[With Bonus Episode !] Including 4 special pages of additional story.Rebecca’s heart fluttered with excitement when she found out her first love was advertising in the local paper for a wife. Rebecca had been in love with Zach Whitelaw since she was a teenager. She’d tried everything to get the older man’s attention. But back then her love was not reciprocated and Zach fell in love with another woman. Maybe he will fall for her now that she’s twenty-three years old… Upon their reunion, Zach crushes Rebecca’s hopes with his heartless conditions for their marriage, among them the demand that she must become pregnant within twelve months or the marriage will be forfeit. Still, Rebecca decides to follow her heart and take on the challenge!

[With Bonus Episode !] Including 4 special pages of additional story.Freelancer camerawoman Tally is wandering the world taking pictures of children to publish in her book. She’s photographing in a small village near the desert when she’s carried off by a group of horsemen and confined in one of their tents. They seem to suspect her of being a spy. Without letting her explain everything, they take her precious camera, and the group’s leader haughtily declares to her, “You will never go home. You will marry me and live here.”

[With Bonus Episode !] Including 4 special pages of additional story.Lora’s got one thing on her mind, and it’s crafting a new breed of lily. But tokeep her well-meaning family from meddling in her love life, she needs to fake a relationship with a local veterinarian, Jon. As her flowers grow—alongside her schemes to set up others in her life—she soon finds that her phony romance with Jon has started to bloom into something much more meaningful.

The Charmer ... Ewen Fraser's rakish reputation went before him - Rosanna had read the newspapers, and could see with her own eyes his collection of girlfriends, past and present ... The Charmed ... But that didn't stop her falling for him - he was funny, tender, warm and sexy, and working closely with him was a joy ... The Trap ... Rosanna was tempted. Ewen was all that she'd ever wanted, but could she trust her instincts when they told her that Ewen, the infamous lover-and-leaver, had marriage at heart after all?

Slow to rise in the literary world, Octavia Estelle Butler cultivated musings on earth's future, reaching massive critical acclaim in the process. This companion will complement book club discussions and classroom lessons for the closest possible readings of Butler's science fiction and her texts on racism and pollution. A maven of speculative fiction so prescient that it hovers between tocsin and prophecy, Butler survives through her print stories, essays, novels and musings on individualism and compromise. This book guides the reader on a variety of Butler pieces, from her most obscure titles to her historical entries and pieces that speculate upon science, metaphysics, linguistics, psychology, writing and religion. The text serves as a guide through the depths of Octavia Butler's works and reinforces the reasons for which her name so often appears on reading lists for higher learning.

What if the way the book of Esther has been taught to us in church and retold to us in films, cartoons, and romance novels has missed the original point of the story? Far from being models of piety and devotion, Esther and Mordecai seem indifferent to the faith of their ancestors. How then did this story become part of the Bible and gain the broad acceptance that it has? If the church should not neglect the story, how should it be read? Esther and Her Elusive God calls Christians to avoid the common attempts to make Esther more palatable and theological, and to reclaim this secular story as Scripture. Readers will be encouraged to see in Esther a profound message of God's grace and faithfulness to his wayward people.

This book finally casts a spotlight on some short-lived and almost forgotten sitcoms--those which aired for only one single season. Many books have already been written about situation comedies that enjoyed long and storied runs on television but this volume focuses upon the others. Overflowing with fresh facts, interviews, photographs, and stories, nearly 300 short-lived sitcoms over a 32 year span are presented A-to-Z, whether network or syndicated, prime time or Saturday morning.

Few studies exist which deal with Islamic law in practice, and this is among the first such studies in the English language for Islamic Africa. It is significant that the present study was completed just prior to the extension of Islamic law as the sole governing law in the Sudan in 1983, for it captures many essentials of the Shari’a as it has been applied for decades prior to this important change. Numerous movements for reform and change are discussed in the book, which reflect the contemporary debate in the Sudan over the position of Shari’a in society.

This is a study of seventeenth-century Dutch painting.

This collection of ethnographies discusses how non-violent values and conflict resolution strategies can help to create and maintain peace.