Download or read book Forever Lily written by Beth Nonte Russell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Will you take her?" she asks. When Beth Nonte Russell travels to China to help her friend Alex adopt a baby girl from an orphanage there, she thinks it will be an adventure, a chance to see the world. But her friend, who had prepared for the adoption for many months, panics soon after being presented with the frail baby, and the situation develops into one of the greatest challenges of Russell's life. Russell, watching in disbelief as Alex distances herself from the child, cares for the baby -- clothing, bathing, and feeding her -- and makes her feel secure in the unfamiliar surroundings. Russell is overwhelmed and disoriented by the unfolding drama and all that she sees in China, and yet amid the emotional turmoil finds herself deeply bonding with the child. She begins to have dreams of an ancient past -- dreams of a young woman who is plucked from the countryside and chosen to be empress, and of the child who is ultimately taken from her. As it becomes clear that her friend -- whose indecisiveness about the adoption has become a torment -- won't be bringing the baby home, Russell is amazed to realize that she cannot leave the baby behind and that her dreams have been telling her something significant, giving her the courage to open her heart and bring the child home against all odds. Steeped in Chinese culture, Forever Lily is an extraordinary account of a life-changing, wholly unexpected love.
Download or read book The Adventures of Lily written by Darcy Busch and published by darcy busch. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily and her friend Nick live in a small town in western Kansas. Together they solve many mysteries that they find in Scott City. Lily is very stubborn, and when her mind is made up, no one, not even Nick can convince her otherwise. The duo find many unusual occurrences in their small town. Lily and Nick face many obstacles, just like children in our society. Things arenat always what they seem, and Lily is very aware of this. These detectives will lead the reader through a maze of interesting cases. Who knows, maybe you can even help them solve one?
Download or read book Lily Lettersby The Peanut in The Fairies of Forever written by Adam Zeidler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily Lettersby and her little sister, who everyone calls The Peanut, are just normal girls, living a normal life, until one day they find a fairy lying in the grass in their backyard. In order to help the fairy, the girls travel to a magical land called Forever. There they find fairies, a talking fox, and goblins. But the goblins aren't the only things they have to fear. There is something else in Forever that even the goblins are afraid of. Intended or children age six through ten, The Fairies of Forever is a story of love, family, danger and adventure. A story of how we all have magic inside of us and even the smallest of us can make a difference.
Download or read book Lily s Promise written by Lily Ebert and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Heartbreaking, inspirational, and uplifting, this is an engaging story of one remarkable woman's will to survive." — Library Journal “Utterly compelling, heartbreaking, truthful and yet redemptive . . . a testimony of irrepressible spirit and an unforgettable family chronicle. I couldn't stop reading it.”—Simon Sebag Montefiore In this life-affirming intergenerational memoir, Lily Ebert, a Holocaust survivor, and her great-grandson, Dov Forman, come together to share her story—an unforgettable tale of resilience and resistance. On Yom Kippur, 1944, fighting to stay alive as a prisoner in Auschwitz, Lily Ebert made a promise to herself. She would survive the hell she was in and tell the world her story, for everyone who couldn’t. Now, at ninety-eight, this remarkable woman—and TikTok sensation, thanks to the help of her eighteen-year-old great-grandson—fulfills that vow, relaying the details of her harrowing experiences with candor, charm, and an overflowing heart. In these pages, she writes movingly about her happy childhood in Hungary, the death of her mother and two youngest siblings on their arrival at Auschwitz, and her determination to keep her two other sisters safe. She describes the inhumanity of the camp and the small acts of defiance that gave her strength. Lily lost so much, but she built a new life for herself and her family, first in Israel and then in London. Dov knows that it is up to younger people like him to keep Lily’s promise. He and Lily bridge the generation gap to share her experience, reminding us of the joy that accompanies the solemn responsibility of keeping the past—and our stories—alive.
Download or read book My Lily written by Brigitta Barnes and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into poverty and raised without love, Lilys only source of pleasure is attending school. This joy was cut short by her drunken fathers determination to get rid of her once she begins to blossom into a young woman, showing the signs of puberty. Shockingly, he decides to sell her to the highest bidder in a barand he succeeds. After several years, the man who bought her in that bar is dying; finally Lily is able to escape to a new town and a new life. For the first time, she finds herself in a loving family and becoming part of a community. Despite finding contentment and love, she realizes her past will never let her forget what she has endured over the years. She must flee to protect those she loves. Danny, the man she falls in love with, is the sheriff and has a great deal to lose by loving her. A deadly secret haunts her, threatening to destroy her peace. After moving and starting over again, she discovers that she cant hide from the truth. She returns to the town to reveal the secret she promised she would never disclose, placing not only herself in danger, but also everyone she loves.
