Author: Lynne Graham
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459201795
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 3
Book Description
Cesario di Silvestri isn't just fast with women, he's supersonic. After mere minutes spent in his charismatic presence, many of Europe's most glamorous women tumble into his bed… With the exception of one—shy vet Jessica Martin, who refuses to become his weekend plaything. But when Jess's flaky relatives steal from Halston Hall, Cesario's country retreat, he has all the ammunition he needs! For now he'll enjoy her creamy-skinned beauty, but in the future he'll need an heir….
Jess's Promise
Author: Lynne Graham
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459201795
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 3
Book Description
Cesario di Silvestri isn't just fast with women, he's supersonic. After mere minutes spent in his charismatic presence, many of Europe's most glamorous women tumble into his bed… With the exception of one—shy vet Jessica Martin, who refuses to become his weekend plaything. But when Jess's flaky relatives steal from Halston Hall, Cesario's country retreat, he has all the ammunition he needs! For now he'll enjoy her creamy-skinned beauty, but in the future he'll need an heir….
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459201795
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 3
Book Description
Cesario di Silvestri isn't just fast with women, he's supersonic. After mere minutes spent in his charismatic presence, many of Europe's most glamorous women tumble into his bed… With the exception of one—shy vet Jessica Martin, who refuses to become his weekend plaything. But when Jess's flaky relatives steal from Halston Hall, Cesario's country retreat, he has all the ammunition he needs! For now he'll enjoy her creamy-skinned beauty, but in the future he'll need an heir….
Promises to the Dead
Author: Mary Downing Hahn
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780547258386
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A white boy helps a black child escape slavery in the midst of the Civil War
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780547258386
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A white boy helps a black child escape slavery in the midst of the Civil War
Jessica's Promise
Author: Jill Childs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781786816467
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
'You wouldn't trust a stranger with your wallet. Or your house keys. So why your little girl, the most precious thing you have?' Teresa's heart stops when she enters her daughter's bedroom to find that her sweet, trusting little girl is gone. Teresa can't bear to think who would snatch a terrified three-year-old from her mother in the middle of the night, but all the signs point to someone close to home. Hasn't Jessica's stepfather been acting a little oddly? Or is it, as Teresa is beginning to fear, something to do with Angie, her daughter's babysitter who lives next door...? Gentle, retired Angie - she must be lonely, with only her memories to keep her company in that big, old house. And she's always had a special connection with Jessica... was trusting Angie with her precious daughter the biggest mistake of Teresa's life? What do we really know about those who watch our children? Jessica's Promise is a compelling domestic drama for fans of Jodi Picoult, Lisa Wingate and Kerry Fisher. Readers absolutely love Jill Childs... 'Wow! A big huge emotional and overwhelming WOW!... A heart-breaking and thought-provoking tale of a mother's overwhelming and all-encompassing love for her daughter. I honestly thought I knew where this story was going but a couple of twists had me fooled and then there's a huge, clever reveal that absolutely floored me. It's a rare and beautiful thing to be moved to tears by a story that also makes you reflect long after the book is finished... Loved it.' 5 stars, Off on a Tangent 'Oh. My. Gosh. Just trying to catch my breath... started reading this late yesterday and actually cancelled plans this morning to finish it. Excellent!' Goodreads reviewer 'I was completely hooked... This book was utterly impossible to put down! Wow! I read it from cover to cover in one sitting... truly an intense psychological thriller... from the very start to the shocking conclusion!' 5 stars, Goodreads reviewer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781786816467
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
'You wouldn't trust a stranger with your wallet. Or your house keys. So why your little girl, the most precious thing you have?' Teresa's heart stops when she enters her daughter's bedroom to find that her sweet, trusting little girl is gone. Teresa can't bear to think who would snatch a terrified three-year-old from her mother in the middle of the night, but all the signs point to someone close to home. Hasn't Jessica's stepfather been acting a little oddly? Or is it, as Teresa is beginning to fear, something to do with Angie, her daughter's babysitter who lives next door...? Gentle, retired Angie - she must be lonely, with only her memories to keep her company in that big, old house. And she's always had a special connection with Jessica... was trusting Angie with her precious daughter the biggest mistake of Teresa's life? What do we really know about those who watch our children? Jessica's Promise is a compelling domestic drama for fans of Jodi Picoult, Lisa Wingate and Kerry Fisher. Readers absolutely love Jill Childs... 'Wow! A big huge emotional and overwhelming WOW!... A heart-breaking and thought-provoking tale of a mother's overwhelming and all-encompassing love for her daughter. I honestly thought I knew where this story was going but a couple of twists had me fooled and then there's a huge, clever reveal that absolutely floored me. It's a rare and beautiful thing to be moved to tears by a story that also makes you reflect long after the book is finished... Loved it.' 5 stars, Off on a Tangent 'Oh. My. Gosh. Just trying to catch my breath... started reading this late yesterday and actually cancelled plans this morning to finish it. Excellent!' Goodreads reviewer 'I was completely hooked... This book was utterly impossible to put down! Wow! I read it from cover to cover in one sitting... truly an intense psychological thriller... from the very start to the shocking conclusion!' 5 stars, Goodreads reviewer
