Download or read book Luke s Dream written by Brian Daniels and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luke Coffin is a hardworking, easy going, Maine lobsterman who asks little more from life than to earn his living on the ocean aboard his boat, Luke's Dream, and on Friday nights, to drink a few beers with his comical buddy, "Munsey" Munson. Luke's life changes when, in the early 1980s, he meets and falls deeply for Emily Goodwin, a student at prestigious Bowdoin College, whose laughter fills his heart and whose tragic death shatters his world. Luke, overwhelmed by his loss and hell-bent on justice, plots to commit the perfect crime . . . to avenge Emily's murder. Brian Daniels writes with compelling intensity of the bittersweet complexities of human emotion that accompany life, love and loss. With its eclectic and fascinating cast of classic Maine characters, Luke's Dream is, at once, a story of tender romance and a riveting suspense thriller. Brian Daniels is an avid outdoorsman, a lover of nature, a newspaper columnist, musician and songwriter. His humorous column, Thoughts of an Average Joe by Joe Wright, is featured in newspapers throughout northern New England. Many of his songs, including four title tracks, have been recorded by eight different artists. Since 1984, he has practiced optometry in Brunswick, Maine, where he lives with his wife, Laurene. Inspired by the diverse and fascinating parade of personalities that pass through his office and the musicians with whom he has worked over the years, he has drawn on their characters and their stories to write his first novel, Luke's Dream.

Download or read book Grace Not Perfection Bible Study Guide written by Emily Ley and published by HarperChristian Resources. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to let go of your daily toil towards perfection and fall into the lasting freedom of God's grace. As a wife, new mother, business owner, and designer, Emily Ley reached a point when she suddenly realized she couldn't do it all. She needed to simplify her life, organize her days, and prioritize her priorities. She realized that she had been holding herself to a standard of perfection, when what God was really calling her to do was accept the welcoming embrace of his grace. In this four-session video-based study (DVD/video streaming sold separately), Emily—author of A Simplified Life­—describes the journey that led to her pursuing a life that allowed her to breathe, laugh, and grow. Along the way, she'll take you and your group through strategies to simplify your lives. Because God so abundantly pours out grace on us, we can surely extend grace to ourselves! This message is for anyone who has been trying to do it all…only to feel like you're burning out. Learn to find joy, acceptance, and clarity in the midst of life's beautiful messes. Sessions include: Let Go of the Perfect Life Surrender Control Build True Community Live in God’s Grace Designed for use with the Grace, Not Perfection Video Study (sold separately).

Download or read book The Dream Centered Life written by Luke Barnett and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wake Up to Bigger Dreams! “Everything of value starts with a dream—a God-given vision of our greater purpose. This book will teach you how to dream again and how to take the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.” —Todd Mullins, senior pastor of Christ Fellowship Church Have you stopped pursuing the life of your dreams? Did someone or something steal the passions that made your heart beat fast? It’s possible—for the first time or once again—to become that wide-eyed, visionary dream-chaser! It starts by realizing that God has specific, amazing plans for you. Once you discover what drives you at the deepest level, you’ll overcome any barrier that stands between you and your new reality. The Dream-Centered Life isn’t about wishful thinking. It offers practical ways to be an effective dreamer, no matter where your starting point. Through personal experiences and fresh insights from world-class dreamers, Luke Barnett discusses these and other topics: • Where do dreams begin? • Characteristics of a dreamer • Habits of dreamers • Dream lifters • Dream busters • Dreaming with confidence Are you ready to discover—and live—your God-sized dream?

