Ask Mariah (A heartwarming, poignant contemporary romance)

Ask Mariah (A heartwarming, poignant contemporary romance)
Author: Barbara Freethy
Publisher: Barbara Freethy
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2011
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0983599300

Customers who like books by Nora Roberts, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, and Debbie Macomber will enjoy this romantic and emotional story by award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author Barbara Freethy. ASK MARIAH was a finalist in the RITA's for Best Contemporary Romance. This is a full length novel of approximately 100,000 words. From the back cover: Joanna Wingate knows something is missing from her life, something she never dreamed she'd find in a handsome stranger's children -- mischievous six-year-old twin sisters who look up at her adoringly ... and call her "Mama." Since his wife's accidental death, Michael Ashton has struggled with his many responsibilities as a single parent to twin daughters who, though they clearly love him, refuse to speak to him. Then he meets Rose and Lily's new teacher, and his emotions spin out of control. For Joanna Wingate is the mirror image of his late wife. Bizarre coincidence, a strange destiny... or something altogether different has joined these four lives. The twins believe Mariah -- a magical fortune-teller in a crystal ball -- has the answers. But only Joanna and Michael's willingness to confront long-buried secrets can guide their families back to wholeness ... and unite them in a love that seems meant to be.

Ask Mariah

Ask Mariah
Author: Barbara Freethy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Single fathers
ISBN: 9780380785322

A strange destiny brings together four lives. Joanna Wingate looks just like the mother of two young twin girls, a resemblance that sends Michael Ashton, the girls' father, reeling. As the girls ask for advice from Mariah, a mystical fortune-teller in a crystal ball, Joanna and Michael confront their wounded pasts to make way for a loving future.

So Different

So Different
Author: Ruthie Robinson
Publisher: Genesis Press, Inc.
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1585716499

Mariah Sullivan is a tattoo-wearing, bruise-covered, kick-ass roller derby girl who doesn't put up with people who mistreat others. Her fierce exterior masks a woman who is loving, compassionate and deeply loyal to those she loves. Adam Barnett Jr. is a dentist like his father. He has come to Austin to take over his father's dental practice while he recuperates from an accident. The timing couldn't have worked better for Adam, who just broke off his wedding engagement to a woman he thought was perfect, both inside and out. He meets Mariah at her regular dental appointment. She is interested, willing to put aside her normal reticence and give him a chance. Adam, however, assumes the worst about her, given her black eye and the bruises on her arm. He assumes that she is the victim of some form of abuse and he approaches her in an attempt to help her seek help. But Mariah, with assistance from Adam's father, has a thing or two to teach him about making assumptions. As they spend time together and get to know each other they find sex, friendship, and eventually love.

Allegra's Shadow

Allegra's Shadow
Author: Dana Sanders Hill
Publisher: Brown Girls Publishing
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2016-03-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1944359087

When Mariah St. Cloud becomes a full-fledged member of the walking wounded, she shuts down. She’s learned that men are born heartbreakers, so the biology professor makes work her lover instead. It’s dependable and won’t leave the toilet seat up. But the untimely death of her beautiful, estranged sister Allegra kicks Mariah’s predictable life to the curb, and brings ex-cop Anthony Caine into her everyday existence – intense, protective and far too handsome for her self-imposed celibacy. Conflict is inevitable. Anthony wants to tumble Mariah’s reserve like the walls of Jericho and keep her safe. Mariah just wants him out of her hair – even as she stands in the deadly shadow of Allegra’s secrets.

Claiming Mariah

Claiming Mariah
Author: Pam Hillman
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2012-12-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 141438095X

After her father's death, Mariah Malone sends a letter that will forever alter the lives of her family. When Slade Donovan, strong willed and eager for vengeance, shows up on her front porch, Mariah is not ready to hear his truths: her father's farm, the only home she's ever known, was bought with stolen gold. With Slade ready to collect his father's rightful claim and force Mariah and her family out on the streets, Mariah must turn to God for guidance. Though Mr. Frederick Cooper, a local landowner, promises to answer her financial woes if she agrees to be his bride, Mariah finds herself drawn instead to the angry young man demanding her home.With the ranch now under Slade's careful eye, he unearths more than he ever imagined as a devious plot of thievery, betrayal, and murder threatens the well-being of the ranch, endangering those who hold it dear. As the days dwindle until the rest of the Donovan clan arrives at the Lazy M ranch, Mariah and Slade must rise above the resentment of their fathers and see their true feelings before greed changes their futures forever.

