Download or read book Seaside Cinderella written by Anna Schmidt and published by Steeple Hill. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tranquillity of Nantucket Island offered poor but proud Lucie McNeil refuge, a place to dream about a better life. Her quiet existence as companion to an elderly couple was a blessing for the tragedy-haunted Irish immigrant. But all that changed when her employers' handsome, elegantly attired son stepped ashore. For she recognized him instantly as the owner of the Boston factory where a terrible fire had scarred her forever. She knew she should hate Gabriel Hunter, yet she could not. She found herself drawn to the caring soul she sensed behind the ruthless façade he showed the world. And she could not help dreaming that such different people— a poor servant girl and a wealthy merchant prince—might somehow make a life together.
Download or read book Beach Flirts 5 Romantic Short Stories written by Lisa Scott and published by Lisa Scott. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazon readers say: "...highly recommend and so hilarious that you'll wish flirting and romance were ALWAYS like this ;-)" "You won't be able to stop at just one." Beach Flirts! 5 Romantic Short Stories set in the summer sun on Cape Cod. Fun, sweet, and sassy love stories to squeeze into your busy life. Discover the loose thread that connects the stories and ties up in a perfect, happy ending. Each short story is 9,000-12,000 words in length (or 36-48 typical book pages.) The entire collection is 52,000 words long, (or 208 pages.) Stories include: "Ex On The Beach" She’s trying to forget the fiancé who cancelled their wedding—until she sees her ex on the beach. Heather should be celebrating her first wedding anniversary instead of the first annual Parker Family Reunion. Then she sees her ex on the beach—and he wants her back. Now, their two families will stop at nothing to get them together. But is it too late for love? 10,000 words, or 40 typical book pages. "She’s Hot Now" She never used to get a second look; now Natalie’s the hottie on the beach. Can she handle the heat? After a big weight loss, everyone’s checking out Natalie. She’s not comfortable being the center of attention, especially not around her friend’s gorgeous boyfriend and his pals. But one special guy might just prove looks aren’t everything--even when you do look good. 9,000 words, or 36 typical book pages. "Girls Just Wanna Have Finn" It’s girls' week at the beach--until the hottie from high school shows up. So who gets Finn? When Anna and her gal pals spot a hunk on the beach, she learns he’s a womanizer who hooked up with all her friends back in high school. Now he’s after her. Is he a changed man, or is he still a dog on the prowl? 10,000 words, or 40 typical book pages. "Washed Up" When she saves her dream guy at the beach, he wants something more…. Molly saves a guy washed up on the beach, and discovers he’s the heartthrob from her youth—actor Michael Sullivan. The press makes it look like a blossoming summer romance, and Michael wants Molly to play along. Do happy endings only happen in the movies? 12,000 words, or 48 typical book pages "Hot for Summer" The beach goddesses are after the most eligible bachelor on the shore. So why is he hot for Summer? After losing her job, her guy, and her apartment all in one week, Summer needs a break at her friend’s beach house. But her biggest problem isn’t the snobby beach babes who ignore her, or the old diner she’s trying to save--it's a tall, gorgeous man who has no business being interested in her. Will it be a summer to remember? 9,000 words, or 36 typical book pages Beach Flirts! Just 2.99 for the collection or .99 each for the individual stories. Hot fun in the summer sun…get yours now! Check out the first collection, Flirts! 5 Romantic Short Stories, Holiday Flirts!, Fairy Tale Flirts!, Wedding Flirts!, More Flirts!, Reunion Flirts!, Fairy Tale Flirts 2!, Office Flirts!, and Magic Flirts! Look for Twin Flirts! in early 2015. And don't miss Lisa's Willowdale Romance series.
Download or read book Gift from the Sea written by Anna Schmidt and published by Steeple Hill. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A steadfast faith kept nurse Maggie Hunter going through the darkest days of the Great War. But her fiancé's death overseas shattered her trust in God and her heart. Now an injured man has washed up on the shores of her Nantucket home, and to save him, Maggie must put more than her skill and dedication on the line…. Wartime tragedy cost Stefan Witte everything—and converted him to the cause of peace. But to deliver vital information to American authorities, he must fight Maggie's stubborn refusal to believe or forgive. Soon he will risk his life to win her trust—and their heaven-sent future together.
Download or read book Dancing Cinderella Belle of the Ball written by Random House Disney and published by RH/Disney. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After finding good luck charms that grant them their wishes, Cinderella and Belle prepare for a night of waltzing and fun at a ball.