Download or read book Angel Dreams written by Chris Schneider and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A new story to immerse yourself in this Christmas season—a story that inspires your faith, beckons to your imagination, and tugs on your heartstrings.” —Prairie Sky Book Reviews Reality and fantasy converge in this wonder-filled tale, beautifully crafted by authors Chris Schneider and Michael Phillips. A grieving World War II widow in search of a long-lost daughter finds herself drawn to a small Wyoming town. A crippled and mute orphan boy has a wondrous dream every Christmas Eve where he walks, talks, sees his mother, and meets a mysterious girl who becomes his best friend. “Being filled with occurrences that could only come from Above, as well as Heavenly dreams and mysterious angel encounters, this story will continue to surprise readers until the very end. The setting of a small, post-WWII town, various secondary characters who add color and depth, and the back-and-forth timeline of events increases the one-of-a-kind feeling of the book, but in a special way makes it more endearing, as well.”—Prairie Sky Book Reviews

Download or read book Dream Song written by Linda Ladd and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early nineteenth-century America, a woman takes flight to protect a young boy—but love is about to catch up to her. Bethany Cole and her young charge, Peeto, are running for their lives, following the raging waters of the Mississippi to freedom, escaping the ruthless Luke Randall, Peeto’s father. When Luke finds Bethany and his son gone, he immediately vows to track down the lovely “kidnapper.” However, he isn’t counting on Bethany’s strength of will and determination. As she braves crossing the river and traversing the lawless lands of the frontier, Bethany shows him just what she’s made of. Now, Luke finds his resolve weakening in the face of Bethany’s beauty. She taunts and tantalizes him . . . but remains just out of reach, as a supreme battle of wills turns into a sweetly passionate surrender for the two adversaries. They began as enemies, but couldn’t defy the overwhelming need that brought them together.

Download or read book Dreams Close written by L.S. O'Bryan and published by LS O'Bryan Press. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if dreams come true? Brace yourself for the epic finale of Sara Warren's journey, as she prepares for the ultimate battle against her relentless enemies. With the stakes rising higher than ever before, Sara must utilize every ounce of her knowledge, all of her skills, and the help of her allies to triumph over the Elder’s malevolent forces. But her foes will not rest until they have utterly destroyed Sara and completely extinguished all of the hope that she represents. As the battle looms, Sara must also confront her own inner demons and doubts. Will Sara finally see her dream come to a close and awaken to the brighter future she has envisioned, or will she be defeated and witness the collapse of everything that she has fought for and the devastation of those she loves?

Download or read book Faded Dreams Storms of New England book 6 written by Kari Lemor and published by Rycon Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes Karma is a kick in the pants… Lukas Storm never stays with a woman long enough to finish zipping his pants. With the reality check of deployment on the horizon, he rethinks his Casanova ways. He wishes, just once, he’d loved a woman of substance who’ll cry if he doesn’t return. Murielle Russell has admired Luke since she was a genius pre-teen in his classes. Years later, a fateful night at her cousin’s wedding leads to more than soothing Luke before he leaves. Knocked up by the town player, Ellie hates that she’s reliving the sins of her mother. As Luke returns, he’ll do the right thing by Ellie and his baby, but his reputation is a hard one to shake, her trust even harder to earn. As they prepare for their child’s arrival, Luke must learn about fatherhood, but more importantly prove to Ellie he’ll remain true.

Download or read book Mystic Dreams and Dusty Roads written by Robert Valleau and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feisty twelve-year-old Peep Holler finds living with her single alcoholic father challenging as she struggles with puberty, faith and unforeseen tragedies at the beginning of the Oklahoma Dust Bowl years. But her greatest challenge yet lies just ahead. One day, Peep innocently uncovers a dark secret which drives her further from her estranged father, and, if revealed could rip apart her best friend's family. While Peep copes with this secret, however, an untimely event occurs that alters her life perception . . . and sets her on a course that affects entire generations.

