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Leonardo

A Biographical Novel

By: Curtis Bill Pepper

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Leonardo

A Biographical Novel

By: Curtis Bill Pepper

This compelling novel takes the reader into the tumultuous period of the Renaissance and the origins of Leonardo da Vinci, the bastard child of a notary. Of da Vinci, the eminent art historian Kenneth Clark wrote, “no more complex and mysterious character ever existed than this Hamlet of art history.” Clark noted that one had to be “familiar with all of Leonardo’s writings in their chronological order (and) the state of learning in the Renaissance to judge Leonardo’s progress in relation to that of his contemporaries.”This compelling novel takes the reader into the tumultuous period of the Renaissance and the origins of Leonardo da Vinci, the bastard child of a notary. Of da Vinci, the eminent art historian Kenneth Clark wrote, “no more complex and mysterious character ever existed than this Hamlet of art history.” Clark noted that one had to be “familiar with all of Leonardo’s writings in their chronological order (and) the state of learning in the Renaissance to judge Leonardo’s progress in relation to that of his contemporaries.”

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0911469370

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9780911469370

A Generous Vision

The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning

By: Cathy Curtis

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A Generous Vision

The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning

By: Cathy Curtis

The first biography of Elaine de Kooning, A Generous Vision portrays a woman whose intelligence, droll sense of humor, and generosity of spirit endeared her to friends and gave her a starring role in the close-knit world of New York artists. Her zest for adventure and freewheeling spending were as legendary as her ever-present cigarette. Flamboyant and witty in person, she was an incisive art writer who expressed maverick opinions in a deceptively casual style. As a painter, she melded Abstract Expressionism with a lifelong interest in bodily movement to capture subjects as diverse as President John F. Kennedy, basketball players, and bullfights. In her romantic life, she went her own way, always keen for male attention. But she credited her husband, Willem de Kooning, as her greatest influence; rather than being overshadowed by his fame, she worked "in his light." Nearly two decades after their separation, after finally embracing sobriety herself, she returned to his side to rescue him from severe alcoholism. Based on painstaking research and dozens of interviews, A Generous Vision brings to life a leading figure of twentieth-century art who lived a full and fascinating life on her own terms.

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Oxford University Press

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0190498498

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9780190498498

Easy Listening and Film Scoring 1948-78

By: Jack Curtis Dubowsky

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Easy Listening and Film Scoring 1948-78

By: Jack Curtis Dubowsky

Composers, arrangers, conductors, session musicians, and executives worked in easy listening and scoring, complicating an academic focus that lionizes film music while ignoring or deriding easy listening. This book documents easy listening’s connections with film music, an aspect overlooked in academic and popular literature. Fueled by the rise of the LP and home entertainment, easy listening became the largest midcentury commercial music market, generating more actual income for the record business than 7- inch singles. Easy listening roped in subgenres including classical, baroque, jazz, Latin, Polynesian, "exotica," rock, Broadway, and R&B, appropriated and reinterpreted just as they were for cinema. Easy listening provided opportunities in orchestral music for conservatory- trained composers. Major film composers such as Henry Mancini and Michel Legrand had a prodigious output of easy listening albums. Critics fault easy listening for structural racisms, overlooking its evolution and practitioners. Easy listening helped destabilize a tripartite record business that categorized product as race records, old time records, or general popular music. Charlie Parker’s with Strings records altered the direction of jazz, profoundly influencing other performers, encouraging bold crosspollinations, and making money. The influence of technology and historical contexts of music for work and leisure are explored. Original interviews and primary sources will fascinate scholars, historians, and students of cinema, television, film scoring, and midcentury popular music.

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Routledge

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0429997671

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9780429997679

Rock Eras

Interpretations of Music and Society, 1954-1984

By: James M. Curtis

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Rock Eras

Interpretations of Music and Society, 1954-1984

By: James M. Curtis

From 1954 to 1984, the media made rock n’ roll an international language. In this era of rapidly changing technology, styles and culture changed dramatically, too. In the 1950s, wild-eyed Southern boys burst into national consciousness on 45 rpm records, and then 1960s British rockers made the transition from 45s to LPs. By the 1970s, rockers were competing with television, and soon MTV made obsolete the music-only formats that had first popularized rock n’ roll. Paper is temporarily out of stock, Cloth (0-87972-368-8) is available at the paper price until further notice.

