Download or read book Hometown Love written by christina tetreault and published by Christina Tetreault. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neither was looking for love. Everyone in North Salem thinks they know Jessie Quinn. She is the town’s quintessential girl next door. The woman you can always turn to when you need a helping hand. Nobody knows that she’s spent years overcoming the emotional scars left by her last boyfriend. As a single dad and task force officer with the FBI, Mack Ellsbury moves back to North Salem to be closer to his family, not to find love. Then Jessie Quinn returns to his life. Soon Mack no longer sees Jessie as the quiet girl he once tutored in high school but rather the woman he is falling in love with. Mack’s love helps Jessie erase the scars she’s carried around for so long, but when his ex-wife decides she wants reconciliation, their relationship is put in jeopardy. Hometown Love is the second book in USA Today Best Selling Author Christina Tetreault’s Love On The North Shore Series. While it can easily be read as a standalone story, you'll likely enjoy reading the other books, too.
Download or read book Hometown Love Anthology written by Multiple Authors and published by Phoenix Voices Publishing. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the charming world of small-town romance. An enchanting anthology that transports readers to a place where love blossoms amidst the backdrop of tight-knit communities and picturesque settings. This collection of heartwarming stories is a delightful celebration of love, friendship, and second chances. Donuts, Books, and Jocks by Carol Cassada Ethan Galloway decides to tell his friend Daisy Foster he loves her during their school reunion. But the moment is interrupted when the town’s most famous resident, basketball player Brock Tate arrives. Brock proves to be competition for Daisy’s heart and Ethan’s chance at love might be squashed. Love Blossoms by Ireland Lorelei Everybody knows everybody in Cloverdale, and it’s how locals like it. When big city transplant, Emma, arrives in town to help run her aunt's struggling diner, it’s clear to her that small-town life is not as idyllic as she thought. The locals are skeptical of outsiders, and the diner is barely staying afloat, but nothing can deter Emma. Jack, a local farmer, is going through a rough patch, too. They join forces to save the dine and the farm, and find themselves growing closer and closer despite his family’s resistance to an outsider and the call of the city. How are they going to make it work, when small town pressure and family expectations are stacked against them? MacKade Thou shalt not steal. Oh, but Florence had, and would do so one last time. Ten pieces her grandfather painted for her because he loved her. Ten pieces her mother lost, along with anything else, for loving the wrong man. She’d be damned if she’d give up those paintings. Easy and genuine, Rhett loves his life–his family, his market, his town. Then he meets a British woman with grey eyes and a cute little smile. The thing is, to love her is easy, but can he trust her? When Rhett uncovers her agenda, Flo knows she will lose the man she loves, or what she’d been fighting for years. Which road will she choose, knowing either will shatter her heart?
Download or read book Hometown Love A Bliss Bundle written by Rachel Harris and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **For a limited time only!** Three novels that prove love can always be found right at home There’s nothing quite like the comfort and serenity of returning home again, especially when combined with the sizzle and excitement of finding true love. This limited-edition contemporary romance boxed set from Entangled’s Bliss line features three fun and flirty small-town stories sure to make you laugh, sigh, and smile long after you’ve turned the last page. Taste the Heat by Rachel Harris: Colby Robicheaux knows her brother’s best friend—delectable fire captain Jason Landry—is off-limits, and anyway, she’s only back home for a short time. Jason’s looking for someone to help him raise his preteen daughter, not a fling, but Colby’s all grown up and tempting as ever. Playing at Love by Ophelia London: When Tess Johansson’s music program gets pitted against Jack Marshall’s football program in a battle for funding, she knows only one of them can win. Jack might be the summer love she never forgot, but her job means everything to her. Competing against the enemy was never quite this much fun. Lucky Break by Kelley Vitollo: Sydney Williams might have come home to her small town of Shamrock Falls, but it’ll take more than that to rekindle a broken friendship with her childhood best friend, Kade Mitchell. When friendship turns to sparks turns to more, will Kade be able to convince his best friend to gamble on forever?
