New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns with another thrilling story from the Casebook of Barnaby Adair . . . Miraculously spared from death, Malcolm Sinclair erases the notorious man he once was. Reinventing himself as Thomas Glendower, he strives to make amends for his past, yet he never imagines penance might come via a secretive lady he discovers living in his secluded manor. Rose has a plausible explanation for why she and her children are residing in Thomas's house, but she quickly realizes he's far too intelligent to fool. Revealing the truth is impossibly dangerous, yet day by day, he wins her trust, and then her heart. But then her enemy closes in, and Rose turns to Thomas as the only man who can protect her and the children. And when she asks for his help, Thomas finally understands his true purpose, and with unwavering commitment, he seeks his redemption in the only way he can - through living the reality of loving Rose.
#1 New York Times bestselling author returns with another thrilling story from the Casebook of Barnaby Adair . . . Miraculously spared from death, Malcolm Sinclair erases the notorious man he once was. Reinventing himself as Thomas Glendower, he strives to make amends for his past, yet he never imagines penance might come via a secretive lady he discovers living in his secluded manor. Rose has a plausible explanation for why she and her children are residing in Thomas's house, but she quickly realizes he's far too intelligent to fool. Revealing the truth is impossibly dangerous, yet day by day he wins her trust, and then her heart. But then her enemy closes in, and Rose turns to Thomas as the only man who can protect her and the children. And when she asks for his help, Thomas finally understands his true purpose, and with unwavering commitment, he seeks his redemption the only way he can—through living the reality of loving Rose.
Julia Marin has always lived by her own rules. She knows that most of the other seniors at Sullivan High School think she's weird because of her offbeat style, her clunky old car, and her part-time job at a gas station. But Julia's never cared what other people think...until she starts dating Austin Worth, an incredible guy who just happens to be part of Sullivan's in crowd.Austin likes Julia the way she is, but his friends don't. And when Austin's best friend, Lucas, starts spreading vicious rumors about Julia's past, Austin doesn't know who to believe. Will Austin stick by Julia? Or will he choose his friends over his girlfriend?
Malcolm Sinclair, who has remade himself after being miraculously spared from death, finds an opportunity to make amends for his past when a mysterious woman named Rose and her children need protection from a dangerous enemy.
This is a survival story of a single mother having thirteen children. The father runs off and leaves. She has no high school diploma and no college degree. After the father disappears and leaves her for dead, she gets well and picks herself up. We are born and raised in East St. Louis, Illinois. She goes downtown and registers to take college courses, and she starts working on her GED. She gets her GED, and she completes an associate’s degree in auto mechanics. Then she takes a part-time job at the little corner store after school. So they are left to take care of the children—cook, clean, and make sure the kids do their homework. It is tough because we are children ourselves. But we make it through the hardest times of our lives. Out of thirteen children, eleven graduate and two refuse to go. Mother graduates again with a degree in teaching. Now she is able to get off food stamps and welfare. She has a job in teaching, and now she is able to support the last six kids on a salary. Father shows back up when the last six are in high school. Mother refuses to take him back after he tried to kill her. It is a long, hard journey. But we make it through the toughest of times. I have no children of my own, but I raised a niece and a nephew and two more adopted children in Columbus, Ohio. I have been in ministry for forty-three years. I drive buses and trucks for thirty-four years. I used to take the children on the bus with me and allowed them to see what is going to happen to them if they don’t go to school and get an education. They see me get cursed out many times when I have to tell people what the fare is. This is what takes place when you don’t have God and education.
Anyone wanting to explore the world of a truly creative mind should read this book. The Odyssey is as much the reader's as it is the author's as she takes you on a compelling, courageous and visionary adventure. Sinclaire -- an internationally renowned multi-faceted artist -- film-maker, poet, theatre director, painter and healer -- represents a force that is succeeding in bringing a new paradigm of awareness and spiritual healing into the mainstream. The power of her storytelling is more than matched by the author's sublime artwork. A book that is both highly spiritual and down-to-earth.
The Seraphs follows Ben, a science teacher, who is disorganised and completely unprofessional, save for his desire to help a boy in his class. However, one day Ben is able to see his guiding spirit: a Seraph. But these have been long forgotten by the humans they are supposed to help. Bens mind is also set on winning the affections of his colleague, Lucy. Will Ben and Gabriel be able to impress Lucy and help Mike before they are discovered by The Elders?
She took on titans, battled generals, and changed the world as we know it… New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and dramatic new novel about an American heroine Frances Perkins. Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and an unyielding determination to make a difference. When she’s not working with children in the crowded tenements in Hell’s Kitchen, Frances throws herself into the social scene in Greenwich Village, befriending an eclectic group of politicians, artists, and activists, including the millionaire socialite Mary Harriman Rumsey, the flirtatious budding author Sinclair Lewis, and the brilliant but troubled reformer Paul Wilson, with whom she falls deeply in love. But when Frances meets a young lawyer named Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a tea dance, sparks fly in all the wrong directions. She thinks he’s a rich, arrogant dilettante who gets by on a handsome face and a famous name. He thinks she’s a priggish bluestocking and insufferable do-gooder. Neither knows it yet, but over the next twenty years, they will form a historic partnership that will carry them both to the White House. Frances is destined to rise in a political world dominated by men, facing down the Great Depression as FDR’s most trusted lieutenant—even as she struggles to balance the demands of a public career with marriage and motherhood. And when vicious political attacks mount and personal tragedies threaten to derail her ambitions, she must decide what she’s willing to do—and what she’s willing to sacrifice—to save a nation.
