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 A Home in the Heart of a City written by Kathleen Hirsch and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts her efforts to become a member of the suburban Boston neighborhood where she moved to raise a family, introducing readers to the extraordinary individuals who taught her the meaning of community life in modern America.

Download or read book Hometown Heart written by Kait Nolan and published by Take The Leap Publishing. This book was released on 2024-11-06 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fall in love with three heartwarming tales of second chances, new beginnings, and the unexpected ways that life leads us home. From the misty Scottish Highlands to the charming streets of small-town Mississippi, these stories prove that sometimes losing your way is the surest path to finding your heart. In COWBOY IN A KILT, a Texas rancher trades his boots for a Highland estate—and finds that his most precious inheritance might just be the feisty Scottish lass who comes with it. WHEN YOU GOT A GOOD THING brings Kennedy Reynolds back to the hometown she fled, where old wounds, family secrets, and a love she never forgot await. Can the boy she left behind help her heal the past and build a future? In TO GET ME TO YOU, a high-powered marketing executive finds herself trading power lunches for sweet tea when a fight to save a small Mississippi town leads to an unexpected alliance with a hometown hero who makes her question everything she thought she wanted. Three moving stories of love, family, and finding where you truly belong. Perfect for readers who love small-town charm, heartfelt romance, and characters who remind you of old friends. Welcome home.

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 Her Hometown Heart written by Andrea Boeshaar and published by Pelican Ventures Book Group. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Anderson and Amie Potter are two wounded spirits who are haunted by the past. But, when Amie inherits her uncle's run down gas station--the one Tom helped manage for over a decade--their lives are irrevocably changed. Joining forces, Tom and Amie set out to raze the old filling station and construct a brand new hotel. Maybe along the way, they'll also build a love that will last forever. But will their shadowed pasts interfere with their future happiness? Will Tom and Amie ever truly find a match made in heaven?

Download or read book Hometown Religion written by David M. Luebke and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pluralization of Christian religion was the defining fact of cultural life in sixteenth-century Europe. Everywhere they took root, ideas of evangelical reform disturbed the unity of religious observance on which political community was founded. By the third quarter of the sixteenth century, one or another form of Christianity had emerged as dominant in most territories of the Holy Roman Empire.In Hometown Religion: Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia, David Luebke examines a territory that managed to escape that fate—the prince-bishopric of Münster, a sprawling ecclesiastical principality and the heart of an entire region in which no single form of Christianity dominated. In this confessional "no-man’s-land," a largely peaceable order took shape and survived well into the mid-seventeenth century, a unique situation, which raises several intriguing questions: How did Catholics and Protestants manage to share parishes for so long without religious violence? How did they hold together their communities in the face of religious pluralization? Luebke responds by examining the birth, maturation, old age, and death of a biconfessional "regime"—a system of laws, territorial agreements, customs, and tacit understandings that enabled Roman Catholics and Protestants, Lutherans as well as Calvinists, to cohabit the territory’s parishes for the better part of a century. In revealing how these towns were able to preserve peace and unity—in the Age of Religious Wars— Hometown Religion attests to the power of toleration in the conduct of everyday life.

Download or read book My Hometown written by Abbey Golden and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look back in time of a family of eight children growing up in a small hometown that they have never forgotten. A hometown that will always be a part of who they are and what they have become. It’s a memory that they will always cherish and be proud of. It’s a time they have left behind. A memory that will always be a part of who they are. Anyone without a hometown is welcomed to share in being part of mine. I want you to feel the sense of familiarity, competency, and comfort that a large family will share their most inner feelings with you and make you feel part of them. You will become part of the story that will take you on a journey. An account of real events that shares with you birth, sadness, death of a brother, happiness, and togetherness. A compelling story that at times will anger you, surprise you, and make you laugh. But it’s a story that each one of us eight children lived, and always look back on. The ending will be difficult to predict, surprise you, and comfort your thoughts. Life does not know what your journey will be. Accept each day and honor its beginning and end.

