A century ago it was fashionable for young women to collect and paint plants as a sort of genteel parlor skill. Some singularly talented women became professiionals, but their contributiosn to both art and botany have remained nearly invisble. The exhibition "Drawing from life" features the work of 14 women botanical artists, from the first decades of the 20th century to the present, focusing on the forgotten art of Brooklyn Botanic Garden's staff artist for 32 years, Maud H. Purdy. Side by side, these ... works reveal how established conventions of botanical art are shaped both by fashions of the times and individual artistic visions. Paintings, scientific illustrations, herbarium specimens, preparatory sketches, and objects of material culture explore the boundaries between art, science and craft and invite us to see plants with fresh eyes."--Back cover
What the heart knows Mistaken for His Amish Bride by Patricia Davids Traveling to Maine in search of family, Mari Kemp is injured in an accident—and ends up with amnesia. Mistakenly believing she’s the fiancée he’s been exchanging letters with, wheelwright Asher Fisher will do anything to help Mari recover her memories. He’s kind, caring—maybe even her perfect match. But she’ll need to remember the past before she can see their future. Their Pretend Courtship by Carrie Lighte Eliza Keim has no interest in getting married. But with her stepfather pressuring her to court, Eliza begrudgingly agrees to walk out with blueberry farmer Jonas Kanagy. She has no idea his true intention is only to protect his brother from getting his heart broken. Yet making their in-name-only courtship look real is surprisingly easy. Might this practical arrangement end up backfiring in the best possible way? USA TODAY Bestselling Author Patricia Davids 2 Uplifting Stories Mistaken for His Amish Bride and Their Pretend Courtship
Courtships turn to happily-ever-afters in these two Amish tales. Their Pretend Amish Courtship by Patricia Davids Fannie Erb isn’t looking for a husband—just a way to assure her parents she’s not hopeless when it comes to love. Family friend Noah Bowman might just be her solution. A fake relationship will free them both from unwanted matchmaking plans. By summer’s end they’ll be free to part, but Fannie’s growing feelings are transforming her neighbor into the only man who might ever rein in her adventurous heart. An Amish Courtship by Jan Drexler Samuel Lapp all but accepts his estrangement from the Amish community—until Mary Hochstetter moves in next door to care for her elderly aunt. The young woman with the pretty brown eyes sees Samuel differently. Mary hopes that by helping Samuel rebuild his life, she’ll finally be ready to embrace her own future. But as their delicate friendship grows deeper, they must both overcome their painful pasts before they can build a home together.
SECRETS, LIES AND A MIND-BLOWING REVELATION. Emma grew up believing that her grandmother was dead. 1915 - Eliza's mother, Alice, dies before she can tell her how to solve the coded letters, hidden in a secret compartment in her bureau. The letters which will tell Eliza 'the truth'. 2004 - Eliza, in a nursing home in Southport, tells her solicitor that she has a granddaughter called Emma and needs her help with locating the coded letters. Emma, anxious to leave Malta and return to England, receives a puzzling letter from Eliza's solicitor, asking her to return to Southport, the town where she lived as a child. Why did Emma's parents tell her Eliza was dead? What secret is hidden in the coded sheets? 'An Absence of Birdsong' is a story about the importance of love, family and forgiveness. And also about moving on.
Spawned of alchemy and blood, he was the last of a brutal, ancient line. Now he has just been reborn. Deep in a Texas cave, the military unearths a five-hundred-year-old corpse, its desiccated flesh teeming with mysterious DNA that can transform mortals into beings of unimaginable power. Captain Scott Boulder, leader of a Black Ops unit that has been endowed with these superhuman abilities, is among the first to benefit from the find. But when, with the help of a voodoo priestess, the creature is conjured to life, unleashing an ancient evil bent on reinstating its poisonous kind on earth, Scott knows he must return the monster to the grave. But this is no ordinary vampire. Once a brutal torturer in the Spanish Inquisition, it can bend the laws of science and magic in horrifying new ways. Powerless to fight this evil alone, Scott grudgingly seeks the aid of reclusive anthropologist Leah Maguire, an expert in the mystical rituals of the past. To keep humanity from entering a new Dark Age, Scott and Leah will battle unspeakable horrors and will sacrifice everything they hold dear–perhaps even their own humanity–to destroy the last vampire.
Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction explores the vibrant tradition of serial fiction published in U.S. minority periodicals. Beloved by readers, these serial novels helped sustain the periodicals and communities in which they circulated. With essays on serial fiction published from the 1820s through the 1960s written in ten different languages—English, French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Italian, Polish, Norwegian, Yiddish, and Chinese—this collection reflects the rich multilingual history of American literature and periodicals. One of this book’s central claims is that this serial fiction was produced and read within an intensely transnational context: the periodicals often circulated widely, the narratives themselves favored transnational plots and themes, and the contents surrounding the fiction encouraged readers to identify with a community dispersed throughout the United States and often the world. Thus, Okker focuses on the circulation of ideas, periodicals, literary conventions, and people across various borders, focusing particularly on the ways that this fiction reflects the larger transnational realities of these minority communities.
