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Book Heartwarming Possibilities

Download or read book Heartwarming Possibilities written by Lynda Milligan and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Show off your love for handmade with these new, colorful quilt projects from Possibilities. Stitch up rays of sunshine, leafy green trees, and delightful dancers to warm up your home and share your heart with family and friends.

Book The Surprise Wedding

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean Oram
  • Publisher : Oram Productions
  • Release : 2017-05-25
  • ISBN : 1928198333
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book The Surprise Wedding written by Jean Oram and published by Oram Productions. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To Believe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Scott
  • Publisher : Readscape Publishing, LLC
  • Release : 2019-07-29
  • ISBN : 194914402X
  • Pages : 165 pages

Download or read book To Believe written by Laura Scott and published by Readscape Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA TODAY Bestselling Author Laura Scott Welcome to McNally Bay - A small town with big secrets... Can he learn to love again? Deputy Trina Waldorf has a mission: To eradicate drugs from the small town of McNally Bay. Her brother had died of an overdose years ago, and she is determined to honor Steven’s memory. Unfortunately, the brains behind the mobile meth lab is always one step ahead of her. When Jeremy McNally arrives in town, he offers to assist with her mission, and ends up healing her guilt over the past. After being hit by a drunk driver, Jeremy McNally is forced to give up his career as a trauma surgeon. So when he arrives in McNally Bay behind a car careening all over the road, he doesn’t hesitate to call the authorities. He’s shocked when his former buddy’s younger sister, Trina Waldorf arrives to arrest the driver. Attraction flares between them, but Trina isn’t interested in a relationship, unwilling allow anything to derail her mission. As danger escalates, Jeremy grimly realizes he’d risk his life to save hers. Can he convince Trina to believe in a future that includes the two of them, together? -- Read what others are saying about USA Today Bestselling Author Laura Scott: “Scott delivers distinctive characters, an appealing small-town setting, and a hint of romance. This cozy is perfect for animal lovers."--Publishers Weekly review of Dogged by Death "An entertaining cast of characters makes for a kickoff sure to please dog lovers." --Kirkus review for Dogged by Death -- Read the entire McNally Family series in order: To Love To Cherish To Laugh To Honor To Believe To Promise -- Topics: Sweet romantic suspense, sweet romance, small town romance, small town contemporary romance, family romance, suspense romance, suspense, thriller, Christian thriller, contemporary suspense romance, clean family centered romance, Laura Scott books, Laura Scott romantic suspense books, bed and breakfast romance, small town romance, emotional romance, redemption romance, finding faith romance, faith journey, finding faith, USA today Bestselling author, USA Today, rescue romance, learning to trust again, strong women romance, police officer, damsel in distress, doctor, hospital, strong men of faith, protector, faith redeemed, female cop, recovery from an addiction story, renewed faith story, reunion story. -- Readers of Laura Scott’s books enjoyed books by: Lynette Eason, Irene Hannon, Susan Sleeman, Susan May Warren, Hallee Bridgeman, Christy Barritt, Diann Mills, Dee Henderson, Elizabeth Goddard, Terri Blackstock, Lisa Harris, Rachel Dylan, Dani Pettrey, Colleen Coble, Edie James, Terri Reed, Shirlee McCoy, Lenora Worth, Heather Woodhaven, Dana Mentink

Book Heartwarming  How Our Inner Thermostat Made Us Human

Download or read book Heartwarming How Our Inner Thermostat Made Us Human written by Hans Rocha IJzerman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating investigation of core body temperature regulation and its powerful effect on human civilization. A hot cup of tea, coffee, or cocoa is calming and comforting—but how can holding a warm mug affect our emotions? In Heartwarming, social psychologist Hans Rocha IJzerman explores temperature through the long lens of evolution. Besides breathing, regulating body temperature is one of the most fundamental tasks for any animal. Like huddling penguins, we humans have long relied on one another to maintain our temperatures; over millennia, this instinct for thermoregulation has shaped our lives and culture. Temperature contributed to our evolution—our upright walking, our loss of fur, and our big brains—and now continues to affect our lives in unexpected ways, and the link from a warm mug to our emotions is anything but straightforward. Studies have shown, for example, that a chilly deliberation room can predispose a jury to convict and that a cold day can make us more likely to buy a house. Our mind-body connection works the other way, too: thinking about friendly or caring people can make us feel warmer. Understanding how we subconsciously strive to keep our temperature in an optimal range can help us in our relationships, jobs, and even in the world of social media. As IJzerman illuminates how temperature affects human sociality, he examines fascinating new questions: How will climate change impact society? Why are some people chronically cold, and others overheated? Can thermoregulation keep relationships closer, even across a distance? The answers offer new insights for all of us who want to better understand our bodies, our minds, and each other. Heartwarming takes readers on an engaging journey through the world, seen from the perspectives of coldness and warmth.

