Bisbee Lockhart is a fan of crosswords, good Merlot, Florida beaches, and…British men. Bisbee loves to travel, too—mostly through deep bogs of denial that her extensive love for all things U.K. serves as a big persuasion in her dating life decisions. Fresh off another unsuccessful relationship with a picture-perfect Englishman, Bisbee swears to her (also British) best friend that she’s done with romance. Two seconds later, life would have other plans for our Bisbee. When a handsome Brit quite literally runs into her in Central Park, Bisbee finds that love comes fast. But this charismatic man brings plenty of secrets from across the pond, leaving Bisbee to face the ultimate question: Does love really conquer all like in some Jane Austen novel, or is some baggage just too heavy to successfully execute a life-changing "Love, Actually" moment?
**WINNER-2013 Beach Book Festival, Teenage Fiction** Ava Darton had it all: she was a beautiful, spunky blonde with a great group of friends, an amazing fiance, and a perfect career waiting for her as she was about to graduate college at the top of her class. All this, and she was just twenty-two years old. And in a matter of moments, it was all gone. In an instant, Ava's perfect life turns into her perfect nightmare, and unable to handle what her life has become, she attempts to end it. Failing miserably, she lands herself in Craneville, a hospital for the mentally ill. From a tough psychiatrist to a locked-down cell to fellow patients talking in riddles, Ava falls into a dark place, unsure of how to pull herself from this personal entrapment. Stripped down to her rawest bits, Ava will discover if her life was really ever perfect, or if she has just begun to figure out who Ava Darton is.
Molly McGraw was enjoying her life in Savannah, Georgia as a nurse and longtime girlfriend to her college sweetheart—until that normality is unpleasantly interrupted by the death of a grandmother she barely knew. Now, Molly must pack up everything and head out west to pick up where her grandmother left off—in cleaning up the mess that is her older sister, Rainie.Chayton Lacroix was tolerating his life in Coyote Creek, Idaho as a hospital janitor and lifetime caretaker to his chronically sick mother—until everything is interrupted by the arrival of a new neighbor across the street. Southern, sassy, and full of questions that no one ever dare ask, Molly McGraw turns Chayton's world—and heart—upside down.Together, Chayton and Molly will both learn the value of family, the darkness of prejudice, and that no matter what their circumstances were before, they are meant to make the ultimate stand in this quiet little town that has been asleep for far too long.
***Don't miss Book II in the PRINCESS series!***He is the man who turned our beloved Bets Anthony into a fairytale princess. Now, in his own words, Bets Anthony's real-life Prince Charming, Ronan Aravica, shares the story of his happy-ever-after.“At the end of the day, I'm not the most interesting man in the world. I'm not a badass, I'm not that dangerously sexy motorcycle-riding rebel, and I'm not the man who takes you on this roller coaster ride of emotions that you'll never figure out or that you'll never forget.I'm the nice guy. I'm the family man. I'm the nerd with a love for reading boring old science textbooks. I'm bluntly honest and forthright—not mysterious. I'm the guy who loves my wife genuinely, completely, and passionately. I open her doors—whether she likes it or not. I get the biggest pleasure out of falling asleep on the couch to a rerun of Bones at eight o'clock in the evening with her. I kiss my son on his forehead every night and call him “honey”.I'm a cheeseball with a lame sense of humor, and I have no concept or care about what the newest social trends are. I refuse to shave my chest, and sometimes I forget to brush my teeth in the morning…to which my wife will promptly remind me to do.I'm the nice guy. That's how I won the girl.I'm the nice guy…and I didn't finish last.”
Twenty-three-year-old Colin Serpan has finally moved on with his life, leaving his macabre past far in the shadows behind him. But just when it seems Colin's world is the closest to normal it can ever be, the sudden death of his twin sister shatters any hope for a happy future. This unexpected demise drudges up Colin's ugly past, bringing him once again face to face with the horrible crime he was an explicit part of five years earlier. There had been six of them--six teenagers miraculously covering up a brutal, bloody mistake. Now, Colin's sins have come for retribution in the form of a sinister and seemingly undefeatable entity, mercilessly taking the lives of the original six one by one. Colin has no choice but to desperately fight for survival against this darkest of evil, but as he reaches for redemption, he must accept the ultimate reality: does he deserve it? On the fragile line of guilt and atonement, will Colin and the others escape their conscience before it eats them alive? Let the feeding begin...
Bisbee Lockhart is a fan of crosswords, good Merlot, Florida beaches, and…British men. Bisbee loves to travel, too—mostly through deep bogs of denial that her extensive love for all things U.K. serves as a big persuasion in her dating life decisions. Fresh off another unsuccessful relationship with a picture-perfect Englishman, Bisbee swears to her (also British) best friend that she’s done with romance. Two seconds later, life would have other plans for our Bisbee. When a handsome Brit quite literally runs into her in Central Park, Bisbee finds that love comes fast. But this charismatic man brings plenty of secrets from across the pond, leaving Bisbee to face the ultimate question: Does love really conquer all like in some Jane Austen novel, or is some baggage just too heavy to successfully execute a life-changing "Love, Actually" moment?
Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. This box set includes: THE AMISH CHRISTMAS PROMISE by Amy Lillard Samuel Byler made a promise to take care of his late twin’s family. He returns to his Amish community to honor that oath and marry Mattie Byler—only she wants nothing to do with him. But as Samuel proves he’s a changed man, can obligation turn to love this Christmas? A WEDDING DATE FOR CHRISTMAS by Kate Keedwell Going to a Christmas Eve wedding solo is the last thing high school rivals Elizabeth Brennan and Mark Hayes want—especially when it’s their exes tying the knot. The solution? They could pretend to date. After all, they’ve got nothing to lose…except maybe their hearts. THE COWGIRL’S LAST RODEO by Tabitha Bouldin Callie Wade’s rodeo dreams are suspended when her horse suddenly goes blind. Their only chance to compete again lies with Callie’s ex—horse trainer Brody Jacobs—who still hasn’t forgotten how she broke his heart. Can working together help them see their way to the winner’s circle…and a second chance? For more stories filled with love and faith, look for Love Inspired December 2023 Box Set – 1 of 2
Magic is ubiquitous across the world and throughout history. Yet if witchcraft is acknowledged as a persistent presence in the medieval and early modern eras, practical magic by contrast – performed to a useful end for payment, and actually more common than malign spellcasting – has been overlooked. Exploring many hundred instances of daily magical usage, and setting these alongside a range of imaginative and didactic literatures, Tabitha Stanmore demonstrates the entrenched nature of 'service' magic in premodern English society. This, she shows, was a type of spellcraft for needs that nothing else could address: one well established by the time of the infamous witch trials. The book explores perceptions of magical practitioners by clients and neighbours, and the way such magic was utilised by everyone: from lowliest labourer to highest lord. Stanmore reveals that – even if technically illicit – magic was for most people an accepted, even welcome, aspect of everyday life.
A vibrant look at an unsettled and strangely familiar time that overturns our assumptions about the history of magic. Imagine: it's the year 1600 and you've lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they've been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you're facing a trial. Maybe you're looking for love or escaping a husband. What do you do? In medieval and early modern Europe, your first port of call might have been cunning folk: practitioners of “service magic.” Neither feared (like witches), nor venerated (like saints), they were essential to daily life. For people across ages, genders, and social ranks, practical magic was a cherished resource for navigating life's many challenges. In historian Tabitha Stanmore's beguiling account, we meet lovelorn widows, dissolute nobles, selfless healers, and renegade monks. We listen in on Queen Elizabeth I's astrology readings and track treasure hunters trying to unearth buried gold without upsetting the fairies that guard it. Much like us, premodern people lived in a bewildering world, buffeted by forces beyond their control. As Stanmore reveals, their faith in magic has much to teach about how to accommodate the irrational in our allegedly enlightened lives today. Charming in every sense, Cunning Folk is at once an immersive reconstruction of a bygone era and a thought-provoking commentary on the beauty and bafflement of being human.
This trainers guide was borne out of indicative results of needs assessments of medical trainers who are subject specialists but have minimal skills in executing curricula into classroom teaching and learning. The learning material in this guide is designed and developed using principles of problem-based learning. It offers practical suggestions on lesson planning, classroom and laboratory activities and presentation templates applicable to competency training. The development of numerous professional and positive life skills can be attributed to problem-based learning. These skills include; communication, professional values and ethics, teamwork, reflective practice, self-regulation, self-responsibility, self-drive, independent and life-long learning. This guide has been designed to incorporate teaching and learning methods that develop these skills.
Why We Can’t Sleep meets Furiously Happy in this hilarious, heartfelt memoir about one woman’s midlife obsession with Benedict Cumberbatch, and the liberating power of reclaiming our passions as we age, whatever they may be. Tabitha Carvan was a new mother, at home with two young children, when she fell for the actor Benedict Cumberbatch. You know the guy: strange name, alien face, made Sherlock so sexy that it became one of the most streamed shows in the world? The force of her fixation took everyone—especially Carvan herself—by surprise. But what she slowly realized was that her preoccupation was not about Benedict Cumberbatch at all, as dashing as he might be. It was about finally feeling passionate about something, anything, again at a point in her life when she had lost touch with her own identity and sense of self. In This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch, Carvan explores what happens to women's desires after we leave adolescence…and why the space in our lives for pure, unadulterated joy is squeezed ever smaller as we age. She shines a light onto the hidden corners of fandom, from the passion of the online communities to the profound real-world connections forged between Cumberbatch devotees. But more importantly, she asks: what happens if we simply decide to follow our interests like we used to—unabashedly, audaciously, shamelessly? After all, Carvan realizes, there’s true, untapped power in finding your “thing” (even if that thing happens to be a British-born Marvel superhero) and loving it like your life depends on it.
Critics agree in the abstract that "metafiction" refers to any novel that draws attention to its own fictional construction, but metafiction has been largely associated with the postmodern era. In this innovative new book Tabitha Sparks identifies a sustained pattern of metafiction in the Victorian novel that illuminates the art and intentions of its female practitioners. From the mid-nineteenth century through the fin de siècle, novels by Victorian women such as Charlotte Brontë, Rhoda Broughton, Charlotte Riddell, Eliza Lynn Linton, and several New Women authors share a common but underexamined trope: the fictional characterization of the woman novelist or autobiographer. Victorian Metafiction reveals how these novels systemically dispute the assumptions that women wrote primarily about their emotions or were restricted to trivial, sentimental plots. Countering an established tradition that has read novels by women writers as heavily autobiographical and confessional, Sparks identifies the literary technique of metafiction in numerous novels by women writers and argues that women used metafictional self-consciousness to draw the reader’s attention to the book and not the novelist. By dislodging the narrative from these cultural prescriptions, Victorian Metafiction effectively argues how these women novelists presented the business and art of writing as the subject of the novel and wrote metafiction in order to establish their artistic integrity and professional authority.
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