Author: Jessica Blair
Publisher: Piatkus
ISBN: 0748127348
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
When Sam Harland returns a World War I hero to St Robin's Bay on the Yorkshire coast, he brings with him a French wife. He hopes that she will be accepted by the villagers, but one person, Mary Lawson, can never forgive what she sees as the ultimate betrayal. When Jean Lawson and Colin Harland fall in love, the match is opposed by both of their families because of a rift that began a generation ago. But as World War II casts a shadow over Britain and its people, Jean and Colin both strive towards their futures, as they volunteer to serve their country at war.
The Restless Spirit
Author: Jessica Blair
Publisher: Piatkus
ISBN: 0748127348
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
When Sam Harland returns a World War I hero to St Robin's Bay on the Yorkshire coast, he brings with him a French wife. He hopes that she will be accepted by the villagers, but one person, Mary Lawson, can never forgive what she sees as the ultimate betrayal. When Jean Lawson and Colin Harland fall in love, the match is opposed by both of their families because of a rift that began a generation ago. But as World War II casts a shadow over Britain and its people, Jean and Colin both strive towards their futures, as they volunteer to serve their country at war.
Publisher: Piatkus
ISBN: 0748127348
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
When Sam Harland returns a World War I hero to St Robin's Bay on the Yorkshire coast, he brings with him a French wife. He hopes that she will be accepted by the villagers, but one person, Mary Lawson, can never forgive what she sees as the ultimate betrayal. When Jean Lawson and Colin Harland fall in love, the match is opposed by both of their families because of a rift that began a generation ago. But as World War II casts a shadow over Britain and its people, Jean and Colin both strive towards their futures, as they volunteer to serve their country at war.
Toot & Puddle
Author: Holly Hobbie
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316186775
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Meet Toot and Puddle--two small, endearing pigs who are friends and as different as different can be. While Toot likes to travel to places unknown, Puddle prefers to stay home and revel in the joys of everyday life. Whimsical postcards capture the excitement of Toot's travels, while scenes of Puddle celebrate mundane moments spent in familiar confines. Full color.
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316186775
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Meet Toot and Puddle--two small, endearing pigs who are friends and as different as different can be. While Toot likes to travel to places unknown, Puddle prefers to stay home and revel in the joys of everyday life. Whimsical postcards capture the excitement of Toot's travels, while scenes of Puddle celebrate mundane moments spent in familiar confines. Full color.
Twisted Consequences
Author: Irie Parker
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615236278
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Tyson develops an online relationship with Michaela, a young woman, with whom he has not yet had a face to face encounter. She resides in Bucharest, Romania while he calls Colorado his home. Michaela is an attractive and open-minded young lady. Tyson is a "gutsy" young man in his early thirties, who has never been afraid to dream. Through many months of e-mail correspondence, they share the details of their lives.Relying on daily e-mail letters, the characters develop feelings for one another as they candidly communicate about themselves and their lives, and most importantly about their values and their feelings.Tyson, who is honest from the start, explains to Michaela that due to an unfortunate accident in his early twenties, he is a quadriplegic. He describes his physical limitations, but more importantly he shares his ability to hope, to dream, to create, and to imagine. Once they meet the roles of hunter and prey begin to slightly blur, and money and betrayal begin to contaminate their prose.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615236278
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Tyson develops an online relationship with Michaela, a young woman, with whom he has not yet had a face to face encounter. She resides in Bucharest, Romania while he calls Colorado his home. Michaela is an attractive and open-minded young lady. Tyson is a "gutsy" young man in his early thirties, who has never been afraid to dream. Through many months of e-mail correspondence, they share the details of their lives.Relying on daily e-mail letters, the characters develop feelings for one another as they candidly communicate about themselves and their lives, and most importantly about their values and their feelings.Tyson, who is honest from the start, explains to Michaela that due to an unfortunate accident in his early twenties, he is a quadriplegic. He describes his physical limitations, but more importantly he shares his ability to hope, to dream, to create, and to imagine. Once they meet the roles of hunter and prey begin to slightly blur, and money and betrayal begin to contaminate their prose.