Book How to Create Heart Based Hospitality  The Future of the Hotel Hospitality Experience

Download or read book How to Create Heart Based Hospitality The Future of the Hotel Hospitality Experience written by Peter McAlpine and published by Peter McAlpine. This book was released on with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows hoteliers how to create a spirit of hospitality that is impossible to create with the globally pervasive, standards manual-based concept of SOP-Customer Satisfaction. Heart-Based Hospitality is an energetic and spiritual concept of hospitality, and it provides a completely new direction in hospitality. It is based on creating an ever-increasing spirit of unconditional love, Metta loving-kindness, compassion, and heart-warming care, which are the forgotten essence of hospitality. By working with energy, especially heart energy, and by developing the spiritual capacity of the staff you can create limitless levels of spiritual and energetic hospitality far above the traditional SOP-Customer Satisfaction ceiling. As you develop Heart-Based Hospitality you can increase the softness, gentleness, loving-kindness, compassion, and heart-warming care of the staff and the energetic warmth of the hospitality without limit. Heart-Based Hospitality is a concept and a direction that enables the spirit of hospitality to evolve energetically and spiritually. It will revolutionise the hospitality industry. I call the level Heart-Based Hospitality because it is created by working with human energy, especially with the energy of the heart; by developing the heart’s intelligence; by increasing heart coherence so as to open the heart to experience ever-stronger emotions of love; and by developing spiritual capacity which increases the desire to show unconditional love, Metta loving-kindness, heart-warming care, and compassion from the heart. The future hospitality experience will be energetic and spiritual. Hotels in the future will also use heart field energy techniques to change the energetic vibration of the hotel staff, the guests, and spaces. They will also infuse spaces, facilities, and guest accommodation with pleasant-feeling energy through specific meditations. I have written the book in order to bring about a revolution of change in the hotel industry. The book shows hotels how to implement and develop the process of creating Heart-Based Hospitality. Part 1, the Introduction to the book, explains what the book is about. Go to this link: http://heartbasedhospitality.com/?page_id=57800

Book Midnight Quilts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lerlene Nevaril
  • Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
  • Release : 2012-04-01
  • ISBN : 1607054574
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book Midnight Quilts written by Lerlene Nevaril and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lerlene Nevaril teaches you how to use black and other dark fabrics as the contrasting color with these 11 projects (3 table runners, 8 quilts). Show off your brights and solids in blocks like Log Cabin, and Pinwheel – they’ll glow like you’ve never seen before! Includes handy cutting charts plus a chapter with the basics for making these projects perfect—learn about the stitch-and-flip, making half-square triangles, and more. Lerlene’s love for needle arts began as a child; she has run a quilt shop, authored several books, and teaches around the country.

Book Second Chance Deputy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alexis Morgan
  • Publisher : Harlequin
  • Release : 2023-12-26
  • ISBN : 0369737148
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Second Chance Deputy written by Alexis Morgan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She loved him once… But can she trust him now? When Officer Moira Fraser returns to her hometown, she’s shocked to run into the man who broke her heart ten years ago! The last she saw of Titus Kondrat, he was being shoved into the back of a police car. Now he’s a respectable café owner, and old feelings are threatening to resurface. But how can she trust him when everything she knew about him was a lie? From Harlequin Heartwarming: Wholesome stories of love, compassion and belonging. Heroes of Dunbar Mountain Book 1: The Lawman's Promise Book 2: To Trust a Hero Book 3: Second Chance Deputy

