Download or read book The Glasgow Girl at War written by Eileen Ramsay and published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The next heartwarming saga novel from Eileen Ramsay, perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries and Donna Douglas. 1930s Scotland. Growing up in a convent in Glasgow, Ferelith Gallagher dreams of bigger and better things. With no money behind her, and no family to speak of, she travels to Edinburgh to study to be a lawyer - a brave choice for a woman in the 1930s. And when she falls in love with a young fellow student, she thinks she's finally found a home. But after a brief and disastrous marriage, Ferelith swears she is through with love, and buries herself in her studies, striving to become the first female senior advocate in Scottish history. But when she finally meets a man she knows she could be happy with, Ferelith finds herself torn between love and her career. When war breaks out, she knows life will never be the same again . . . Previously published as The Quality of Mercy.

Download or read book The Portal written by DC Hedlund and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More and more people are assaulted by anti-religion and false teachings, yet the Bible has never been proved inaccurate or incorrect. Historians have documented its accuracy from Noah's ark to the miracles performed by Jesus Christ Himself. Titus Flavius Josephus (37 c. 100), also called Joseph ben Matityahu, was a first-century Romano-Jewish historian who wrote of many of the miracles and crucifixion of Jesus. Now you can read the account of a young man, struggling with doubt and faced with a love that he could not run from, traveling through time to search for the man called Jesus.

Download or read book The Story of Naomi written by Zachary Desousa and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Zachary DeSousa takes readers on a unique journey of the life of young girl, named Naomi. The Story of Naomi is a lifelong biography of Naomi, who has six children and lived in about 10 B.C. This is about the time that Mary was expecting her first baby, Jesus. Naomi was there in the Nazareth market where she had seen Mary pregnant with her first baby! She subsequently invited the carpenter Joseph, Mary and Jesus to her daughters wedding at Cana. Naomi has tragic incidents in her life story-and she is very old-when she goes to see Mary and sees her in a vision at the Feast of Assumption! Marry is assumed into heaven!

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Download or read book The Pull of the Moon written by Diane Janes and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the dying mother of a dead friend contacts her wanting answers about his murder, Kate Mayfield, a retired teacher, is forced to relive the events that led to it during the summer of 1972.

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Download or read book A Heritage and its History written by Ivy Compton-Burnett and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1959, A Heritage and its History tells the story of 69 year old Sir Edwin Challoner, and his extended family.Unmarried, and with no direct issue, Challoner's closest relation, and business associate, is his younger brother Hamish.When Hamish dies of a heart condition, his son Simon prepares to take over as head of the house, as everyone assumes that Sir Edwin will also die in a matter of months. However, Sir Edwin surprises everyone by announcing his marriage to Rhoda, his neighbour, also more than 40 years his junior.Following the return from their honeymoon, Rhoda succumbs to a moment of unbridled passion with Simon, her new husband's nephew.When Rhoda falls pregnant, there is no question who has fathered the child. A Heritage and its History gets right to the heart of this family as it splits into factions, growing increasingly bitter and resentful.The reader watches on in amazement as two families become more and more entangled, and the path to the inheritance of this once great house and title becomes ever more twisted.Sooner or later, the secret must come out...

Download or read book As The Grapes Ripen written by Lisa Hou and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia is ultimately the tale of a woman who fights to achieve her identity between Japan, Taiwan, and US. Who is she? Japanese ? Chinese ? or a Russian SPY?.....LH Asian Magazine 13 years ago I met Ms. Hou at a birthday party for Russia’s head of security. I witnessed that people were quite enamored with her dynamic personality, her articles are always sharp, and her pen writes powerful views of politics and economics…...Dr. Igor Ratnere –PHD-Moscow Institute of Technology Ms. Hou has been working with me on many cases, she is very sensitive and intelligent, she comes from an Asian culture and living half of her life in the western world, her writing ingredients will be incredibly remarkable……Thomas La Lanne - SF Lawyer I met Ms. Hou 25 years ago, when I was the editor for the US-World Journal (newspaper in US and Taiwan), she is a great writer, she was a student and prohibited from working as a foreign student in US. She wrote two long novels and 38 articles for us. She has a dynamic pen, she is talented. Her first new book published in Taiwan on Oct, 2015, the book has a profound description of love in the whole range of modern literature……Dr. Chang; the first PHD of Chinese literature in Taiwan, she has been a professor at three Universities.

