Whether it's the bodybuilder who picks up energy in the air, the rich girl who sees potential in the beer-drinking factory worker at her father's cardboard plant, the girl who turns against her evang
In 1903, successful candy maker Milton Hershey began a new enterprise that many people thought was doomed. He planned to build the biggest chocolate factory in the world, and a town to house its emplo
He would take her as his bride...but could she give her heart in return? When Egan MacBain takes beautiful Glenda MacKay as his bride, it appears that he's done so for the noblest of reasons. In trut
When Arriman the Awful, the handsome wizard of the North, announces a contest to choose his bride, every witch in town is a flutter. The meanest, most powerful witch will wed the wizard. But little Be
From Shana Abe, author of The Truelove Bride and A Kiss at Midnight, comes this exquisitely emotional, beautifully written novel about two warring clans on a Scottish isle united by a fragile pact...
What obituaries tell us about our culture, past and present "Within the short period of a year she was a bride, a beloved wife and companion, a mother, a corpse," reported The National Intelligencer
Shocked to discover he has inherited a title and bride, new marquis Duncan MacTavish is offended by the woman he is to marry and entranced by the beautiful Sabrina, whose station in life makes it furt
Otherwise Engaged is Suzanne Finnamore's wickedly funny account of an intelligent, rational woman's transformation into the harpy of anxieties that is the bride-to-be. When Michael pops the question,
Teenage bride Tamar is thrust into a world of abuse and disillusionment, and she must decide if she will let her new husband Er corrupt her or embrace the god of the Hebrews to avoid despair.
In this fifth installment of the bestselling Mail Order Bride series, two young couples seek freedom and love amidst slavery-rich Charleston, South Carolina. When nineteen-year-old Benjamin arrives fr
Saint Birgitta of Sweden (canonised in 1391) is one of the most important female figures of medieval Europe. She participated vigorously in its political life, attempting through her writings to end
Details life in the small factory town of Dismount Fort in northern China, as seen through the eyes of Shao Bin, a worker at the Harvest Fertilizer plant.
In The Sackett Brand, Louis L’Amour spins the story of a courageous man who must face overwhelming odds to track down a killer.Tell Sackett and his bride, Ange, came to Arizona to build a home and sta
Group Activities Barhopping Scavenger Hunt Take the bride-to-be out to one or more bars dressed in an inexpensive white veil and T-shirt on which individually wrapped Lifesavers have been sewn. Give
Beloved characters from the Bride series spice up this courtship. A resolute inn owner and a renowned womanizer join forces to find a mystical lamp-and discover that their tempestuous relationship is
It was 1942 and Britain was running out of food. Twenty-year-old Irene Gibbs had always fancied working on the land rather than in the cigarette factory so she volunteered for the Women's Land Army. S
The Mt. Washington Glass Works and the companies that succeeded it constitute America's second-oldest glass manufacturer. The first Mt. Washington factory opened for business in South Boston in about
She came to the Highlands an innocent bride, but one man's love and two nations' enmity would make her a woman....In her unforgettable novel Kilgannon, Kathleen Givens brought to vivid life the tempes
So Rhoda Brook, the abandoned mistress of Farmer Lodge, is jealous to discover details of his new bride in 'The Withered Arm', the title story in this selection of Hardy's finest short stories. Hardy'
Stretched almost to the limit by the capricious demands of a Boston Brahmin bride-to-be, caterer and minister's wife, Faith Fairchild, faces real tragedy when she discovers the body of an elderly fri
They call her the Langlinais Bride—though she's seen her husband only one time . . . on their wedding day, twelve years ago.For years, naive, convent-bred Juliana dreaded being summoned to the side of
This is a study of industrialization in the antebellum New England countryside. More specifically, it is an investigation of pre-Civil War industrialization in two contiguous south-central Massachuset
Brenn Owens, the new Earl of Merton, has come to London to choose a bride. The broad-shouldered war hero has his pick of the season's debutantes, but once he gazes upon Tess Hamlin, he knows he won't
This annotated bibliography of 19th-century literature by and about American textile factory workers examines 457 texts, including novels, short fiction, poetry, drama, narratives, and children's lit
An anthology of four charming romances that transcend the barriers of time and space features Lynn Kurland's "And the Groom Wore Tulle," "The Con and the Crusader" by Maggie Shayne, "A Bride Most Comm
While perhaps best known for his Lives, Plutarch also wrote philosophical dialogues that constitute a major intellectual legacy from the first century A.D. This collection presents two important short
Autonomous maintenance is an especially important pillar of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) because it enlists the intelligence and skills of the people who are most familiar with factory machines-
In 1997, the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie moved into a former munitions factory, built in 1918. Hamburg architects, Schweger + Partner, were commissioned to convert this industrial structu
To help her snare the indifferent clansman she hopes to marry, Seana, a medieval Scottish maiden, enlists the help of the brawny rake, Colin Mac Brodie, who soon resolves to have her as his own bride.
The hundred-year history of The Timken Company is one of the great success stories of U.S. manufacturing. Born in 1899 in a St. Louis, Missouri, carriage factory where Henry Timken developed and paten
In this fascinating volume, china-ware expert Geoffrey Godden shows how collectable and decorative New Hall Porcelain is. The factory produced over three thousand patterns which served to enhance a lo
In this analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, Lisa Rofel brilliantly interweaves the intimate details of her observations with a broad-ranging critique of the meaning of mo
This generously illustrated study of factory buildings documents how these factories were designed to meet the multifarious demands of industry, argues that industrial aesthetic ideals were derived fr
From the late Middle Ages to The Marriage of Figaro to Mel Gibson's Braveheart, the ultimate symbol of feudal barbarism has been thedroit de cuissage, or right of a feudal lord to sleep with the bride
Everyone knew the earl of Penhollow needed a wife, so one thunderous night the villagers gathered together to ask the ocean to deliver a bride to the bachelor lord . . . The Sea Brought Him A Wife Wh
Desperate to find a bride with a large dowry to restore his estate, Raimond Le Veq decides to let his mother choose his wife, and she selects Sable Fontaine, a former slave who shattered his trust and
Kathleen O'Malley Stallworth a mail order bride? Not likely! But the Lord works in mysterious ways. Her parents and siblings died in the great Chicago fire; her husband was killed by a mugger; now her
Award-winning motoring historian Jonathan Wood examines the complete history of this fabulous car and looks behind the scenes at Jaguar's famous Browns Land factory and the team responsible for makin
The Rouge of the North is the story of Yindi, a beautiful young bride who marries the blind, bedridden son of a rich and noble family. Captive to household ritual, to the strategies and contempt of h
Fairy tales and their exaggerated characters, from the "evil stepmother" to the "virginal bride," have been a resonant chord throughout Western culture, providing provocative challenges to and mirror