Download or read book Wildest Dreams written by Rosanne Bittner and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sweeping saga of passion, excitement, and danger...as a beautiful young woman and a rugged ex-soldier struggle against all odds to carve out an empire--and to forge a magnificent love." Lettie McBride knows that joining a wagon train heading West is her chance to begin anew, far from the devastating memories of the night that changed her forever. She doesn't believe she can escape the pain of innocence lost, or feel desire for any man...until she meets Luke Fontaine. Haunted by his own secrets, Luke would never blame Lettie for what happened in the past. One glance at the pretty redhead is enough to fill the handsome, hard-driving pioneer with a savage hunger. Against relentless snows, murderous desperadoes, and raiding Sioux, Luke and Lettie will face a heartrending choice: abandon a lawless land before it destroys them, or fight for their Wildest Dreams. An emotional saga from the "QUEEN OF WESTERN HISTORICAL ROMANCE" that will captivate fans of Debra Holland, Jodi Thomas, Diana Palmer, and Linda Lael Miller. What readers are saying about Wildest Dreams: "I laughed and cried and mourned the end of this wonderful adventure!" "This is my idea of what love, marriage and family should be like." "This book kept me thinking long after I had read the last page." "I have not read a historical romance in years, and years. But, this one sucked me right in." "If I were stranded on an island and could only take 5 books with me, this would be one." What reviewers are saying about Wildest Dreams: "It's a rip-roaring soap opera that lets the reader follow a couple's life together over the course of 25 years." "Anyone seeking an emotional, sweeping Western saga need look no further..." "I was swept away into Luke and Lettie's story and loved every re-reading minute of it, and they and their story has stayed with me again long after I have finished." "Books like this aren't being published in the romance genre anymore -- and it's a damn cryin' shame." "In my opinion this book was everything a good western romance should be." What everyone is saying about RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award-winning and USA Today bestselling Author Rosanne Bittner: "Power, passion, tragedy, and triumph are Rosanne Bittner's hallmarks. Again and again, she brings readers to tears." "The strong flavor of the Wild West combines with a beautiful love story, creating a true saga of the era." "Ms. Bittner has a way of bringing the pages and characters to life which pulled me right in from page one and I hated having to put it down for even one second." "If you like authentic American West romances with in depth characterizations Rosanne Bittner is your author." "Rosanne Bittner has a way of weaving a story into your heart so that you can't help but love the characters and feel like you truly know them!" "We are very lucky to be living during a time when the TRUEE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL ROMANCE...keeps delivering epic novels that are forever engraved in our hearts."

Download or read book Dreams written by Linda Chapman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a new horse has trouble adjusting, Ellie uses her power to help him After a few months in England, Ellie still misses the life she left behind when her parents died, but there is one thing in this strange new country that helps her forget her pain: Spirit, a skinny gray horse whom she loves more than life itself. With him, she discovered a secret talent—the ability to communicate with horses without speaking, and to hear their thoughts in return. But there is one horse in her uncle’s stables who will not open up: a jet-black show hack named Lucifer. Ellie can tell that something is troubling this valuable new arrival, but unless he will speak to her, she doesn’t know how to help. As the horse’s silence continues, Ellie and Spirit must work together to save Lucifer’s life.

Download or read book Chasing Dreams written by Larry Stewart and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clint McBride wanted to have it all--a beautiful wife, a great career, success, wealth--all before age 30, but it was not to be. Everything came crashing down on him, including his beautiful home that he burned to the ground. Doors opened for Clint everywhere he went, as his best friend's father took the young architect into his construction business. Deal followed deal, success followed success, and soon Clint and his wife, Dusty, seemed to have it all. But it was too much too soon for the young couple--especially for Clint, whose greed for more wealth, more power, and more success dominated his life. Clint and Dusty had it all and then lost it. Terrible things happened to the two of them as Clint's dreams became obsessions and overpowered their lives in Woodside, California. When greed and betrayal took over, Clint left for Europe. In a drunken stupor on the airplane to Madrid, he met Father Bernardo, who eventually brought renewed direction and meaning to Clint's life and helped turn failure into new success. What lay ahead meant new places, new people, a new life, and new dreams to chase--dreams that Clint never could have imagined before.

