fashions, green gardens, erotic anatomy, and gifts from the sea. By examining these attributes in the context of the visual arts, Compton uncovers an array of materials and techniques employed by artists, patrons, rulers, and lovers to manifest Venusian virtues. Her book explores technical art history in the context of love's protean iconography, showing how different discourses and disciplines can interact in the creation and reception of art. Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence offers new insights on sight, seduction, and desire, as well as concepts of gender, sexuality, and viewership from both male and female perspectives in the early modern era.

Download or read book Acts of Love written by Emily Listfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Waiting to Surface comes a “searing” (Publishers Weekly) and emotionally powerful novel about a family and a community torn apart after an unthinkable tragedy. In a suburb near Albany, New York, Ted and Ann Waring are waiting for divorce papers. Ted is hoping for reconciliation, but when he returns from a hunting trip with the couple’s two adolescent daughters, he loses his temper one last time, shooting and killing Ann in their living room. He claims it was an accident, but his thirteen-year-old daughter, Julia—the only witness—is sure it was murder. The younger girl, Ali, doesn’t know which way to turn. And when Julia testifies against her father, she sets into motion a struggle that pits family, friends, and townspeople against one another. As the many layers of truth unfold in this “chilling meditation on the so-called acts of love” (The New York Times) Emily Listfield’s lean and subtle prose reveals the ways in which the emotions and evasions of the past reverberate uncontrollably into the present.

Download or read book Hidden Abuse of Love written by Juliet Johnson and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The temperature was nine degrees. Ella had run out of her house at midnight, with no coat on and barefoot in the cold snowy weather, looking for somewhere to hide. She ducked on the other side of some steps where she couldn't be seen. She lay there on the cold ground, hiding behind the steps, scared and cold and shaking as she lay there. Then she raised up to see if she could see him. There he was! She ducked back down, frightened to death, thinking that he might hear her breathing. She covered her mouth with her hand, scared that she might scream out unexpectedly. He walked back and forth up the alley then he was gone. She sat up, wondering if she should go knock on the neighbor's door and ask for help. No, she couldn't, then everybody in the neighborhood would know about it in the morning. Suddenly she heard a car. It was him looking for her then she eased back down, laying still, hoping that he didn't notice her. He slowly drove down the alley, looking from side to side to see if he could see her. Then he pulled off Ella, got up, and run to the alley to see which way that he went, then she ran back to the house to get her shoes, coat and purse, not realizing how long that she was there. She heard the door close downstairs. It was him. Her heart started pounding and beating faster than before. He called her name, "Ella, where your ass at?"

Download or read book Acts of Love written by Susan Pearce and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring what happens when love for family and love for religion overlap, this novel follows a woman swept into a religious cult, who believes she has been offered one last chance at salvation. With her deeper involvement in the cult comes increasing alienation from her daughter and husband, resulting in a dangerous entanglement of passion, ambition, love, and duty.

Download or read book Seasons of Love written by Nicola Italia and published by Nicola Italia. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the time of the Great War, one Italian immigrant family struggles to find their place in the United States. The three Leone sisters love and care for each other, but each is distinctly different and looks for their own niche in the changing world around them. Rosalia is the middle sister, devoted to her family and God. When she falls in love with the shy and kind Dan, it is against his mother’s wishes. His family tradition dictates Dan must join the priesthood, but in his heart, he wants nothing more than to take Rosa as his bride. But how can Rosa, who puts so much importance on God and family, ask him to turn his back on both? Blond with blue eyes, Angelina is the baby of the family. Modern and wild, she throws herself into the make-believe world of silent films and longs for the same romantic love she sees on screen. When her heart is dazzled by a handsome Cuban, she doesn’t realize that he hides a dark secret from her until it is too late. The only sister to have been born in Sicily, Giovanna is a blend of traditional and modern values. She works in the local cigar factory as an esteemed roller and teaches English at the local Italian Club. While she longs for a family of her own, she has yet to find the right man—until two vastly different men appear in her life, and she must choose between the steadfast Giorgio and the brash and charismatic Carlo.

Download or read book Measure of Love written by Melissa Ford and published by Bell Bridge Books. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to the bestseller, Life from Scratch Getting re-married to your ex? Piece of cake. Praise for Life from Scratch " . . . characters I can relate to, who make me laugh out loud and hungry for dinner." -- MARY ALICE, co-star of Food Network's Ace of Cakes Rachel has made a new life from scratch with her ex-husband, but can they survive the wedding plans? It may be her second time getting married, but Rachel Goldman is definitely navigating a sticky relationship with her former--and soon-to-be-again--mother-in-law. Plus she's in a tug of war with the editor of her upcoming book on divorce who is begging her to keep her happy new relationship with her ex, Adam, on the down low. How can Rachel do that when her society-obsessed mother-in-law is eager to get a featured story in the wedding section of the New York Times? Throw in a sister-in-law-to-be who's navigating her own upcoming nuptials as well as a friend who not only doesn't want to get married, but is possibly having an affair. Rachel finds herself with too many pots simmering on a very familiar stove. Melissa Ford is the author of Life from Scratch, the bestselling prequel to Measure of Love. She writes daily at the award-winning blog, Stirrup Queens, and lives outside Washington, D.C. with her husband and twins. Look for her next novel, Apart at the Seams, coming in 2014. Visit her at www.melissafordauthor.com.

Download or read book Kissing Lessons An Adorable Romance A cute story of Love and Commitment written by Stefanie London and published by Sristhi Publishers & Distributors. This book was released on 2024-07-08 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:  Welcome to Kissing Creek, where everything has a romance-themed pun for a name and love is lurking around every corner... Audrey doesn’t believe in happily-ever-after, so she is definitely living in the wrong town. But she’s never getting out of Kissing Creek, because playing mom to her younger siblings doesn’t leave time for much else. She’ll do anything to make sure they don’t end up stuck like she is, working as a barista in a college town serving coffee. When Ronan, a young professor steps in for a coffee and into her life, she knows his type. Intelligent and charming, yet sweet as a cinnamon roll; the sort of man she’s inevitably attracted to but is always out of her league. She has nothing to offer and Ronan’s teaching position is only a stepping stone on his way to somewhere else. He isn’t here to put down roots, Audrey’s roots are firmly planted—neither of them is looking for love. And maybe that’s just perfect. But in a small town called Kissing Creek, sometimes love can be impossible to avoid…