Download or read book Hometown Family written by Mia Ross and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since when is prodigal son Matt Sawyer a small-town farmer surrounded by kin? Since the terms of his late father's will demand he stay in Harland, North Carolina. Terms that attorney and hometown gal Caty McKenzie has to ensure are carried out. Matt left Harland years ago and never looked back. But running a farm and spending time with Caty brings out a caring, faithful side of Matt that he didn't know existed. And Matt's soon to discover the real challenge: convincing love-shy Caty to stay right there with him."--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Hometown Healing written by Jennifer Slattery and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A smalltown Texas dinner theater sets the stage for a heartwarming reunion in this delightful Christian romance. When Paige Cordell left Sage Creek, Texas, she had no intention of ever coming back. Even when her life in Chicago comes apart at the seams, she insists that her return is only temporary. But now that she’s here—divorced, unemployed, and with a baby in tow—Paige needs to earn enough money to leave. And her only option is working at her first love’s dinner theater. With attraction once again unfurling between her and Jed Gilbertson, can the man who once broke her heart convince her to stay for good?
Download or read book Dragon s Hometown written by Hongyou Dong and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl longs to return to the island in China where she was born to look for dragons. One day, her dream comes true when her family returns to celebrate Chinese New Year. The girl helps her grandparents prepare for the holiday. She assists her grandmother in making tangyuan, a tasty desert, and she watches as her grandfather paints a dragon costume. The girl joins in on the big holiday parade, then waits for nightfall when her family's lotus-shaped lanterns can be released into the water. Her grandfather explains how the fish jump over the lanterns to become dragons, and why she is called Little Dragon Girl.
Download or read book Hometown written by Wendy Rich Stetson and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2021-08-11 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Tessa's big-city plans take the A Train to disaster, she lands in her sleepy hometown, smack in the middle of the most unlikely love triangle ever to hit Pennsylvania's Amish Country. Hot-shot Dr. Richard Bruce is bound to Green Ridge by loyalty that runs deep. Deeper still is Jonas Rishel's tie to the land and his family's Amish community. Behind the wheel of a 1979 camper van, Tessa idles at a fork in the road. Will she cruise the superhighway to the future? Or take a slow trot to the past and a mysterious society she never dreamed she'd glimpse from the inside?
Download or read book Otterly Scorched written by Tara Sivec and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been a lot of years and another lifetime since Dax Trevino was a playboy detective for the Franklin Police Department. He's been through hell and back, and now he just wants to be left alone, so he can cuddle his otters.When two of his babies are kidnapped in the middle of the night, and Claws and Effect Pet Detectives are called to the rescue, quiet, broody Dax never expects to be tackled and handcuffed by the only woman he ever regretted being a douchebag to all those years ago.Harley Blake has spent her entire life taking care of her accident-prone father with a fondness for dead animals, and her forty-year-old brother who refuses to grow up. The last thing she needs is another complication in her life, and Detective Douchebag is at the top of the list.Dax might not be a cop anymore, and he might have outgrown his one-and-done player status, but that doesn't mean she's going to get burned a second time and fall for his charms. The infuriating man already branded a mark on her heart years ago, making sure she'd never forget him. Besides, she has a case to solve for the guy, and this is just business.But the sarcasm starts flying, there are a gaggle of adorable otters who need to be cuddled, a Bandit Von Trash Panda who just wants to play poker, pot brownies, and squirrels dressed for a wedding... at a funeral. Things are heating up-and not just from the small tree fire after the grenade went off-and this man is suddenly simplifying her life instead of making it worse.Harley knows she won't escape this time without being Otterly Scorched.
