Sweet, clean romance. First book in a complete series. After losing her father, Hannah steps up to keep her family together, but her stubborn, independent streak may cost her the family farm. When her home goes up for auction, her father's friend, Bryce Callahan, saves the day. Why can’t she say thank you? She didn’t want to be attracted to him, and she certainly didn’t want to stare into his steely gray eyes. She didn’t want to kiss his lips, and yet the chemistry was undeniable. There was just one problem. Would Bryce be able to see her as the woman she'd become instead of the girl he once knew? And what would he want in exchange for saving the farm? Book 1 in "The Hawthorne Sisters" series. (Western, western romance, western romance books, romance, romantic, romance books, love stories, contemporary romance, sweet romance, clean romance, contemporary western, contemporary romance free, romance books free, romantic books free, love story, love story free, love stories, love stories free, love story books for free, western free, western books free, western romance free)

Sweet, Clean Romance Series (complete series) The Hawthorne sisters’ world is turned upside down when their father dies unexpectedly. Forced to face their new situation with their widowed mother, the family struggles financially. Hannah, a stubborn and fiercely independent woman, pushes to save their family home. Over the course of four stories, each sister gets the spotlight, highlighting their personal failures and triumphs. Hannah: After losing her father, Hannah steps up to keep her family together, but her stubborn, independent streak may cost her the family farm. Allie: A broken woman. A second chance. Breaking free from a bad relationship, can Allie learn to love again? Sheriff Chapman is a county sheriff, determined to love and protect Allie. He’s known her as long as he can remember, and needs her in his life. Can he win her trust and help her feel whole again? Maggie: Maggie Hawthorne is a woman haunted by shadows and broken dreams. She desperately wants to enjoy life, but fear stands in her way. Keeping people out used to make her feel safe, but now it is just holding her back, especially from love. Sarah: Sarah's entire world crumbled when her father died. Nothing was the same. She didn't mean to keep making bad choices. When she got shocking news that she couldn't undo, she'd never felt more alone. Is there a happy ending in store for Hannah, Allie, Maggie, and Sarah? Be sure to pick up a copy today and follow the Hawthorne sisters as they journey through life’s changes and finally find their happy ending. Realistic contemporary western romance stories told with heart. complete series, Clean romance, sweet romance, western romance, sisters, small town romance, romance series, clean and wholesome

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Hawthorne's Habitations draws on letters, manuscripts, and the author's little studied French and Italian notebooks, to present a portrait of four fascinating locations in the middle of the nineteenth century and offer a convincing portrait of the way place informed Hawthorne's melancholy psychology and dark style.

Pulitzer Prize Finalist: “A stunning work of biography” about three little-known New England women who made intellectual history (The New York Times). Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways the American Brontës. The story of these remarkable sisters—and their central role in shaping the thinking of their day—has never before been fully told. Twenty years in the making, Megan Marshall’s monumental biography brings the era of creative ferment known as American Romanticism to new life. Elizabeth Peabody, the oldest sister, was a mind-on-fire influence on the great writers of the era—Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau among them—who also published some of their earliest works; it was she who prodded these newly minted Transcendentalists away from Emerson’s individualism and toward a greater connection to others. Middle sister Mary Peabody was a passionate reformer who finally found her soul mate in the great educator Horace Mann. And the frail Sophia, an admired painter among the preeminent society artists of the day, married Nathaniel Hawthorne—but not before Hawthorne threw the delicate dynamics among the sisters into disarray. Casting new light on a legendary American era, and on three sisters who made an indelible mark on history, Marshall’s unprecedented research uncovers thousands of never-before-seen letters as well as other previously unmined original sources. “A massive enterprise,” The Peabody Sisters is an event in American biography (The New York Times Book Review). “Marshall’s book is a grand story . . . where male and female minds and sensibilities were in free, fruitful communion, even if men could exploit this cultural richness far more easily than women.” —The Washington Post “Marshall has greatly increased our understanding of these women and their times in one of the best literary biographies to come along in years.” —New England Quarterly

Curiosity about nuns and their distinctive clothing is almost as old as Catholicism itself. The habit intrigues the religious and the nonreligious alike, from medieval maidens to contemporary schoolboys, to feminists and other social critics. The first book to explore the symbolism of this attire, The Habit presents a visual gallery of the diverse forms of religious clothing and explains the principles and traditions that inspired them. More than just an eye-opening study of the symbolic significance of starched wimples, dark dresses, and flowing veils, The Habit is an incisive, engaging portrait of the roles nuns have and do play in the Catholic Church and in ministering to the needs of society. From the clothing seen in an eleventh-century monastery to the garb worn by nuns on picket lines during the 1960s, habits have always been designed to convey a specific image or ideal. The habits of the Benedictines and the Dominicans, for example, were specifically created to distinguish women who consecrated their lives to God; other habits reflected the sisters’ desire to blend in among the people they served. The brown Carmelite habit was rarely seen outside the monastery wall, while the Flying Nun turned the white winged cornette of the Daughters of Charity into a universally recognized icon. And when many religious abandoned habits in the 1960s and ’70s, it stirred a debate that continues today. Drawing on archival research and personal interviews with nuns all over the United States, Elizabeth Kuhns examines some of the gender and identity issues behind the controversy and brings to light the paradoxes the habit represents. For some, it epitomizes oppression and obsolescence; for others, it embodies the ultimate beauty and dignity of the vocation. Complete with extraordinary photographs, including images of the nineteenth century nuns’ silk bonnets to the simple gray dresses of the Sisters of Social Service, this evocative narrative explores the timeless symbolism of the habit and traces its evolution as a visual reflection of the changes in society.