Download or read book Where Snow Angels Go written by Maggie O'Farrell and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the precipice of a serious illness, Sylvie wakes up to find a snow angel who tells her he will protect her, and when she finally recovers, she purposefully puts herself in precarious situations to try and meet him again.

Download or read book Virgin Whore written by Emma Maggie Solberg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Virgin Whore, Emma Maggie Solberg uncovers a surprisingly prevalent theme in late English medieval literature and culture: the celebration of the Virgin Mary’s sexuality. Although history is narrated as a progressive loss of innocence, the Madonna has grown purer with each passing century. Looking to a period before the idea of her purity and virginity had ossified, Solberg uncovers depictions and interpretations of Mary, discernible in jokes and insults, icons and rituals, prayers and revelations, allegories and typologies—and in late medieval vernacular biblical drama. More unmistakable than any cultural artifact from late medieval England, these biblical plays do not exclusively interpret Mary and her virginity as fragile. In a collection of plays known as the N-Town manuscript, Mary is represented not only as virgin and mother but as virgin and promiscuous adulteress, dallying with the Trinity, the archangel Gabriel, and mortals in kaleidoscopic erotic combinations. Mary’s "virginity" signifies invulnerability rather than fragility, redemption rather than renunciation, and merciful license rather than ascetic discipline. Taking the ancient slander that Mary conceived Jesus in sin as cause for joyful laughter, the N-Town plays make a virtue of those accusations: through bawdy yet divine comedy, she redeems and exalts the crime. By revealing the presence of this promiscuous Virgin in early English drama and late medieval literature and culture—in dirty jokes told by Boccaccio and Chaucer, Malory’s Arthurian romances, and the double entendres of the allegorical Mystic Hunt of the Unicorn—Solberg provides a new understanding of Marian traditions.

Download or read book Emma s Dream written by M. Lee Prescott and published by M. Lee Prescott. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman is the last thing on Ben Morgan’s mind as he comes home to Morgan’s Run, his family’s ranch in Saguaro Valley. Doctor’s orders, he’s home to heal, but the sooner he can get back to Santa Barbara, the better. Then he runs into Maggie Williams on Main Street, prompting vivid memories of a magical night, and Ben’s ailing heart skips a beat. Father of her beloved four year old daughter, the eldest of the Morgan sons is the last person Maggie expects to have crash into her car and back into her life. For years, she has struggled to forget him and to make a life for herself and her daughter, Emma, the mirror image of a father who is unaware of her existence. Now, here he is, looking more gorgeous than the day he ran out of town. Maggie swears Ben Morgan will never break her heart again. Join the Morgans and their Saguaro Valley community in Morgan’s Run book one before binge reading all through this popular series! Number 13, Bella’s Touch debuts in October 2022 and is on pre-order now!

Download or read book The Pull of the Stars written by Emma Donoghue and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews). In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders—Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds.

Download or read book Proceedings written by Chicago (Ill.). Board of Education and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on 21st Century Frienship Polyamory Polgamy and Platonic Affinity written by Rachel Bromwich and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology takes an international and cross-cultural approach to discussions about friendship by curating a set of diverse contributions situated in a transnational context. These interdisciplinary contributions take friendship seriously as a subject of feminist and legal study and hone in specifically on polyamory, polygamy, and Platonic affinities, considering the sexual and non-sexual ties of affect and affinity that link a diverse range of contemporary friendships that exist cross-culturally. This highly original book teases out commonalities between experiences of affinity that are enmeshed with the differences between social, national, legal, and cultural frameworks that surround these relationships of affinity and affect, and troubles forms of government and legal regulation that prohibit or fail to recognize the consensual interdependence connecting diverse forms of human friendship.

Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the St Louis Public Schools for the Year Ending August 1 written by St. Louis Public Schools (Saint Louis, Mo.). Board of Directors and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bed Breakfast and Murder written by Rachel White and published by Our Pack Press. This book was released on with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie was slowly becoming unsatisfied with Sunnyside, the island community in the Florida Keys that her and her husband Jim had been calling home for the past five years. She was hungry for intrigue and adventure and she wasn't getting it at the Bed and Breakfast they owned and operated. Even if it only lasted a weekend, Maggie was in search of excitement. So when her deceased grandmother’s old friend suddenly hands her a set of mysterious files, Maggie is more than willing to dive right in and play the role of amateur sleuth. Only, as the pieces of the puzzle are put together, Maggie slowly realizes that this mystery hits closer to home than she would've preferred and it may be too late to back out now. With her best friend and neighbor Sophia's help, Maggie sets out into the town of Sunnyside to uncover the truth about a family tragedy, and gets a bit more intrigue and adventure than she bargained for…!

Download or read book Like it Never Happened written by Jeff Hoffmann and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades ago, four friends concealed a deadly secret–but not all lies stay buried in this psychological suspense for fans of Ashley Winstead and Alison Gaylin. Thirty years ago, Tommy, Malcolm, Henry, and Kevin were best friends graduating high school, brothers almost, until the night they did something terrible. The decision to keep hidden what they did in that parking lot shattered their friendship and warped their lives. But when Kevin, struggling with a heroin addiction, drives his motorcycle into the side of a truck, the other three find themselves together again—at Kevin’s funeral. When they meet Kevin’s wife Naomi at the wake, they can tell that she knows everything, and when they learn that she’s a reporter, they’re terrified. When she sends them to visit one of their victims from that night—at the nursing home where he’s been suffering for decades—they do as they’re told, even though they know it won’t stop there. After watching her husband pay a steep price for keeping the friends’ secret, Naomi has crafted a plan to make Tommy, Malcolm, and Henry pay their fair share. When the three men decide to fight back, they’re forced to decide just how far they’ll go this time.