The Promise of Deception
Author: Jessica Sly
Publisher: Mountain Brook Fire
ISBN: 9781953957085
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Adelynn Spencer, a spirited member of the Edwardian London upper class, struggles under the conditions of her engagement to Detective Inspector Baze Ford. But during the gala announcing their betrothal, events take a fatal turn when Adelynn experiences a vivid dream of a man dying with a knife buried in his chest. To her alarm, Baze and his men later discover the man exactly as she witnessed. When Adelynn sees a second dream-a second victim-she tries to convince Baze that there are more sinister things at work. Choosing hard evidence over Adelynn's outrageous claims, Baze dismisses her and turns his attention to the location of the most recent crime, the Empress Theatre. Determined to uncover the truth of her visions, Adelynn investigates on her own. She infiltrates the theater and becomes spellbound by the charming spectacle of the resident magician. As Baze wrestles with the decision to harden his heart or take action to protect the woman who means everything to him, Adelynn ventures further into the clutches of magic and murder. Can she keep her mind safe and draw the killer out of the shadows?
Publisher: Mountain Brook Fire
ISBN: 9781953957085
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Adelynn Spencer, a spirited member of the Edwardian London upper class, struggles under the conditions of her engagement to Detective Inspector Baze Ford. But during the gala announcing their betrothal, events take a fatal turn when Adelynn experiences a vivid dream of a man dying with a knife buried in his chest. To her alarm, Baze and his men later discover the man exactly as she witnessed. When Adelynn sees a second dream-a second victim-she tries to convince Baze that there are more sinister things at work. Choosing hard evidence over Adelynn's outrageous claims, Baze dismisses her and turns his attention to the location of the most recent crime, the Empress Theatre. Determined to uncover the truth of her visions, Adelynn investigates on her own. She infiltrates the theater and becomes spellbound by the charming spectacle of the resident magician. As Baze wrestles with the decision to harden his heart or take action to protect the woman who means everything to him, Adelynn ventures further into the clutches of magic and murder. Can she keep her mind safe and draw the killer out of the shadows?
The Promise of Jesse Woods
Author: Chris Fabry
Publisher: NavPress
ISBN: 1496414632
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
2017 Christianity Today “Award of Merit” winner 2017 Christy Award winner! (General Fiction category) The summer of 1972 was the most pivotal of Matt Plumley’s childhood. While his beloved Pirates battle for back-to-back World Series titles, Matt’s family moves from Pittsburgh to Dogwood, West Virginia, where his father steps into the pulpit of a church under the thumb of town leader Basil Blackwood. A fish out of water, Matt is relieved to forge a fast bond with two unlikely friends: Dickie Darrel Lee Hancock, a mixed-race boy, and Jesse Woods, a tough-as-nails girl with a sister on her hip and no dad in sight. As the trio traipses the hills and hollers, Matt begins to fall for Jesse, and their promises to each other draw him deeper into her terrifying reality. One night, the wrath of the Blackwoods and the secrets of Jesse’s family collide, and Matt joins Jesse in a rescue that saves one life and ends another . . . and severs the bond of their friendship. Years later, Matt is pulled back to Dogwood and to memories of that momentous summer by news of Jesse’s upcoming wedding. He could never shake the feeling that there was more to the story of that fateful night, and he’s determined to learn the truth behind the only promise Jesse Woods ever broke.
Publisher: NavPress
ISBN: 1496414632
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
2017 Christianity Today “Award of Merit” winner 2017 Christy Award winner! (General Fiction category) The summer of 1972 was the most pivotal of Matt Plumley’s childhood. While his beloved Pirates battle for back-to-back World Series titles, Matt’s family moves from Pittsburgh to Dogwood, West Virginia, where his father steps into the pulpit of a church under the thumb of town leader Basil Blackwood. A fish out of water, Matt is relieved to forge a fast bond with two unlikely friends: Dickie Darrel Lee Hancock, a mixed-race boy, and Jesse Woods, a tough-as-nails girl with a sister on her hip and no dad in sight. As the trio traipses the hills and hollers, Matt begins to fall for Jesse, and their promises to each other draw him deeper into her terrifying reality. One night, the wrath of the Blackwoods and the secrets of Jesse’s family collide, and Matt joins Jesse in a rescue that saves one life and ends another . . . and severs the bond of their friendship. Years later, Matt is pulled back to Dogwood and to memories of that momentous summer by news of Jesse’s upcoming wedding. He could never shake the feeling that there was more to the story of that fateful night, and he’s determined to learn the truth behind the only promise Jesse Woods ever broke.
