Download or read book The Tattered Bride written by Peri Elizabeth Scott and published by Evernight Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victoria Sparrow's childhood traumas are deep-seated. Her father still rejects her as not being worthy, and her romantic relationships flounder as a result-until Logan Doherty. He gives her reason to believe in goodness and true love, and she commits her heart and soul to him. No longer prey to her damaged, young self, Victoria eagerly looks forward to their upcoming marriage-until she meets Logan at the altar. He informs her the wedding is off before their assembled friends and family, and will not tell her why. Cast back into the nightmare of rejection, a devastated Victoria undertakes the momentous task of putting her life back together, her trust broken, her worst fears realized. Meanwhile, Logan is working equally hard to deal with the secretive events that led to that cruel rejection, and then he plans to make it up to his tattered bride...if she will forgive him.

Download or read book The Diary of Mattie Spenser written by Sandra Dallas and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-05-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mattie Spenser and her new husband Luke start off to the west. As they live their life Mattie keeps a journal of the joys and frustrations of frontier life and marriage.

Download or read book Texas Bride written by Joan Johnston and published by Dell. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HE MAY BE HER ONLY HOPE. SHE MAY BE HIS LAST CHANCE. Miranda Wentworth never imagined becoming a mail-order bride. Now marriage to a stranger is her only hope of finding a home where she and her two younger brothers can escape the brutality of the Chicago orphanage where they live. With any luck, she can even start a family of her own, once the three of them are settled at Jacob Creed’s Texas ranch. But Miranda has one gigantic concern: Her husband-to-be knows nothing about the brothers she’s bringing along. What if he calls off the deal when he discovers the trick she’s played on him? Jake Creed is hanging on to his Texas ranch by his fingernails. His nemesis, Alexander Blackthorne, is determined to ruin him. Jake will never give up, but he’s in desperate trouble. His wife died six months ago in childbirth, along with their stillborn son, and his two-year-old daughter needs a mother. The advertisement Jake wrote never mentioned his daughter—or the fact that he has no intention of consummating his marriage. He’s determined never to subject another wife to the burden of pregnancy. But Jake doesn’t count on finding his bride so desirable. He doesn’t count on aching with need when she joins him in bed. And he never suspected his bride would have plans of her own to seduce him. The passionate Westerns in Joan Johnston’s Bitter Creek series can be enjoyed together or separately, in any order: TEXAS BRIDE • WYOMING BRIDE • MONTANA BRIDE • SINFUL • SHAMELESS • BLACKTHORNE’S BRIDE • SULLIVAN’S PROMISE

Download or read book Tallgrass written by Sandra Dallas and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential American novel from Sandra Dallas, an unparalleled writer of our history, and our deepest emotions... During World War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlopers, the strangers. This is Tallgrass as Rennie Stroud has never seen it before. She has just turned thirteen and, until this time, life has pretty much been what her father told her it should be: predictable and fair. But now the winds of change are coming and, with them, a shift in her perspective. And Rennie will discover secrets that can destroy even the most sacred things. Part thriller, part historical novel, Tallgrass is a riveting exploration of the darkest--and best--parts of the human heart.

Download or read book Westering Women written by Sandra Dallas and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, Sandra Dallas' Westering Women is an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland Trail AG Journal's RURAL THEMES BOOKS FOR WINTER READING | Hasty Book Lists' BEST BOOKS COMING OUT IN JANUARY “Exciting novel ... difficult to put down.” —Booklist "If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine health, are you willing to travel to California in search of a good husband?" It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees postings soliciting "eligible women" to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter, she has nothing to lose. She joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west. None are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek or for the strengths they didn't know they possessed. Maggie discovers she’s not the only one looking to leave dark secrets behind. And when her past catches up with her, it becomes clear a band of sisters will do whatever it takes to protect one of their own.

