Reproduction of the original: The Girl and her Fortune by L. T. Meade

Can an untamed cowboy make a proper father? Cooper Fortune Maloney is the next best brother—and he knows it. But when Alana Searle wins him in the Chatelaine, Texas, bachelor auction, he doesn’t mind being second choice. The flirty ranch hand has a few tricks up his denim sleeve he’s sure will win her over. The surprise is on Coop, however, when he learns what lovely Alana is hiding—and what she seeks! From Harlequin Special Edition: Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness. The Fortunes of Texas: Hitting the Jackpot Book 1: A Fortune's Windfall by Michelle Major Book 2: Fortune's Dream House by Nina Crespo Book 3: Winning Her Fortune by Heatherly Bell Book 4: Fortune's Fatherhood Dare by Makenna Lee Book 6: Fortune's Runaway Bride by Allison Leigh Book 7: Self-Made Fortune by Judy Duarte

Between 1870 and 1940, tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London, their imperial metropolis and the center of the publishing, art, musical, theatrical, and educational worlds. Even more Australian women than men made the pilgrimage "home," seeking opportunities beyond those available to them in the Australian colonies or dominion. In tracing the experiences of these women, this volume reveals hitherto unexamined connections between whiteness, colonial status, gender, and modernity.

"Cursed through a Fortune" is an interesting book that became written via the famous British creator George Manville Fenn, who is recognised for his work in adventure fiction inside the 1800s. The story was first posted in 1895 and is a combination of suspense and drama that indicates the characters' difficult journey. The story is focused on the principle character, Leslie Devorset, who gets caught in an internet of disaster and mystery. As the name shows, a terrible fortune becomes exciting cloth that impacts the characters' lives. As Fenn successfully weaves collectively factors of thriller, betrayal, and the outcomes of wealth, she creates a story that continues readers on the edge of their seats. Setting her stories in Victorian England, Fenn appears on the darker facet of humans and how social expectancies affect their lives. There are issues of morals, greed, and how destiny can change things at any time on this book. Fenn is a tremendous storyteller, and the manner he handles the complicated plot makes the book very exciting to read. "Cursed through a Fortune" is an amazing example of George Manville Fenn's skill at writing captivating testimonies that integrate motion with ethical reflection.

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Melek Hanim [1814-1873] met Kibrisli Mehmed Pasha, in Paris, and they were married upon returning to Istanbul. She accompanied him to various postings in Palestine and Serbia, and shared with him the frustrations of the arbitrary periodic dismissals that characterized late Ottoman politics. Her sensationalist account of life in Turkey contains details of political intrigue and corruption, and demonstrates the influence and mobility available to women in the official households of the Ottoman elite. During Mehmed Pasha's absence, Melek Hanim concocted a plan to replace her sickly son with another child in the event of his expected death. Although her own son survived, one of her co-conspirators killed another, and the ensuing scandal resulted in her divorce. She spent the rest of her life trying to exact vengeance upon her ex-husband and attempting to gain access to property she viewed as legitimately her own. After several setbacks, she and two of her children finally fled to Paris. Thirty Years in the Harem, was written during her impoverished exile there, and is highly critical of Islam and of Ottoman society. Her vitriolic account is seen by some as proof of Ottoman women's political influence, and by others as self-serving and scandalous.

Reproduction of the original: The Shoes of Fortune by Neil Munro

When the diffident and ineffectual Derek Mann loses his teaching job in a girls’ grammar school and drifts from one temporary post to another, one of his precocious pupils gives him her grandfather’s wartime diary with a mission to return to Apartheid South Africa and find the opal mine she believes to be her rightful inheritance. Intrigue and violence bedevil the quest, which ends in a desert under the Southern Cross. The wry, often laconic style gives full reign to the characters’ latent sexuality.