Sovereign's Pairing

Sovereign's Pairing
Author: E. L. Glenn
Publisher: Needed Vice Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2017-09-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

New author, E. L. Glenn, takes you on an intriguing journey through a reality that contains multiple, parallel universes. Though there are uncountable universes, there is only one Nexus Universe. The progenitor universe from which all the others have originated from. Those within the Nexus Universe have the ‘ability’ to enter any of the others. The Nexus Universe has a problem though, a man named Hessler, who embodies the ‘Antithesis’ spirit, has made it his quest to conquer not only the Nexus Universe, but the other parallel universes as well. To achieve this, Hessler has been using an army comprised of men and orcs, numbering a million. He must also attain the ‘Crystal Sword’, an incredible source of power. The ‘Crystal Sword’ had been hidden in the caverns of one of the kingdoms of the dwarves. Protecting it are wizards, men, elves and the dwarves themselves. They cannot use the ‘Sword’, only one embodied with either the ‘Antithesis’ spirit, or the ‘Sovereign’ Spirit can, and the one embodied with the ‘Sovereign’ spirit, is in another universe. They must find him in the hope of stopping Hessler. Mariah, a searcher in the caverns, has found the prophecy that will lead them to the universe that the ‘Sovereign’ is in. Taking it to the seekers, Mariah is informed that she must be the one to enter the ‘Sovereigns’ universe and bring him to them. There isn’t much time and they have no idea what the ‘Sovereign’ will be like, but he is their only hope. Hessler and his orc army, are almost upon them.

Choosing You

Choosing You
Author: Stacy Finz
Publisher: Lyrical Shine
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2021-02-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1516103971

These newcomers to Nugget have left painful pasts behind them—just in time to embrace a future together . . . Picturesque Nugget, California, couldn’t be more different than the glittering caverns of Manhattan, but Brynn Barnes is grateful for the change. After the accident that took her husband’s life and seriously injured her young son Henry’s legs, a clinical tri

Listening

Listening
Author: Judi Brownell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2017-09-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1315441748

Listening, Sixth Edition takes an experiential approach to listening instruction, providing extensive applied examples and cases within the context of the HURIER listening model. The text encourages students to view listening as a process involving six interrelated components, which are developed along the parallel dimensions of theory and skill building. This new edition offers a companion website as well as additional and updated cases, in-text exercises, and questions for discussion. Throughout the text, new content has been added to address students’ world of evolving technology and expanding social boundaries. Included in the new edition: The complexities of listening to social media and the unique challenges presented by mediated communication New and expanded topics in Listening Challenges, including listening as it relates to career communication and business contexts Suggested techniques for encouraging others to listen The new requirements of listening across cultural and generational boundaries, emphasized throughout Opening cases that present timely issues related to the listeners’ social responsibilities A personal journal assignment in each chapter

Lord of Legends

Lord of Legends
Author: Susan Krinard
Publisher: HQN Books
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2009-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426830912

He is Arion, King of the Unicorns. Powerful, seductive, he could possess any female he desired—until now. He is condemned to live as a man, and it is only the enchanting Lady Mariah Donnington's innocence that can release him from his curse. Abandoned on her wedding night, frightened of her hidden, otherworldly heritage, Mariah is instinctively drawn to the mysterious stranger she discovers imprisoned on her husband's estate. But as the secret of Arion's magical identity unfolds, their friendship burns into a passion that cannot, must not, be consummated. For to do so would destroy them both….

Apparition

Apparition
Author: Jacky Joe Parnell
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2012-05-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1469186683

Apparition Jack didn’t believe in ghosts.... until he met Josie! Jack Jeremiah was a teacher during the day and an artist and photographer any other time. When he rented a room for a studio at the old hotel, he got more than he had hoped for. Josie had been waiting for him to help her tell the truth about her untimely death, which had been fabricated by story tellers for years. She decided to reveal herself to Jack in a most mystic fashion but, not before Mariah comes on the scene and complicates matters. Now Jack is thrown into a confusing triangle with trust, mystery, companionship, some surprises and even love as the main components of the equation. The task of revealing the truth is further complicated by others who come on the scene where Josie is concerned but, were already present when Jack started his studio in the old hotel, which had been converted into a shopping mall. Entering the scene were the instigating barber; the nervous housekeeper and his boss, the maintenance man who gets involved unintentionally, and a few skeptical persons such as the feathered lady whom Josie gets back at for delivering a few unkind words about Josie’s behavior while she was still alive. Other circumstances that challenge Jack’s denial of ghosts becomes further complicated as well, such as: when an old German professor gives Jack more proof that the possibility of Josie existing could be a reality; also, the fact that Mariah, Jack’s model, and Josie are in a struggle to gain Jack’s attention. Apparition is a mixture of suspense, fantastic situations and predicaments, coupled with instances of love and laughter, usually orchestrated by Josie the ghost.