Resultados para "The Promise and the Dream" en Literatura y ficción

On a desperate journey to America, Rebecca Neville promises the dying wife of the Earl of Stanmore to raise and care for her newborn son, James. Once in the New World, Rebecca begins her new life - as a mother.... Ten years later, the Earl of Stanmore learns of the fate of his family. He sends to the colonies for his young heir so he can raise him as a peer of the realm. With no intention of forsaking her vow, Rebecca returns to England with James to face a future without her beloved charge. But she must also face her tumultuous past....

When Southern-born Adelaide Pride follows her Yankee employer to California, she faces a private civil war and re-examines her values of love and honor. Twenty-six-year-old Adelaide Pride stepped out of the horse-drawn buggy to gaze one last time at the charred remains of her childhood home...

In the Shadows of Promise is an anthology of poetry based on my dreams. I have made love in my dreams, explored new lands, spoken foreign languages, and even experienced life through the eyes of other beings. I have been killed in battle, though I have no real life military experience. It is as if in some dreams I merge into the dreams or lives of others. Some incredibly happy, some terribly sad, some horrific. Some dreams leave me with a sense of purity and innocence.

Eve has a difficult life with abusive guardians who won't give her any room to grow. She needs to keep her bisexuality and girlfriend a secret from her religious mother, Barb. Because nothing is easy for the miserable college student, Barb catches Eve kissing her girlfriend and kicks her out on a cold December night. With nowhere to go, the now-unhoused student wanders around until she stumbles into the shop of a fortune teller. The divinity witch offers Eve a truth long kept from her: Her real name is Aoife, and she comes from a line of powerful druids who keep the balance.

The #1 bestselling author of The Christmas Box and master of the holiday novel reimagines the biblical story of Joseph and the coat of many colors in this inspiring modern story of family and forgiveness that will “move [you] to tears and laughter” (Kirkus Reviews). Joseph Jacobson is the...