Download or read book The Runaway Bride written by Patricia Johns and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damsel in distress…or veiled threat? Bernadette Morgan left her cheating fiancé moments before they were supposed to marry in the society wedding of the year. Now she's stuck in Runt River, Ohio, with a broken-down car and a tattered wedding dress. All she wants is a place to hide. But what she finds are a handsome mechanic, a little boy and family secrets that could change everything. Because the toddler Liam Wilson's raising is actually her cousin's child. And she'll do anything to protect him from her politically ambitious family, even if that means rejecting the possibility of love with Liam…

Download or read book Acts of Contrition written by Peri Elizabeth Scott and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making it up to MaggieHarrison's insecurities catch up with him when finds another man, albeit alone, in his girlfriend's bed. Refusing to hear her explanation, he leaves her. His secretary then meddles in his affairs, effectively driving Maggie away with a vengeance. Upon discovering that woman's perfidy, Harrison tries to remedy the situation, and then finds out Maggie is pregnant! Determined to win her back, Harrison does his best to provide and care for her from a distance while trying to insinuate himself back into her life. Hurt and bewildered, Maggie couldn't believe Harrison would stoop so low, but the evidence seems irrefutable. And now she's worried Harrison wants her only because she carries his child. Harrison's world again spins out of control, and he wonders if he is the best man for Maggie and their child after all...It's up to Maggie to teach Harrison his real worth.Begging BrianaCaleb Younger is certain he will never actually love any woman, having been badly burned in the past because of so-called love. He believes he's fond of Briana Jeffries, has intense sexual feelings for her, and wants her in his life, but doesn't love her. Humiliated, when he says as much while amongst their friends, Briana finally accepts she's been fooling herself--Caleb will never love her. She leaves him to get on with her life. His life now empty, Caleb faces the truth. He loves Briana more than anything, and resorts to everything to get her back. But Briana's friend doesn't want Briana hurt again and conspires to keep the two apart. A series of events and coincidences play out, giving Caleb the opportunity to beg Briana to take him back.These previously published works have been rewritten and bound into one book.

Download or read book The Maiden Bride written by Linda Needham and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Married By Proxy: The widowed Lady Eleanor Bayard claims her late husband's tattered and deserted castle, unaware that the enormous, beastly intruder who haunts its shadowy ramparts is the black-hearted war lord whom she married by proxy, but never met. She sets about restoring the castle and repopulating the abandoned village with the ragtag stragglers displaced by the horrors of the Black Death, a pandemic that has spared no one, leaving only tragedy and despair in its wake. Widowed In Haste: Stunned that his wife is still alive, yet believing himself damned forever for his life of war and infamy, Nicholas Bayard hides his identity from her and helps her resurrect the castle-one last penance before he enters a monastery. Yet nothing can disguise the passion he finds in Eleanor's arms. With her joy in life and her belief in renewal and miracles, in the tenacity of the human spirit, she's a temptation he cannot resist. But when she learns his true identity, she shows him that love is the greatest miracle of all. Keywords: Steamy medieval romance, Beauty and the Beast romance, Grieving father romance, bubonic plague, pandemic, pestilence, loss, survivor, proxy wedding, bride, gothic, haunted castle, ruins, warrior virgin, widow, ghost, spirit, disguise, love, guilt, penance, sacrifice, belief, miracles, generosity.

Download or read book The Forest Lovers written by Maurice Hewlett and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Forest Lovers written by Maurice Hewlett and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Forest Lovers by Maurice Hewlett

Download or read book Theology in the Service of the Church written by Timothy George and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title bridges the chasm between church and academy. This volume celebrates the life and work of Fisher H. Humphreys, a noted Baptist theologian whose teachings and writings have shaped several generations of pastors, missionaries, and theological students. Humphreys has said about his own life's work: 'My theology is church theology. I do thinking about God in the fellowship of the church'. Since 1990, Humphreys has taught systematic theology at Beeson Divinity School of Samford University, following an even longer tenure on the faculty of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Written by Humphreys' colleagues and friends, the essays here illuminate various aspects of the theologian's calling from the standpoint of specific theological disciplines and from the intersection of theology with other areas of Christian life and thought. In this way, Fisher Humphreys' self-understanding of his own vocation as a theologian of the church is commended and the importance of thinking clearly and faithfully about God in the fellowship of the church is seen to be a vital component in the life of the faith.

