Cozy up with characters who know how to have a good time when the working day is done. His Toys by Ruby Storm Spring Break by Kathy Kulig Mixing Business with Pleasure by Virginia Cavanaugh
Most women spend a lifetime in search of one extraordinary love. Most will never experience the magic touch of a man who sends a hotbed of molten lava racing through her veins. She will never know the beauty of embracing that one special person who knows her every thought, who has loved her enough to wait his entire life for her to appear. As a young Sioux brave seeking his vision, Moon Runner discovers that only one woman, his Ghost Woman, will bring his life full circle. He believes.and he awaits his destiny, never envisioning that she will come to him from years in the future. After stumbling upon a photograph of a mighty Sioux warrior captured in 1884, Shannon Dunne is driven to discover why this shadowy figure calls out to her soul. She journeys to the Black Hills of South Dakota. There she discovers a love powerful enough to send her back in time, and into Moon Runner's tender embrace. But Shannon has seen the past from the future, in the form of a hangman's noose. They are lovers from two different worlds, unable to escape their past or their future. They must rely on that extraordinary love to be enough to keep them together always, to reshape destiny, to remain in one another's arms for all time. Only fate can decide.
Determined to save his people from a debilitating mutation, Mal Ton abducts a gifted geneticist and brings her to his war-torn world. Andrea wakes up naked and in the arms of a handsome doctor who claims to be Mal Ton's captive as well. Roark charms and seduces her while Mal Ton overwhelms her senses, awakening needs she didn't realize she possessed. Roark's smoldering intensity is even more intoxicating than Mal Ton's blatant sexuality. Slipping beneath her emotional defenses, Roark unleashes her passionate nature and makes her long for the soul-deep connection she gave up on long ago. She wants to believe they've found a bond more meaningful than lust, but how can she trust her captors? Now her sensuality is pitted against her intellect and the fate of two worlds hangs in the balance.
Nothing could extinguish the hot burn of unquenchable desire whenever Jackson McCay held Alli Nordstrom within his embrace-until unforeseen circumstances, steadfast patriotism, and a heart bound by honor compelled a separation between the insatiable lovers. Forced by a maelstrom of conflicting emotions, Jackson follows a silent call to arms and leaves Alli's side, never imagining that America's Civil War will keep him away for four long years. Determined to win Alli's forgiveness and regain her love, he returns to seduce her back into his arms. Though nothing has changed between them as the flame ignites once more, and Alli's heart and body still yearn for his touch, she is determined not to yield, never to forgive the heartbreak of his betrayal of both her and his country. As Jackson seductively overwhelms Allie's resistance, conspiracies begin to unfold. Whispers lie on the breeze. There are secrets.unforeseen circumstances that threaten both Alli and Jackson at every turn, until they are swept into the turbulent path of the perfect betrayal.
Perfecting pearl - "Sean Pearl has tried everything to find that one special person to share his life. He's endured endless evenings in nightclubs and horrendous singles' events. But, despite his sexy good looks, he always returns home alone because he won't settle for less than what his heart seeks. Sean couldn't believe that all it took was a quick trip through the doors of a department store for him to discover the love he's been waiting for - someone who can match his sexual desires.When Terry Winston slipped on the ice, he never dreamed that the man helping him to his feet personified the qualities he had searched for in a lover. Nothing about Sean suggested his sexual orientation. Yet it was like sniffing the air and catching a scent.Together, they will discover that love has no boundaries, no set of perfect rules."--Publisher description.
Ruby Langford Ginibi' s remarkable talent for storytelling grabbed the attention of both black and white Australians when she released Don' t Take Your Love to Town, which has gone on to become a bestseller and is now a seminal work of Indigenous memoir. Don' t Take Your Love to Town is a story of courage in the face of poverty and tragedy. Ruby recounts losing her mother when she was six, growing up in a mission in northern New South Wales and leaving home when she was fifteen. She lived in tin huts and tents in the bush and picked up work on the land while raising nine children virtually single-handedly. Later she struggled to make ends meet in the Koori areas of Sydney. Don' t Take Your Love to Town is a brilliant memoir that will open your eyes and heart to an extraordinary woman' s story.
