The Colton Cowboy

The Colton Cowboy
Author: Carla Cassidy
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2018-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488093040

Who left a baby on the cowboy’s doorstep? The Coltons of Red Ridge continues! A note says the infant left on ranch foreman Anders Colton’s porch is a Colton. His baby? The beautiful rookie officer who investigates is set on proving herself as a cop, but when their lives are threatened, Elle Gage moves in to protect the baby. Suddenly the lone wolf is thinking family and must uncover little Bonnie’s parentage before it’s too late.

Colton Family Rescue

Colton Family Rescue
Author: Justine Davis
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2016-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488005176

A brokenhearted cowboy finds his second chance with a single mom under siege in the newest Coltons of Texas romance! Being rich and powerful didn't save T. C. Colton from painful betrayal. His beloved Jolie Peters walked out on him for cold, hard cash offered by his controlling mother…or so he believed at the time. Now, with a killer hunting down her young daughter—a witness to a murder—Jolie turns to T.C. to keep them safe. But trusting her again isn't easy for T.C. at first…although their attraction is still hotter than a Texas summer and he's crazy about little Emma. For a short time in a remote cabin hideout, T.C., Jolie and Emma feel like family, until the killer closes in, threatening every dream they're building together…

Colton's Secret Service

Colton's Secret Service
Author: Marie Ferrarella
Publisher: Silhouette
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2008-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426822057

"Striking a Secret Service agent will land you in prison." But the petite redhead with the cowboy hat and tire iron seemed unfazed by Nick Sheffield's words. The Secret Service agent had come to the tiny Texas town to unmask a potential threat to his employer—a U.S. senator. Could his quarry be this captivating single mother who aroused in him a passion that was anything but innocent? How dare this stranger show up and turn her life upside down! The last thing Georgeann Grady Colton needed was someone like Nick—handsome, suspicious, irresistible. As danger and desire collided, Georgie knew she was traveling a treacherous road: falling for a man who was taking them both to the point of no return.…

Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi
Author: George H. Devol
Publisher: Johnson Reprint Corporation
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1892
Genre: Gambling
ISBN:

A cabin boy in 1839 could steal cards and cheat the boys at eleven stock a deck at fourteen bested soldiers on the Rio Grande during the Mexican war won hundreds of thousands from paymasters, cotton buyers, defaulters and thieves fought more rough and tum

The Leaving

The Leaving
Author: Tara Altebrando
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2016-06-07
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1619638045

Six were taken. Eleven years later, five come back--with no idea of where they've been. A riveting mystery for fans of We Were Liars. Eleven years ago, six kindergartners went missing without a trace. After all that time, the people left behind moved on, or tried to. Until today. Today five of those kids return. They're sixteen, and they are . . . fine. Scarlett comes home and finds a mom she barely recognizes, and doesn't really recognize the person she's supposed to be, either. But she thinks she remembers Lucas. Lucas remembers Scarlett, too, except they're entirely unable to recall where they've been or what happened to them. Neither of them remember the sixth victim, Max--the only one who hasn't come back. Which leaves Max's sister, Avery, wanting answers. She wants to find her brother--dead or alive--and isn't buying this whole memory-loss story. But as details of the disappearance begin to unfold, no one is prepared for the truth. This unforgettable novel--with its rich characters, high stakes, and plot twists--will leave readers breathless.

Memories of Hawthorne

Memories of Hawthorne
Author: Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
Publisher:
Total Pages: 510
Release: 1897
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

A Woman's Life-work

A Woman's Life-work
Author: Laura Smith Haviland
Publisher:
Total Pages: 550
Release: 1881
Genre: Freed persons
ISBN:

Canadian-born Laura Haviland (1808-1898) was an evangelically-minded Quaker and later (for a time) a Wesleyan Methodist, active in education and social justice issues throughout her life. A Woman's Life Work is, above all, a religious autobiography chronicling her conversion experience and her desire to express faith through benevolent social action. She was brought up in New York State but moved to Raisin, Lenawee County, Michigan, following her marriage at sixteen. In 1837, influenced by the example of Oberlin College, she and her husband founded the Raisin Institute, an academy open to "all of good moral character" regardless of race. After her husband's death, she became increasingly involved with the underground railroad, traveling frequently to the South and enacting elaborate plans to help slaves escape. When the Civil War broke out, she organized relief efforts for wounded or imprisoned soldiers as well as for former slaves, refugees, and those who were illegally still held in bondage, working with the Freedman's Relief Association and the American Missionary Association, with which she established an orphanage primarily devoted to black children. Although she lectured, lobbied, and ministered, Haviland's forte was grassroots activism--organizing, protesting, lobbying, or demonstrating against the specific injustices she encountered. Her book is filled with individual stories of black-white relationships under slavery and includes a slave narrative from a man called "Uncle Philip," transcribed in his own words. Haviland writes graphic descriptions of the punishments meted out to slaves and gives the reader eyewitness accounts of war-time prisons, hospitals, soup kitchens and refugee camps. She provides extensive information about the subtle relationships between the Society of Friends and evangelical Christianity. Though Haviland became a Wesleyan Methodist for the most active period of her life, she returned to her Quaker origins shortly before her death.