Download or read book Sisters of Summer s End written by Lori Foster and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the summer ends, friendship begins… When single mom Joy Lee abandoned her old life to take a job at a lakeside resort, she found something that her family’s wealth and influence could never buy: peace of mind. Not easy to come by for the once-burned divorcée who keeps everyone at a distance. But when her new friend, Maris, dares her to take a chance with the drive-in’s charismatic new owner, everything changes for Joy and her young son. A difficult childhood has left Maris Kennedy with definite priorities. Her job running Summer’s End, the camp store and café, comes first. Always. Nothing could ever make her risk that hard-won security—especially not her free-spirited colleague. But the more she encourages Joy to open herself up to new experiences, the more Maris begins to wonder what she, too, might be missing. Learning how to trust will bring Joy and Maris together. And soon they form a friendship that leaves them as close as sisters—and open to love where they least expect it…in Summer’s End. Don't miss The Little Flower Shop, an all new heartwarming summer read from New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster about a 40-something florist who, with the help of her meddling small town, gets a second chance at life and love. More charming contemporaries from Lori Foster: The Honeymoon Cottage The Somerset Girls The Summer of No Attachments Cooper's Charm

Download or read book The Summer s End written by Mary Alice Monroe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this next novel in the Lowcountry Summer series, New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe returns to the charm and sultrybeauty of Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, and the Muir family--three half sisters bound by love for their grandmother and the Carolina lowcountry--in an unforgettable tale of family bonds and love as strong and steady as the tides.

Download or read book Summer s End written by Dianna Hardy and published by Bitten Fruit Books / Satin Smoke Press. This book was released on 2016-06-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pippa knew her life all but ended seven months ago when she answered the phone call no one ever wants to receive: her husband had been in a fatal car accident. Struggling to bring up her three kids, she finds herself turning to Jimmy, her younger brother's best friend. He has his own crosses to bear, but his long-held torch for Pippa never went out. All they need to do, is take a leap of faith...

Download or read book Til Summer s End written by Janet Bray Rubert and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Sarah announces shes pregnant, Geology Professor Mark Kingsley retreats into silence -- their perfect marriage arrangement over. Still she remains until the doctoral acceptance letter from the University of Washington arrives. While Mark is on another hiking trip, Sarah moves out, his only contact a monthly check. In Seattle, work, graduate classes, motherhood and preparations for a return trip to West Africa for her dissertation in ethnomusicology leave Sarah little time for remorse or to grieve her grandparents recent tragic deaths. Surely, a week on the Idaho family farm will rejuvenate her and give her time to reflect. On the drive over, Sarah can almost hear the bacon sizzling in the cast iron skillet, taste her mothers cinnamon rolls. Mornings shell join her Dad on the porch to watch the sunrise above the Idaho wheat fields and listen to the meadowlarks song. Refreshed, shell leave Rachel with Mom and Dad, head back to Seattle, play matron of honor in her best friends wedding then fly to Ghana for the summer. She and her mother enjoy a shopping trip to Lewiston and reminisce while sorting through Grandma Myers hats. Will Sarahs perfect plans quickly unravel? Her menopausal mother still mourns her parents loss, her recently married younger brother is confrontational. Nightmares, unexplainable fatigue and a lengthy, soul-searching counseling session leave her exhausted and struggling to wake and her best friends wedding hoopla is another reminder shes a pining, sorta-single mom. In Ghana, fear and desperation pulse through her body with every drum beat. Exhaustion overtakes her, frightening the family whose hut she shares. Whats wrong with Sarah? Til Summers End, explores the interconnectedness of three generations -- the strain of birth, death, aging, mental and physical illness and marriage -- to pull apart or bring together. -

