The Making Of A Highlander

Author : Elisa Braden
Publisher : Elisa Braden
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Making of a Highlander by Elisa Braden Pdf

In Elisa Braden’s enchanting new Midnight in Scotland series, the unlikeliest matches generate the greatest heat. All it takes is a spark of Highland magic. “Make me a lady, and I’ll make ye a Highlander.” –Mad Annie Tulloch, Scottish lass “Challenge accepted.” –John Huxley, English gentleman No lady can tempt him more than the next shore Everyone wants handsome adventurer John Huxley to settle down—family, friends, London society. Everyone except John. He’s evaded too many scheming title huntresses to trust in happily-ever-after. Now, a vow made to a dying friend has him locked in a land dispute with a stubborn Scot who offers one way out: Win the Highland Games. John likes a challenge, but this one’s impossible. Still, with training from the Scot’s stepdaughter, victory might be within reach. He only has to teach the fiery, foul-mouthed, breeches-wearing lass how to land a lord. It seems “impossible” is just getting started. She’s no lady—she’s Mad Annie Tulloch Everyone calls her Mad Annie. True, her best friend is a ghost. And yes, her greatest talents involve cooking for giants and taunting ridiculously handsome Englishmen. But she’s not mad—she’s desperate. To save her friend, Annie must marry a lord. The trouble is no lord will look twice at a hoyden like her. This calls for “Lady Lessons,” and she knows just the uptight Englishman to provide them. When did a simple bargain become a battle of desire? Amidst cursed castles, caber tossing, and questionable chaperones, John and Annie’s wildfire attraction threatens to send their plans up in flames. And when Annie’s family is targeted by a dangerous enemy, John is tempted to stay, to fight, and to win the greatest prize of all: A fiery lass’s tender, loyal heart.

Author : Jonathan Melville
Publisher : Polaris
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781913538156

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A Kind of Magic by Jonathan Melville Pdf

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the classic 1986 fantasy action-adventure film, featuring insights from the cast and crew. The story of an immortal Scottish warrior battling evil down through the centuries, Highlander fused a high-concept idea with the kinetic energy of a pop promo pioneer and Queen’s explosive soundtrack to become a cult classic. When two American producers took a chance on a college student’s script, they set in motion a chain of events involving an imploding British film studio, an experimental music video director still finding his filmmaking feet, a former James Bond with a spiralling salary, and the unexpected arrival of low-budget production company, Cannon Films. Author Jonathan Melville looks back at the creation of Highlander with the help of more than 60 cast and crew, including stars Christopher Lambert and Clancy Brown, as they talk candidly about the gruelling shoot that took them from the back alleys of London, to the far reaches of the Scottish Highlands, and onto the mean streets of 1980s New York City. With insights from Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor on the film’s iconic music, exclusive screenwriter commentary on unmade scripts, never-before-seen photos from private collections, and a glimpse into the promotional campaign that never was, if there can be only one book on Highlander then this is it! “A Kind of Magic: Making the Original Highlander tracks down an astonishing number of the film's cast and crew to give an unparalleled account of its creation . . . if you’re one of the film’s many fans this is the perfect companion.” —The Courier, Book of the Week, 9/10 As well as being the story of the Highlander film itself, it’s a fascinating look at the film-making process . . . Jonathan Melville’s A Kind of Magic: Making the Original Highlander is an absolute joy to read and an absolutely essential purchase for any Highlander fan.” —We Are Cult

Author : Corrinne Harol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009273480

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The Postsecular Restoration and the Making of Literary Conservatism by Corrinne Harol Pdf

Corrinne Harol reveals how secularization catalysed conservative writers to respond and thereby contribute impactfully to literary history.

Author : Fred Powell,Margaret Scanlon,Pat Leahy,Hilary Jenkinson,Olive Byrne
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447367963

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The Making of a Left-Behind Class by Fred Powell,Margaret Scanlon,Pat Leahy,Hilary Jenkinson,Olive Byrne Pdf

Despite the high aspirations of young people from disadvantaged communities, they face barriers that are frustrating the realisation of their educational ambitions. This book analyses the ‘left-behind’ phenomenon and shows how education has become the new divide in Western society. It explains how denied educational equality and frustrated opportunity are undermining social cohesion and what we can do about it. It challenges meritocratic thinking and the efficacy of widening participation as a policy for social inclusion. Combining analysis of educational disadvantage at an international level and among Travelling communities with empirical data derived from fieldwork with parents, teachers and students in the European Union (Ireland), this book offers fresh thinking and new hope in relation to young people left behind in the opportunity structure.