Book Harlequin Heartwarming January 2022 Box Set

Download or read book Harlequin Heartwarming January 2022 Box Set written by Sasha Summers and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships that focus on home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: THE WRONG COWBOY The Cowboys of Garrison, Texas by USA TODAY bestselling author Sasha Summers Everyone knows Crawleys and Briscoes don’t get along. When horse whisperer Mabel Briscoe helps Jensen Crawley’s daughter overcome her fear of animals, Mabel and Jensen are the talk of the town. What happens when they fall for each other unexpectedly? WORTH THE RISK Butterfly Harbor Stories by USA TODAY bestselling author Anna J. Stewart Cautious Alethea Costas is still grieving the loss of her best friend when a wrong turn throws her into the arms of Declan Cartwright—a daredevil race car driver who could possibly help her embrace life. A RANCHER’S PROMISE Bachelor Cowboys by Lisa Childs Rancher Jake Haven has always done the responsible thing. Now that means raising his orphaned nephews. When his ex Katie O’Brien-Morris returns home with her young son, can he let past wants distract him from family needs? A NEW YEAR’S EVE PROPOSAL Cupid’s Crossing by Kim Findlay Architect Trevor Emerson doesn’t trust anyone after an accident at his last job site…which makes it tough to renovate a local mill with Andie Kozak! As a woman, the contractor has been questioned too often. Can working together change them both? Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Heartwarming!

Book Second Chance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Scott
  • Publisher : Readscape Publishing, LLC
  • Release : 2016-05-01
  • ISBN : 0990779610
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book Second Chance written by Laura Scott and published by Readscape Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA TODAY Bestselling Author Laura Scott Plan your escape to Crystal Lake! Kidnapped! When Janelle’s sister dies, she doesn’t hesitate to accept custody of her nephew Sebastian. As a nurse, Sebastian’s kidney failure and dialysis isn’t too scary, but it doesn’t take long for her to feel woefully inadequate as a new mother. She’s grateful for the support of her friend, Deputy Devon Armbruster, even though he’s made it clear he’s not looking for a relationship. Devon lost his fiancée and unborn child three years ago, and watching Janelle and Sebastian only reminds him of his painful loss. Yet somehow Janelle’s love and faith makes him realize that he might be worthy of a second chance. When Sebastian is kidnapped, Devon faces the biggest challenge of his career. He must find the little boy in time to save his life, or lose his chance of having love and a family, forever. -- Read what others are saying about USA Today Bestselling Author Laura Scott: “Scott delivers distinctive characters, an appealing small-town setting, and a hint of romance. This cozy is perfect for animal lovers."--Publishers Weekly review of Dogged by Death "An entertaining cast of characters makes for a kickoff sure to please dog lovers." --Kirkus review for Dogged by Death Read the entire Crystal Lake series in order: Healing Her Heart A Soldier’s Promise Coming Home Worth the Wait Christmas Reunion Second Chance Christmas Redemption Topics: Small town romance, single mother romance, missing child romance, police officer romance, clean and wholesome romance, sweet romantic suspense, sweet romance, small town contemporary romance, family romance, medical romance, doctor nurse romance, contemporary suspense romance, clean family centered romance, Laura Scott books, Laura Scott romantic suspense books, emotional romance, redemption romance, finding faith romance, faith journey, medical drama, medical romance, USA today Bestselling author, USA Today, rescue romance, learning to trust again, strong women romance, damsel in distress, doctor, hospital, strong men of faith, protector, faith redeemed. Readers of Laura Scott’s books enjoyed books by: Lynette Eason, Irene Hannon, Susan Sleeman, Susan May Warren, Hallee Bridgeman, Christy Barritt, Diann Mills, Dee Henderson, Elizabeth Goddard, Terri Blackstock, Lisa Harris, Rachel Dylan, Dani Pettrey, Colleen Coble, Edie James, Terri Reed, Shirlee McCoy, Lenora Worth, Heather Woodhaven, Dana Mentink