Amish widow Sarah Wyse does not see wedding bells in her future. Still, she can't think of a better way to spend the Christmas season than helping her handsome, shy neighbor Levi Beachy find a wife. But once the single ladies of Hope Springs start visiting his buggy shop, Levi sends the town's eligible men Sarah's way. Neither expects to find love—but with help from the close-knit community, they just might mend each other's broken heart.
Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. A SECRET AMISH LOVE Women of Lancaster County by Rebecca Kertz With her father insisting she marry, Nell Stoltzfus is feeling the pressure to figure out her future. A decision that is further complicated when she falls for English veterinarian James Pierce. Dare she risk being shunned to be with the man her heart has claimed as its own? HER COWBOY BOSS The Prodigal Ranch by Arlene James Stark Burns and Meri Billings are like oil and water—so he’s shocked when she asks for a position in his veterinary clinic. For Meri, it’s her only option if she wants to stay close to home and family. Soon their differences fall away as Meri teaches the widower how to live—and love—again. DEPUTY DADDY Comfort Creek Lawmen by Patricia Johns Diaper duty was the last thing officer Bryce Camden expected during his stay in Comfort Creek. But with lovely Lily Ellison, owner of the B and B where he’s staying, asking for his help with her foster baby, he’ll soon be more than a bachelor cop—he’ll be a family man.
Merrydale is a small village. Nothing ever happens there. A fundraising team of six villagers decide to hold a summer event of a Safari Supper. Selected houses hold different meal courses but Death visits one of the houses on the night of the supper. More deaths follow. How are they connected and what do they have in common? With the help of some of the villagers, the fundraising team decide to hold their own investigations as the police appear to be at a loss in finding any connection between the victims, who have died in completely different ways. In the meantime there is a bail absconder who is hanging around the village. Is this person connected with the deaths? The village sleuths need to find some answers before anyone else dies.
Two Amish Stories of Finding Love at Christmastime A Hope Springs Christmas by Patricia Davids Amish widow Sarah Wyse doesn’t see wedding bells in her future. Still, she can’t think of a better way to spend the Christmas season than helping her handsome shy neighbor Levi Beachy find a wife. But once the single ladies of Hope Springs start visiting his buggy shop, Levi sends the town’s eligible men Sarah’s way. Neither expects to find love, but they just might mend each other’s broken heart. Amish Christmas Abduction by Dana R. Lynn After catching a glimpse of something she wasn’t supposed to see days before Christmas, Irene Martello is run off the road and barely survives. More shocking is the whimper from the back seat of an Amish toddler stowaway. Police chief Paul Kennedy fears Irene stumbled onto a kidnapping ring with two dangerous agendas: retrieving the girl and silencing the witness for good. And now only Paul can keep them safe for the holidays.
Patricia Veryan's superbly entertaining Regency romances have inspired Library Journal to call her "one of the most able writers of this genre," and The Chattanooga Times to proclaim her "a worthy successor to Georgette Heyer at her very best." Now, in The Noblest Frailty, Patricia Veryan continues this splendid tradition as she follows the adventures–and misadventures– of Yolande Drummond, Alain Devenish, and Craig Tyndale.
Even a matchmaker can’t predict true love… She has to find him a bride unless she falls for him first… Widow Adel Draschel refuses to marry again, but that won’t stop her from playing matchmaker for her old schoolmate Jake Knussli. After a decade with the English, Jake’s six-month time limit to marry so he can inherit his uncle’s farm is quickly running out. Finding him the perfect wife won’t be easy…especially when Adel might just be his perfect match. From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope. Redemption's Amish Legacies Book 1: The Nanny's Amish Family Book 2: A Precious Christmas Gift Book 3: Wife on His Doorstep Book 4: Snowbound with the Amish Bachelor Book 5: Blended Amish Blessings Book 6: The Amish Matchmaker's Choice
It was a proud moment in the earth's history, when twenty-four dedicated volunteers set off, on that bright summer morning in 1993, to conquer the vastnesses of inter-stellar space. They did not hope to accomplish their Herculean task in the meagre span of human life. It was their descendants who would walk out onto the as yet undiscovered, planets of the alien stars... or so they dreamed. There were dire perils ahead of them. Damage to their engines, radio-activity the invisible killer, space madness and the failure of the life giving hydroponic tanks which supplied their oxygen. Yet the worst enemy of all was the enemy within themselves. The human failure of men and women, locked in the close confines of the Star Ship. Then there was the Alien Ship... Friend or foe?... Saviour or destroyer?
