Author: Ivy Layne Publisher: ISBN: 9781947567092 Category : Languages : en Pages : 416
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Griffen What happens when the only person you ever trusted betrays you? Hope Daniels was my friend. My confidant. Right up until the day she stabbed me in the back and cost me everything. My family. My fortune. My legacy. Now my father's been murdered and his will might be the death of me. It wasn't enough to banish me fifteen years ago. Even dead, he cant resist twisting the knife. He'll give me back everything I lost, everything he stole... if I marry Hope. To make matters worse, the fate of the town rests in my hands. My siblings hate me, the family estate is falling apart, and my father's murderer is still out there. My only ally is Hope, the one person I know I can't trust. Except this Hope is different from the girl I knew. For one thing, she's not a girl any more. She's a woman. I want to hate her. I absolutely don't want to want her. But I do. Stolen Heart is a standalone romance with a happy ending. It's first in The Hearts of Sawyers Bend series, featuring the Sawyer family of Sawyers Bend.
Author: S. A. Ghandi Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency ISBN: 1618979132 Category : Languages : en Pages : 139
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Stolen My Heart: The Thrill of Falling in Love and the Tragedy of Heartbreak is aimed especially at young adults. It is a story of love, romance, and heartbreak. It also tells how the lessons learned could inspire others. Says Rev. S. A. Ghandi, “This book is a true-life experience that I had with girls in my life. It is the journey of my love life, my pursuit of destiny, and the girl of my dreams. From one disappointment to the other, I never ceased to learn the great lessons of life in all of my predicaments and heartbreaks with these girls. It was the memories, the regrets, and the pains in retrospect I held over the years that led me to write this love tale.” Stolen My Heart is a true-life experience showing the thrill of falling in love, as well as the tragedy of heartbreak that author S. A. Ghandi experienced with girls throughout his life. It is a tale of the good, the bad, and the ugly sides of his love life. It includes the lessons he learned in retrospect from his heartbreaks and how he was able to deal with them. He says, “It has taught me never to give up on love. It has taught me to always embrace love and women. It has taught me more about love, tenderness, tolerance, compatibility and mutual understanding with the opposite sex.” While others may break down after their heart is broken, Ghandi had been able to turn his misfortune into an equivalent advantage for good, not succumbing to the destruction of his emotions for love and the pursuit of destiny. This book is written specially for those who have ever been in the mud and tasted the bitterness of love to find a stream of motivation and healing, one that flows from every hurt on every page. The author adds, “Every experience that I had with these girls has never left me the same. It has made me a better person. While the experience of heartbreak makes some people be more resentful towards love and women, it has taught me to be otherwise.”
Author: Candace Camp Publisher: HQN Books ISBN: 1488058725 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 373
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A tale of danger, suspicion, and desire in Regency England by the New York Times–bestselling “consummate storyteller” (RT Book Reviews). Lord Thorpe’s new business partner is not what he expected. With her billowy black hair and creamy skin, Alexandra Ward is stunningly beautiful, brashly outspoken . . . and the perfect image of a wealthy woman long thought dead. Straight from America, Alexandra finds London fraught with danger. Her appearance on Thorpe’s arm sends shock rippling through society and arouses hushed whispers: is she a schemer in search of a dead woman’s fortune, or an innocent caught up in circumstances that she doesn’t understand? Someone knows the truth, someone who doesn’t want Alexandra to live long enough to learn anything. Only Lord Thorpe can help her now—if he can overcome his own suspicions . . .
Author: Patsy Heymans Publisher: Grand Central Pub ISBN: 9780446520065 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 416
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Recounts the true story of a mother's six-and-a-half year effort to rescue her children from their father, an Israeli extremist who kidnapped them
Author: Vidya Dehejia Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691253064 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 337
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The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India’s Chola dynasty in social context From the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence. During festivals, these bronze sculptures—including Shiva, referred to in a saintly vision as “the thief who stole my heart”—were adorned with jewels and flowers and paraded through towns as active participants in Chola worship. In this richly illustrated book, leading art historian Vidya Dehejia introduces the bronzes within the full context of Chola history, culture, and religion. In doing so, she brings the bronzes and Chola society to life before our very eyes. Dehejia presents the bronzes as material objects that interacted in meaningful ways with the people and practices of their era. Describing the role of the statues in everyday activities, she reveals not only the importance of the bronzes for the empire, but also little-known facets of Chola life. She considers the source of the copper and jewels used for the deities, proposing that the need for such resources may have influenced the Chola empire’s political engagement with Sri Lanka. She also investigates the role of women patrons in bronze commissions and discusses the vast public records, many appearing here in translation for the first time, inscribed on temple walls. From the Cholas’ religious customs to their agriculture, politics, and even food, The Thief Who Stole My Heart offers an expansive and complete immersion in a community still accessible to us through its exquisite sacred art. Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.
Author: Amanda Cabot Publisher: Revell ISBN: 1493406000 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 352
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From afar, Cimarron Creek seems like an idyllic town tucked in the Texas Hill Country. But when former schoolteacher Lydia Crawford steps onto its dusty streets in 1880, she finds a town with a deep-seated resentment of Northerners--like her. Lydia won't let that get her down, though. All will be well when she's reunited with her fiancé. But when she discovers he has disappeared--and that he left behind a pregnant wife--Lydia is at a loss about what to do next. The handsome sheriff urges her to trust him, but can she trust anyone in this town where secrets are as prevalent as bluebonnets in spring? Bestselling author Amanda Cabot invites readers back into Texas's storied past to experience love and adventure against a backdrop of tension and mystery in this first book in a brand-new series.
Author: Lauren Kelly Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061752916 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 278
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From Lauren Kelly, "a writer of formidable talent" (Scott Turow), comes the page-turning story of Merilee Graf, whose past and present mysteries converge in a revelation too painful, and too shocking, for her to accept. Sixteen years ago, a vivacious fifth-grade classmate of Merilee Graf was abducted from a park in Mt. Olive, New York. Haunted by the memory of the eleven-year-old "gypsy-looking" girl whose disappearance has never been explained, Merilee returns home to keep a vigil at the bedside of her dying father, a prosperous importer of exotic goods and a former, popular mayor of the upstate New York town on the Chautauqua River. After Mr. Graf's death, Merilee finds herself an "heiress" in more ways than one as she becomes involved, with both dread and fascination, with two very different men from her Mt. Olive past -- the elusive older brother of her missing classmate and her own seductive "Uncle Jedah," executor of her father's estate. Past and present mysteries converge in a revelation too painful, and too shocking, for Merilee to accept, and in a sudden act of reckless courage she frees herself of the terrifying obsessions of the past.
Author: Ivy Layne
Author: S. A. Ghandi
Author: Candace Camp
Author: Patsy Heymans
Author: Vidya Dehejia
Author: Amanda Cabot
Author: Lauren Kelly
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