Download or read book Annual Report written by Saint Louis (Mo.). Board of Education and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book I Jonathan Blue written by James Haydock and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Jonathan Blue. During the last two decades of the nineteenth century, I worked many hours each day for acceptance as a writer. In my youth, I dreamed of becoming a classical scholar at Oxford or Cambridge. When the fantasy was shattered by a stupid excess of emotion, I attempted to begin a new life in America. A year later, I was living in a London slum with a drunken wife. In grim poverty, I wrote about poor people struggling to survive in slums among the worst in the world. They were my neighbors, and from them came inventive and motive force. In maturity I lived with a delicate and beautiful woman, but in failing health for a short time. Then like a turbulent river, I dashed unimpeded to the sea.

Download or read book Beacon s River written by James Haydock and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beacons River is a tale of ambition and human suffering in the mind and heart of a young man struggling for success as a novelist. Based on the life and career of nineteenth-century novelist George Gissing, the book is about a man wrestling with destiny as he dreams of making his mark in the world. Soon after his father dies, Andrew Beacon goes away to a Quaker boarding school with two younger brothers. An exemplary but lonely student, he wins a scholarship to a college known to be a stepping stone to Oxford or Cambridge. At eighteen, on the brink of realizing his dream, he meets a woman of the streets who changes the course of his life. After serving a month in prison, he leaves England to start over in America but returns a year later. Living in poverty with a drunken wife, he writes his first novels. When she dies at twenty-nine, he marries a woman whose violence drives him vixen-haunted from home. Badgered by loneliness and hardship but losing himself in his work, in time he finds the woman meant for him. The love they cherish before he dies completes the pattern of a life that runs like a tumultuous river from mountain to sea.

Download or read book Little House On the Highway A Story of a Homeless Family School Bullying written by Janet Miller and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The message of this story is that bullying can occur because your situation has changed--not because of who you are. Maggie, a happy and popular junior high student, was challenged to hold onto her personal self worth when her father lost his job, their family farm was forced into foreclosure, and they became homeless. The family decided to live in a homemade camper on the back of their pickup truck and drive to Florida to find a better life. Stuck in homelessness, with their homemade camper as their only home, and their personal lives deteriorating, Maggie's mother insisted Maggie go back to school. Based on her poor and unstylish appearance, Maggie was singled out and bullied by an upscale classmate and her entourage who found Maggie's appearance intolerable. But once her father found a job, the situation changed so that Maggie's real value was finally allowed to be seen, and the bullying finally ended.

Download or read book A WILLING WIFE written by Jackie Merritt and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexy widower Dallas Fortune may be Texas’s most eligible bachelor but he’s remained quietly on the sidelines, content to work the ranch and run the family empire.When he shows up in the nick of time to pull a curious boy out of harm’s way, he gets a hands-on introduction to young Travis Randall…and his lovely mother, Maggie. Temporarily staying at the ranch after losing her banking job, Maggie just wants to get her life back on track. She appreciates Dallas’s interest in her son, and is secretly thrilled by his apparent interest in her, but she’s a divorced single mom struggling to make ends meet, hardly the type for Dallas Fortune. She’s not looking to complicate her life with a passion that has no future. She’s got more sense than that. Now if only she can convince Dallas…and her heart.

Download or read book The Satanic Seal written by Aida Francis and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-19 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book The Satanic Seal is a sweeping romantic epic that spans nearly 274 years. It traces the lives of members of many families over the course of several generations, in Scotland, Mesopotamia, India, and America. The members of these families endure mystery deaths and personal tragedies. Emma, the main character had struggled with God ever since she was a little girl, thinking that God was depriving her from being happy. Growing up in the blustery coastal city of Dundee, Scotland, Emma always felt a dark cloud hanging over her. Now an adult, the dark cloud seems to grow, swallowing up any chance she has with Joseph, the man she loves. Following multiple deaths of those closest to her, Emma spends her time analyzing and calculating who would die next! Against this backdrop of emotional turmoil, Emma must cope with the miseries, and dramatic incidents, and she reaches a point where she is ready to die herself, if she could not solve the mystery of her losses. About the Author Aida Francis began writing at an early age, and her passion has never stopped. She started The Satanic Seal many years ago but life’ challenges did not allow her to finish it until summer 2023. Francis published a remarkable poetry book, The River of Time, in 2022, portraying an intense emotion experienced throughout a lifetime, and the struggles that people face as they consider their remaining time on earth. Francis lived in Washington state prior to relocating to California, where she has now lived for several years. In 2015 she earned her doctoral degree in education.

Download or read book The Treacherous Selfie written by John Milan Dudeff and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Northstrum, the primary software engineer for the Martian rovers, is beginning to lose faith in God. Then he learns that answered prayers and granted wishes can bring unintended consequences. Beings known as the Dominion choose Simon to be their human vessel, using him to remind humankind why we exist. They have determined that cell phones impede humans from listening to our souls’ stories, which they helped create before we were born. The Dominion seek to teach humanity that we are all connected to one another and are intended to master life lessons. News anchors Bill Hemmer and Martha MacCallum are the harbingers of the Dominion’s invasion, helping humankind to see how every thought, word, and action causes ripples throughout the world. Something may seem inconsequential to us but can cause a tsunami for others. Simon must examine where he stands in his life story, and he must get people all over the world to put their phones down so we can connect soulfully with one another and discover true character. This novel tells the story of a man chosen to lead humanity away from its electronics-saturated existence and build new, purposeful lives.