Overview"A writer of incomparable magic." -Romantic Times SHE WAS A SIMPLE COUNTRY MISS-CAUGHT UP IN A WORLD OF DANGER AND ROMANCE! Zoe Grainger arrived in London for a Season under the auspices of her dreadfully vain and disagreeable sponsor, Lady Clara Buttershaw. But even the awful Lady Buttershaw could not spoil Zoe's chances for love, especially when a chance encounter threw her in the way of Lieutenant Peregrine Cranford. And as love embraced Zoe, so did danger. For when Zoe discovered that her brother had become the target of the nefarious League of Jewelled Men, she courageously endeavored to protect him-and the man who had come to claim her heart. . . . Patricia Veryan is a winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award from Romantic Times
Acting Sheriff Ben Logan hasn't heard from Leigh Somerall in a very long time, but it doesn't mean he can get her--or their whirlwind romance of ten years ago--out of his head. When she calls out of the blue, it is with a strange request to protect her brother, Tony. When Tony dies just days later, Ben is charged with a different task--protecting Leigh and her nine-year-old son, TJ, from the killers. But how can Ben keep an eye on Leigh if she's doing everything in her power to avoid him? And could the secret that Leigh is keeping change Ben's life forever? Suspense, intrigue, and a touch of romance make A Promise to Protect perfect for readers who like their stories with a hearty dose of mystery.
In From Potter's Field, #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell enters the chilling world of Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta—and a bold, brilliant killer from her past. Upon examining a dead woman found in snowbound Central Park, Scarpetta immediately recognizes the grisly work of Temple Brooks Gault. She soon realizes that Gault's murders are but a violent chain leading up to one ultimate kill—Scarpetta herself.
Support Support Support How God supported me and how I have in some ways supported others, is the most important part of life's journey. It's not easy, as my book shows, but we can all be winners at life with God's help. We can all be as God will have us be.
City-regions are areas where the daily journeys for work, shopping and leisure frequently cross administrative boundaries. They are seen as engines of the national economy, but are also facing congestion and disparities. Thus, all over the world, governments attempt to increase problem-solving capacities in city-regions by institutional reform and a shift of functions. This book analyses the recent reforms and changes in the governance of city-regions in France, Germany and Italy. It covers themes such as the impact of austerity measures, territorial development, planning and state modernisation. The authors provide a systematic cross-country perspective on two levels, between six city-regions and between the national policy frameworks in these three countries. They use a solid comparative framework, which refers to the four dimensions functions, institutions and governance, ideas and space. They describe the course of the reforms, the motivations and the results, and consequently, they question the widespread metropolitan fever or resurgence of city-regions and provide a better understanding of recent changes in city-regional governance in Europe. The primary readership will be researchers and master students in planning, urban studies, urban geography, political science and governance studies, especially those interested in metropolitan regions and / or decentralisation. Due to the uniqueness of the work, the book will be of particular interest to scholars working on the comparative European dimension of territorial governance and planning. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Find love in Amish country in these two stories The Farmer Next Door by Patricia Davids Adrian Lapp vows to never have a family again after losing his wife and son. But the newest resident of the Amish community of Hope Springs captivates him from their first meeting. Widow Faith Martin is strong and courageous. If only Adrian can open himself to the possibility of love again… Lancaster County Target by Kit Wilkinson Nurse Abby Miller witnesses a patient's shocking murder. When the masked killer spots her, she's overpowered—and left for dead. Handsome doctor Blake Jamison vows to keep her safe while investigating the mysterious patient's death. But it may be too late for Abby to protect her heart from the man who is sure to one day leave her behind.
Christmas Brings Love to Amish Country An Amish Family Christmas by Marta Perry and Patricia Davids In Heart of Christmas, Amish teacher Susannah Miller suddenly has two new students: the children of her former love. Can the joy of the season reunite lonely hearts in time for Christmas? And in A Plain Holiday, when a snowstorm strands nanny Sally Yoder, her young charges and Ben Lapp on a remote farm at Christmastime, Sally and Ben might discover that love is the true holiday spirit. Amish Triplets for Christmas by Carrie Lighte After arriving in Willow Creek to help with the fall harvest, Amish widower Sawyer Plank asks schoolteacher Hannah Lantz to be his triplets’ nanny. The children flourish under Hannah’s watch, and though Sawyer never dreamed he’d find happiness again, he can’t pretend he’s not falling for her. But with the holiday season heralding Sawyer’s return to Ohio, can he make his Christmas wish to stay a family come true?
AN AMISH CHRISTMAS When Karen Imhoff finds a beaten man lying unconscious by the road in her Amish community, she doesn't hesitate to help. "John Doe" needs a place to stay while he regains his memory, and she has a room to rent. The handsome Englisher proves invaluable around the family farm, yet his presence wreaks havoc with her emotions. Karen has her younger siblings to care for. She can't fall for an outsider who doesn't know his own identity… THE CHRISTMAS QUILT Years ago, Rebecca Beachy kept her reasons for rejecting Gideon Troyer's marriage proposal a secret. Then Gideon left their Amish community. Now, Rebecca crafts quilts to raise money to cure her blindness, and carefully guards her heart against love. Then Gideon returns, at risk of being shunned, to make the winning bid on one of her exquisite quilts. Will Rebecca's quilt—a patchwork promise of rediscovered love—bring Gideon and Rebecca back together again? A HOPE SPRINGS CHRISTMAS When Amish buggy maker Levi Beachy turns the tables on matchmaker Sarah Wyse, they just might discover they’ve already found their perfect match—in each other.
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