Download or read book A Long Way Home A Small Town Romance written by Lani Blake and published by Vella Ink. This book was released on with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Theodore Newman likes his life to run smoothly. His sheets have a thread count between 1400-1500, and his spreadsheets are always on point. Maybe when he’s back in Lake Howling he lets down his guard and his personal hygiene slips, but there is absolutely no need for Hope Lawrence to take shots at him because she dresses che dumpster. Her fashion sense makes him shudder, as do her kale smoothies! Down on her luck, she challenges him at every turn, but when trouble follows her to Howling, he finds himself determined to help her, only to discover it’s him who needs rescuing! They do say opposites attract. Hope Lawrence’s life has imploded. Losing her job and savings she thought she’d hit rock bottom. WRONG! She totally humiliates herself in front of her childhood nemesis. No way can she face the sexy as hell Paul Newman again, knowing his black eye was a result of her stupidity? Can she go back to Lake Howling and pick up the pieces of her life? ​Both seem unlikely, as does the sudden attraction she feels for the man who wears designer clothes and has a girl in every city. Her head is telling her to run, but her heart has other ideas. If you enjoy your small town romance sizzling with a side of crazy then Lake Howling is for you. Meet the real authority in town, the local book club, and maybe ask Willow to draw you a memento! Swim in the ice cold lake, then warm up with a coffee and mystery muffin at The Hoot Café. Plenty of feels and laughs, all wrapped up in a town that will have you packing your bags to head there from the opening page. BOOKS IN THE LAKE HOWLING SERIES A Promise Of Home The Texan Meets His Match How Sweet It Is It Only Took You Don't Look Back A Long Way Home Then Came You Faith and the Rock Star

Download or read book The Long Way Home written by Rachel Spangler and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say you can't go home again, but Raine St. James doesn't know why anyone would want to. Rory St. James was disowned after she came out at seventeen. She rebounded by moving to Chicago, changing her name to Raine and putting down her hometown to audiences around the country. Now, ten years later, too old to be considered a gay youth, broke, evicted, and fresh off a much needed break-up, Raine St. James is forced to accept a job teaching at Bramble University in Darlington, the town she's been publicly bashing for the last decade. Beth Devoroux was born and raised in Darlington. Despite losing her parents at a young age, she is well loved by everyone who knows her. She leads a comfortable life with good job at Bramble University, a long-term but closeted relationship, friends that she can count on, and everything she thinks she wants, so why is she so drawn to a rabble-rouser like Raine St. James? Can Raine and Beth face their pasts and come to terms with their differences in order to have any hope for a future together?

Download or read book Lion written by Saroo Brierley and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Download or read book The Long Way Home written by Mariah Stewart and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes going home is the only way to go forward... As the only child of a wealthy investment manager, Ellie Chapman has never known anything besides a life of perfect privilege. But her years of good fortune come to an abrupt end when her father is exposed for swindling billions of dollars from innocent investors. Just like that, Ellie loses everything: money, job, home-even her fiancé, who's jailed as her father's partner in crime. With her family name in tatters, Ellie has only one place to go... Sleepy St. Dennis, Maryland, is hardly where Ellie intends to stay, however. Keeping her identity a secret, she plans to sell the house her late mother left her in the small town and use the proceeds to move on with her life. Unfortunately, her ticket to a new beginning is in dire need of pricey improvements, most of which she'll have to do herself. Until the house on Bay View Road is fit to be sold, the sole place Ellie will be traveling is the hardware store. But as the many charms of St. Dennis-not to mention Cameron O'Connor, the handsome local contractor who has secrets of his own-begin to work their magic, what begins as a lesson in do-it-yourself renovations might just end up as Ellie's very own rejuvenation.

Download or read book Lion A Long Way Home written by Saroo Brierley and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *** NOW NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS *** Lion is the heartbreaking and inspiring original true story of the lost little boy who found his way home twenty-five years later and is now a major film starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara. As a five-year old in India, I got lost on a train. Twenty-five years later, I crossed the world to find my way back home. Five-year-old Saroo lived in a poor village in India, in a one-room hut with his mother and three siblings... until the day he boarded a train alone and got lost. For twenty-five years. This is the story of what happened to Saroo in those twenty-five years. How he ended up on the streets of Calcutta. And survived. How he then ended up in Tasmania, living the life of an upper-middle-class Aussie. And how, at thirty years old, with some dogged determination, a heap of good luck and the power of Google Earth, he found his way back home. Lion is a triumphant true story of survival against all odds and a shining example of the extraordinary feats we can achieve when hope endures. 'Amazing stuff' The New York Post 'So incredible that sometimes it reads like a work of fiction' Winnipeg Free Press (Canada) 'A remarkable story' Sydney Morning Herald Review 'I literally could not put this book down. Saroo's return journey will leave you weeping with joy and the strength of the human spirit' Manly Daily (Australia) 'We urge you to step behind the headlines and have a read of this absorbing account...With clear recollections and good old-fashioned storytelling, Saroo...recalls the fear of being lost and the anguish of separation' Weekly Review (Australia)

Download or read book The Lost Continent written by Bill Bryson and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1989 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.

