King's Sister of Dissent - Marguerite of Navarre (1492 - 1549) and her Evangelical Network
Marguerite of Navarre was a great influence, a strong and talented woman and protector of those who wanted to make changes in the Catholic church in the 1500s. This book illustrates what a woman could do 500 years ago.
For brokenhearted Olivia Larsen, nothing can change the fact that her twin sister, Violet, is gone--until a mysterious, beautiful gown arrives on her doorstep. The dress doesn't just look magical; it is magical. It has the power to grant her one wish, and the only thing Olivia wants is her sister back.Brokenhearted over the loss of her twin sister, Olivia Larson feels alone and adrift. When she is invited to a party full of beautiful strangers all she has to wear is one of her twin's cast-off dresses.
This solid novel begins with young Lulu finding her mother dead and her sister wounded at the hands of her alcoholic father, who has failed at killing himself after attacking the family. Meyers traces the following 30 years for Lulu and her sister, Merry, as they are sent to an orphanage, where Lulu turns tough and calculating, searching for a way into an adoptive family. Eventually, Lulu becomes a doctor specializing in the almost old, though her secretiveness about her past causes new rifts to form in her new family.
Added by: JustGoodNews | Karma: 4306.26 | Fiction literature | 1 April 2011
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Love Beyond Reason
by Sandra Brown.
Katherine wanted to believe Jason Manning wasn't like his ruthless family, but secrets and lies were part of his heritage. Katherine knew she could be destroyed by a truth she feared to face, and a love she could not resist. When her sister's abusive husband dies, and then her sister dies in childbirth, Kathryn Adams takes her newborn niece and hides her from the child's wealthy and overbearing grandparents. Jason Manning, her brother-in-law, finds Kathryn, determined to take his brother's daughter into his own custody.
Sister Bear can run faster, climb higher, and hit a ball farther than the boys, and she gloats over it. So Brother Bear and his friends build a clubhouse for boys only, and Sister is hopping mad! She plans a honey of a revenge in this funny and thoughtful book.