Download or read book The Poker Bride written by Christopher Corbett and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true story of a concubine and the Gold Rush years “delves deep into the soul of the real old west” (Erik Larson). “Once the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill launched our ‘national madness,’ the population of California exploded. Tens of thousands of Chinese, lured by tales of a ‘golden mountain,’ took passage across the Pacific. Among this massive influx were many young concubines who were expected to serve in the brothels sprouting up near the goldfields. One of them adopted the name of Polly Bemis, after an Idaho saloonkeeper, Charlie Bemis, won her in a poker game and married her. For decades the couple lived on an isolated, self-sufficient farm near the Salmon River in central Idaho. After her husband’s death, Polly came down to a nearby town and gradually spoke of her experiences. Journalist Christopher Corbett movingly recounts Polly’s story, integrating Polly’s personal history into the broader picture of the history of the mass immigration of Chinese. As both a personal and social history, this is an admirable book.” —Booklist “A gorgeously written and brilliantly researched saga of America during the mad flush of its biggest Gold Rush. Christopher Corbett’s genius is to anchor his larger story of Chinese immigration around a poor concubine named Polly. A tremendous achievement.” —Douglas Brinkley “Uses Bemis’s story as a platform for a larger discussion about the hardships of the Chinese experience in the American West.” —The Washington Post

Download or read book Wild Women Of The Old West written by Richard W. Etulain and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bride Next Door written by Winnie Griggs and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of wandering, Daisy Johnson hopes to settle in Turnabout, Texas, open a restaurant, perhaps find a husband. Of course, she'd envisioned a man who actually likes her. Not someone who offers a marriage of convenience to avoid scandal. Turnabout is just a temporary stop for newspaper reporter Everett Fulton. Thanks to one pesky connecting door and a local gossip, he's suddenly married, but his dreams of leaving haven't changed. What Daisy wants–home, family, tenderness–he can't provide. Yet big–city plans are starting to pale beside small–town warmth.

Download or read book Billion Dollar Cowboy written by Carolyn Brown and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1 of Cowboys & Brides From New York Times and USA Today-bestselling author Carolyn Brown comes a contemporary Western romance filled to the brim with sexy cowboys, gutsy heroines, and genuine down-home Texas twang. Colton Nelson was twenty-eight years old when he won the Texas Lottery and went from ranch hand to ranch owner overnight. Now he's desperate to keep the gold diggers away. It shouldn't be too hard to find a pretty girl and hire her to pretend to be his one-and-only. Laura Baker's got mixed feelings about this-she's on the ranch to work, not to be arm candy. On the other hand, being stuck for a while in the boondocks with a gorgeous cowboy isn't half-bad. What neither Colton nor Laura expects are the intensely hard lessons they have to learn about the real cost of love... Fans of Linda Lael Miller and Diana Palmer will thrill to this moving story of a marriage of convenience between a cowboy who has it all...and the woman he could never have enough of. Cowboys & Brides Series Order: Billion Dollar Cowboy (Book 1, Cowboys & Brides) The Cowboy's Christmas Baby (Book 2, Cowboys & Brides) The Cowboy's Mail Order Bride (Book 3, Cowboys & Brides) How to Marry a Cowboy (Book 4, Cowboys & Brides) Praise for Bestselling Contemporary Western Romances by Carolyn Brown: "An old-fashioned love story told well... A delight."-RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars "Sizzling hot and absolutely delectable."-Romance Junkies "Funny, frank, and full of heart... One more welcome example of Brown's Texas-size talent for storytelling."-USA Today Happy Ever After "Alive with humor... Another page-turning joy of a book by an engaging author."-Fresh Fiction

Download or read book The Bride written by Julie Garwood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood weaves a bold, breathless tale of a rebellious woman, a fierce chieftain, and the searing love that sealed their destiny. By edict of the King, Scottish laird Alec Kincaid must take an English bride. His choice was Jamie, a fiesty, violet-eyed beauty--who vowed never to surrender to the highlander.

