Download or read book Once Upon an Irish Summer written by Wendy Wilson Spooner and published by Emerald House Group. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A compelling and heartfelt story about the power of faith, family, and our need for connection." --Richard Paul Evans, New York Times Bestselling Author Two teenagers, two centuries, one city. 1817 Ireland - Allen Hamilton crosses the Atlantic alone to find a way to save his family from imminent financial and social ruin before it's too late. Instead he is met with prejudice, sickness, and starvation. 2018 Fort Wayne, Indiana - A gifted young artist struggles with debilitating grief after a sudden death in her family. When she unearths Allen Hamilton's noble rise from rags to riches in Antebellum America, their shared connection inspires her own healing and renewed inspiration. Based on a 200-year-old letter collection, Once Upon an Irish Summer brings to life and weaves together this true story of romance, mystery, and hope.
Download or read book Once Upon an Irish Summer written by Lisa T. Bergren and published by Stonewater Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiona Murphy became obsessed with a legendary pirate queen in college. A recent college grad, she's in Ireland to volunteer for the summer at a small museum dedicated to the woman's memory. But once the summer is done, might local scholar Rory O'Keeffe convince her to stay?
Download or read book One Irish Summer written by William Eleroy Curtis and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Once Upon a Caribbean Summer written by Lisa T. Bergren and published by Stonewater Books. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sometimes your greatest treasure can't be counted...Christina Alvarez grew up on stories of her Spanish ancestor's missing treasure ship, La Canción. Now a nautical archaeologist, she's determined to discover the final resting place of the fabled ship, and there's only one man who can help her. Mitch Crawford stumbled across his first find as a college student and together with his partner, went on to earn worldwide fame as they discovered, and salvaged, a dozen more treasure ships. But Mitch crossed the wrong man at the wrong time, and now that man is out to bring Treasure Seekers to its knees. He's managed to steal their last three treasure finds right out from under them...and brought them to the brink of bankruptcy. Christina arrives on Robert's Foe--a tiny Caribbean island and Mitch's home--ready to convince him to help her find La Canción. But Mitch is in crisis and the two of them get off to a rocky start. In time, they travel from the turquoise seas of the Caribbean, to the historical center of Seville, Spain, and spend many a romantic eve on Robert's Foe. But can they find their way to the most important treasure of all--their love--in the midst of fending off an enemy willing to do anything it takes to beat them? It all happens Once Upon a Caribbean Summer..." -- Back cover.
Download or read book This Is Happiness written by Niall Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST and REAL SIMPLE A profound and enchanting new novel from Booker Prize-longlisted author Niall Williams about the loves of our lives and the joys of reminiscing. You don't see rain stop, but you sense it. You sense something has changed in the frequency you've been living and you hear the quietness you thought was silence get quieter still, and you raise your head so your eyes can make sense of what your ears have already told you, which at first is only: something has changed. The rain is stopping. Nobody in the small, forgotten village of Faha remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard was a condition of living. Now--just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of electricity--it is stopping. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is standing outside his grandparents' house shortly after the rain has stopped when he encounters Christy for the first time. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed. This is the story of all that was to follow: Christy's long-lost love and why he had come to Faha, Noel's own experiences falling in and out of love, and the endlessly postponed arrival of electricity--a development that, once complete, would leave behind a world that had not changed for centuries. Niall Williams' latest novel is an intricately observed portrait of a community, its idiosyncrasies and its traditions, its paradoxes and its inanities, its failures and its triumphs. Luminous and otherworldly, and yet anchored with deep-running roots into the earthy and the everyday, This Is Happiness is about stories as the very stuff of life: the ways they make the texture and matter of our world, and the ways they write and rewrite us.
Download or read book Once Upon a Montana Summer written by Lisa Tawn Bergren and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adalyn Stalling's clients convinced her to be a contestant on their reality TV show, The One. Hundreds of thousands of viewers tune in each week to watch a group of bachelorettes try to win one bachelor's heart, and then during the next season, watch bachelors do the same. Now America's most famous "loser at love," Adalyn is trying to pick up the pieces of her life. Given the media frenzy and the paparazzi that chase her, she's finding it difficult. And just as she learns she may have picked up a stalker, her childhood friend, Chase Rollins, tracks her down at last. He informs her that her beloved grandfather is ailing and needs her help, in more ways than one. So begins an epic summer in which Adalyn needs to decide where she belongs, what she is supposed to do, and with whom she might find true love at last. All Once Upon a Montana Summer ... --
Download or read book Summer Bird Blue written by Akemi Dawn Bowman and published by Simon Pulse. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A lyrical novel about grief, love, and finding oneself in the wake of a tragic loss.” —Bustle “Gorgeous prose and heartbreaking storytelling.” —Paste Magazine “Grabs your heart and won’t let go.” —Book Riot A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Three starred reviews for this stunning novel about a mixed-race teen who struggles to find her way back to her love of music in the wake of her sister’s death, from the author of the William C. Morris Award finalist Starfish. Rumi Seto spends a lot of time worrying she doesn’t have the answers to everything. What to eat, where to go, whom to love. But there is one thing she is absolutely sure of—she wants to spend the rest of her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. Then Lea dies in a car accident, and her mother sends her away to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Now thousands of miles from home, Rumi struggles to navigate the loss of her sister, being abandoned by her mother, and the absence of music in her life. With the help of the “boys next door”—a teenage surfer named Kai, who smiles too much and doesn’t take anything seriously, and an eighty-year-old named George Watanabe, who succumbed to his own grief years ago—Rumi attempts to find her way back to her music, to write the song she and Lea never had the chance to finish. Aching, powerful, and unflinchingly honest, Summer Bird Blue explores big truths about insurmountable grief, unconditional love, and how to forgive even when it feels impossible.
