The Bachelor Baker

Author : Carolyne Aarsen
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460317273

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The Bachelor Baker by Carolyne Aarsen Pdf

An Unlikely Partnership Opening a business isn't a piece of cake—something Melissa Sweeney discovers when an anonymous benefactor brings her to Bygones, Kansas. She can't fulfill her longtime dream of starting up her own bakery without help. But with his traditional views of work and family, Brian Montclair is the unlikeliest candidate for the job. Even more surprising is the powerful attraction sprouting up between the rugged mechanic and his fiercely independent new boss. Brian's heart and soul belong to his hardworking community that is slowly coming back to life. Melissa wants to be part of that transformation…if she can make Brian believe they can be true partners in everything—including love. The Heart of Main Street: They're rebuilding the town one step—and heart—at a time.

Author : Carolyne Aarsen
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472013910

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The Bachelor Baker (Mills & Boon Love Inspired) (The Heart of Main Street, Book 2) by Carolyne Aarsen Pdf

An anonymous benefactor brought Melissa Sweeney to the once-booming town of Bygones, Kansas. But she can’t fulfill her longtime dream of starting up her own bakery without help.

Author : Ella Calista Handy Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HX542B

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The Bachelor's Christmas by Ella Calista Handy Wilson Pdf

Author : John Gilbert McCurdy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801457807

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Citizen Bachelors by John Gilbert McCurdy Pdf

In 1755 Benjamin Franklin observed "a man without a wife is but half a man" and since then historians have taken Franklin at his word. In Citizen Bachelors, John Gilbert McCurdy demonstrates that Franklin's comment was only one side of a much larger conversation. Early Americans vigorously debated the status of unmarried men and this debate was instrumental in the creation of American citizenship. In a sweeping examination of the bachelor in early America, McCurdy fleshes out a largely unexamined aspect of the history of gender. Single men were instrumental to the settlement of the United States and for most of the seventeenth century their presence was not particularly problematic. However, as the colonies matured, Americans began to worry about those who stood outside the family. Lawmakers began to limit the freedoms of single men with laws requiring bachelors to pay higher taxes and face harsher penalties for crimes than married men, while moralists began to decry the sexual immorality of unmarried men. But many resisted these new tactics, including single men who reveled in their hedonistic reputations by delighting in sexual horseplay without marital consequences. At the time of the Revolution, these conflicting views were confronted head-on. As the incipient American state needed men to stand at the forefront of the fight for independence, the bachelor came to be seen as possessing just the sort of political, social, and economic agency associated with citizenship in a democratic society. When the war was won, these men demanded an end to their unequal treatment, sometimes grudgingly, and the citizen bachelor was welcomed into American society. Drawing on sources as varied as laws, diaries, political manifestos, and newspapers, McCurdy shows that in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the bachelor was a simultaneously suspicious and desirable figure: suspicious because he was not tethered to family and household obligations yet desirable because he was free to study, devote himself to political office, and fight and die in battle. He suggests that this dichotomy remains with us to this day and thus it is in early America that we find the origins of the modern-day identity of the bachelor as a symbol of masculine independence. McCurdy also observes that by extending citizenship to bachelors, the founders affirmed their commitment to individual freedom, a commitment that has subsequently come to define the very essence of American citizenship.

Author : Howard P. Chudacoff
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0691070555

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The Age of the Bachelor by Howard P. Chudacoff Pdf

In this engaging new book, Howard Chudacoff describes a special and fascinating world: the urban bachelor life that took shape in the late nineteenth century, when a significant population of single men migrated to American cities. Rejecting the restraints and dependence of the nineteenth-century family, bachelors found sustenance and camaraderie in the boarding houses, saloons, pool halls, cafes, clubs, and other institutions that arose in response to their increasing numbers. Richly illustrated, anecdotal, and including a unique analysis of The National Police Gazette (the most outrageous and popular men's publication of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century), this book is the first to describe a complex subculture that continues to affect the larger meanings of manhood and manliness in American society. The figure of the bachelor--with its emphasis on pleasure, self-indulgence, and public entertainment--was easily converted by the burgeoning consumer culture at the turn of the century into an ambiguously appealing image of masculinity. Finding an easy reception in an atmosphere of insecurity about manhood, that image has outdistanced the circumstances in which it began to flourish and far outlasted the bachelor culture that produced it. Thus, the idea of the bachelor has retained its somewhat negative but alluring connotations throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Chudacoff's concluding chapter discusses the contemporary "singles scene" now developing as the number of single people in urban centers is again increasing. By seeing bachelorhood as a stage in life for many and a permanent status for some, Chudacoff recalls a lifestyle that had a profound impact on society, evoking fear, disdain, repugnance, and at the same time a sense of romance, excitement, and freedom. The book contributes to gender history, family history, urban history, and the study of consumer culture and will appeal to anyone curious about American history and anxious to acquire a new view of a sometimes forgotten but still influential aspect of our national past.