Download or read book Boudoirs to Brothels written by Michael Rutter and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From boudoirs to brothels, historian Michael Rutter takes you into the intimate world of the Wild West's women of the night. Eighteen richly researched biographies reveal the tricks and torments of the trade, with fascinating sidebars on venereal diseases (and dire "cures"), children of prostitutes, a floating brothel, and hog ranches.

Download or read book The Bride Stripped Bare written by Nikki Gemmell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE RUNAWAY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “The Bride Stripped Bare shows us the inside–out of marriage, infidelity, obsession and taxi drivers (I may never take a cab ride in London again). . . . Few books can be both dark and light. This one dances on the edge, and sometimes crosses it, with much satisfaction to be had on either side.”— Valerie Frankel, author of The Accidental Virgin An explosive novel of sex, secrecy, and escape. A woman disappears. Her car lies abandoned on a remote bluff; no body is found. Known by her family and friends as quiet and self-contained, she has left behind an incendiary diary chronicling a disturbing journey of sexual awakening. The diary opens on her honeymoon in Morocco: she believes herself to be happy—or happy enough, anyway. Swiftly, this security masquerading as love fractures in an act of massive betrayal, only to propel her into a world of desire and fantasy and recklessness. In need of guidance, she finds an unlikely heroine in the anonymous author of a dusty, rare manuscript. Written by a woman in the 1600s, it is a cry from the heart for women to live and love freely. Emboldened, she allows herself to discover the intoxicating power of knowing what she wants and how to get it. The question is, how long can her soul sustain a perilous double life? Coolly impassioned, Bride Stripped Bare tells shocking truths about love and sex. Couched in a deceptively simple style, its gorgeous, incantatory rhythms will make you question whether it is ever entirely possible to know another person.

Download or read book Positively Fifth Street written by James McManus and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rough sex, black magic, murder, and the science-and eros-of gambling meet in the ultimate book about Las Vegas James McManus was sent to Las Vegas by Harper's to cover the World Series of Poker in 2000, especially the mushrooming progress of women in the $23 million event, and the murder of Ted Binion, the tournament's prodigal host, purportedly done in by a stripper and her boyfriend with a technique so outré it took a Manhattan pathologist to identify it. Whether a jury would convict the attractive young couple was another story altogether. McManus risks his entire Harper's advance in a long-shot attempt to play in the tournament himself. Only with actual table experience, he tells his skeptical wife, can he capture the hair-raising brand of poker that determines the world champion. The heart of the book is his deliciously suspenseful account of the tournament itself-the players, the hand-to-hand combat, and his own unlikely progress in it. Written in the tradition of The Gambler and The Biggest Game in Town, Positively Fifth Street is a high-stakes adventure, a penetrating study of America's card game, and a terrifying but often hilarious account of one man's effort to understand what Edward O. Wilson has called "Pleistocene exigencies"-the eros and logistics of our primary competitive instincts.

Download or read book Wedding at Poker Flat written by Lexi Post and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wade Johnson wants to make their wedding perfect for his bride-to-be. The problem is, "perfect" doesn't exist at Poker Flat. Kendra Lowe, former professional poker player and current sole owner of Poker Flat Nudist Resort, is more than ready to marry her almost perfect cowboy, but when her mother arrives a week early, she's unprepared for the emotions and baggage that come with her-from her blunt ways, to old memories, to her soon-to-be ex. Wade has finally convinced his fiancé to tie the knot. Unfortunately, there are more knots that need to be untied first. Luckily, the misfit band of employees at Poker Flat are determined to help him get her to the altar...one way or another. Gun-shy after her first beautiful wedding ended in a demoralizing marriage and harsh divorce, Kendra's hoping this one is anything but perfect. As hard as it is for her to accept, some things are simply out of her control. It becomes very clear that this wedding will depend more on her family, friends, and if love truly can conquer all. If it does, it's even stronger than she is.

