Author: Alan Baulch
Publisher: Alan Baulch
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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As a young teenager in the 1960’s Bridie London develops the life Threatening Meningeal Tuberculosis. On Medical advice and because of risk to her siblings and his greengrocery business, her father Desmond London delivers her to a mental asylum offering the isolation she needs. Unwittingly he gives up his parental rights consigning her to a life in an institution. At last there is an opportunity to release her from the mental torture after fifty years, with siblings unwilling to help, Desmond finds someone who can. The corruption found by Haydon Robbins would shock the nation, with the real Bridie missing he must find her before it is too late.
Author: A.J. Reynolds
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1781481962
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Adolescence is a bitch! However, there are rules to help the gifted school child.
Author: Jeannine Woods
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039119745
Category : Imperialism in motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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This book was shortlisted for the ESSE Junior Scholars book award for Cultural Studies in English, 2012 Since its inception cinema has served as a powerful medium that both articulates and intervenes in visions of identity. The experiences of British colonialism in Ireland and India are marked by many commonalities, not least in terms of colonial and indigenous imaginings of the relationships between colony or former colony and imperial metropolis. Cinematic representations of Ireland and India display several parallels in their expressions and contestations of visions of Empire and national identity. This book offers a critical approach to the study of Ireland's colonial and postcolonial heritage through a comparative exploration of such filmic visions, yielding insights into the operations of colonial, nationalist and postcolonial discourse. Drawing on postcolonial and cultural theory and employing Bakhtin's concept of dialogism, the author engages in close readings of a broad range of metropolitan and indigenous films spanning an approximately fifty-year period, exploring the complex relationships between cinema, colonialism, nationalism and postcolonialism and examining their role in the (re)construction of Irish and Indian identities.
Author: Alan Baulch
Publisher: Alan Baulch
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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A gas canister explosion in a scrap metal yard leaves Michael battered, an Amnesiac without a past. By a ‘quirk of fate’, he is left with a unique gift his mission is to trace the missing. Struggling with his identity, he enters a world where kidnapping, murder, rape, robbery, hate and great sorrow are normal. Single-handedly he offers the solution for driving terrorism into extinction while providing the answers for solving crimes across the globe. He has to be stopped, the only question who will get to him first?
Author: Liane Moriarty
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0593798619
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 513
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“A riveting story so wild you don’t know how she’ll land it, and then she does, on a dime.”—Anne Lamott, #1 New York Times bestselling author If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate? Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed. Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. For some, their death is far in the future—age 103!—and they laugh. But for six passengers, their predicted deaths are not far away at all. How do they know this? There were ostensibly more interesting people on the flight (the bride and groom, the jittery, possibly famous woman, the giant Hemsworth-esque guy who looks like an off-duty superhero, the frazzled, gorgeous flight attendant) but none would become as famous as “The Death Lady.” Not a single passenger or crew member will later recall noticing her board the plane. She wasn’t exceptionally old or young, rude or polite. She wasn’t drunk or nervous or pregnant. Her appearance and demeanor were unremarkable. But what she did on that flight was truly remarkable. A few months later, one passenger dies exactly as she predicted. Then two more passengers die, again, as she said they would. Soon no one is thinking this is simply an entertaining story at a cocktail party. If you were told you only had a certain amount of time left to live, would you do things differently? Would you try to dodge your destiny? Liane Moriarty’s Here One Moment is a brilliantly constructed tale that looks at free will and destiny, grief and love, and the endless struggle to maintain certainty and control in an uncertain world. A modern-day Jane Austen who humorously skewers social mores while spinning a web of mystery, Moriarty asks profound questions in her newest I-can’t-wait-to-find-out-what-happens novel.
Author: Carlene O'Connor
Publisher: Canelo
ISBN: 1800326866
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Murder has a way of killing business... In the small village of Kilbane, County Cork in Ireland, Naomi’s Bistro has always been warm and welcoming. Nowadays, twenty-two-year-old Siobhán O’Sullivan runs the family bistro named for her mother, along with her five siblings, after the death of their parents in a car crash almost a year ago. It’s been a rough year for the O’Sullivans, but it’s about to get rougher. One morning, as they’re opening the bistro, they discover a man seated at a table with a pair of hot pink barber scissors protruding from his chest. With the local garda suspecting the O’Sullivans, and their business in danger of being shunned, it’s up to Siobhán to solve the crime and save her beloved brood. A charming Irish village mystery, perfect for fans of Betty Rowlands and Dee Macdonald.
