Download or read book The Seduction of the Green Valley written by Gayle Crosby and published by Green Valley. This book was released on 2018-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This breathtaking and sweeping saga of the Hart family, takes place in the Green Valley, made up of Redlands, Yucaipa and Oak Glen, in Southern California. It is a fictional representation of the history of this real and beautiful place, a thrilling tale of gold, greed and grapes. It tells of the Europeans, Native Americans, Spanish, and Mexican families who lived and loved through great challenges, barely hanging on as custodians of a land, a culture, a belief in Nature's true promise. With characters so life-like and believable, you'll find yourself lost in their struggles and triumphs. The tale takes you on a roller coaster from the present to the past and back again, with mystery and suspense on the one hand, and ancient wisdom revealed on the other. Twenty-eight-year-old Hortencia Victoria Hart, aka Honey, is the great-great-granddaughter of Jonathan Hart. At seven, Jonathan was rescued by a young Indian woman. At ten, he was kidnapped by outlaws, and at twenty returns to the Green Valley and Hartland. It is through Jonathan, that Hartland is built and flourishes as a vineyard and winery in the late 1800s. Meanwhile, in the present day, living in New York with her grandmother Victoria, Honey's life suddenly comes crashing in. Victoria dies, their home is sold, Honey's job is over which leaves only Hartland, in faraway California, calling to her. With seemingly no choice, Honey sets out for a new life in the Green Valley. But all is not as it seems...there are deep mysteries and secrets to uncover from the past in order for Honey to understand why the Green Valley is suffering and what she must do to make it flourish once again. Unknowingly putting herself in great peril, Honey, slowly unravels the tangled web created by the feeble minded, whose selfish ideas, thoughts, desires and actions have led to great misery. In the process however, she discovers there has ever been an unbroken chain of men, women and children, whose great ideas, great thoughts, great desires and great actions have risen as heroes and heroines for the flourishing of all. Through this arduous process, Honey's true purpose is revealed along with the reasons and meaning behind all that has happened in the past.
Download or read book The Seduction of Lady X written by Julia London and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The would-be Earl of Ashwood sets his romantic sights on a forbidden prize inthe enchanting third novel in London's addictive, sexy new series. Original.
Download or read book Sweetwater Seduction written by Joan Johnston and published by Dell. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston tells the passionate tale of a prickly woman, a small Wyoming town, and the irresistible stranger who sets out to seduce them both. Spinster schoolteacher Eden Devlin is desperate when she convinces rancher and nester wives to withhold sex from their husbands until they agree to end a devastating range war. But frustrated husbands resort to their own desperate measures—and hire gunslinger Burke Kerrigan to seduce Miss Devlin, “ ’cause if she knew what she was missin’, she’d tell our wives to let us back in the bedroom!” With battle lines drawn between husband and wife, Burke Kerrigan has his work cut out for him. Time is of the essence as he sets out to seduce Miss Devlin. But Kerrigan quickly learns that it’s not easy to hoodwink an educated woman, and the battle of sharp wits and even sharper passions that ensues results in an all-or-nothing love that takes both spinster and gunslinger by surprise.
Download or read book IN A GREEN VALLEY written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Green Valley written by Katharine Reynolds and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When young orphaned heiress Hazel is taken in by the kind and benevolent Armstrong family, she thinks she's found a happy home at last. But when her newfound happiness is threatened by dark secrets and sinister plots, she must find the strength and courage to stand up for what is right. Filled with romance, adventure, and suspense, this novel will keep readers enthralled until the very end. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Seduction of Water written by Carol Goodman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iris Greenfeder, ABD (All But Dissertation), feels the “buts” are taking over her life: all but published, all but a professor, all but married. Yet the sudden impulse to write a story about her mother, Katherine Morrissey, leads to a shot at literary success. The piece recounts an eerie Irish fairy tale her mother used to tell her at bedtime—and nestled inside it is the sad story of her death. It captures the attention of her mother’s former literary agent, who is convinced that Katherine wrote one final manuscript before her strange, untimely end in a fire thirty years ago. So Iris goes back to the remote Hotel Equinox in the Catskills, the place where she grew up, to write her mother’s biography and search for the missing manuscript—and there she unravels a haunting mystery, one that holds more secrets than she ever expected. . . .
