Perhaps her dream of love was only a dream"Working nights in a London hospital is no life for a young girl!" Her mother hadn't actually said it, but Judith knew she was thinking it.In a way, Judith agreed, but what else could she do? Marry Nigel? No, she didn't love him. She had no great feeling for any man-except Charles Cresswell-and that was certainly not love. But could her feeling possibly have any bearing on her agreeing to nurse his mother in his home?

Judith and her warrior sisters had been around for several millennia, their time of fighting in wars and conquering kingdoms now a distant memory. Before Queen Dante passed, she graced her prized warriors—the falcon, hawk, eagle, phoenix, vulture, and owl—with humanity as well as immortality.With two of their sisters mated, Jude and Piper were finding themselves a little envious of the large homes they had. Jude and Piper both were on the hunt for nicer accommodations. Christmas wa...

'Passionately, as other children collect shells, stamps or bus tickets, Judith collected kind words and kind looks dropped by Mother.'Twelve-year-old Judith has been brought up in Europe by her mother, governess and highbrow uncles and aunts. She’s had her hand held all the way through life – even though that hand has often been cold and distant. Now she’s about to board a plane to England all alone to visit the father who abandoned her . . .Although instead of des...

A clean, Christian Western historical romance book.Introducing the Rose Creek Ranch Mail Order Bride series. Each book features a mail order bride for a man at the Rose Creek Ranch in Colorado. Though this is a series, each book is stand-alone and can be read in any order.Meet Judith, a poor girl from a coal miner’s family in West Virginia. With great reluctance, she heads West to meet the man her Ma found through a mail order bride ad.When Judith m...

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Judith is an aspiring young actress and the mistress of a writer on a popular satirical magazine. Her life has increasingly become a dangerous mixture of drugs and self-delusion. When she eventually suffers a breakdown, she seeks healing in an Indian ashram run by an eccentric and even possibly mad guru. But what is at the back of appearances? How calculated is the self-destructiveness from which a new order might emerge?Judith returns to England and joins up with Bert, one of a fe...

Judith is a Frankish princess, the granddaughter of Charlemagne. Sent off to the British Isles in a political alliance, she was twice married and twice widowed; twice an Anglo-Saxon queen. Now she is back home, a scullery maid in a convent while her father finds her a suitable husband. Baldwin is a soldier in her father's army. When they meet, they feel a mutual attraction but is it just the thrill of a forbidden relationship? If discovered, Judith would be punished but courting the King's...

Have you ever wondered why some of the most powerful stories of female heroism and military triumph were excluded from the traditional biblical canon?In The Book of Judith, you are invited to witness a dramatic saga of faith, subversion, and total victory. This ancient Jewish text, revered for centuries as a "deuterocanonical" masterpiece, tells the story of a nation backed into a corner by the mightiest empire on earth. When the men of Bethulia lose hea...

Judith Hershberger wonders what her life would have been like had she been born into an English family instead of an Amish one. Would she be happier with the freedom to obtain more schooling as an English young woman instead of being limited to only an eighth grade Amish education?In Judith's Place, the second book in the Dreams of Plain Daughters Series, schoolteacher Judith Hershberger yearns to learn more despite the educational restriction imposed on her because of her Amish up...

Judith tells the story of a beautiful Jewish woman who enters the tent of an invading general, gets him drunk, and then slices off his head, thus saving her village and Jerusalem. This short novella was somewhat surprisingly included in the early Christian versions of the Old Testament and has played an important role in the Western tradition ever since. This commentary provides a detailed analysis of the text's composition and its meaning in its original historical context, and thoroughly...

2023 Catholic Media Association First Place Award, Scripture – Academic StudiesThe striking scene of Judith cutting off Holofernes’s head with his own sword in his own bed has inspired the imaginations of readers for millennia. But there is more to her story than just this climactic act and more to her character than just beauty and violence. This volume offers a comprehensive examination of gender ideologies in the book of Judith, from the hyper-masculine...

Have you ever wondered why some of the most powerful stories of female heroism and military triumph were excluded from the traditional biblical canon?In The Book of Judith, you are invited to witness a dramatic saga of faith, subversion, and total victory. This ancient Jewish text, revered for centuries as a "deuterocanonical" masterpiece, tells the story of a nation backed into a corner by the mightiest empire on earth. When the men of Bethulia lose hea...