Download or read book Fair Game written by Elizabeth White and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nothing worth having is easy to get... ana Cutrere’s homecoming to Vancleave, Mississippi, is anything but dull. Before she’s even reached town, the beautiful young widow has a run-in with a stray cow, loses her son in the woods, rescues an injured fawn, and comes face-to-face with Grant Gonzales, her high school crush. Grant recently returned to town himself amid hushed controversy. His only plan: leave the corporate world behind and open a hunting reserve. Seeing Jana again ignites old memories . . . and a painful past.Tensions boil over when he learns exactly why she returned. Jana plans to convince her grandfather to develop a wildlife rescue center—dead center on the prime hunting property he promised to sell to Grant! Jana is determined to make a new start for herself and her two children—and willing to fight for it. With deadlines drawing near for the sale of the property and no decision from her grandfather, can Jana trust God with her and Grant’s future, or will explosive emotions and diametrically opposing views tear them apart?

Download or read book Leota s Garden written by Francine Rivers and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An emotionally compelling story” (Library Journal) about the devastation secrets can unleash on a family and the power of grace to bring second chances, from the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and The Masterpiece. Leota’s garden was once a place of beauty, where flowers bloomed and hope thrived. It was her refuge from the deep wounds inflicted by a devastating war, her sanctuary where she knelt before a loving God and prayed for the children who couldn’t understand her silent sacrifices. Now, eighty-four-year-old Leota Reinhardt is alone, her beloved garden in ruins. All her efforts to reconcile with her adult children have been fruitless, and she voices her despair to a loving Father, her only friend. Then God brings a wind of change through unlikely means: one, a college student with an agenda all his own who thinks he has all the answers; the other, a granddaughter Leota never hoped to know. But can the devastation wrought by keeping painful family secrets be repaired before she runs out of time? “Rivers is a master gardener . . . using poignant humor and bittersweet revelation to open hearts to reconciliation.” —Romantic Times Also available in The Francine Rivers Contemporary Collection (e-book only).

Download or read book A Woman s Lot written by C. G. Gardiner and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Woman's Lot by C.G. Gardiner, author of Melting Pot Blues and A Matter of Perspective, examines the relationships among three generations of the women of the Pinder family. When Vanessa Musgrove, the youngest of the women returns to Washington, DC for the inauguration of Barak Obama and announces to her family that she intends to leave her husband and children, old tensions and hurts are unearthed. Inez, the matriarch of the family is adamantly opposed to Vanessa's plans, as is her mother, Delores, and her older sister, Maria. As the women grapple with issues of marriage, children, relationships and responsibilities, they confront their own history as a family. A Woman's Lot is a thoughtful and insightful look at marriage, motherhood and the underlying issue of race in America.

Download or read book The Satisfying Lie written by Tamika Shuler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-01-05 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams are often deferred by people, places, or things as is the case for Marley. Anxious to take the city of Chicago for a new ride on the music train, she becomes overtaken by success and quickly becomes the blues instead of singing them.

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Download or read book Forever and One Day written by Deidre Robinson and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-three-year-old Savannah appears to have everything to the average outsider looking in – a successful and fulfilling job, a loving parent, an active love life, and beauty. But something is missing. After a series of unfortunate events, which begin after the death of the beloved matriarch of her family, Eileen, Savannah’s life falls apart. Does she have the strength to put it back together? Inspired by events in Ms. Robinson’s own life, Forever and One Day questions the meaning of life and what society considers to be normal. Which is more important – appearances to society or inner peace and happiness? Impressive and thought-provoking, it is a portrait of a woman desperate for comfort, yet seeking liberation from the generational patterns that rule her world.

