In this wholesome holiday romance, a beautiful rancher takes a chance on a former bad boy who’s determined to prove he’s the man she needs. With two jobs, a mortgaged farm and a rebellious brother, Layla Silver is struggling to keep afloat for the holidays. But does she need Gage Cooper riding to her rescue? Back in high school, Gage was nobody’s hero. Now the injured bull rider is home Christmas, ready to make amends for his checkered past. And something about the stubborn, beautiful Layla has him wanting more than forgiveness. Now this wandering cowboy is out to turn a Christmas courtship into an everlasting love . . .

An uncommon pair finds a common cause that changes their lives—and brings the spirit of the season home—in this festive and faith-filled Christmas romance. Reformed rebel Jackson Cooper thinks he can handle anything—until a sullen teenage girl appears at his ranch, claiming the impossible. Even though he’s not Jade’s father, he can’t turn her away, knowing she’s in need. But he’s going to need the helping hand of compassionate schoolteacher Madeline Patton. An unlikely duo with their own secret fears, Jackson and Maddie certainly don’t expect the Christmas surprise of instant parenthood. Yet as they work toward giving a foster child a home, they might just discover the most wonderful gift of all: family. From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness, and hope. Experience more western romances in the rest of the Cooper Creek series: The Bull Rider’s Baby The Rancher’s Secret Wife The Cowboy’s Healing Ways The Cowboy Lawman The Cowboy’s Christmas Courtship The Cowboy’s Reunited Family Single Dad Cowboy

An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.

Grizz Brickbottom, toughest cowboy in the West, yearns for a companion and convinces his cattle-rustling cohorts that they need a dog to help with the work.

"Lurie takes particular interest in the influence of cinema on Faulkner's fiction and the visual strategies he both deployed and critiqued. These include the suggestion of cinematic viewing on the part of readers and of characters in each of the novels; the collective and individual acts of voyeurism in Sanctuary and Light in August; the exposing in Absalom! Absalom! and Light in August of stereotypical and cinematic patterns of thought about history and race; and the evocation of popular forms like melodrama and the movie screen in If I forget thee, Jerusalem. Offering innovative readings of these canonical works, this study sheds new light on Faulkner's uniquely American modernism."--BOOK JACKET.

Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age 13, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister Kate can somehow fight the leukemia that has palgued her since childhood.