Author : Joseph Foster,Joseph Lemuel Chester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Church records and registers
ISBN : UVA:X000496285

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London Marriage Licences, 1521-1869 by Joseph Foster,Joseph Lemuel Chester Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1412 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Legislative hearings
ISBN : UCAL:B3603704

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Armed Services by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Legislative hearings
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006343334

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Hearings Before and Special Reports Made by Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives on Subjects Affecting the Naval and Military Establishments by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Subcommittee on Disciplinary Problems in the U.S. Navy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1162 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Naval discipline
ISBN : UCSD:31822019302553

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Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Disciplinary Problems in the U.S. Navy of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session .... by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Subcommittee on Disciplinary Problems in the U.S. Navy Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555068810

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punch, or the london charivarl. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jim Hoy
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780700634101

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Gathering Strays by Jim Hoy Pdf

Celebrated folklorist and author Jim Hoy has spent most of his life living in the heart of the famed Flint Hills of Kansas and documenting and celebrating his fellow Kansans and plains folk. Like rounding up stray cattle in a rolling pasture, Hoy has gathered over a hundred stray stories, tales without a single theme or unified narrative, and corraled them up here for the very first time. Branding these stories in sections like Cattle Towns, Outlaws, and Cowboy Music, Hoy’s vignettes teach, excite, charm, and instill a deep pride in anyone fortunate enough to have lived on the Great Plains. In Gathering Strays, Hoy gives us a collection of stories about Kansas, the Great Plains, and Western life that reflect his life-long love of the land, experience, and history of the region. Hoy introduces us to folks like Elmer McCurdy, a failed train robber whose arsenic-embalmed body went on tour and made money for the undertaker, and Ame Cole, who scolded Russian Grand Duke Alexis on his table manners. Writing as an easygoing storyteller, Hoy covers familiar areas like rodeos and cattle drives, takes us from Dodge City to Beer City and everywhere in between, explains why Kansas has the best state song in the nation, and expands our picture of cowboys with stories of Australian drovers, Black cowboys, and Mexican vaqueros. Throughout, his easy-to-read yet authoritative style describes the people, places, and events that make the region so distinctive and celebrated. Gathering Strays will be hailed by anyone interested in the heroes and villains, towns and ranges, and myths and legends of the West.

Author : Mark Lemon,Henry Mayhew,Tom Taylor,Shirley Brooks,Francis Cowley Burnand,Owen Seaman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002104151

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Punch by Mark Lemon,Henry Mayhew,Tom Taylor,Shirley Brooks,Francis Cowley Burnand,Owen Seaman Pdf

Author : Carolyne Aarsen,Deb Kastner,Renee Andrews
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459254695

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Love Inspired August 2013 - Bundle 1 of 2 by Carolyne Aarsen,Deb Kastner,Renee Andrews Pdf

Love Inspired brings you three new titles for one great price, available now for a limited time only from August 1 to August 31! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. This Love Inspired bundle includes The Bachelor Baker by Carolyne Aarsen, The Soldier's Sweetheart by Deb Kastner and Bride Wanted by Renee Andrews. Look for 6 new inspirational stories every month from Love Inspired!

Author : Argonne National Laboratory. Office of Public Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Energy development
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131831633

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Argonne News by Argonne National Laboratory. Office of Public Affairs Pdf

Author : Justin Charlebois
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739144909

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Gender and the Construction of Hegemonic and Oppositional Femininities by Justin Charlebois Pdf

Gender and the Construction of Hegemonic and Oppositional Femininities analyzes the construction of femininities within the key social institutions of school, work, and the media. The book draws from previous research to demonstrate how femininities are constructed in school and work and analyzes gendered representations in current fictional media.