Download or read book Heart written by Grant Howitt and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roleplaying game set in a strange undercity that warps to match your heart's desire.

Download or read book Heart of the City written by Ariel Sabar and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The couples in this book hail from across America and the world. Most don’t live in New York City. Some never did. What mattered to me was that they met there, in one of its iconic public places. Each of the nine stories begins just before that chance meeting—when they are strangers, oblivious to how, in moments, their lives will irrevocably change.” —from the Introduction The handsome Texas sailor who offers dinner to a runaway in Central Park. The Midwestern college girl who stops a cop in Times Square for restaurant advice. The Brooklyn man on a midnight subway who helps a weary tourist find her way to Chinatown. The Columbia University graduate student who encounters an unexpected object of beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A public place in the world’s greatest city. A chance meeting of strangers. A marriage. Heart of the City tells the remarkable true stories of nine ordinary couples—from the 1940s to the present—whose matchmaker was the City of New York. Intrigued by the romance of his own parents, who met in Washington Square Park, award-winning author Ariel Sabar set off on a far-ranging search for other couples who married after first meeting in one of New York City’s iconic public spaces. Sabar conjures their big-city love stories in novel-like detail, drawing us into the hearts of strangers just as their lives are about to change forever. In setting the stage for these surprising, funny, and moving tales, Sabar, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, takes us on a fascinating tour of the psychological research into the importance of place in how—and whether—people meet and fall in love. Heart of the City is a paean to the physical city as matchmaker, a tribute to the power of chance, and an eloquent reminder of why we must care about the design of urban spaces.

Download or read book The Heart of the City written by Alexander Garvin and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Downtowns are more than economic engines: they are repositories of knowledge and culture and generators of new ideas, technology, and ventures. They are the heart of the city that drives its future. If we are to have healthy downtowns, we need to understand what downtown is all about; how and why some American downtowns never stopped thriving (such as San Jose and Houston), some have been in decline for half a century (including Detroit and St. Louis), and still others are resurging after temporary decline (many, including Lower Manhattan and Los Angeles). The downtowns that are prospering are those that more easily adapt to changing needs and lifestyles. In The Heart of the City, distinguished urban planner Alexander Garvin shares lessons on how to plan for a mix of housing, businesses, and attractions; enhance the public realm; improve mobility; and successfully manage downtown services. Garvin opens the book with diagnoses of downtowns across the United States, including the people, businesses, institutions, and public agencies implementing changes. In a review of prescriptions and treatments for any downtown, Garvin shares brief accounts—of both successes and failures—of what individuals with very different objectives have done to change their downtowns. The final chapters look at what is possible for downtowns in the future, closing with suggested national, state, and local legislation to create standard downtown business improvement districts to better manage downtowns. This book will help public officials, civic organizations, downtown business property owners, and people who care about cities learn from successful recent actions in downtowns across the country, and expand opportunities facing their downtown. Garvin provides recommendations for continuing actions to help any downtown thrive, ensuring a prosperous and thrilling future for the 21st-century American city.

Download or read book Her Hometown Hero written by Margaret Daley and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home to a Cowboy In a split second, a tragic accident ends Kathleen Somers's ballet career. Her dreams shattered, she returns home to the Soaring S ranch...and her first love. Suddenly the local veterinarian, Dr. Nate Sterling, goes from her ex to her champion. With the help of a lively poodle therapy dog, the cowboy vet sets out to challenge Kathleen's strength and heal her heart. He'll show her there's life beyond dance, even if it means she leaves town again. But maybe, just maybe, he'll convince her there's only one thing in life worth having...and he's standing right in front of her. Caring Canines: Loving and loyal, these dogs mend hearts.

Download or read book Hometown Human written by Abhijit Naskar and published by Vicdansaadet Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Occupation has no place in a civilized society. It is time Palestine redeemed freedom from Israeli occupation, Scotland from British occupation, and Jammu and Kashmir from Indian occupation." Hometown Human is a work of valor and expansion in our struggle against narrowness, recklessness and human rights violations. In his usual bold and simple words Naskar states: "Power to people doesn't mean power, it means responsibility."