Download or read book The Green Valley written by Miff Keene and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engagement and Espionage written by Penny Reid and published by Cipher-Naught. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 Publisher's Weekly FINALIST: Adult Fiction Shortlisted, Selfies Awards 2021 Swoon Awards WINNER: Best Romantic Suspense Jennifer Sylvester made her deal with the devil . . . and now they’re engaged! But all is not well in Green Valley. A chicken choker is on the loose, 61 dead birds most “fowl” need plucking, and no time remains for Jennifer and her devilish fiancé. Desperate to find a spare moment together, Jenn and Cletus’s attempts to reconnect are thwarted by one seemingly coincidental disaster after another. It’s not long before Cletus and Jenn see a pattern emerge and the truth becomes clear. Sabotage! Will an undercover mission unmask the culprit? Or are these love-birds totally plucked? ‘Engagement and Espionage’ is the first book in the Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries series, is a full-length cozy mystery, and is a spin-off of Penny Reid’s Winston Brothers series. This novel is best read after ‘Beard Science,’ Winston Brothers #3.
Download or read book Prince of Seduction written by Donna Grant and published by DL Grant, LLC. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to New York Times bestselling author Donna Grant’s enchanting Royal Chronicles series with a sexy prince and his runaway bride. Four brothers, a secret kingdom, and an ancient curse. As one of four Drahcir princes, finding women has always come easily for Elric, and when he finally finds his mate, he intends to convince her to return with him by using his famed seduction. However, she isn’t anything like the women he’s encountered before, and he realizes it will take more than wiles to win his mate—it will take his heart. After being left at the altar and devastated, Marin believes Scotland is the answer to healing her broken spirit. But the last thing she expects to find is a man who steals her breath with his kisses and makes her heart skip a beat with his smiles. Even as she tries to keep her distance, Marin realizes she is no match for Elric’s seductive charms. And when faced with danger, Marin must choose: Elric and his secret kingdom… Or life without him.
Download or read book Delmira Agustini Sexual Seduction and Vampiric Conquest written by Cathy L. Jrade and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delmira Agustini (1886–1914) has been acclaimed as one of the foremost modernistas and the first major woman poet of twentieth-century Spanish America. Critics and the reading public alike were immediately taken by the originality and power of her verse, especially her daring eroticism, her inventive appropriation of vampirism, and her morbid embrace of death and pain. No work until now, however, has shown how her poetry reflects a search for an alternative, feminized discourse, a discourse that engages in an imaginative dialogue with Rubén Darío's recourse to literary paternity and undertakes an audacious rewriting of social, sexual, and poetic conventions. In the first major exploration of Agustini's life and work, Cathy L. Jrade examines her energizing appropriation and reinvention of modernista verse and the dynamics of her breakthrough poetics, a poetics that became a model for later women writers.
Download or read book God s Seduction Plan written by Thomas Ramadhani SJ and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a familiar passage in the Bible begins to sound like your own life and those verses want to shape a new story only you can tell? Confronted by that question when his life was disrupted, Father Ramadhani turned to writing as his tool to search into the depths. In this spiritual monograph on Hosea 2:4-25 and 3:1-5, he offers a narrative of a homecoming journey through eight metaphors—Prostituting, Stripping, Caging, Unveiling, Seducing, Purging, Owning, and Sitting. This is the second book in his ‘Trilogy of Redemption’. When everything is gone, the only option is to walk into the unknown in the wilderness. Utter loss can be the only way to rediscover God and reinvent life. This leads to a bigger grace, a better gain, and a more liberating path. God’s seduction plan will bring every sinner home.