Author : Aileen Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Highlander's Runaway Bride by Aileen Adams Pdf

Blair MacManus will not let a man tell her how to run her life. She will not let Laird Fergus Campbell betroth her to a man in his guardsman troops. She wants to follow in her dear departed mother’s footsteps. She wants to be a healer. Laird Campbell considers Blair practically as a daughter. One that needs to be bent to his will. She’ll be no man’s bride. That is not in the cards for Blair. Nae at all. Jameson Connor’s lands have been stolen by a lowlife. He’s living among brigands and refugees from clan wars. He and his men are constantly living on the fringe of society, making ends meet the best they can. Until a skirmish leaves Jameson in quite a quandary. His legs are damaged in a fire. When his men decide to abduct a lass on the road, who’d have known she’s an aspiring healer. One with a good heart and a sharp mind. Can Jameson convince Blair to abandon her journey to her best friend’s keep in order to stay with his clan? To soothe their wounds and heal his heart?

Author : Ken McGoogan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443452618

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Flight of the Highlanders by Ken McGoogan Pdf

Bestselling author Ken McGoogan tells the story of those courageous Scots who, ruthlessly evicted from their ancestral homelands, were sent to Canada in coffin ships, where they would battle hardship, hunger and even murderous persecution. After the Scottish Highlanders were decimated at the 1746 Battle of Culloden, the British government banned kilts and bagpipes and set out to destroy a clan system that for centuries had sustained a culture, a language and a unique way of life. The Clearances, or forcible evictions, began when landlords—among them traitorous clan chieftains—realized they could increase their incomes dramatically by driving out tenant farmers and dedicating their estates to sheep. Flight of the Highlanders: The Making of Canada intertwines two main narratives. The first is that of the Clearances themselves, during which some 200,000 Highlanders were driven—some of them burned out, others beaten unconscious—from lands occupied by their forefathers for hundreds of years. The second narrative focuses on resettlement. The refugees, frequently misled by false promises, battled impossible conditions wherever they arrived, from the forests of Nova Scotia to the winter barrens of northern Manitoba. Between the 1770s and the 1880s, tens of thousands of dispossessed and destitute Highlanders crossed the Atlantic —prototypes for the refugees we see arriving today from around the world. If today Canada is more welcoming to newcomers than most countries, it is at least partly because of the lingering influence of those unbreakable refugees. Together with their better-off brethren—the lawyers, educators, politicians and businessmen—those indomitable Highlanders were the making of Canada.

Author : Nicole Locke
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780369730374

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The Highlander's Unexpected Bride by Nicole Locke Pdf

Escape to Medieval Scotland, where a Highlander searches for a bride… Is the wife the Highlander seeks …already by his side? Back from battle, Hamilton of Clan Graham makes a bet with his brother to find a wife by summer’s end. So, the Scottish warrior enlists the help of his childhood friend, Beileag, to help him woo his perfect woman. But like Hamilton, Beileag has changed whilst he’s been away…and she intrigues him like never before! His focus should be on winning a bride. Yet why is Beileag all he can think about? From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past. Lovers and Highlanders Book 1: The Highlander's Bridal Bid Book 2: The Highlander's Unexpected Bride

Author : Shawn Shimpach
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1444320688

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Television in Transition by Shawn Shimpach Pdf

Combining an exciting methodology alongside high-interest casestudies, Television in Transition offers studentsof television a guide to a medium that has weathered the challengesof first-run syndication, a multi-channel universe, netlets, majormedia conglomerates, deregulation, and globalization--all in thespace of twenty years. Examines a return in television programming to actionnarratives with individual (super) heroes intended to navigate thisnew, international, multi-channel universe Explores how television programming "translates" to new spatialgeographies: different nations, cultures, broadcast systems; anddifferent formats, distribution outlets, and screen sizes Looks at the value of a program's "afterlife," the continuedcirculation, repackaging and repurposing of programming beyond itsinitial iteration Blends institutional and textual analyses in casestudies of Highlander: The Series, Smallville, 24,and Doctor Who

Author : John M. Glen
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : 0870499289

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Highlander by John M. Glen Pdf

