Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0735277141
In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man — an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.
Author : JoAnn Ross
Publisher : Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Temptation 90s
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 1989
Category :
ISBN : 9780373253333
Murphy's Law by JoAnn Ross released on Nov 24, 1988 is available now for purchase.
Author : Henry McLaughlin
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 34,76 MB
Release : 2011-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1414350856
Michael Archer is nothing if not a man of his word. Though he was unable to save Ben Carstairs, Michael is determined to carry out Ben’s dying wish: to be reconciled with his father. Unfortunately, Sam Carstairs, one of the most ruthless businessmen on the frontier, has no use for his own son, much less a man of God seeking reconciliation. Soon after arriving in Riverbend, Michael meets and falls for the stunning Rachel Stone while waiting for Sam to return from a business trip. Beautiful yet guarded, Rachel seems to be running from a past as dark as Michael’s. When word reaches town that Sam has been kidnapped on the stagecoach home, Michael offers to join the search party formed by the local sheriff. With a budding romance behind him and a dangerous rescue ahead of him, he sets out on the trail, determined to complete his journey no matter the cost.
Author : Chris Van Allsburg
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780395673478
Riverbend was a quiet little town, the kind of place where one day was just like all the rest and nothing ever happened. Occasionally the stagecoach rolled through, but it never stopped, because no one ever came to Riverbend and no one ever left. The day the stagecoach stood motionless in the center of town, Sheriff Ned Hardy knew something was terribly wrong. What was the mysterious substance on both coach and horses? It would not come off. Soon it was everywhere in the tidy little village. Something had to be done, and Sheriff Hardy aimed to do it.
Author : Denise Hunter
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0785240519
When off-duty deputy Cooper Robinson happens upon a car balanced on the edge of a cliff, he does everything he can think of to distract the distraught driver from her perilous situation—and the attraction is instantaneous. The problem? She’s his brother’s new girlfriend. When Katelyn Loveland’s car veered off a winding Appalachian Mountain road, she thought she was done for. That is until Cooper Robinson, local sheriff’s deputy, came to her rescue. And though Katie narrowly escaped her brush with death, she still fell. Hard. She wasn’t the only one. But soon Cooper learns that the woman he’s more attracted to than any he’s ever met is his brother’s new girlfriend—and therefore unquestionably off limits. Yet, despite their best efforts, Cooper and Katie can’t seem to avoid running into each other. Or ignore the undeniable chemistry between them. As they grow closer, Katie shares secrets from her past and the real reason she moved to their small North Carolina town. She also wins over Cooper’s welcoming and bighearted family. But they don’t know that her feelings for Cooper keep growing—all while she’s dating his brother. Soon the stakes of their emotional connection become higher than either could have imagined. Katie stands to lose the first family she’s ever had, and a scandal could doom Cooper’s campaign for sheriff. Suddenly they find themselves on the edge of another precipice—and they’re forced to make a decision that could change their lives forever. Slow-burn contemporary romance First in the Riverbend Romance Series Book 1: Riverbend Gap Book 2: Mulberry Hollow Book 3: Harvest Moon Book length: 82,000 words Includes discussion questions for book clubs
Author : Ben Miller
Publisher : John F Blair Pub
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780984900008
The American essayist explores his boyhood in the town of Davenport, Iowa, outlining his quest to "make his life more than the sum of its worst moments in a chaotic household"--Cover flap.
Author : Doug Knight
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 16,65 MB
Release : 2013-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 149080157X
Josh Crockett, a thirty-three-year-old psychologist and author, travels back home to Melo, Indiana, at the request of his high school best friend, Paul Palato. Having read Josh's book, Living Faith, Paul invites Josh to come for an extended visit and teach the church's youth the concepts found in the book. Because it is the church his father founded and where Josh grew up and because Paul is still one of his closest friends, Josh decides to answer Paul's invitation. Josh involves himself in the lives of several people in Melo, such as Marcy James, who has inherited several businesses in Melo, including the Riverbend Apartments where Josh and Marcy both reside. Their chance meeting and subsequent other meetings grow into a very strong bond of friendship. Desmond Niemeier, the head deacon at the church, believes Josh Crockett is too good to be true. He works to uncover dark secrets from Josh's past and exposes suspicious behavior, such as the hours Josh spends with Marcy since his return back to Melo, Indiana. Josh questions why God allows this to happen. He also struggles with whether his true feelings for Marcy James are love or physical attraction. Josh feels too that God is pulling him in two directions by giving him good opportunities to stay in Melo and equally noble motives to return to his home and practice in Corona, Florida. How will he know which is God's will? What is to become of Marcy and Josh?
Author : Beth Larson Sherk
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,93 MB
Release : 2011-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1453597557
River's Bend, a country romance. Leslie Hillerman, an artist in her midthirties devastated by divorce, moves in as the caretaker of River's Bend, a charming old farmhouse set on a river. She comes in search of solitude and healing but finds more than just trees. This is a warm, gently humorous tale of a city woman coming to live in the country about eccentric country people, their dogs, and an unlikely middle-aged love affair. It's rife with ghosts be they broken hearts or the kind that go bump in the night mysteries, and the healing powers of the river. Dreaming of love's return, Leslie discovers that love can be waiting in plain view and yet be completely out of sight.
Author : Wesley E. Hall
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 25,7 MB
Release : 2000-08-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0595122841
The River Bend is a collection of fifty-six boyhood reminiscences about growing up in the River Bend country of south-central Oklahoma, in the first decades of the Twentieth Century. These little stories first appeared as a weekly column in the Konawa Leader, a Seminole County, Oklahoma, newspaper owned and published by Ed Gallagher. This book is my response to the mountain of correspondence from readers of the column who almost invariably began their letters with: "Have you written a book about this wonderful place?" The "Bend" is twenty-five square miles of rolling hills, scrub oak, and briar patches separated from the rest of the world by the wide and sometimes cantankerous South Canadian River. The nearest town, located in the mouth of the horseshoe bend, is Konawa, which has one paved street and whatever was left standing after the tornado of 1966. The eleventh and last child of a very poor dirt farmer, I grew up thinking I was rich. My family owned a one-hundred-sixty-five-acre farm in the center of the Bend, and on all sides of us were neighbors who seemed like kinfolks. The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl were words no one ever used in my presence.
Author : Jerry Rutland
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Bryan County (Ga.)
ISBN : 1412219353