Download or read book My Grandma Has Dementia written by Alex Winstanley and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2023-08-16 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This picture book aims to raise awareness of the impact that dementia can have on an individual and their family in a child-friendly and supportive way. It is aimed at 4-11 year olds and has been inspired and informed by people with lived experiences of dementia. Through rhyme and engaging illustrations this book hopes to start conversations about dementia, in order to help relieve anxieties that children might have about someone close to them who may be living with dementia. The MY HAS series of books aims to help children to understand a range of long-term health conditions whilst promoting an inclusive and diverse society.

Download or read book The Color of the Air written by John B. Sanford and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1985 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Sanford juxtaposes reminiscence with documentary material on earlier American heroes and heroines to build an impressive mosaic of the past, giving back full multi-dimensional vividness to history by returning it to the intimate field of experience, registered through his unique prose construction method: that elusive quality of vanished time which he himself has aptly termed "the color of the air."

Download or read book Hell Yeah written by Carolyn Brown and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 of the Honky Tonk series From New York Times and USA Today-bestselling author Carolyn Brown comes a contemporary Western romance inspired by the hit country music song, featuring the romantic adventures of the feisty new owner of the Honky Tonk beer joint and the hot, hard-headed cowboy who is out to steal her heart. Cathy O'Dell never felt at home until she moved into the tiny apartment at the back of the Honky Tonk beer joint. Now she figures she's here to stay, loving every minute of the rowdy crowd, down-home juke box music, and constant pool tournaments— until in walks a ruggedly handsome oil man who tempts her to trade in the happiness she's found at the Honky Tonk for a life on the road with him. Gorgeous and rich, Travis Henry travels the country unearthing oil wells and then moving on. Then the beautiful blue-eyed new owner of the Honky Tonk beer joint becomes his best friend and so much more. Sparks fly so bad they're likely to set fire to the beer joint, if the two don't go up in flames themselves first —but when his job is done in Texas, how is he ever going to hit the road without her? Honky Tonk Series: I Love This Bar (Book 1) Hell, Yeah (Book 2) My Give a Damn's Busted (Book 3) Honky Tonk Christmas (Book 4) Praise for Hell, Yeah: "A rowdy Texas ride for the romantic in all of us." —Best Romance Stories "Hell, Yeah is sure to make you put on your best dancing cowboy boots and take your sweetie for a swing on the dance floor." —The Romance Dish "City and country gals alike will enjoy this fun, sassy and fast-paced romance... Brown does an amazing job." —RT Book Reviews "Hell, Yeah is a fast, fun read that will make you want to listen to country music, drink beer from a mason jar, and find a good-lookin' cowboy to dance with on a hot summer night." —The Book Girl

Download or read book When Fate Met Faith written by Shawnee Bridges and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If God was to show you a vision of someone you loved passing away, knowing there was absolutely nothing you could do to change the fact that they were going to die, what would you do differently? How would you interact with them now? Kira is faced with this problem when God shows her the death of one of her older brothers. After all theyaEUR(tm)ve been through in their lives, how would she now deal with having to let go of one of her only protectors and fully rely on trusting God?

Download or read book It Had To Be You written by Kay Lyons and published by Kindred Spirits Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the people in the world for him and his daughter to love... why did it have to be them? Sheriff Jonas Taggert needs a helping hand with his daughter and Rissa and her Goth-dressing teen are definitely not it. But a heart doesn’t always stick to the rules. He can't afford to fall for a woman who doesn't plan to stick around, much less one who can't control her own kid. But just his luck the girls become friends and trouble follows… Widowed pilot, Rissa Matthews' life is falling apart. Looking for a new start she joins her cousin at the Second Chance Ranch hoping to find her own second chance. Instantly she’s butting heads with the gorgeous small-town sheriff. Tension is rising and rumors are flying. Can love happen when the odds are against it? How can this small-town sheriff keep control of his town when he can’t keep control of his heart?

Download or read book Chocolate Covered Baloney written by Kd McCrite and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1987 brings more changes for April Grace when Myra Sue starts acting very sneaky, her new baby brother comes home, her neighbor Isabel becomes her gym teacher, and a long-lost relative suddenly appears.

