The Long Way Home
The Long Way Home

Author: Rachel Spangler

Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1602824770

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They say you can't go home again, but Raine St. James doesn't know why anyone would want to. Rory St. James was disowned after she came out at seventeen. She rebounded by moving to Chicago, changing her name to Raine and putting down her hometown to audiences around the country. Now, ten years later, too old to be considered a gay youth, broke, evicted, and fresh off a much needed break-up, Raine St. James is forced to accept a job teaching at Bramble University in Darlington, the town she's been publicly bashing for the last decade. Beth Devoroux was born and raised in Darlington. Despite losing her parents at a young age, she is well loved by everyone who knows her. She leads a comfortable life with good job at Bramble University, a long-term but closeted relationship, friends that she can count on, and everything she thinks she wants, so why is she so drawn to a rabble-rouser like Raine St. James? Can Raine and Beth face their pasts and come to terms with their differences in order to have any hope for a future together?

A Long Way Home: A Small Town Romance
A Long Way Home: A Small Town Romance

Author: Lani Blake

Publisher: Vella Ink

Published:

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13:

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Paul Theodore Newman likes his life to run smoothly. His sheets have a thread count between 1400-1500, and his spreadsheets are always on point. Maybe when he’s back in Lake Howling he lets down his guard and his personal hygiene slips, but there is absolutely no need for Hope Lawrence to take shots at him because she dresses che dumpster. Her fashion sense makes him shudder, as do her kale smoothies! Down on her luck, she challenges him at every turn, but when trouble follows her to Howling, he finds himself determined to help her, only to discover it’s him who needs rescuing! They do say opposites attract. Hope Lawrence’s life has imploded. Losing her job and savings she thought she’d hit rock bottom. WRONG! She totally humiliates herself in front of her childhood nemesis. No way can she face the sexy as hell Paul Newman again, knowing his black eye was a result of her stupidity? Can she go back to Lake Howling and pick up the pieces of her life? ​Both seem unlikely, as does the sudden attraction she feels for the man who wears designer clothes and has a girl in every city. Her head is telling her to run, but her heart has other ideas. If you enjoy your small town romance sizzling with a side of crazy then Lake Howling is for you. Meet the real authority in town, the local book club, and maybe ask Willow to draw you a memento! Swim in the ice cold lake, then warm up with a coffee and mystery muffin at The Hoot Café. Plenty of feels and laughs, all wrapped up in a town that will have you packing your bags to head there from the opening page. BOOKS IN THE LAKE HOWLING SERIES A Promise Of Home The Texan Meets His Match How Sweet It Is It Only Took You Don't Look Back A Long Way Home Then Came You Faith and the Rock Star

Lion
Lion

Author: Saroo Brierley

Publisher: Penguin Books

Published: 2017-02-14

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780143786504

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The Long Way Home
The Long Way Home

Author: Mariah Stewart

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2013-08-01

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 034940142X

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Sometimes going home is the only way to go forward... As the only child of a wealthy investment manager, Ellie Chapman has never known anything besides a life of perfect privilege. But her years of good fortune come to an abrupt end when her father is exposed for swindling billions of dollars from innocent investors. Just like that, Ellie loses everything: money, job, home-even her fiancé, who's jailed as her father's partner in crime. With her family name in tatters, Ellie has only one place to go... Sleepy St. Dennis, Maryland, is hardly where Ellie intends to stay, however. Keeping her identity a secret, she plans to sell the house her late mother left her in the small town and use the proceeds to move on with her life. Unfortunately, her ticket to a new beginning is in dire need of pricey improvements, most of which she'll have to do herself. Until the house on Bay View Road is fit to be sold, the sole place Ellie will be traveling is the hardware store. But as the many charms of St. Dennis-not to mention Cameron O'Connor, the handsome local contractor who has secrets of his own-begin to work their magic, what begins as a lesson in do-it-yourself renovations might just end up as Ellie's very own rejuvenation.

Lion: A Long Way Home
Lion: A Long Way Home

Author: Saroo Brierley

Publisher:

Published: 2017-01-12

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781405930994

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*** NOW NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS *** Lion is the heartbreaking and inspiring original true story of the lost little boy who found his way home twenty-five years later and is now a major film starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara. As a five-year old in India, I got lost on a train. Twenty-five years later, I crossed the world to find my way back home. Five-year-old Saroo lived in a poor village in India, in a one-room hut with his mother and three siblings... until the day he boarded a train alone and got lost. For twenty-five years. This is the story of what happened to Saroo in those twenty-five years. How he ended up on the streets of Calcutta. And survived. How he then ended up in Tasmania, living the life of an upper-middle-class Aussie. And how, at thirty years old, with some dogged determination, a heap of good luck and the power of Google Earth, he found his way back home. Lion is a triumphant true story of survival against all odds and a shining example of the extraordinary feats we can achieve when hope endures. 'Amazing stuff' The New York Post 'So incredible that sometimes it reads like a work of fiction' Winnipeg Free Press (Canada) 'A remarkable story' Sydney Morning Herald Review 'I literally could not put this book down. Saroo's return journey will leave you weeping with joy and the strength of the human spirit' Manly Daily (Australia) 'We urge you to step behind the headlines and have a read of this absorbing account...With clear recollections and good old-fashioned storytelling, Saroo...recalls the fear of being lost and the anguish of separation' Weekly Review (Australia)

The Lost Continent
The Lost Continent

Author: Bill Bryson

Publisher: VNR AG

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780060161583

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"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.

