Marrying Stone

Marrying Stone
Author: Pamela Morsi
Publisher: Berkley
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1994
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780515114317

The national bestselling author of Runabout offers a charming new novel about Meggie, who has long dreamed of her prince. She finds him in the Harvard-educated man who comes to her Ozark town to research folk songs. Even though he is consumed by his studies, Meggie proves an invaluable help, and he soon learns the value of true love.

Simple Jess

Simple Jess
Author: Pamela Morsi
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-05-28
Genre: Arkansas
ISBN: 9781507649312

Marrying Stone, Arkansas is the setting for the story of a simple man and a widow who needs to provide her son with the best childhood and father that she can find. She makes a commitment to the elders of the town that she will marry by Christmas and all the marriageable men begin to visit Althea at her place on the mountain to court her. The man most unlikely to win is a man is "simple" Jess, but he is the one with the biggest heart and most loving nature.

A Marriage Manual - A Practical Guide to Sex and Marriage

A Marriage Manual - A Practical Guide to Sex and Marriage
Author: H. M. Stone
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2020-08-06
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1528761413

Originally published in the early 1930s this learned work on Sex and Marriage presents in a realistic and practical manner the essential facts of mating and reproduction whilst also dealing with common sexual and marital problems which confront the average couple.Contents Include: Fitness for Marriage The Biology of Marriage The Male Sex Organs The Female Sex Organs Reproduction Problems of Reproduction Prevention of Conception The Art of Marriage Sex Technique and Orgasm Sexual Disharmonies Health in Marriage etc. Illustrated. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Uncertain Unions

Uncertain Unions
Author: Lawrence Stone
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1992
Genre: Marriage
ISBN: 9780198202530

In Road to Divorce, Lawrence Stone explored the different ways in which marriage took place, and analysed the confusion and uncertainty surrounding the legality of the institution in its various forms before the Marriage Act of 1753. He now shows in absorbing detail, through a series of case-studies, how courting and marrying couples tended to manoeuvre around the ambiguities of the law, and how they sometimes became entangled in a web of moral and legal contradiction leading to personal catastrophe. There are stories about unwise courtship, prenuptial pregnancies, forced marriages by parents or parish officials, bigamy, clandestine marriages often performed in haste in peculiarly squalid circumstances and repented at leisure. These fascinating studies reveal in intimate, often ribald, detail how men and women adjusted their sexual conduct, moral attitudes, and matrimonial plans to suit an ambiguous legal situation. Professor Stone has traced the ways in which, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, demands by individuals for love and affection were starting to take precedence over family interests and parental dictation in the search for a spouse; the studies he has drawn from court records for Uncertain Unions enable us to see this great moral transition being played out in the lives of men and women, often in their own words. These are vivid, human histories, presented in revealing detail, by a leading historian of the family.

Stone Fox Bride

Stone Fox Bride
Author: Molly Rosen Guy
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-12-05
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0812998103

Ditch the storybook wedding, banish Bridezilla, and walk down the aisle in truth and in style: You are a Stone Fox Bride and this is your bridal guide. Molly Rosen Guy founded the brand Stone Fox Bride as an alternative to outdated, plastic-princess wedding culture. Her stylish and subversive approach is being embraced by creative, modern brides who believe in love and romance, but have no interest in running off into the sunset. In an inspiring mix of intimate storytelling, gorgeous visuals, and candid advice, with an aesthetic that channels Bianca Jagger in a white tux rather than Cinderella in a frilly gown, Molly Rosen Guy—your cool, hippie chic guide through the wilds of wedding planning—encourages brides-to-be, and their ladies in tow, to say no to all things phony, frilly, and silly. Featuring personal essays that explore the nuances of the process, including a raw, unairbrushed look at the realities of the early days of marriage, she tells us that a Stone Fox Bride should never sacrifice her style, her story, or her sanity to please others; she reassures us that weddings don't have to be free of confusion, shades of gray, or cellulite; and reminds us that marriage, like love, is equal parts complicated and beautiful. Praise for Molly Rosen Guy and the Stone Fox Bride phenomenon “The current wedding-wear darling of the jammin’ and Instagrammin’ set [offers] an insouciant, antiestablishment approach to weddings.”—The New York Times “[Molly Rosen Guy is] making waves in the bridal industry thanks to her eclectic eye and refusal to conform to clichéd traditions.”—W “Molly Rosen Guy built a business filling the needs of women who long for something more than your run-of-the-mill, princess-y flou for their big day.”—Vogue

Marrying Mischief

Marrying Mischief
Author: Lyn Stone
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1460360125

Inheriting an earldom had obviously gone to Nicholas Hollander's head. After he'd left Emily's reputation in tatters years before, how could he expect that she would ever agree to marry him? Yet still he insisted that her rash efforts to find her missing brother had left them no choice but to wed, and straightaway. Nick's youthful defection had ruined Emily Lovenye's prospects. So it was no wonder that the vicar's daughter still wanted nothing to do with him. Unwittingly compromised into a hasty marriage, his courageous Emily was giving him the devil of a time as he struggled to win back her trust and turn their inconvenient union into wedded bliss.

The Lovesick Cure

The Lovesick Cure
Author: Pamela Morsi
Publisher: MIRA
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2012-08-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 077831376X

After finding herself single again and without a job, Jesse Winsloe heads to Onery Cabin to stay with her elderly aunt Will, but Jesse soon finds herself mixed up in local remedies and a new romance.

The Warrior's Stone

The Warrior's Stone
Author: Matthew Duncan
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2014-07-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1312214465

The year is 2319. Lt. Comm Roy O'Hara leads his squadron against the enemy's latest Super Destroyer and is shot down over an unexplored planet. The planet holds secrets to a long lost alien weapon and the key to Roy's own destiny. Near death Roy is found by Katreena, a beautiful and mysterious woman. When she finds Roy, he's broken and battered, and saves his life with the Boto Stone. Yet she is unaware that by doing so she will create a deep bond and awaken an affect not seen for hundreds of years; the ability to communicate to each other in dreams. An unguarded moment leads to a forbidden night of intimacy; an act of betrayal to the crown, an act that will put both their lives in jeopardy. Katreena flees to save them both. Danger increases as their secret may be discovered and war erupts on their planet.

Romance Writing

Romance Writing
Author: Lynne Pearce
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2007-01-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0745630057

Romance Writing explores the changing nature of both the romance genre and the discourse of romantic love from the seventeenth century to the present day. Indeed, it is one of the first studies to approach romantic love as both genre and discourse in more than sixty years. Faced with the challenge of writing a cultural history for what is commonly understood to be one of lifes most universal, a-historical and cross-cultural phenomena, Lynne Pearce has invoked the concept of the gift to calculate loves added value at different cultural/historical moments. Building upon those philosophical traditions which have argued for the powerfully transformative nature of romantic love, Pearce shows how in the history of literature lovers have utilized its spark to change not only themselves, but also their worlds, through acts of creativity and heroism. The gift of love ranges from the simple gift of a name in the seventeenth century, through notions of immortality, self-sacrifice and selfhood in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, through to the liberating temporal and spatial dislocations of the postmodern age. The opening chapter, The Alchemy of Love, also undertakes an in-depth engagement of the changing nature, and meaning, of romantic love. Providing a judicious blend of close reading and cultural history, Romance Writing will be essential reading for undergraduate students as well as postgraduates and scholars working in the field, while also offering much of interest to the general reader.