Author: S. King
Publisher: S. King Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Oralee Salazar had spent four years at a dead end job. Wasted three years with someone who didn’t love her. And for what? Nothing. She didn’t know what her calling was or if she even had one. Until he happened. Oralee had tried to become the perfect friend, girlfriend, assistant and woman. Under the guise her life would be the very definition of perfection. However, when a day of unfortunate happenings occur back to back Oralee's friend, Liz decides what better way to get her mind off things than to take a spontaneous trip to the Bahamas. Unfortunately, the girls never reach the desired white sand beaches, hunks in speedos and paradise they had dreamed of. Instead, they wind up in a completely different world with a completely different set of rules. The key player for Oralee Salazar? Lucian Winter, the fifth prince of the Cyvon dynasty. Lucian Winter, a prince and a war torn soldier, had risked life and limb for the family he was born into. It was his duty. His calling and the best chance he had at survival when it came to watching one emperor rescind the throne and another take his place. With a personality everyone feared and mismatched eyes, Lucian is the opposite of perfection in comparison to his remaining brothers. But that becomes the least of his concerns when two women seemingly fall in front of the throne and turn Bradington Palace upside down and inside out. With an imperial family watching every move they make and a prince hellbent on seeing Oralee fall, the women find themselves in a power struggle with Oralee being the main target for a vindictive empress. Having no way of getting back to their hometown, Geerolk, Liz and Oralee will have to conform to the Cyvon dynasty’s rules or die trying. Will Liz and Oralee return to the world they belong in? Or does Lucian Winter have other plans for the outsiders? Find out in Don’t Leave the Light On.
Don't Leave the Light On
Author: S. King
Publisher: S. King Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Oralee Salazar had spent four years at a dead end job. Wasted three years with someone who didn’t love her. And for what? Nothing. She didn’t know what her calling was or if she even had one. Until he happened. Oralee had tried to become the perfect friend, girlfriend, assistant and woman. Under the guise her life would be the very definition of perfection. However, when a day of unfortunate happenings occur back to back Oralee's friend, Liz decides what better way to get her mind off things than to take a spontaneous trip to the Bahamas. Unfortunately, the girls never reach the desired white sand beaches, hunks in speedos and paradise they had dreamed of. Instead, they wind up in a completely different world with a completely different set of rules. The key player for Oralee Salazar? Lucian Winter, the fifth prince of the Cyvon dynasty. Lucian Winter, a prince and a war torn soldier, had risked life and limb for the family he was born into. It was his duty. His calling and the best chance he had at survival when it came to watching one emperor rescind the throne and another take his place. With a personality everyone feared and mismatched eyes, Lucian is the opposite of perfection in comparison to his remaining brothers. But that becomes the least of his concerns when two women seemingly fall in front of the throne and turn Bradington Palace upside down and inside out. With an imperial family watching every move they make and a prince hellbent on seeing Oralee fall, the women find themselves in a power struggle with Oralee being the main target for a vindictive empress. Having no way of getting back to their hometown, Geerolk, Liz and Oralee will have to conform to the Cyvon dynasty’s rules or die trying. Will Liz and Oralee return to the world they belong in? Or does Lucian Winter have other plans for the outsiders? Find out in Don’t Leave the Light On.
