Author: Emilie Jacobsen Publisher: Emilie Jacobsen ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 247
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The bluestocking Phillippa ’Phil’ Ford likes books, cats, driving at high speed, and most importantly her independence. Maxwell ‘Max’ Mowbray likes chess, good investments, riding as fast as possible, and most importantly women. The two only peripherally know each other and have no desire to deepen the connection until they die in the same carriage accident. Suddenly they are ghosts and the only two able to see each other. The two strangers seem to disagree on literally everything – except that marriage is not for them. As they navigate London trying to find a way to pass on or simply pass time, sympathy starts to build between them, and they slowly understand each other’s motives better. But what chance do two ghosts have of a happy ever after?
Author: Allan Amanik Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi ISBN: 1496827902 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 290
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Contributions by Allan Amanik, Kelly B. Arehart, Sue Fawn Chung, Kami Fletcher, Rosina Hassoun, James S. Pula, Jeffrey E. Smith, and Martina Will de Chaparro Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed explores the tendency among most Americans to separate their dead along communal lines rooted in race, faith, ethnicity, or social standing and asks what a deeper exploration of that phenomenon can tell us about American history more broadly. Comparative in scope, and regionally diverse, chapters look to immigrants, communities of color, the colonized, the enslaved, rich and poor, and religious minorities as they buried kith and kin in locales spanning the Northeast to the Spanish American Southwest. Whether African Americans, Muslim or Christian Arabs, Indians, mestizos, Chinese, Jews, Poles, Catholics, Protestants, or various whites of European descent, one thing that united these Americans was a drive to keep their dead apart. At times, they did so for internal preference. At others, it was a function of external prejudice. Invisible and institutional borders built around and into ethnic cemeteries also tell a powerful story of the ways in which Americans have negotiated race, culture, class, national origin, and religious difference in the United States during its formative centuries.
Author: Kate White Publisher: Grand Central Publishing ISBN: 0759510822 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 219
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True crime writer and sometime-sleuth Bailey Weggins took the world by storm in Kate White's sexy and suspenseful debut novel, If Looks Could Kill. Now, in Bailey's latest outing, she takes the plunge into a world of domestic divas and deadly nuptial doings... When she gets a call from Ashley Hanes on a frigid night, Bailey expects to be hit up for fashion show tickets. Instead Ashley reveals that two bridesmaids from Peyton Cross's wedding have recently died in freak accidents...and Ashley is terrified she's next. A bridesmaid herself-with the dress to prove it-Bailey dashes off to Ivy Hill Farm, the home of Peyton's catering empire in Greenwich, Connecticut. Bailey's barely warmed up after the cold drive before another bridesmaid takes a walk down the aisle of no return. Now following a dangerous trail of clues that will take her from New York's trendy Lower East Side to a fabulous oceanfront hotel in Miami, Bailey could become the headline of the next true crime story: Four Funerals and a Wedding.
Author: Frances Smith Foster Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199886970 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 255
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Conventional wisdom tells us that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, and that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones: "until death or distance do us part." It is an impression that imbues beliefs about black families to this day. But it's a perception primarily based on documents produced by abolitionists, the state, or other partisans. It doesn't tell the whole story. Drawing on a trove of less well-known sources including family histories, folk stories, memoirs, sermons, and especially the fascinating writings from the Afro-Protestant Press,'Til Death or Distance Do Us Part offers a radically different perspective on antebellum love and family life. Frances Smith Foster applies the knowledge she's developed over a lifetime of reading and thinking. Advocating both the potency of skepticism and the importance of story-telling, her book shows the way toward a more genuine, more affirmative understanding of African American romance, both then and now.
Author: Melinda Santiago Publisher: Sfirm Publishing ISBN: 9781638770756 Category : Languages : en Pages : 184
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About 'Til Death Do Us Un-PartShe worked her ass off finally getting everything she wanted in life and NOTHING was going to stand in her way - not other women, not societies hang ups, not even God. But..... everything comes with a price. Reviews"I'm so proud of my sis Melinda. This read is relative to a lot of what us women go through in relationships today. You'll laugh, cry at times, and definitely see yourself or someone you know in these characters. This book is a page turner for sure." Lelee Lyons Mbr of SWV, Author, Exec Producer "A thrill ride from beginning to end with a interesting twist " Farrah Gray International Bestselling Author, Business Mogul & Social Media Influencer
Author: Lurlene McDaniel Publisher: Laurel Leaf ISBN: 0307548090 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 228
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Nothing in April Lancaster's future seems certain as she battles a brain tumor that doctors say is inoperable. The hospital is the last place she would expect to find love - until she meets Mark Gianni. Mark is handsome and charming, and he also has terminal Cystic Fibrosis. Despite initial reservations, the two quickly fall in love and plan to spend the rest of their lives together...no matter how long that may be. When a sudden accident aggravates Mark's condition, April must make a decision that will change the course of her life forever. This is a heartbreaking story by bestselling author Lurlene McDaniel that is perfect for fans of The Fault in Our Stars.
Author: Harlow Layne Publisher: Harlow Layne ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 129
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When I arrived in Vegas for my best friend’s wedding, I never thought I’d want to jump the wedding party. That was until I saw Everly walking across the hotel lobby. Sparks flew. Drinks were drunk, and all I could think about was getting in her in my bed and underneath me. When she asked, “What if I’m saving myself for marriage?” My dick had the solution. One stop at Cupid’s Wedding Chapel and I had a wedding band on my left hand and the woman I wanted in my bed. Now I was married to the maid of honor, and all hell was about to break loose.
Author: Dalton Thomas Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781723825927 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 194
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Throughout the three and a half years of His earthly ministry, Jesus consistently called His disciples to expect and embrace suffering, persecution, and martyrdom, exhorting them with such words as,
Author: Joshua Rosenthal Publisher: Joshua Rosenthal ISBN: 0985029714 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 153
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The last contraction never comes. Melanie cannot feel Ezra. Her body thinks that he is already out. She can hear "Melanie, push this baby out." But she can't feel anything to push. She can hear the call to 911, hear them ask for the address. --- Beliefs don't make a story. It's what happens when they meet an experience that flies in their face and seemingly discredits them, a juxtaposition that pits the intellectual content of belief, so hidden and implausible, squarely against the emotional and psychological experience of suffering, so obvious and real. It's one thing to profess faith in a loving, merciful God who looks out for your best interests and works out all things for good. It's another to believe that in the face of your infant turning blue and screaming from suffocating to death, night after night, after night... to attempt to reconcile your feelings of complete abandonment to a purportedly loving God's promises of comfort, peace and even joy.
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