Download or read book Western Box Set Dec 2024 The Maverick s Christmas Countdown A Rancher s Return Fortune s Holiday Surprise Cowboy Santa written by Melinda Curtis and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2024-11-13 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mills & Boon Western Romance — Small towns. Rugged ranchers. Big hearts. The Maverick’s Christmas Countdown - Heatherly Bell From friends to lovers...in four weeks? Allison Taylor knew she was in over her head. What was she thinking, asking her Seattle neighbour Rowan Scott to be her fake boyfriend for the holidays? Now she’s trapped with the sexy dude-next-door under the same roof in Bronco, trying to keep her overbearing father at bay — and her long-hidden crush on her faux beau under the covers as long as possible. The surprise is on Rowan, though, when his favour for Allison forces him to confront his true feelings for her. His spontaneous ‘proposal’ — to prove their love to her family — only makes things messier. But maybe, the magic of a snowy Montana Christmas could lead them to a happy ending in spite of it all... A Rancher’s Return - Jen Gilroy Home is...where their hearts never left. Molly Carter’s come back to her family’s ranch in High Valley, Montana just long enough to take a breather before returning to her city life in Atlanta. But being home for the holidays is bittersweet, especially when she learns that Troy Clayton has returned to buy the Bitterroot ranch. Once they were sweethearts. Now being face-to-face with the handsome rancher is making her reassess everything — including the feelings she still has for him. But following your dreams doesn’t always mean following your heart...especially when love comes a second time around. Fortune’s Holiday Surprise - Jennifer Wilck He’d lost the holiday spirit...until she brought light back into his life. Rancher Arlo Fortune is devastated when he loses his best friend in a tragic accident. The only thing that heals him is opening his heart to his friend’s adorable daughter, Aviva...and his friend’s grieving sister-in-law, brand-new guardian to the orphaned child. Carrie Kaplan has one mission: to lavish her niece with love in a Jewish home, like her sister always wanted. Her stop in Chatelaine is only temporary. Right? But as she teaches Aviva about the miracle of Hanukkah, holiday magic might just beckon from Arlo’s ranch around the bend... Cowboy Santa - Meilnda Curtis Can they help each other...make the season bright? A small-town Oklahoma Christmas would be charming if single dad Chandler Cochran wasn’t being called into the principal’s office to deal with his son’s antics. The instigator behind young Sam’s misbehaviour? Little Della-Mae, Izzy Adams’s daughter. The same Izzy who has just taken a job decorating Chandler’s family ranch for the holidays! And even though she and Chandler are pulled together to deal with their children’s misadventures, the bubbly mum and her sweet daughter are adding light and warmth to the stoic cowboy’s world. Will trouble turn into an unexpected gift this Christmas.

Download or read book The Poisonwood Bible written by Barbara Kingsolver and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.

Download or read book A Ranch to Come Home To written by Marie Ferrarella and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solving the town’s water problem could open a floodgate of emotion in USA TODAY bestselling author Marie Ferrarella's lastest Forever, Texas romance! He said “I do” to saving the town Will he say the same about staying there? Alan White Eagle hasn’t returned to Forever, Texas, since he left for college eight years ago. But when a lingering drought threatens the town’s existence, the irrigation engineer vows to help. An unlikely ally appears in the form of his childhood nemesis, the headstrong, intelligent and beautiful Raegan. In fact, their attraction is challenging Alan’s anti-romance workaholic facade. Will Alan’s plan to save Forever’s future end with a future with Raegan? From Harlequin Special Edition: Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness. Forever, Texas Book 1: Ramona and the Renegade Book 2: The Doctor's Forever Family Book 3: Lassoing the Deputy Book 4: A Forever Christmas Book 5: His Forever Valentine Book 6: A Small Town Thanksgiving Book 7: The Cowboy's Christmas Surprise Book 8: Her Forever Cowboy Book 9: Cowboy for Hire Book 10: Christmas Cowboy Duet Book 11: The Cowboy and the Lady Book 12: Her Mistletoe Cowboy Book 13: The Cowboy and the Baby Book 14: The Rancher and the Baby Book 15: Twins on the Doorstep Book 16: A Baby for Christmas Book 17: The Cowboy's Lesson in Love Book 18: The Lawman's Romance Lesson Book 19: Her Right-Hand Cowboy Book 20: Secrets of Forever Book 21: The Best Man in Texas Book 22: A Ranch to Come Home To

