Where the Rose Petals Fall

Where the Rose Petals Fall
Author: Valerie Mayze
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2011-04-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1462863981

I am but a flower withering in the soil in which I have been planted......... Rose Stanley does not seem to fit into her prominent family with their lavish style and high society galas. She does not care to marry the wealthy Astor Boyle that her mother has chosen for her. She would much rather be in the kitchen up to her elbows in flour learning how to cook or down at the old slave quarters teaching a young mute boy the gift of communication. She sees nothing wrong with spending time with a boy she has befriended, even if he is just a stable boy. Her idea of happiness was much different from her mothers But, there is a secret at the Plantation. A deep, dark secret being kept from Rose. Some seem to hate her for it, some will do anything to protect her from it, but it seems to surround her. What will happen when the secret is revealed and what will be found Where the Rose Petals Fall...?

Fall Like a Rose Petal

Fall Like a Rose Petal
Author: Viswanathan Avis
Publisher: Westland
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2014-09-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9789384030445

In early 2008, the author AVIS Viswanathan and Vaani - his soul-mate, friend, wife and business partner - were staring at a bankruptcy of their Firm. A series of business decisions had literally brought them to the brink of penury. This book is their story. It captures learnings from this excruciatingly painful, Life-changing, phase that they are still going through.It also explores the nature and continuum of Life. There is no beginning to the story. There is no end either. There are simply experiences. Of hopelessness. Of fear. Of insolvency. Of pennilessness. And also of faith, patience, love, companionship, abundance and soul. Of integrity and of leading a principled Life, despite temptations to take the 'easy way' out of painful or messy situations.This book has been written to share how AVIS and his family have learned to be happy despite their circumstances. You too can benefit from their learning, and experience, and discover the right way of thinking, living, working and winning in Life - for yourself

David Austin's English Roses

David Austin's English Roses
Author: David Austin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: English roses
ISBN: 9781870673709

Fully illustrated, the charm of his English Roses comes across on every page, even if the reader has to imagine their scent. The Irish Garden Like its highly-respected companion in the series, Old Roses, this title draws the most useful information fr

When the Jacaranda Petals Fall

When the Jacaranda Petals Fall
Author: David Barnato
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2011-04-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1456894676

David Barnato was born in England in 1942 of Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English ancestry. He attended King James The First., school in Newport, Isle of Wight. After extensive travelling around the world he started and sold several businesses including a publishing company, insurance brokerage and fi nally a debt advisory service based in a remote Scottish castle. Rather than retire completely, he and his wife Jane decided to retire to South Africa and buy a farm and grow olives. Despite fires and floods David and Jane won a silver award for their olive oil, but sadly Jane suffered strokes and died of a heart attack in 2010. David’s passions are his five dogs, several of whom were rescued. He is also a great fan of opera and loves blues, especially when sung by Bessie Smith. He is now a full time writer. When the Jacaranda Petals Fall, is David’s first novel.

Where Petals Fall (Mystery, Suspense)

Where Petals Fall (Mystery, Suspense)
Author: Melissa Foster
Publisher: World Literary Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2014-01-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"With vivid prose and a tender heart, Melissa Foster has crafted a psychological and emotional mystery fueled by love in all its forms." --Jennie Shortridge, Author of Love Water Memory On the surface Junie Olson's life looks idyllic, from her handsome husband and beautiful daughter to her successful business, the bakery she'd always dreamed of opening. But in the past few months her world has slowly unraveled. Her precocious child is withdrawing, showing unexplainable signs of emotional regression, a condition that frays the bonds of Junie's once impenetrable marriage. When her father dies suddenly of a heart attack, Junie packs up her daughter and goes home to help her mother. Her homecoming stirs up memories of the nightmare she thought she had put behind her, the disappearance of her childhood friend, Ellen. Haunted by recurring memories of what happened on that fateful day, Junie must gather the courage to revisit her past and untangle the secrets surrounding her missing friend, and the trauma that has caused her little girl to climb back into herself. As the pieces come together on the event that shook her small town, and at the risk of losing everyone she loves, Junie will question everything she thought she could rely on and everyone she thought she knew. WHERE PETALS FALL is a gripping and emotional novel with an undercurrent of suspense, featuring a determined mother whose world slowly comes apart around her. Readers will root for Junie as they follow her transition into an indomitable heroine who must reconcile what she discovers about her husband and family's tragic past, and find a way to put the pieces of her family back together and carry on. NEW YORK TIMES, Wall Street Journal, and USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Melissa Foster is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, & USA Today bestselling and award-winning author. She writes sexy and heartwarming contemporary romance, new adult romance, and women's fiction with emotionally compelling characters that stay with you long after you turn the last page. Melissa's emotional journeys are lovingly erotic and always family oriented. Melissa loves to chat with book clubs and readers, invite her to your next event.

