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- Ending leaves you hanging
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- GREAT READ!!! A++++++
- How is using sex as an interrogation technique romantic?
- HOT! HOTTER! HOTTEST!
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Promise of the Rose (Avon Romance)
Brenda Joyce
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Book Description
Brave and battle-hardened Stephen de Warenne is to defend to the death that which is his by right of conquest -- including the golden-haired captive who awakens his soul's most secret yearnings. For theirs is a passion that will not be denied -- a magnificent fire that burns hotter and brighter than the blazing flames of war that engulf the land.
Customer Reviews:
Ending leaves you hanging.......2007-09-25
This would of been my favorite book, except for the ending with Geoffrey. IMHO, Geoffrey's story was better than the main character of Stephen. I loved his inner conflict, and wanted to see an epilogue or a third book. Its just so obvious to me, that this ending does not do Geoffrey justice.
enjoyable read.......2007-08-30
Overall a good engaging story. Though the leading lady can be at times a bit spineless and annoying.
GREAT READ!!! A++++++.......2007-08-12
I thought this was one of Brenda Joyces best works..I love it all the way through. If you like good old romance books when they weren't trying to be politically correct all the time then you'll love this one. Yes, he rapes her and hits her (which she needed) so if that makes you not want to read a book then this one is not for you. Geoffrey, Stephen's brother, was a great charcter and needs his own story..I recommed you read the whole series of DeWarenne Dynasty. GREAT!!!!
How is using sex as an interrogation technique romantic?.......2006-03-29
Answer: sex as a weapon is not romantic. I find it disturbing and disgusting. The guy is practically raping her to get information from her, and she of course goes from resisting to suddenly loving it. Brenda Joyce loves to dance on the line of making rape seem romantic. It's not. And this whole "she secretly wanted it anyway" just muddies the waters even further and makes it even more sinister. This is not the twisted kind of logic society needs. Forced or coerced sex is a horrific, degrading crime. Don't read this unless you like to read about rape glorified.
HOT! HOTTER! HOTTEST!.......2004-04-27
Stephan and Mary are from two very powerful families. When they meet for the "first time" it's lust at first sight with a capital "L". Their love scenes have your palms sweating like you are there! Mary hides her true identity when Stephan captures her. When Stephan finds out who Mary really is... their marry. Although she balks and fights him at every turn she can't deny the expolisve love she has had for him for a very long time. The love story between Stephen and Mary is amazing and combustible! Through betrayal, deceit, lies, adultery and more, they manage to survive it all! This book is a keeper. I have read it numerous times and never become bored.
Book Description
Spanish and Mexican California is generally depicted through the journals of sea captains and other visitors. This groundbreaking collection offers another perspective: early California seen through the eyes of those who explored it, colonized it, and settled it in the age before the gold rush. Over sixty selections from letters, journals, official reports and proclamations, interrogations, and interviews--many presented in English for the first time--lay before us a surprisingly varied and dynamic portrait of an era generally dismissed as static, pastoral, or backward. Conflicts between missionaries and soldiers, Indians and non-Indians, Hispanic settlers and Anglo newcomers, friends and neighbors, spill out of the pages, bringing the ferment of daily life into sharp focus. Here we find not sleepy towns, quaint missions, or comic opera military outposts, but rather an ever-shifting world of struggle and opportunity, aspiration and tragedy, pride and loss.
The first-person accounts are tied together with extensive introductions and commentaries by two well-known scholars, giving us an intimate portrait and placing the exploration and settlement of Alta California within the history of Baja California and the conquest of the New World.
This ambitious and accessible book, with more than thirty illustrations, maps, and paintings, will influence greatly how we envision the history and legacy of Hispanic California and is sure to become the cornerstone for a new generation of early California studies.