Publisher: S. King Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Oralee Salazar had spent four years at a dead end job. Wasted three years with someone who didn’t love her. And for what? Nothing. She didn’t know what her calling was or if she even had one. Until he happened. Oralee had tried to become the perfect friend, girlfriend, assistant and woman. Under the guise her life would be the very definition of perfection. However, when a day of unfortunate happenings occur back to back Oralee's friend, Liz decides what better way to get her mind off things than to take a spontaneous trip to the Bahamas. Unfortunately, the girls never reach the desired white sand beaches, hunks in speedos and paradise they had dreamed of. Instead, they wind up in a completely different world with a completely different set of rules. The key player for Oralee Salazar? Lucian Winter, the fifth prince of the Cyvon dynasty. Lucian Winter, a prince and a war torn soldier, had risked life and limb for the family he was born into. It was his duty. His calling and the best chance he had at survival when it came to watching one emperor rescind the throne and another take his place. With a personality everyone feared and mismatched eyes, Lucian is the opposite of perfection in comparison to his remaining brothers. But that becomes the least of his concerns when two women seemingly fall in front of the throne and turn Bradington Palace upside down and inside out. With an imperial family watching every move they make and a prince hellbent on seeing Oralee fall, the women find themselves in a power struggle with Oralee being the main target for a vindictive empress. Having no way of getting back to their hometown, Geerolk, Liz and Oralee will have to conform to the Cyvon dynasty’s rules or die trying. Will Liz and Oralee return to the world they belong in? Or does Lucian Winter have other plans for the outsiders? Find out in Don’t Leave the Light On.
Charlotte Leaves the Light On
Author: Annette Smith
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802480012
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Here is the third and final book in the Ruby Prairie series about a small town in Texas and the quirky characters who live there. Life in Ruby Prairie is seen through the eyes of Charlotte, a widow in her mid-thirties who has come to the town to open her home and be a foster mother for girls.
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802480012
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Here is the third and final book in the Ruby Prairie series about a small town in Texas and the quirky characters who live there. Life in Ruby Prairie is seen through the eyes of Charlotte, a widow in her mid-thirties who has come to the town to open her home and be a foster mother for girls.
Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light
Author: Helen Ellis
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385546165
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with an “inspiring, hilarious, straight-to-the-point” (Entertainment Weekly) collection of essays on friendship among grown-ass women. "Ellis' prose is filled with so many laugh lines, you might want to go ahead and book the Botox.” —NPR When Helen Ellis and her lifelong friends arrive for a reunion on the Redneck Riviera, they unpack more than their suitcases: stories of husbands and kids, lost parents and lost jobs, powdered onion dip and photographs you have to hold by the edges, dirty jokes and sunscreen with SPF higher than they hair-sprayed their bangs senior year, and a bad mammogram. It's a diagnosis that scares them, but could never break their bond. Because women pushing fifty won't be pushed around. In these twelve gloriously comic and moving essays, Helen Ellis dishes on married middle-age sex, sobs with a theater full of women as a psychic exorcises their sorrows, gets twenty shots of stomach bile to the neck to get rid of her double chin, and gathers up the courage to ask, "Are you there, Menopause? It's Me, Helen." A book that reads like the best cocktail party of your life, Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light is alive with the sensational humor and ferocious love for her friends that won Helen Ellis legions of fans. This book has a raw vulnerability and an emotional generosity that takes this acclaimed author to a whole new level of accomplishment.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385546165
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with an “inspiring, hilarious, straight-to-the-point” (Entertainment Weekly) collection of essays on friendship among grown-ass women. "Ellis' prose is filled with so many laugh lines, you might want to go ahead and book the Botox.” —NPR When Helen Ellis and her lifelong friends arrive for a reunion on the Redneck Riviera, they unpack more than their suitcases: stories of husbands and kids, lost parents and lost jobs, powdered onion dip and photographs you have to hold by the edges, dirty jokes and sunscreen with SPF higher than they hair-sprayed their bangs senior year, and a bad mammogram. It's a diagnosis that scares them, but could never break their bond. Because women pushing fifty won't be pushed around. In these twelve gloriously comic and moving essays, Helen Ellis dishes on married middle-age sex, sobs with a theater full of women as a psychic exorcises their sorrows, gets twenty shots of stomach bile to the neck to get rid of her double chin, and gathers up the courage to ask, "Are you there, Menopause? It's Me, Helen." A book that reads like the best cocktail party of your life, Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light is alive with the sensational humor and ferocious love for her friends that won Helen Ellis legions of fans. This book has a raw vulnerability and an emotional generosity that takes this acclaimed author to a whole new level of accomplishment.
