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31 Sweet Brides. Mega Box Set of Inspirational Romance Stories: Mail Order Bride, Historical Romance, Western Romance, Scottish Romance, Regency Romance, Amish Romance
Indiana Wake - 2018
Includes one brand new story. Transport yourself to a world of sweet love and romance. Where heroes are strong and brave and the women are determined and resilient. There are 31 romances all with a happy ever after. All these wonderful books will keep you reading for a long time to come. All the authors are bestsellers and include 4 kindle All Star authors. Enjoy these sweet romances which include Historical, Western, Mail Order Bride, Regency Romance, Scottish Historical Romance, and Amish Romance there is something here for every reader. All the books are clean and suitable for all ages. Included in this amazing value set are: No Going Back A Baby to Heal His Heart For the Love of the Baby A Father's Blessing A Surprise Proposal Blackmailed by the Rancher For Love or for duty The Baby and the Beast Saving the Twins A Dream Come True The Secret Valentine The Language of Flowers The Duke and the Valentine’s Day Heiress A Return to Faith Trust and Faith Home to Stay Where We Belong Amish Hideaway Closer to Her Heart A Reason to Stay With All Her Heart Highlanders Choice and the Runaway Bride Highlanders Revenge and the Secret Love Highlanders Heart and the Deadly Arrow The Clan Chief's Daughter and the Strangers Trust Trapped in Time Twins for a Lonely Bride The Baby on the Porch Captured by the Rancher A Better Man Only For Love Grab this set while you can and don't forget to tell your friends.
The Strangeness of Beauty
Lydia Minatoya - 1999
Etsuko and her six-year-old motherless niece return from jazz-age Seattle to the ancient Japanese household of Etsuko’s mysterious samurai mother. With Japanese militarism mounting, the women must learn to make peace in an absorbing tale where mothers are childless, warriors are pacifists, and beauty is found in the common and the small.
A Chancer
James Kelman - 1985
Unable to hold a job for long, his life revolves around Glasgow bars, living with his sister and brother-in-law, betting shops, and casinos. Sometimes Tammas wins, more often he loses. But gambling gives him as good a chance as any of discovering what he seeks from life since society offers no prospect of a more fulfilling alternative.
Seiobo There Below
László Krasznahorkai - 2008
An ancient Buddha being restored; Perugino managing his workshop; a Japanese Noh actor rehearsing; a fanatic of Baroque music lecturing to a handful of old villagers; tourists intruding into the rituals of Japan’s most sacred shrine; a heron hunting.… Seiobo hovers over it all, watching closely.Melancholic and brilliant, Seiobo There Below urges us to treasure the concentration that goes into the perception of great art, leading us to re-examine our connection to immanence.
I Am a Cat
Natsume Sōseki - 1905
With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him.A classic of Japanese literature, I Am a Cat is one of Soseki's best-known novels. Considered by many as the most significant writer in modern Japanese history, Soseki's I Am a Cat is a classic novel sure to be enjoyed for years to come.
Walden Two
B.F. Skinner - 1948
Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct.
The Peregrine
J.A. Baker - 1967
Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern England. He followed the birds obsessively, observing them in the air and on the ground, in pursuit of their prey, making a kill, eating, and at rest, activities he describes with an extraordinary fusion of precision and poetry. And as he continued his mysterious private quest, his sense of human self slowly dissolved, to be replaced with the alien and implacable consciousness of a hawk.It is this extraordinary metamorphosis, magical and terrifying, that these beautifully written pages record.
The Great Dune Trilogy
Frank Herbert - 1979
This volume includes the titles Dune, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune.
Louis Kahn: Essential Texts
Louis I. Kahn - 2003
Professor Twombly's introduction and headnotes offer incisive commentary on the texts.
Ragged Dick & Mark, the Match Boy
Horatio Alger Jr. - 1869
Two famous novels by Horatio Alger that focus on rags-to-riches tales.
Bring the Rain
Barney Campbell - 2015
Full of eagerness, but wracked by self-doubt, he must discover who he is and what he is capable of.But as the bonds with his comrades grow, home - and the loved ones left behind - seem ever more remote from the surreal violence and exhilaration of war.
Lust
Dayo Benson - 2013
Noémi Casson has booked herself on a sexual healing retreat after struggling in silence for seven years. It was just a matter of time before she gave in to the demons that have plagued her almost her whole life, and wholeness seems unattainable. David Steel is living the perfect life, now that he’s sworn off women. Hard work and long hours are all the companion he needs—until Noémi comes crashing into his life and disturbs his steady equilibrium. David is convinced that his love is all the healing Noémi needs. Noémi is convinced that David must be delusional. As Noémi allows God to work on her, she begins to see herself and her problems in a new light. But just when all seems to be going well the unthinkable happens, and Noémi doesn’t know whether to focus on saving her relationship with David or saving herself. Will she learn to trust God’s purpose, or will she give in to the temptation to do things her own way?
The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
Milan Kundera - 2007
The Curtain is a seven-part essay by Milan Kundera, along with The Art of the Novel and Testaments Betrayed composing a type of trilogy of book-length essays on the European novel.
The Diary of a Country Priest
Georges Bernanos - 1936
Awarded the Grand Prix for Literature by the Academie Francaise, The Diary of a Country Priest was adapted into an acclaimed film by Robert Bresson. "A book of the utmost sensitiveness and compassion...it is a work of deep, subtle and singularly encompassing art." — New York Times Book Review (front page)