Download or read book The New Pioneers written by J.P. Faber and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a world where there are no building codes, no licensing requirements, no permit fees, no inspectors—no rules or regulations, only common sense and the desire to build something better. This is the world that forged America, the land where the early pioneers and town developers thrived. But this type of open environment is long gone. It's prohibitively expensive for young entrepreneurs to start a business today. In fact, it is almost impossible to build anything unless you are part of a larger organization that has the expertise and resources to navigate the system. Our municipal, state, and federal codes, from business permitting and OSHA compliance to occupational licenses and tax requirements, have blossomed out of control. Today's innovators and builders must ignore the rules, go to places where the rules are not enforced, or figure out how to get around them. The New Pioneers is the story of Americans—millennials, immigrants, artists, and entrepreneurs—who are doing just that in cities across the nation, including Detroit, San Diego, New Orleans, Phoenix, and many more. Written by journalist J.P. Faber, The New Pioneers shows the entrepreneurs of today, especially those in urban areas, how they can work around obstacles to create wealth and revive our cities. Small business owners and individual builders have the power to fix what's broken in society—if only they are allowed to do so. This book is an optimistic look at how we can rebuild our cities and jump-start more small businesses. It shows how we can make far better use of our resources, both human and physical. The New Pioneers paves a road to success in a crumbling world. It's time for the little guy to have a fighting chance to get ahead once again.
Download or read book Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction written by Ushashi Dasgupta and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Dickens was nineteen years old, he wrote a poem for Maria Beadnell, the young woman he wished to marry. The poem imagined Maria as a welcoming landlady offering lodgings to let. Almost forty years later, Dickens died, leaving his final novel unfinished - in its last scene, another landlady sets breakfast down for her enigmatic lodger. These kinds of characters are everywhere in Dickens's writing. Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World explores the significance of tenancy in his fiction. In nineteenth century Britain the vast majority of people rented, rather than owned, their homes. Instead of keeping to themselves, they shared space - renting, lodging, taking lodgers in, or simply living side-by-side in a crowded modern city. Charles Dickens explored both the chaos and the unexpected harmony to be found in rented spaces, the loneliness and sociability, the interactions between cohabitants, the complex gender dynamics at play, and the relationship between space and money. Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction demonstrates that a cosy, secluded home life was beyond the reach of most Victorian Londoners, and considers Dickens's nuanced conception of domesticity. Tenancy maintained an enduring hold upon his imagination, giving him new stories to tell and offering him a set of models to think about authorship. He celebrated the fact that unassuming houses brim with narrative potential: comedies, romances, and detective plots take place behind their doors. Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World wedges these doors open.
Download or read book Cinderella Liberty written by Darryl Ponicsan and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of THE LAST DETAIL and LAST FLAG FLYING We first meet John Baggs, YN 2, U.S. Navy, soaking his very sore backside in a sitz bath at sea, aboard the USS Begonia. This is Baggs' second enlistment. He's an unlikely sailor—onetime physics major, possible minister—but the Navy's a lot preferable to science or the pulpit, despite its absurdities, and he can still enjoy the pleasure of sins he wasn't willing to renounce. Then came the day he presented his ailment to the ship's doctor and was told he needed surgery and a thirty-day stay at the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia. Not for John Baggs a conventional hospitalization, discharge, and return to duty. In the ultimate bureaucratic snafu, the Navy loses Baggs' records. He is officially nonexistent. He can't be discharged from the hospital—or transferred, reassigned, promoted, or paid. He seems condemned forever to his hospital niche though he's long since recovered. His superiors take pity on his limbo after a while and grant Baggs Cinderella liberty—off each evening and from noon on weekends, as long as he checks into his hospital bed by midnight. But it's a lonely existence for a penniless sailor until he meets bargirl Maggie Paul. Feckless, streetwise Maggie and her three children become John Baggs' life for a few hours each day. It is a crazy idyll that this impromptu family shapes for a few months—and, as idylls must, it ends. But not for keeps, and not in any way one might have imagined. For John Baggs, nonperson, becomes a person again—if not John Baggs. Instant, permanent fatherhood accompanies his new identity in an ending so raucous and touching that the reader finishes these pages in a surge of laughter and tears. Darryl Ponicsan's novel is a gusty delight.
Download or read book Second Chance Proposal written by Anna Schmidt and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homecoming Reunion John Amman left his Amish community and sweetheart Lydia Goodloe to make his fortune in the outside world, while Lydia stayed behind to devote herself to teaching. She can accept spinsterhood, and even face the closure of her beloved school. But John's return after eight years tests her faith anew. Lydia hasn't forgotten a single thing about John Amman--including the way he broke her heart. John risked becoming an outcast to give Lydia everything she deserved. He couldn't see that what she really wanted was a simple life--with him. Lydia is no longer the girl he knew. Now she's the woman who can help him reclaim their long-ago dream of home and family...if he can only win her trust once more.