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Popular Press

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0879723696

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9780879723699

One Percent Devils and Their Satanic Tools

By: Curtis Alan Woods, JD, MSAJ, BA

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One Percent Devils and Their Satanic Tools

By: Curtis Alan Woods, JD, MSAJ, BA

One Percent Devils and Their Satanic Tools by Curtis Alan Woods, JD, MSAJ, BA One Percent Devils and Their Satanic Tools addresses the rampant moral crisis in a dozen professions. Moral politicians, religious leaders, news media and economists are allowing One Percent Devils and their Satanic Tools (Republican politicians, preachers and the press) to gradually eliminate and replace democracy, moral capitalism, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution with an Anglo-Saxon new world order that would be as tyrannical and immoral as Nazi and atheistic communist orders. Satanic Tools disrespect, suppress, and bully anyone who is not a male, Caucasian and a Judeo-Christian. They are against: equal rights; justice; fair distribution of national income and wealth; education (so voters are unintelligent); regulation of any business; and social safety nets for their victims. They don’t want Medicare, Medicaid or Affordable Health Care so victims die and taxes can be reduced. Immoral means to immoral ends includes: Orwellian Repetitive Lies; and Hitler Nixon type Machiavellian Divide and Conquer Wedge Issue Tactics so people vote against their own socio-economic interests, freedoms and rights.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1480971979

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9781480971974

Santa Fe School of Cooking CookbookPb

By: Susan Curtis

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Santa Fe School of Cooking CookbookPb

By: Susan Curtis

Includes beautiful recipes for southwestern cuisine.

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Gibbs Smith

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1423610741

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The Fall of the House of Zeus

The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer

By: Curtis Wilkie

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The Fall of the House of Zeus

The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer

By: Curtis Wilkie

“Masterful . . . an epic tale of backbiting, shady deal-making, and greed [that] reads like a John Grisham novel.”—The Wall Street Journal A real-life legal thriller as timeless as a Greek tragedy, tracing the downfall of one of America’s most famous lawyers and exposing the dark side of Southern politics—from the author of When Evil Lived in Laurel Dickie Scruggs was arguably the most successful plaintiff’s lawyer in America. A brother-in-law of former U.S. Senate majority leader Trent Lott, Scruggs made a fortune taking on mass tort lawsuits against Big Tobacco and the asbestos industries. He was hailed by Newsweek as a latter-day Robin Hood and was portrayed in the movie The Insider as a dapper aviator-lawyer. Scruggs’s legal triumphs rewarded him lavishly, and his success emboldened both his career maneuvering and his influence in Southern politics—but at a terrible cost, culminating in his spectacular fall, when he was convicted for conspiring to bribe a Mississippi state judge. Based on extensive interviews, transcripts, and FBI recordings never made public, The Fall of the House of Zeus uncovers the Washington legal games and power politics: the swirl of fixed cases, blocked investigations, judicial tampering, and a zealous prosecution that would eventually ensnare not only Scruggs but his own son, Zach, in the midst of their struggle with insurance companies over Hurricane Katrina damages. Featuring Trent Lott and Jim Biden, brother of then-Senator Joe Biden, in supporting roles, with cameos by John McCain, Al Gore, and other Washington insiders, Curtis Wilkie’s account of this uniquely American tragedy reveals the seedy underbelly of institutional power.

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Crown

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0307460711

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9780307460714

How Good Do You Want to Be?

A Champion's Tips on How to Lead and Succeed at Work and in Life

By: Nick Saban,Brian Curtis

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How Good Do You Want to Be?