Download or read book Shooting Stars of the Small Screen written by Douglas Brode and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of television, Westerns have been playing on the small screen. From the mid-1950s until the early 1960s, they were one of TV's most popular genres, with millions of viewers tuning in to such popular shows as Rawhide, Gunsmoke, and Disney's Davy Crockett. Though the cultural revolution of the later 1960s contributed to the demise of traditional Western programs, the Western never actually disappeared from TV. Instead, it took on new forms, such as the highly popular Lonesome Dove and Deadwood, while exploring the lives of characters who never before had a starring role, including anti-heroes, mountain men, farmers, Native and African Americans, Latinos, and women. Shooting Stars of the Small Screen is a comprehensive encyclopedia of more than 450 actors who received star billing or played a recurring character role in a TV Western series or a made-for-TV Western movie or miniseries from the late 1940s up to 2008. Douglas Brode covers the highlights of each actor's career, including Western movie work, if significant, to give a full sense of the actor's screen persona(s). Within the entries are discussions of scores of popular Western TV shows that explore how these programs both reflected and impacted the social world in which they aired. Brode opens the encyclopedia with a fascinating history of the TV Western that traces its roots in B Western movies, while also showing how TV Westerns developed their own unique storytelling conventions.

Download or read book Bad Boys written by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The film noir male is an infinitely watchable being, exhibiting a wide range of emotions, behaviors, and motivations. Some of the characters from the film noir era are extremely violent, such as Neville Brand’s Chester in D.O.A. (1950), whose sole pleasure in life seems to come from inflicting pain on others. Other noirs feature flawed authority figures, such as Kirk Douglas’s Jim McLeod in Detective Story (1951), controlled by a rigid moral code that costs him his marriage and ultimately his life. Others present ruthless crime bosses, hapless males whose lives are turned upside down because of their ceaseless longing for a woman, and even courageous men on the right side of the law. The private and public lives of more than ninety actors who starred in the films noirs of the 1940s and 1950s are presented here. Some of the actors, such as Humphrey Bogart, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Mitchum, Raymond Burr, Fred MacMurray, Jack Palance and Mickey Rooney, enjoyed great renown, while others, like Gene Lockhart, Moroni Olsen and Harold Vermilyea, were less familiar, particularly to modern audiences. An appendix focuses on the actors who were least known but frequently seen in minor roles.

Download or read book Leading Men written by Frank Miller and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tough, sophisticated, witty, and handsomefrom Rudolph Valentino to Buster Keaton, Cary Grant to Jimmy Stewart, Humphrey Bogart to Steve McQueen, each of the actors featured in this book brought a magnetic presence to the screen and made a powerful and enduring mark on film history. Produced by Turner Classic Movies, this stylish and definitive guide as the inside scoop and off-the-record reveals of fifty unforgettable actors and is also the focus of an on-air film festival on the channel. The lives and accomplishments of each actor are celebrated in an insightful career overview, accompanied by an annotated list of essential films, filmographies, behind the scenes facts, Academy Award wins and nominations. Full of surprising trivia, film stills, posters, and stunning photos, Leading Men pays tribute to the most charismatic, enduring, and elegant actors of the silver screenan essential resource for movie buffs and pop-culture enthusiasts alike.

Download or read book A Fortune In The Family Mills Boon True Love The Fortunes of Texas The Wedding Gift Book 5 written by Kathy Douglass and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s something brewing between them...

Download or read book The Brightonians written by Daren Kay and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brightonians focuses upon the bitter rivalry and social one-upmanship that fuels the lives of a group of socialites who live in this far-from-quintessential seaside town. Already vying for supremacy of their circle, the chance discovery of a 50-year-old letter belonging to a local drag queen takes their sparring to hilarious new heights. Initially leading to them back to the saucier side of Brighton in the swinging 60s – what they ultimately discover is even more shocking – connecting one of them to the past in ways that no-one could have imagined.

