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In her journal, Rachel chronicles her family's adventures traveling by covered wagon on the Oregon Trail in 1850.
Sometimes the love you aren’t looking for is exactly the love you need Rachel Witherspoon is running away from her past to the only place she has left to go, her childhood home. In the small town of Red Creek, she can finally achieve independence, security and control over her life. Never again will she be at the mercy of others. Owen Robinson remembers Rachel from high school, but definitely not the strong secure Rachel he sees now. Feeling guilty for how they parted when she moved away, he is determined to make amends for the jerk she knew him to be. Will Rachel lower her defenses long enough to give Owen a second chance? Does Owen have what it takes to reach a heart so terribly damaged by her past?
Rachels journey from Chipola Roads, the rural community in northwest Florida where she was born in the mid-ninteen-twenties, was so much further than the few miles it took to arrive in the small town where the highschool was located Her nave approach to life was a result of her plain-spoken, down to earth poor farm familys upbringing, where lifes rules came mostly from their understanding of the Good Book as handed down to them.
Rachel is a Jew living in Kishinev, Russia. At fourteen, she has dreams of being a writer. But everything is put on hold when a young man is murdered and Rachel is forced to keep the murderer's identity a secret. Tensions mount and Rachel watches as lies and anti-Jewish propaganda leap off the pages of the local newspaper, inciting many to riot against the Jews. Violence breaks out on Easter Sunday, 1903, and when it finally ends, Rachel finds that the person she loves most is dead and that her home has been destroyed. Her main support comes surprisingly from a young Christian named Sergei. With everything against them, the two young people find comfort in their growing bond, one of the few signs of goodness and hope in a time of chaos and violence.
Rachels Promise is both a family saga and the story of Rachel, a poor and violated young woman. To defend the justice of her cause, which is also a promise to her mama, Rachel must take on the powerful and legendary Raskin family thats famous for its dynasty of York, the largest motion picture studio in Hollywood. But to take vengeance on the rich and famous, Rachel must either kill them, or rise to their level of power and fight them from their vantage ground. When she realizes she cannot kill, she launches a career in filmmaking under the most adverse circumstances. On her way she comes across people with flawed personalities, a hazard thats inherent in the nature of the transparent, make-believe world of the filmland. Rachel refuses to become another Hollywood casualty, though she comes very close. Powered by strong will and purpose, she triumphs over the tremendous odds against her. Still, a total satisfaction does not occur from laurels of fame and wealth, but from fulfilling her promise.
When his ex-wife has a car accident, architect Jack McGill leaves his job and latest girlfriend to fly to her bedside in Carmel, California. Finding her in a prolonged coma, he moves into her home to look after two resentful daughters.
'this book is filled with recipes that look so very, very good to eat.' NIGELLA LAWSON 'it’s refreshing that Rachel Ama is, in many ways, just herself' RUBY TANDOH OBSERVER RISING STAR OF FOOD, 2019 Find brilliant plant-based dishes that make cooking and enjoying delicious vegan food every day genuinely easy – and fun - in Rachel Ama’s Vegan Eats. No bland or boring dishes, and forget all-day cooking. Rachel takes inspiration from naturally vegan dishes and cuisines as well as her Caribbean and West African roots to create great full-flavour recipes that are easy to make and will inspire you to make vegan food part of your daily life. Rachel’s recipes are quick and often one-pot; ing...
Collected to help parents deal with their grief over losing a child, this book includes stories written by parents who have been through this devastating experience.
Rachel Miller’s parents are Mennonite missionaries who left the Amish church before Rachel was born. Now Rachel wants to become Amish. She likes their quiet, unhurried way of life, and when she spends summers and goes to church with her Amish grandparents, Ellie and David Eash, she feels like she belongs. When she starts to attend Amish youth singings and begins to court a young Amish man, she realizes that she will have to choose. Should Rachel listen to her siblings and friends, who make fun of her and think she should drop her dream of becoming Amish once and for all? Or should she follow her desire to become Amish, which is starting to feel a lot like God’s will? Ages 10 and up. Book 3 of the Ellie’s People: An Amish Family Saga series. Ages 10 and up. The ten books of the Ellie’s People series, beloved classics among young and old readers in Amish and Mennonite communities, are now available for today’s reader. Author Mary Christner Borntrager grew up Amish and based her novels on events in her Amish childhood. Fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie series will love learning to know spunky Ellie and her friends and family.
Argyll is the beautiful, wild and inspirational home of Celtic Christianity. It is the spiritual heartland of Scotland and, some would say, of the whole United Kingdom. Until now, no-one has sought to uncover the reasons why the spiritual landscape of Argyll is so distinctively unique, rich and varied. Why is it characterised by a more gentle, liberal, mystical and liturgical Christian culture than the harsher Calvinist evangelism of the neighbouring Highlands and the Western Isles? Why has it produced such a disproportionately large amount of beautiful devotional material? This joyful book, with a cover image by popular artist JoLoMo, is impressionistic and accessible but always of the high...