Author: Alan Baulch
Publisher: Alan Baulch
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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Samuel Thornton arrived as a patient at the Berkshire clinic direct from Shanghai. The grip on his mind total. More patients arrive the grip on their minds the same pure evil. Without out the help of David Bareham an ex-priest they will all die and be used as tools for the pleasure of Kali Ma herself. Friends rally and a group with David is formed. They have to tackle the spiritual evil attacking them. The group are taken on a journey following past lives, death and business corruption. Their experiences cause them to fear for their very souls. Death beckons, they become trapped in a fight they couldn’t possibly win alone.
Author: Alan Baulch
Publisher: Alan Baulch
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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A background in systems delivery led him to Finbark. With a mountain to climb Dan Justice works hard to find a solution to the corruption within this major Finance organisation. What he discovers is a hierarchy designed to make a few individuals a great deal of money and make the business primed for a controlled takeover. With a blueprint for syphoning off money those participating had to be stopped despite the risk or cost to himself. Unsure who to trust, the deeper he investigates, the more pressure there becomes to stop him in his tracks. Intensive care his final stop over leaving only his presentation to shareholders with justice the only option.
Author: Amy Andrews
Publisher: Tule Publishing
ISBN: 1959988328
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 557
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Escape to the glorious Australian Outback and the Montana countryside with the help of legendary Australian romance authors Amy Andrews, Marion Lennox, Kelly Hunter, and Alissa Callen in these four stellar romances! Some Girls Do by Amy Andrews Though fashion student Lacey Weston is desperate to leave the city and go home to Jumbuck Springs, her older brothers are adamant she finishes school first. But Lacey is deeply homesick and impulsive enough to try anything—even faking a pregnancy. Her brother’s best friend, Cooper Grainger, has been watching out for Lacey but he’s tired of cleaning up her messes. They return home, but before Coop knows it, he’s putting his hand up as Lacey’s fake baby daddy. Christmas at Waratah Bay by Marion Lennox Sarah’s committed to her stellar modelling career in New York, but Harold, who served as a Grandpa to her when she needed him most, wants one last Christmas in his beloved Waratah Bay Homestead. The only problem is, Harold no longer owns it. Farming tycoon Max Ramsey does, and he doesn’t like company, Christmas, and most of all, Sarah. When the two clash, enough sparks ensue to light a Christmas tree. Maggie’s Run by Kelly Hunter Orphaned as a child, Maggie Walker never called Wirra Station home. But when her great aunt dies, Maggie inherits everything and reluctantly returns to tidy the place up before selling. Ambitious cowboy-next-door Max O’Connor wants to buy Wirra Station and return it to its former glory. But first, he challenges Maggie to live at Wirra Station for three months—with him as farm manager. If she still doesn’t love the place, he’ll gladly pay up and she can move on. Three months. Two hearts. One Summer. His Outback Cowgirl by Alissa Callen Australian cowgirl Bridie Willis travels to Montana to escape the pain of losing her father. She plans to spend the summer alone photographing wild animals but instead finds herself saddled with a stubborn cowboy as a back-country guide. Ethan Morgan is tasked with ensuring the beautiful, risk-taking cowgirl doesn’t ditch him or come to any harm. But the biggest challenge Ethan must face is to accept how Bridie makes him feel. And the biggest risk Bridie must take is to trust in her heart.
Author: Kathy Leonard Czepiel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451655088
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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A MOTHER’S CHOICES IN A T IME OF CRISIS THREATEN THE ONE PERSON SHE MEANS TO PROTECT—HER ONLY DAUGHTER— AND FORCE HER TO MAKE THE BOLDEST MOVE OF HER LIFE. The violet industry is booming in 1898, and a Hudson Valley farm owned by the Fletcher family is turning a generous profit for its two oldest brothers. But Ida Fletcher, married to the black sheep youngest brother, has taken up wet nursing to help pay the bills, and her daughter, Alice, has left school to work. As they risk losing their share of the farm, the two women make increasingly great sacrifices for their family’s survival, sacrifices that will set them against each other in a lifelong struggle for honesty and forgiveness. A Violet Season is the story of an unforgettable mother-daughter journey in a time when women were just waking to their own power and independence.