A land of legend and wild beauty - of clans, lairds, honour, and passion - Scotland forever stirs the soul of romance. Now, in one incomparable volume, four of Avon Romance′s bestselling authors present stirring tales of hearts won and weddings to be, featuring a quartet of unforgettable heroines about to discover the rapture of love in a world as untamed as the men they will one day marry
It’s when you’re too afraid to make a sound... Inside his picture-perfect home, Warren Scott runs a tight ship. He demands total respect from his family. He’ll accept nothing less. The Scotts are quiet, they keep to themselves — and to the neighbors, they seem like any other family. Then the Scotts’ facade shatters one sun-drenched morning in May. Sari Siegel is engaged to Tim Scott when his mother is found murdered. Sari barely knows the Scotts, but even she can sense the terrible secrets that seethe below the surface. Sari knows something about Peggy’s murder, but she isn’t telling ... at least not yet. For if she does, her own dreams of a perfect life with Tim will shatter. There are some family traditions no one wants to keep.
How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women's Yoga History, Stephanie Y. Evans uses primary sources to answer that question and to show how meditation and yoga from eras of enslavement, segregation, and migration to the Civil Rights, Black Power, and New Age movements have been in existence all along. Life writings by Harriet Jacobs, Sadie and Bessie Delany, Eartha Kitt, Rosa Parks, Jan Willis, and Tina Turner are only a few examples of personal case studies that are included here, illustrating how these women managed traumatic stress, anxiety, and depression. In more than fifty yoga memoirs, Black women discuss practices of reflection, exercise, movement, stretching, visualization, and chanting for self-care. By unveiling the depth of a struggle for wellness, memoirs offer lessons for those who also struggle to heal from personal, cultural, and structural violence. This intellectual history expands conceptions of yoga and defines inner peace as mental health, healing, and wellness that is both compassionate and political.
This unprecedented study of sex trafficking, forced labor, organ trafficking, and sex tourism across twenty-four nations highlights the experiences of the victims, perpetrators, and anti-traffickers involved in this brutal trade. Combining statistical data with intimate accounts and interviews, journalist Stephanie Hepburn and justice scholar Rita J. Simon create a dynamic volume sure to educate and spur action. Hepburn and Simon recount the lives of victims during and after their experience with trafficking, and they follow the activities of traffickers before capture and their outcomes after sentencing. Each chapter centers on the trafficking practices and anti-trafficking measures of a single country: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Niger, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Syria, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examining these nations' laws, Hepburn and Simon reveal gaps in legislation and enforcement and outline the cultural norms and biases, societal assumptions, and conflicting policies that make trafficking scenarios so pervasive and resilient. This study points out those most vulnerable in each nation and the specific cultural, economic, environmental, and geopolitical factors that contribute to each nation's trafficking issues. Furthermore, the study also highlights common phenomena that governments and international anti-traffickers should consider in their fight against this illicit trade.
**Pirates in Time Complete Trilogy!** Pirate's Prize A woman scorned by a thief. A pirate captain on the hunt to change his stars. Scammed by the man she trusted, all Emily wants is a fun day with her friends at the Tall Ships festival to forget about him and her lost life savings. When she and her best friend put on necklaces purchased from a vendor, she's sent back in time to 1715, alone. A sexy pirate captain saves her life, but he steals her only way home. Angry at another thief, Emily pretends to be a man and joins the crew, but her vain efforts only bring her closer to the captain, and he's not what she expected. Emily finds herself trying to prove she can handle him and the crew, but if he finds out she's a woman, it means her death, and the captain's secret could destroy her forever. Pirate's Treasure A woman devastated by petty revenge. A pirate captain fueled by vengeance. An enlightening text hours before her I-do ceremony left Angela Foxe brokenhearted and cursing technology. Having decided no decent guys are left, Angela is only interested in a good time, and at the Tall Ships festival, she intends to fulfill that wish with a little pirate booty. Instead, she finds herself transported to 1715. Captain Price doesn't care about the gold, but if he can bribe the crew, he will. Nothing is going to stop him from vengeance against the Spanish warship responsible for his brother's murder, knowing it will cost his life. When a woman appears on his ship, challenging everything he believes in, Price will have to make a choice. She just might be the one person capable of saving him in more ways than one. Pirate's Plunder A police officer desperate to save lives. A reckless pirate captain looking to self-destruct. By dating colleagues, Robin Hall had broken the cardinal rule at work, and now that mistake is following her around like a buzzing bee. Robin wants an escape, but she’d promised her friends she’d join them at the Tall Ships festival. While desperately searching for them, a handsome but disheveled man spouts crazy details of a historical world, and she’s determined to help the mentally ill enthusiast. But what if he’s telling the truth? Reputation, a pirate’s most valuable prize, but not to Captain Riley. He only wants to give his crew the ultimate prize—both showering the crew in riches and bringing him to his long-lost family. But a traitor from his past reappears, and before Riley can stop yet another betrayal, he’s transported to a foreign world of shiny beasts, amazing cooling devices, and strange food. When his rescuer follows him home, can he