A Scottish Lord For Christmas

Author : Lauren Smith
Publisher : Lauren Smith
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781958196922

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A Scottish Lord for Christmas by Lauren Smith Pdf

A kilt for Christmas . . . Lady Rowena Pepperwirth is beautiful, wealthy, and can have any many she wants. Only, no man has ever caused her heart to flutter—until the holiday house party she agreed to attend at the last minute. One look at the brooding Lord Forres and Rowena knows exactly what she wants for Christmas: the dashing Scottish lord. Quinn MacCauley needs a wife for several reasons. When he meets the lovely Lady Rowena, he knows she’ll be a good mother to his daughter and a capable mistress for his home. He’ll even overlook her tempting beauty—because there’s no way he will ever risk his heart again. But he never counted on Rowena’s determination to give him the greatest gift of all: a chance at true love.

Author : Sasha Cottman
Publisher : Sasha Cottman
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Scottish Duke for Christmas by Sasha Cottman Pdf

A night of scandalous passion has come at a high price for Ewan Radley, Duke of Strathmore. His headstrong fiancée has fled; and he is now left to raise their love child on his own. Lady Caroline Hastings isn’t about to forgive the man who threw her over for her sister, but when Ewan begs her to come to Scotland and help save his son, she cannot refuse him. Trapped together within a snowbound castle, they struggle to come to terms with their past. Ewan seeks to win Caroline back, but she is determined not to be a convenient solution to his problem. As Christmas approaches, Ewan searches high and low for that one special Christmas gift to give to her. But it will take more than mere jewels or fancy clothes, because Caroline’s heart desires the one thing money cannot buy. The only gift she longs to receive on Christmas Day, is the love of a Scottish Duke. Sasha Cottman's regency historical romance novels cover such themes as secret love, secret babies, second chance, unrequited love, friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, bad boys, lords, dukes, earls, prince, royalty, secret engagements, marriages of convenience, first love, secret love, runaway bride, ugly duckling, and adventure.

Author : Victoria Pinder
Publisher : Love in a Book
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Scot for Christmas by Victoria Pinder Pdf

Sophia Lost my job right before Christmas sounds like a bad joke, but without the job, my immigration to London is at risk which means no more of my Jane Austen life and the only life I’d ever wanted. Until billionaire and Scottish lord Harris Kellison makes me a deal I can’t refuse. He’s the sexiest man in a kilt I’d ever seen. I want to tell him no, but I’m out of options. So I’ll play his game, but lucky for him, I don’t ever fall in love. Harris The Kellison men are cursed or blessed and I’m the clan Laird. We only fall in love once, and know in an instant. Sophia is it for me. I want her in my bed and at my side. She refuses to trust me though, but she’s the most intoxicating woman I’d ever kissed. I need to make her mine, permanently.

Author : Gary Wigglesworth
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781472145284

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The Book Lover's Quiz Book by Gary Wigglesworth Pdf

'The perfect gift for quizzers' VAL McDERMID 'Outside of a dog, The Book Lover's Quiz Book is every bookworm's best friend -- inside of a dog . . . well, if you know the rest, you're going to love this book' PETER HANINGTON, author of A Dying Breed, peterhanington.co.uk 'Brilliantly inventive and entertaining questions from the bookworm's bookworm' MARK MASON, author of Walk the Lines, Question Time and many more 'A book quiz quiz book what more could lovers of books, quizzes and quizzes about books desire? And marvellous it is too, Wiggleworth proving himself quite the literary Magnus Magnussen of our social media age' TRAVIS ELBOROUGH traviselborough.co.uk 'This is the ultimate literary quiz book and Gary Wigglesworth is the quizmaster to end all quizmasters' DAVID QUANTICK davidquantick.com This is a literary quiz book with a difference. Rather than basic sets of questions, The Book Lover's Quiz Book mirrors the format of Gary's live quizzes, at the Betsey Trotwood in London and elsewhere. So, there are lots of multiple-choice questions, some amusing answers, clever red herrings, little-known facts about authors and some of the much-loved Say What You See picture round. Also, there are fixed and variable rounds - fixed ones include 'Blankety Books' (one word missing from the title - always with a theme), 'Literary Links and lists' (what connects/next in the list etc.) and '2 of a Kind' (name the character and the author that share the same initials). The changeable rounds keep the quizzes fresh and include 'What the Dickens?' (real or made-up Dickens names), 'RomeNo or JuliYess' (real or made-up Shakespearian insults) and 'Book Bingo!' (identify the correct number). There are also more standard rounds such as 'First Lines', 'Working Titles' and 'Banned Books'. The aim of all Gary's quizzes, and this book, is that people should have fun and be able to guess (if they don't know) as much as possible.