Download or read book A Delicate Seduction written by Regina Kammer and published by Viridium Press. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is patient…but desire is demanding Percival Wood, the Marquess of Norrington, is free. His former lover Jack—a blackguard and a brute—is dead. Percival no longer needs to hide. While his father insists Percival take the opportunity to rejoin Society, Percival has other plans. He wants to get away, far away from the traumas of his past. For years, Bertram Atherley, the Viscount Ravensburgh, had waited on the sidelines, helpless while his cousin Jack had been a cruel beast to his boyhood chum Percival. Now Jack was dead, and Bertram is eager to resume his friendship with Percival. This time, though, Bertram feels something more than mere camaraderie. At Percival’s behest the two set off on a Grand Tour of sorts, a journey from England to Italy and France. While abroad, friendship blossoms into something more. But trauma and pain have a way of reasserting themselves no matter where one may go. For Percival, intimacy with Bertram dredges up old wounds. Yet Bertram has waited so long for a chance to woo his boyhood crush and his patience is running out. Will the two be able to overcome inner struggles and embark on a future together in each other’s arms? A Delicate Seduction is Book 4 in Regina Kammer’s Victorian erotic romance Harwell Heirs series. The story takes place in 1879, at the same time as Book 1, and is a male-male slow-burn, childhood friends-to-lovers, vacation abroad, historical romance. Interwoven with the romance is a story-within-a-story featuring a pirate hunter and his trusty mate. A Delicate Seduction can be read as a stand-alone; however, the novel is enhanced by first reading The Pleasure Device. The Harwell Heirs Victorian aristocracy has very strict rules concerning marital connections and familial obligations. But the Harwell heirs—Helena, Sophia, and Arthur—discover love doesn’t always follow the rules. Scandalous affairs force these scions of society to choose between duty and desire, deference and destiny. Book 1: The Pleasure Device Book 2: Disobedience By Design Book 3: Where Destiny Plays Harwell Heirs Legacy Romances Travel beyond England’s shores for these stories featuring beloved secondary characters from the first three books of the series. The Legacy novels delve into the romances of the friends, family, and intimates of the extended Harwell family. Book 4: A Delicate Seduction Book 5: Discovering Her Delight Book 6: Their Noble Deceit Keywords: Male-Male romance, Historical male-male romance, Victorian romance, gay romance, Slow burn romance, Friends to lovers romance, Childhood friends to lovers romance, Vacation romance, Hero with emotional scars
Download or read book The Seduction Code A Remi Laurent FBI Suspense Thriller Book 6 written by Ava Strong and published by Ava Strong. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an ancient abbey in Ireland, once thought to be home to the Knights Templar, a murder has occurred—and a priceless artifact has been stolen. As brilliant history professor teams up with the FBI, she fears the worst: the killer has found the one legitimate lead to the Holy Grail—and will stop at nothing until he finds it. THE SEDUCTION CODE (A Remi Laurent FBI Suspense Thriller) is book #6 in a new series by mystery and suspense author Ava Strong, which begins with THE DEATH CODE (Book #1). FBI Special Agent Daniel Walker, 40, known for his ability to hunt killers, his street-smarts, and his disobedience, is singled out from the Behavioral Analysis Unit and assigned to the FBI’s new Antiquities unit. The unit, formed to hunt down priceless relics in the global world of antiquities, has no idea how to enter the mind of a murderer. Remi Laurent, 34, brilliant history professor at Georgetown, is the world’s leading expert in obscure historic artifacts. Shocked when the FBI asks for her help to find a killer, she finds herself reluctantly partnered with this rude American FBI agent. Special Agent Walker and Remi Laurent are an unlikely duo, with his ability to enter killers’ minds and her unparalleled scholarship, the only thing they have in common, their determination to decode the clues and stop a killer. Remi and Daniel’s search leads them into the ancient abbeys and dark cloisters of the UK countryside in a desperate hunt for the killer. Why is he after the Grail—and why does he seem so confident he can find it? Who will he kill next? And will Remi be smart enough to find a relic that has been lost for centuries? An unputdownable crime thriller featuring an unlikely partnership between a jaded FBI agent and a brilliant historian, the REMI LAURENT series is a riveting mystery, grounded in history, and packed with suspense and revelations that will leave you continuously in shock, and flipping pages late into the night. Future books in the series will be available soon.
