2012 Christy Award finalist, Historical category. Camilla Fox is alive. The last thing she remembers is being lost in the snow after leaving her home to escape the Mormon faith she no longer calls her own. She’s been taken in by the 5th Infantry Regiment of the US Army and given over to the personal care of Captain Charles Brandon. As she regains her strength, memories of her two children she had to leave behind come flooding back, threatening to break her heart. Camilla is determined to reunite with her daughters. But when news of her father’s grave illness reaches her, she knows she must return to the family farm to reconcile with her father. As spring arrives, Camilla returns to Salt Lake City a changed woman, but nothing could prepare her for the changes to the city, to the Mormon church, and to the family she left behind.
A novel of crime and passion in the South Bronx by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight and The Good Rat. The Department of Corrections makes a mistake when it grants parole to a young Puerto Rican man named Teenager. After a few years in jail for dealing narcotics, he promises the parole board that he’s gone straight. But Teenager has no intention of abandoning his life of crime. He dreams only of money, and will do anything to make himself rich. When Teenager enters business with the Lucchese family, whose boss has a line on the purest heroin in New York, success seems all but assured—until a scorching affair between the boss’s wife and a young lawyer named Maximo threatens to ruin the entire operation. Their passion is instantaneous, but Teenager will make certain that before they can be together, the Bronx is going to burn. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
Bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer presents one of her most beloved stories—about a woman who must look past the surface to see true beauty within… Allison Scott has her mind on her career. As an up-and-coming photographer, she has neither the time nor the inclination for an affair—especially since her last attempt at love with a handsome model shattered her dreams of rising to the top with a partner by her side. Now, Allison is determined to stay detached from the beautiful men she must photograph every day. But Rick Lang, who only models to pay the bills, can see through Allison’s aloofness to the aching heart beneath. And while it’s clear that Allison isn’t about to let him in without a fight, Rick knows that he’s the right man to be trusted with the gift of her love…
Are you lacking in faith? Does your faith need strengthening? Are you afraid of stepping out in faith for fear of failure? Are you ready for a new dimension of faith? Inside the pages of F.A.I.T.H. Forsaking All I Trust Him, you will find wisdom, instruction, and practical application that will help you exercise, build and propel you to the next level! It's time to step out of your comfort zone, move forward, stretch forth and boldly walk out everything God had divinely placed within you. Get ready for your F.A.I.T.H. shift!
1585-England is beset by foreign enemies and homegrown traitors. Bess Stoughton has a year to find a husband or her father will marry her to an elderly neighbour. Edmund Wyard, about to join the English army in the Netherlands, is resisting family pressure to marry. In a world where duty and obedience override personal wishes, time is running out
An intensely dramatic true story, Forsaking All Others recounts the fascinating case of an interracial couple who attempted, in defiance of society’s laws and conventions, to formalize their relationship in the post-Reconstruction South. It was an affair with tragic consequences, one that entangled the protagonists in a miscegenation trial and, ultimately, a desperate act of revenge. From the mid-1870s to the early 1880s, Isaac Bankston was the proud sheriff of Desha County, Arkansas, a man so prominent and popular that he won five consecutive terms in office. Although he was married with two children, around 1881 he entered into a relationship with Missouri Bradford, an African American woman who bore his child. Some two years later, Missouri and Isaac absconded to Memphis, hoping to begin a new life there together. Although Tennessee lawmakers had made miscegenation a felony, Isaac’s dark complexion enabled the couple to apply successfully for a marriage license and take their vows. Word of the marriage quickly spread, however, and Missouri and Isaac were charged with unlawful cohabitation. An attorney from Desha County, James Coates, came to Memphis to act as special prosecutor in the case. Events then took a surprising turn as Isaac chose to deny his white heritage in order to escape conviction. Despite this victory in court, however, Isaac had been publicly disgraced, and his sense of honor propelled him into a violent confrontation with Coates, the man he considered most responsible for his downfall. Charles F. Robinson uses Missouri and Isaac’s story to examine key aspects of post-Reconstruction society, from the rise of miscegenation laws and the particular burdens they placed on anyone who chose to circumvent them, to the southern codes of honor that governed both social and individual behavior, especially among white men. But most of all, the book offers a compelling personal narrative with important implications for our supposedly more tolerant times.
Forsaking all to follow Jesus is a book that makes a call to our generation to follow Jesus Christ with everything. When we read the Bible we realise that there is no one who met Jesus and continues with life as they had lived it before being introduced to Jesus. Mary was a young girl, about to be married, when she met Jesus and Jesus turned her into the mother of the Lord. Joseph was a mere carpenter but he ended up protecting the Saviour from death. Peter and most of the disciples were simple fishermen, but by the time Jesus was done with them, they were fishers of men and they performed the greatest miracles of all time. Paul turned from being a murderer to evangelising an entire region. Jesus is still in the business of transforming the lives of those who wholeheartedly surrender themselves to him. This is a personal invitation to follow Jesus above all else. Jesus won't simply upgrade your life but He will turn your entire life upside down. We will not recognise you because an encounter with Jesus will change your life forever. This book is an urgent call to a generation that is too busy to give their lives completely to Christ, it is a desperate tug at the hearts of those who consider other things above Christ and a simple woman's cry to her generation that is that eternally aspiring for more to desire Christ above all else. This is a simple call to forsake all, and follow Jesus Christ. Following Jesus is life changing and the rewards thereof are eternal. As you read this book, may it move you to the perfect place that God has prepared for you in Him.
Greed. Power. Sin. It all comes with the gavel. Blurs the lines between church and state. But the Knightdale Charter of the Satan's Knights MC is my life. And I'd do anything for this club. Like letting the best woman I ever had slip through my fingertips. A sinfully beautiful spitfire, she's my better half in every way. My twin flame. My everything. My biggest regret. But there's no making things right between us. Because I'm the reason she's alone yet again. And if our past wasn't enough to put out the fire in her soul, my crimes certainly will be.
They are all wrong for each other… Jessica Harrington knows what she doesn't want for Christmas—to be roped in to her parents' matchmaking scheme. Ever since she and Weston Chamberlain were children, their fathers hoped they would marry and merge their families' fortunes. One problem—Jessica and Wes can't tolerate one another! But love can make everything right Wes, who arrives in Aspen for the families' shared ski vacation, has grown up…in delicious ways. And beautiful Jessica is nothing like the awkward teen Wes remembers. The breathtaking setting fuels a sizzling attraction that surprises them both. But living on opposite coasts is only one of many obstacles ahead. Can romance last once they've left their winter wonderland behind?