Customer Reviews:
Fascinating & Unique.......2007-06-27
Stashed away in the Bancroft Library in Berkeley, in the Huntington Library in San Marino, and in a dozen other places are the original letters, diaries, reports, articles, and other accounts of Spanish and Mexican California. Such primary documents are simply inaccessible to the lay reader.
However, what Rose Marie Bebe and Robert Senkewicz -- both professors at Santa Clara University -- have done is to select various primary materials, draw excerpts, translate them to English, and then add introductory commentary to set each item in its historical context. The result provides a direct view into California's Spanish and Mexican heritage through the words of those who lived those times.
While each selection covers no more than a few pages, here are passages from Colombus, de las Casas, Cortes, Cabrillo, Vizcaino, Portola, Serra, Fages, Osio, Pico and many others whose names may be familiar from general surveys of California history. Also included, where possible, are accounts from the indigenous people and a selection from the Russians who hunted for furs along the northern coast. Of particular interest is "1785: Trials of a Frontier Woman" which contains a petition from Dona Callis in protest against her husband.
The compact disposition of each document allows for two advantages: the text never drags and the book is able to cover a comprehensive range of topics (more than seventy original documents are presented). This is a marvelous reader of carefully edited materials. The authors have done the hard work; their scholarship is for us to enjoy.
Good introduction to early California history.......2002-07-02
This book covers the era when California (also known as Alta California) was a possession of Spain and Mexico. It is essentially a collection of first hand accounts from various people of this era.
Since most, if not all, of these accounts were originally in Spanish, they require translation, and that is the book's one weakness: almost all the accounts read like they were written by the same person; some of the character of the individual writers is lost.
Nonetheless, this is a good book, both readable and fast-moving. It is interesting that while we know a lot about the Revolutionary era and the founding of the United States, the topics in this book - which take place on the same continent at around the same time - are almost unknown. That, in itself, makes this book a good read.
Customer Reviews:
Awesome book!.......2005-01-09
This is the best book I've read on timing in regards to best times for romance. Not only that, there are also good examples of synastry aspects between couples. I constantly find myself referencing it. It's so strange, the stuff that she writes about is pretty true, so uncanny. She also has a website. Check it out.
Excellent information about timing.......2003-02-28
This is a book about synastry, that is the astrology of relationship. In particular this book looks at compatibility in relationships and the aspects of marriage.
What makes this book special and very worth buying is that it is the only book that i know of that has techniques for predicitng or assessing the timing for marriage. Rose Murray delineates very good technique for looking at a person or a couples horoscope and seeing marriage in the stars...and the date of the marriage too! I have tried her techniques and they seem very solid and valuable.
Also the book is very good fun, with lots of charts of interesting and quirky people. I had a really good laugh reading it.
Worth a Look.......2002-08-07
This book's specific focus on relationship needs and in working with periods of time when relationship issues are activated is very useful. There are many examples to illustrate the concepts. The "compatibility checkup with someone you've met" is what so many people seem want to know when they wonder if they've met "the one". The book is grounded in solid astrology and offers practical information and advice for navigating the highway of love.
one of the best books on relationships.......2000-05-01
In fact this is a reprint and enhanced edition of Rose Murray's 'When will you marry ?'. The layout is much neater and the content is updated. This is the only book I know of that teaches you indepth about finding the time to marry (or meet someone). If you read the examples in this book you will think that this is an easy job, but that's rather due to the very clear examples. In practice you may need to look at a lot of horoscopes of friends, clients and relatives to know that it's not that simple at all. Rose Murray has done a wonderfull job by giving us all the possible and 'proven' methods. This book is a must read if you're interested in relationships.