It was going on ten o'clock the next morning when Luther heard a car pull into the ranch yard. He opened the barn door and saw the SUV. The driver's and two back doors open and three people got out. Luther stopped in his tracks. Now who in the heck was this? Could it be his new southern cook had two children? Why hadn't he mentioned that little bit of news on the phone yesterday? Well, we'll see about this! He wasnt a happy man. Luther walked purposely toward the car that stood by the front porch. Just then a chilled wind whipped the ladys hat away. The womans hair, free of its confine, flew out like a blond flag streaming in the wind. She reached up grabbing at her hair as the same frisky wind opened her coat wide enough for Luther to catch a glimpse of this delightfully shapedlady. OhWow! Luthers anger was momentarily forgotten that she was here to interview for a job. Myohmy, some southern lady, was all he could think! As he walked toward her he swept up her hat that was tumbling along the ground. "Welcome to Rocking Horse, Maam, I'm Luther Strong-bow. he was rather proud of being able to overcome his surprise. Im Miss Golight, Sir. Oh, that velvety, southern voice. Lord, help me now! Ah, pleased to meet you. Wed better go in as the storm looks to be arriving earlier than expected." he said and offered the hat back to her. Luther opened the front door and caught a whiff of some light perfume as she passed by him causing his nose to quiver like a rabbit's. Whoa boy, thats not a good sign. Luther struggled to bring himself back to a business-like mode.
In the aftermath of the Great Depression, two year old Molly Whittaker's mother dies and leaves her in the care of her father, Truman, and her two brothers. Truman is desperate to keep his family together but when World War 2 begins, his older son joins and his younger son takes residence with his uncle. Truman and Molly roam the banks of the Mississippi river, he works clearing new ground and picking cotton until he gets a job operating a ferry. But, after a steamer collides with his vessel he fears for Molly's life and tries to find work elsewhere. Truman meets with a farm couple and they persuaded him to leave Molly with them. After a few years, Truman returns with a gypsy wife and her three adolescent sons. Molly is torn from a caring home and thrust into the clutches of this strange family. The Whittaker's take to the road as migrant field workers. A tent provides the only roof over their heads. Periodically, they miscalculate the harvest seasons and fine themselves destitute and near starvation. Truman soon discovers Manita ,his wife, is a soliciting prostitute and chooses to ignore the fact due to the much needed money. During a harrowing drunken episode, Manita pins Truman to the floor with a knife though his chest. Molly witnesses the event. At eight she is orphaned. Molly suffers bells palsy, leaving her face distorted. She refuses to speak. A mute, her teacher labels her incapable of learning and sends her home. Molly grows up illiterate. After the war is over, she comes to live with her brother and his wife, in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains. There, Molly triumphs over her years of adversity and becomes a prominent southern artist. She acquires an education and finds romance, love and stability..
Ana would never fall in love - at least, so she thought. But an invitation to spend the summer with an old school friend changed that idea rapidly. Her friend had a husband. And from the moment they first met, Ana knew that Anthony Hambledon was somebody she would not, could not, forget. The path of true love never runs smooth, and this was no exception. But neither of them could have foreseen the pain and ultimate tragedy that lay ahead...
What will Miss Amelia Wainwright find on her arrival in Bermuda? There is a secret map and the hint of hidden treasure. However, the mysteries held in store were more than anyone could imagine. The story takes a supernatural turn and a long hidden historical mystery begins to unravel. What will happen next?