Download or read book An Appalachian Summer written by Ann H. Gabhart and published by Revell. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1933 Louisville, Kentucky, even the ongoing economic depression cannot keep Piper Danson's parents from insisting on a debut party. After all, their fortune came through the market crash intact, and they've picked out the perfect suitor for their daughter. Braxton Crandall can give her the kind of life she's used to. The only problem? This is not the man--or the life--she really wants. When Piper gets the opportunity to volunteer as a horseback Frontier Nursing courier in the Appalachian Mountains for the summer, she jumps at the chance to be something other than a dutiful daughter or a kept wife in a loveless marriage. The work is taxing, the scenery jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and the people she meets along the way open up a whole new world to her. The longer she stays, the more an advantageous marriage slips from her grasp. But something much more precious--true love--is drawing ever closer. Bestselling author Ann H. Gabhart invites you into the storied hills of Eastern Kentucky to discover what happens when one intrepid young woman steps away from the restrictive past into a beautiful, wide-open future.

Download or read book Eastern Frontz Pt I written by Danny Ni and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Danny Ni, who's unlike your typical Asian kid, his family owns a restaurant within the toughest parts of New York. As he realizes his coming of age, he worries about his future....but that's not the only thing he'll need to worry about...for a strange and powerful force is coming his way, not only it changes his life...but also the course American history!

Download or read book The Runaway Summer written by Nina Bawden and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deeply unhappy at the recent divorce of her parents, Mary is sent away to live by the sea with her distant grandfather and the detestable Aunt Alice. Feeling abandoned, without even the company of her beloved pet cat Noakes, the summer looks set to become one long stretch of unendurable loneliness. But suddenly she is dragged, half unwittingly, into a situation that will force her to come to the aid of others more vulnerable than herself. So begins her runaway summer, as she sets about helping Simon, the son of a local policeman, and a young illegal immigrant boy arrived from Kenya, frightened and all alone. The Runaway Summer was first published in 1969 to typically universal acclaim. It is, in the words of the Times Educational Supplement, an 'unputdownable gem of a book. The tale is beautifully constructed in diamond-hard language.'

Download or read book Simon Thorn and the Wolf s Den written by Aimée Carter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Simon Thorn's life has never been normal--especially since he's been keeping a big secret: he can talk to animals. But when his mom is suddenly kidnapped by a herd of New York City rats, Simon finds out that he, his mom, and his uncle are all Animalgams--someone born with the ability to change into an animal at will--and suddenly talking to animals doesn't seem so crazy after all. In search of his mom, Simon discovers that Animalgams belong to an ancient world made up of Five Animal Kingdoms (Mammals, Birds, Insects, Reptiles, and Underwater) which are now under attack . . . and Simon just may be the only one who can save them all. Imaginative and vivid with themes of bravery, loyalty, and finding one's true self, this exciting, five-book adventure series is perfect for fans of the Spirit Animals and The School of Good and Evil series.

Download or read book Lainey of the Door Islands written by Judy DuCharme and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walk with Lainey into the world of Door County and its islands in the late 1800s. A time of shipwrecks, lighthouses, and strong people that never give up. Lighthouse keepers risk their lives every day to save others and protect those on ships on the Great Lakes. But for Lainey, life on tiny Pilot Island is a hard place for summer vacation—Aunt Edith is always making her do chores and fussing at her. And Uncle Otis needs a lot of help to man the lighthouse. When disaster hits, Lainey must find the courage and strength of those who make their lives on these treacherous islands. With humor, faith, close friendships, and a young man who interferes with her ability to think, Lainey becomes a shining light of spunk and grace. Lainey of the Door Islands will touch your heart and show you that even in what feels like the worst circumstances, God has a plan to prosper and not to harm.

Download or read book Montana Match written by Carol Ross and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanksgiving in Montana Is about family—and love! Thanksgiving is the perfect time for Fiona Harrison to turn her life around. And she is sure finding a suitable husband will please her newfound family in Montana. When a dating app sends her every dud in town, handsome bartender Simon Clarke offers to be her matchmaker. If only Simon fit her criteria… Learning the truth about the twinkle-eyed charmer could change everything—but for better or worse? USA TODAY Bestselling Author From Harlequin Heartwarming: Wholesome stories of love, compassion and belonging. The Blackwell Sisters Book 1: Montana Welcome by Melinda Curtis Book 2: Montana Wishes by Amy Vastine Book 3: Montana Dreams by Anna J. Stewart Book 4: Montana Match by Carol Ross Book 5: Montana Wedding by Cari Lynn Webb

Download or read book The Forgotten Prophecy written by Ray Lecara, Jr. and published by THE FORGOTTEN PROPHECY. This book was released on 2006-05-12 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A soon-to-be father finds himself distracted from his obligations just when his wife needs him most. Still grief stricken over the murder of his uncle and tormented by dreams he doesn't understand, Simon seeks the answer to his problems--an answer that will test his faith in ways he never dreamed.