Bittersweet Dwelling


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The year is 1963 and at the age of twenty three Sandra experiences a high risk pregnancy. While in the hospital, a Mennonite nurse leads her to the Lord, and soon her husband is led to Him also. Now they have a tough decision to make. What church will they raise their children up in? Their decision would have a great impact on their future. Although their lives become complicated and they face many challenges, they find joy in the Lord through it all. Their faith in God grows strong as they see Him provide, protect, and guide them in every circumstance.




Bittersweet House


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Theyre smart beautiful and childless, four professional Connecticut women whove bonded in friendship to pursue truth and love TV anchor woman, Linda Cooper, gets a phone call from a woman in the middle of the night demanding to speak to Christopher as their baby is ill. Christopher admits to being the father. He and Linda argue. H storms out of the house to be with his mistress Lindas friend, Spa owner Katherine Horvath, is behind in payments for the Spas renovation, and is considering a loan from the Mafia if her boyfriends wealthy father doesnt come through with a low-interest loan. Kat has a difficult history with relationships Advertising agency proprietor, Zita Parker, is Lindas best friend. Desperate for a baby, she endured in-vitro fertilization without success. Her husband left her for a woman half his age. She has a new man who wants marriage and a family. Zita, unable to have children, is frightened of the future Margaret Dolan owns a real estate firm and is referred to as Mother Superior by her three friends because of her wisdom. Successful in marriage and in business, Margaret is distraught because her beloved nephew is risking his future lusting after Raquel Lopez; a stunner Margaret considers a gold digger.




Bittersweet Dreams


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From V.C. Andrews, bestselling author of Flowers in the Attic (the first in a series of Lifetime movie events about the Dollanganger family), comes the tale of a gifted teenager who finds that mastering high school is much easier than mastering her heart. Mayfair Cummings is young, beautiful, and brilliant. But her intelligence makes her the outcast of both the private school she attends and the broken family she hopes to salvage. When she catches the eye of both a popular senior and her handsome English teacher, not even her brilliant mind can help her navigate the explosive new relationships she is forming, or a scandal that is brewing…







Bittersweet


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Many families dream of starting a business and creating a long-lasting legacy for furture generations. After a humble childhood filled with economic hardship, L.S. Heath pursued that dream for his family...




Mann ki आरज़ू


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Born to a Guajarati mother and an Assamese father (both AMC doctors), in Military Hospital, Agra Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh, brought up in New Delhi, and married to a Punjabi, Ranjeeta Nath Ghai has a rich cultural background. She is also an alumni of ‘The Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan.’ Mann ki आरज़ू is Ranjeeta Nath’s debut attempt at publishing a few of her poems, which she has been writing since 1985. An army BRAT (Born Raised and Transferred) and an Army Officer’s wife, she has had the golden opportunity, denied to many, to have covered the length and breadth of India, seeing it all, in its splendor. Hardly has she ever lived in any state for more than a period of two years. She gave up her promising career as a graphic designer and built a parallel career as an educationist. Ranjeeta’s life has been enriched by her seven furry buddies, who with their unconditional love have always been a de-stressing factor of her life, teaching her to value and love all of His creations. A few of Ranjeeta’s poems – A Promise, As You Walk Away From Me, तुमसे नहीं मैं खुद से खफ़ा हूँ, अश्क – have been published in the e-journal Research Inspiration. “Life has treated me good and God has been kind to me. Looking back today I feel no regret as I have lived and celebrated each moment of my life with passion, on my own terms and conditions.” – Ranjeeta




Defending Marriage


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Defending Marriage: Twelve Arguments for Sanity is a rousing, compelling defense of traditional, natural marriage. Here, Anthony Esolen—professor at Providence College and a prolific writer uses moral, theological, and cultural arguments to defend this holy and ancient institution, bedrock of society—and to illuminate the threats it faces from modern revolutions in law, public policy, and sexual morality. Inside, discover: - Traditional marriage’s roots in age-old religious, cultural, and natural laws - Why gay marriage is a metaphysical impossibility - How acceptance and legal sanction of gay marriage threatens the family - How the state becomes a religion when it attempts to elevate gay marriage, and enshrine as a civil right all consensual sex - How divorce and sexual license have brought marriage to the brink - How today’s culture has impoverished and emptied love of its true meaning In Defending Marriage Esolen expertly and succinctly identifies the cultural dangers of gay marriage and the Sexual Revolution which paved its way. He offers a stirring defense of true marriage, the family, culture, and love—and provides the compelling arguments that will return us to sanity, and out of our current morass.




Old House Interiors


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National architectural magazine now in its fifteenth year, covering period-inspired design 1700–1950. Commissioned photographs show real homes, inspired by the past but livable. Historical and interpretive rooms are included; new construction, additions, and new kitchens and baths take their place along with restoration work. A feature on furniture appears in every issue. Product coverage is extensive. Experts offer advice for homeowners and designers on finishing, decorating, and furnishing period homes of every era. A garden feature, essays, archival material, events and exhibitions, and book reviews round out the editorial. Many readers claim the beautiful advertising—all of it design-related, no “lifestyle” ads—is as important to them as the articles.




Jasmine and Fire


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As Beirut exploded with the bombs and violence of a ruthless civil war in the ’80s, a nine-year-old Salma Abdelnour and her family fled Lebanon to start a new life in the States. Ever since then—even as she built a thriving career as a food and travel writer in New York City—Salma has had a hunch that Beirut was still her home. She kept dreaming of moving back—and finally decided to do it. But could she resume her life in Beirut, so many years after her family moved away? Could she, or anyone for that matter, ever really go home again? Jasmine and Fire is Salma’s poignant and humorous journey of trying to resettle in Beirut and fumbling through the new realities of life in one of the world’s most complex, legendary, ever-vibrant, ever-troubled cities. What’s more, in a year of roiling changes around the Middle East and the rise of the Arab Spring, Salma found herself in the midst of the turmoil. As she comes to grips with all the changes in her life—a love left behind in New York and new relationships blossoming in Beirut—Salma takes comfort in some of Lebanon’s enduring traditions, particularly its extraordinary food culture. Through the sights, sounds, and flavors of a city full of beauty, tragedy, despair, and hope, Salma slowly begins to reconnect with the place she’s longed for her entire life.




Haunted Places


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Describes over 2,000 sites of supernatural occurances in the United States, including places visited by ghosts, UFOs, and unusual creatures.