First published in 1973, The Pacific Crest Trail, Vol. 1, California quickly established itself as the "PCT Bible"-- the book trekkers could not do without. Now thoroughly updated and redesigned into two portable volumes, Pacific Crest Trail: Southern California starts at the Mexican border and guides you to Yosemite's beautiful back country. Its companion volume meets the trail at Tuolumne Meadows and drops you at Oregon's door. Thru-hikers to Canada will find the rest of their journey in Pacific Crest Trail: Oregon & Washington. Our PCT gurus help you locate the trail, water sources, and resupply access routes with detailed descriptions, customized maps, and tips on alternate routes. Whether you're planning day hikes, weekend or week long backbacks, or an ambitious thru-hike, everything you need to know about--from bears to trees--is here.
The pathway to equity begins with YOU. Good intentions are not enough. To dismantle the structural inequities that continue to plague our schools, dedicated leaders must move beyond buzzword rhetoric to a place of action, where concrete steps trace a path to strategic action and sustainable impact. The authors of this book have made that shift. Drawing from their experiences leading the educational-equity agenda for the nation’s largest school district, they present their model for practical, outcome-oriented antiracist leadership. Features include An original framework built on five interdependent pillars: Self Mastery, Adaptive Leadership, Racial Literacy, Emergence, and Whole-Body Healing Real-life vignettes providing insights into the pillars and how they work together Structured opportunities and tools that support processes at the individual and collective development levels Disrupting and dismantling inequities is a complex, yet urgent, process. If you’re ready to meet this moral leadership challenge, Shifting Self and System will equip you with the knowledge, disposition, and capacity to create equitable schools and systems for all the students you serve.
The war memories for each were not easy to tell or write, for some had repressed them long ago. We have been able to live the American Dream through dedicated soldiers as the 250th Field Artillerymen. They spent many nights together away from home with ties that would bind them together that has never loosened over the years. Their stories are inspiring ones of faith, courage, patriotism and some told with humor, which helped to put their experience into perspective - somewhat! During this time, our people here at home were doing their part in everyway they could. Everyone listened to the radio for further news. The good news finally came - from "Day of Infamy" to "VE-VJ Day!" As a light weight 105mm howitzer battalion they would become known for their firing power. They made history and are leaving a legacy to be most proud. They proved they still can answer to the call of duty. I am proud to say, never once did I not enjoy my work with each of these men. Let's just say - we have a deeper friendship than when we began this project together. I became their ears and wrote the word for many of them. I scribbled making notes as they talked and then, when hunched over my keyboard to translate from them working into the early morning hours. I pray I conveyed each story as each of them would have. As I wrote, I got the sense what the American flag meant to each - it symbolized a Tradition of Caring. I wrote with a lump in my throat and a tear in my eyes and, yes, a little snicker.
The true story of how the first English colony in the New World was lost to history, then found again three hundred years later. England's first attempt at colonizing the New World was not at Roanoke or Jamestown, but on a mostly frozen small island in the Canadian Arctic. Queen Elizabeth I called that place Meta Incognita -- the Unknown Shore. Backed by Elizabeth I and her key advisors, including the legendary spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and the shadowy Dr. John Dee, the erstwhile pirate Sir Martin Frobisher set out three times across the North Atlantic, in the process leading what is still the largest Arctic expedition in history. In this forbidding place, Frobisher believed he had discovered vast quantities of gold, the fabled Northwest Passage to the riches of Cathay, and a suitable place for a year-round colony. But Frobisher's dream turned into a nightmare, and his colony was lost to history for nearly three centuries. In this brilliantly conceived dual narrative, Robert Ruby interweaves Frobisher's saga with that of the nineteenth-century American Charles Francis Hall, whose explorations of this same landscape enabled him to hear the oral history of the Inuit, passed down through generations. It was these stories that unlocked the mystery of Frobisher's lost colony. Unknown Shore is the story of two men's travels, and of what these men shared three centuries apart. Ultimately, it is a tale of men driven by greed and ambition, of the hard labor of exploration, of the Inuit and their land, and of great gambles gone wrong.