Download or read book The Cactus League written by Emily Nemens and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR and Lit Hub. A Los Angeles Times Bestseller. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "In The Cactus League [Emily Nemens] provides her readers with what amounts to a miniature, self-enclosed world that is funny and poignant and lovingly observed." --Charles McGrath, The New York Times Book Review An explosive, character-driven odyssey through the world of baseball Jason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome, famous, and talented, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams. And the coaches, writers, wives, girlfriends, petty criminals, and diehard fans following his every move are eager to find out why—as they hide secrets of their own. Humming with the energy of a ballpark before the first pitch, Emily Nemens's The Cactus League unravels the tightly connected web of people behind a seemingly linear game. Narrated by a sportscaster, Goodyear’s story is interspersed with tales of Michael Taylor, a batting coach trying to stay relevant; Tamara Rowland, a resourceful spring-training paramour, looking for one last catch; Herb Allison, a legendary sports agent grappling with his decline; and a plethora of other richly drawn characters, all striving to be seen as the season approaches. It’s a journey that, like the Arizona desert, brims with both possibility and destruction. Anchored by an expert knowledge of baseball’s inner workings, Emily Nemens's The Cactus League is a propulsive and deeply human debut that captures a strange desert world that is both exciting and unforgiving, where the most crucial games are the ones played off the field.

Download or read book The Atlantean Conspiracy Final Edition written by Eric Dubay and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-24 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atlantean Conspiracy Final Edition is the ultimate encyclopedia exposing the global conspiracy from Atlantis to Zion. Discover how world royalty through the Vatican and secret societies control literally every facet of our lives from behind the scenes and have done so for thousands of years. Topics covered include Presidential Bloodlines, The New World Order, Big Brother, FEMA Concentration Camps, Secret Societies, The Zionist Jew World Order, False Flags & The Hegelian Dialectic, The Lusitania & WWI, Pearl Harbor & WWII, Operation Northwoods, The Gulf of Tonkin & The Vietnam War, The Oklahoma City Bombing, The 9/11 Inside Job, Media Manipulation, The Health Conspiracy, Fluoride, Vaccines, Engineered AIDS, The Meat & Dairy Myth, The Cure for Everything, Masonic Symbology, Numerology, Time Manipulation, The Christian Conspiracy, Astrotheology, Magic Mushrooms, Atlantis, Kundalini, Enlightenment, Geocentric Cosmology, The NASA Moon and Mars Landing Hoaxes, Aliens, Controlled Opposition, and much more

Download or read book Captivated by the Cowgirl written by Brenda Harlen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's risking everything on a woman who knows what she wants… Back in Haven after suffering a broken heart, rancher Claire Lamontagne just wants to build her horse sanctuary—and forget about love. But IT specialist Devin Blake awakens Claire's bruised emotions, so much that she risks making the first move! And the stunning Stetson-wearing blonde definitely flusters the web developer, making him feel more deeply than he ever has before. Is Devin ready to trade his solitary life for a future with the cowgirl tempting him to take a chance on love? From Harlequin Special Edition: Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness. Match Made in Haven Book 1: The Sheriff''s Nine-Month Surprise Book 2: Her Seven-Day Fiancé Book 3: Six Weeks to Catch a Cowboy Book 4: Claiming the Cowboy''s Heart Book 5: Double Duty for the Cowboy Book 6: One Night with the Cowboy Book 7: A Chance for the Rancher Book 8: The Marine''s Road Home Book 9: Meet Me Under the Mistletoe Book 10: The Rancher''s Promise Book 11: The Chef''s Surprise Baby Book 12: Captivated by the Cowgirl