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Brain repair, smart pills, mind-reading machines--modern neuroscience promises to soon deliver a remarkable array of wonders as well as profound insight into the nature of the brain. But these exciting new breakthroughs, warns Steven Rose, will also raise troubling questions about what it means to be human. In The Future of the Brain, Rose explores just how far neuroscience may help us understand the human brain--including consciousness--and to what extent cutting edge technologies should have the power to mend or manipulate the mind. Rose first offers a panoramic look at what we now know about the brain, from its three-billion-year evolution, to its astonishingly rapid development in the embryo, to the miraculous process of infant development. More important, he shows what all this science can--and cannot--tell us about the human condition. He examines questions that still baffle scientists and he explores the potential threats and promises of new technologies and their ethical, legal, and social implications, wondering how far we should go in eliminating unwanted behavior or enhancing desired characteristics, focusing on the new "brain steroids" and on the use of Ritalin to control young children. The Future of the Brain is a remarkable look at what the brain sciences are telling us about who we are and where we came from--and where we may be headed in years to come.
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A nuanced account of what neuroscience really knows.......2006-07-17
Steven Rose, a founding member of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science, has 40 years of publishing in neuroscience behind him. Since the 1960s he fought against "On Aggression," "The Territorial Imperative," "The Naked Ape" and has combated a whole succession of varieties of social Darwinism and biological determinism up to the current batch of snake oil salesmen marketing pharmaceutical solutions to social problems.
"The Future of the Brain" summarises the achievements and limitations of the great progress that neuroscience has made over recent decades, from one of the few neuroscientists who have appropriate modesty about what their science can tell us about the human condition and what it can't. If you have read any of the current crop of books on the mind, then you absolutely must read this book. If Rose is right, then we face grave dangers: not so much because neuroscience will enable a futuristic dystopia of thought-control or eugenic manufacture of super-brains, but rather that ill-advised and counter-productive medical intervention will enrich the pharmaceutical industry at the cost of increasing human suffering.
Rose gives a much more nuanced understanding of what the mind is, how it is enabled by our biology and shaped by our lives and those of our evolutionary and social forebears.
Should be titled "History of the Brain".......2006-01-06
Neurobiologist Steven Rose goes to great lengths to correct common misperceptions about the explanatory potential of current genetics, evolutionary psychology, and molecular neuroscience. Ultimately, only the last two chapters cover the "future" of the neurosciences, delving into topics like transcranial magnetic stimulation, pharmacological cognitive enhancement, and neuroethics. But before telling us where we're headed, Rose spends 10 chapters telling us where we've been, both in terms of cognitive change across the lifespan, the cascading processes of synaptogenesis and apoptosis seen in utero and in early childhood, and the changes in brains both across species and across evolutionary time. If "The Future of the Brain" could be said to have a central principle, it's that "the past is the key to the present," and it is here that Rose's talents as a writer truly shine: he integrates the histories of neurons, individuals, psychopharmacology, sociobiology, cognitive psychology and genetics into a coherent narrative, with both appropriate subtlety and engaging clarity.
Rose begins with theories of the origins of life, proto-cells, and nucleic acids. He uses this broad introduction to debunk the simplifications we often make without hesitation: thinking of humankind as the highest on some evolutionary scale of nature; considering organisms to be passive players in evolution; believing that evolution strives for increased complexity as time continues. As he writes, "all living forms on earth ... are more or less equally fit for the environment and life style they have chosen. I use the word chosen deliberately, for organisms are not merely the passive products of selection; in a very real sense they create their own environments ... The grand metaphor of natural selection suggers from its implication that organisms are passive, blown hither and thither by environment change as opposed to being active players in their own destiny." In this way, Rose complicates the popular notion of causality frequently seen in news articles, where researchers claim to have discovered a gene "for" this or that; to Rose, every result has multiple causes, both genetic and environmental.
After reviewing how neural nets may have initially developed in the first multicellular animals (Coelenterates), Rose describes the development of the mammalian cortex during gestation as autopoesis, the process of continual self-creation. The reader is whisked from fertilisation to the embryonic formation of the neural groove, to the birth of neurons and glia in the neural tube, to the migration of neurons as they follow concentration gradients of neural growth factors. We then follow changes in brain structure seen in hominins, then hominids, and finally homo sapiens.
The later chapters document the development of psychopharmacology and the rise of Big Pharma, from aspirin to valium and now Ritalin and Strattera. Rose winds up with fascinating predictions about the future of neurotechnology, all of them well-tempered by a thorough understanding of our past.
Rose's book is quite simply the best popular neuroscience writing I have read. It is hard to imagine another writer that could so seamlessly weave together the fields of genetics, cognitive science, neurophysiology, and pharmacology into such an entertaining yet informative book. Highly recommended...
So what's new in neurosciences?.......2005-09-12
It is very well known that the brain is an incredibly complicated mass of tissue--not to mention a complicated and popular subject of today's trend sciences. Therefore to attempt to write anything concerning this feild would be considerably challenging, regardless of your educational and professional background...yet I believe that Steven Rose has done a great job for two very important reasons.
Firstly, Rose translates the subject and its ideas into a form that is digestible by all readers. Yet, the material is sometimes bland and redundant for those who have studied the subject in greater depth.
Secondly, Rose is honest. He not only critiques himself for past publications, but also comments how some of the material in the book has been illustrated in his own life. I believe that the latter is very important because it encourages the reader to do the same, and this type of learning, I personally believe, is awesome. Rose knows that although his entire audience are not experts, some of the ideas about the brain concerning memory, cognition and interpretation can be easily explored by experiences with one's surroundings; and this is what is so intriguing about biological sciences.
The book is a quick read and again, easy to understand. For those who have a background in the field, Rose presents the material well and gives a somewhat journalistic review of the current issues, fallacies and anticipations in the field.
Awful on two accounts.......2005-07-07
I got only half way through this book, so I am writing this review as a warning. This book is awful on two accounts. It is hastily written, and it isn't very informative. I would expect most readers to be either confused and/or bored, depending on their background (I cannot account for the other reviews). Rose has several schematics of the brain, but does not actually explain them except in the most cursory way. Rose emphasizes the interplay between genes and environment where environment must be interpreted in the broadest sense: for the unborn it includes not only the uterine environment but the signals from the other cells constituting the embryonic/fetal complex. This is fine, but well accepted, at least amongst the scientists I have read. Rose is impressed with Dimasio's work on consciousness, but he more refers to it than tries to make it clear, just as with his brain schematics. He raises some interesting questions about evolutionary psychology, but he is so dismissal of the field, that the reader must seek elsewhere for an objective analysis. Yes, I enjoy reading Richard Dawkins and even Steven Pinker, but I am not writing this review with an axe to grind.
How neuroscience will and will not change our lives.......2005-05-31
The Future of the Brain (Rose's 15th book) is about how neurotechnology derived from neuroscience will atttempt to change our brains, about what we can and cannot expect from science, and what we should fear. Rose is a brain scientist whose speciality is in the neuroscience of memory.
He is also a prolific writer on evolutionary biology. He is a proactive opponent of a strictly reductionist stance in biology and a stern critic of what he sees as a genocentric approach to psychology and what it means to be human. Some of his books (most notably Not in Our Genes (1984) written with Richard Lewontin and Leo Kamini, and Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology (2000) which he edited with Hilary Rose) are more about the politics of evolutionary biology than about the science; but here Rose keeps his political views mostly in the background. The result is an informative book that helps us to understand what science is learning about how the brain works and about how it can be affected by outside agents.
After an introductory chapter he begins with the nitty-gritty of how the brain came to be and how it might be understood--from proto-cells in the pre-biotic soup to axons, dendrites, synapses and brain "structures." His theme throughout is that the brain cannot be understood except as a process continually in motion. He argues that how our brains developed cannot be appreciated through an isolated study of the genetic blueprint. Instead we must look to the brain's developmental history in interaction with the environment to determine what it is and how it works and why.