Author : William C. Lehmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401717656

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Henry Home, Lord Kames and the Scottish Enlightenment by William C. Lehmann Pdf

The purpose of the present study is to present the life and work and thought of a remarkable pioneering figure on the Scottish scene over the middle half, broadly, of the eighteenth century, in their dynamic relations with that most extraordinary intellectual awakening and scientific, edu cational, literary and religious development of his time generally known as the "Scottish Enlightenment. " That movement in thought and culture was indeed in more ways than one a unique phenomenon in the history of western culture, comparable, in its own manner and measure, as we shall attempt to point out later, with such history-making movements or epochs as the Age of Pericles in Greece, the Augustan Age in Rome, the Renaissance movement in Italy and Western Europe generally, the up-surge both in science and in letters in England in the seventeenth century, and the contemporary movement in France associated with the Encyclopedists. This Scottish Enlightenment, often also spoken of as the "Awakening of Scotland," was of course more than a movement merely on the intel lectual and cultural level. It had also political bearings and was rather directly conditioned by events and changes in the political arena, begin ning with the Union with England in 1707; and even more directly was it accompanied and conditioned by social and economic changes which were in a short span of time to transform the face of this far-northern country almost beyond recognition.

Author : Scotland. - Episcopal Church. [Miscellaneous Publications.]
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000667596

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Hymnal for the Use of the Scottish Church by Scotland. - Episcopal Church. [Miscellaneous Publications.] Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : OSU:32437121389247

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The Scottish Jurist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Linden Bicket
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474411660

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George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination by Linden Bicket Pdf

This lively new study is the very first book to offer an absorbing history of the uncharted territory that is Scottish Catholic fiction. For Scottish Catholic writers of the twentieth century, faith was the key influence on both their artistic process and creative vision. By focusing on one of the best known of Scotland's literary converts, George Mackay Brown, this book explores both the Scottish Catholic modernist movement of the twentieth century and the particularities of Brown's writing which have been routinely overlooked by previous studies. The book provides sustained and illuminating close readings of key texts in Brown's corpus and includes detailed comparisons between Brown's writing and an established canon of Catholic writers, including Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and Flannery O'Connor.This timely book reveals that Brown's Catholic imagination extended far beyond the 'small green world' of Orkney and ultimately embraced a universal human experience.

Author : David Atkinson
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783740277

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The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts by David Atkinson Pdf

This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad should not be seen as a uniquely authentic item inextricably tied to a documented source, but rather as an unstable structure subject to the vagaries of production, reception, and editing. Among the matters addressed are topics central to the subject, including ballad origins, oral and printed transmission, sound and writing, agency and editing, and textual and melodic indeterminacy and instability. While drawing on the time-honoured materials of ballad studies, the book offers a theoretical framework for the discipline to complement the largely ethnographic approach that has dominated in recent decades. Primarily directed at the community of ballad and folk song scholars, the book will be of interest to researchers in several adjacent fields, including folklore, oral literature, ethnomusicology, and textual scholarship.

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson,John Buchan,George MacDonald,Walter Scott,J. M. Barrie
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 15242 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547777977

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The Magic of Scotland - 70+ Scottish Historical Novels, Adventure Classics & Romance Novels by Robert Louis Stevenson,John Buchan,George MacDonald,Walter Scott,J. M. Barrie Pdf

This eBook collection has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: Robert Louis Stevenson: Kidnapped Catriona Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale Weir of Hermiston Walter Scott: Waverley Guy Mannering The Antiquary Rob Roy Ivanhoe Kenilworth The Pirate The Fortunes of Nigel Peveril of the Peak Quentin Durward St. Ronan's Well Redgauntlet Woodstock The Fair Maid of Perth Anne of Geierstein Old Mortality The Black Dwarf The Heart of Midlothian The Bride of Lammermoor A Legend of Montrose Count Robert of Paris Castle Dangerous The Monastery The Abbot The Betrothed The Talisman John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps The Three Hostages Huntingtower Castle Gay The Power-House John Macnab Sir Quixote of the Moors John Burnet of Barns A Lost Lady of Old Years The Half-Hearted Salute to Adventurers Midwinter Witch Wood The Free Fishers Anna Buchan: Olivia in India The Setons Penny Plain Ann and Her Mother Pink Sugar The Proper Place The Day of Small Things Priorsford Taken by the Hand Jane's Parlour The House That Is Our Own George MacDonald: David Elginbrod Alec Forbes of Howglen Robert Falconer Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood What's Mine's Mine The Elect Lady Heather and Snow Salted with Fire Malcolm The Marquis of Lossie Sir Gibbie Donal Grant J. M. Barrie: Auld Licht Idylls A Window in Thrums The Little Minister Sentimental Tommy Tommy and Grizel

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Scotland
ISBN : IND:30000106799780

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The Scottish Historical Review by Anonim Pdf

A new series of the Scottish antiquary established 1886.