Download or read book Green Seduction written by Bill Streever and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Streever has worked in almost every camp involved with the environment. He is a scientist who has worked in both public and private sectors. He brings that wide experience and the perspective of many others like him to Green Seduction: Money, Business, and the Environment . Thirty-five years ago, polluted rivers burned, cities and farms dumped raw sewage into aquifers, highway and dam construction proceeded with little thought to environmental impact, and carcinogens and acids billowed from smokestacks. Today much has changed. Government jobs and university training programs exist in environmental studies. Nonprofit organizations serve as watchdogs on government agencies, buy land for conservation, and offer advice and criticism to the corporate world. Environmental consulting is a profession, and in industry, environmental departments have developed. Since the late 1960s, environmentalism has grown from a radical movement to a mainstream business sector that spends more than two hundred billion dollars each year. Following environmental workers on the job, Streever guides readers across a California Superfund site, through the New Orleans water system, into wetlands created in Washington, D.C., suburbs, through a south Georgia carpet plant, and elsewhere. Through these firsthand experiences, Green Seduction offers a new appreciation of what businesses have invested in the environment and what the benefits may be from that investment. Bill Streever has worked as a research ecologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as well as an assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Newcastle in Australia.
Download or read book Baking Me Crazy written by Karla Sorensen and published by Donner Bakery. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm Levi Buchanan, and until five years ago, I thought the legend of my family's curse was a load of crazy, Southern nonsense. No curse can make you fall in love at first sight. No curse can force a true, deep, passionate, all-consuming love that will haunt you all the days of your life. Then I met Jocelyn Abernathy and I realized how completely wrong I was. The problem is, Jocelyn guards her feelings like well-armed soldier. She's the most beautiful, stubborn, infuriating woman I've ever met. Every time she talks, I want to kiss the living daylights out of her. But I can't. Because when we met, she didn't need true love. She needed a best friend. And that's what I've been to her... for five years. But when Jocelyn meets a handsome stranger her first day working at Donner Bakery and she lets him buy her a dill pickle cupcake, I realize with ominous regret that I may have missed my window with my best friend. If I can't get her to see past our friendship, my new curse may be to watch the love of my life move on with someone else. 'Baking Me Crazy' is a full-length contemporary romantic comedy, can be read as a standalone, and is book #1 in the Donner Bakery series, Green Valley World, Penny Reid Book Universe.
Download or read book Green Valley written by Katharine Reynolds and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abolish Silicon Valley written by Wendy Liu and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former insider turned critic Wendy Liu busts the myths of the tech industry, and offers a galvanising argument for why and how we must reclaim technology's potential for the public good. Former insider turned critic Wendy Liu busts the myths of the tech industry, and offers a galvanising argument for why and how we must reclaim technology's potential for the public good. "Lucid, probing and urgent. Wendy Liu manages to be both optimistic about the emancipatory potential of tech and scathing about the industry that has harnessed it for bleak and self-serving ends." -- Naomi Klein, author of On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal "An inspiring memoir manifesto...Technologists all over the world are realizing that no amount of code can substitute for political engagement. Liu's memoir is a road map for that journey of realization." -- Cory Doctorow, author of Radicalized and Little Brother Innovation. Meritocracy. The possibility of overnight success. What's not to love about Silicon Valley? These days, it's hard to be unambiguously optimistic about the growth-at-all-costs ethos of the tech industry. Public opinion is souring in the wake of revelations about Cambridge Analytica, Theranos, and the workplace conditions of Amazon workers or Uber drivers. It's becoming clear that the tech industry's promised "innovation" is neither sustainable nor always desirable. Abolish Silicon Valley is both a heartfelt personal story about the wasteful inequality of Silicon Valley, and a rallying call to engage in the radical politics needed to upend the status quo. Going beyond the idiosyncrasies of the individual founders and companies that characterise the industry today, Wendy Liu delves into the structural factors of the economy that gave rise to Silicon Valley as we know it. Ultimately, she proposes a more radical way of developing technology, where innovation is conducted for the benefit of society at large, and not just to enrich a select few.