Download or read book Mommy s Hometown written by Hope Lim and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young boy and his mother travel overseas to her childhood home in Korea, the town is not as he imagined. Will he be able to see it the way Mommy does? This gentle, contemplative picture book about family origins invites us to ponder the meaning of home. A young boy loves listening to his mother describe the place where she grew up, a world of tall mountains and friends splashing together in the river. Mommy’s stories have let the boy visit her homeland in his thoughts and dreams, and now he’s old enough to travel with her to see it for himself. But when mother and son arrive, the town is not as he imagined. Skyscrapers block the mountains, and crowds hurry past. The boy feels like an outsider—until they visit the river where his mother used to play, and he sees that the spirit and happiness of those days remain. Sensitively pitched to a child’s-eye view, this vivid story honors the immigrant experience and the timeless bond between parent and child, past and present.
Download or read book Hometown Legend written by Jerry B. Jenkins and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athens City, Alabama, is a town that lost its heart the day the high school football team lost the state championship and suffered a tragedy. Since that night, the town that once enjoyed superstar status has fallen on hard times. Now, years later, the former coach returns to head up one final season aided by a local who tells the story with a fresh voice. Together, they fight Goliath and learn that love and reconciliation are more important than winning ever could be.
Download or read book The Simple Life written by Tara Sivec and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooklyn Manning thought her life was perfect in every way until it crumbled down around her and turned into a dumpster fire. With her pride wounded and her tail tucked between her legs, she leaves New York and goes back to her tiny hometown of White Timber, Montana. No more twenty-four-hour taco trucks, no more shopping at the best designer stores within walking distance, no more giving taxi drivers the finger when they angrily honk at her. She didn't think it could get any worse. But then Clint Hastings walked into the room and insulted her. Her arch nemesis from high school is no longer a nerdy computer whiz, masturbating to pictures in PC World magazine in his free time (allegedly). He's grown up to be a hot-as-hell cowboy, and she has no other choice but to be a smart ass right back to him. After all, it's what they do. It's what they've always done, and twelve years apart hasn't changed anything. Only this time, getting under each other's skin is a hell of a lot more fun than it used to be.
Download or read book Hometown Texas written by and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown and Holley are interested in place and what makes people who they are. With particular interest in how people take the hand they’ve been dealt—fate, family, circumstance, luck—and craft a life for themselves, the authors celebrate the grit and gumption of these Texas originals. Introducing quirky characters and tenacious spirits, Holley’s stories seek out the personality of the small town while Brown’s photographs capture the essence of a changing landscape. Hometown Texas aims not to be nostalgic or sentimental but rather to show readers an unknown Texas—one that, while not vanishing, is certainly on the wane. Organized into five topographical, geographic, and cultural sections—East, West, North, South, and Central—three dozen stories and more than eighty complementary images work to create a parallel narrative to reveal what Brown has described as the “collective, various, remarkably complex soul that makes Texas unique.” Hometown Texas is an exploration across miles and cultures, of well-traveled roads and forgotten byways, deep into the heart of Texas.
Download or read book The Little Way of Ruthie Leming written by Rod Dreher and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Way of Ruthie Leming follows Rod Dreher, a Philadelphia journalist, back to his hometown of St. Francisville, Louisiana (pop. 1,700) in the wake of his younger sister Ruthie's death. When she was diagnosed at age 40 with a virulent form of cancer in 2010, Dreher was moved by the way the community he had left behind rallied around his dying sister, a schoolteacher. He was also struck by the grace and courage with which his sister dealt with the disease that eventually took her life. In Louisiana for Ruthie's funeral in the fall of 2011, Dreher began to wonder whether the ordinary life Ruthie led in their country town was in fact a path of hidden grandeur, even spiritual greatness, concealed within the modest life of a mother and teacher. In order to explore this revelation, Dreher and his wife decided to leave Philadelphia, move home to help with family responsibilities and have their three children grow up amidst the rituals that had defined his family for five generations-Mardi Gras, L.S.U. football games, and deer hunting. As David Brooks poignantly described Dreher's journey homeward in a recent New York Times column, Dreher and his wife Julie "decided to accept the limitations of small-town life in exchange for the privilege of being part of a community."