Download or read book Take Me Home written by Carrie Elks and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's a rock God. She's the small town waitress who stops him in his tracks. Once upon a time Gray Hartson was her big sister's boyfriend. The most popular guy at school who never noticed a fourteen-year-old dreamer. Then he left town to become a superstar and never looked back. Ten years later Maddie Clark is all grown up and waiting tables in a diner, when he walks through the door and sends her heart spinning. And for the first time in their lives, he notices her too. Gray's only back for a few weeks to visit his sick father. He doesn't expect to meet a beautiful waitress who soothes his pain and paints color into his world. And he definitely doesn't expect to fall for his ex's baby sister. He's spent the last ten years singing about heartbreak. Now they're both about to find out how it really feels.

Download or read book A Long Way From Chicago written by Richard Peck and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

Download or read book A Long Way From Home written by Peter Carey and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary AwardLonglisted for the 2019 Walter Scott Historical Fiction PrizeIrene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together with Willie, their lanky navigator, they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the continent, over roads no car will ever quite survive.A Long Way from Home is Peter Carey's late style masterpiece; a thrilling high speed story that starts in one way, then takes you to another place altogether. Set in the 1950s in the embers of the British Empire, painting a picture of Queen and subject, black, white and those in-between, this brilliantly vivid novel illustrates how the possession of an ancient culture spirals through history - and the love made and hurt caused along the way.

Download or read book Don t Look Back A Small Town Romance written by Lani Blake and published by Vella Ink. This book was released on with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brad Gelderman rode his Harley into the small town of Lake Howling with one intention. Find his brother, apologize, then leave. No messy emotion required. What he hadn’t factored on was arriving the day of Ethan's wedding, or having one night of passion with sweet Macy Reynolds. Before he knew it, his brother was forcing him to face his past, and Macy was filling the dark, empty places in his heart. Single mom Macy has sworn off relationships after the hell that was her married life. She hadn’t planned on a hot night with a handsome Texan. The man spells d-a-n-g-e-r, in flashing neon letters. But when her past comes calling, she realizes that taking a chance on love may be worth the risk. Can Brad and Macy fight their growing attraction, all too aware that the scars of their pasts can easily threaten their hopes and dreams for a future? BOOKS IN THE LAKE HOWLING SERIES A Promise Of Home The Texan Meets His Match How Sweet It Is It Only Took You Don't Look Back A Long Way Home Then Came You Faith and the Rock Star

Download or read book Rivals An Enemies To Lovers Small Town Romance Duo written by Lani Blake and published by Lani Blake. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding love in a small town where everyone knows your business is never easy… But when your enemy turns out to be the only person you can trust, things heat up fast. Two enemies to lovers, small town romances with plenty of humor and spice. A Long Way Home (Lake Howling Series) She challenges his control. All he’d wanted was a drink after the day from hell. Instead, Paul Theodore Newman ends up with a black eye and his enemy in his arms. His life is usually exactly where he wants it. Organized and on track, and then Hope Lawrence makes a reappearance. Naturalist and lover of every cause, the woman wouldn’t know a fashion label if it was taped to her forehead. She is chaos. By the time he realizes the threat she’s facing is real, Newman knows he’s in way too deep to pull back. Can he help Hope clear her name and convince her to take a chance on them? Love Me Tender (Ryker Falls Series) He'll fight for her to stay Jack Trainer likes women, he just has no intention of loving one. Life taught him to guard his heart, and when Rory Haldane, (daughter of the most hated family in town) walks back into Ryker Falls, he doesn’t see that changing. The problem starts when his town turn on her. Jack’s not the stuff heroes are made of, but he also doesn’t believe a person should pay for their father’s sins. When someone threatens Rory, he is determined to protect her, even if she fights him every step of the way. He soon wants more from her than a night between the sheets, but will Rory drop her guard enough to trust him?

Download or read book Long Way Home written by J T Baier and published by First Light Books. This book was released on 2021-02-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Matthew Riker returns to Iowa to attend the funeral of his high school wrestling coach, he finds a lot has changed since he last set foot in his hometown. His best friend may be involved in moving drugs, and his cousin is struggling to help at-risk teens. Worst of all, there may be more to his coach's death than the random carjacking the newspapers are reporting. As Riker gets closer to the truth, he decides that the best way to honor Coach's memory is to find out who killed him and bring them to justice. Before long, Riker discovers there is a lot more going on in this small town than he first assumed. To save the people he cares about most, he will have to lay it all on the line. Evil has arrived in Kingsport, Iowa, and it's calling in reinforcements. Kingsport's only chance for redemption is Matthew Riker.

