Author: Seamus Dunleavy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858582849
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Born one of nine children, into an impoverished Charlestown family, Seamus has tackled all manner of difficulties, including an attempt on his life, with a determination that reflects the rugged Mayo landscape from which he hails. After emigrating to England, Seamus became a famous wrestler, and eventually, a highly successful businessman.
Finally Meeting Princess Maud
Author: Seamus Dunleavy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858582849
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Born one of nine children, into an impoverished Charlestown family, Seamus has tackled all manner of difficulties, including an attempt on his life, with a determination that reflects the rugged Mayo landscape from which he hails. After emigrating to England, Seamus became a famous wrestler, and eventually, a highly successful businessman.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858582849
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Born one of nine children, into an impoverished Charlestown family, Seamus has tackled all manner of difficulties, including an attempt on his life, with a determination that reflects the rugged Mayo landscape from which he hails. After emigrating to England, Seamus became a famous wrestler, and eventually, a highly successful businessman.
My Life in a Flash
Author: Kash Gill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858584997
Category : Kickboxing
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Born in 1966, Kash 'the Flash' Gill is proud of his 'roots' in Birmingham's inner city area of Handsworth. Kash was the first Asian to become World Champion in a contact sport. Today he remains the unbeaten four times World Kickboxing Champion. This book tells his story.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858584997
Category : Kickboxing
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Born in 1966, Kash 'the Flash' Gill is proud of his 'roots' in Birmingham's inner city area of Handsworth. Kash was the first Asian to become World Champion in a contact sport. Today he remains the unbeaten four times World Kickboxing Champion. This book tells his story.
The Wind Done Gone
Author: Alice Randall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618219063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A parody of Gone with the wind, this novel tells the story of Cynara, the mulatto half-sister born into slavery who eventually triumphs.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618219063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A parody of Gone with the wind, this novel tells the story of Cynara, the mulatto half-sister born into slavery who eventually triumphs.
If
Author: Pat Roach
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858582092
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Wrestler-turned-film-and-television actor Pat Roach tells his life story to his co-writer Shirley Thompson. This book traces Pat's life from poverty-stricken childhood to famous celebrity. It reveals the man behind the image, and covers his achievements in the field of sport, film and television. If also contains several close encounters with death - and Pat's charity work.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858582092
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Wrestler-turned-film-and-television actor Pat Roach tells his life story to his co-writer Shirley Thompson. This book traces Pat's life from poverty-stricken childhood to famous celebrity. It reveals the man behind the image, and covers his achievements in the field of sport, film and television. If also contains several close encounters with death - and Pat's charity work.
A Chef on ice
Author: Sebastien JM Kuhn
Publisher: Sebastien JM Kuhn
ISBN: 0648644022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Join a talented chef as he embarks on a life-changing journey to Antarctica. From grueling recruitment to months-long expeditions, experience the challenges and triumphs of living and working in one of the most remote places on Earth. With breathtaking landscapes, unexpected connections, and a newfound sense of purpose, this is a story you won't want to miss. Get ready to be captivated by the adventure, resilience, and inspiration of this unforgettable tale.
Publisher: Sebastien JM Kuhn
ISBN: 0648644022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Join a talented chef as he embarks on a life-changing journey to Antarctica. From grueling recruitment to months-long expeditions, experience the challenges and triumphs of living and working in one of the most remote places on Earth. With breathtaking landscapes, unexpected connections, and a newfound sense of purpose, this is a story you won't want to miss. Get ready to be captivated by the adventure, resilience, and inspiration of this unforgettable tale.
The House on Paradise Street
Author: Sofka Zinovieff
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476718792
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
In 2008 Antigone Perifanis returns to her old family home in Athens after 60 years in exile. She has come to attend the funeral of her only son, Nikitas, who was born in prison, and whom she has not seen since she left him as a baby. At the same time, Nikitas’s English widow Maud – disturbed by her husband’s strange behaviour in the days before his death – starts to investigate his complicated past. She soon finds herself reigniting a bitter family feud, and discovers a heartbreaking story of a young mother caught up in the political tides of the Greek Civil War, forced to make a terrible decision that will blight not only her life but that of future generations...
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476718792
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
In 2008 Antigone Perifanis returns to her old family home in Athens after 60 years in exile. She has come to attend the funeral of her only son, Nikitas, who was born in prison, and whom she has not seen since she left him as a baby. At the same time, Nikitas’s English widow Maud – disturbed by her husband’s strange behaviour in the days before his death – starts to investigate his complicated past. She soon finds herself reigniting a bitter family feud, and discovers a heartbreaking story of a young mother caught up in the political tides of the Greek Civil War, forced to make a terrible decision that will blight not only her life but that of future generations...