A Promise to Jess
Author: Sean Graham
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532015569
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
From the beginning of their first season in 1995, this group of eight- and nine-year-olds take their coaches and families on a magical journey of inspiration, excitement, hardship, and incredible accomplishments. The parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers, friends, fans, and coaches alike are wrapped up in the lives of the Warriors for an intense, eight-week period. This little ragtag bunch of players is one of a number of Tyke teams in a city league. For most of them, this is their first experience of football or of participating in a team sport. Their first season gives them a taste of victory and they win the B cup city championship. The author begins the second season as an assistant coach, practicing not only with his oldest son, Jess, on the team but his younger brother, Kurt, as well. He comes up with a new offensive strategy that helps bring the team out of the doldrums. Living on the emotional roller coaster alongside his players, the author witnesses these young kids grow and flourish as a team. Join Sean Graham as he shares the simple pleasures and rewards he finds in coaching the Warriors, and allow them to capture your heart and inspire you, as they did for so many of their fans.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532015569
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
From the beginning of their first season in 1995, this group of eight- and nine-year-olds take their coaches and families on a magical journey of inspiration, excitement, hardship, and incredible accomplishments. The parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers, friends, fans, and coaches alike are wrapped up in the lives of the Warriors for an intense, eight-week period. This little ragtag bunch of players is one of a number of Tyke teams in a city league. For most of them, this is their first experience of football or of participating in a team sport. Their first season gives them a taste of victory and they win the B cup city championship. The author begins the second season as an assistant coach, practicing not only with his oldest son, Jess, on the team but his younger brother, Kurt, as well. He comes up with a new offensive strategy that helps bring the team out of the doldrums. Living on the emotional roller coaster alongside his players, the author witnesses these young kids grow and flourish as a team. Join Sean Graham as he shares the simple pleasures and rewards he finds in coaching the Warriors, and allow them to capture your heart and inspire you, as they did for so many of their fans.
Jess Makes a Promise
Author: Gillian Shields
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
ISBN: 9780747589716
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Riding on the back of Monty, the Whale Express, to the Beachcomber Islands, the mermaids come under attack from a whaling boat. Jess devises an ingenious plan to outwit the whalers and to help the smaller sea life at the bottom of the ocean as well. Jess puts herself into a lot of danger to save her friends, but her actions also lead the brave mermaids towards the next Snow Diamond.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
ISBN: 9780747589716
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Riding on the back of Monty, the Whale Express, to the Beachcomber Islands, the mermaids come under attack from a whaling boat. Jess devises an ingenious plan to outwit the whalers and to help the smaller sea life at the bottom of the ocean as well. Jess puts herself into a lot of danger to save her friends, but her actions also lead the brave mermaids towards the next Snow Diamond.
Promises
Author: Charlotte Vale Allen
Publisher: Island Nation Press LLC
ISBN: 9781892738264
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
During the Great Depression, Jessica Greaves promises her father she will look after her younger sister--a promise that has undreamed of repercussions.
Publisher: Island Nation Press LLC
ISBN: 9781892738264
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
During the Great Depression, Jessica Greaves promises her father she will look after her younger sister--a promise that has undreamed of repercussions.