Download or read book Swoon at Your Own Risk written by Sydney Salter and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2010 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polly Martin's grandmother is the famous syndicated advice columnist Miss Swoon. But after a junior year full of dating disasters, Polly swears off boys. This summer, she's going to focus on herself. Soon, however, Polly is forced to face her feelings.

Download or read book Everywhere You Don t Belong written by Gabriel Bump and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020 Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence “A comically dark coming-of-age story about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, but it’s also social commentary at its finest, woven seamlessly into the work . . . Bump’s meditation on belonging and not belonging, where or with whom, how love is a way home no matter where you are, is handled so beautifully that you don’t know he’s hypnotized you until he’s done.” —Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review In this alternately witty and heartbreaking debut novel, Gabriel Bump gives us an unforgettable protagonist, Claude McKay Love. Claude isn’t dangerous or brilliant—he’s an average kid coping with abandonment, violence, riots, failed love, and societal pressures as he steers his way past the signposts of youth: childhood friendships, basketball tryouts, first love, first heartbreak, picking a college, moving away from home. Claude just wants a place where he can fit. As a young black man born on the South Side of Chicago, he is raised by his civil rights–era grandmother, who tries to shape him into a principled actor for change; yet when riots consume his neighborhood, he hesitates to take sides, unwilling to let race define his life. He decides to escape Chicago for another place, to go to college, to find a new identity, to leave the pressure cooker of his hometown behind. But as he discovers, he cannot; there is no safe haven for a young black man in this time and place called America. Percolating with fierceness and originality, attuned to the ironies inherent in our twenty-first-century landscape, Everywhere You Don’t Belong marks the arrival of a brilliant young talent.

Download or read book The Wonky Donkey written by Craig Smith and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids will love this cumulative and hysterical read-aloud that features a free downloadable song "I was walking down the road and I saw... a donkey, Hee Haw And he only had three legs He was a wonky donkey." Children will be in fits of laughter with this perfect read-aloud tale of an endearing donkey. By the book's final page, readers end up with a spunky hanky-panky cranky stinky-dinky lanky honky-tonky winky wonky donkey Download the free song at www.scholastic.com/wonkydonkey.

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Download or read book The Love Song of Jonny Valentine written by Teddy Wayne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most critically acclaimed books of the year, Whiting Award-winner Teddy Wayne’s second novel is “more than a scabrous sendup of American celebrity culture; it’s also a poignant portrait of one young artist’s coming of age” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)—and an enduring yet timely portrait of the American dream gone awry. In his rave on the cover of The New York Times Book Review, Jess Walter praised Wayne’s writing for its “feats of unlikely virtuosity” and the boy at its center as “a being of true longing and depth, and…a devastating weapon of cultural criticism…You’d have to be made of triple platinum not to ache for Jonny Valentine.” With “assured prose and captivating storytelling” (Oprah.com’s Book of the Week), The Love Song of Jonny Valentine also showcases “one of the most complicated portrayals of the mother-son relationship since Room” (BookPage). Touring the country in a desperate attempt to save a career he’s not sure he even wants, Jonny is both driven by his mother’s ambition and haunted by his father’s absence, constantly searching for a familiar face among the crowds. Utterly convincing, whip-smart, yet endearingly vulnerable, with an “unforgettable” voice (Publishers Weekly, starred review), the eleven-year-old pop megastar sounds “like Holden Caulfield Jr. adrift in Access Hollywood hell” (Rolling Stone). Called “a showstopper” (The Boston Globe), “hugely entertaining” (The Washington Post), “heartbreakingly convincing” (People), “buoyant, smart, searing” (Entertainment Weekly), and “touching and unexpectedly suspenseful” (The Wall Street Journal), this extraordinary novel has been widely embraced as a literary masterpiece and the rare “satire with a heart” (Library Journal, starred review).