Download or read book Texts and Textiles written by Diana Mary Eva Thomas and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study shows how fiction that makes use of textiles as an essential element utilizes synaesthetic writing and synaesthetic metaphor to create an affective link to, and response in, the reader. These links and responses are examined using affect theory from Silvan Tomkins and Brian Massumi and work on synaesthesia by Richard Cytowic, Lawrence Marks, and V.S. Ramachandran, among others. Synaesthetic writing, including synaesthetic metaphors, has been explored in poetry since the 1920s and, more recently, in fiction, but these studies have been general in nature. By narrowing the field of investigation to those novels that specifically employ three types of hand-crafted textiles (quilt-making, knitting and embroidery), the book isolates how these textiles are used in fiction. The combination of synaesthesia, memory, metaphor and, particularly, synaesthetic metaphor in fiction with textiles in the text of the case studies selected, shows how these are used to create affect in readers, enhancing their engagement in the story. The work is framed within the context of the history of textile production and the use of textiles in fiction internationally, but concentrates on Australian authors who have used textiles in their writing. The decision to focus on Australian authors was taken in light of the quality and depth of the writing of textile fiction produced in Australia between 1980 and 2005 in the three categories of hand-crafted textiles – quilt-making, knitting and embroidery. The texts chosen for intensive study are: Kate Grenville’s The Idea of Perfection (1999, quilting); Marele Day’s Lambs of God (1997, knitting) and Anne Bartlett’s Knitting (2005, knitting); Jessica Anderson’s Tirra Lirra by the River (1978, embroidery) and Marion Halligan’s Spider Cup (1990, embroidery).

Download or read book The Essential Maurice Hewlett Collection written by Maurice Hewlett and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 1991 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Maurice Hewlett Earthwork Out Of Tuscany The Fool Errant The Forest Lovers Gudrid the Fair In a Green Shade The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Lore of Proserpine Rest Harrow The Village Wife's Lament Helen Redeemed and Other Poems

Download or read book Catalog of the National Exhibition of Prints written by Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Letters from Vietnam written by Bill Adler and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “No heroes, everyone did their part, and everyone was scared to death.” They are the words of soldier Mark W. Harms in 1968, summing up his combat experience during the Vietnam War. His stunning letter home is just one of hundreds featured in this unforgettable collection, Letters from Vietnam. In these affecting pages are the unadorned voices of men and women who fought–and, in some cases, fell–in America’s most controversial war. They bring new insights and imagery to a conflict that still haunts our hearts, consciences, and the conduct of our foreign policy. Here are the early days of the fight, when adopting a kitten, finding gold in a stream, or helping a local woman give birth were moments of beauty amid the brutality . . . shattering first-person accounts of firefights, ambushes, and bombings (“I know I will never be the same Joe.”–Marine Joe Pais) . . . and thoughtful, pained reflections on the purpose and progress of the entire Southeastern Asian cause (“All these lies about how we’re winning and what a great job we’re doing . . . It’s just not the same as WWII or the Korean War.” –Lt. John S. Taylor.) Here, too, are letters as vivid as scenes from a film–Brenda Rodgers’s description of her wedding to a soldier on the steps of Saigon City Hall . . . Airman First Class Frank Pilson’s recollection of President Johnson’s ceremonial dinner with the troops (“He looks tired and worn out–his is not an easy job”) . . . and, perhaps most poignant, Emil Spadafora’s beseeching of his mother to help him adopt an orphan who is a village’s only survivor (“This boy has nothing, and his future holds nothing for him over here.”) From fervent patriotism to awakening opposition, Letters from Vietnam captures the unmistakable echoes of this earlier era, as well as timeless expressions of hope, horror, fear, and faith.

Download or read book The Bridegroom written by Ha Jin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-01-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the remarkable Ha Jin, winner of the National Book Award for his celebrated novel Waiting, a collection of comical and deeply moving tales of contemporary China that are as warm and human as they are surprising, disturbing, and delightful. In the title story, the head of security at a factory is shocked, first when the hansomest worker on the floor proposes marriage to his homely adopted daughter, and again when his new son-in-law is arrested for the "crime" of homosexuality. In "After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town," the workers at an American-style fast food franchise receive a hilarious crash course in marketing, deep frying, and that frustrating capitalist dictum, "the customer is always right."Ha Jin has triumphed again with his unforgettable storytelling in The Bridegroom.

Download or read book The Forest Lovers Musaicum Romance Series written by Maurice Hewlett and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forest Lovers is a historical romance novel written by Maurice Hewlett. It is set in medieval France and tells the story of Prosper le Gai and his experiences in the mysterious forest of Morgraunt. The hero of the novel meets Isoult la Desireé, a poor servant girl, on his way and marries her out of pity. It soon turns out that Isoult is the missing daughter of the countess, and Prosper's feelings of pity turn into ideal and noble love.