The middle chapters move from the brain to the mind, from the nuts and bolts of neurology to the experiential human being living in an environment in part created by itself. Rose touches on the "mystery" of consciousness and the paradox of free will. He finishes with some conjectures about what kinds of pharmaceutical agents are to come, what kinds of invasive procedures might be employed in attempts to combat various diseases or to cope with the effects of ageing or to help make us "better than normal." The final chapter is on "Ethics in a Neurocentric World."
Although Rose does not spell out how the mind differs from the brain--I take it he presumes a dictionary definition--much of the book is concerned with the distinction. The brain is the flesh and blood; the mind is the experience, is how I read him. I want to add that the distinction between brain and mind can be seen as similar to the distinction between sex and gender. Sex is biology. Gender is the cultural expression of that biology.
He objects to viewing the brain as composed of "modules" directed by genetic imperatives. He writes that "...life is not a static 'thing' but a process" (p. 62) We are forever changing. The Steven Rose of 30 is not the same as the Steven Rose of today. He is a different person because of what has happened to him during the ensuing decades, and how he has reacted to what has happened, and what he has learned. And if Steven Rose were somehow cloned, that Steven Rose would be different still because of the different environments--pre-natal and afterward--in which he would grow.
He speaks of "patterns of activity" in the working brain. He doesn't like the use of "modules" such as a supposed "reading module" or "reading instinct." (p. 134) However it is really impossible to write about something as foreign to our everyday experience as the workings of the brain without resorting to metaphor and analogy. Something is like something else. Something is compared to something else. This is how we learn. So instead of modules, Rose employs variously, "a collection of mini-organs" (p. 149); "brain regions" (p. 157); "brain...structures" (p. 133), etc. In fact he uses the term "modules" himself on, for example, pages 149, 156, 158. Furthermore his railing against the use of our experience in the "Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation" during the Pleistocene by evolutionary psychologists is partially contradicted by his acknowledgment that we are indeed shaped by our environment as we in turn shape it. It is clear to me that where Rose and the evolutionary psychologists differ is in their perception of how much the environments since the Pleistocene have changed us. Steven Pinker, Edward O. Wilson and others think "not all that much," while Rose thinks "a whole lot." The truth, one can imagine, lies somewhere in between.
It should be noted that one of the unsolved problems in evolution is knowing how fast evolutionary change can take place. Stephen Jay Gould spoke of rapid change after long periods of stasis while others have disagreed; but no one can say how much we have changed biologically since the Pleistocene. It is known that large populations are strongly resistant to evolutionary change because mutations quickly get swamped in the huge genetic pool. My feeling is that in populations as large as ours, little evolutionary change is taking place. The environment is constantly changing, but the selective pressure usually brought about through starvation, disease, and competition from other species is really not much in evidence. And so I tend to side with those who believe we haven't changed all that much.
Steven Rose is a wise and caring man who sometimes forgets his manners when speaking about those with whom he has sharp disagreements. But in this book he is at his best and most well-behaved. Let me finish with perhaps the wisest of his observations. He is speaking of the increased "powers of surveillance and coercion available to an authoritarian state." He warns, "The neurotechnologies [now available and to come] will add to these powers, but the real issue is probably not so much how to curb the technologies, but how to control the state." (p. 302)
Customer Reviews:
A Foursome Of Unlikely Love Mates........2005-09-05
It's always been my belief that whoever catches the wedding bouquet is the next to be married. Not necessarily so. Here it symbolizes a hope that love will sail into the life of the person catching it. At Abby's wedding, her nosegay bouquet gets thrown up into the ceiling fan and is torn apart into four pieces. They sail far across the throng of husband-hungry women guests and the four chosen by fate to have a piece don't exactly believe in love for themselves, only others. Love is the last thing they are looking or wishing for; but, who knows where the spirling numbers will fly or where they will land.
