Trusting the Lord to guide her to safety, Alexandra Sims traveled across Montana, never expecting to find the love and family she'd always craved. Good things like that didn't just happen—they were gifts from God. Alexandra trusted John Corey's loving smile and agreed to be his adorable daughter's nanny...at least, until John discovered Alexandra's painful secret. John Corey led a modest life with his daughter and silently grieved his wife's death. One day, a beautiful drifter wandered into his life and turned it around. Suddenly, John believed in love again and put his faith in Alexandra. Though she hid her secret past, he wanted to bring her peace and show her how much he cared....
On the continent of Alaria, in a palace deep within Mount Chestnut, lived a queen like no other. The Heart Queen had a great power—the ability to compel those around her to feel what she felt. But when the Heart Queen discovered she’d been betrayed by her own people, she unleashed a storm of emotion like no other, plunging the hares and their land into an age of darkness and despair—until, slowly but surely, the darkness lifted, peace returned, and her story became that of legend. Centuries later, near the hare town of Barrowton, in the Leporidae Valley, rumours of danger beyond the borders of the valley begin to stir. Hares begin to disappear one by one without a trace. Lyselle, a young bright-pink hare like no other, is visited in a dream by the Cerulean Star—the owl god and one of the Seven Stars that created Alaria. He implores her to find a legendary sword, and issues a warning: “Beware her wrath . . .”
Inspirational stories of small-town love by Jillian Hart A Love Worth Waiting For Wealthy tycoon Noah Ashton lacks nothing but love…until a trip to his small Montana hometown leads him to gentle schoolteacher Julie Renton. Julie is reluctant to risk her heart, but when a shocking ordeal throws them together, Noah may prove to be the man she's always waited for. Heaven Knows The warm welcome she receives from a widower and his daughter is the last thing Alexandra Sims expected. John Corey could never turn away anyone in need, and he's determined to help—and love—Alexandra, in spite of the secret she hides.
Anna Quindlen is a veteran in the writing profession, but venturing from New York Times sensation to sensational novelist was a big transition! Only a truly brilliant writer like herself could have accomplished it. Now a critically acclaimed author of multiple books, Quindlen is enjoying the liberties of story telling. In Still Life with Bread Crumbs, for example, she gets to explore and challenge both social standings and aging; she even makes sure the novel’s dog gets a voice! Throughout the novel, she also reveals to readers the difficulties and insecurities of professional artists—what they experience, think about, and struggle with. Still Life with Bread Crumbs is charming and comical, but also quite thought provoking; it beautifully illustrates Quindlen’s personality, writing style, and wit. It’s a novel that’s sure to put a smile on your face with every turn of the page and will induce in its readers an urgency to read it over and over again. Experience: The Behind the Story Effect After reading a BTS... You feel inspired to follow your hearts and dreams... — Arshi Ever been backstage at a concert? Here you go -- in written form. — Author, Editor I felt enriched with knowledge about the book, and I felt like I knew more about the book. — Aspiring Author I felt like the Behind the Story offered a new look into the book, and appreciated that, as most of the time, that angle is unexplored. — Aspiring Author It makes me discover new things, and when I re-read the book, my emotions are different, deeper now that I understand what's behind the book. — Karlen I felt closer to the writer knowing more about them as a person and why they wrote what they wrote. — The Beta Reading Club Get ready for one of the most unique experiences you will ever have...this is definitely CliffNotes and SparkNotes on Steroids. — Author, Editor
Inspirational stories of small-town love by Jillian Hart A Love Worth Waiting For Wealthy tycoon Noah Ashton lacks nothing but love…until a trip to his small Montana hometown leads him to gentle schoolteacher Julie Renton. Julie is reluctant to risk her heart, but when a shocking ordeal throws them together, Noah may prove to be the man she's always waited for. Heaven Knows The warm welcome she receives from a widower and his daughter is the last thing Alexandra Sims expected. John Corey could never turn away anyone in need, and he's determined to help—and love—Alexandra, in spite of the secret she hides.
Trusting the Lord to guide her to safety, Alexandra Sims traveled across Montana, never expecting to find the love and family she'd always craved. Good things like that didn't just happen—they were gifts from God. Alexandra trusted John Corey's loving smile and agreed to be his adorable daughter's nanny...at least, until John discovered Alexandra's painful secret. John Corey led a modest life with his daughter and silently grieved his wife's death. One day, a beautiful drifter wandered into his life and turned it around. Suddenly, John believed in love again and put his faith in Alexandra. Though she hid her secret past, he wanted to bring her peace and show her how much he cared....
French Music and Trauma Between the World Wars illustrates that coping with trauma was a central concern for French musicians active after World War I. The losses and violent warfare of World War I shaped how interwar French musicians-from those fighting in the trenches and working in military hospitals to more well-known musicians-engaged with music. Situated at the intersections of musicology, history, sound and performance studies, and psychology and trauma studies, Resonant Recoveries argues that modernists' compositions and musical activities were sonorous locations for managing and performing trauma. Through analysis of archival materials, French medical, philosophical, and literary texts, and the music produced between the wars, this book illuminates how music emerged during World War I as an embodied technology of consolation. Resonant Recoveries demonstrates that music making came to be understood by French interwar musicians as a consolatory practice that enhanced their abilities to remember lost loved ones, gave them opportunities to perform their grief publicly and privately, allowed them to create healing bonds of friendship, and soothed them with sonic vibrations and the rhythmically regular bodily movements required in order to perform many French neoclassical compositions. In revealing the importance music making held for interwar French musicians, this book refigures French modernist music as a therapeutic medium for creators, performers, and audiences, while also underlining the importance of addressing trauma, mourning, and people's emotional lives in music scholarship"--
Living Memory investigates the complex question of language and its place at the heart of Bergamasco culture in northern Italy. • Integrates extensive participant observation with sociolinguistic data collection • Reveals the political and social dynamics of a national language (Italian) and a local dialect (Bergamasco) struggling for survival • Introduces the original concept of the “social aesthetics of language”: the interweaving of culturally-shaped and emotionally felt dimensions of language-choice • Written to be accessible to students and specialists alike • Part of the Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture Series
This book explores a range of experimental self-portraits made in France between 1840 and 1870, including remarkable images by Hippolyte Bayard, Nadar, Duchenne de Boulogne, and Countess de Castiglione. Adapting photography for different social purposes, each of these pioneers showcased their own body as a living artifact and iconic attraction. Jillian Lerner considers performative portraits that exhibit uncanny transformations of identity and embodiment. She highlights the tactical importance of photographic demonstrations, promotions, conversations, and the mongrel forms of montage, painted photographs, and captioned specimens. The author shows how photographic practices are mobilized in diverse cultural contexts and enmeshed with the histories of art, science, publicity, urban spectacle, and private life in nineteenth-century France. Tracing calculated and creative approaches to a new medium, this research also contributes to an archaeology of the present. It furnishes a prehistory of the “selfie” and offers historical perspectives on the forces that reshape human perception and social experience. This interdisciplinary study will appeal to readers interested in the history of photography, art, visual culture, and media studies.
Undercover agent Gabe Brody hated the deception that had brought him into Michelle McKaslin's life. And he could only pray that this very special woman could find a place for him in her heartonce she found out who he really was.
Editorially connected to her July 2002 novel "His Hometown Girl," Hart offers this story of a jaded ex-military man and a sweet-natured nurse who find love where they least expect it--in their own backyards. Original.
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