Book Hilarious  Heartwarming Heroines  Four Novels

Download or read book Hilarious Heartwarming Heroines Four Novels written by Sophie Kinsella and published by Dell. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 1486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody does smart, screwball romantic comedy quite like Sophie Kinsella, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the beloved Shopaholic series. In these four stand-alone novels, Kinsella’s charming heroines juggle work life, love life—and sometimes, even the afterlife—to heartwarming and hilarious effect. This must-have eBook bundle includes: CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET? “Move over, Bridget [Jones]! . . . Kinsella’s witty take on mundane office and family life will really make you laugh out loud.”—Evening Chronicle (UK) Emma Corrigan has a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets. Secrets from her boyfriend, secrets from her mother . . . secrets she wouldn’t share with anyone in the world. Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane, who, she later discovers, just so happens to be Jack Harper, her company’s elusive CEO—a man who now knows every humiliating detail about her. THE UNDOMESTIC GODDESS “Another charming winner from the delightful Kinsella.”—Booklist Samantha Sweeting, a workaholic attorney at a London law firm, has just made a huge, unthinkable mistake, wrecking her chance of becoming partner. Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her office, boards a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she’s mistaken for an interviewee and is offered a job as their housekeeper. And as she figures out how to turn on the oven and how to open the #@%# ironing board, she finds that this new life may be exactly what she is looking for. REMEMBER ME? “A delicious page-turner.”—USA Today When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she’s in for a big surprise. Having survived a car accident, Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory—three years to be exact—and somehow she’s gone from being a twenty-five-year-old working girl to being a corporate big shot with a sleek loft, a personal assistant, and a gorgeous husband. Will she ever remember how this all came to be? And what will happen when she does? TWENTIES GIRL “Kinsella [is] a master of comic pacing and feminine wit.”—Publishers Weekly Lara Lington’s imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal twenty-something young women don’t get visited by ghosts. Or do they? When the spirit of Lara’s great-aunt Sadie mysteriously appears, she has one request: Lara must find a missing necklace that was in Sadie’s possession for more than seventy-five years. And in their mission, these very different “twenties” girls learn some surprising truths from and about each other. BONUS: This eBook bundle also includes an excerpt from Sophie Kinsella's Wedding Night.

Book The Coalwood Way

Download or read book The Coalwood Way written by Homer Hickam and published by Island Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's fall, 1959, and Homer "Sonny" Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, launching handbuilt rockets that soar thousands of feet into the West Virginia sky. But in a season traditionally marked by celebrations of the spirit, Coalwood finds itself at a painful crossroads. The strains can be felt within the Hickam home, where a beleaguered HomerSr. is resorting to a daring but risky plan to keep the mine alive, and his wife Elsie is feeling increasingly isolated from both her family and the townspeople. And Sonny, despite a blossoming relationship with a local girl whose dreams are as big as his, finds his own mood repeatedly darkened by an unexplainable sadness. Eager to rally the town's spirits and make her son's final holiday season at home a memorable one, Elsie enlists Sonny and the Rocket Boys' aid in making the Coalwood Christmas Pageant the best ever. But trouble at the mine and the arrival of a beautiful young outsider threaten to tear the community apart when it most needs to come together. And when disaster strikes at home, and Elsie's beloved pet squirrel escapes under his watch, Sonny realizes that helping his town and redeeming himself in his mother's eyes may be a bigger-and more rewarding-challenge than he has ever faced. The result is pure storytelling magic- a tale of small-town parades and big-hearted preachers, the timeless love of families and unforgettable adventures of boyhood friends-that could only come from the man who brought the world Rocket Boys

Book Good Morning eBook

    Book Details:
  • Author : GURMEET SINGH DANG
  • Publisher : GURMEETWEB TECHNICAL LABS
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9359750239
  • Pages : 697 pages

Download or read book Good Morning eBook written by GURMEET SINGH DANG and published by GURMEETWEB TECHNICAL LABS. This book was released on with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Postcolonial Disaster

Download or read book Postcolonial Disaster written by Pallavi Rastogi and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial Disaster studies literary fiction about crises of epic proportions in contemporary South Asia and Southern Africa: the oceanic disaster in Sri Lanka, the economic disaster in Zimbabwe, the medical disaster in South Africa and Botswana, and the geopolitical disaster in India and Pakistan. Pallavi Rastogi argues that postcolonial fiction about catastrophe is underpinned by a Disaster Unconscious, a buried but mobile agenda that forces disastrous events to narrate themselves. She writes that in disaster fiction, a literary Story and its real-life Event are in constant dialectic tension. In recent disasters, Story and Event are tied together as the urgency to circulate information and rebuild in the aftermath of the disaster dictates the flow of the narrative. As the Story acquires temporal distance from the Event, such as the seventy-three years since the partition of India in 1947, it plays more with form and theme, to expand beyond a tale about an all-consuming tragedy. Story and Event are in a constant dance with each other, and the Disaster Unconscious plays the tune to which they move. Rastogi creates a narratology for postcolonial disaster fiction and brings concepts from Disaster Studies into the realm of literary analysis.