A Long Way From Home
A Long Way From Home

Author: Peter Carey

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0571338879

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Longlisted for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary AwardLonglisted for the 2019 Walter Scott Historical Fiction PrizeIrene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together with Willie, their lanky navigator, they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the continent, over roads no car will ever quite survive.A Long Way from Home is Peter Carey's late style masterpiece; a thrilling high speed story that starts in one way, then takes you to another place altogether. Set in the 1950s in the embers of the British Empire, painting a picture of Queen and subject, black, white and those in-between, this brilliantly vivid novel illustrates how the possession of an ancient culture spirals through history - and the love made and hurt caused along the way.

Take Me Home
Take Me Home

Author: Carrie Elks

Publisher:

Published: 2023-03-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781916516069

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He's a rock God. She's the small town waitress who stops him in his tracks. Once upon a time Gray Hartson was her big sister's boyfriend. The most popular guy at school who never noticed a fourteen-year-old dreamer. Then he left town to become a superstar and never looked back. Ten years later Maddie Clark is all grown up and waiting tables in a diner, when he walks through the door and sends her heart spinning. And for the first time in their lives, he notices her too. Gray's only back for a few weeks to visit his sick father. He doesn't expect to meet a beautiful waitress who soothes his pain and paints color into his world. And he definitely doesn't expect to fall for his ex's baby sister. He's spent the last ten years singing about heartbreak. Now they're both about to find out how it really feels.

Don't Look Back: A Small Town Romance
Don't Look Back: A Small Town Romance

Author: Lani Blake

Publisher: Vella Ink

Published:

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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Brad Gelderman rode his Harley into the small town of Lake Howling with one intention. Find his brother, apologize, then leave. No messy emotion required. What he hadn’t factored on was arriving the day of Ethan's wedding, or having one night of passion with sweet Macy Reynolds. Before he knew it, his brother was forcing him to face his past, and Macy was filling the dark, empty places in his heart. Single mom Macy has sworn off relationships after the hell that was her married life. She hadn’t planned on a hot night with a handsome Texan. The man spells d-a-n-g-e-r, in flashing neon letters. But when her past comes calling, she realizes that taking a chance on love may be worth the risk. Can Brad and Macy fight their growing attraction, all too aware that the scars of their pasts can easily threaten their hopes and dreams for a future? BOOKS IN THE LAKE HOWLING SERIES A Promise Of Home The Texan Meets His Match How Sweet It Is It Only Took You Don't Look Back A Long Way Home Then Came You Faith and the Rock Star

Rivals (An Enemies To Lovers Small Town Romance Duo)
Rivals (An Enemies To Lovers Small Town Romance Duo)

Author: Lani Blake

Publisher: Lani Blake

Published: 2023-09-12

Total Pages: 832

ISBN-13:

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Finding love in a small town where everyone knows your business is never easy… But when your enemy turns out to be the only person you can trust, things heat up fast. Two enemies to lovers, small town romances with plenty of humor and spice. A Long Way Home (Lake Howling Series) She challenges his control. All he’d wanted was a drink after the day from hell. Instead, Paul Theodore Newman ends up with a black eye and his enemy in his arms. His life is usually exactly where he wants it. Organized and on track, and then Hope Lawrence makes a reappearance. Naturalist and lover of every cause, the woman wouldn’t know a fashion label if it was taped to her forehead. She is chaos. By the time he realizes the threat she’s facing is real, Newman knows he’s in way too deep to pull back. Can he help Hope clear her name and convince her to take a chance on them? Love Me Tender (Ryker Falls Series) He'll fight for her to stay Jack Trainer likes women, he just has no intention of loving one. Life taught him to guard his heart, and when Rory Haldane, (daughter of the most hated family in town) walks back into Ryker Falls, he doesn’t see that changing. The problem starts when his town turn on her. Jack’s not the stuff heroes are made of, but he also doesn’t believe a person should pay for their father’s sins. When someone threatens Rory, he is determined to protect her, even if she fights him every step of the way. He soon wants more from her than a night between the sheets, but will Rory drop her guard enough to trust him?