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The Cheating Vines

It has been said. A winemaker can make good wine from good fruit. A lover can turn a good wife bad. A winemaker can turn good fruit into bad wine. Carla's husband Nick is a good man. But the pop of their marriage had long since lost its fizz between the sheets of suburban humdrum. One phone call, and the realization she needed her kids more than they needed her changed everything. Forever. Leaving behind his cushy life in the city for the stunning beauty of wine country, Matt sniffs, sips, swirls and spits all in the hope of one day unleashing the gifted winemaker he dreams to become. When confronted with the choice of his marriage or a coveted job at Sleepy Cloud Winery the decision was as easy as drinking a glass of good Syrah.

The Hilltop Inn

Alice V. Roberts

Jackie Bowers, widowed for two years, recently moved five hundred miles to Ponderosa, a small town in Northern Arizona, where she purchased The Hilltop Inn, a Bed and Breakfast, a dream she has always had. When her washer dies, she goes to the local Laundromat Soap Suds. There she meets Brian Williams, a local contractor, who has come looking for his Gram. Jackie needs renovations done to the Inn and she calls Brian about doing the work. Little does either of them know that sparks will fly when Brian meets with Jackie to discuss the renovations she has planned. What will their relationship become? Will it only be about work or will it include romance? Brian sees a future with Jackie and has many ideas for romancing her. Will his ideas work in his favor? Will Gram play matchmaker since she adores Jackie? As soon as Jackie's four children learn about Brian, they arrive in Ponderosa to check things out for themselves. How will they react to this new romance? There is much excitement, and many changes going on. How will it end?

Little Women (Mermaids Classics)

Louise May Alcott

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888) is a classic novel based on the four sisters named Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March. The scene is set in New England during the civil war and the story follows the lives of these sisters growing up to become woman. Little Women was first published in two volumes in the years 1868 and 1869 and later as a single volume in 1880. It was a novel initially intended for girls and it steered away from the usual novels written for girls at the time but it was also considered a romance novel. Although the three major themes include domesticity, work and true love, the novel also contains issues of poverty, fear and pride. The novel became an instant success once it was first published and is considered today as one of the world's best classics! Mermaids Classics, an imprint of Mermaids Publishing brings the very best of old classic literature to a modern era of digital reading by producing high quality books in ebook format. All of the Mermaids Classics epublications are reproductions of classic antique books that were originally published in print format, mostly over a century ago and are now republished in digital format as ebooks. Begin to build your collection of digital books by looking for more literary gems from Mermaids Classics.

The Evolution of Love

Emil Lucka

We must assume that sexual intercourse was irregular and haphazard up to the dawn of history. Every woman—within the limits of her own tribe, probably—belonged to every man. Whether this assumption is universally applicable or not, must remain doubtful; later ethnologists, more particularly von Westermarck, deny it because it does not apply to every savage tribe of the present day. Herodotus tells us that promiscuity existed in historical times in countries as far removed from each other as Ethiopia and the borders of the Caspian Sea. There can be no reasonable doubt that sexual intercourse took the form of group-marriage, the exchange or lending of wives, and other similar arrangements. The relationship between mother and child having been established by Nature herself, the first human family congregated round the mother, acknowledging her as its natural chief. This continued even after the causal connection between generation and birth had ceased to be a mystery.

The Dramatic Romances

Robert Browning

AN OLD STORY I It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad: The house-roofs seemed to heave and sway, The church-spires flamed, such flags they had, A year ago on this very day. II The air broke into a mist with bells, The old walls rocked with the crowd and cries. Had I said, "Good folk, mere noise repels— But give me your sun from yonder skies!" They had answered, "And afterward, what else?" III Alack, it was I who leaped at the sun To give it my loving friends to keep! Nought man could do, have I left undone: And you see my harvest, what I reap This very day, now a year is run. IV There's nobody on the house-tops now— Just a palsied few at the windows set; For the best of the sight is, all allow, At the Shambles' Gate—or, better yet, By the very scaffold's foot, I trow. .......

Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes

Ella Cheever Thayer

Just a noise, that is all. But a very significant noise to Miss Nathalie Rogers, or Nattie, as she was usually abbreviated; a noise that caused her to lay aside her book, and jump up hastily, exclaiming, with a gesture of impatience:— "Somebody always 'calls' me in the middle of every entertaining chapter!" For that noise, that little clatter, like, and yet too irregular to be the ticking of a clock, expressed to Nattie these four mystic letters:— "B m—X n;" which same four mystic letters, interpreted, meant that the name, or, to use the technical word, "call," of the telegraph office over which she was present sole presiding genius, was "B m," and that "B m" was wanted by another office on the wire, designated as "X n." A little, out-of-the-way, country office, some fifty miles down the line, was "X n," and, as Nattie signaled in reply to the "call" her readiness to receive any communications therefrom, …

