Download or read book A Highland Inheritance written by Aileen Adams and published by . This book was released on with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English heiress has no cause to live in the Highlands. Or does she? Sheriff Colin Ramsey simply wants to keep the peace in the territory. He doesn’t want to have to enforce the Tartan and Dress Act of 1746. Nor does he want to babysit the feisty Highlanders that seek to create chaos and defy the laws—regardless how unjust said laws might be. He doesn’t like complications. Enter Iona Douglas, who brings complications in spades. This stubborn Englishwoman has inherited Scottish Highland property. She scandalously refuses to follow rules or suggestions. She insists—quite stubbornly—on brushing off advice in this lawless land. If only there weren’t feelings involved. If only she wasn’t irresistible. Colin’s problem is figuring out how to keep the lass alive when she seems hell bent on ending up dead.
Download or read book Highland Inheritance written by Caroline Dunford and published by Headline Accent. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating and modern Highland romance, set amid a culture clash of city and rural lifestyles and FILLED with unexpected twists and turns! ______________ City girl, Rural lifestyle. Something has to give... Lucy McIntosh is a city girl through and through. She works in an advertising agency in Edinburgh with her boyfriend Jake, and her life is a whirl of deadlines, corporate parties, and coffee shops. Then Lucy learns that she is to inherit a hotel in the Highlands from her long-lost Uncle Calum. At first insistent that she will sell it to fund her and Jake's move to London, she arrives in her uncle's village to find The Mormaer Inn, a huge, tumbledown place perpetually on the brink of failure - and falls in love with it. Lucy is determined to restore the hotel to former glories. But her dream is blocked at every turn by obstacles. Rooms that need complete renovation, staff members who need personality transplants . . . and Graham Sutherland. His family have been local landowners for generations, and he wants the Inn for himself. Graham wants to demolish the hotel to build a holiday park, and is so confident Lucy will sell to him that he has already applied for planning permission. He is furious to think that naïve newcomer Lucy might have her own plans for the hotel - and adamant he'll get what he wants . . . ______________ Readers ADORE Caroline Dunford's witty, entertaining reads: 'I could not put this book down... Great storyline, kept you rooted to the spot' 5* reader review 'I really enjoyed this book. It was well written and had a good plot' 5* author review 'I've never read any other books from this author and found it very heart warming with a lot of life lessons included...' 5* reader review '...the first modern day novel by this author and I was excited to read it. I wasn't disappointed and was gripped by the story right to the end' 5* reader review
Download or read book Highland Inheritance written by Caroline Dunford and published by Accent Press Ltd. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating and modern Highland romance, set amid a culture clash of city and rural lifestyles and FILLED with unexpected twists and turns! ______________ City girl, Rural lifestyle. Something has to give... Lucy McIntosh is a city girl through and through. She works in an advertising agency in Edinburgh with her boyfriend Jake, and her life is a whirl of deadlines, corporate parties, and coffee shops. Then Lucy learns that she is to inherit a hotel in the Highlands from her long-lost Uncle Calum. At first insistent that she will sell it to fund her and Jake's move to London, she arrives in her uncle's village to find The Mormaer Inn, a huge, tumbledown place perpetually on the brink of failure - and falls in love with it. Lucy is determined to restore the hotel to former glories. But her dream is blocked at every turn by obstacles. Rooms that need complete renovation, staff members who need personality transplants . . . and Graham Sutherland. His family have been local landowners for generations, and he wants the Inn for himself. Graham wants to demolish the hotel to build a holiday park, and is so confident Lucy will sell to him that he has already applied for planning permission. He is furious to think that naïve newcomer Lucy might have her own plans for the hotel - and adamant he'll get what he wants . . . ______________ Readers ADORE Caroline Dunford's witty, entertaining reads: 'I could not put this book down... Great storyline, kept you rooted to the spot' 5* reader review 'I really enjoyed this book. It was well written and had a good plot' 5* author review 'I've never read any other books from this author and found it very heart warming with a lot of life lessons included...' 5* reader review '...the first modern day novel by this author and I was excited to read it. I wasn't disappointed and was gripped by the story right to the end' 5* reader review
Download or read book The Inheritance written by Overton Chambers and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cynthia McKenna is an attractive, respected senior editor at a New York publishing firm. Raised by her widowed grandmother and engaged to a wonderful man, she is content with her life, but the sudden inheritance of an estate in North Carolina tips her carefully balanced existence. Her great-grandfather, Lord Jeremy Maxwell of Scotland, established a large estate, which has been left to her by a great aunt. Having no use and actually no first hand knowledge of the property, she takes the advice of her fiancé and lists the property for sale. But a letter from her real estate agent piques her curiosity and she must journey to the mountains of Western North Carolina to inspect it. Once she sees her ancestral home near the town of High Glen, long buried memories from the past appear, causing her to question fundamental aspects of her life. It doesn't help that another REALTOR John McCloud is different from every other man she has known, including her fiancé. A long dead secret shrouds her inheritance, and Cynthia is confronted with a mystery that makes her fear for her life.