Download or read book At Summer s End written by Courtney Ellis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sparkling debut from a new author we’re all going to want more from.”—Susan Meissner, bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things When an ambitious female artist accepts an unexpected commission at a powerful earl's country estate in 1920s England, she finds his war-torn family crumbling under the weight of long-kept secrets. From debut author Courtney Ellis comes a captivating novel about finding the courage to heal after the ravages of war. Alberta Preston accepts the commission of a lifetime when she receives an invitation from the Earl of Wakeford to spend a summer painting at His Lordship's country home, Castle Braemore. Bertie imagines her residence at the prodigious estate will finally enable her to embark on a professional career and prove her worth as an artist, regardless of her gender. Upon her arrival, however, Bertie finds the opulent Braemore and its inhabitants diminished by the Great War. The earl has been living in isolation since returning from the trenches, locked away in his rooms and hiding battle scars behind a prosthetic mask. While his younger siblings eagerly welcome Bertie into their world, she soon sees chips in that world's gilded facade. As she and the earl develop an unexpected bond, Bertie becomes deeply entangled in the pain and secrets she discovers hidden within Castle Braemore and the hearts of its residents. Threaded with hope, love, and loss, At Summer's End delivers a portrait of a noble family--and a world--changed forever by the war to end all wars.

Download or read book The Somerset Girls written by Lori Foster and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Foster convincingly brings her characters to life against the idyllic backdrop of Kentucky farmland. This down-to-earth romance will especially appeal to animal lovers.”—Publishers Weekly on The Somerset Girls No one knows you quite like a sister… Summer in Sunset, Kentucky, means long, hot days—and sometimes surprising new beginnings. Through it all, the ties of sisterhood will be there, guiding Autumn and Ember to the lives, and loves, they need… When they’re running the animal-rescue farm they inherited from their grandparents, Autumn and Ember Somerset are perfectly in sync. At all other times, not so much. Dependable Autumn would rather curl up with a good book than paint the town red with Ember. After the disaster that was Autumn’s last relationship, it’s pure self-protection. But when her high school crush comes back to town with his adorable young daughter, igniting memories best left forgotten, there’s only one person Autumn can turn to… Beneath Ember’s free-spirited facade is a layer of deep hurt. She’ll gladly nudge Autumn toward a second chance. But risk her own heart? Not likely. The closer Autumn gets to her own happily-ever-after, the more Ember wonders what she might be missing—and if it isn’t her time to be bold, too. Don't miss The Little Flower Shop, an all new heartwarming summer read from New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster about a 40-something florist who, with the help of her meddling small town, gets a second chance at life and love. More charming contemporaries from Lori Foster: The Honeymoon Cottage The Summer of No Attachments Sisters of Summer's End Cooper's Charm

Download or read book The Peabody Sisters written by Megan Marshall and published by HMH. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize Finalist: “A stunning work of biography” about three little-known New England women who made intellectual history (The New York Times). Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways the American Brontës. The story of these remarkable sisters—and their central role in shaping the thinking of their day—has never before been fully told. Twenty years in the making, Megan Marshall’s monumental biography brings the era of creative ferment known as American Romanticism to new life. Elizabeth Peabody, the oldest sister, was a mind-on-fire influence on the great writers of the era—Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau among them—who also published some of their earliest works; it was she who prodded these newly minted Transcendentalists away from Emerson’s individualism and toward a greater connection to others. Middle sister Mary Peabody was a passionate reformer who finally found her soul mate in the great educator Horace Mann. And the frail Sophia, an admired painter among the preeminent society artists of the day, married Nathaniel Hawthorne—but not before Hawthorne threw the delicate dynamics among the sisters into disarray. Casting new light on a legendary American era, and on three sisters who made an indelible mark on history, Marshall’s unprecedented research uncovers thousands of never-before-seen letters as well as other previously unmined original sources. “A massive enterprise,” The Peabody Sisters is an event in American biography (The New York Times Book Review). “Marshall’s book is a grand story . . . where male and female minds and sensibilities were in free, fruitful communion, even if men could exploit this cultural richness far more easily than women.” —The Washington Post “Marshall has greatly increased our understanding of these women and their times in one of the best literary biographies to come along in years.” —New England Quarterly

Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1973-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Download or read book Can This Be Fixed written by Nancy Stateler and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AT A GLANCE Four realistic adventures create page turning interest. Temptations, Dangers, Loss, Regret, Fulfillment. • Tragedy-Devastation-Hope Zeke is confident of his family's safety in their Paris home. Claudia, his ten year old daughter does not share her father’s confidence. She has fears she cannot control. How much terror can one so young endure? Unimaginable tragedy destroys the family’s peaceful existence while robbing Claudia of all hope to survive. • When Things are Better Ellie and Tom have great plans for a life of freedom and adventure after their two children are grown and out of the house. When they have more time and money to spend on their desires and dreams, nurtured through the years, the couple find themselves faced with problems they never expected. Tom harbors a generous, passionate and romantic love for Ellie. He plans to show his deep commitment to her on a very special occasion. With this deep love, what can possibly go wrong? • Kindness & Betrayal An act of kindness results in suspicion of murder and betrayal that stuns family as well as police. • Anguish-Heartache-Despair Chuck and Cora, popular high school sweethearts have an amazing talent. Keeping friends as far back as high school active and engaged in a group referred to as the Ragtags. Through years of turbulence and growing pains, loyalty endures in the large brood of dedicated friends. Loss and searing heartache befalls the group, dashing dreams, changing lives. Sex trafficking may be the reason for, anguish, heartache and despair. After years and years of living as close and as dedicated, to each other, as family. Which year will the Ragtags remember to be their favorite year? And why?

Download or read book Royal Sisters written by Anne Edwards and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Royal Sisters, Anne Edwards, author of the best-selling Vivien Leigh: A Biography and Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor, has written the first dual biography of Elizabeth, the princess who was to become Queen, and her younger sister, Margaret, who was to be her subject. From birth to maturity, they were the stuff of which dreams are made. “I’m three and you’re four,” the future Queen, then a child, imperiously informed her sister. The younger girl, not understanding this reference to their position in the succession, proudly countered, “No, you’re not. I’m three, you’re seven.” The royal sisters had no choice in their historic positions, but behind the palace gates and within the all-too-human confines of their personalities, they displayed tremendous individuality and suffered the usual symptoms of sibling rivalry. Royal Sisters provides an unprecedented and intimate portrait of these most famous siblings during their formative and dramatic youthful years. It is also one of the twentieth century’s most fascinating stories of sisterly loyalty. Edwards’s book is an honest look at how the royal sisters feel toward each other, their parents, their close relations and the men whom they have loved. It openly discusses, with new insights and information, the romance of Elizabeth and Philip and the tragic aborted love affair between Margaret and Group Captain Peter Townsend, and it has a cast of characters ranging from the youthful sisters’ suitors to Winston Churchill and the entire Royal Family. It is also the story of the making of a queen, of the high drama of her situation in the Townsend affair, of the real effect their uncle’s abdication had on the sisters’ lives, and of the internecine feuds that have brewed within the Royal Family since that time. Brought vividly to life through the many personal interviews of close royal associates, filled with new facts, previously unpublished anecdotes and photographs, Royal Sisters is a never-before-glimpsed look at the relationship of the Queen and Princess Margaret.

Download or read book Brookland written by Emily Barton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in eighteenth-century Brooklyn, this is the story of a determined and intelligent woman who is consumed by a vision of a bridge she devises to cross the East River in a single, magnificent span.