Download or read book Portraits of Women in the American West written by Dee Garceau-Hagen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men are usually the heroes of Western stories, but women also played a crucial role in developing the American frontier, and their stories have rarely been told. This anthology of biographical essays on women promises new insight into gender in the 19C American West. The women featured include Asian Americans, African-Americans and Native American women, as well as their white counterparts. The original essays offer observations about gender and sexual violence, the subordinate status of women of color, their perseverance and influence in changing that status, a look at the gendered religious legacy that shaped Western Catholicism, and women in the urban and rural, industrial and agricultural West.

Download or read book Savor the Moment written by Nora Roberts and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Love takes the cake in the third novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts's Bride Quartet—in a stunning French flap edition Wedding baker Laurel McBane is surrounded by romance working at Vows wedding planning company with her best friends Parker, Emma, and Mac. But she's too low-key to appreciate all the luxuries that their clients seem to long for. What she does appreciate is a strong, intelligent man, a man just like Parker's older brother Delaney, on whom she's had a mega-crush since childhood. But some infatuations last longer than others, and Laurel is convinced that the Ivy League lawyer is still out of her reach. Plus, Del is too protective of Laurel to ever cross the line with her-or so she thinks. When Laurel's quicksilver moods get the better of her-leading to an angry, hot, all-together mind-blowing kiss with Del—she'll have to quiet the doubts in her mind to turn a moment of passion into forever... Don't miss the other books in the Bride Quartet Vision in White Bed of Roses Happy Ever After

Download or read book The Bride s Hero written by Alice Muriel Livingston Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Idaho s Remarkable Women written by Lynn Bragg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idaho's Remarakble Women 2 tells the history of the Gem State through the stories of fifteen pioneering women, all born before 1900, who made a profound impact on Idaho. Meet Sacajawea, Lewis and Clark's Shoshone guide; Jo Monaghan, who lived as a man for nearly forty years; Margaret Cobb Ailshie, who ran Idaho's biggest newspaper; and Nell Shipman, an actress, writer, and early filmmaker. Each woman in her own way displayed remarkable courage, hope, and love during a time when Idaho was still an untamed frontier. Read about their exceptional lives in this collection of absorbing biographies.

Download or read book Take Me to the River written by Peter Alson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-07-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MEET PETER ALSON An overeducated underachiever, he's spent his postcollege decades doing his best not to grow up. Now, having just turned the incomprehensible (to him) age of fifty, and staring down his own mortality, this rambling- gambling bachelor decides it's time to settle down. After years of equivocating, he pops the question to his longtime girlfriend. A wedding date is set for just after Labor Day, and to pay for it, a plan is hatched involving poker and a trip to Vegas. Alson boards a plane bound for the neon desert on his way to the biggest game in town, the 2005 World Series of Poker. Thus begins Take Me to the River, a first-person account of one inveterate gambler and bad boy's quest to grow up while at the same time compete with more than 5,000 players vying for over $56 million in prize money during a scorching Vegas summer. Take Me to the River is a hilarious, heart-wrenching tale of Las Vegas and an exploration of what it means to be part of one of the fastest-growing and most popular sports in the United States, at the moment of its apogee, and of the lessons that poker has to teach about probability and luck, good and bad fortune, patience, perseverance, and -- most fitting for a man with marriage in his near future -- commitment.

