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Author: Lisa Tawn Bergren
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781578562268
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Porch Swings & Picket Fences, some of Christian fiction's most beloved storycrafters present four great American love stories readers will hold dear to their hearts. All four evoke homey, nostalgic feelings and a sense of getting back to the basics with feel-good stories about characters readers will love.
Author: KC Klein
Publisher: Klein Publishing
Published: 2020-07-02
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What readers have been saying about Mi Familia Part I "5++++++++++++++++ stars!!!! Unbelievably well-written!!!!!" "Rarely have I read a book that is THIS enthralling!" "I literally stayed up to finish!!! Each and every word has meaning and purpose…nothing is wasted." "Just WOW!" "Best book I've read in a loooong time." "Mesmerizing!!!!" "YOWZA" "UNPUTDOWNABLE!!!" "This book deserves ten stars!!!" Part I Love is complicated...so is the mob. My life could be every episode of Cops. Kicked out of the trailer by my stripper mother with an angry drug dealer hot on my trail. I'm outta gas and outta money and stuck in a crap-hole bar too close to the Mexican border. Yeah, nothing could go wrong with this picture. But I've gotta plan--hustle money out of the losers at the pool tables or five-finger discount some fat wallets, and then back on the road before anything else in my life implodes. Too late. Meet Jack. Designer jeans. Bulging wallet. Perfect pick-pocket material. Until I follow him into the men's bathroom and learn he's playing his own game. Dark, dangerous, and involved with the mob, Jack's everything I hate...and in this family, I'm the weakness he can't afford to have. Part II Being part of the mob is complicated…but so is staying alive. Jack's missing and I'm the only one who can find him. They think I’m weak. They think I’m young. They think I'm stupid. They aren’t wrong. But I’ve a will of iron and I’m not leaving without him. To find Jack, I'll have to be willing to enter a world where goodness and faith can not exist and sunlight is consumed by the shadows. Where I’ll have to give myself over the cruelty and power and become suspicion itself. And I wonder if my soul is up to the task or if I’ll come back like the very people I’ve been running from my whole life. Part III Being free from the mob is complicated…but so is loving Jack. Jack and Franki are safe for now, but The Familia isn't the only thing keeping them apart. Our barrier is written as plain as the words tattooed beneath the red and beaten skin, the discoloration that has nothing to do with the bruises, but everything to do with the man. That when I read them have a pit forming in my belly. Death before Dishonor Justice before Mercy Vengeance above all Who is this man? Can I trust him? And, in all honesty, do I really want to know? **************************** This is the complete box set of Mi Familia. This book includes part I, II, III. Each part is a full-length contemporary novel from award winning author KC Klein about revenge, survival, and the dark game of love on the wrong side of the law. This is the entire addictive MARRIED TO THE MOB serial. "KC Klein is an author to watch." Rachel Gibson, New York Times Best Selling Author "...twists and mysteries that kept me riveted..." "This book deserves 10 stars!!!!!!" "Absolutely loved it!'!!!!!!"
Author: Victoria Vinton
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Published: 2010-08-20
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 038567337X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A story of the explosive and redemptive powers of the imagination, set during the year Rudyard Kipling lived in Vermont and wrote The Jungle Books. In 1892, at the age of twenty-six, Rudyard Kipling arrived in Vermont virtually penniless, with a newly pregnant wife and the germ of a story about a feral child who was raised by a pack of wolves. Having fled the literary high life in London, he hoped to find a quiet corner in which to raise a family and work, where he might build a sanctuary that could offer him refuge from the scrutiny incurred by his burgeoning fame and the wounds of his own troubled past. From this literary footnote, Victoria Vinton brings to life Kipling’s early years in Bombay, where he lived as the pampered son of a well-connected British family, and explores the repercussions of the abandonment he felt when, at age six, he was severed from his family and sent to live in a foster home in England that he later dubbed “The House of Desolation.” She shows how those experiences formed the basis of his art, how from this cauldron of comfort and pain he wrote The Jungle Books and created his most enduring character, Mowgli. Mixing fact and invention, Vinton parallels Kipling’s story with that of his neighbors, the Connollys, who are forced to question the decisions they have made in the wake of Kipling’s presence in their lives. There is eleven-year-old Joe Connolly, who finds himself drawn to Kipling and his stories, seeing in the adventures of Mowgli a template for his own escape. There is Jack, his father, who views Kipling’s influence over his son as a challenge to his very sense of self. And there is Addie, Jack’s wife, who must embrace and assimilate these changes in order to hold on to her family, confronted by the unsettling power of the imagination.
Author: David Phillips
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2013-02-04
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 1479782173
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Murph is a story about a man whose unthinking actions deeply affect people around him in ways he never imagines. It begins as a small story about self-pity, temptation, and a breakdown of moral and ethical boundaries but grows into an epic accounting of cause and effect that takes place in six countries on three continents, spanning forty years. It is ultimately a compilation of several stories, intertwined by actions and events, built on the intrigue of romance, war, kidnapping, theft, and murder.
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Published: 2012-09-25
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0385674562
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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.
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Published: 2003-11
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region. Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region.