Download or read book The Midnight Queen written by Sylvia Izzo Hunter and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a nineteenth-century Britain where magecraft has directed the course of history, a ruthless conspiracy plots intrigue, treason, and murder. Only a pair of brilliant misfits suspect anything is wrong. And to avert disaster, they’ll have to solve a royal mystery more than a decade cold. As the term at Oxford’s Merlin College ends, shy, bookish Gray Marshall accompanies his tutor to the country with nowhere else to go. A misadventure has left him in disgrace with his friends and—temporarily?—without magick. He overheard what sounded like a plan to murder the Master of Merlin. But he has no way to investigate his suspicions, and no one to trust. Until his professor’s odd, neglected middle daughter, Sophie, befriends him, and he realizes there is far more to her than meets the eye. According to her father, Sophie’s dreams of education are unsuitable to a woman. So her midnight library excursions to learn despite him have left her with subtle skills in gathering information, plenty of daring, and even more frustration. As Sophie and Gray begin to guess the aims of the conspirators, they know they must act. But for any chance at justice, they must risk all they have—and change who they are to each other forever... Praise for The Midnight Queen: “Debut novelist Sylvia Izzo Hunter renders both the setting and characters in vivid detail. The structured system of magick gives the fictional world weight, and Hunter manipulates the seemingly disparate plot elements to create tension that culminates in a satisfying conclusion.” — Shelf Awareness “Hunter pulls from a multitude of mystical tales and myths to create her own magical version of Britain that is both innovative and intriguing. ... The Midnight Queen is a novel that readers will be unable to put down.” — RT Book Reviews “The Midnight Queen is a love story that will warm your heart, and a story of magic and struggle, truth and might, in the face of all odds, with some stunning writing that will really hook readers and brings them into the colorful world that Hunter has created.”—Bookworm Blues “Hunter does a splendid job of confounding my expectations ... A fresh and inventive historical novel ... I can’t wait to see what Sylvia Izzo Hunter does next.” — Marie Brennan, author of A Natural History of Dragons “Elegantly written, fast-paced and highly original – a stunning story of magic, scholarship, and true love. Sylvia Izzo Hunter brings both rural Brittany and an alternative Regency England to vivid life. A remarkably assured debut.” — Juliet Marillier, national bestselling author of the Sevenwaters novels

Download or read book Until Summer s End written by Valerie Flournoy and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lovely Brenna Bryant stands poised on the threshold of an exciting career in architecture," but her attraction to the renowned architect Jonathan Maxwell confuses her professionalism, and she wonders if she can "deny the longings of her own heart ... until summer's end."--Jacket.

Download or read book Celebration of Sisters written by Judy Lipson and published by BQB Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Judy Lipson, her sisters were her compass, constant, champions, and competitors and for thirty years she suppressed the grief of losing her two beloved sisters. Judy lost her younger sister Jane at age twenty-two in an automobile accident and nine years later her older sister Margie at age thirty-five to a twenty year battle with anorexia and bulimia. It was not until 2011 that Judy began her journey to mourn for Margie and Jane. Judy experienced the reality that those who lose siblings are the forgotten mourners and they are left to take care of their parents and children. The impact of their loss takes a back seat. Through her participation and work prescribed in a complicated grief study, Judy learned to restore her well-being, happy memories of her sisters, and the passion the three of them had for figure skating. By bringing her sisters and their memories together more present in her life, Judy found peace. To honor the memory of her sisters, Judy created and continues to hold, Celebration of Sisters, an annual ice skating fundraiser which benefits Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. This is the story of how Judy used her memories and their shared love of ice skating to come full circle. When she performs on the ice, Judy feels Margie and Jane on each shoulder guiding her and whispering in her ear, "Judy, you've got this." This is a story of love, grief, and moving forward, even years after the loss.

Download or read book Summer s End written by Olivia Miles and published by . This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Taylor sisters spent every summer at their family's lake house, but as they grew up, they also grew apart. Now, in honor of their late mother's wishes, they reunite on Evening Island, each hoping to find the best part of themselves they'd left behind. Kim is just weeks away from what should be her dream wedding, but as the big day draws closer, her doubts only grow stronger. Some time away may be just the thing she needs to help clear her head...or change her heart. Heather has always been the reliable sister, but a recent divorce has made everything feel uncertain. When a second chance with an old flame comes along, she must decide if a summer love can last a lifetime. Andrea's career is her top priority, even if her heart is no longer in it. When her boss suggests a vacation, a couple of weeks on the island leads to the inspiration she was searching for, and not just for work... Thanks to the beauty of the island and the memories they share, the sisters come together, search their hearts, and discover what the future holds for each of them at summer's end.

Download or read book Other People s Children written by Joanna Trollope and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Josie Carver marries Matthew Mitchell, it is the second marriage for them both. Each has children from their former marriages and the formation of the new step-family causes much pain and divided loyalties. All the members must overcome difficulties and grow through change in order to affirm their new family ties.

Download or read book The Baker s Cart written by Gerald Bullett and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: