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A celebration of the innovative, artisanal, and sustainable living exemplified by contemporary Dutch interiors. With a carefully curated collection of interiors, including historic canal houses, restored farms, and green homes, belonging to interior designers, product designers, architects, and artists, this book showcases creative and resourceful living. These properties have been created or renovated and brought into the twenty-first century with typical Dutch style and sensibility—environmentally friendly, imaginative uses of space filled with color and charm and never to be taken too seriously. Each home in the book reflects the personality and spirit of the people who inhabit it. From...
Kara sang well. It was amazing how she memorized the lyrics of the song at such a young age. As she sang, my thoughts wondered to the time when my mother Francisca Lacierna Mercado, and her younger sister Ninay, fetched their sick brother Gadong who escaped from his Japanese captors during the infamous Death March in April 1942…
An "ethnographic" novel that portrays life in California's Napa Valley as it might be a very long time from now, imagined not as a high tech future but as a time of people once again living close to the land.
Jade was born into a world which taught her adult lessons at a very early age. Jade would never escape the fate her world would bring unto her until she learned to let go of her past delving into her future. Although complications arise when Jade seemed to finally get her life together, yet, Jade may not have time to get her life in order in time to say goodbye to a world she so desperately sought to get away from, With so much to do before as her time grew shorter, she had to reach out for help coming home to the same place she had escaped not more than seven years ago.
The emotional and touching conclusion to the Baxter family series! The Baxters make plans to come together for a summer lakeside reunion, a celebration like they haven’t had in years. But before the big day, the unthinkable happens. As the Baxter family rallies together, memories come to light in the grief-stricken hours of waiting and praying, memories that bring healing and hope during a time when otherwise darkness might have the final word. In a season that changes all of them, the brilliance of family love overshadows even the valley of heartache as the Baxters draw closer to God and each other. Along the way, secrets are revealed and the truth about the family’s history is finally ...
In her book, "Coming Home," author Diane Monte, focuses on the emotions children deal with in their growing years that help shape who they become as adults. This author has dedicated her life to children, educating, molding and engaging them in life's lessons. She imparts her high standards to all the children she is involved with. Coming Home deals with the feelings children experience when one of their loved ones is serving in the military. It enables them to share those feelings and their stories as they tell about that loved one. Coming Home is a great introduction to the true meaning of Veterans day and what a Veteran really signifies. Coming Home is a tribute to all those men and women...
The discovery that a child is lesbian or gay can send shockwaves through a family. A mother will question how she's raised her son; a father will worry that his daughter will experience discrimination. From the child's perspective, gay and lesbian youth fear their families will reject them and that they will lose financial and emotional support. All in all, learning a child is gay challenges long-held views about sexuality and relationships, and the resulting uncertainty can produce feelings of anger, resentment, and concern. Through a qualitative, multicultural study of sixty-five gay and lesbian children and their parents, Michael LaSala, a leading expert on this issue, outlines effective,...
Seventeen-year-old Jamie Sutton is living a dream. She has loving parents, a best friend, and a wonderful boyfriend that she is going to marry. She has it all. Then tragedy strikes. Jamie loses everything that she holds dear. She leaves her hometown and never looks back. Fifteen years later, Jamie Sutton is coming home. She needs to find closure from her tortured past, but it’s hard to do when she reunites with her high school boyfriend, Jeremy Denton. To make things harder, he is mourning the death of his wife and raising his two children. When old feelings resurface, Jamie has to choose between what she knows is right and what she feels in her heart.
A heartwarming novel by the much-loved Rosamunde Pilcher. Born in Colombo, Judith Dunbar spends her teenage years at boarding school, while her beloved mother and younger sister live abroad with her father. When her new friend Loveday Carey-Lewis invites Judith home for the weekend to Nancherrow, the Carey-Lewises' beautiful estate on the Cornish coast, it is love at first sight. She falls in love too with the generous Carey-Lewises themselves. With their generosity and kindness, Judith grows from naive girl to confident young woman, basking in the warm affection of a surrogate family whose flame burns brightly. But it is a flame soon to be extinguished in the gathering storm of war. And Judith herself has far to travel before at last . . . coming home.
He was her first love… … And the reason she left. Now she’s falling for him. In 1881 Oregon, Becca Wilson is a successful university student, determined to be a modern woman and not a resident of the frontier boomtown she grew up in. With her brother’s death, she needs the help of his best friend to find justice. But can she avoid rekindling her feelings for him? Seth Blake wants answers about his best friend’s suspicious death. But will it come at the expense of his secret? Can he make the choice between justice and love? As the stakes get higher, Seth must keep both himself and Becca alive long enough to offer a future to this woman he’s fallen in love with. And win her forgiveness. Coming Home is the first book in The Route Home series. If you like Christian historical romance with a touch of suspense, strong female characters, and a taste of the wild West, you’ll love this journey of frontier townspeople into the modern age and finding their way home. Buy Coming Home and jump into the adventure today.