Results for "Brida" in Genre Fiction

Brida, a young Irish girl, has long been interested in various aspects of magic but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom. She meets a wise man who dwells in a forest, who teaches her to trust in the goodness of the world, and a woman who teaches her how...

"Aber woran erkennt man den Mann oder die Frau seines Lebens?", fragte Brida. "Du musst etwas riskieren", war die Antwort. "Dabei wirst du oft scheitern, du wirst enttäuscht werden, desillusioniert. Aber wenn du nie aufhörst, nach deiner Liebe zu suchen, wirst du sie am Ende finden." Eine bewegende Geschichte über Liebe, Mut und eine spirituelle Form der Erotik.

A Brida, una joven irlandesa de veintiún años, le interesa la magia, pero quiere ir más allá y profundizar en sus poderes. Para ello, irá en busca de personas de gran sabiduría, y conocerá al Mago, quien la guiará en su camino. En la exploración de su destino, Brida descubrirá, junto al lector, el poder transformador del amor y tratará de encontrar el equilibrio entre sus relaciones y el deseo de convertirse en bruja.

Aidan O'Shaunessy has been working hard; down the mines by day and trying to get his land in order by night. But finally he has the money he needs to buy the dairy herd he needs to salvage his family's heritage. But he is lonely and craves the love of a good woman. Meredith Lisle was born into privilege, but her comfortable life has been ripped from her grasp by the tragic deaths of her beloved parents. Courageous to the last, she takes her future into her own hands, but can she banish the ghosts from Aidan's past?

Olivia thought she had finally escaped the torment of her past, pouring her pain into a raw and unflinching memoir that took the literary world by storm. But success has a price, and the shadows of her old life refuse to stay buried. When a shocking act of violence thrusts Olivia back into chaos...

Raised in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee in the 1820s, sixteen-year-old Emma Simms dreams of the day she'll escape her life of poverty to start over in the big city of Knoxville. But when her mother dies, she's left with no one but her drunk, abusive stepfather, Luke Simms, and her...

Brida é uma garota apaixonada por magia, mas que busca algo além. Isso a leva a conhecer pessoas muito especiais, como um sábio que a ensina a confiar na bondade do mundo e uma mulher que lhe mostra a importância de buscar seu dom e sua alma gêmea. Seu desafio, então, passa a ser conciliar seus relacionamentos com o desejo de ser uma bruxa.

Unemployed mill worker Zoe Hart jumps at the opportunity to emigrate to British Columbia in 1863 to find a better life and be reunited with her brother, who fled from home after being accused of a crime. Pastor to miners in the mountains, Abe Merivale discovers an abandoned baby during a routine visit to Victoria and joins efforts with Zoe, one of the newly arrived bride-ship women, to care for the infant. While there, he's devastated by the news from his fiancee in England that she's marrying another man.

It was to be a very special summer, the summer of Queen Victoria's Jubilee, the 60th year of the English monarch's reign. It was the summer Faith Devlin had looked forward to with great anticipation - the pressures of her debutante year were over, Jeff Montrose was back in London, and her American cousins were coming for a family reunion at the beautiful country estate of Birchfields. It was the summer of unexpected encounters and romantic enterprises....

Cowboy Tyler Hall never thought he would be a contestant on a reality dating TV show, but after his latest breakup, his best friend's wife talks him into auditioning. When he gets word that he's been chosen, he can't believe it - but as his last few relationships have ended poorly, he decides to try something different and take a chance. However, he gets more than he bargained for when he falls for a woman who is not a contestant.

Floyd Adams' proxy bride arrived amidst chaos, mayhem, and gunfire. He knew nothing about the man who threatened to make Kathryn his own or take her life in the process. What Floyd did know was he would protect his bride, even if that meant putting his own life in danger. That was the cowboy way, after all.

Heather Perry has always resented the government’s hold over the Hot Springs Reservation, where even long-time residents and business owners must lease their property from the government rather than own it. When Anson English arrives seeking treatment in the bath houses that make up the core of the reserve, Heather is drawn to the man in the wheelchair and watches his progress toward healing. But when she discovers his role in preventing Hot Springs citizens from owning their property, she feels betrayed. Can she ever forgive him, or will the conflict divide them forever?

She's wary of trusting her heart again. He's haunted by his wife's tragic death. As danger threatens to tear them apart, they must choose between fear and the chance for lasting love. Pregnant and alone, Katie Hoffman struggles to save the family farm after her husband's death. She nearly...

Trapped in a twisted and dark courtship with a secret woman who needs my strength to survive, I will be wed. Walking the thin line between lunacy and reality, I am now the protector of my future captive bride. So I have no choice but to recite the vows: I take thee. In this arranged matrimony. Until we are parted by death.

Mira was nothing more than a simple farmer's daughter. She never dreamed of being anything more, nor really desired anything more. Okay, she wouldn't have minded a handsome man coming along on horseback to save her and the family farm, but that kind of thing did not happen. At least, not to farmer's daughters. But then one day he came - a man on a handsome white horse with a smile that made her believe anything could happen.

The Weavers. They were boisterous, rambunctious, some would even say wild, and until recently, unwed. First, Arlan, the oldest, got himself a mail-order bride, followed by his younger brother, Benjamin, one of identical twins. Now it was Calvin’s turn. But Calvin’s mail-order bride was different, really different. For one, she was Italian, an immigrant who spoke broken English. She was also the most beautiful woman Calvin had ever seen. But this vision of loveliness had a not so lovely secret.

Bernice Caulder had been unlucky in love for as long as she can remember, and now that she was a mail-order bride, she wondered if her bad luck hadn't followed her from her home town of Independence, Oregon all the way to Nowhere, a tiny speck of a town in the Washington territory. Why else would her husband-to-be be having such a hard time making up his mind about her?

Selah Hopewell seems to be the only woman in the Virginia colony who has no wish to wed. True, there are too many men and far too few women in James Towne. But Selah already has her hands full assisting her father in the family's shop. And now she is in charge of an incoming ship of tobacco brides who must be looked after as they sort through their many suitors. 

Nathan, a widower, is critically injured in a Civil War battle and lies on his death bed. His best friend, Ben, promises to care for his daughter, Belle. Ben’s sister, Allison, is doomed to become a spinster, so she jumps at the chance to become a widow rather than a spinster when Ben suggests she marry Nathan. She must do it quickly, because the doctor said he wouldn’t last out the week.

The last time New Orleans attorney Jean-Luc Valmont saw Maribel Cordoba, a Spanish nobleman's daughter, she was an 11-year-old orphan perched in the riggings of his privateering vessel proving herself as the best lookout on his crew. Until the day his infamy caught up with them all, and innocent lives were lost. Unsure why he survived, but vowing to make something of the chance he was given, Jean-Luc has buried his past life so deep that no living person will ever find it - until a very much alive and very grown-up Maribel Cordoba arrives on his doorstep.