Download or read book The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams written by Karen Hawkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A magical entry in the Dove Pond series that follows a gifted historian investigating the mystery of a love story lost to time"--

Download or read book The Law of Dreams written by Peter Behrens and published by Steerforth. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “absorbing, unsparing, and beautifully written” story of a young man’s epic passage from innocence to experience during Ireland’s Great Potato Famine (The New York Times Book Review) On his odyssey through Ireland and Britain, and across the Atlantic to “the Boston states,” Fergus is initiated to violence, sexual heat, and the glories and dangers of the industrial revolution. Along the way, he meets an unforgettable generation of boy soldiers, brigands, street toughs and charming, willful girls—all struggling for survival in the aftermath of natural catastrophe magnified by political callousness and brutal neglect. Peter Behrens transports the reader to another time and place for a deeply moving and resonant experience. Winner of Canada’s top literary prize, The Law of Dreams is gorgeously written in incandescent language that unleashes the sexual and psychological energies of a lost world while plunging the reader directly into a vein of history that haunts the ancestral memory of millions in a new millennium.

Download or read book To Dream Again written by Robert Dale and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-12-27 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are four ways to revitalize a church, organizationally speaking. The easiest change is policy change. You simply adjust the way you do things. A second strategy is to change personnel. Firing the minister or electing new lay leaders is a common approach. Another change tactic is to create new program structures. Reorganization plans are familiar in institutions of all kinds. Change policy. Change people. Change programs. Each of these approaches has its advocates. But the approach I suggest is the most basic of all--clarify purpose. The fourth way to revitalize a church is to define and act on its fundamental purpose. A new dream awakes a congregation. A poster motto challenges: "Aim for the sun. You may not reach it, but you will fly higher that if you never aimed at all." --from the Foreword

Download or read book Delicate Dreams written by Susanne Bacon and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take your niche and make it your asset! This is exactly what recently widowed Dottie Dolan does as she faces the challenge to create a new life for herself. Still new to the quaint Victorian town of Wycliff on South Puget Sound, she opens up a German deli on Main Street. While sharing her specialties with her customers, Dottie always has an open ear for their concerns and a helping hand when it comes to events. As her deli business is slowly thriving, Dottie finds herself in the emotional conflict between grieving for her late husband and falling in love again. And then the fund for the towns annual Victorian Christmas gets embezzled. The entire event is about to be canceled, leaving smaller stores in Wycliff, such as the deli, destitute. Will Dottie stay on top of this difficult situation? Can she save her deli and Victorian Christmas? And will her heart make the right decision?

Download or read book The Dreamer written by Luis Aira and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slim is a homeless old timer who still loves life. He lies helpless under an apple tree when he notices a young man sitting next to him. The stranger has an air of joy and purity about him that accompanies an off season scent of apple blossoms. This peculiar fellow with no name has no recollection of his identity or the world around him. So Slim tells him to pick a name and after giving him a few tips sends him off pointing out that in this life "you have to be somebody." And so "Apple," as he calls himself, departs into a brand new world. On his journey he soon discovers human beings are amazing creatures capable of making their dreams come true and starts wondering who dreamed him. What follows is a wondrous trek through the nature of what makes us human in search of the one who dreamed us. "The Dreamer" is an imaginative and inspirational fable that delivers the reader a sense of belonging to the universal dream we call life.

Download or read book Dreams Call written by L.S. O'Bryan and published by LS O'Bryan Press. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if dreams were real? Sara Warren has had extremely vivid and unsettling dreams from the time she was a child. But recently, those dreams have become increasingly dark and menacing, turning her life into a never-ending nightmare. Desperate for help, Sara travels to a sleep disorders clinic, hoping for relief from her relentless nightmares. But instead of finding a cure, Sara discovers that her dreams hold more power than she could have ever imagined. Before long Sara’s power attracts the attention of a mysterious man who calls himself the Elder, and he has plans to use her to achieve his own selfish goals. With the lives of her family and friends at stake, can Sara find the strength to gain control of her dreams or will she lose everything to nightmares turned real?