After surviving a devastating tragedy, combat reporter Nate Garrison returns to the only place that ever felt like home: Starfish Bay. But his reunion with lovely Lindsey Collier is nothing like he'd imagined. The sad-eyed widow who runs the mercantile was once the girl who made young Nate dream—of a future, of family ties and deep roots. Now Lindsey avoids love, loss…and Nate, who finally understands that God has given him a second chance. With the help of a little boy and an entire community, they just might discover faith's true healing power.

This is the most complete reference to planning a family reunion! The accompanying CD features planning tools, genealogy software, and more! Don't be without this step-by-step guide that walks you through everything you need to know about planning a successful family reunion. You'll find out all about tracking down lost" family members, deciding what type of event to have, coordinating entertainment,food, lodging, and more! The CD-ROM includes genealogy shareware designed specifically to assist you in doing a thorough search for all your relatives, plus templates for tracking expenses, menus, RSVP's, addresses, lodging assignments, family data, and more. Plus, this kit includes dozens of checklists to ensure that you've thought of every detail! Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

The Healing Place Starfish Bay could be a fresh start for Kristen Andrews…even if her new landlord isn't exactly tossing down the welcome mat. Haunted by his past, Clint Nolan isn't ready to open his heart to another woman. But Kristen's also harboring a secret—the daughter she gave up for adoption nine years ago. When the little girl arrives in the California seaside town, upending Kristen's entire world, the cop-turned-park-ranger can't walk away from them. For he's beginning to feel part of the family of two. Can Clint convince Kristen it's time to claim their long-overdue happy ending?

An expansive consideration of how nautical themes influenced literature in early modern Portugal. In this book, Josiah Blackmore considers how the sea and seafaring shaped literary creativity in early modern Portugal during the most active, consequential decades of European overseas expansion. Blackmore understands “literary” in a broad sense, including a diverse archive spanning genres and disciplines—epic and lyric poetry, historical chronicles, nautical documents, ship logs, shipwreck narratives, geographic descriptions, and reference to texts of other seafaring powers and literatures of the period—centering on the great Luís de Camões, arguably the sea poet par excellence of early modern Europe. Blackmore shows that the sea and nautical travel for Camões and his contemporaries were not merely historical realities; they were also principles of cultural creativity that connected to larger debates in the widening field of the maritime humanities. For Blackmore, the sea, ships, and nautical travel unfold into a variety of symbolic dimensions, and the oceans across the globe that were traversed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries correspond to vast reaches within the literary self. The sea and seafaring were not merely themes in textual culture but were also principles that created individual and collective subjects according to oceanic modes of perception. Blackmore concludes with a discussion of depth and sinking in shipwreck narratives as metaphoric and discursive dimensions of the maritime subject, foreshadowing empire’s decline.