A grieving widow.A neglected orchard.A second life she never saw coming.Two years after losing her husband, and the future she built around him, forty-five-year-old Emerson Haven has made a quiet art out of outrunning her own grief. She pours everything she has into a corporate job that demands more than it gives…until the day she's replaced by someone half her age and realizes she has nothing left to offer a world that's already moved on wi...

Manufacturing Cost Data on Artificial Ice is a comprehensive and detailed report originally published by the United States Bureau of the Census in 1910. This book serves as an invaluable resource for historians, economists, engineers, and industry professionals interested in the early 20th-century artificial ice manufacturing industry. Drawing from extensive surveys and data collection, the book presents a thorough analysis of the costs associated with the production of artificial ice acro...

Whether they were utopian communitarians, sun-seeking gurus, or Protestant health reformers, Southern California's spiritual seekers drew on the United States' deepening global encounters and consumer cultures to pair religious and personal reinvention with cultural and spiritual revitalization. Through a rereading of the region's cultural landscape, Golden States provides an alternative history of California religion and spirituality, showing that seekers developed a number of pa...

Gilmore Girls meets The Home Edit, at the beach, with a revenge glow-up, an estranged daughter, and one flannel-wearing contractor who knows his way around a power drill.Melissa Radford has made a career out of staying in control. But when her perfectly curated Manhattan life implodes, she heads to Beachwood Bay to flip her late grandmother's crumbling cottage and fast. Her plan? Renovate, sell, and get back to the city before the salt air ruins her blowout.

Instead of spending the next phase of her life traveling around the world with her husband, Tara finds herself alone and starting over.Welcome to Blueberry Hill.Tara Singleton was perfectly happy with her life, right up until the moment she cut the cake at her birthday party. As everyone cheered, her husband sheepishly admitted he'd lost everything, they were flat broke. And he was leaving her for his pregnant mistress, a personal trainer young eno...

Escape to Blueberry Hill, where second chances bloom and new beginnings are always within reach…In the first book, Tara found out her husband had lost all their money and had cheated on her with a woman the same age as her daughter. Married right after college and with no employable skills, Tara found herself adrift. After settling into the cottage she inherited from a distant aunt, Tara met Will, a man from her past. They're getting to know each other all...

I am not or was I ever a wizard. This is not a past life phenomenon. This book is not based on deja-vu or channeling. It does however flow through me like my own memories. They come and go like the ebb and flow of the tides on the shore of some far off sea, the waves just bring them in. As best I can I put things to pen following the thread till the spool runs out, it turns like life one page at a time.

.Rusty is a police horse, and he is very proud to be one. He is eager and ready to perform his duties and knows that he does his best every day.Rusty begins his day with a good breakfast. After that, the real fun begins. He likes to train, which helps him be brave, and to keep clean. He goes out on patrol, where he loves to greet people--especially children! On special days he marches in parades, which is very exciting. Although somrtimes the sights and sounds of the city m...

In Blueberry Hill, every ending is just the beginning of another story…Seven months pregnant, Christina carries a secret that could upend everything. Her baby's father is Marco Castellano, billionaire heir to a fashion empire, and the man she spent one unforgettable night with in Miami.They never exchanged names. But when Christina later recognized him on the glossy pages of a magazine surrounded by models, actresses, and endless headlines, her heart sank. How coul...

A runaway bride in all but name. A seaside town that wears kindness like armor. One broken beginning that becomes a life.Hazel Morrison thought she was starting fresh. Instead, her husband left her in a Cracker Barrel parking lot with a suitcase, two hundred dollars, and a future that vanished before the biscuits cooled. What she planned next was survival.What she found instead was Magnolia Beach.A town of bright-painted porches, cinnamon-roll morni...

When snow blankets the charming mountain town of Blueberry Hill, the holiday season brings unexpected gifts, and life-changing secrets.One year after fleeing her crumbling marriage in Miami, Tara Bedford has found more than just refuge in her inherited lakeside cottage. She's discovered a home, a purpose, and a love she never expected with Will Dixon. As Christmas approaches, their growing family, including her three adult children and fifteen-year-old Rya...

This book explores the connections between the processes of social structuring and sensibilities in contemporary cities. The transformations of capitalism on a global scale imply reconfigurations both in the way of planning and organizing cities, and in the ways of dwelling and feeling them. The generalization of the urban, the suburbanization of the metropolis, and classified and racializing segregation, just to mention some significant phenomena, not only introduce changes linked to the ...