Download or read book The Inheritance Secrets of the Shetlands Book 1 written by Michael Phillips and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic New Series from Fan Favorite Michael Phillips The death of the clan patriarch has thrown the tiny Shetland Islands community of Whales Reef into turmoil. Everyone assumed MacGregor Tulloch's heir to be his grand-nephew David, a local favorite, but when it is discovered that MacGregor left no will, David's grasping cousin Hardy submits his own claim to the inheritance, an estate that controls most of the island's land. And while Hardy doesn't enjoy much popular support, he has the backing of a shadowy group of North Sea oil investors. The courts have frozen the estate's assets while the competing claims are investigated, leaving many of the residents in financial limbo. The future of the island--and its traditional way of life--hangs in the balance. Loni Ford is enjoying her rising career in a large investment firm in Washington, DC. Yet in spite of her outward success, she is privately plagued by questions of identity. Orphaned as a young child, she was raised by her paternal grandparents, and while she loves them dearly, she feels completely detached from her roots. That is until a mysterious letter arrives from a Scottish solicitor. . . . Past and present collide in master storyteller Phillips's dramatic new saga of loss and discovery, of grasping and grace, and of the dreams of men and women everywhere.
Download or read book The Leviathan of Wealth written by Eric Richards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in the year 2006, The Leviathan of Wealth is a valuable contribution to the field of Major Works.
Download or read book People of the Plow written by James C. McCann and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two thousand years, Ethiopia’s ox-plow agricultural system was the most efficient and innovative in Africa, but has been afflicted in the recent past by a series of crises: famine, declining productivity, and losses in biodiversity. James C. McCann analyzes the last two hundred years of agricultural history in Ethiopia to determine whether the ox-plow agricultural system has adapted to population growth, new crops, and the challenges of a modern political economy based in urban centers. This agricultural history is set in the context of the larger environmental and landscape history of Ethiopia, showing how farmers have integrated crops, tools, and labor with natural cycles of rainfall and soil fertility, as well as with the social vagaries of changing political systems. McCann traces characteristic features of Ethiopian farming, such as the single-tine scratch plow, which has retained a remarkably consistent design over two millennia, and a crop repertoire that is among the most genetically diverse in the world. People of the Plow provides detailed documentation of Ethiopian agricultural practices since the early nineteenth century by examining travel narratives, early agricultural surveys, photographs and engravings, modern farming systems research, and the testimony of farmers themselves, collected during McCann’s five years of fieldwork. He then traces the ways those practices have evolved in the twentieth century in response to population growth, urban markets, and the presence of new technologies.
Download or read book Inheriting Scotland written by Theresa Reilly Alsop and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-10-28 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sell it! That's the solution ambitious young American John Douglas has in mind as he travels to Scotland to spend the required thirty days residency necessary to inherit Lochar Castle. Upon his arrival, local historian Nora Kennedy tells him of the castle's fabled "secret room". Legend has it that the room contains the history of the Douglas clan, complete with artifacts from ancient times to the present. Together they search for the room. Travel with John as he experiences the magic of the Faire Folk. Welcvm Freindis is a tale of treachery and deception. Sir Woody and the Thief embark on a quirky quest. Score an eagle with Hannah Douglas as she plays an outlawed round of gowf (golf) in The Match. Swashbuckler Jack Douglas must rescue his brother from the Corbie's Nest. Unravel a conspiracy as Annora Douglas learns of family treachery in The Silver Horses. Experience religious persecution with Sir Iain Douglas in The Tailor's Shears. Beatrice Douglas sets out to deliver crucial documents to General Washington in The Luck of the Sixpence. Romp through Georgian England with Charlie Douglas as he attempts to catch a spy in Heart of a Douglas. Shiver at Patrick Douglas' encounter with a vampire in The Baobhan Sithe. Mingi follows Sir Henry Douglas up the Amazon in search of the secret of eternal youth. Twice Lost follows Samuel Douglas's struggle to choose between his wife and his only brother. Inheriting Scotland follows John as, with Nora's help, he finds the meaning of love and family ties.
Download or read book Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars written by Joshua Tucker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Peru’s lively music industry and the studio producers, radio DJs, and program directors that drive it, Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars is a fascinating account of the deliberate development of artistic taste. Focusing on popular huayno music and the ways it has been promoted to Peru’s emerging middle class, Joshua Tucker tells a complex story of identity making and the marketing forces entangled with it, providing crucial insights into the dynamics among art, class, and ethnicity that reach far beyond the Andes. Tucker focuses on the music of Ayacucho, Peru, examining how media workers and intellectuals there transformed the city’s huayno music into the country’s most popular style. By marketing contemporary huayno against its traditional counterpart, these agents, Tucker argues, have paradoxically reinforced ethnic hierarchies at the same time that they have challenged them. Navigating between a burgeoning Andean bourgeoisie and a music industry eager to sell them symbols of newfound sophistication, Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars is a deep account of the real people behind cultural change.
Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana and in the Superior Court of the Territory of Louisiana 1809 1896 written by Louisiana. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Language Contact Inherited Similarity and Social Difference written by Danny Law and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a study of long-term, intensive language contact between more than a dozen Mayan languages spoken in the lowlands of Guatemala, Southern Mexico and Belize. It details the massive restructuring of syntactic and semantic organization, the calquing of grammatical patterns, and the direct borrowing of inflectional morphology, including, in some of these languages, the direct borrowing of even entire morphological paradigms. The in-depth analysis of contact among the genetically related Lowland Mayan languages presented in this volume serves as a highly relevant case for theoretical, historical, contact, typological, socio- and anthropological linguistics. This linguistically complex situation involves serious engagement with issues of methods for distinguishing contact-induced similarity from inherited similarity, the role of social and ideological variables in conditioning the outcomes of language contact, cross-linguistic tendencies in language contact, as well as the effect that inherited similarity can have on the processes and outcomes of language contact.
Download or read book Romantic Childhood Romantic Heirs written by Beatrice Turner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book views Romantic literature’s discourses of childhood, education, and reproduction through the eyes of four early nineteenth-century British authors who were uniquely implicated in those discourses. Hartley and Sara Coleridge, children of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and William Godwin Jr, children of William Godwin, shared the predicament of being both ‘real’ and ‘literary’ children. All the children of authors who helped shape culturally-definitive Romantic-period ideas about childhood, they wrote back to their fathers in order to understand and to resist the ways in which they were produced by paternal texts which foreclose the possibility of the child’s own regeneration. This study proposes that through this predicament, and their responses to it, the literature of the period between the Romantic and the Victorian periods comes into focus, marked by an anxiety not of influence, but of reproduction. It suggests that one reason why this period has tended to disappear from view lies in the sense of historical and aesthetic difference, and productive failure, which this study uncovers.
Download or read book Highland Promise written by Hannah Howell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a New York Times–bestselling author: In fifteenth-century Scotland, an embattled knight meets his fate in a young beauty fleeing for her life. Eric Murray was the youngest of his brothers, determined to gain his rightful inheritance after thirteen years of bitter dispute with his father’s family. Starting out alone to confront his tight‐fisted kinsmen, he encountered a chestnut‐haired beauty set upon by thieves. When she begged for Eric’s protection for herself and her infant nephew, Eric promised to deliver them to the safety of her family. Bethia Drummond desperately tried to ignore her attraction to the azure‐eyed stranger. Still, Eric Murray was Bethia’s only hope of escaping her ruthless kin who planned to kill her and her orphaned nephew, and claim their inherited land. Then Bethia learned that Eric, too, was seeking land and coin from his own kin—her family’s closest allies. How could she love a man she might one day be forced to stand against? And yet she could not ignore what her troubled heart knew—that this proud knight had more than inspired her deepest passions, he had become her very destiny.
Download or read book Women Property and Islam written by Annelies Moors and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Islamic law, women are entitled to inherit property, receive a dower at marriage, and to manage their own income. In practice, however, this is not always the case. In an anthropological study of Palestinian women from different stratas of society, Annelies Moors examines under what circumstances they claim property rights and when they are prevented from doing so. The combination of oral history and written legal sources presents an informed and sophisticated challenge to the conclusions of existing literature on the region.
Download or read book Hail Caledonia written by Eric Simpson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Simpson’s new book tells this story – the story of the growth of tourism in the Highlands and Islands.
Download or read book A Highlander is Coming to Town written by Laura Trentham and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in the Highland, Georgia romantic comedy series from Laura Trentham, A Highlander is Coming to Town, full of love, laughs...and highlanders! You better watch out. . . Holt Pierson is dreading Christmas. His parents absconded to Florida for the season and left him to handle the family farm which will be his one day—whether he wants it or not. Driven by duty, Holt has always followed the path expected of him. But lately, he’s been questioning what he wants and where he belongs. Will assuming the responsibility of the Pierson farm make him happy or is there something—or someone—else out in the wider world calling to him? To Claire Smythe, the Scottish lead singer of a touring band, Highland, Georgia, is the perfect place to hide . . .until a very handsome and deeply curious Holt begins to ask all the questions Claire doesn’t want to answer. As Holt draws Claire out from under and into the fabric of small-town life, can Claire put the past behind her and embrace the unexpected gifts of the season—including the new and lasting love? “Laura Trentham creates a romance that is both extremely sensual and phenomenal.” —Fresh Fiction
Download or read book Disputed Titles written by Natasha Tessone and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disputed Titles: Ireland, Scotland, and the Novel of Inheritance, 1798-1832 argues for the centrality of inheritance—often impeded, disrupted inheritance—to the novel’s rise to preeminence in Britain during the Romantic period. Novels by Maria Edgeworth, Sydney Owenson, Charles Maturin, Walter Scott, and John Galt are densely populated by orphans, changelings, and lost and kidnapped heirs, and privilege a romance plot of dispossession that undermines the illusion of continuity implicit in the very concept of legacy. Through narratives of illegitimate ownership and other similar genealogical aberrations, authors from Britain’s “peripheries” interrogate their equivocal places in the uneasy compound of “The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.” Moving between the local and global manifestations of inheritance, their novels imagine history as contested property in order to explore vital issues of historic transition and political legitimacy, issues of immense consequence in the revolutionary climate of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