Download or read book Spruce Pine written by David Biddix and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a little piece of Spruce Pine in almost every home and business in America. Known as the Mineral City, Spruce Pine is the hub of mining activity in the mineral-rich Toe River valley, which provides mica, feldspar, and ultra-pure quartz for computer chips and other electronic components. Images of America: Spruce Pine is the story of a town with two main streets that was started by the arrival of the railroad. This volume includes the characters, events, tragedies, triumphs, and memories shared by town residents. From catastrophic fires, ravaging floods, and economic turmoil, to visits by U.S. presidents and the Carolina Barn Dance, it is all right here.

Download or read book Hometown Girl written by Mariah Stewart and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart presents a captivating contemporary romance novel in the tradition of Robyn Carr, Susan Mallery, and Barbara Freethy. Life was always just about perfect for Brooke Madison Bowers. She was the prettiest, most popular girl in small-town St. Dennis, Maryland, a prom queen, local pageant star, and the pride and joy of her loving parents. She even married the man of her dreams. But the promise of happily ever after fell to pieces when her husband was killed while serving in Iraq. Brokenhearted and longing for the solace of better days, she returns to the idyllic world of St. Dennis, and the familiar comfort of the family farm. Surrounded by her loving family and friends, she’s determined to build a new life, complete with her own cupcake bakery. She’s equally determined never to fall in love again. For Jesse Enright, life has been a challenge. A fourth-generation attorney, he’s spent his life fighting to escape the shadow of his irresponsible father. Now he’s moved to St. Dennis to run the family law practice, and he’s ready to find the right girl, get married, and settle down. But his carefully laid plans go out the window when he meets Brooke and finds himself caught between the unbreakable law of attraction and Brooke’s resolve to go her way alone—despite the undeniable feelings Jesse stirs in her. But just like catching lightning in a bottle, is it possible to fall head-over-heels, heart-and-soul in love all over again?

Download or read book Hometown Princess written by Lenora Worth and published by Steeple Hill. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Cari Duncan has ever wanted is family. Yet her late father chose his new young wife's children over Cari. Surprised—and hopeful—when he bequeaths her the old house she grew up in, Cari moves to Knotwood Mountain, Georgia. But she and her stepmother clash the minute she arrives. How can Cari make a fresh start in the small town? The handsome businessman next door, who happens to be the most eligible bachelor, claims to know exactly how. But following Rick Adams's time-tested advice means opening her heart…to faith, family and her very own Prince Charming!

Download or read book Home Town written by Tracy Kidder and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this splendid book, one of America's masters of nonfiction takes us home--into Hometown, U.S.A., the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, and into the extraordinary, and the ordinary, lives that people live there. As Tracy Kidder reveals how, beneath its amiable surface, a small town is a place of startling complexity, he also explores what it takes to make a modern small city a success story. Weaving together compelling stories of individual lives, delving into a rich and varied past, moving among all the levels of Northampton's social hierarchy, Kidder reveals the sheer abundance of life contained within a town's narrow boundaries. Does the kind of small town that many Americans came from, and long for, still exist? Kidder says yes, although not quite in the form we may imagine. A book about civilization in microcosm, Home Town makes us marvel afresh at the wonder of individuality, creativity, and civic order--how a disparate group of individuals can find common cause and a code of values that transforms a place into a home. And this book makes you feel you live there.

Download or read book Hunting a Hometown Killer written by Shelly Bell and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He has a serial killer to catch And she’s the perfect bait FBI Special Agent Rhys Keller’s biggest clue to the identity of the Composer is the music the killer has tattooed on each dead woman. No one knows the tune, until Julia Harcourt recognizes it as a piece she’s written herself. The lovely violinist is also a perfect physical match to all the victims. For the hunt to finally end, Rhys needs Julia to risk everything to catch the killer…before the elusive killer catches her first. From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served. Discover more action-packed stories in the Shield of Honor series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order: Book 1: Hunting a Hometown Killer