Download or read book One Irish Summer Classic Reprint written by William Eleroy Curtis and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from One Irish Summer About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Love and Summer written by William Trevor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It?s summer and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn?t go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger appears on his bicycle and begins photographing the mourners at Mrs. Connulty?s funeral. Florian Kilderry couldn?t know that the Connultys are said to own half the town: he has only come to Rathmoye to photograph the scorched remains of its burnt- out cinema. A few miles out in the country, Dillahan, a farmer and a decent man, has married again: Ellie is the young convent girl who came to work for him when he was widowed. Ellie leads a quiet, routine life, often alone while Dillahan runs the farm. Florian is planning to leave Ireland and start over. Ellie is settled in her new role as Dillahan?s wife. But Florian?s visit to Rathmoye introduces him to Ellie, and a dangerously reckless attachment begins. In a characteristically masterly way Trevor evokes the passions and frustrations felt by Ellie and Florian, and by the people of a small Irish town during one long summer.
Download or read book Once Upon an Island written by M. E. Clogston and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in New York City, the daughter of Irish immigrants shares an ancient History passed on by her father completely contradictory to what we have learned in our History Books. The author also explores the inconsistencies between the Histories we have passed on and the Religions we profess to believe in. We are at a crossroads. Which way will we go and will God help us?
Download or read book One Irish Summer written by William Eleroy Curtis and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Eleroy Curtis wrote this popular book that continues to be widely read today despite its age.
Download or read book Foster written by Claire Keegan and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international bestseller and one of The Times’ “Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century,” Claire Keegan’s piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas’ house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household—where everything is so well tended to—and this summer must soon come to an end. Winner of the prestigious Davy Byrnes Award and published in an abridged version in the New Yorker, this internationally bestselling contemporary classic is now available for the first time in the US in a full, standalone edition. A story of astonishing emotional depth, Foster showcases Claire Keegan’s great talent and secures her reputation as one of our most important storytellers.
Download or read book Once Upon a Wardrobe written by Patti Callahan and published by Harper Muse. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College student Megs Devonshire sets out to fulfill her younger brother George’s last wish by uncovering the truth behind his favorite story. What transpires is a fascinating look into the bond between siblings and the life-changing magic of stories. 1950: Margaret Devonshire (Megs) is a seventeen-year-old student of mathematics and physics at Oxford University. When her beloved eight-year-old brother asks Megs if Narnia is real, logical Megs tells him it’s just a book for children, and certainly not true. Homebound due to his illness, and remaining fixated on his favorite books, George presses her to ask the author of the recently released novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe a question: “Where did Narnia come from?” Despite her fear about approaching the famous author, who is a professor at her school, Megs soon finds herself taking tea with C. S. Lewis and his own brother Warnie, begging them for answers. Rather than directly telling her where Narnia came from, Lewis encourages Megs to form her own conclusion as he shares the little-known stories from his own life that led to his inspiration. As she takes these stories home to George, the little boy travels farther in his imagination than he ever could in real life. After holding so tightly to logic and reason, her brother’s request leads Megs to absorb a more profound truth: “The way stories change us can’t be explained. It can only be felt. Like love.” From the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Book of Flora Lea A captivating, standalone historical novel combining fact and fiction An emotional journey into the books and stories that make us who we are Includes discussion questions for book clubs
Download or read book Donna Summer s Once Upon a Time written by Alex Jeffery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contradicting assumptions that disco albums are shallow and packed with filler, Donna Summer's double album Once Upon A Time stands out as a piece that delivers on its promise of an immaculately crafted journey from start to finish. A new interpretation of the Cinderella story, it is set in the then contemporary world of New York disco and takes the listener on a journey from urban isolation and deep despair to joy and vindication, all filtered through the mind of its naïve and fantasy-prone protagonist. As well as charting the production of the album within the legendary Munich Machine in Germany, this book digs deep into the album's rich themes and subtexts. Approaching the book from inventive angles, the four essays within the book act as a prism connecting the reader to the classical aspirations of Eurodisco, the history of the black fairy tale and a queer knowledge that reads Summer's Cinderella tale in some surprising ways.
Download or read book Once Upon a Summer written by Patricia O'Reilly and published by Wolfhound Press (IE). This book was released on 2000 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the summer of 1959, Rose Horn and her friends have discovered adolescence. Through her passionate affair with local bad boy Mikey, she soon finds herself thrown headlong into the adult world of broken promises, hidden secrets, and, finally, bitter tragedy.
Download or read book Room written by Emma Donoghue and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-07 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room.
Download or read book Once Upon A Time written by Inga Gabadze and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book is a fiction novel. The central character of the book is a young, accomplished human rights defense professional, Milena Bulic. She walks us through her everyday life--her work and the time spent with her next-door neighbor, an overpowering and controlling woman named Sandy. Sandy is a very well-rounded woman, but she is living a double life. She is a mystery to all her friends who have love-and-hate relationships with her. Despite her dark secrets, Milena still likes her, spends meaningful evenings with her, and has spiteful exchanges with her. Sandy becomes the second mother figure for her. The present book is a fiction, novel. The central character of the book is a young accomplished human rights defense professional, Milena Bulic. She walks us through her everyday life: her work and the time spent with her next door neighbor, overpowering and controlling woman Sandy. Sandy is a very well rounded woman but she is living a double life. She is a mystery to all her friends who have love and hate relationship with her. Despite her dark secrets, Milena still likes her, spends meaningful evenings with her, and has spiteful exchanges with her. Sandy becomes the second mother figure for her. Sandy controls everybody's life around her. She decides who they can date and who they cannot. Though Sandy does not approve it, Milena goes to law school. There she meets professor Savanelli who gets her in trouble. In the end it is Sany who comes to her rescues.
