Showing results for "Remembered" in Literature & Fiction

Tamera Alexander, critically acclaimed author of Rekindled, paints a vivid portrait of two solitary seekers whose paths converge.

When Veronique Girard was five, her father left Paris for America to amass a fortune and send for his family. After 25 long years, a death-bed promise brings Veronique to 1870's Colorado to find her father, said to be mining nearby. But when she asks a local freighter to take her on his mining camp deliveries, surprising events unfold.

His heart torn in two, Graham Astor, Duke of Kensington, mourns his wife. As he distances himself from everything that reminds him of happier days lost forever, he comes to realize that there is one thing he cannot run from. Graham needs a new wife, if only for the sake of his daughter. Disillusioned with love, Rosabel only wishes to not remain a burden to her uncle's family much longer. After seeing her parents' love turn against them, Rosabel dreams of an independent life as a governess. But then a stranger asks for her hand in marriage.

On Tommy Llewellyn’s first birthday, his doting parents awoke in a home without baby blankets and bottles in the fridge, without the photos of their newborn once scattered about, and without any idea that the one-year-old sleeping in their home was their child. That’s because Tommy Llewellyn is a boy who, in the very cosmic sense of things, will never be remembered—stuck in a universal Reset that causes everyone to forget he exists when the clock strikes midnight on his birthday each year.

These are the words Peter Mackenzie wakes up to on a chilly March morning in 2012. Over the next 48 hours, his life is thrown into chaos, catapulting him into the decision to leave the UK and return to Australia, the country from which he was exiled 30 years earlier. The opportunity to see Lydia, his mother, one last time means confronting his family, friends, and the community of Lazarus that he abandoned as a teenager.

Hierdie publikasie van Marita van der Vyver is ʼn wydstromende rivier van ʼn roman, ʼn boek wat die leser onderdompel en omrol en maal in sy kolke van stemme en geskiedenis en oeroue hunkerings. Die verhaal word vertel vanuit die perspektief van drie opeenvolgende generasies – drie vroue wat reageer op mekaar en hul tyd. Hulle lewe in spanning, tussen weggaan en moet bly, en tussen vergeet en móét onthou, omdat onthou die enigste skakel is wat hulle nog met die oerbron van hul bestaan verbind.

When the big, savage bounty hunter, Ulysses Xavier Lodge comes to town wanting to spark one of Jane Ford's pretty doxies at the San Juan Saloon & Hotel, Jane and two bouncers give the bear-like giant the bum's rush. Incensed, Lodge returns to the parlor house and shoots Jane three times in the chest. Jane and Bloody Joe had been on the outs, their marriage dissolved, but now with Jane's life teetering on the edge, Joe realizes how much he really loves the pretty redhead and what a fool he was to let her go.

Hello World represents a decade of science fiction by author Peter Cawdron. This collection of 16 short stories and novellas, including four previously unpublished stories, will take you out of this world.

Alon, Shanra, and Oen find themselves in the darkest dungeon of the Preit stronghold. They share their cell with Darrik, friend and heir of a space pirate, and Jarred, a former member of The Order nursing a family grudge and a personal mission to end their evil reign. Will any of them survive to reveal the secrets of the Zeta mission? Or will The Order once again bury any hope of a world built on shared strengths?

This volume of six linked stories and the novella from which the book derives its title is set in Port William from 1908 to the Second World War. Here Wendell Berry introduces two of his more indelible and poignant characters, Ptolemy Proudfoot and his wife Miss Minnie, remarkable for the comic and affectionate range that—with the mastery of this consummate storyteller working at the height of his powers—here approaches the Shakespearean.

Can you ever know what those closest to you are really capable of? When Stephen gets a phone call to say his mother isn't well, he knows he must go to her straight away. But he dreads going back there. He has never been able to understand why his mother chose to stay in the town he grew up in, after everything that happened. One day's tragic events years before had left no one living there untouched. Stephen's own dark memories are still poisoning his life, as well as his marriage. Perhaps now is the time to go back and confront the place and the people of his shattered childhood.

An enthralling collection of short stories based on Dwight's own family history. He takes us through the lives of African Americans and Native Americans in the early parts of the United States. A must listen.

So much drama for such a small town. Two arrests on Main Street, with thanks to Dani and Liam... a medical emergency for Lauren...family secrets held for generations finally revealed...the rekindling romance of Ethan and Nicole...Jack Parker’s surprising choices. Quinn has a lot to catch up on if he returns to Hidden Falls - no, when he returns, Sylvia is sure. But is he already back? Ethan is positive he accidentally captured Quinn’s image in the woods. But why would Quinn come back to town and not tell the ones who care about him most?

This is Christian inspiration at its finest. Maria Alvarez reflects on the meaning of Easter via poetry and prose. Miss Alvarez is different from many other Christian writers who write about Easter in that she focuses on the importance of the suffering and death of Christ rather than dwelling primarily on the resurrection.

What Marsha Melinda Martin once believed she could be has vanished, and she has almost stopped caring. Then, a man claiming to be her father comes to town, bringing back memories she thought she had forgotten, and revealing secrets she has been avoiding.

Blown apart by a heart-rending tragedy, Matt and Perri Jessup went their separate ways - he to Afghanistan and she to New York City. With loss and heartbreak coming between them, was there any reason to stay together? Would a chance meeting five years later bring back old recriminations or a renewal of past love, instead? Could they build a bridge between them or was the gulf to wide to cross?

Classic stories collected by America's Storyteller, Joe Wheeler. This audio collection contains nine separate short stories: "Nearest His Heart", by Josephine DeFord Terrill; "A Promise and a Ski Run" (author unknown); "The Song of Songs", by Mabel McKee; "The Unmousing of Jean", by Edna Geister; "An Hour of Victory", by Earl Reed Silvers; "Shop Around A While", by Mae Foster Jay; "The Boy Who Couldn't Be Saved" (author unknown); "Between Strokes", and more.

Morgan Hill dons a pair of spectacles she finds hidden in an heirloom trunk and begins to catch a glimpse of lost generations and long forgotten family secrets. Her expansion and awakening flourish when she meets Yuri Bozek, a mysterious lumberjack who is more than his occupation implies. Drawing on his intuition and a deep energetic awareness, Yuri guides Morgan to discover the true essence of love.