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भूतनाथ
Babu Devakinandan Khatri - 2009
He wrote Chandrakanta, Chandrakanta Santati, Kajar ki Kothari, Narendra-Mohini, Kusum Kumari, Virendra Veer, Gupt Godna, Katora Bhar Khoon and Bhootnath. Babu Devkinandan Khatri wrote only six parts of the book Bhootnath, and was subsequently completed by his son Durga Prasad Khatri, who wrote the concluding volumes.
खिल्ली [Khillee]
P.L. Deshpande - 1980
Due to its amusing contents, the writings still could be made relevant to the current situation.
Something Like Happy
Sasha Greene - 2019
She doesn’t want to talk about it. She doesn’t want a fuss. But one day she meets Nick and everything changes.Out of the most difficult of situations, Nick and Jade’s friendship grows into something both of them never knew they needed.Jade used to be sure that she was better off alone. But could it be that together, with Nick by her side, she can start to feel something like happy again?
The Girl From the Workhouse
Lynn Johnson - 2020
Ginnie Jones’s childhood is spent in the shadow of the famous Potteries, living with her mother, father and older sister Mabel. But with Father’s eyesight failing, money is in short supply, and too often the family find their bellies aching with hunger. With no hope in sight, Ginnie is sent to Haddon Workhouse.Separated from everything she has known, Ginnie has to grow up fast, earning her keep by looking after the other children with no families of their own. When she meets Clara and Sam, she hopes that she has made friends for life… until tragedy strikes, snatching away her newfound happiness.Leaving Haddon three years later, Ginnie finds work as a mouldrunner at the Potteries, but never stops thinking about her friends in the workhouse – especially Sam, now a caring, handsome young man. When Sam and Ginnie are reunited, their bond is as strong as ever – until Sam is sent to fight in WW1. Faced with uncertainty, can Ginnie find the joy that she’s never had? Or will her heart be broken once again?An emotional, uplifting and nostalgic family saga that will make you smile, while tugging on your heart-strings. Fans of Sheila Newbury, Kitty Neale and Sheila Riley will love this beautiful read.
Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Adventures in the Ordinary
Rebecca Front - 2016
Even the most predictable of us sometimes defy expectations. Other times life plays tricks on us. We find ourselves characters in a farce. As an award-winning actor and comic writer, Rebecca Front has always been fascinated by life's little quirks. Impossible Things Before Breakfast is a collection of true stories about surprising turns of events, bizarre misunderstandings and improbable life lessons. We learn, among other things, how to prepare for a role as a villainous 'she-mountain' when you're five-foot-four, why beach holidays require military-precision planning, and the joys of wearing a cape. Combining elegant writing, wry humour and genuine insight, this brilliant new collection is about lifting the lid on ordinary life and feasting on the impossible.
Deliverance and Spiritual Warfare Manual: A Comprehensive Guide to Living Free
John Eckhardt - 1993
Fight back with this easy-to-use guide. God has established the victory for you over the powers of the enemy. Deliverance will give you rest, and spiritual warfare will give you the training, strategies, and endurance so that you can live abundantly under the covenant blessings of God. Bringing much-needed light to expose the works of darkness, the Deliverance and Spiritual Warfare Manual provides essential information on spiritual warfare basics and strategies, including: · The names of demons and strongholds and specific prayers against them· The ministry of deliverance and prayers for self-deliverance· Fasting, prayer, and intercession for others, and much more! Don’t let fear keep you or those you love from peace and freedom. No matter what issue you are facing, this powerful guide gives you the tools you need to confront the enemy head-on.
The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven
Alan Warner - 2006
Alan Warner’s fifth novel delights and provokes with vivid, erotic flashbacks to play back Manolo’s life in passionate Technicolor.From the Hardcover edition.
Reflections from the Past
Audrey Howard - 2004
Helens' largest glass works, her whole life is turned upside down. Torn from her poverty-stricken family and forbidden to see her childhood sweetheart, Roddy Baxter, she is forced by her tyrannical grandfather to become a lady. Then Roddy disappears and soon, it seems inevitable that Abby will have to marry her grandfather's chosen successor. Trapped in a marriage where she is little more than a possession, Abby is determined that no matter what else might change, nothing will stand in the way of her steadfast passion for Roddy. But is she prepared to give up everything she has now for a love from the past?
