A widowed florist, her ten-year-old daughter, and the paramedic who delivered the girl a decade earlier...Paramedic Andrew Herrin delivered Gretchen Samuels's daughter on the side of the road when she and her husband couldn't make it to the hospital in time. When their paths cross again in small-town Hawthorn Harbor, she's a widow and the baby is ten-year-old Dixie.Dixie gets along great with Drew, and Gretchen finds herself falling in love with the man who...

Dink Stover was introduced to readers in earlier volumes of the Lawrenceville Stories as a brash young newcomer whose biggest ambition is to play football for his school. At the start of Stover at Yale he seems much the same, arriving at the prestigious university determined to captain the football team, earn a place in the most prestigious secret society, and generally become the hero of a much less interesting novel.Gradually, though, the novel shifts its focus, as both ...

Annie Dillard, a foremost practitioner of the literary epiphany, has become a representative of a necromantic movement that combines the ecological interest of wilderness literature with the aesthetics of a highly stylized literature. This first full-length study of the Pulitzer prize-winning essayist considers her as wilderness philosopher, religious mystic, professional critic, and arch-romantic.Sandra Humble Johnson moves Dillard from the category of nature writer to the area of...

'Life is Full of Changes' tells the story of Emily and Jack, twins who move from a small town in Pennsylvania to the busy streets of Brooklyn. As they navigate the challenges of a new school and city, they face bullying, friendship struggles, and family tensions. This novel explores the ups and downs of growing up, the pain of betrayal, and the power of forgiveness.When Emily and Jack decide to surprise their parents with a special gift, their plans lead to unexpected lessons about...

While this derives from a Madeleva lecture of the same title that was delivered in 1993, the points made and updated by Elizabeth Johnson in this revised edition of Women, Earth, and Creator Spirit are even more pressing today. Since the 1990s, the environment has only been degraded more, and one could argue that the status of women has been eroded by the rise of religious fundamentalism in almost every culture. Johnson draws out the links between attitudes toward women and the way we trea...

We all have a big-picture purpose that is refined in our daily journeys. God guides us into situations in life to discover who we are and who He is. That process is part of His purpose. God invites us to come closer through relationship to discover His perfect plan for our lives. Purpose is not a moment of arrival, but a personal, everyday demonstration of the only God ever.

First published in 1958, Red River Campaign examines how partisan politics, economic needs, and personal profit determined military policy and operations in Louisiana and Arkansas during the spring of 1864.In response to the demands of Free-Soil interests in Texas and the New England textiles manufacturers' need for cotton, Lincoln authorized an expedition to open the way to Texas. General Nathaniel Banks conducted a combined military and naval campaign up the Red River that lasted...

You've written a book and you're ready to get it published. But where do you start? How do you find the right publisher? And once you've found one, how do you make sure you don't make any costly mistakes?Thankfully, help is on hand from publishing experts Jenn Foster and Melanie Johnson. In their new book, "7 Costly Mistakes when Choosing a Publisher", they detail the seven most common mistakes authors make when choosing a publisher - and how to avoid them.From not doing yo...

From the Sunday Times bestseller comes a heartwarming and uplifting story of how three women find themselves empowered by unexpected pregnancies'Every time you discover a new Milly book, it’s like finding a pot of gold' heatThree South Yorkshire friends, all on the cusp of 40, fall pregnant at the same time following a visit to an ancient fertility symbol. For Helen, it's a dream come true, although her hu...

‘Full of quirky characters, friendship and humour, you will devour this engaging and heartwarming novel in one sitting’ Sunday Express S MagazineSummer at the Comfort Food Cafe will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you raid the pantry in the middle of the night…The Comfort Food Cafe is perched on a windswept clifftop at what feels like the edge of the world, serving up the most delicious cream teas; beautifully baked breads, and care...

From the Sunday Times bestseller comes a warm, tender and utterly hilarious story about love and betrayal‘The feeling you get when you read a Milly Johnson book should be bottled and made available on the NHS’ Debbie JohnsonLove can sting. Or make you fly ... Romance writer and single mum Stevie Honeywell has only weeks to go to her wedding when her fiancé Matthew runs off with her glamorous new friend Jo ...

Piss off the hot farmer ✔Find out I'll be living in a funeral home ✔Meet my new pet pig Petunia ✔Day one in my new town proved one thing . . . I'm screwed.Welcome to Mudville, home of KISSING BOOKS, a standalone small town, opposites attract, fish out of water laugh-out-loud romantic comedy with lots of kissing (and other things), a cocky farmer, a sassy misplaced heroine with too many animals, some crazy locals, a decades' old mystery, and a very happy endi...