Fifty-Two Stories for Girls

Various Authors

"Here you are, miss," said the red-faced cabby, putting his head in at the cab window, "this is Miss Melford's school." It was a large, many windowed, white house on Hertford Green, in sight of the famous spires of Silverbridge, and was for some six months to be both home and school to me, Gloria Dene. I was late in my arrival, and I was tired, for I had come all the way from Erlingham in the heart of Norfolk, and moreover, I was hungry, and just a little homesick, and already wanted to return to the old homestead and to Uncle Gervase and Aunt Ducie, who had taken the place of my parents. The cabman gave a loud rat-a-tat with the lion-headed knocker, and in due course a rosy-faced servant maid opened the door and ushered me in. Then she preceded me through a broad flagged hall, lit by crimson lamps. And as I went I heard a sweet and thrilling voice singing, "Home, home, sweet, sweet home, Be it ever so humble there's no place like home."

The Money Moon: A Romance

Jeffery Farnol

When Sylvia Marchmont went to Europe, George Bellew being, at the same time, desirous of testing his newest acquired yacht, followed her, and mutual friends in New York, Newport, and elsewhere, confidently awaited news of their engagement. Great, therefore, was their surprise when they learnt of her approaching marriage to the Duke of Ryde. Bellew, being young and rich, had many friends, very naturally, who, while they sympathized with his loss, yet agreed among themselves, that, despite Bellew's millions, Sylvia had done vastly well for herself, seeing that a duke is always a duke,—especially in America. There were, also, divers ladies in New York, Newport, and elsewhere, and celebrated for their palatial homes, their jewels, and their daughters, who were anxious to know how Bellew would comport himself under his disappointment. Some leaned to the idea that he would immediately blow his brains out; others opined that he would promptly set off on another of his exploring expeditions,…

Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena

Elsa Joubert

CNA-prys (1978), Louis Luyt-prys (1979), WA Hofmeyr-prys (1979), Winifred Holtby-prys (1981). Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena het by verskyning in November 1978 die gemoed van die hele land beroer. Binne vier maande is dit drie keer herdruk. Dit is verskeie kere bekroon en Elsa Joubert word ook ‘n Fellow van die Society. Sedertdien is die roman vertaal in Frans, Spaans, Duits, Nederlands en Italiaans. In 1985 het ‘n Amerikaanse uitgawe verskyn. Hoë lof is van kritici ontvang. Audrey Blignault het die betekenis van die roman só saamgevat: 'n Aangrypende, onvergeetlike boek wat die sluier tussen die witmens en die swartmens in Suid-Afrika afruk." André P. Brink het dit in Rapport as die boek van die jaar in die Afrikaanse prosa uitgesonder: «'n Visioen van menslike gevangenskap… Ontstemmend en indrukwekkend… Verpligte literatuur vir elke mens wat oor hierdie land wil saampraat.» Oorsee het die gesaghebbende Sunday Times Literary Supplement ‘n entoesiastiese bespreking van die roman geplaas. En The Times se resensent skryf: «(The novel) unfolds with the inexorable force of a Greek tragedy.» As voorhoogstuk was Poppie eweneens suksesvol. Dit is in sowel Afrikaans as Engels landwyd opgevoer. In New York is dit eers in ‘n eksperimentele teater aangebied; daarna het dit as Off Broadway-opvoering die Obi-toekenning verwerf vir die beste dramateks. Dit is gekies vir die Edinburgh-toneelfees, en later ook in Londen opgevoer, waar Thuli Dumakude as Poppie die gesogte Olivier-prys verower het. Vervolgens is dit opgevoer in Australië, Kanada en Chicago. Die skrywer self sê oor dié suksesverhaal: «Die lewe van die werklike Poppie het my diep geraak, en my beklem. Hier was ‘n vrou, magteloos vasgevang in ‘n onmenslike sisteem, wat veg vir die bestaan van haar gesin. Deur die boek wou ek aan haar ‘n stem gee.»

Vir altyd

François Bloemhof

As kinders was Hugo en Nina onskeidbaar – toe skei die noodlot hulle tog. Wanneer die volwasse Nina se romantiese droom verpletter word, is Hugo egter weer die een om haar by te staan. Maar hoe ’n goeie plan was dit om saam na Mauritius te gaan vir dit wat bedoel was om haar en ’n ander man se wittebrood te wees? En watter struikelblokke sal alles nog oorkom moet word voordat daardie gelukkige “vir altyd” moontlik is? Pad Na Jou Hart was ŉ suksesverhaal soos min, beide as rolprent en die boek wat dit voorafgegaan het. Nou maak dieselfde span weer so.