Shakespeare's plays have never had a larger audience than they do in our time. This wide viewing is complemented by modern scholarship, which has verified and elucidated the plays' texts. Nevertheless, Shakespeare's plays continue to be revised. In order to find out how and why he has been rewritten, Ruby Cohn examines modern dramatic offshoots in English, French, and German. Surveying drama intended for the serious theater, the author discusses modern versions of Shakespeare's plays, especially Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest. Although the focus is always on drama, contrast is supplied by fiction stemming from Hamlet and essays inspired by King Lear. The book concludes with an assessment of the influence of Shakespeare on the creative work of Shaw, Brecht, and Beckett. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
In 1953 young surgeon Robert H. Ruby began work as the chief medical officer at the hospital on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He began writing almost daily to his sister, describing the Oglala Lakota people he served, his Bureau of Indian Affairs colleagues, and day-to-day life on the reservation. Ruby and his wife were active in the social life of the non-white community, which allowed Ruby, also a self-trained ethnographer, to write in detail about the Oglala Lakota people and their culture, covering topics such as religion, art, traditions, and values. His frank and personal depiction of conditions he encountered on the reservation examines poverty, alcoholism, the educational system, and employment conditions and opportunities. Ruby also wrote critically of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, describing the bureaucracy that made it difficult for him to do his job and kept his hospital permanently understaffed and undersupplied. These engaging letters provide a compelling memoir of life at Pine Ridge in the mid-1950s.
When life happens, we all need a little pick-me-up from time to time. This book will remind you that there is a silver lining in every cloud … if you look for it. In fact, sometimes the entire cloud is covered in silver and bling! Some of the short stories will produce a smile and a chuckle, like the conversation I had with my two-year-old grandson as he was trying to figure out if Grandma was an idiot or not! They may also incite a tear or two—perhaps when reading about the houseguest who broke my heart when I realized the deprivation he must have suffered while in a cult. His excitement over bologna sandwiches just may melt your heart! Experience with me the warmth of family as the young 'uns steal the show. Be encouraged to take up the childish task of tattling again, but this time with a twist. Let’s learn how to focus on the good we see in others and talk about that! Enjoy these snack-size portions served up to lift your soul as you make your way to the ultimate celebration, a.k.a the “party!”
The Adventures of Zumba and Rumba is a childrens book. It is designed for seven- to twelve-year-old readers. The story takes place in Africa, mainly in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, and Somalia. Zumba and Rumba are brother and sister who are separated from their parents when warriors raid a village where they are visiting. Zumba is the boy, and he is eleven years old. Rumba is ten years old. In Book 3, they are searching for their mother. They must travel across Tanzania and Kenya to reach Somalia. Once in Somalia, they must find where their mother is being held by slave-trading pirates. They are aided by a fourteen-year-old Somali boy whom they rescue. He is an excellent sailor, and they are able to sail along the coast of Somalia to attempt a rescue. Warriors, crocodiles, sharks, pirates, cyclones, and wild hogs put them in constant danger.
The battle has been long and hard, the evil relentless, unending. And out of their hauntingly erotic dreams and into the lives of the battle-weary Shadow Warriors come four beautiful women - sisters, not only of the flesh, but of the soul and the Earth. Her mistresses - each possessed of a power and love to equal that of their warrior. But consuming passion, undying love and gifts of mystical power come at immense cost, and Fate and Destiny demand their price...
Ranges from the hackers at MIT in the 1960s to professional "cyberathletes," in an up-close and personal look at the egos, battles, and one-upmanship of the mavericks, geniuses, and geeks behind the videogame revolution. Reprint.
While staying with her family in Louisiana's Laurel Oaks Plantation, purported to be one of the most haunted places in America, thirteen-year-old Lila is contacted by the ghost of a slave girl unjustly convicted of murder. Story inspired by the author's visit to the Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana.
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