Canal Record
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
The Quiet Light
Author: George Dick
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1469746638
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
While on a summer, history research trip in 1976, Canadian, William Dick finds himself dumped by his girlfriend in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. He soon meets up with Jacques Pierre Falstaff an Australian with a French-Canadian background. Falstaff is known by his friends as BS Jack and gets Bill Dick a room at the Alvermay, a seedy hotel, run by Fripp, a black man raised on Fripp Island. BS Jack tells Bill and Fripp a story about how Benjamin Franklin arranged for Bill's ancestors from Edinburgh, Scotland to send a fortune over to Charleston in the 1770's to help the Patriots win the revolutionary war against the British. Jack then pulls a stunt that gets Bill into trouble with the law. Fripp hides Bill at the Blue Dolphin Inn on Fripp Island. Spending days in Beaufort, Bill meets an eclectic group of characters, who together with Fripp and BS Jack search out the treasure they believe to be hidden in and around Charleston. The clues that they follow are from stories that Bill's grandfather told him. A double cross, leads to a double murder in Sumter County that remains unsolved to this day.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1469746638
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
While on a summer, history research trip in 1976, Canadian, William Dick finds himself dumped by his girlfriend in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. He soon meets up with Jacques Pierre Falstaff an Australian with a French-Canadian background. Falstaff is known by his friends as BS Jack and gets Bill Dick a room at the Alvermay, a seedy hotel, run by Fripp, a black man raised on Fripp Island. BS Jack tells Bill and Fripp a story about how Benjamin Franklin arranged for Bill's ancestors from Edinburgh, Scotland to send a fortune over to Charleston in the 1770's to help the Patriots win the revolutionary war against the British. Jack then pulls a stunt that gets Bill into trouble with the law. Fripp hides Bill at the Blue Dolphin Inn on Fripp Island. Spending days in Beaufort, Bill meets an eclectic group of characters, who together with Fripp and BS Jack search out the treasure they believe to be hidden in and around Charleston. The clues that they follow are from stories that Bill's grandfather told him. A double cross, leads to a double murder in Sumter County that remains unsolved to this day.
Ancient City Hauntings
Author: Dave Lapham
Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN: 1561643076
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
St. Augustine is Americas oldest city--and perhaps its most haunted. David Lapham's first volume, Ghosts of St. Augustine, has proven very popular. Enjoy another twenty-five hair-raising stories from the ethereal shadows of the Ancient City's murky past. Why is St. Augustine so ghost-ridden, so filled with spirits? Since the release of Ghosts of St. Augustine, the Ancient City has been the subject of numerous television documentaries and paranormal investigations. Ghost tours have burgeoned. Few have been disappointed in their quests for supernatural experiences. Come walk again with Dave Lapham through the dark, enduring streets of St. Augustine and shiver in the ice-cold pockets of air that smother you in the black of night. Listen to the gentle lapping of the water along the bay front and the distant murmurs of French sailors being slaughtered on the river. Come visit the Oldest House, the Old Jail, Ripleys, the Oldest School House, and all the many haunted B&Bs and other establishments that harbor wandering souls and spirits from ancient times. Chill to the ghosts you'll find in the Pumpkin Church, the Casa de La Paz and Casa de Sueños. Meet the warriors of Moultrie Creek, the ghost of the old Spanish Washer Woman, and the ghosts of the Minorcans. You'll encounter dogs and demons, herbal creations, and even ghost magnets.
Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN: 1561643076
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
St. Augustine is Americas oldest city--and perhaps its most haunted. David Lapham's first volume, Ghosts of St. Augustine, has proven very popular. Enjoy another twenty-five hair-raising stories from the ethereal shadows of the Ancient City's murky past. Why is St. Augustine so ghost-ridden, so filled with spirits? Since the release of Ghosts of St. Augustine, the Ancient City has been the subject of numerous television documentaries and paranormal investigations. Ghost tours have burgeoned. Few have been disappointed in their quests for supernatural experiences. Come walk again with Dave Lapham through the dark, enduring streets of St. Augustine and shiver in the ice-cold pockets of air that smother you in the black of night. Listen to the gentle lapping of the water along the bay front and the distant murmurs of French sailors being slaughtered on the river. Come visit the Oldest House, the Old Jail, Ripleys, the Oldest School House, and all the many haunted B&Bs and other establishments that harbor wandering souls and spirits from ancient times. Chill to the ghosts you'll find in the Pumpkin Church, the Casa de La Paz and Casa de Sueños. Meet the warriors of Moultrie Creek, the ghost of the old Spanish Washer Woman, and the ghosts of the Minorcans. You'll encounter dogs and demons, herbal creations, and even ghost magnets.