Into each life, love of some form does happen. It may not be the love of your life or the person you could love with all your heart. Oftimes we have to settle for second best and feel angry and unfulfilled for the rest of our lives. Sometimes, if fate is good, we will find the real love again before we die, but not usually. Konnie was a broken hearted widow who had vowed never to love again. After all, love hurts; and when you lose a loved one by death, it is twice fold. She didn't think she could ever go through that again. But fate steps in, and magic occurs.
Geoff is embarrassed when a piece of the bouquet lands in his hand and he quickly gives it to an admiring little girl. After all, he is the handsomest man at the wedding which is not his, and all glances are his way because of his good looks and charming ways. The girl who is too small to have a crush on the nice man hands it to her big sister who has loved him from afar for a long time. He has to acquiese since, after all, he did give the magic to her on a platter.
Rosie had baked the wedding cake and a clumsy groomsman, not Geoff, had crushed it to her despair. It did not damper the love and good wishes in the group of well-wishers for the now wedded couple. She now has a chance at love, which has eluded her for so long. She was standing in the right place at the right time. Lucky Rosie.
Felicity, on the other hand, is the florist who had designed the bouquet of gardenias, babies breath, and white roses and dismayed to see it torn apart and flown to the wind, so to speak. She is love-worn, watching others get married and she is never the lovely bride. Is it true that all brides are beautiful? That's what I was told by Christine when she married my son Geoff. Felicity finds that she indeed has a chance at love, at last.
Is it true that God can use fragmented flowers to plant seeds of love in 'fallow' hearts? I have a shirt with the words "Come Grow With Me" with a blue watering can and tulips with daises. Another says, "Grow Where You Are Planted." God has a plan for all of us, not to be alone and disspirited by a live without love. We may not always get the one we love the most, but please don't just love the one you're with. That is self-defeating.
This combined book used FLOWERS BY FELICITY by Janet Lee Barton, FLOWERS FOR A FRIEND by Gail Sattler, PETALS OF PROMISE by Diann Hunt, and ROSE IN BLOOM by Sandra Petit -- all combined to make this unusual love story about an unlikely occurrence at any wedding. Wish it had happened at mine; I had only one person to throw my gardenia to, the bridesmaid, as I had a small wedding. I lost touch with Colleen, so I don't know whether it worked or not as I had moved far away to Troy, Alabama, for a year after June 4, only to return 40 years later to a strange homeland where no one knows me. I met a woman on the bus who moved away to Queens, New York, to return and have the same fate -- no one knows or cares about the young you anymore. It's as if you were in an alien land, and not your hometown.
Fate plays tricks on all of us, whether we want it to or not. I was sure I would find my first love when I returned. He had other plans -- never to return, and it simply broke my heart.
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Pirates & Promises (Tea Rose)
Anne Caldwell
Manufacturer: Jove
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ASIN: 0515112488 |
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SHE SAID Spunky Megan Adams would do almost anything to save her struggling stagecoach line confront the bandits constantly ambushing the stage for the payrolls it delivered. But what Megan wouldnt do was fall headlong for the heartbreakingly handsome outlaw who robbed the coach, kidnapped her from his ornery amigos, and dragged her half across Kansas accomplice to the holdup!
HE SAID Bounty hunter Lucas McCain stopped at nothing to get his man. Hired to investigate the pilfered payrolls, he was sure Megan herself was masterminding the heists. And hed be damned if hed let this gun-toting spitfire keep him from completing his mission to his horse, promise her roses...and hijack her heart!
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Fast-paced, captivating story!.......2000-09-06
Heidi Betts outdoes her wonderful first book, Cinnamon and Roses, with her second, A Promise of Roses.
The fast pace, dramatic action and witty dialogue, combined with a heroine you can't resist rooting for and hero you'll fall in love with, makes this a great read. Heidi will make you laugh as you race along to the conclusion of this novel. Sensual love scenes provide dynamic sizzle.
A must read for lovers of romances set in the historical American west! (Or lovers of any romances, for that matter.)
Hold on to your seats!.......2000-08-18
Heidi takes you on a wild, fun and sexy ride with her latest, A PROMISE OF ROSES. And she just keeps getting better!
I fell in love with this book for many reasons, one being the feisty heroine, Megan, and the downright sexy hero, Lucas. The sparks fly between Megan and Lucas like no forth of July I've ever seen.
Determined to keep her stage line afloat Megan has not choice but to take a run when her driver refuses to risk his life, fearing they'll be robbed again, an all to common occurrence since they've been transporting railroad payroll. Megan gets more than she bargains for though when she's taken hostage during her run and finds herself attracted to one of the robbers. Little does she know Lucas is undercover for the railroad and suspects her of being the mastermind behind the holdups. She soon finds out though when Lucas abducts her in the night and reveals his plans to take her in to stand trial. What he doesn't count on though is the intense attraction he feels for Megan and the headstrong, feisty, hellion he's taken into custody. It doesn't take long to figure out he has his hands full, in more ways than one! LOL
This is a must read! Wild, crazy, funny, hot, steamy, exciting and playful are only a few words to describe this book. Don't miss it! Heidi is a wonderful storyteller who mixes a great story, lusty scenes, and characters you bond with and can't help but love.
Great book!!.......2000-08-11
Heidi's done it again! Her sequel to Cinnamon & Roses is just as wonderful. Well developed characters that you can't help but love, and a romance that makes you sigh. I can't describe how much I enjoy reading Heidi's books!
A really sweet fun love story.......2000-07-25
I really enjoyed A Promise of Roses. The story was exciting - a real page turner. And I loved the characters - they were well-developed and easy to feel something for. But I really loved her heroine - Megan Adams. She was strong, defiant, self-reliant and funny. Read it - it's a great ride through the old West.
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A heartwarming story of love, trust, and family...from the author of the bestselling Where The Wild Rose Bloms
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God's Grace: Not an Easy Promise
Rose Block
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1425980937 |
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On May 8, 2000, four-year-old Ashley Block was out with her family for a pleasant bicycle ride around their development. . She lost control of her bicycle while cycling down a hill, and she collided with a moving truck after which . her body lay lifeless on the road. At the hospital, the doctors said Ashley probably wouldn't survive the night. . God, however, had other plans-big plans-for this little girl and her life. . The miracle He performed in, and through her, is nothing short of amazing. Not only did He save her life and bring her back from a severe brain stem injury, but He used this little girl to touch many, many hearts and draw them near to Him. God's Grace: Not an Easy Promise is an uplifting testimony of the hope, love, and peace that God gives in the midst of the storm. . This story will encourage you and help you see that God's promises are true regardless of any storm you experience. . His grace is sufficient-even when the road gets bumpy.
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The third book of Karen Rose Smith's DO YOU TAKE THIS STRANGER? trilogy is a modern day Cinderella story. PROMISES, PUMPKINS AND PRINCE CHARMING combines the traditional fairy tale with a modern day romance including stepsisters, a fairy grandmother, a talisman necklace and, of course, Prince Charming. Becca Jacobs, single mother and owner of a small bakery, applied for a grant to expand her business into a cafe Luke Hobart, CEO of his family's foundation, awards Becca a small business grant. At least once each year, Luke trades his suit and tie for jeans and a hard hat, and he supervises one of the projects the Evergreen Foundation sponsors. He likes being treated like a regular guy. When he meets Becca for the first time, his world spins. She finds herself fiercely attracted to Luke, believing he is an honest, everyday man. Both Luke and Becca's pasts keep them from giving in to their attraction for each other until Luke inadvertently becomes a role model for Becca's son. Though Becca feels betrayed when she discovers Luke's true identity, she comes to understand his reasons for working incognito. When he proposes, she joyfully accepts, and in the epilogue they leave their wedding reception in a horse-drawn carriage.
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