Author: Marjorie U. Conder
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2020-03-19
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 1532095368
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thrust from a university campus into the coal mining country of Eastern Kentucky in the 1950s, the young author faced many challenges. She and her mining engineer husband found themselves foreigners when they arrived; the mountain people, who had been isolated from the rest of the country for several hundred years, were suspicious of strangers. It wasn’t until World War II, only ten years earlier, that the U.S. needed Kentucky coal for the war effort and built roads into the area, bringing electricity and other modern ideas. During their four year stay, the couple experienced shootings, a coal mining tragedy, floods and unfamiliar language, but they also discovered the joys of new friends, caring people, delicious Southern cooking and gorgeous scenery. The author and her husband learned to appreciate the unique qualities of Appalachia and its residents as they grew in understanding of the mountain ways.
Author: Donna Fleisher
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Published: 2009-08-30
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 0310864593
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new home. A new life. To have both, she must outlast a bitter storm. Once Chris fought for her country. Now she’s fighting for her faith. And she’s about to fight for her life. This is no mere storm. It’s a deluge of catastrophic proportions. Swollen by record rains and a ten-inch snowmelt, the Willamette River is hammering Portland, Oregon, with the flood of the century. In Chris McIntyre’s heart, a different kind of flood—a rising torrent of emotions—threatens to sweep her away from the community of Kimberly Square. Her newfound faith keeps her from running. But how can she stay? Her push-the-limits personality may have made her a perfect soldier, but it sets her apart from the people at her church. And it sets her at odds with Scott Mathis, the husband of her closest friend, Erin. Fearing for Erin’s safety, Scott resents his wife’s high-risk friendship with Chris. But when Scott and Chris are forced together to help Kimberly Square residents ride out the storm, a different, equally lethal danger descends on them. Death or redemption rest in the hands of one person—a woman with a warrior’s heart.
Author: Lisa T. Bergren
Publisher: WaterBrook
Published: 2011-02-02
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0307778134
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →BOOK 1 IN THE BEST-SELLING FULL CIRCLE SERIES Will the danger that stalks them destroy their life together before it begins? When Rachel Johanssen dared Beth Morgan to answer a personal ad in The Rancher’s Journal, she never thought her citified friend would become a bona fide rancher’s wife. Now Rachel, too, is falling in love with the glorious valley…as well as with Dirk Tanner, a rugged rancher who makes it his home. Rachel isn’t the only San Franciscan newly drawn to the Elk Horn Valley. Jake Rierdon, son of a San Francisco client, has taken a shine to ranch life too--and to beautiful young Emily Walker. But will threats from the present and the past destroy any chance the couples have to build a future? From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author: Lisa Tawn Bergren
Publisher: WaterBrook
Published: 2012-10-23
Total Pages: 1200
ISBN-13: 0307732045
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Three Historical novels for the price of one in this eBook-e-only omnibus. From the hills of Norway to the coast of Maine, the streets of San Francisco and the Alaskan wilderness, comes this stirring trilogy about a group of Norwegian immigrants whose lives are forever intertwined. Set in the late nineteenth century, The Northern Lights series will captivate historical fiction fans. Lovers of family saga and adventure will be swept into the tender romances, as characters make important journeys toward growth and real faith. The Captain's Bride Leaving their home in Norway behind, Elsa and Peder Ramstad embark on a new life in with their closest friends, including: Kaatje Jansen, a woman seeking a new beginning for the sake of her marriage and for the child growing within her; Elsa's sister Tora, a sly young vixen who knows exactly what she wants--and exactly how to get it; and Karl Martensen, a man torn between his friendship for Peder and a forbidden, secret love for Elsa. Experience an epic saga of perseverance and passion, faith, and fidelity. Deep Harbor Determined to live "the good life," no matter the price, Tora Anders weaves a web of lies that could cost her everything she cares for-including a successful future and the man she loves. Her sister, Elsa Ramstad, has everything her heart desires: a loving husband, a family she adores, and a fulfilling life at sea. Then tragedy strikes. Now, drawing upon her faith and all the strength she can muster, Elsa must once again discover the woman she is and who she chooses to be. Four years after her husband's disappearance, Kaatje Janssen struggles to raise two young daughters and tend her farm. But when help comes from the most unlikely source, Kaatje faces both uncertainty about the future and a deep secret from her past. And after years of grappling with his feelings for Elsa and the mistakes he has made, Karl is caught in a life of loneliness and emptiness. Can he finally accept the reality of what he once lost and open himself up to the possibility of what could be? Separated by physical distance and emotional boundaries, these four bound by friendship and family find each other once again and discover that some ties can never be broken in Deep Harbor. Midnight Sun Desperate to know if her missing husband still lives, Kaatje Janssen hires the rugged, yet tenderhearted, James Walker to guide her through the perils of the Alaskan wilderness. What she finally discovers, however, is far from what she expected...and could well place her in the greatest danger of her life. As captain of the Majestic and mother of Kristian and Eve, Elsa Ramstad has sought to ease the ache of her lonely heart. But when an old friend rekindles the spark of romance within her, will she allow the flames of love to burn again? Her foolish youth behind her, Tora Anders looks forward to her wedding and a fresh start in life as the wife of her beloved, Trent Storm. But first she must confront, face-to-face, the terrible demons of her past--and her struggle to forgive the man who radically altered her future. Though widely admired, Captain Karl Martensen feels no depth of emotion for any of the women with whom his life becomes uncomfortably entangled. He has only tender memories of the love he once lost--a love who, by the grace of God, he may just find again. Witness the glorious conclusion of The Northern Lights Trilogy as four bound by friendship journey out of the shadow of their darkest days into the bright future awaiting them in the land of the Midnight Sun.
