Pamela Browning
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Description
Pamela Ketter was born on 25 April 1942 in Evanston, Illinois, USA, daughter of Helen (Jaeger), a designer, and John Ketter, a musician and investor. Married, Pam has two grown children, a son, Neill, and a daughter, Bethany. She makes her home in North Carolina. Before she began writing romances, she worked as a newspaper reporter and columnist, and she has also worked in public relations, as well as in the admissions department of a small college. In her spare time, she volunteers as a docent at the local art museum and studies yoga. She is the award-winning author of books for adults and children. She has been published by Silhouette, Harlequin, Mills & Boon, and Berkley as well as by various international publishers, including Mondadori in Italy and Cora Verlag in Germany. Her books are sold in 90 countries and have been translated into 21 languages. Her short stories and articles have appeared in Highlights for Children, Child Life, The Writer, and other national publications. Many of her books have been listed on the B. Dalton and Waldenbooks bestseller lists, and they consistently win high ratings from reviewers. Her book The Mommy Wish won a 2005 Reviewer's Choice Award from Romantic Times magazine, and she has won the Georgia Romance Writers' Maggie as well as many first-place awards for her adult and juvenile novels in the annual National Federation of Press Women contest. She is a charter member of Romance Writers of America and a twelve-year award-winning member of Toastmasters International, an international leadership and public speaking organization. She is also a member of Novelists, Inc., where she has served on the board of directors, and of The Authors Guild. She has been a frequent speaker at Harlequin publicity events and, at the invitation of Mondadori, Harlequin's Italian affiliate, she spoke at a luncheon for 500 at the Excelsior Hotel in Rome, Italy. She has been featured on regional television and radio shows, and also teaches courses at writers' conferences when time allows. She has been featured on regional television and radio shows, such as The Carol Saline Show in Philadelphia, and in a nationally aired segment of PM Magazine, a TV magazine. She is past editor of the quarterly magazine, The US-China Review, and of NINK, a monthly magazine for multipublished authors of commercial book-length fiction. She is an instructor and speaker in the Lifelong Learning Program of Florida Atlantic University and also lectures on cruise ships. She has taught in writing workshops and conferences, including several Romance Writers of America national and regional conferences, Francis Marion University Writers Conference, the Southeastern Writers Conference, Carolina Romance Writers, and Georgia Romance Writers' Moonlight and Magnolias. She addressed women's groups as well as university classes about the art and craft of writing. In The People's Republic of China, she was a member of the first cultural delegation from the United States sponsored by the Shanghai Women's Federation.
Books
That's Our Baby!
Sam Harbeck needed his best friend's widow to give him back what was his: the rights to the deposit he'd made to a sperm bank. He'd come to Alaska to get her signature on the release. But he was too late—Kelly Anderson was already pregnant...with his child!Sam expected a fight from the ever-willful Kelly, but he didn't anticipate his own overwhelming desire for her...or the emotions her impending motherhood evoked in him. Being snowbound together only intensified his demanding need for this woman. Could he have arrived just in time to be a father to their baby?
Feathers in the wind
The Brook family travels to India for a kite festival and discovers that the kite strings injure many birds when they get tangled in them.
Cowboy enchantment
All work and no play had made Erica Strong's life dull. So when her sister forced her to take some much-needed time off to visit the Rancho Encantado spa, the successful banker longed for a little relaxation and a fling with a real-life cowboy! But she never expected she'd set her sights on a single dad! Hank, the hunky riding instructor, made her pulse race, so she ditched her serious suits and boring haircut for a makeover. Suddenly the two were inseparable. Only, now even more troubling than the fact that her cowboy was a daddy was the secret yearning to call father and daughter her own…. Had fate finally intervened to make her dreams come true?