A Champion's Tips on How to Lead and Succeed at Work and in Life

By: Nick Saban,Brian Curtis

He guided LSU to its first football championship in forty-five years. He turned down countless offers from professional teams to stay with the job he loves. Now Nick Saban reveals the secrets that will help you lead and succeed at work and in life. Excellence doesn’t happen overnight. It comes from hard work, consistency, the drive to be the best, and a passion for what you do. Few understand this better than Nick Saban, the hottest college football coach in the game. Now, in How Good Do You Want to Be?, Saban shares his winning philosophy for creating and inspiring success. In more than three decades as a player and coach, Saban has learned much about life and leadership, both on the field and off. Working alongside some of the game’s legends, including Super Bowl winner Bill Belichick and coaching legend Jerry Glanville, he saw firsthand how great leaders encourage greatness in others. In this candid, insightful guide, he shares such acquired wisdom as • Organization, Organization, Organization Create an environment where everybody knows his or her responsibilities–and each is responsible to the entire group. • Motivate to Dominate Understand the psychology of teams and individuals, and use that knowledge to breed success. • No Other Way than Right Practice ethics and values–and demand the same from your team. • Look in the Mirror Maintain an understanding of who you are by knowing your strengths and your weaknesses. How Good Do You Want to Be? is more than the story of how Nick Saban motivates his staff and players to excel–it is also the memoir of one of America’s most successful coaches. Filled with instructive anecdotes and illuminated by never-before-told stories of his life and career, this is a book that challenges and inspires us all to be our best.

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Ballantine Books

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0307415554

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9780307415554

Clams

How to Find, Catch, and Cook Them

By: Curtis J. Badger

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Clams

How to Find, Catch, and Cook Them

By: Curtis J. Badger

Expert advice on how to bring home a bounty.

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Stackpole Books

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0811730581

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9780811730587

Harlequin Heartwarming August 2020 Box Set

By: Melinda Curtis,Cheryl Harper,Janice Carter,Virginia McCullough

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Harlequin Heartwarming August 2020 Box Set

By: Melinda Curtis,Cheryl Harper,Janice Carter,Virginia McCullough

Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships that focus on home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: MONTANA WELCOME (A Blackwell Sisters novel) by USA TODAY bestselling author Melinda Curtis Lily Harrison’s a runaway bride who’s just discovered a family she’s never known about. Conner Hannah’s the cowboy hired to get her to them. He and Lily never planned on falling in love—but love never goes as planned! THE DALMATIAN DILEMMA (A Veterans’ Road novel) by USA TODAY bestselling author Cheryl Harper Former air force officer Reyna Montero wants to make her dream of becoming a firefighter come true. Former marine Sean Wakefield offers assistance if she’ll help with his new service-dog training program. Together, will they realize they can conquer anything? HIS SAVING GRACE by Janice Carter Building a memorial at the town lighthouse will allow Grace Winters to atone for past mistakes. Drew Spencer’s dream job is dependent on tearing it down. Can the two trust each other enough to find the happiness they both crave? A BRIDGE HOME (A Back to Bluestone River novel) by Virginia McCullough Amy Morgan and Eric Wells were once high school newspaper coeditors, but their new roles as divorced single mother and grade school principal bring them back together. Now Amy must balance her growing attraction to him with keeping her daughter from being hurt again. Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Heartwarming!

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Harlequin

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1488068437

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9781488068430

Ruling by Schooling Quebec

Conquest to Liberal Governmentality : a Historical Sociology

By: Bruce Curtis

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Ruling by Schooling Quebec

Conquest to Liberal Governmentality : a Historical Sociology

By: Bruce Curtis

Ruling by Schooling Quebec provides a rich and detailed account of colonial politics from 1760 to 1841 by following repeated attempts to school the people. This first book since the 1950s to investigate an unusually complex period in Quebec's educational history extends the sophisticated method used in author Bruce Curtis's double-award-winning Politics of Population. Drawing on a mass of archival material, the study shows that although attempts to govern Quebec by educating its population consumed huge amounts of public money, they had little impact on rural ignorance: while near-universal literacy reigned in New England by the 1820s, at best one in three French-speaking peasant men in Quebec could sign his name in the insurrectionary decade of the 1830s. Curtis documents educational conditions on the ground, but also shows how imperial attempts to govern a tumultuous colony propelled the early development of Canadian social science. He provides a revisionist account of the pioneering investigations of Lord Gosford and Lord Durham.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442610492