The Promise of Happiness
Author: Sara Ahmed
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 082239278X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: “I just want you to be happy”; “I’m happy if you’re happy.” Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by the “happiness duty,” the expectation that we will be made happy by taking part in that which is deemed good, and that by being happy ourselves, we will make others happy. Ahmed maintains that happiness is a promise that directs us toward certain life choices and away from others. Happiness is promised to those willing to live their lives in the right way. Ahmed draws on the intellectual history of happiness, from classical accounts of ethics as the good life, through seventeenth-century writings on affect and the passions, eighteenth-century debates on virtue and education, and nineteenth-century utilitarianism. She engages with feminist, antiracist, and queer critics who have shown how happiness is used to justify social oppression, and how challenging oppression causes unhappiness. Reading novels and films including Mrs. Dalloway, The Well of Loneliness, Bend It Like Beckham, and Children of Men, Ahmed considers the plight of the figures who challenge and are challenged by the attribution of happiness to particular objects or social ideals: the feminist killjoy, the unhappy queer, the angry black woman, and the melancholic migrant. Through her readings she raises critical questions about the moral order imposed by the injunction to be happy.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 082239278X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: “I just want you to be happy”; “I’m happy if you’re happy.” Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by the “happiness duty,” the expectation that we will be made happy by taking part in that which is deemed good, and that by being happy ourselves, we will make others happy. Ahmed maintains that happiness is a promise that directs us toward certain life choices and away from others. Happiness is promised to those willing to live their lives in the right way. Ahmed draws on the intellectual history of happiness, from classical accounts of ethics as the good life, through seventeenth-century writings on affect and the passions, eighteenth-century debates on virtue and education, and nineteenth-century utilitarianism. She engages with feminist, antiracist, and queer critics who have shown how happiness is used to justify social oppression, and how challenging oppression causes unhappiness. Reading novels and films including Mrs. Dalloway, The Well of Loneliness, Bend It Like Beckham, and Children of Men, Ahmed considers the plight of the figures who challenge and are challenged by the attribution of happiness to particular objects or social ideals: the feminist killjoy, the unhappy queer, the angry black woman, and the melancholic migrant. Through her readings she raises critical questions about the moral order imposed by the injunction to be happy.
Jessica
Author: Jeffrey Von Glahn
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468944762
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Jessica had always been haunted by the fear that the unthinkable had happened when she had been “made-up.” For as far back as she could remember, she had no sense of a Self. Her mother thought of her as the “perfect infant” because “she never wanted anything and she never needed anything.” As a child, just thinking of saying “I need” or “I want” left her feeling like an empty shell and that her mind was about to spin out of control. Terrified of who––or what––she was, she lived in constant dread over being found guilty of impersonating a human being. Jeffrey Von Glahn, Ph.D., an experienced therapist with an unshakable belief in the healing powers of the human spirit, and Jessica blaze a trail into this unexplored territory. As if she has, in fact, become an infant again, Jessica remembers in extraordinary detail events from the earliest days of her life––events that threatened to twist her embryonic humanness from its natural course of development. Her recollections are like listening to an infant who could talk describe every psychologically dramatic moment of its life as it was happening. When Dr. Von Glahn met Jessica, she was 23. Everyone regarded her as a responsible, caring person – except that she never drove and she stayed at her mother’s when her husband worked nights. For many months, Jessica’s therapy was stuck in an impasse. Dr. Von Glahn had absolutely no idea that she was so terrified over simply talking about herself. In hopes of breakthrough, she boldly asked for four hours of therapy a day, for three days a week, for six weeks. The mystery that was Jessica cracked open in dramatic fashion, and in a way that Dr. Von Glahn could never have imagined. Then she asked for four days a week – and for however long it took. In the following months, her electrifying journey into her mystifying past brought her ever closer to a final confrontation with the events that had threatened to forever strip her of her basic humanness.
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468944762
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Jessica had always been haunted by the fear that the unthinkable had happened when she had been “made-up.” For as far back as she could remember, she had no sense of a Self. Her mother thought of her as the “perfect infant” because “she never wanted anything and she never needed anything.” As a child, just thinking of saying “I need” or “I want” left her feeling like an empty shell and that her mind was about to spin out of control. Terrified of who––or what––she was, she lived in constant dread over being found guilty of impersonating a human being. Jeffrey Von Glahn, Ph.D., an experienced therapist with an unshakable belief in the healing powers of the human spirit, and Jessica blaze a trail into this unexplored territory. As if she has, in fact, become an infant again, Jessica remembers in extraordinary detail events from the earliest days of her life––events that threatened to twist her embryonic humanness from its natural course of development. Her recollections are like listening to an infant who could talk describe every psychologically dramatic moment of its life as it was happening. When Dr. Von Glahn met Jessica, she was 23. Everyone regarded her as a responsible, caring person – except that she never drove and she stayed at her mother’s when her husband worked nights. For many months, Jessica’s therapy was stuck in an impasse. Dr. Von Glahn had absolutely no idea that she was so terrified over simply talking about herself. In hopes of breakthrough, she boldly asked for four hours of therapy a day, for three days a week, for six weeks. The mystery that was Jessica cracked open in dramatic fashion, and in a way that Dr. Von Glahn could never have imagined. Then she asked for four days a week – and for however long it took. In the following months, her electrifying journey into her mystifying past brought her ever closer to a final confrontation with the events that had threatened to forever strip her of her basic humanness.