Download or read book Mail Order Bride written by Britney King and published by Britney King LLC. This book was released on 2022-07-22 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of the “clever spine-tingler” The Secretary returns a vicious and suspenseful tale of love-gone-wrong. When Joel answers an ad in the back of the Farmers’ Almanac that promises to deliver the perfect wife, he isn’t sure what to expect. For sure, it isn’t Gina. Gina was aware she possessed secret powers—that’s what her father called them—from a very young age. He always told her she would make a perfect bride. So that’s exactly what she became. She knows she’s not supposed to use her “powers” for evil and destruction, but Pine Lake is a small place, and Gina has big dreams—plans, in fact. She also has charm, beauty, sex appeal, and intelligence. Only two things stand in her way: the social norms of 1953, and her new husband, Joel. The solution may call for desperate measures. But, then, if anyone can get away with murder, it’s Gina. However, there’s something Gina has yet to realize. That handsome groom of hers? He’s a serial loner for a reason. What readers are saying about Mail Order Bride: ★★★★★ "This psychological thriller is an absolute masterpiece! From start to finish, it had me on the edge of my seat with its gripping storyline and unpredictable plot twists. The characters were brilliantly developed, and the suspense and tension were palpable throughout. I was truly blown away." - Goodreads reviewer ★★★★★ "This is hands down one of the best psychological thrillers I've ever read. The writing is impeccable, the pacing is perfect, and the suspense is relentless. I couldn't put it down and finished it in one sitting. If you're a fan of the genre, this is a must-read."- Goodreads reviewer ★★★★★ "Wow. Just wow. This psychological thriller is a tour de force. The author's talent for building tension and suspense is unparalleled, and the payoff is absolutely worth it. The twists and turns are executed flawlessly, and the ending left me breathless. This is a book that will stay with you long after you turn the last page." - Goodreads reviewer ★★★★★ "I don't usually read psychological thrillers, but this one came highly recommended, and I'm so glad I gave it a chance. The writing is superb, and the story is both gripping and thought-provoking. The characters are complex and multifaceted, and I found myself becoming emotionally invested in their fates. This is a truly exceptional book." - Goodreads reviewer ★★★★★ "Simply put, this psychological thriller is a masterpiece of the genre. The author's ability to create atmosphere is nothing short of incredible, and the story itself is gripping and intense. The twists and turns will keep you guessing until the very end, and the characters will stay with you long after you've finished reading. I cannot recommend this book enough." - Goodreads reviewer

Download or read book The Irish Bride written by Rebecca Hagan Lee and published by Amber House Books. This book was released on 2019-04-20 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saloonkeeper and the Irish rose… When Jack O’Brien is forced to flee Ireland at the age of eighteen, he leaves behind both his beloved homeland and the only woman he will ever love. He never expects to lay eyes on Clare Rafferty again…until the day he walks into his very own saloon and finds her singing on his stage. With her ebony hair and ruby red lips, Clare still has the face and voice of an angel. Although furious at Jack for abandoning her, she can’t help but notice that the boy she once adored has become a dangerously attractive man. What Clare doesn’t know is that Jack is not only a successful saloonkeeper, but an accomplished Pinkerton agent. As irresistible passion flares between them, they must face the greatest threat of their lives—one that will force them to choose between clinging to the past…or embracing a future in each other’s arms… Book 4 of the Gold Coast Bridesseries, which includes THE TREASURE BRIDE, THE SILK BRIDE, THE HEIRESS BRIDE, and THE IRISH BRIDE “The Treasure Bride is a tender treasure of a book!” — Teresa Medeiros, New York Times bestselling author “Rebecca Hagan Lee warms my heart and touches my soul. She’s a star in the making!” — Sabrina Jeffries, New York Times bestselling author “Tender, enthralling romance straight from the heart!” — Eloisa James, New York Times bestselling author “Rebecca Hagan Lee taps into every woman’s fantasy!” — Christina Dodd, New York Times bestseller “Rebecca Hagan Lee is a writer on the rise!” — Romantic Times “The Treasure Brideis an incredible diamond. Historical romance fans are fortunate to have a treasure like Rebecca Hagan Lee.” — Affaire de Coeur

Download or read book His Stolen Bride written by Shayla Black and published by Shelley Bradley LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His brother’s betrothed becomes the captive pawn of his revenge…and the woman who steals his heart. Wrongly accused of murdering his father, Drake MacDougall wanted nothing more than to strike back at his guilty, duplicitous half-brother. So he made the fiend pay by abducting his bride-to-be. But as Drake carried his captive off to a windswept Scottish isle, he soon found that vengeance wasn’t the only thing on his mind. Lady Averyl Campbell proved herself no biddable maiden, but an alluring, strong-willed beauty who could tame his dark moods with her touch. When danger and treachery threatened to part them, Drake realized that only she could heal his tormented soul, for she had won his love.