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From the award-winning author of The Winds of Sonoma comes this compelling second installment in the Regalo Grande series. When privileged lawyer Angelica Amante marries a handsome but illiterate Mexican stableman against her parents' wishes, she thought their happiness could overcome any hurdle. But their challenges are only beginning. Prenatal tests show troubling information about Angelica's expected baby. Her husband's fledgling landscape business is struggling. And Angelica's lonely, divorced boss takes an interest in her work-too much of an interest. Can the power of love--and prayer--bring Angelica and Antonio to a new place of acceptance and happiness? Romance readers will delight in this story of God's sovereignty, the value of human life, and the importance of commitment..
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A poignant and bittersweet memoir from the distinguished British fiction writer Penelope Lively, Oleander, Jacaranda evokes the author's unusual childhood growing up English in Egypt during the 1930s and 1940s. Filled with the birds, animals and planetsof the Nile landscape that the author knew as a child, Oleander, Jacaranda follows the young Penelope from a visit to a fellaheen village to an afternoon at the elegant Gezira Sporting Club, one milieu as exotic to her as the other. Lively's memoir offers us the rare opportunity to accompany a gifted writer on a journey of exploration into the mysterious world of her own childhood..
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THE WINDS OF SONOMA: This decision could change her life forever But how can Angelica choose between her career and her heart? As the rising star of a prominent law firm and the only daughter of a wealthy horse-ranching family, Angelica Amante has everything money could buy. Things can only get better for her. Or so she thought. When she's offered a promotion, Angelica is suddenly confronted with a life-changing decision. Should she continue to work for a company that profits by taking advantage of the poor, or take a stand against injustice and put her career in jeopardy? Then Angelica meets Antonio, a handsome and determined worker on her father's ranch. As she gets to know him, Angelica discovers that Antonio has left his poverty-stricken home in Guadalajara, Mexico, and illegally crossed the U.S. border to find work. Immediately Angelica's compassion is reawakened. IN THE SHADE OF THE JACARANDA: When a couple faces a life-shattering situation, can love, commitment, and faith keep their family together? After Angelica defied her parents' wishes and married an illiterate Mexican stable hand, Antonio Perez, she thought their love had overcome the biggest hurdle they would ever face. But just as Angelica throws herself into her work as a defense attorney, she discovers she is pregnant--and her world is turned upside down. THE FRAGRANCE OF ROSES: Their son is dying and only a miracle can save him. Against all odds, attorney Angelica Amante married migrant worker Antonio Perez and became a stay-at-home mom for Manuel and Anica. Manuel was stricken with childhood cancer, but the family came through the crisis intact and considered Manuel their miracle child. God had indeed blessed them. Or had He? When the deadly disease returns with a vengeance, threatening to rip away all that is precious to them, Antonio returns to Mexico in desperation to test his family members for a compatible donor for Manuel..
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