Download or read book Family Blessings written by Anna Schmidt and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her four stepchildren are thrilled when they learn an ice cream shop will be opening in their small Amish community. But widow Pleasant Obermeier isn't so pleased. Spending time with handsome shop owner Jeremiah Troyer is too much for a woman who's only ever been wounded by love. And now he wants to use her baking skills in his shop? Out of the question! A harsh childhood left Jeremiah convinced that family life wasn't for him. Yet something about the Obermeiers moves his heart. If he can win Pleasant's trust and learn to trust himself, then he may gain the ultimate blessing—a lifetime of love.
Download or read book A Groom for Greta written by Anna Schmidt and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone in their small Amish community expects Greta Goodloe to marry her longtime sweetheart—Greta included. So when he publicly ends their engagement, in front of newcomer Luke Starns no less, she is utterly humiliated. At least she can take comfort in matchmaking between Luke and her quiet schoolmarm sister. Yet the more she tries to throw them together, the more Luke fascinates her. A serious, no-nonsense schoolmarm should be exactly what Luke wants in a wife. Still, he can't help but be charmed by Greta's warm smile and impulsive ways. Does he dare to stray from the sensible choice and take a chance on happiness?
Download or read book Home at Last written by Anna Schmidt and published by Steeple Hill. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's no place like…Nantucket? It couldn't be home for a man like Daniel Armstrong. After all, he has a luxury hotel to run and a rebellious daughter to rein in. But his mother needs help on her cranberry farm, so he packs up his daughter and returns to his hometown—temporarily. But once there he finds his mother has hired another helper for the harvest. Jo Cooper is capable, smart and irresistible—and she's not about to let Daniel and his overindulged daughter get in her way. Besides, Daniel's not there to fall in love. And he's definitely not looking for a place to call home….
Download or read book Hannah s Journey written by Anna Schmidt and published by Steeple Hill. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What could bring an Amish widow and a wealthy circus owner together? Though Hannah Goodloe knew she'd violated countless unwritten laws, she had to visit the only man who could help find her runaway son. But when the enigmatic Levi Harmon agreed to take her on his train, the results were utterly unpredictable. Levi never expected to find the embodiment of all he wanted in a woman in the soft-spoken, plainly dressed Hannah. And for Hannah, to love an outsider was to be shunned. The simple pleasures of family, faith and place to belong seemed an impossible dream. Unless Levi unlocked his past and opened his heart to God's plan.
Download or read book A Convenient Wife written by Anna Schmidt and published by Steeple Hill. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His plan was simple—convince Caroline Hudson to take in his children as wards. Widower Tyrone Justice is stunned when the Nantucket schoolmistress requests a wedding instead! But really, what could be simpler than a marriage of convenience? Tyrone's children will have stability, Caroline will have security…and neither Tyrone nor Caroline will have to risk their hearts once more. Bruised by past loves and losses, neither is ready to take that chance again. Unless a potentially deadly disaster makes them see the truth. Happiness lies within reach—if they'll take a chance on the unplanned gift of love.
Download or read book An Unexpected Suitor written by Anna Schmidt and published by Steeple Hill. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of caring for others, Nola Burns is ready for her own dream— running a Nantucket tearoom. And it will take more than charm for dashing entrepreneur Harrison Starbuck to buy her out. After all, what proper lady could trust a man who thinks the theater is a suitable venue for God's word? All Harry offers is a business proposition. So why should it bother him when Nola receives threatening notes? He has no reason to be concerned for the vivid, spirited woman…does he? Yet as the threats escalate, Harry's plans shift. Now this unexpected suitor only wants to keep Nola safe— and cherished—for a lifetime.
Download or read book The Pastor Takes a Wife written by Anna Schmidt and published by Steeple Hill. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone in Singing Springs, Wisconsin, is talking about the handsome new pastor. Except single mother Megan Osbourne. With a checkered past, she knows not to speculate about others. Or think for one dreamy minute that Jeb Matthews would even notice her. Yet there she is, telling him about her life and not feeling judged. Soon she's even helping him set up a church youth center and becoming more a part of the community than ever. And when Jeb slowly opens up to her about why he gave up his former life, she hopes the pastor will soon take a loving wife—her.
Download or read book Cinderella s Crunchy Christmas Cake a Play in One Act written by Lindsay Price and published by Theatrefolk. This book was released on 2003 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christmas Under Western Skies written by Anna Schmidt and published by Steeple Hill. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Prairie Family Christmas by Anna Schmidt A thriving homestead in South Dakota Territory is Julianne Cooper's dearest wish. Can the war-weary chaplain she rescues from a snowstorm help her reach it? Nathan Cook insists he's only passing through, but the lovely widow and her children have him dreaming of a lifetime of Christmases together. A Cowboy's Christmas by Linda Ford Just until Christmas—that's how long rancher Derek Adams needs a nanny for his young sister. Winnie Lockwood knows it's a mistake to get too attached. Yet little Kathy's sweet smiles undo her best intentions. And Winnie can't help but pray she's found a home for the holidays…and forever.