Winds of Change
Anna Jacobs - 2012
Miranda Fox has devoted much of her life to caring for her elderly father. After his tragic death, she starts to make plans for her future, funded by the inheritance she is sure will be coming her way, but it seems her arrogant and domineering half-brother has very different ideas . . . Then a chance encounter with a man who has been given months to live boosts Miranda’s confidence, and as their friendship grows she finally learns to stand up for herself and her dreams. Can Miranda find the happiness that she deserves?
Love, Death, and Other Inconveniences
Tobias WadeJ.D. McGregor - 2018
Or how about when you got stood up on that tinder date and go home disappointed, only to realize it was all a trick so he'd know where you live? Then there's those letters your dead wife keeps writing you... There can be no light without darkness, pleasure without pain, or love without loss. 17 authors have teamed up to collect all our favorite supernatural and psychological horror stories about love.Jealous murders, monstrous doppelgangers, heart-rending romances, devils and angels, cannibals and virtual worlds - over 350 pages of your most desperate longings and worst nightmares all rolled into one. Shocking twists and absolute mind-fuckery will thrill and terrify you to the last page!
Waving Not Drowning
Rosie Rushton - 2003
One is reliving the abandonment of his mother and the death of his little sister. The next has a grandmother suffering from Alzheimer's. The third is the daughter of constantly warring parents. Their worlds collide at the annual fair.
The Surplus Girls
Polly Heron - 2020
One of the many women whose dreams of marriage perished in the Great War, with the death of her beloved fiancé, Ben. After four years of mourning, she's ready to face the future, even though Ben's family is not happy to see her move on, and her own only cares about getting hold of her meagre factory wages. Then, Belinda joins a secretarial class and a whole new world opens up to her as she quickly finds herself drawn to beguiling bookshop owner Richard Carson. But after all the loss and devastation she has experienced, can she really trust him with her heart?
A Chesapeake Shores Collection Volume 1: The Inn at Eagle Point / Flowers on Main / Harbor Lights / A Chesapeake Shores Christmas
Sherryl Woods - 2017
But when a panicked phone call from her youngest sister sends her racing home to save Jess’s dream of renovating the charming Inn at Eagle Point, Abby finds herself face-to-face with Trace Riley, the man she left behind ten years ago.
Flowers on Main
When Bree O’Brien’s screenwriting career falls apart, she flees Chicago and heads home to Chesapeake Showers. Opening Flowers on Main promises to bring her a new kind of fulfillment, but not all is peaceful and serene when Jake Collins, Bree’s ex-lover, is there waiting for her.
Harbor Lights
Former army medic Kevin O’Brien has come home to Chesapeake Shores, in search of a haven for himself and his toddler son and a future that’s nothing like his past. But Kevin is suddenly facing a risk he hadn’t anticipated?in the form of Main Street bookseller Shanna Carlyle.
A Chesapeake Shores Christmas
After years apart, Mick and Megan O’Brien are finally ready to make it official...again. But when an unexpected delivery causes chaos, it seems only a miracle can reunite this family.
The Little Ship
Margaret Mayhew - 1999
Guy is the eldest, handsome, skilled at everything, a tad selfish. Matt is quieter and has a crippled right arm. Lizzie adores them both, to the extent of putting up with being sea-sick everytime they go out in the old boat and continually getting bashed on the head by the sail. These are idyllic days of sun, and sea, the golden era of the thirties.
Lizzie's father is a doctor and, as the thirties progress, they take the daughter of a Viennese colleague into their home, a Jewish girl called Anna, who is miserable and hates England, and misses her Jewish family and friends. The fifth child to join them is Otto, son of a German diplomat, reared in the best traditions of the Hitler doctrine and destined for the army. These five have a tense and highly involved relationship as they grow up. Anna is resented by the English boys but one of them eventually comes to love her. Otto's relationship with her is more complicated. She is, after all, a Jew. They have one wonderful day together when somehow their rivalries are forgotten as they fight the sea in the little ship, and when they all write their names on the mast. Then the world explodes into war and they all go their separate ways. They all meet again at Dunkirk. Anna getting out from France at the last moment with the help of Guy, Otto as part of the victorious Reich, and Lizzie and Matt taking the little ship over to save them from the beaches.
It is strong, wonderful, atmospheric, romantic with intriguing characters, all involved with each other in love/hate relationships.
Wild Sage
Jade Wolfe - 2016
But a call from the authorities leaves her no choice. Her elderly Aunt Sage is dead, and everyone assumes it was just a terrible accident. What Clover finds is a murder mystery, a sexy new local cop, and a family secret that will change her life forever - if it doesn’t get her killed first. This ebook is a full length novel, and includes an excerpt from Wild Angel: Wilder Witch 2.