Download or read book Don t Forget to Smile Hometown Memories Book 2 written by Kathleen Gilles Seidel and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Oregon's timber country, inside a smoky bar, stands proprietor Tory Duncan. Once a hair's breadth from the Miss America crown, she's still just as beautiful and still searching for happiness. Joe Brigham, a forthright and handsome man from a logging family, divorced, and father of one, regards her with a love deep and pure. But trading in her search for an uncertain future, no matter the joy Joe promises to provide, seems more than Tory can afford. AWARDS: Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Contemporary Romance REVIEWS: "...rich and absorbing... a small-town atmosphere written to absolute perfection." ~Romantic Times "A homey, warm love story." ~Affaire de Coeur "...about families, the ways they push us forward and the ways they hold us back, the ways we make our own families and give back to the families we are born to." ~Dear Author HOMETOWN MEMORIES, in order After All These Years Don't Forget to Smile Till the Stars Fall Again

Download or read book After All These Years Hometown Memories Book 1 written by Kathleen Gilles Seidel and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curry James knows how to cope with being left alone. Still living in the same white farmhouse where she grew up, Curry watched those closest to her leave--her parents by tragic death, her husband to war, and her best friend, Tom, who walked away because he couldn't deal with being left alive. Then one day, without warning, Tom returns. Curry appears as down-to-earth as she ever was, but her survival has come at a cost and now it's up to Tom to help Curry re-open her heart to life's joy. AWARDS: RITA winner, Best Single Title Contemporary Maggie Award of Excellence, Best Mainstream Romance Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Contemporary Romance REVIEWS: "This book abounds with characters that live and breathe and mesmerize the reader." ~Romantic Times "...well-crafted love story that transcends... extremely satisfying... literate, humorous, and insightful... refreshingly original." ~Christine Vogel, Chicago Sun-Times "....the sort of book which I will tout whenever the opportunity arises." Anne McCaffery, author of Dragonriders of Pern HOMETOWN MEMORIES, in order After All These Years Don't Forget to Smile Till the Stars Fall Again

Download or read book Before We Were Strangers written by Renée Carlino and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M

Download or read book Remembrance and Gratitude Book 2 A Selection of Poems and Writings written by Charles F. Meek and published by CCB Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembrance and Gratitude Book 2 is another collection of poems and writings by Charles F. Meek paying tribute to our military veterans as well as many community-minded individuals and organizations of Terrace, British Columbia. From firefighters, civic officials and others who might otherwise go unnoticed, the author expresses appreciation for his ancestry and other like-minded people who have contributed to the betterment of humanity with a smile and a helping hand.

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Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico's fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man's confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth's of Domenico's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.

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