Kate Smith Speaks was the most listened-to program in daytime radio during the 1940s. The mixture of folksy vignettes, news items, and heartfelt editorials presented a slice of life on the home front. Kate Smith was one of the three most popular female personalities of the times, both as a vocalist and as a commentator. She liked the informality of the "Speaks" broadcasts because it brought her closer to her listeners. Travel back to the era before, during, and after World War II through fifty actual scripts.
Summer at the beach house. Alex’s favorite season and place. Except this year, nothing seems right. As Alexis struggles to manage their young son, her husband, Joel, spends an increasing amount of time away, commuting to his law office in Chicago, pursuing his dream of a partnership and a better life for their family. Or so she believes, until she discovers a series of texts exchanged with his ex-girlfriend. Joel faces his own hurdles. His office becomes an escape from the demands of his wife and toddler, but mostly from the burden of guilt he carries after the near-death of his closest friend. Nobody understands or sympathizes with his pain besides Crystal. She has become his confidant and biggest supporter during these troubled times. As their relationship crumbles, Alexis and Joel must fight for forgiveness, for understanding, for their family, and for their marriage. Will their love be enough?
Unspoken words are sometimes the most painful… Tumultuous and unpredictable. The very essence of Savannah’s life from the day she learned she was adopted. Her journey of self-discovery continues as she begins her first year of college and faces a series of difficult decisions regarding the woman she once hoped to know. Regrets and devastation. The overwhelming emotions Tiffany faces daily since the loss of her daughter and her own betrayal of the man she loves. As she struggles with her inner demons, she realizes she’s sacrificed far too much to make everyone happy. Everyone but herself, that is. The road to happiness is filled with insurmountable obstacles, yet hope can sometimes be found in unexpected times and places.
Three deceptively simple little words… Three simple words. Words Savannah longs to say, but doesn’t dare. She’s made that mistake once already, at great risk to her fragile heart. Brandon seems perfect; the attractive, driven, medical resident with a bright, shining future. But nobody is truly perfect, and the rough edges and his reluctance begin to show. Hold on? Or cut him loose? Savannah is torn between the messages from her heart and the logic ruling her head. Three little words. Words Brandon vows to hold in his heart for that someone special. He’s never said them; not to anyone. His imperfect home life has taught him the value of caution. He has issues, and he knows it. But a chance meeting with Savannah may just force him to confront them. This young woman might be his perfect fit; if he’d met her five years in the future. Their future seems uncertain, but fate intervenes, drawing them closer together. Hard choice arise. Or are they choices at all? Repeat the past? Or break the cycle? Three deceptively simple little words. They just might be everything we dream.
A wedding... Two exes... What could go wrong? All promises come at a cost, and Aiden has made many he cannot break. Especially the one made to a man on his deathbed. Take care of our Savannah. Now he must learn to parent a teenage daughter he barely knows... without the benefit of the woman he loves. Once he navigates the two weekends at his best friend's wedding, he intends to embrace the future. Without Emily. Emily may have regrets, but she also has a career and life in Chicago and refuses to pursue a man to another state, no matter how perfect he seems. After watching the implosion of relationships around her, she's learned the art of self-preservation. If she could avoid Aiden, life would be so much easier, but first she has to get through her bridesmaid's duties in her friend's wedding. One where her ex-boyfriend is the best man and his ex-wife is the maid of honor. Both vow to be on their best behavior to avoid ruining their friends' extravagant dream wedding. But saying that final might be harder than they imagined. What would you sacrifice for love?
Do you believe in second chances? After three years overseas, Aiden Hamilton returns to Chicago. During his absence, he thought often of his teenage love, Tiffany, and longs to rekindle their relationship. Except he faces two major hurdles—his acceptance into medical school in another state, and the continued efforts of their families to keep them apart. Tiffany Baxter has spent the last three years of her life doing her best to remain invisible to her unsupportive parents. The events of her teenage years have created deep emotional scars, and despite the sporadic and secret contact from Aiden, she assumes he is lost to her forever. Each have struggled to accept the circumstances that separated them. Both want to move on, yet overcoming the obstacles seems to be impossible. Whenever they manage to find their way back to each other, inevitably they are torn apart.
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A story about life's journey is filled with it's infinite twists and turns. When the unexpected is thrown in Aiden and Emily's paths, it forces them to question the meaning of true love, and what it means to be a family.
An ex-boyfriend. A recent tragedy. A long-distance love affair. When Amara sees ex-boyfriend, Jake, at a wedding, she finds him as irresistible as she remembers. Yet, he's married and off-limits, even if she’s ready for a serious relationship. She resolves to keep her distance and ignore the confusion and regret raging through her. I'm the one who left. I must allow Jake his happiness. However, not all is as she expects. When Amara learns the realities of his life as a recent widower, followed by an ill-conceived night spent in Jake’s bed, the situation becomes even more fraught with emotions. Unresolved feelings still burn between them, and this time, Jake won’t let her go so easily. After their awkward goodbye at the wedding, Jake visits with the offer of a fresh start and a chance to fix what went wrong four years ago. Amara is falling in love with Jake all over again, but she senses something bigger behind Jake’s overture. A hesitation to allow her all the way into his life. Is she being her usual over-analytical self, or will this man break her heart for the second time? #secondchances #Contemporaryromance #contemporaryfiction #Beachreads #familydrama #singleparenting #weddinghookup
Bringing together two core areas of the curriculum, play and literacy, this book offers an innovative approach to examining literacy and language development within the context of children’s play.
What are the rules for finding love, anyway? Luciana moves across the country for her medical residency, hoping to escape her painful past and the complex demands of her family. When her supervisor, Dr. Hannah Kennedy, breaks through Luciana's protective shell of denial, memories flood to the surface. Luci begins to question her own identity and fights against her growing attraction to Hannah, fearful of embracing her desires. As Luci struggles with her new reality, she realizes that once spoken, her truth can never be taken back. Can she admit her love for Hannah and risk the inevitable fallout, or will she return to her life of denial? #Contemporaryromance #comingsoon #fallreads #Contemporaryfiction #LGBTQ+ #questioning #familydrama
Don't do this! I've put it all behind me, and now you're here like a bad nightmare, bringing it all up again!" Life for Dr. Aiden Hamilton has never been easy. Plagued by regrets and closely held secrets, he struggles to maintain his equilibrium and create a future. When a chance encounter brings his past rushing in, he's forced to confront his controlling family, take action, and break the silence. Adopted at birth, Savannah Phillips has always felt a piece was missing from her life. After the devastating and tragic loss of her mother, she longs for answers about the couple who gave her away. When presented with the opportunity she pursues her dream, but the reality is far from what she'd imagined. Sometimes there is no fixing what has been said and done. What we once wanted may simply be unattainable. A chain of uncontrollable events set these two individuals on a path that will forever change their worlds. Life is full of unexpected moments... Sometimes fate intervenes... A story about a second chance that changes everything... Forever.
In eighteenth-century Britain, greater numbers of people entered the marketplace and bought objects in ever-greater quantities. As consumers rather than producers, how did their understandings of manufacturing processes and the material world change? Material Goods, Moving Hands combines material culture and visual culture approaches to explore the different ways in which manufacturers and retailers presented production to consumers during the eighteenth century. It shows how new relationships with production processes encouraged consumers, retailers, designers, manufacturers and workers to develop conflicting understandings of production. Objects then were not just markers of fashion and taste, they acted as important conduits through which people living in Georgian Britain could examine and discuss their material world and the processes and knowledge that rendered it.
Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, and spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up in their company.
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