Download or read book Lily Cigar written by Tom Murphy and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical saga of one strong woman’s journey from poverty and servitude in New York City to a new life in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. At ten, Lily Malone watched her mother die in their shabby apartment on Mulberry Street. Ma’s last wish was for Lily to keep an eye on her wild, rebellious brother—but after the two children move into the Catholic orphanage, she’s helpless to stop Fergy from abandoning her and heading out west to find gold in California. With the last of her family gone, Lily has little choice but to eventually accept a position in another family’s household. They’re Irish like her, but far wealthier—and it is here that the innocent girl begins to understand that she has little to bargain with aside from her beauty. This is the story of a young woman fighting her way out of hardship, as she learns to sell her body at an elegant brothel; becomes a mother desperately trying to keep the truth from her daughter; and finally is forced by love to return to the city of her shame and seek to conquer it. Moving from tenement squalor to the Fifth Avenue splendor of old New York, from the rolling decks of a great clipper ship to the brawling streets and magnificent Nob Hill mansions of San Francisco, through storm and earthquake and fire, Lily Cigar is a breathless saga of love, intrigue, and illicit passion.
Download or read book Lily the Luddite written by Lilian Simmonds and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost seven decades, ten ladies have met for lunch on May 8, to celebrate their friendship and shared history. Over the last few years the annual lunch has been fractured and interrupted, and Lily is convinced that modern technology is to blame. But "Lily the Luddite" as her friends call her, comes to recognize that we have to embrace the time were living in, before we can dial up the past. A short story.
Download or read book Lily s Story written by Charles Thomas and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), inhuman conditions within its vast mining industry, and endemic corruption at the highest levels of government are hardly uncommon. But when native son, Jean Amani, rises to the role of minister of mines in the mineral rich Katanga province, he vows to advocate for workers’ rights and expose the industry’s unscrupulous dealings. Jean’s investigations are quickly curtailed when he dies in a car crash. It’s just another soon-forgotten tragedy in this region of the world. But not to Lily, Jean’s daughter with his wife, Laura, a descendent of the Janssens, one of the region’s founding Belgian families. To cope with her grief, Lily enrols in journalism school in Montreal, Canada, where she befriends André Fortin, a freelance photojournalist, and Logan Taylor, scion of the Taylor Media Group. The trio teams up to make a documentary about the mining industry in the DRC. Lily’s sole motivation, however, is uncovering what truly happened to her father. Lily’s Story is a tale about romance and power, one reveals the profound injustices often suffered by citizens in resource-rich African countries.
Download or read book Longing for Lily written by Tara Grace Ericson and published by Silver Fountain Press. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rift twelve years in the making, and a second chance to do it right. Lily Bloom is confident, capable, and better off alone. She experienced true love once, and she thinks she’ll never find it again. Instead, she throws her energy into building her event business at Storybook Barn, helping others take the dive into happily ever after. Josh Elliot is the life of the party, with a successful photography business and wonderful friends. But there is something missing. He never had a doubt about the woman God made for him, but he failed her twelve years ago. Forever isn’t in the cards for them, but since she started hosting weddings at Bloom’s Farm, he is tortured with the unobtainable love of his life nearly every weekend. Lily’s wedding venue and Josh’s photography business bring their worlds colliding once again, bringing old wounds to the surface and forcing the question: is what happened twelve years ago going to keep them apart forever? Or can God rescue the pieces of the love they once shared? Longing for Lily is Book 4 in the popular Bloom Sisters Series. Each book can
Download or read book Mercy Lily written by Lisa Albert and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-10-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily’s mother has slowly been losing herself to MS. When traditional treatment and other therapies fail, it becomes clear that she wants to die. In Oregon, the Death with Dignity Act allows a patient to make the decision to end their own life. Now Lily, a high school sophomore, has to make an unimaginable choice.