Author : Sinclair Ferguson
Publisher : The Good Book Company
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781784983543

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Love Came Down at Christmas by Sinclair Ferguson Pdf

Advent devotional on 1 Corinthians 13, reflecting on the source of authentic, divine, transforming love. Advent devotional on 1 Corinthians 13, reflecting on the source of authentic, divine, transforming love. Everyone seems to say that Christmas is about love. It’s in the songs we hear as we shop for presents and in the adverts we see on TV. It’s in the cards we send and on the gift tags we write. And Christians can agree. Christmas really is about love, because love came down at Christmas in the person of Jesus Christ. This Advent devotional contains 24 daily readings from 1 Corinthians 13. Sinclair B Ferguson brings the rich theology of the incarnation to life with his trademark warmth and clarity. We'll see what “love” looked like in the life of Christ and be challenged to love like him. Each day's reading finishes with a question for reflection and a prayer. However you're feeling, your heart will be refreshed as you wonder again at the truth that love came down at Christmas.

Author : Bryan D. Spinks
Publisher : Saint Andrew Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781800830004

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Scottish Presbyterian Worship by Bryan D. Spinks Pdf

This seminal work by one of the world’s most distinguished liturgical scholars fills an important gap in the history of the Church of Scotland and of Scottish worship. It offers an in-depth narrative of a neglected liturgical legacy and a perceptive analysis of the Church’s evolving patterns of worship from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. A magisterial study, it includes: • Inherited Patterns of Public Prayer • Liturgical Disruption: Dr Robert Lee Of Greyfriars, Edinburgh • The Church Service Society and The Euchologion • Nineteenth Century Public Worship Provisions, including open-air communions • Worship’s Companions: Hymns and Choirs • Worship and the High Church Parties • Culture, Ecclesiology and Architecture • Worship Between the Two World Wars • The Ecumenical and Liturgical Movements • Into Postmodernity and the Present

Author : Julie Johnstone
Publisher : Julie Johnstone
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Christmas in the Scot's Arms by Julie Johnstone Pdf

Author : Sasha Cottman
Publisher : Sasha Cottman
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Lord with Wicked Intentions by Sasha Cottman Pdf

Lord Owen Morrison has long stopped counting the number of women he has seduced. As a member of the Noble Lords, a group of English lords who play music to woo the wicked women of the ton, Owen knows his skillful fingers with the violin and viola are appreciated both in and out of the bedroom. A year after his return from the battlefield of Waterloo, his parents have unexpectedly announced his engagement to Lady Amelia Perry, a young woman he has never met. Lady Amelia comes with a substantial dowry which will help rescue the Morrison family estate, but Owen is too busy creating mischief to care. Strong-willed, Amy is not going quietly into the arms of an arranged marriage with Owen. She ventures to London and after assuming a false identity, she begins to lure her fiancé into her trap. She will do everything to unmask him as a rogue and force her father to call off the betrothal. The promise of a secret affair with a mysterious woman has Owen champing at the bit. But the relationship comes with strict rules, and London’s lothario finds himself having to do the unheard of and be faithful to the one woman. During their secret liaisons in Hyde Park, Owen shows Amy just how much of a masterful lover he is and awakens her sexual needs and passion for him. For all her plans and schemes to unmask Owen as a wicked rake, Amy’s heart rules her head, and she falls in love with her scoundrel fiancé. After Owen fights with a rival musician and is arrested, his father confronts him and demands he set aside his wanton ways and make a respectable marriage. But Amy has seen enough to know what sort of husband Owen will be, and despite her love for him, she calls off the betrothal. Owen is devastated. Facing the loss of the one woman he has ever loved; Owen finally gains a painful lesson in jealousy and is forced to face the repercussions of his life as a rake of the worst kind. Can a rake truly be reformed, and will it be enough for Amy to give Owen a second chance? The Noble Lords. Stories of war-scarred English lords who are bad boy musicians and the women who dare to love them.