Rose Petals

Rose Petals
Author: Simin Pitts
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2012-02-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1468546406

This novel begins with an emotional and heart breaking story of a mother losing her daughter by forced separation by the hands of her husband. Rose Petals is an emotional touching story about an Iranian divorced woman in search of her lost daughter and her life struggles to overcome enormous obstacles that come her way. This story portrays how the Middle Eastern Women are struggling with the male dominated society there and the turmoil created by backward traditions as forced arranged marriages. The story shares with its readers the womans own childhood memories in a by- gone era about her wealthy powerful father who was a pillar of society. He was the teacher for the Prince of Iran, a man that married and divorced sixteen women. The novel shares with its readers a womans triumph over cruelty.

Promised Rose

Promised Rose
Author: Valerie Mayze
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2012-09-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781479380169

Theodore McNeil had everything, loving parents, a beautiful home, wealth and a promising future although he always felt like he wanted something more. He loved his father but did not want to take over the family business. There had to be more and he was willing to leave his family, home and wealth to find it. Louisiana was not a place Theodore would have traveled; it would have never been his choice to stay in a cabin locked away from the world with his cranky old uncle. And he would have certainly never stayed working for a man like Astor Boyle. But when he met her everything he ever knew about himself ceased to exist. Rose Stanley was different than other girls; she was wildly beautiful and headstrong. Theodore was attracted to her right away but he was warned to stay away. How would he break the bond that held her to a man that she was promised to? Would his heart lead him to disaster? What is it that keeps him from walking away from the PROMISED ROSE

The Art of Gardening with Roses

The Art of Gardening with Roses
Author: Graham Stuart Thomas
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1466882905

Graham Stuart Thomas stands alone as the world's pre-eminent rose gardener. In this unique presentation he focuses on the uses of a variety of garden plants--flowering and nonflowering--with which to create enduring garden designs that rescue roses from the stiff formality of most ornamental gardens. Here, Mr. Thomas employs the lessons of the magnificent garden at Mottisfont Abbey, first created by him in 1972 and extended in the 1980s, to demonstrate thrilling design choices and methods of lengthening the flowering seasons open to any alert gardener. As Henry Mitchell, the Washington Post's distinguished horticulturist, puts it: "It was Thomas who launched the revival of interest in roses long out of commerce...He found many of the unheard-of nineteenth-century roses at Bobbink and Atkins Nursery in New Jersey and the old Lester and Tillotson Nursery in California. The authority of Graham Stuart Thomas is by no means limited to roses. He writes authoritatively on perennials, garden design, the grouping of plants, on groundcovers and much else...Few gardeners are so catholic or such connoisseurs." The present book is a glorious display--in words and color illustrations--of Mr. Thomas's gardens, providing an education for the reader in the design of his own garden. Photographs show roses close up and in garden settings with complementary plants that extend the flowering season of the gardens into the late fall. The author explores the origins of the roses selected and explains how he has employed their particular qualities in his designs. He includes a checklist to assist gardeners who wish to re-create these sumptuous plant combinations.