THE ASTOR INHERITANCE Discovering her father is still alive, Beth sets out to find him, only to fall in love with his adopted son. MISTRESS AT THE HALL On the death of her mother, Gina seeks out the grandfather of whom, until then, she had no knowledge. ALL FOR JOLIE When her friend is killed and Leonie discovers the man she believes responsible is still around, she decides to seek revenge.
THE ASTOR INHERITANCE Discovering her father is still alive, Beth sets out to find him, only to fall in love with his adopted son. MISTRESS AT THE HALL On the death of her mother, Gina seeks out the grandfather of whom, until then, she had no knowledge. ALL FOR JOLIE When her friend is killed and Leonie discovers the man she believes responsible is still around, she decides to seek revenge.
Three years ago, Leanna and Philip wed after a whirlwind courtship. But married life has fallen short of their dreams. Philip imagines chatting up other women at business conferences, while Leanna wonders whether divorce would be the best way forward. Then, at a dinner party, an argument turns into a challenge when Leanna declares she could slip off somewhere without detection for four months. Is it really possible? And might absence make the heart grow fonder, as she and Philip learn what it's like to live without the other?
Twenty-year-old Lexie fears their family-run hotel may be heading for bankruptcy due to her mismanagement. She doesn't know which way to turn when, out of the blue, her father and his stepson Jake get in touch. Lexie had always thought her father was dead, and is startled by his sudden appearance, while Jake proves to be more than a little intimidating. When he offers a way out of her financial problems, Lexie reluctantly accepts, only to discover how authoritarian he can be...
Eighteen-year-old Kate married Edward Tyson, a man old enough to be her father. He was in ill health at the time, but she thought she loved him. Her friends had been getting married and having children, so she felt left out. Three years later he died, leaving her an extremely wealthy widow. Having recently learned she was adopted, Kate decides to seek out her real mother, which is when Matt Roberts enters her life. Hes definitely a charmer; it oozes from him like syrup from a floured spoon. Kate had met him as a teenager and had a crush on him, but he had rebuffed her. Now she finds not only is she still attracted to him, but hes also related to her real mother. The connection is more tenuous than she first believed.
Out of the blue, Amy meets her father Alex Stanton and stepbrother Jake at a critical moment in her life. The bank is calling in their loan so the hotel Amy runs with her mother will have to be sold. Jake, who has had bad experiences with women, helps her out of her difficulty, but also seeks his revenge. Amy is exploited because of her naivetA(c). She is made to act as Jake's fiancA(c)e-a role she wished was for real. It is only when she stands up for herself that she learns Jake loves her in return.
Angeline felt she had to get away, make a new life for herself, become successful. After all, there was always Marcus to call on if she ever needed help. Staid, sensible Marcus who had once saved her from drowning - and how could she have forgotten what he'd promised her down by the breakwater all those years ago? Only when she had made a success of her life would she feel able to return to Viking Lodge - and Marcus.
1950s Yorkshire: Annabel journeys to her former workplace of Chellow Hall, home of the Wylde family. An unmarried mother, she has brought her baby Tommy - son and heir to one of the Wyldes - with her, feeling she should inform his father of the child's parentage. But disaster strikes when, near the Hall, she is knocked unconscious, waking later with amnesia. She has no memory whatsoever of her name, her reason for being there - or her son...
This edited volume of 16 papers provides an introduction to the techniques and methodologies, approaches and potential of environmental archaeology within Ireland. Each of the 16 invited contributions focuses on a particular aspect of environmental archaeology and include such specialist areas as radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology, palaeoentomology, human osteoarchaeology, palynology and geoarchaeology, thereby providing a comprehensive overview of environmental archaeology within an Irish context. The inclusion of pertinent case studies within each chapter will heighten awareness of the profusion of high standard environmental archaeological research that is currently being undertaken on Irish material. The book will provide a key text for students and practitioners of archaeology, archaeological science and palaeoecology.