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9781442610491

Santa Fe School of Cooking

Celebrating the Foods of New Mexico

By: Susan D. Curtis,Nicole Curtis Ammerman

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Santa Fe School of Cooking

Celebrating the Foods of New Mexico

By: Susan D. Curtis,Nicole Curtis Ammerman

Celebrating their 25th year, the Santa Fe School of Cooking is the expert on regional New Mexico cuisine. Each year through cooking classes, restaurant tours and special events, the school teaches thousands of culinary students how to create unique Southwest flavors using fresh local ingredients. Superb recipes and instruction from celebrity and guest chefs over the years make this a collectable cookbook. Classic recipes such as tortillas, enchiladas, sauces and salsas are sure to please, while new riffs using classic ingredients—such as Smoked Trout and Roasted Green Chile Quesadillas, Green Chile Mac & Cheese, Berry Pudding and Biscochitos—will delight beginning and experienced cooks alike. Susan Curtis founded the Santa Fe School of Cooking in 1989. Nicole Curtis Ammerman manages the school. Their previous books include Southwest Flavors and Salsas & Tacos, and the original Santa Fe School of Cooking Cookbook.

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Gibbs Smith

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142363814X

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9781423638148

Spencer Tracy

A Biography

By: James Curtis

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Spencer Tracy

A Biography

By: James Curtis

A rich, vibrant portrait—the most intimate and telling yet of this complex man considered by many to be the actor’s actor. Spencer Tracy’s image on-screen was that of a self-reliant man whose sense of rectitude toward others was matched by his sense of humor toward himself. Whether he was Father Flanagan of Boys Town, Clarence Darrow of Inherit the Wind, or the crippled war veteran in Bad Day at Black Rock, Tracy was forever seen as a pillar of strength. His full name was Spencer Bonaventure Tracy. He was called “The Gray Fox” by Frank Sinatra; other actors called him the “The Pope.” “The best goddamned actor I’ve ever seen!”—George M. Cohan In his several comedy roles opposite Katharine Hepburn (Woman of the Year and Adam’s Rib among them) or in Father of the Bride with Elizabeth Taylor, Tracy was the sort of regular American guy one could depend on. Now James Curtis, acclaimed biographer of Preston Sturges (“Definitive” —Variety), James Whale, and W. C. Fields (“By far the fullest, fairest, and most touching account . . . we have yet had. Or are likely to have” —Richard Schickel, The New York Times Book Review, cover review), gives us the life of one of the most revered screen actors of his generation. Curtis writes of Tracy’s distinguished career, his deep Catholicism, his devoted relationship to his wife, his drinking that got him into so much trouble, and his twenty-six-year-long bond with his partner on-screen and off, Katharine Hepburn. Drawing on Tracy’s personal papers and writing with the full cooperation of Tracy’s daughter, Curtis tells the rich story of the brilliant but haunted man at the heart of the legend. We see him from his boyhood in Milwaukee; given over to Dominican nuns (“They drill that religion in you”); his years struggling in regional shows and stock (Tracy had a photographic memory and an instinct for inhabiting a character from within); acting opposite his future wife, Louise Treadwell; marrying and having two children, their son, John, born deaf. We see Tracy’s success on Broadway, his turning out mostly forgettable programmers with the Fox Film Corporation, and going to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and getting the kinds of roles that had eluded him in the past—a streetwise priest opposite Clark Gable in San Francisco; a screwball comedy, Libeled Lady; Kipling’s classic of the sea, Captains Courageous. Three years after arriving at MGM, Tracy became America’s top male star. We see how Tracy embarked on a series of affairs with his costars . . . making Northwest Passage and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which brought Ingrid Bergman into his life. By the time the unhappy shoot was over, Tracy, looking to do a comedy, made Woman of the Year. Its unlikely costar: Katharine Hepburn. We see Hepburn making Tracy her life’s project—protecting and sustaining him in the difficult job of being a top-tier movie star. And we see Tracy’s wife, Louise, devoting herself to studying how deaf children could be taught to communicate orally with the hearing and speaking world. Curtis writes that Tracy was ready to retire when producer-director Stanley Kramer recruited him for Inherit the Wind—a collaboration that led to Judgment at Nuremberg, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, and Tracy’s final picture, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner . . . A rich, vibrant portrait—the most intimate and telling yet of this complex man considered by many to be the actor’s actor.

