Author: Marcia Willett
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250177448
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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"For readers who like romantic and family-relationship tales on the frothy side, Willett’s latest is quite a dish."--Booklist Seven Days in Summer is a sparkling novel about the love that brings family and friends to the same beach house year after year, and the secrets that may drive them apart. A busy mom of twins, Liv is looking forward to a week at the Beach Hut—even if she feels that something's not right between her and Matt. She's sure he's just too busy at work to join them on their summer holiday, not that he wants time alone. Baz, her father-in-law, loves having his family stay by the sea; but when an unexpected guest arrives, he finds himself torn between the past and the future. Still reeling from a breakup, all Sofia wants is a quiet summer—until she meets Baz and her plans are turned upside-down. And back home, Matt might be missing Liv and the children, but when an old friend appears he finds himself distracted. What does she know about his family's past that she's not letting on? With this poignant family tale from the master of the ensemble, Marcia Willett's unforgettable characters will win the hearts of all readers.
Author: M.W. Southard
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312086289
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 629
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Andy, Truck, Striker and Calvin made their way into the Big Boonies. They would have never guessed that a simple camping trip, something they'd done many times before, would turn into a fight for survival. They would have never guessed that Old Man Hodd was still alive.
Author: Kate Morris
Publisher: Short Books
ISBN: 9781907595271
Category : Chick lit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Eight old friends reunite for a week in the sun. What could possibly go wrong?When her old flame Sam rings up one day and invites her on a villa holiday in Italy, Jen is completely thrown off balance. Sam, as she cannot help but recall, was the best kiss of her life. With her husband Marcus constantly travelling the world for work, and seven-year-old Alfie still in the marital bed, the joys of marriage and motherhood are thin on the ground for Jen these days... What could be more appealing than being with old friends and recapturing a little bit of their youth? Two months later, Jen and Marcus arrive at the stunning Villa La Silerchie. There to greet them are Jenâ's best friend Tara and her new husband Dave, a struggling writer; there's also vain, neurotic Miranda and her fiancé Toby. Jack, a handsome and successful actor, recently separated, and Sam â funny, laid-back, sexy Sam...Everything's set for the holiday of a lifetime, but as the week progresses, and tensions rise in the August heat, relationships unravel, old rivalries re-emerge, and uncomfortable truths have to be faced.Who knew what seven days in the sun could lead to.
Author: Molly Evans
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426852622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
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People say that Dr. Taylor Jenkins is the best there is. Devoted to his patients, he has given his life to the hospital. But any free time he has is spent searching out his latest high-adrenaline adventure--and successfully shielding his heart! So now he's in a fix. Not only has he been left in charge of his nephew, he's also been thrown for a loop by the new nurse who's arrived in Santa Fe. Beautiful, talented Piper is a natural with kids, but she's also only temporary. They have one summer and the clock is ticking. The adventure is only just beginning....
Author: Edith Granger
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
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Author: Robert Simms
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0983464235
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Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Author: DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1568061587
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Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Author: Henry V. Esmond
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Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Author: Charles Godfrey Leland
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465606432
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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It is, I believe, seldom observed that the world is so far from having quitted the romantic or sentimental for the purely scientific that, even in science itself, whatever is best set forth owes half its charm to something delicately and distantly reflected from the forbidden land of fancy. The greatest reasoners and writers on the driest topics are still “genial,” because no man ever yet had true genius who did not feel the inspiration of poetry, or mystery, or at least of the unusual. We are not rid of the marvelous or curious, and, if we have not yet a science of curiosities, it is apparently because it lies for the present distributed about among the other sciences, just as in small museums illuminated manuscripts are to be found in happy family union with stuffed birds or minerals, and with watches and snuff-boxes, once the property of their late majesties the Georges. Until such a science is formed, the new one of ethnology may appropriately serve for it, since it of all presents most attraction to him who is politely called the general reader, but who should in truth be called the man who reads the most for mere amusement. For Ethnology deals with such delightful material as primeval kumbo-cephalic skulls, and appears to her votaries arrayed, not in silk attire, but in strange fragments of leather from ancient Irish graves, or in cloth from Lacustrine villages. She glitters with the quaint jewelry of the first Italian race, whose ghosts, if they wail over the “find,” “speak in a language man knows no more.” She charms us with etchings or scratchings of mammoths on mammoth-bone, and invites us to explore mysterious caves, to picnic among megalithic monuments, and speculate on pictured Scottish stones. In short, she engages man to investigate his ancestry, a pursuit which presents charms even to the illiterate, and asks us to find out facts concerning works of art which have interested everybody in every age. Ad interim, before the science of curiosities is segregated from that of ethnology, I may observe that one of the marvels in the latter is that, among all the subdivisions of the human race, there are only two which have been, apparently from their beginning, set apart, marked and cosmopolite, ever living among others, and yet reserved unto themselves. These are the Jew and the gypsy. From time whereof history hath naught to the contrary, the Jew was, as he himself holds in simple faith, the first man. Red Earth, Adam, was a Jew, and the old claim to be a peculiar people has been curiously confirmed by the extraordinary genius and influence of the race, and by their boundless wanderings. Go where we may, we find the Jew—has any other wandered so far? Yes, one. For wherever Jew has gone, there, too, we find the gypsy. The Jew may be more ancient, but even the authentic origin of the Romany is lost in ancient Aryan record, and, strictly speaking, his is a prehistoric caste. Among the hundred and fifty wandering tribes of India and Persia, some of them Turanian, some Aryan, and others mixed, it is of course difficult to identify the exact origin of the European gypsy. One thing we know: that from the tenth to the twelfth century, and probably much later on, India threw out from her northern half a vast multitude of very troublesome indwellers. What with Buddhist, Brahman, and Mohammedan wars,—invaders outlawing invaded,—the number of out-castes became alarmingly great. To these the Jats, who, according to Captain Burton, constituted the main stock of our gypsies, contributed perhaps half their entire nation. Excommunication among the Indian professors of transcendental benevolence meant social death and inconceivable cruelty. Now there are many historical indications that these outcasts, before leaving India, became gypsies, which was the most natural thing in a country where such classes had already existed in very great numbers from early times.