A Memoir in Letters
Author: Hadwig Gofferje
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059534271X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A Memoir in Letters: My Life on Both Sides of the Iron Curtain is the touching autobiography that first chronicles the young life of German-born Hadwig Gofferje, born during World War II, then living under communist rule. She describes her journey to freedom, complete with an American university education, and a new life in the United States. During her war-torn childhood in Germany, Hadwig lived in her own world, where she occupied herself for hours with drawing and playing with her dolls and imaginary friends. But at night, she endured many terrifying bombing raids by the Allied Forces in her family's basement bomb shelter. In 1945, after packing one carefully-chosen favorite toy in her suitcase, Hadwig and her family fled the approaching Russian Red Army and immigrated to a small village in Thuringia. Hadwig describes not a peaceful beginning to her life, but a life in which actions and choices were incredibly influenced by World War II and the division of Germany. Eventually moving, without her parents, to West Germany and later to the United States, Hadwig receives the university education that changes her life forever. In this remarkable personal narrative, Hadwig Gofferje describes how she was able to escape oppression and seek freedom, ultimately achieving personal peace, inner-strength, and a greater understanding of the world around her.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059534271X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A Memoir in Letters: My Life on Both Sides of the Iron Curtain is the touching autobiography that first chronicles the young life of German-born Hadwig Gofferje, born during World War II, then living under communist rule. She describes her journey to freedom, complete with an American university education, and a new life in the United States. During her war-torn childhood in Germany, Hadwig lived in her own world, where she occupied herself for hours with drawing and playing with her dolls and imaginary friends. But at night, she endured many terrifying bombing raids by the Allied Forces in her family's basement bomb shelter. In 1945, after packing one carefully-chosen favorite toy in her suitcase, Hadwig and her family fled the approaching Russian Red Army and immigrated to a small village in Thuringia. Hadwig describes not a peaceful beginning to her life, but a life in which actions and choices were incredibly influenced by World War II and the division of Germany. Eventually moving, without her parents, to West Germany and later to the United States, Hadwig receives the university education that changes her life forever. In this remarkable personal narrative, Hadwig Gofferje describes how she was able to escape oppression and seek freedom, ultimately achieving personal peace, inner-strength, and a greater understanding of the world around her.
The Darkness Within, the Darkness Without
Author: Lin Harbertson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 154625904X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
The Darkness Within, the Darkness Without continues the story of Roystone, a small seaside town in the North of England and its struggle for survival. After the death of her husband, Maggie Granger, a young lawyer, is rejected by her family because of her suddenly acquired psychic ability and finds herself completely alone in the world. She moves to Roystone looking for employment. On an impulse, she attends an exhibition of three John Trentham paintings at the town museum. To everyones surprise, a ghostly shimmering apparition of John Trentham appears. But only Maggie hears his warningBeware the darkness without. Months later, now established as a reputable lawyer in the town, Maggie believes all is well. She loves this Yorkshire country life and has made new friends. Then out of the blue, she has a nightmare. She sees a woman being horribly murdered and hears her saying, Forgive me, my child. I have betrayed you. She consults a gypsy psychic. Sirisa informs Maggie that, at her birth, to keep her safe, her true identity was deliberately concealed. She tells Maggie she can see the darkness surrounding her and that someone wants to kill her. Who was murdered? Who has betrayed her? Who is Maggie Granger? And will the gypsy Rafael, a jockey who rides the fast steeplechasers and with whom she has fallen madly in love, be able to save her? Will his dog, the Maji, a black Russian wolfhound, be able to help him? The Darkness Within, the Darkness Without is a page-turner. This is the second in a series of stories by Lin Harbertson about Roystone, England. The first is Doorway Through Time. And the third will be? Do Not Go Restless into Death..
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 154625904X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
The Darkness Within, the Darkness Without continues the story of Roystone, a small seaside town in the North of England and its struggle for survival. After the death of her husband, Maggie Granger, a young lawyer, is rejected by her family because of her suddenly acquired psychic ability and finds herself completely alone in the world. She moves to Roystone looking for employment. On an impulse, she attends an exhibition of three John Trentham paintings at the town museum. To everyones surprise, a ghostly shimmering apparition of John Trentham appears. But only Maggie hears his warningBeware the darkness without. Months later, now established as a reputable lawyer in the town, Maggie believes all is well. She loves this Yorkshire country life and has made new friends. Then out of the blue, she has a nightmare. She sees a woman being horribly murdered and hears her saying, Forgive me, my child. I have betrayed you. She consults a gypsy psychic. Sirisa informs Maggie that, at her birth, to keep her safe, her true identity was deliberately concealed. She tells Maggie she can see the darkness surrounding her and that someone wants to kill her. Who was murdered? Who has betrayed her? Who is Maggie Granger? And will the gypsy Rafael, a jockey who rides the fast steeplechasers and with whom she has fallen madly in love, be able to save her? Will his dog, the Maji, a black Russian wolfhound, be able to help him? The Darkness Within, the Darkness Without is a page-turner. This is the second in a series of stories by Lin Harbertson about Roystone, England. The first is Doorway Through Time. And the third will be? Do Not Go Restless into Death..
Claire - A Woman's Journey
Author: Linda Blair
Publisher: LINDA RAE BLAIR
ISBN: 1439204683
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Driven into hiding by a murderer in an era when women had few options, could she survive? Chicago was a violent city. Could she keep her friends safe? Would she ever feel safe to love again?
Publisher: LINDA RAE BLAIR
ISBN: 1439204683
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Driven into hiding by a murderer in an era when women had few options, could she survive? Chicago was a violent city. Could she keep her friends safe? Would she ever feel safe to love again?
Diverse Verse
Author: Sandra Daves
Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc
ISBN: 9780533156450
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A luminous new volume, full of consistency of emotion and clarity of thought, which will entertain, inspire, and connect in meaningful ways with poetry lovers everywhere. From the spirituality important My Holy Bible, to the light and airy Gettin' Froggy, the humor--the best of both worlds!
Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc
ISBN: 9780533156450
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A luminous new volume, full of consistency of emotion and clarity of thought, which will entertain, inspire, and connect in meaningful ways with poetry lovers everywhere. From the spirituality important My Holy Bible, to the light and airy Gettin' Froggy, the humor--the best of both worlds!
Coming Home
Author: Rosamunde Pilcher
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250106443
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 945
Book Description
Against the backdrop of an elegant Cornwall mansion before World War II and a vast continent-spanning canvas during the turbulent war years, this involving story tells of an extraordinary young woman's coming of age, coming to grips with love and sadness, and in every sense of the term, coming home... In 1935, Judith Dunbar is left behind at a British boarding school when her mother and baby sister go off to join her father in Singapore. At Saint Ursula's, her friendship with Loveday Carey-Lewis sweeps her into the privileged, madcap world of the British aristocracy, teaching her about values, friendship, and wealth. But it will be the drama of war, as it wrenches Judith from those she cares about most, that will teach her about courage...and about love. Teeming with marvelous, memorable characters in a novel that is a true masterpiece, Rosamunde Pilcher's Coming Home is a book to be savored, reread, and cherished forever.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250106443
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 945
Book Description
Against the backdrop of an elegant Cornwall mansion before World War II and a vast continent-spanning canvas during the turbulent war years, this involving story tells of an extraordinary young woman's coming of age, coming to grips with love and sadness, and in every sense of the term, coming home... In 1935, Judith Dunbar is left behind at a British boarding school when her mother and baby sister go off to join her father in Singapore. At Saint Ursula's, her friendship with Loveday Carey-Lewis sweeps her into the privileged, madcap world of the British aristocracy, teaching her about values, friendship, and wealth. But it will be the drama of war, as it wrenches Judith from those she cares about most, that will teach her about courage...and about love. Teeming with marvelous, memorable characters in a novel that is a true masterpiece, Rosamunde Pilcher's Coming Home is a book to be savored, reread, and cherished forever.
Tomorrow I'll Be Kind
Author: Jessica Hische
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524787043
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
In a follow-up to Tomorrow I'll Be Brave, award-winning illustrator Jessica Hische brings to life another series of inspirational words and scenes with her lovely hand-lettering and adorable illustrations. This uplifting and positive book encourages kids to promise that tomorrow, they will be grateful, helpful, and kind. Tomorrow I'll be everything I strive to be each day And even when it's difficult I'll work to find a way. Immerse yourself in the beautifully hand-lettered words of widsom, hope, and positivity alongside adorable illustrations of love and caring. This book is a reminder to all readers, young and old, that the smallest kind gesture can make the biggest difference in the world--we just have to remember to be kind to one another. Praise for Tomorrow I'll Be Kind "As an introduction to personality characteristics, beneficial behaviors, and social-emotional skills, this is a solid choice, and fans of the previous volume are likely to embrace this one as well. 'I'll dream of all the good that comes / when we all just do our best,' the text explains--a sentiment that's hard to rebut. Gently encourages empathy, compassion, and consideration." -- Kirkus Reviews "A welcome call to tenderness." -- PW Reviews Praise for Tomorrow I'll Be Brave "Jessica Hische, one of the great designers and typographers, now shows herself equally adept at creating gorgeous and immersive images for young readers. This is a joyous burst of color."--Dave Eggers, author of Her Right Foot
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524787043
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
In a follow-up to Tomorrow I'll Be Brave, award-winning illustrator Jessica Hische brings to life another series of inspirational words and scenes with her lovely hand-lettering and adorable illustrations. This uplifting and positive book encourages kids to promise that tomorrow, they will be grateful, helpful, and kind. Tomorrow I'll be everything I strive to be each day And even when it's difficult I'll work to find a way. Immerse yourself in the beautifully hand-lettered words of widsom, hope, and positivity alongside adorable illustrations of love and caring. This book is a reminder to all readers, young and old, that the smallest kind gesture can make the biggest difference in the world--we just have to remember to be kind to one another. Praise for Tomorrow I'll Be Kind "As an introduction to personality characteristics, beneficial behaviors, and social-emotional skills, this is a solid choice, and fans of the previous volume are likely to embrace this one as well. 'I'll dream of all the good that comes / when we all just do our best,' the text explains--a sentiment that's hard to rebut. Gently encourages empathy, compassion, and consideration." -- Kirkus Reviews "A welcome call to tenderness." -- PW Reviews Praise for Tomorrow I'll Be Brave "Jessica Hische, one of the great designers and typographers, now shows herself equally adept at creating gorgeous and immersive images for young readers. This is a joyous burst of color."--Dave Eggers, author of Her Right Foot
Sweet Fifteen
Author: Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781558856608
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
When seamstress Rita Navarro makes a quinceanera dress for fourteen-year-old Stefanie, she finds herself becoming involved with the girl's family and attracted to her uncle.
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781558856608
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
When seamstress Rita Navarro makes a quinceanera dress for fourteen-year-old Stefanie, she finds herself becoming involved with the girl's family and attracted to her uncle.