When John M. Glen's Highlander: No Ordinary School, 1932-1962 first appeared in 1988, it was hailed as a full and authoritative study of one of the South's most extraordinary and controversial institutions. Now, in this second edition, Glen updates Highlander's story through the 1990s. He incorporates newly available materials and the latest scholarship to detail the school's recent work in Appalachia, its efforts to bring international grassroots groups together on common issues, and its support of emerging economic and environmental justice campaigns. First named the Highlander Folk School and established in 1932 by Myles Horton and Don West near Monteagle, Tennessee, this adult education center has been both a vital resource for southern and Appalachian activists and a catalyst for several major movements for social change. During its first thirty years, Highlander served as a community folk school, as a training center for southern labor and Farmer's Union members, and as a meeting place for black and white civil rights workers. Its advocacy of racial equality ultimately prompted the state of Tennessee to revoke the charter of the original institution in 1962. Undaunted, the school's officers reorganized the institution as the Highlander Research and Education Center in Knoxville, where it gave ongoing support to the civil rights movement and promoted a multiracial poor people's coalition. Today, operating in New Market, Tennessee, it continues to devise new strategies of progressive change from the experiences of ordinary people. This comprehensive history offers a unique perspective on the movements, institutions, organizations, and individuals that permanently reshaped our understanding of the South and Appalachia in the twentieth century. It also suggests the range of problems and possibilities of using education to achieve economic, political, and racial justice.

Author : Aileen Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Highlander's Lady by Aileen Adams Pdf

Highland borders offer treachery and love... Olivia Smythe is the daughter an English earl and a Scottish woman. He has decided that his half-Scottish daughter should go to the Highlands for her own safety to avoid the border skirmishes that plague their area. He’s also pleaded her hand to a cruel Englishman. Laird Boyd MacPherson has no idea the Englishwoman he’s saved from cutthroats is the cousin of a Highland laird. He has no idea the courage and wherewithal that this young half-Scot can muster. He is quick to find out when she runs away and seeks to hide from her betrothed and the rest of the world. Boyd turns the Highlands upside down looking for her, only to find her in the least likely of places.

Author : Amanda Forester
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781492605447

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The Highlander's Bride by Amanda Forester Pdf

A passionate, fast-paced new Scottish Highlander romance series from critically acclaimed author Amanda Forester "RIVETING, DIVERTING...DELIGHTFUL ROMANCE." -RT Book Reviews, Top Pick, for True Highland Spirit Their attraction is forbidden All Highland warrior Gavin Patrick wants is to get back to his native Scotland. But before he can leave the battlefield, he's given a final mission-escort Lady Marie Colette to her fiancé. Under no circumstances is he to lay hands on the beautiful, clever-tongued heiress...no matter how desperate the temptation. Their desire, undeniable Forced to pose as a married couple to make their escape from France, Gavin and Marie Colette find themselves thrown into peril...and each other's arms. As the danger mounts, so does their forbidden passion. But it isn't until Marie Colette is taken from him that Gavin is forced to decide-is he willing to lose the woman who stole his heart, or will he jeopardize his honor, defy his promise, and steal her in return? "Vivid, effortless storytelling." -Publishers Weekly on The Highlander's Heart

Author : Donna Fletcher
Publisher : Donna Fletcher
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Highlander's Rebellious Love by Donna Fletcher Pdf

Patience Macinnes is livid. Instead of focusing on finding her missing sister Heather, her father has dispatched her to the troublesome Clan McLaud to settle a dispute. Determined to quickly resolve the matter and resume her search, Patience expects the task to be a mere inconvenience. However, the McLauds prove to be more challenging than she ever imagined, particularly one member. Hunter McLaud is renowned for his penchant for women. His days are filled with dalliances, and his nights are no different. Initially dismissing Hunter as a reckless warrior, Patience's opinion shifts when he proposes a surprising solution to end the feud between their clans… marriage. He suggests that by uniting their families, they could prevent a disastrous war. Faced with the looming threat of conflict, Patience reluctantly agrees to Hunter's audacious proposal. However, she sets forth her own conditions. To her surprise, Hunter consents to her terms. Yet, as they navigate the complexities of their arrangement, neither is prepared for the emotional turmoil that ensues. Despite their initial misgivings, they soon discover that their hearts may have other plans. Macinnes Sisters Trilogy Book one, The Highlander's Stolen Heart Book two, Highlander's Rebellious Love Book three, Highlander The Dark Dragon

Author : Ginjer Buchannan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : MacLeod, Duncan (Fictitious character)
ISBN : OCLC:1035620524

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Highlander by Ginjer Buchannan Pdf

Author : Samuel Adams Drake
Publisher : New York, Charles Scribner's sons
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:HN5DV8

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The Making of the Ohio Valley States, 1660-1837 by Samuel Adams Drake Pdf

Author : Terri Brisbin
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488003998

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The Highlander's Runaway Bride by Terri Brisbin Pdf

A pact…a bride…a secret never to be told! When Eva MacKay learns her father has bartered her off to a warrior from a neighboring clan, she has no choice but to run away, taking her dark secrets with her. Freedom is now within her grasp! Dutiful highlander Rob Mackintosh tracks down his runaway bride, only to be stunned by the fireworks that erupt between them. For behind Eva's timid smile lies a headstrong beauty, and Rob knows, no matter what, this marriage is going to be full of surprises!