Download or read book Just My Type written by Tara Sivec and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Live in the best small town in the world? Check.Have the greatest job ever working on my family's pumpkin farm? Check.Marry the town pharmacist and have a nice, quiet life with our son? Check-check."Oh, I'm sorry. Did you say you were happy? LOLOLOLOL!" ~ LifeEmber Hastings never thought she'd be dragged away from White Timber and everything she loved, thrust in the middle of a big city she hated, or have her husband of nine years say, "I can't do this anymore," all within the span of three months, yet here she is.She misses her family, she misses the farm, and she misses having a backbone and caring whether or not the stain on her shirt is chocolate or shit. She works from home doing transcription. Does she really need to shower or leave the house?Baker Matthews has been bringing everyone down lately with his grouchy attitude. His job is stressful, and sometimes depressing, but he wouldn't change anything about it. When a glitch with the transcription company he's using mistakenly sends him notes he wasn't supposed to see, Baker finds himself laughing out loud for the first time in months.He's never met a woman who says whatever she's thinking and doesn't fawn all over him when she finds out what he does for a living. Until Ember Hastings comes barreling into his life, calling him Shit Mouth and asking if he has any balls.But she wants to keep this professional. She made him pinky swear, and you don't mess around with pinky swears. Baker will have to get creative if he wants to prove to Ember that he's just her type.
Download or read book The Power of Myth written by Joseph Campbell and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary book that reveals how the themes and symbols of ancient narratives continue to bring meaning to birth, death, love, and war. The Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people—including Star Wars creator George Lucas. To Campbell, mythology was the “song of the universe, the music of the spheres.” With Bill Moyers, one of America’s most prominent journalists, as his thoughtful and engaging interviewer, The Power of Myth touches on subjects from modern marriage to virgin births, from Jesus to John Lennon, offering a brilliant combination of intelligence and wit. From stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome to traditions of Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity, a broad array of themes are considered that together identify the universality of human experience across time and culture. An impeccable match of interviewer and subject, a timeless distillation of Campbell’s work, The Power of Myth continues to exert a profound influence on our culture.
Download or read book Hometown Hope written by Laurel Blount and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To help his daughter heal, a widower gets close to a local bookstore owner in this wholesome Christian romance set in smalltown Georgia. Since his wife’s death three years ago, life hasn’t been easy for widower Hoyt Bradley. His own grief would be enough to handle, but his young daughter Jess hasn’t even spoke since the funeral . . . until she suddenly begs him to save her favorite bookstore from closing. Hoyt is desperate to hear his daughter’s voice again, but he and the bookstore’s pretty owner, Anna Delaney, share a less-than-friendly past. Working together is complicated enough . . . but can they avoid falling in love?
Download or read book Hometown Victory written by Keanon Lowe and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's Hometown Victory when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a 23-game losing streak. Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers when his childhood friend and former high school teammate suddenly died from an opioid overdose. Keanon dropped everything––including the plum NFL job he had been working towards since childhood––leading him to a position as football coach at a struggling high school back in his hometown. At the time, Parkrose High School was in the middle of a 23-game losing streak--they were the ultimate underdogs. In many ways, the road to Parkrose was paved by Keanon's life-defining experiences––from a childhood spent dodging racist bullies and finding the support and mentorship he craved on the football team, to an NFL season where he worked closely with Colin Kaepernick as he evolved his sideline protest. Keanon was drawn to the young men on the Parkrose team, and to the school itself. After two years, he pushed them to become conference champions, mentoring countless players along the way. But still, there was that nagging sense that his calling wasn't meant to stop there. He was at that school for a reason. In May 2019, he got his answer when a 19-year-old student entered a Parkrose classroom with a trench coat and shotgun. Keanon disarmed him and pulled the boy into a hug, telling him he cared. In the boy, Keanon saw himself, and the young men he grew up with or mentored along the way––and weren't so many of them just looking for acceptance, for comfort, for love? With the heart of favorite football classics––The Blindside, Friday Night Lights, Remember the Titans––Keanon’s journey at Parkrose is the true account of a life spent striving forward, even when faced with the unimaginable. Hometown Victory is a story about gratitude, service, and most of all, hope.