Book Into the Heart s Land

Download or read book Into the Heart s Land written by Henry Barnes and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 1303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Barnes, the author of A Life for the Spirit, brings us a comprehensive view of the roots and development of anthroposophy throughout North America. From its seminal beginnings with a few hearty souls in New York City, it moved across the prairies to the west coast and beyond, to Canada, Mexico, and Hawaii, and took root in the hearts and minds of the "new world." Here is the story of those adventurous spirits who took responsibility for bringing the work of Rudolf Steiner to North America in the form of study groups, agricultural initiatives, Waldorf and special education, the arts, and so much more.

Book Harlequin Heartwarming November 2022 Box Set

Download or read book Harlequin Heartwarming November 2022 Box Set written by Cari Lynn Webb and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships that focus on home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: HER FAVORITE WYOMING SHERIFF The Blackwells of Eagle Springs by USA TODAY bestselling author Cari Lynn Webb Widower and single mom Adele Blackwell Kane must reopen the once-renowned Blackwell Auction Barn—if she can get Sheriff Grady McMillan to stop arresting her on town ordinances long enough to save her ranch. Can love prevail in county jail? THE SERGEANT’S CHRISTMAS GIFT by New York Times bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray While manning the NORAD Santa hotline, Sergeant Graham Hopkins gets a call from a boy who steals his heart. When he meets the boy’s mother, Vivian Parnell, will he make room in his heart for both of them? THE SEAL’S CHRISTMAS DILEMMA Big Sky Navy Heroes by Julianna Morris Navy SEAL Dakota Maxwell is skipping Christmas—and not just because his career-ending injuries have left him bitter. But Dr. Noelle Bannerman lives to heal. And she’ll do that with physical therapy…and a dose of holiday magic. AN ALASKAN FAMILY THANKSGIVING A Northern Lights Novel by Beth Carpenter Single mom Sunny Galloway loves her job as activities director of a seniors’ home—then Adam Lloyd shows up, tasked with resolving financial woes. They have until Thanksgiving to save the home. Can working together mean saving each other, too? Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Heartwarming!

Book Harlequin Heartwarming May 2019 Box Set

Download or read book Harlequin Heartwarming May 2019 Box Set written by Cathy McDavid and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships imbued with the traditional values so important to you: home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: THE COWBOY’S PERFECT MATCH The Sweetheart Ranch by Cathy McDavid Bridget’s waiting for Mr. Right, the one who checks off all the boxes on her list of qualifications. No way is newly hired wrangler Ryan—who’s all charm—her idea of husband material. Or is he? HERS TO PROTECT Shores of Indian Lake by Catherine Lanigan When rookie cop Violet Hawks finds a connection between race car driver Josh Stevens and her investigation, she’s determined to get close to him. But can she separate her feelings for Josh the suspect…from Josh the man? THE RANCHER’S SECOND CHANCE Kansas Cowboys by Leigh Riker Cowboy Cooper Ransom broke Nell Sutherland’s heart. Now he wants to take her land. She hires Cooper to keep an eye on him, but is having him so close risking the ranch…and her hard-won independence? FINALLY, A FAMILY Emerald City Stories by Callie Endicott Logan Kensington, a world-traveling photographer, discovers that home and family may be exactly what he needs and wants when he meets Jessica Parrish, a feisty single mom, and her young daughter. Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Heartwarming!

Book Harlequin Heartwarming July 2017 Box Set

Download or read book Harlequin Heartwarming July 2017 Box Set written by Kate James and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin Heartwarming brings you a collection of four new wholesome reads, available now! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: HOME TO STAY San Diego K-9 Unit by Kate James Sawyer Evans is desperate to find his son during a camping trip gone badly wrong, so he turns to K-9 officer Shannon Clemens. She’s promised to save the child, and won’t let unexpected feelings for Sawyer get in her way. AFRAID TO LOSE HER Hope Center Stories by Syndi Powell Can Sherri Lopez find a new life and love with her best friend, Des Jackson, while on the path to recovery from the cancer she refuses to let beat her? FAMILY OF HIS OWN Shores of Indian Lake by Catherine Lanigan It’s no secret that Scott has always loved Isabelle: the whole town of Indian Lake has been wondering when they’re finally going to take their friendship to the next level. Scott is definitely ready to put down roots and start a family. But if Isabelle turns him down again… THE CHARM OFFENSIVE by Cari Lynn Webb Sophie Callaghan locates forever homes for the pets she rescues. Now if she can only open her heart to PI Brad Harrington, she just might discover her own forever family.