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Knopf

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0307595226

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9780307595225

Devil's Ways

By: Michael Swanwick,Persephone D.Shaun,J. M. Sidorova,R. S. A. Garcia,Ben Loory,Andy Duncan,Curtis C. Chen,Darrell Schweitzer,Imogen Howson,Edwina Harvey,Nancy Kress,Avram Davidson

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Devil's Ways

By: Michael Swanwick,Persephone D.Shaun,J. M. Sidorova,R. S. A. Garcia,Ben Loory,Andy Duncan,Curtis C. Chen,Darrell Schweitzer,Imogen Howson,Edwina Harvey,Nancy Kress,Avram Davidson

There is no light without dark; no highlights without shadows; no good without evil. The Devil is where things happen. Where stories begin. This collection brings together stories from multiple cultures, featuring the Devil both as an abstract concept and a creature, a terror, a force of nature, an enemy, a trickster, and so many more. Step into the world of shadows, and travel through Devil’s many incarnations spanning centuries of history and myth, from the Ancient Greece, African and Caribbean folklore, dark ages in Europe, all the way to the present day. This anthology features new and established authors from diverse, multicultural backgrounds.

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Dragonwell Publishing

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194007651X

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9781940076515

Cujo

The Untold Story of My Life On and Off the Ice

By: Kirstie McLellan Day,Curtis Joseph

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Cujo

The Untold Story of My Life On and Off the Ice

By: Kirstie McLellan Day,Curtis Joseph

Curtis Joseph, known affectionately to hockey fans around the world as Cujo, was an unlikely NHL superstar. The boy from Keswick, Ontario, didn't put on a pair of skates until most kids his age were already far along in organized hockey, and he was passed over by every team in the NHL draft. Despite an unorthodox start, he would go on to play 18 seasons with the St. Louis Blues, Edmonton Oilers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Phoenix Coyotes, and Calgary Flames, winning an Olympic gold medal along the way.For the first time, in this revealing memoir, Joseph talks about his highly unusual upbringing and what led him to pursue hockey. Fans will not want to miss this untold story of perseverance and finding one's own path.

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Triumph Books

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1641252448

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9781641252447

Montana Welcome

A Clean Romance

By: Melinda Curtis

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Montana Welcome

A Clean Romance

By: Melinda Curtis

A bride on the run And a cowboy to show her the way home…Lily Harrison’s wedding day isn’t quite what she imagined. Not only does her fiancé not love her, she’s just discovered she’s a Blackwell—a member of Montana’s well-known ranching family. Now Lily’s ditched her own wedding for a road trip with handsome cowboy Conner Hannah. But will Lily find her answers in Montana…or lose the cowboy she’s already begun falling for?USA TODAY Bestselling Author From Harlequin Heartwarming: Wholesome stories of love, compassion and belonging.

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1488068194

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Leonardo

Leonardo

A Generous Vision

A Generous Vision

Easy Listening and Film Scoring 1948-78

Easy Listening and Film Scoring 1948-78

Rock Eras

Rock Eras

One Percent Devils and Their Satanic Tools

One Percent Devils and Their Satanic Tools

Santa Fe School of Cooking CookbookPb

Santa Fe School of Cooking CookbookPb

The Fall of the House of Zeus

The Fall of the House of Zeus

How Good Do You Want to Be?

How Good Do You Want to Be?

Clams

Clams

Harlequin Heartwarming August 2020 Box Set

Harlequin Heartwarming August 2020 Box Set

Ruling by Schooling Quebec

Ruling by Schooling Quebec

Santa Fe School of Cooking

Santa Fe School of Cooking

Spencer Tracy

Spencer Tracy

Devil's Ways

Devil's Ways

Cujo

Cujo

Montana Welcome

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