Download or read book Shh It s a Secret Baby written by Annie J Rose and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just like old times. But way more complicated. I'm back in my hometown after an injury in the NFL. Simone was my high school sweetheart, but we grew apart. I show up to her boutique's grand opening just to be supportive. She's got a little girl on her hip. A little girl with my green eyes. Her secret's out after four long years. It's hard not giving in to the fury. I have to get along with my ex and work out visits. We have a picnic, the three of us, so I can meet my daughter. Sparks fly with me and Simone like old times. Later, we can't keep our hands off each other. Maybe you can go home again. If I can forgive her for keeping the baby a secret, Maybe I can make her fall for me again. Just like old times.

Download or read book The Long Way Home written by Louise Penny and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Compelling . . . An original voice' PETER JAMES 'Penny twists and turns the plot, expertly tripping the reader up just at the moment you think you might have solved the mystery' DAILY EXPRESS There is more to solving a crime than following the clues. Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings. Clara Morrow's husband is missing. When he fails to come home on the first anniversary of their separation, as promised, Clara asks the only person she trusts to try and find him: former Chief Inspector of Homicide, Armand Gamache. As Gamache journeys further into the case, he is drawn deeper into the tortured mind of Peter Morrow, a man so desperate to recapture his fame as an artist that he would sell his soul. As Gamache gets closer to the truth, he uncovers a deadly trail of jealousy and deceit. Can Gamache bring Peter, and himself, home safely? Or in searching for answers, has he placed himself, and those closest to him, in terrible danger? Millions of readers worldwide. One inimitable Chief Inspector Gamache.

Download or read book Long Road Home written by Maya Banks and published by Samhain Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No matter how far and how fast you run, the truth is never far behind." CIA counter-terrorism expert Manual Ramirez has spent the last three years looking for the woman he loves, who disappeared without a trace while on a post-graduate trip to France. Then, as suddenly as she disappeared, Jules Trehan turns up in a small-town Colorado hospital bed, injured in an explosion that killed her parents. Manny is shocked by the change in the woman he once knew. Kidnapped by a shadowy organization, Jules has been forced to become the very thing he's pledged his life to defeat--a terrorist assassin. Knowing her testimony will finally bring down the organization, Manny races to get her to Washington, D.C. in one piece. Just when there's a glimmer of hope of overcoming her past, Jules must pull off one last job or Manny's life will be forfeit. It's a mission she must complete...even if it means betraying the only man she has ever loved. "Warning, this title contains the following: Explicit sex, adult language, violence."

Download or read book A Promise Of Home A Small Town Romance written by Lani Blake and published by Vella Ink. This book was released on 2021-08-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The town grump and the girl who’s running from her past. War had hollowed Jake McBride out. No longer the town’s favorite son, he just wants to be left alone. The two problems with that are the interfering town folk who knew him when he wore diapers, and Branna O’Donnell, the woman with secrets who has made him feel for the first time in years. Branna came back to the last place she was happy, to forget the hell of her past. But small town life again comes with complications and the biggest has a serious attitude. Jake McBride, is nothing like the boy who was too cool for her in school. This one is hot, grumpy and way too appealing. When Branna’s past comes calling and with it the realization that what they feel for each other is more than lust. Jake’s not sure he can be her hero, but he knows he wants to try. BOOKS IN THE LAKE HOWLING SERIES A Promise Of Home The Texan Meets His Match How Sweet It Is It Only Took You Don't Look Back A Long Way Home Then Came You Faith and the Rock Star

Download or read book How Sweet It Is A Enemies To Lovers Steamy Small Town Romance written by Lani Blake and published by Vella Ink. This book was released on with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enemies to lovers. And dangerously hot buns. Buster Griffin has zero tolerance for idiots. Annoy him and you’re cut from his life. Unless you’re a friend, then you get two strikes. When Willow Harper from New York turns up in his home town of Lake Howling determined to meddle, he’s ready to move her on. The problems starts when her business woman persona sheds and he discovers the sweet, hot mess beneath. Before he knows it, he’s making plans to keep her. Her buns may be way too hot for him to handle! Growing up with hippie parents taught Willow Moonbeam Harper to recycle like a pro and that she hated the transient lifestyle. Uptight and commitment phobic her plan is to work until she gets the security she craves. When she’s offered a promotion she only has to get Buster Griffin’s signature to achieve it. Easy! Not so much! The hot, brooding café owner is not playing ball. It doesn’t take long for her to realize that more than her career is at stake, her heart is on the line too. A boss who demands results, a winter carnival and a whole lot of holiday-crazy join forces to throw Willow and Buster together. Will they both stop fighting their attraction long enough to realize that in fact the secret ingredient is always love?! If you enjoy your small town romance sizzling with a side of crazy then Lake Howling is for you. Meet the real authority in town - the local book club - and remember to check out Mac’s general store! Swim in the ice cold lake, then warm up with a coffee and mystery muffin at The Hoot Café. Plenty of feels and LOL’s that you need to read right now! BOOKS IN THE LAKE HOWLING SERIES A Promise Of Home The Texan Meets His Match How Sweet It Is It Only Took You Don't Look Back A Long Way Home Then Came You Faith and the Rock Star