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"John, former Lord Chamberlain to Emperor Justinian, has been exiled from Constantinople to a rustic estate John has long-owned in Greece, not far from where he grew up. But exile proves no escape from mystery and mayhem. The residents of nearby Megara make it plain John and his family are unwelcome intruders. His overseer proves corrupt. What of the other staff--and his neighbors? Before long, John finds himself accused of blasphemy and murder. Now...
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In the three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre, a story has grown up around one of the victims, Sarah McHale, that says she died proclaiming her Christian faith--but Leanne Bauer was there, and knows what happened, and she has a choice: stay silent and let people believe in Sarah's martyrdom, or tell the truth.
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From yesterday's gingham girls to today's Google-era Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter explores the resurgent role played by female agriculturalists at a time when fully 30 percent of new farms in the US are woman-owned, but when, paradoxically, America's farm-reared daughters are conspicuously absent from popular film, television, and literature. In this first-of-its-kind treatment, Zachary Michael Jack follows the fascinating story of...
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Teacher 2 Face is a book about overcoming obstacles and how change is necessary for anyone who has dealt with any past wrongdoings to have a better life. One must have a strong mind to turn away from former friends and put up a fight through being resilience to succumbing to past behaviors. Once former gang member, turned into a successful educator as he uses life lessons to navigate through life and become a well-known educator and leader over schools....
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Olivia Foster always believed in striving for perfection, but life had a different plan. "The Imperfect Advocate," follows Olivia's unexpected journey as she discovers the profound intricacies of dyslexia and giftedness through her daughter, Natalie, and her son, Jonathan.Natalie, a bright and gifted child, grapples with the complexities of dyslexia, while her younger brother Jonathan tags along to school meetings. As Olivia and her supportive husband,...
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Serena Chasey has nowhere left to go; she's run out of places to hide. She takes her father's advice and heads for Montana to stay at her family's lake house on Flathead Lake, the last place anyone would look for her. She's desperate to start over, desperate to feel normal after the nightmare she's lived for the last three years.
Evan "Van" Brooks spent the last three years drowning in guilt, swallowed up by a past he can't get away from, living...
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"When the very sensible Charity meets the 'sworn-off-women-forever' Lachlan on a wild weekend at a bachelor and spinsters' ball, what could possibly go wrong....or is there a chance it could all go impossibly, incredibly right?
Charity Farrugia is too sensible to believe she'll find love in a paddock.
After all, at thirty-four, she's the responsible one with the secure career and the mortgage. The one who raised her two sisters when their mother...
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En un país como el Perú, con históricas desigualdades y profundas brechas por superar, Montero y Uccelli analizan la capacidad real del Estado peruano para proveer una educación universal y de calidad a la población rural durante las últimas dos décadas de relativa estabilidad. El resultado es decepcionante. A pesar de sus notables avances en acceso y permanencia, sostienen las autoras, la educación rural sigue siendo un componente marginal,...
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Folge Karla auf ihrer Rückreise von Mittelschweden nach Süddeutschland! Vieles ist altbekannt, umso mehr ist jedoch gänzlich neu: die U-Bahnen sind überfüllt und Wein wird als Viertele bestellt. Und seit wann schwäbelt ihre Freundin Hannah so? Karla freut sich anfangs auf den Neustart in der ihr unbekannten Stadt Stuttgart, jedoch bekommt sie schon bald Sehnsucht nach Schweden. Sie denkt viel an ihre ehemalige Wahlheimat, an ihre Freund*innen...
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"Lucy in the Sky... und dann nehmen wir Berlin" ist ein aufregendes Abenteuer, das Sie auf eine spannende Reise durch ein Netz dunkler und mysteriöser Mächte mitnimmt.
Die Geschichte handelt von Lucy, einer jungen Frau, die nach einer Reihe abenteuerlicher Eskapaden in Afrika und China nach Berlin zurückkehrt. Gerade als sie glaubt, in ihrer geliebten Stadt endlich Ruhe finden zu können, wird sie in eine Welt unterirdischer Katakomben und unerbittlicher...
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It's a truth often acknowledged that when a journalist and Jane Austen fan girl ends up living next door to a cynical but handsome crime writer, romantic sparks will fly! When Maddy Shaw is told her Dear Jane column has been cancelled she has no choice but to look outside of London's rental market. That is until she's left an idyllic country home by the black sheep of the family, long-not-so-lost Cousin Nigel. But of course there's a stipulation…...
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A delightfully entertaining new rural romance from Karly Lane, the bestselling author with over 550,000 books sold.
Alex Kelly's future is nearly sorted: she loves her dream job and her life in London. There's just one last step: selling the family home her father left her in the small Australian seaside town of Rockne Heads. The place Alex has spent almost two decades trying to forget.
Sully McCoy has spent the last twenty years distancing himself...
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A memoir about the unexpected joys and challenges of a tree-change from a television studio to a farm, from a beloved former ABC weather presenter.
The expectations of a tree change rarely meet the reality, but for TV weatherman-cum-farmer Graham Creed, being immersed in the weather every day, rather than just reporting on it from a studio, was an eye-opening and transformative experience.
After leaving his television career behind in 2022, Graham...
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From an author praised for her "genuinely perceptive portrayals of human relationships," a historical family saga and sequel to Shoddy Prince (Irish Independent).
After twenty-two years' estrangement, Bright Maguire and Nat Prince are joyously reunited and plan to start a new life in Australia. Their daughter Oriel isn't thrilled by the return of her long-absent father, but can she put aside her feelings and accompany them?
After the horrors...
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Left to raise her angst-ridden stepson alone, a woman develops a beneficial relationship with the boy's godfather in this romantic tale.
Lexie Whittle thought she had life all sewn up, with a gorgeous husband, a beautiful home and a delightful teenage stepson. Until husband Daryl left to work overseas . . . and everything changed.
A year later, Daryl and Lexie's marriage is over. Lexie is fighting to stay on top of the bills, juggling her job...
20) Trapped
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Nina Williams' world shattered in an instant when she and her daughter witnessed her father's brutal murder. Everything in her life became trivial save one - protecting her only child. With the help of a friend, Nina leaves the city in a cloud of terror and heads for Vail Mountain and the safety she prays she will find.
Rob Garland has seen his share of the treacherous conditions on the mountains. But even spring floods, summer fires, and hikers...
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