Download or read book Cinderella Next Door written by Nancy Robards Thompson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All that's missing is the glass slipper… High school teacher and aspiring artist Ginny Sanders knows she is not Draper Fortune’s type. Content to admire her fabulous and flirty new neighbor from a distance, she is stunned when he asks her out. What would the superwealthy, superhandsome Fortune want with her? Draper is charmed by the sensitive teacher, but when he learns why she doesn’t date, he must decide if he can be the man she needs… From Harlequin Special Edition: Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness. The Fortunes of Texas: The Wedding Gift Book 1: Their New Year's Beginning by Michelle Major Book 2: A Soldier's Dare by Jo McNally Book 3: Anyone But a Fortune by Judy Duarte Book 4: Cinderella Next Door by Nancy Robards Thompson Book 5: A Fortune in the Family by Kathy Douglass Book 6: Finding Fortune's Secret by Allison Leigh

Download or read book Hill Country Promise written by Kit Hawthorne and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a childhood pact… Lead to forever love? Best friends Eliana and Luke agreed to marry if she was still single by age twenty-seven. And when her birthday arrived, Luke proposed. At first, everything seemed perfect. A little too perfect. Eliana now realizes she has everything she ever wanted—except Luke’s heart. Can their friendship survive their engagement? From Harlequin Heartwarming: Wholesome stories of love, compassion and belonging. Truly Texas Book 1: Hill Country Secret Book 2: Coming Home to Texas Book 3: The Texan's Secret Son Book 4: Hill Country Promise Book 5: Snowbound with the Rancher

Download or read book Satellite Sisters Uncommon Senses written by Julie Dolan and published by Riverhead Books (Hardcover). This book was released on 2001 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Satellite Sisters*, stars of the Public Radio show of the same name, comes an explanation of the uncommon senses--A Sense of Self, A Sense of Connection, A Sense of Humor, A Sense of Adventure, and A Sense of Direction--along with anecdotes, lists, recipes, quiz questions, and more.

Download or read book Reclaiming the Rancher s Son the Paramedic s Forever Family written by Trish Milburn and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-13 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaiming The Rancher's Son - Trish Milburn A stranger in trouble...might just save him. After losing custody of his small son, rancher Gavin Olsen just wants to be alone in the Wyoming mountains. But his solitude is interrupted when a terrible snowstorm strands reporter Maya Pine at his small cabin. Now Gavin's finding a shelter of his own in Maya's warmth and humor. But can he make room for Maya in his life when he's finally reunited with his child? The Paramedic's Forever Family - Tanya Agler Sometimes 'good friends' just isn't enough... Bachelor paramedic Mason Ruddick doesn't know what he'd do without Lindsay Hudson. The widowed mum is his sounding board, his neighbour and, since the death of her husband and his best friend, his lifeline. Only lately, Mason can't stop noticing just how beautiful and special Lindsay is. Or how often he thinks about her. Now Mason's heart is caught between the best friend he lost...and the one he's falling for.

Download or read book Captivated by the Cowgirl the Rancher s Wyoming Twins written by Brenda Harlen and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captivated By The Cowgirl - Brenda Harlen He's risking everything on a woman who knows what she wants... Back in Haven after suffering a broken heart, rancher Claire Lamontagne just wants to build her horse sanctuary -- and forget about love. But IT specialist Devin Blake awakens Claire's bruised emotions, so much that she risks making the first move! And the stunning, Stetson-wearing blonde definitely flusters the web developer, making him feel more deeply than he ever has before. Is Devlin ready to trade his solitary life for a future with the cowgirl tempting him to take a chance on love? The Rancher's Wyoming Twins - Virginia McCullough Her worst enemy could bring her heart home... Heather Stanhope wants to despise the man who now owns the ranch her family lost. But Matt Burton is raising his late sister's adorable twins, loves horses, and is known for his loyalty and honesty. Sneaking into Adelaide Creek for her friend's wedding, Heather hopes to avoid Matt, but fate and family have them crossing paths. Heather knows falling for Matt means risking her heart, but it's a risk she can't resist.

Download or read book The Ragman s Son written by Kirk Douglas and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born Issur Danielovitch Demsky, the son of an illiterate immigrant Russian-Jewish ragpicker and junkman, Kirk Douglas makes clear in this powerful, angry, and passionate book the ways in which his difficult childhood dominated his life as an actor, father, and man. 16 pages of photographs.