When, at the urging of her dying mother, eighteen-year-old farm worker Mary Evans sails for England in 1886 she has no idea that she has inherited her grandmother’s heraldic title of Countess. Unused to the way of the British aristocracy, and much to the consternation of her peers, she adjusts in her own way to deal with the authority, privileges and wealth that have been bestowed upon her.
When Captain Ross came to Darby, Andrew believes he is a crook. He claims Darby House belongs to him. Unless Aunt Mat’s will is found the people of Darby will lose Darby House. Andrew is sure there is another will. Aunt Mat was a strange lady. She always had to have two receipts of everything. Andrew is sure there are two wills. Big black cars come to Darby, ugly paintings, a man at the lighthouse. 98 year old Granny Shaw keeps telling the boys the will is at the papers. Readers who enjoy suspense and adventure will find both. I live at McRae Lake with my two cats, McGee and Major and my little dog Mojo. I have written two other books and published ‘Thirteen Steps to Bella Donna’ and ‘Santa Anna’s Lost Wagon of Gold’. I enjoy reading, knitting and working in my flower and vegetable gardens. I enjoy stick art. Stick art is where you take sticks and put them together to form animals. It’s fun, try it. You will be surprised.
When a rogue comet enters our solar system and collides with Mars, it sends a huge dust and debris cloud into Earth's orbital path. This cloud contains an alien virus that infects 1/3 of the worlds population. At first it only sickens, but soon mutates turning its victims into blood-thirsty zombies intent on spreading the virus. Sean Sullivan and his three best friends find themselves in the middle of a world wide zombie apocalypse. Struggling to save family and friends, the young men must embark on a cross country trip to safety. Upon arriving they find zombie and human alike intent on their destruction. With intense realism and edge of your seat suspense, author Richard McCrohan leaves you breathless as you discover who will live and who will fall victim to Pandora.
Harley Prince had definitely gotten on the wrong side of someone. That's the only explanation for being assigned to go undercover with Mac Gerard. He's everything she doesn't want in a man--spoiled, rich and entirely too hot for her own good. Too bad he's too tempting to resist. Looks as if she'll have to hit the sheets with him to get him out of her system! Mac knows he's resorting to unfair tactics to get Harley in his bed. But she is one challenge he has no intention of backing away from. How could he know that an affair with her would involve more than just his libido? Now he's facing an even bigger obstacle--convincing Harley that with this fling he wants forever!
THE LONE STAR SOCIAL CLUB THE MAN: Cynical, sworn-to-go-it-alone private detective Sam Kelly. THE MISSION: Getting just the facts—on an about-to-be committed crime! THE WITNESS: Lovely Jennifer Hart: either the most trusting woman alive…or the biggest con artist. So who was the real Jennifer? Sam was determined to find out. Because even if she was who she claimed, he was getting in too deep. And there was, after all, more than one way for a man to fall…. You may walk in alone…but you won't leave that way!
The world's most beautiful movie star is scarred in a fiery car accident. Her career over and her self-esteem in shreds, she hides in the magnificent home her grandmother left her in the mountains of North Carolina. But her motherly cousin refuses to let her become a recluse, and a handsome neighbor with painful dilemmas of his own is lured into the mix. Romance, family life, drama, humor, and secrets.
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"Our foundations are set in place during childhood. Hard times make for hard foundations. Sturdy, solid. The edifice erected thereafter, its style, its shape¿its flow and direction are entirely up to the builder." Come and see the boy Amariah, born into his low existence. See his curiosity, his struggle to understand. Come and see the boy Amariah! See joy and laughter clutched dearly to his breast, glowing fireflies in a dark forest. Come...see the boy Amariah. See each agony experienced anew, each lash of the whip bright, bloody, and fresh. Come, see the boy Amariah. See and wonder what might become of such a wretch?
While avant-garde modernism disrupted the art salons, architecture schools, and design studios of the world's more sophisticated urban centres in the 20th century, Calgary slept through the cultural upheavals as a provincial backwater. Calgary's initiation to modernism might be dated to February 13, 1947, when Imperial Oil blew in its famous well at Leduc. Or the 1948 football season, when Tom Brooks and Les Lear wrapped the Calgary Stampeders football team around an innovative and modernist-looking T-formation backfield to win the Grey Cup. Calgarians embraced the modern age after the Second World War, taking modernism into the streets and into the suburbs. They went beyond art, architecture, and design, and redefined modernism to include homes, furniture, appliances, and cars. In the process, Calgarians democratized, feminized, and suburbanized modernism. Suburban Modern examines controversies over "coloured" margarine and "mixed" drinking in post-war Calgary. It shows how new petro office buildings transformed the downtown skyline during the 1950s and 1960s, and how new bus lines, roads, and bridges changed the city's transportation network. As the city sprawled horizontally to engulf its ever-expanding suburbs, shoppers deserted downtown for suburban malls. The book follows young couples into their post-war dream homes with modern furnishings and barbecue-appointed patios. Suburban Modern argues that the suburbs rather than the downtown defined Calgary's approach to modernism.
