The Tree Bride
Author: Bharati Mukherjee
Publisher:
Published: 2011-01-05
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9788129117991
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The Tree Bride
Author: Bharati Mukherjee
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788129117991
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Author: Bharati Mukherjee
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2005-08-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780786888665
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →ational Book Critics Circle Award-winner Bharati Mukherjee has long been known not only for her elegant, evocative prose but also for her characters- influenced by ancient customs and traditions but also very much rooted in modern times. In The Tree Bride, the narrator, Tara Chatterjee (whom readers will remember from Desirable Daughters), picks up the story of an East Bengali ancestor. According to legend, at the age of five Tara Lata married a tree and eventually emerged as a nationalist freedom fighter. In piecing together her ancestor's transformation from a docile Bengali Brahmin girl-child into an impassioned organizer of resistance against the British Raj, the contemporary narrator discovers and lays claim to unacknowledged elements in her 'American' identity. Although the story of the Tree Bride is central, the drama surrounding the narrator, a divorced woman trying to get back with her husband, moves the novel back and forth through time and across continents.
Raven's Bride
Author: Elizabeth Crook
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2013-10-02
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 0307833828
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1829, Sam Houston was the thirty-six-year-old governor of Tennessee, a “beautiful…imperious giant genius of a man,” whose political horizons seemed limitless. The marriage of this charismatic, ambitious statesman to twenty-year-old Eliza Allen, the daughter of a prominent landholder, seemed to form the perfect social foundation on which Houston would build his glittering career. But just eleven weeks after the wedding, Eliza suddenly and inexplicably left her new husband, creating a scandal that caused the governor to resign his office in disgrace and embark on an exile that would ultimately deliver him to Texas, and a destiny even grander and more improbable than anyone could have imagined. Through decades of rumor and speculation, Sam Houston and Eliza Allen never revealed the source of their unhappiness, and carried the secret with them to their graves. The Raven’s Bride is a brilliantly original novel that unravels this dark romantic mystery while illuminating a vivid and fascinating moment in America’s past. In these pages, Sam Houston is presented as he must have been—a heroic figure (called the Raven by the Cherokee), vain, flamboyant, magnetic, his outsized personality fueled by a desperate need for love. And Eliza Allen is his match: a prideful, magnificent young woman, both drawn to and disturbed by her husband’s grand aspirations. With the investigative acuity of a historian and the profound empathy of a gifted novelist, Elizabeth Crook has created an enthralling portrait of these star-crossed lovers and the vibrant, restless world that brought them together. Richly detailed and splendidly imagined, The Raven’s Bride turns a baffling historical conundrum into a complex and deeply affecting love story.
The Wildflower Bride
Author: Mary Connealy
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
Published: 2010-05-01
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1607421585
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Welcome to the wilds of Montana, where humor, romance, and suspense ride the range. Glowing Sun, a white woman raised by the Flathead tribe, has vague memories of her former life, including a name—Abby Lind. When she’s forced to sever all links with her adopted Shoshone family, Abby wonders if she’ll ever find a home again. Tenderhearted Wade Sawyer, responsible for Abby’s survival during the village massacre, convinces the knife-wielding woman to return with him to the Sawyer Ranch, never realizing danger lurks behind every corner. Can they survive long enough to fall in love?
The French War Bride
Author: Robin Wells
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 0425282449
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At her retirement home in Wedding Tree, Louisiana, 91 year-old Amelie O'Connor is in the habit of leaving her door open for friends. One day she receives an unexpected visitor - her late husband Jack's ex-fiance. Kat Morgan wants to know the truth behind a story that's haunted her whole life. Finding out how Amelie stole Jack's heart will - she thinks - finally bring her peace. As Amelie recalls the dark days of the Nazi occupation of Paris, The French War Bride reveals how history shapes the courses of our lives, for better or for worse.
The Bride of Almond Tree
Author: Robert Hillman
Publisher: Text Publishing
Published: 2021-07-02
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1925923789
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Runaway Bride
Author: Megan Kelly
Publisher: Mk Books
Published: 2016-12-06
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780988601765
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A RUNAWAY BRIDE Grace Marshall fled the church moments before her ceremony, leaving her twin sister buttoned into the wedding dress. A risky move for a good reason, and now she has to deal with the fallout. She expects the town and her family to be angry, but not this cowboy she just met. Who is he to judge? WITH SECRETS TO HIDE Horse trainer Mike Torres Thompson fabricated new identities for his siblings in order to keep them together after their parents died. Different location, different names, different lives. Once these last two kids are on their feet-and those feet moving out his door, he can pursue his own dream of a ranch for abused horses. Then he meets Grace, and all his carefully-formed plans run away like a mustang. Or a bride. Neither denies their physical attraction, but love? Can the runaway bride and the responsible family man overcome their pasts and learn to trust? Will they be able to take a leap of faith toward a future together? ---------------------------------------------- Author's note: While this is the second book in the series, it can be read at any time as a stand alone. I hope you enjoy them all, in whatever order you read them. WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING ABOUT MEGAN'S BOOKS: THE WEDDING RESCUE, Love in Little Tree Book 1 4 Stars (at the Long and Short Reviews site; 3 stars on Amazon), Long and Short Reviews The Wedding Rescue is a full bodied romance filled with a lot of emotional layers. There's gentle humor, characters that are genuinely likeable, and a few that are not, with good reason. It's a well told romance story that takes the time to explore all the nuances of ranch and community life and shares with a reader all its charm and quirks. 4 Stars, Jeep Diva reviews a slow burn type of romance ... you need to read this one! STAND-IN MOM 4 1/2 Stars, Romantic Times Book Reviews a -charming romance- and -a runaway good read.- 4 1/2 Books from Long and Short Reviews -rich in emotional detail- Voted Book of the Week at LASR Readers 4 Cups from Coffee Time Romance -This is a book you will be glad you took the time to read.- THE MARRIAGE SOLUTION 4 Stars, Romantic Times Book Reviews -a sweet story of love and parenting.- MARRYING THE BOSS 2008 Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Nominee Best First Book
The Liberated Bride
Author: A. B. Yehoshua
Publisher: HMH
Published: 2004-10-04
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 0547541414
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An Israeli professor and an Arab student join forces in a witty novel that “tells a simple story about a region that complicates all it touches” (The New Yorker). Yochanan Rivlin, a professor at Haifa University, is a man of boundless and often naïve curiosity. His wife, Hagit, a district judge, is tolerant of almost everything but her husband’s faults and prevarications. Frequent arguments aside, they are a well-adjusted couple with two grown sons. When one of Rivlin’s students—a young Arab bride from a village in the Galilee—is assigned to help with his research in recent Algerian history, a two-pronged mystery develops. As they probe the causes of the bloody Algerian civil war, Rivlin also becomes obsessed with his son’s failed marriage. Rivlin’s search leads to a number of improbable escapades. In this comedy of manners, at once deeply serious and highly entertaining, Yehoshua brilliantly portrays characters from disparate sectors of Israeli life, united above all by a very human desire for, and fear of, the truth in politics and life.
Up in the Tree
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 0888997299
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Two children who live in a tree don't know what to do when beavers take their ladder, and after rescue comes at the hands of a friend, they find a way to return without worry.