Download or read book Dark Lily written by Nina Navarre and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-13 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily is an accomplished ballet dancer living on her families Island estate. She spends her days looking after her families affairs on the Island and hunting on her beloved Friesian, Calabos, with her two wolfhound companions. She spends her nights plagued by dreams of her abduction and death of her lover. The peace of the Island is interrupted, first by the terror of hell hounds, released to wreak havoc on the Islands inhabitants. And secondly, by Oliver, a visitor sent to the Island to stay out of trouble, who becomes the hounds first victim. Bit by bit her world starts to unravel. In her efforts to help the damaged Oliver, she sets up events that will lead them all to the brink of death. A gathering has been called. The family will converge on the Island and she will be forced to face the Matriarch. The nights events will determine the fate of all, her secrets will be exposed and she will be forced to choose between old love and new.
Download or read book The Villa written by Maureen Burton-Bukhari and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her husband’s violent death on the rocky shores of their quiet fishing village home, Hannah is plagued by horrifying and confusing nightmares that make her question everything she knows about herself and the night that changed her life forever. When she decides to befriend an outsider to the town, in the hopes of shaking off the depression and grief that have lasted for more than a year, there’s no way she can predict the story this intriguing stranger will tell... Claiming to be one of the mythological muses, daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and mother of the siren responsible for her husband’s death, the visitor invites the young widow to Saudi Arabia, to stay at what has been the family’s private sanctuary for countless generations: The Villa. http://MaureenBurtonBukhari.com
Download or read book Texas Lily written by Patricia Rice and published by Book View Cafe. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of the Rebellious Sons series: Widowed Lily Porter is a woman alone, with a child to raise and a ranch to run. In a land aflame with violence and ripe for rebellion, where women are expected to be seen and not heard, Lily needs a man to stand up for her. The only man who offers is just called Cade, part Apache, part Mexican grandee. He possesses the power and passion Lily needs. But his past contains secrets that can destroy them, even as he joins with Lily in a struggle against treachery and terror—and in a love she would risk anything not to lose. TOO HARD TO HANDLE SERIES: Book 1: Texas Lily Book 2: Texas Rose Book 3: Texas Tiger Book 4: Texas Moon
Download or read book Uncle Charlie s Story Book written by Charles Noel Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MoonFall Books 2 4 Box Set written by A.G. Wyatt and published by A.G. Wyatt. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This box set collects Books 2 to 4 of the MoonFall Series, continuing and concluding Noah Brennan's adventure in the world devastated by the destruction of the moon. The MoonFall Series brings the best of pulp sci-fi in a post-apocalyptic setting. It features clashing civilizations, reluctant heroes, and the mystery of advanced technology, all under the shadow of a terrible tragedy that befell Earth. This series is not about how and why the world ends, it shows something more horrific: what becomes of humanity after everything has turned to dust.
Download or read book Lily s Daughter written by Susan Gerstein and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Gerstein (nee Zsuzsa Osvath) is an artist living in New York City. She is married to David and is the mother of Lisa. In "Lily's Daughter" she remembers her early life growing up in Nazi-occupied, war-torn and ultimately Communist-dominated Hungary, culminating in her daring escape into the West.
Download or read book Dictation written by Cynthia Ozick and published by HMH. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Four expertly turned stories” of comedy, deception, and revenge from the acclaimed author of Heir to the Glimmering World (TheNew York Times Book Review). A New York Times Notable Book Dictation brings together four long stories by this Pulitzer and Man Booker Prize finalist, forming a quartet of sly humor and piercing insight into the human heart. The title story imagines a fateful meeting between the secretaries to Henry James and Joseph Conrad at the peak of their fame. Timid Miss Hallowes, who types for Conrad, comes under the influence of James’s Miss Bosanquet, high-spirited, flirtatious, and scheming. In a masterstroke of genius, Ozick hatches a plot between them to insert themselves into literary posterity. Each story in the collection starts in the comic mode, with heroes who suffer willful self-deceit. From self-deception, these not-so-innocents proceed to deceive others, who don’t take it lightly. Revenge is the consequence—and for the reader, a delicious if dark recognition of emotional truth. In Dictation, an author whose stories have won four O. Henry first prizes “reveals herself a master” (The New York Times Book Review). “A testament to the seductions of language and the smoldering aspirations of art.” —O, The Oprah Magazine “A brilliant book, a necessary book, a book that radiates the true intelligence of literature from every page.” —The New York Observer