Good words, ed. by N. Macleod
Author: Norman Macleod
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Leave the Little Light On, Book One: Windsor
Author: Sonia Palleck
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 103916238X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Athena Brkovich believes in true love. Born into a blue collar family in 1968, young Athena and her sisters are sent away when their mother is hospitalized and their father is unable to care for them. The beginnings of trauma, separation, denial and suffering set Athena on her path. Brilliant, but naive, Athena refuses to grow up and become part of an adult world she doesn’t trust. But as time unfolds, the guilt that swirls around her beloved sister Lejla, and the blossoming desire for her soulmate Niko, plunge Athena into confusion. When circumstances bring them all together in high school, betrayal threatens to engulf Athena in shame and hatred. No matter how many walls Athena builds to escape her painful past, she must confront the person she is becoming in a society where only the strong survive. Compelling, and at times tragic, Book 1 explores the themes of childhood trauma, family conflict, alcoholism, and teenage love. Despite the darkness, Athena struggles to follow the little light inside herself, guiding her to forgiveness, peace, redemption, and the ultimate prize, love.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 103916238X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Athena Brkovich believes in true love. Born into a blue collar family in 1968, young Athena and her sisters are sent away when their mother is hospitalized and their father is unable to care for them. The beginnings of trauma, separation, denial and suffering set Athena on her path. Brilliant, but naive, Athena refuses to grow up and become part of an adult world she doesn’t trust. But as time unfolds, the guilt that swirls around her beloved sister Lejla, and the blossoming desire for her soulmate Niko, plunge Athena into confusion. When circumstances bring them all together in high school, betrayal threatens to engulf Athena in shame and hatred. No matter how many walls Athena builds to escape her painful past, she must confront the person she is becoming in a society where only the strong survive. Compelling, and at times tragic, Book 1 explores the themes of childhood trauma, family conflict, alcoholism, and teenage love. Despite the darkness, Athena struggles to follow the little light inside herself, guiding her to forgiveness, peace, redemption, and the ultimate prize, love.
Machinery
Author: Fred Herbert Colvin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
Hand to Hold
Author: JJ Heller
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0593193253
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
This heartwarming picture book reassures children that a parent’s love never lets go—based on the poignant lyrics of JJ Heller’s beloved lullaby “Hand to Hold.” “May the living light inside you be the compass as you go / May you always know you have my hand to hold.” With delightful illustrations and an engaging rhyme scheme, this book offers the promise of security and love every child’s heart longs to know. From skipping stones and counting stars to climbing trees and telling stories, every moment is wrapped snugly in the certain warmth of a parent’s presence and God’s blessing. With poignancy and joy, this bedtime read captures the unconditional love parents want their children to know but so often fail to express amid the chaos of daily life.
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0593193253
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
This heartwarming picture book reassures children that a parent’s love never lets go—based on the poignant lyrics of JJ Heller’s beloved lullaby “Hand to Hold.” “May the living light inside you be the compass as you go / May you always know you have my hand to hold.” With delightful illustrations and an engaging rhyme scheme, this book offers the promise of security and love every child’s heart longs to know. From skipping stones and counting stars to climbing trees and telling stories, every moment is wrapped snugly in the certain warmth of a parent’s presence and God’s blessing. With poignancy and joy, this bedtime read captures the unconditional love parents want their children to know but so often fail to express amid the chaos of daily life.