Alice James became PA to the Managing Director of Stuart Fashions at the age of eighteen and had immediately fallen head over heels in love with her handsome boss. For three years she kept her feelings firmly behind the steel wall she had built to protect her heart. Cal Stuart drove himself hard to keep the company his mother founded running smoothly and expected the same high standard from the staff. When he discovered Alice was responsible for a leakage which cost the company a loss of revenue and reputation he felt he had no option but to accept her resignation. Meeting again two years later Alice realises the steel wall she had built is in danger of cracking as Cal enlists her help to extricate himself from a difficult situation.
Not all poetry is equal. This book is filled with love poetry like no other. Aimed at the unrequited and unfulfilled love this book takes a look deep into the heart of the poet, and those who she loved.
Being born of mixed ethnic cultures Jasmine Mitchell had always known she had been abandoned by her biological parents. At eighteen she discovered her birth mother had never revealed the name of her father but when she was twenty-two the loving couple who had adopted her advised it was time for her to find some answers to her many questions. Travelling to the last known address of her birth mother Jasmine meets Fergus Donaldson and discovers she is not the only person seeking answer.....
Leah Griffin gave up a promising career in academia to care for her elder sister when she was paralysed in a car accident which killed her fiancE Philip Harrington. Their son Milo is left orphaned when her sister succumbs to her injuries eighteen months later, leaving Leah as his sole guardian. When Philip's parents demand that they be given custody of the child as biological grandparents Alex Petersen promises to help them fight Leah; but it does not take him long to discover he has not been given the full story, or, that Leah is not the gold digger portrayed by them.
Ruth Carter had always felt she was considered the pale shadow of her sister Stephanie, but when she meets Scott Davidson, her sister's boyfriend, she feels an attraction which threatens to disrupt her safe existence as a collator of antiquities in the local Museum. The story is told in a series of flashbacks by some of the guests at the evening celebrations of a family wedding; but which sister will be with Scott as the last dance is announced?
After almost eighteen years of marriage Katie Cameron is left by her husband Brogan as he apparently feels he has been trapped into a life he is not ready to accept. Their twin son and daughter, Mitchell and Libby, take matters into their own hands when it appears Katie and Brogan are drifting towards a permanent break-up. Will they succeed in a reconciliation...or is it too late?
Tori Ingles has something of a reputation for having a sympathetic ear and a soft shoulder to cry on and is asked by her boss Libby Cameron to use her skills to comfort and restore the self-esteem her brother Mitchell recently suffered by the defection of his fiancEe. Contrary to being the betrayed fiancE Mitchell Cameron, is in fact, the ultimate playboy and is aware that his sister has once again hatched a plot to bring him to heel. Tori soon discovers all is not as it seems with Mitchell (Mitch) Cameron and takes him to task but soon finds she has fallen victim to his playboy image......
In her meticulous and wide-ranging study, Nora M. Heimann follows the metamorphosis of Joan of Arc's posthumous representation during the years in which her image ascended from relative obscurity as a minor provincial figure in the middle ages through her treatment as a figure of political satire in the eighteenth century to her ultimate emergence as an image of piety and sanctity in the mid-nineteenth century. Offering the first scholarly art historical and cultural analysis of the origins of the modern Joan of Arc cult, she takes on the challenge of charting, as no previous critic has, why and how the Maid of Orl‘s has been all things to such a diverse public through the ages, particularly during the rapid shifts in political regimes that came in the wake of the French Revolution. Joan of Arc's image has shown a protean capacity to embody a vast and often contradictory range of qualities, from martial ascendancy to vulnerable piety, from maidenly purity to transgressive androgyny, from the power of the people to the divine right of kings. Heimann makes a persuasive case for this enduringly resonant woman as the only figure in French culture to be warmly embraced simultaneously by republicans, monarchists, feminists, and neo-fascists alike. In its recounting of the iconographic fortunes of this remarkable woman during her transformation from an image of satire to one of sanctity, Joan of Arc in French Art and Culture (1700-1855) offers an illustrated, interdisciplinary depiction of the relationship between art and politics that will appeal not only to art historians but also to those working in literature, women's studies, cultural studies, intellectual history, and religious history.
Using his own story as a poignant, evocative illustration of God's grace and healing, Jason Vallotton--with a contribution from his father, bestselling author Kris Vallotton--invites you to reframe your understanding of pain in terms of redemption. It is possible to steward the deepest hurts in your life so that God can lay the foundation for your future. While it might seem incomprehensible that good can ever come from such profound pain, you will discover that God not only can heal your wounds but will use the healing process to equip you for a restored, fulfilled, and powerful life!
God's plan has never been to help believers avoid pain. In fact, He uses difficult seasons and relationships to propel His children toward their destiny. The healing process from emotional and spiritual wounds is a journey that prepares Christians to live powerful lives, fully trusting the God who has freed them from the past. Jason Vallotton thought his world was burning down around him when he found out that his wife, Heather, was having an affair and planned to leave him and their children. Using his own story as a poignant, evocative illustration of God's grace and healing, Jason invites readers to reframe their understanding of redemption. With his dad, Kris Vallotton, Jason shows believers how they can steward the hardest times and deepest pain in their lives and allow God to use them to lay a foundation for complete restoration and empowerment for the future. While it may be hard to see emotional wounds as gifts when they still hurt so deeply, those who read The Supernatural Power of Forgiveness will discover that God can not only heal their wounds, but He can also use the process of healing to equip them for whole, fulfilled and powerful lives.
