Bücher der Reihe Rose

Today women have a glass ceiling. In the 1930s that ceiling was made of wood, so following your dream only took you so far-especially if you went against societal norms and what your friends and family told you you should or should not do. This is the story told in A Burnished Rose, the much-anticipated sequel to the award-winning Rosebloom.Rose Krantz, a soon-to-be eighteen-year-old, has just come home to the family farm in southwest Wisconsin after running away from home two years earlier to follow her dream. She's home because her mother has been ill, but Rose is not looking to stay. Despite the objections of her family and a new man who comes into her life, Rose makes it back to her second home, New Orleans, and her boyfriend, Malcolm.Then, early one morning on December 7, 1941, bombs explode on the small, distant island of Hawaii. This incident pushes Rose, who is in Baton Rouge training to be a nurse, into a global conflict that ironically will come to be known as "The Good War."A Burnished Rose entertains, inspires, and reminds us what life was like for women of that era, and for the nurses who, right along with the men, made significant sacrifices for their country.Book Discussion Questions Included.A percentage of the profits of each book sold will be donated to help in the education of disadvantaged children, because Christine believes that knowledge is a powerful tool.

Rose had wanted to do her bit for the war effort, help the boys who were risking their lives fighting the Germans and the Japanese, and maybe see a little of the world along the way. But there was no way she could have predicted the horrors she would encounter and the difficult choices she would have to make.Rose Krantz has made it through nursing school and much to everyone's dismay, most notably her boyfriend, Malcolm, she joins the Army Nurse Corps. Her first assignment is at Camp Crowder, Missouri. There she meets three nurses who see her through three years in a tent evacuation hospital, four foreign countries, and more human misery than they could have imagined. What they encounter shakes even Rose's resolve to see it through. These women, and a corpsman by the name of Alfred, form bonds that will last a lifetime.When the war in Europe is finally over, Malcolm surprises Rose with a romantic trip to Salzburg, Austria, where Rose finally realizes what is truly important in her life only days before she was to lose it.A Burnished Rose entertains, inspires, and reminds us what life was like for women of that era, and for the nurses who, right along with the men, made significant sacrifices for their country.Discussion Questions Included

Welcome to The Rose, where TV love can become reality.With a sister like Casey's, who needs a dating service? No one else would drop her into the hottest reality TV romance show, vying with twenty-four other women for one man's attention. That man - pilot to the stars, self-confessed foodie and rugby aficionado, 33-year-old Taylor Montgomery.And Casey isn't your average reality TV contestant. She's a headstrong project engineer who earns a living in steel-toed boots and high-visibility work wear; she doesn't do heels and handbags. So, will being who she really is, be her downfall in trying to catch Taylor's attention? Or her inability to get vulnerable?Maybe just, maybe, she's exactly the kind of woman Taylor's looking for.If Casey can manage to stomach the cameras and the isolation long enough to make an impression, she might be in with a chance at realising her dreams of a future filled with love.Is it possible to fall in love for real on a TV show?