Eileen Reeves examines a web of connections between journalism, optics, and astronomy in early modern Europe, devoting particular attention to the ways in which a long-standing association of reportage with covert surveillance and astrological prediction was altered by the near simultaneous emergence of weekly newsheets, the invention of the Dutch telescope, and the appearance of Galileo Galilei's astronomical treatise, The Starry Messenger. Early modern news writers and consumers often understood journalistic texts in terms of recent developments in optics and astronomy, Reeves demonstrates, even as many of the first discussions of telescopic phenomena such as planetary satellites, lunar craters, sunspots, and comets were conditioned by accounts of current events. She charts how the deployment of particular technologies of vision—the telescope and the camera obscura—were adapted to comply with evolving notions of objectivity, censorship, and civic awareness. Detailing the differences between various types of printed and manuscript news and the importance of regional, national, and religious distinctions, Evening News emphasizes the ways in which information moved between high and low genres and across geographical and confessional boundaries in the first decades of the seventeenth century.
Fairacres Publication 28 Julian of Norwich: Four Studies to Commemorate the Sixth Centenary of the Revelations of Divine Love This book of four essays, first published in 1973, provides an introduction and companion to the study of the fourteenth-century ‘Revelations of Divine Love’ by Julian of Norwich. The meaning of the Revelations for those who are living a contemplative life today is explored through reflections on Julian’s place in English literature and the tradition of Christian prayer.
Taking shelter from a snowstorm, Giselle Warren revisits an isolated holiday cottage, expecting it to be vacant - and walks straight into someone's home instead! Blake Conrad, the owner, has moved in after splitting with his girlfriend. In rocky circumstances of her own with her fiance, who she suspects wants to marry her purely for her money, Giselle has been hoping for solitude in which to gather her thoughts. But this chance meeting with Blake will change both of their lives forever - after she makes him an incredible proposition...
Before Amelia is the remarkable story of the worldas women pioneer aviators who braved the skies during the early days of flight. While most books have only examined the women aviators of a single country, Eileen Lebow looks at an international spectrum of pilots and their influence on each other. The story begins with Raymonde de Laroche, a French woman who became the first licensed female pilot in 1909. De Laroche, Lydia Zvereva, Melli Beese, Hilda Hewlitt, Harriet Quimby, and the other women pilots profiled here rose above contemporary gender stereotypes and proved their ability to fly the temperamental heavier-than-air contraptions of the day. Lebow provides excellent descriptions of the dangers and challenges of early flight. Crashes and broken bones were common, and many of the pioneers lost their lives. But these women were adventurers at heart. In an era when womenas professional options were severely limited and the mere sight of ladies wearing pants caused a sensation, these women succeeded as pilots, flight instructors, airplane designers, stunt performers, and promoters. This book fills a large void in the history of the first two decades of flight.
J. King Gordon's story is one of youthful vision and high ideals sustained throughout a life of concrete action at home and abroad. Grounded in his father's social gospel and given intellectual heft and hue by exposure to radical politics at Oxford and in New York, he returned to Canada as a self-described "Christian radical" and threw himself into the emerging social and political ferment of the 1930s. In Growing to One World, Eileen Janzen details a life spent championing progressive politics in Canada and a commitment to peace and diplomacy on the international stage. As a founding member of the League for Social Reconstruction, Gordon was one of the authors of the Regina Manifesto for the newly formed Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, the forerunner of today's NDP, and worked tirelessly on the party's behalf. Later, he realized his vocation as a member of the United Nations' division of human rights, serving in Korea, the Middle East, and the Congo as both an eyewitness to and participant in formative events shaping those regions. Exhaustively researched and informed by a sophisticated analytical grasp of political theory and international affairs, Growing to One World is a compelling look at an important supporter of peace, justice, and human rights across the globe.
Shawn Carter, better known as Jay-Z, overcame a life of poverty in the Marcy Projects of Brooklyn and became one of the most successful rappers in the world. He has received more than twenty Grammy Awards as well as other music honors, and he has also proven to be a savvy entrepreneur with his clothing, clubs, and sports business ventures. Drawing from the rapper's own words, which are accompanied by detailed photographs and fascinating sidebars, this book provides readers with a straightforward look at the life of Jay-Z and the business empire he built.
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