protect her from the plan he’d already set in motion? If you like swashbuckling cinnamon roll pirates, bold women who know what they want, a forbidden romance, and an adventure on the high seas, you'll love the Pirates in Time trilogy. Each book is a standalone with a guaranteed HEA, but best if read in order. Buy now and binge an addictive swoon-worthy, swashbuckling series on the high seas! Keywords: m/f romance, beta male, beta hero, cinnamon roll hero, pirate, pirates, pirate adventure, pirate romance, pirate romance series, pirate time travel romance, time travel romance, time travel adventure, female protagonist, romantic suspense, paranormal romantic suspense, paranormal romance, paranormal romance series for adults, pranormal romance, paranormal romance hea, sweet paranormal romance, sweet fantasy romance, fantasy, strong heroine, feisty heroine, historical fantasy books, historical fantasy romance, paranormal, supernatural, fantasy, action adventure, action & adventure, action, adventure, book, books, ebook, read, complete series, romance series, novel, secret, suspense, story, stories, hero, fiction, romance, seduction, sensual, historical, 18th century, eighteenth century, hea romance, sea adventure, beach read, Caribbean ocean, tropical island romance, tropical island romance, tropical escape, tropical island, hot guy, love book, love stories, romance novels for women, romance series, romances, romancing saga, romantic saga, sassy, sassy heroine, seduction, seduction romance, sensual, sensual books, sensual romance, series
What if the solution to student debt was reinvesting in yourself? Are you a smart, hard-working person who always seems to struggle financially? Do you ever second-guess decisions to pursue higher education because of your student loans? Has extreme budgeting eliminated joy and comfort from life, yet you’re still several years away from being debt-free? Conventional wisdom tells us the formula for success is simple: go to school, get a job, work hard, repeat as needed until you retire. It tells us that debt is the result of poor choices and irresponsible spending. Unfortunately, such advice fails to take into account the recent (and not-so-recent) graduates for whom predatory student lending rates have set them back tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars before they even enter the job market. In Buy the Avocado Toast, Stephanie Bousley shares lessons learned through years of working hard and perpetually undervaluing herself while coming to terms with owing almost $300,000 in student debt. Through a holistic approach to both net worth and self-worth, Bousley offers readers hope for their own financial situations by providing step-by-step instructions on reducing debt, living better, and rooting out the self-defeating beliefs that keep us broke.
A highly original account of the evolution of the family unit Current debates about the future of the family are often based on serious misconceptions about its past. Arguing that there is no biologically mandated or universally functional family form, Stephanie Coontz traces the complexity and variety of family arrangements in American history, from Native American kin groups to the emergence of the dominant middle-class family ideal in the 1890s. Surveying and synthesizing a vast range of previous scholarship, as well as engaging more particular studies of family life from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, Coontz offers a highly original account of the shifting structure and function of American families. Her account challenges standard interpretations of the early hegemony of middle-class privacy and “affective individualism,” pointing to the rich tradition of alternative family behaviors among various ethnic and socioeconomic groups in America, and arguing that even middle-class families went through several transformations in the course of the nineteenth centure. The present dominant family form, grounded in close interpersonal relations and premised on domestic consumption of mass-produced household goods has arisen, Coontz argues, from a long and complex series of changing political and economic conjunctures, as well as from the destruction or incorporation of several alternative family systems. A clear conception of American capitalism’s combined and uneven development is therefore essential if we are to understand the history of the family as a key social and economic unit. Lucid and detailed, The Social Origins of Private Life is likely to become the standard history of its subject.
In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society's vision of farming contains deep indications about its view of the human place within nature, and our relationship to the divine. She contends that both Hesiod in the Works and Days and Vergil in the Georgics saw farming in this way, and so wrote their poems not only about farming itself, but also about its deeper ethical and religious implications. Hesiod, Nelson argues, saw farming as revealing that man must live by the sweat of his brow, and that good, for human beings, must always be accompanied by hardship. Within this vision justice, competition, cooperation, and the need for labor take their place alongside the uncertainties of the seasons and even of particular lucky and unlucky days to form a meaningful whole within which human life is an integral part. Vergil, Nelson argues, deliberately modeled his poem upon the Works and Days, and did so in order to reveal that his is a very different vision. Hesiod saw the hardship in farming; Vergil sees its violence as well. Farming is for him both our life within nature, and also our battle against her. Against the background of Hesiods poem, which found a single meaning for human life, Vergil thus creates a split vision and suggests that human beings may be radically alienated from both nature and the divine. Nelson argues that both the Georgics and the Works and Days have been misread because scholars have not seen the importance of the connection between the two poems, and because they have not seen that farming is the true concern of both, farming in its deepest and most profoundly unsettling sense.
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