Cowboy with a secret
Bethany Burke was intrigued by her new ranch hand—a man she'd ordered from a catalog! Strong, quiet Colt McClure had a way with animals and a past he never spoke of. The mystery only deepened when a baby girl arrived on the ranch doorstep—addressed to Colt! Colt's lovely boss made him want to reveal his secret past—especially because Bethany thought he was the baby's father! True, the cowboy had a few closely guarded secrets, but being somebody's daddy wasn't one of them. The wrangler was desperate to reveal the truth—but baring his soul could mean losing his heart
Making Babies
Explains the technologies of in vitro fertilization, embryo freezing, artificial insemination by donor, surrogate motherhood, and prospective methods of conception.
Humble pie
In this fast-paced, bite-sized edition of his bestselling autobiography Ramsay tells the real story of how he became the world's most famous and infamous chef: his difficult childhood, his brother's heroin addiction, his failed first career as a footballer, his fanatical pursuit of gastronomic perfection and his TV persona - all the things that have made him the celebrated culinary talent and media powerhouse that he is today. Gordon talks frankly about:his tough childhood: his father's alcoholism and violence and the effects on his relationships with his mother and siblingshis first career as a footballer: how the whole family moved to Scotland when he was signed by Glasgow Rangers at the age of fifteen, and how he coped when his career was over due to injury just three years laterhis brother's heroin addiction.Gordon's early career: learning his trade in Paris and London; how his career developed from there: his time in Paris under Albert Roux and his seven Michelin-starred restaurants.kitchen life: Gordon spills the beans about life behind the kitchen door, and how a restaurant kitchen is run in Anthony Bourdain-style.and how he copes with the impact of fame on himself and his family: his television career, the rapacious tabloids, and his own drive for success.
Down Home Dixie
Fresh from reenacting a Civil War battle, Kyle Sherman, dressed in his Union uniform, is lost in Yewville, South Carolina. Dixie Lee Smith knows such a man should be treated as the enemy--shunned, or at the very least ignored. But with no Southern gentlemen pounding down her door, Dixie finds herself wondering if maybe the state of their potential "union" should be addressed. And once she discovers there's competition for Kyle, this particular rebel belle stops worrying about which side won the war, determined to win the handsome Yankee for herself. She's got a battle on her hands for sure. Because Kyle himself might not be so easy to subdue!
Touch of gold
Chad Smith was no ordinary handyman Paige scented a mystery as soon as she arrived on St. Alban's, her aunts' windswept private island off the coast of Georgia. What handyman read the Wall Street Journal and collected sailing trophies? What handyman was so useless he couldn't change a light bulb, but had the nerve to control her aunts' finances and spend their money lavishly? Who was Chad Smith, and why were her aunts treating him like one of the family?
To Touch The Stars
It seems that Kate Duncan may achieve her ambition to become an actress - until she falls foul of Michael von Kessler! He later reappears in her life, proposing that she takes the place of his fiancee, with whom he has quarrelled, but whom he has to present to his grandfather. As Kate becomes involved in von Kessler's life, she realises that something has been missing from her own. Dare she continue to aspire to touch the stars? Or has she discovered something that will bring greater fulfilment?
Snapshots
Only Rick McCullough knows the real reason he married Martine Barrineau instead of her twin, Trista.Best friends since the age of nine, the three were inseparable. But it was Trista with whom he'd always shared something deeper than friendship--and they have the enduring memory of one night to prove it. Ten years and so much heartbreak later, Rick and Trista might have a second chance. But by this time, life's twists and turns have taken them down very different paths. Sweetwater Cottage in South Carolina's Low Country was where they'd always felt a special connection, as pictures of so many vacations show. Now, after all these years, they're at Sweetwater Cottage again...
The World's Last Bachelor
To his friends, Deke Washburn was the world's last bachelor -- to single women, an impossible catch. But the playboy millionaire had just met his match.... Beautiful, independent Dorian Carr was the woman of his dreams, and a challenge Deke couldn't resist -- her cool retreats sent him in hot pursuit, and her haughty snubs only made him want her more. Soon the "world's last bachelor" was thinking of himself in a new role... that of husband and father. The only problem was, Dorian was a confirmed bachelorette