For Her Own Good
Author: J.S. Mawdsley
Publisher: J.S. Mawdsley
ISBN: 139390338X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Muriel Ostensen, handsome, clever, and a bitch, has no desire to get married. Broderick Gramiren, natural son of the king, has other ideas for her, and so does her family. In the wake of a shocking royal assassination, Broderick maneuvers secretly to become his father's official heir. But first, he just needs the right wife to help press his case. The Duke of Severn's daughter would be the perfect woman to help Broderick in his quest, especially with his father, the king, pressuring him to marry. Muriel, however, loves her independence, and she feels her family is selling her short by trying to marry her to a bastard, even if he is the king's bastard. If she has one scheme to avoid marrying Broderick, she has a dozen, but Broderick might just have a dozen and one. Book 2 in the political fantasy series Of Duty and Silver, For Her Own Good picks up where The Queen's Tower left off, but it can also be read as a standalone romance.
Publisher: J.S. Mawdsley
ISBN: 139390338X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Muriel Ostensen, handsome, clever, and a bitch, has no desire to get married. Broderick Gramiren, natural son of the king, has other ideas for her, and so does her family. In the wake of a shocking royal assassination, Broderick maneuvers secretly to become his father's official heir. But first, he just needs the right wife to help press his case. The Duke of Severn's daughter would be the perfect woman to help Broderick in his quest, especially with his father, the king, pressuring him to marry. Muriel, however, loves her independence, and she feels her family is selling her short by trying to marry her to a bastard, even if he is the king's bastard. If she has one scheme to avoid marrying Broderick, she has a dozen, but Broderick might just have a dozen and one. Book 2 in the political fantasy series Of Duty and Silver, For Her Own Good picks up where The Queen's Tower left off, but it can also be read as a standalone romance.
One Fell Sweep
Author: Ilona Andrews
Publisher: NYLA
ISBN: 1943772711
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
From the New York Times #1 bestselling author, Ilona Andrews, comes a new tale from the Innkeeper Chronicles “Ilona Andrews’s books are guaranteed good reads.”—Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fire Touched Dina Demille may run the nicest Bed and Breakfast in Red Deer, Texas, but she caters to a very particular kind of guest... the kind that no one on Earth is supposed to know about. Guests like a former intergalactic tyrant with an impressive bounty on her head, the Lord Marshal of a powerful vampire clan, and a displaced-and-superhot werewolf; so don’t stand too close, or you may be collateral damage. But what passes for Dina’s normal life is about to be thrown into chaos. First, she must rescue her long-distant older sister, Maud, who’s been exiled with her family to a planet that functions as the most lawless penal colony since Botany Bay. Then she agrees to help a guest whose last chance at saving his civilization could bring death and disaster to all Dina holds dear. Now Gertrude Hunt is under siege by a clan of assassins. To keep her guests safe and to find her missing parents, Dina will risk everything, even if she has to pay the ultimate price. Though Sean may have something to say about that!
Publisher: NYLA
ISBN: 1943772711
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
From the New York Times #1 bestselling author, Ilona Andrews, comes a new tale from the Innkeeper Chronicles “Ilona Andrews’s books are guaranteed good reads.”—Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fire Touched Dina Demille may run the nicest Bed and Breakfast in Red Deer, Texas, but she caters to a very particular kind of guest... the kind that no one on Earth is supposed to know about. Guests like a former intergalactic tyrant with an impressive bounty on her head, the Lord Marshal of a powerful vampire clan, and a displaced-and-superhot werewolf; so don’t stand too close, or you may be collateral damage. But what passes for Dina’s normal life is about to be thrown into chaos. First, she must rescue her long-distant older sister, Maud, who’s been exiled with her family to a planet that functions as the most lawless penal colony since Botany Bay. Then she agrees to help a guest whose last chance at saving his civilization could bring death and disaster to all Dina holds dear. Now Gertrude Hunt is under siege by a clan of assassins. To keep her guests safe and to find her missing parents, Dina will risk everything, even if she has to pay the ultimate price. Though Sean may have something to say about that!
King of Clubs
Author: Eddie Fewtrell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858584065
Category : Birmingham (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Birmingham would definitely not be the place that it is today, without Eddie Fewtrell. Born one of ten children in the 1930s, in the backstreets of Aston, much of Eddie's childhood was spent keeping house and caring for his younger brothers. By the 1970s he became the most powerful man in Birmingham's Clubland.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858584065
Category : Birmingham (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Birmingham would definitely not be the place that it is today, without Eddie Fewtrell. Born one of ten children in the 1930s, in the backstreets of Aston, much of Eddie's childhood was spent keeping house and caring for his younger brothers. By the 1970s he became the most powerful man in Birmingham's Clubland.
Gone-Away Lake
Author: Elizabeth Enright
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152022723
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Portia and her cousin Julian discover adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152022723
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Portia and her cousin Julian discover adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake.