Author: Holly Kennedy
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765351043
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Kenly Lowen is forced to confront her painful past when a close childhood friend dies and relinquishes to her a box containing a devastating secret.
The Tin Box
Author: Holly Kennedy
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765351043
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Kenly Lowen is forced to confront her painful past when a close childhood friend dies and relinquishes to her a box containing a devastating secret.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765351043
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Kenly Lowen is forced to confront her painful past when a close childhood friend dies and relinquishes to her a box containing a devastating secret.
The Minister's Secret
Author: Rodolfo Peña
Publisher: Untreed Reads
ISBN: 1611874505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
July 16th, 1942 Andre Dumont is a collaborationist who has made a fortune buying art and valuables from Jews who sell their collections and heirlooms at ridiculously low prices in order to quickly obtain money as they attempt to escape from Europe. Dumont has befriended the Schwartzmanns so he can evaluate their art collection. He not only becomes a "friend of the family," but he becomes the lover of the Schwartzmanns' eldest daughter, Anna. Andre Dumont, using his influence and friends in the Nazi hierarchy in Paris, manages to get the Schwartzmann family listed for deportation. He wants to rid himself of any person who can claim the art he plans to have "confiscated" from the Schwartzmanns. The Schwartzmanns are arrested, but Anna, who has been living with Dumont, escapes the round-up. Dumont denounces his lover to the Nazis in order to rid himself of the last person who may lay claim to the Schwartzmann collection. Present Day After her mother dies, Mimi is putting away her mother's things and she discovers that the woman who she thought was her grandmother was not her biological grandmother. Her real grandmother's name was Anna, someone who, along with all of her family, died in the Nazi death camps. She comes to know all of this through Anna's diary. In it, she finds out that her family's art collection was stolen and she decides to embark on a quest to recover it. In Paris, Edouard Dumont, son of Andre Dumont, is the French Minister of Culture. He desperately needs money to finance his political career and save the financially struggling family business, a huge art gallery and auction house, from bankruptcy. He wants to sell the art his father left him, art stolen from the Jews. Edouard Dumont's and Mimi's destinies are about to cross as part of her plan to find out what happened to her family's art collection, Mimi gets a job at Edouard Dumont's art auction business. While working there, Mimi discovers that some of the art that will be sold at auction has very shady provenance. Could this be part of her family's collection? Enter Guillermo Lombardo, a retired police inspector, who rents Mimi's Paris apartment for a week and finds himself romantically entangled with the woman. Things soon take a turn for the worst for Lombardo. Upon his arrival in Brittany to see friends, a policeman shows up to question Lombardo. It seems Mimi has been reported missing and Mimi's friend, Sophie, has been found strangled in her own apartment. As Lombardo was the last person to see Mimi before she disappeared, the police consider him a suspect in Mimi's disappearance. To clear his name, Lombardo must find his missing lover, and stay one step ahead of a vicious killer."
Publisher: Untreed Reads
ISBN: 1611874505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
July 16th, 1942 Andre Dumont is a collaborationist who has made a fortune buying art and valuables from Jews who sell their collections and heirlooms at ridiculously low prices in order to quickly obtain money as they attempt to escape from Europe. Dumont has befriended the Schwartzmanns so he can evaluate their art collection. He not only becomes a "friend of the family," but he becomes the lover of the Schwartzmanns' eldest daughter, Anna. Andre Dumont, using his influence and friends in the Nazi hierarchy in Paris, manages to get the Schwartzmann family listed for deportation. He wants to rid himself of any person who can claim the art he plans to have "confiscated" from the Schwartzmanns. The Schwartzmanns are arrested, but Anna, who has been living with Dumont, escapes the round-up. Dumont denounces his lover to the Nazis in order to rid himself of the last person who may lay claim to the Schwartzmann collection. Present Day After her mother dies, Mimi is putting away her mother's things and she discovers that the woman who she thought was her grandmother was not her biological grandmother. Her real grandmother's name was Anna, someone who, along with all of her family, died in the Nazi death camps. She comes to know all of this through Anna's diary. In it, she finds out that her family's art collection was stolen and she decides to embark on a quest to recover it. In Paris, Edouard Dumont, son of Andre Dumont, is the French Minister of Culture. He desperately needs money to finance his political career and save the financially struggling family business, a huge art gallery and auction house, from bankruptcy. He wants to sell the art his father left him, art stolen from the Jews. Edouard Dumont's and Mimi's destinies are about to cross as part of her plan to find out what happened to her family's art collection, Mimi gets a job at Edouard Dumont's art auction business. While working there, Mimi discovers that some of the art that will be sold at auction has very shady provenance. Could this be part of her family's collection? Enter Guillermo Lombardo, a retired police inspector, who rents Mimi's Paris apartment for a week and finds himself romantically entangled with the woman. Things soon take a turn for the worst for Lombardo. Upon his arrival in Brittany to see friends, a policeman shows up to question Lombardo. It seems Mimi has been reported missing and Mimi's friend, Sophie, has been found strangled in her own apartment. As Lombardo was the last person to see Mimi before she disappeared, the police consider him a suspect in Mimi's disappearance. To clear his name, Lombardo must find his missing lover, and stay one step ahead of a vicious killer."
The Pontin Secret
Author: Sushila Fonseca
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1947429167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Teetering on the verge of a huge debt trap, Tina must act fast and sagaciously to not be destroyed by it. With their distinct personalities and unexpected demands, her family further burdens her. How does she survive? What does she do? Will she be compelled to leave Pontin Mansion? The past catches up with the present as Tina plans for the future. Mystery and romance collaborate to entertain the reader.
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1947429167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Teetering on the verge of a huge debt trap, Tina must act fast and sagaciously to not be destroyed by it. With their distinct personalities and unexpected demands, her family further burdens her. How does she survive? What does she do? Will she be compelled to leave Pontin Mansion? The past catches up with the present as Tina plans for the future. Mystery and romance collaborate to entertain the reader.
Seven for a Secret
Author: Mary Webb
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Seven for a Secret is a poignant novel written by Mary Webb. Set against a backdrop of rural life, which Webb beautifully renders with her astute observations, the narrative explores human relationships, struggles, and the indomitable spirit of humanity. Webb's masterful storytelling coupled with her understanding of rural dynamics makes this novel a touching and engaging read.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Seven for a Secret is a poignant novel written by Mary Webb. Set against a backdrop of rural life, which Webb beautifully renders with her astute observations, the narrative explores human relationships, struggles, and the indomitable spirit of humanity. Webb's masterful storytelling coupled with her understanding of rural dynamics makes this novel a touching and engaging read.
The Nurse's Secret
Author: Amanda Skenandore
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 1496726537
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
From acclaimed author and registered nurse Amanda Skenandore, The Alienist meets The Light of Luna Park in a fascinating historical novel based on the little-known story of America's first nursing school, as a young female grifter in 1880s New York evades the police by conning her way into Bellevue Hospital's training school for nurses... In the slums of 1880s New York, Una Kelly has grown up to be a rough-and-tumble grifter, able to filch a pocketbook in five seconds flat. But when another con-woman pins her for a murder she didn't commit, Una is forced to flee. Running from the police, Una lies her way into an unlikely refuge: the nursing school at Bellevue Hospital. Based on Florence Nightingale's nursing principles, Bellevue is the first school of its kind in the country. Where once nurses were assumed to be ignorant and unskilled, Bellevue prizes discipline, intellect, and moral character, and only young women of good breeding need apply. At first, Una balks at her prim classmates and the doctors' endless commands. Yet life on the streets has prepared her for the horrors of injury and disease found on the wards, and she slowly gains friendship and self-respect. Just as she finds her footing, Una's suspicions about a patient's death put her at risk of exposure, and will force her to choose between her instinct for self-preservation, and exposing her identity in order to save others. Amanda Skenandore brings her medical expertise to a page-turning story that explores the evolution of modern nursing--including the grisly realities of nineteenth-century medicine--as seen through the eyes of an intriguing and dynamic heroine.
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 1496726537
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
From acclaimed author and registered nurse Amanda Skenandore, The Alienist meets The Light of Luna Park in a fascinating historical novel based on the little-known story of America's first nursing school, as a young female grifter in 1880s New York evades the police by conning her way into Bellevue Hospital's training school for nurses... In the slums of 1880s New York, Una Kelly has grown up to be a rough-and-tumble grifter, able to filch a pocketbook in five seconds flat. But when another con-woman pins her for a murder she didn't commit, Una is forced to flee. Running from the police, Una lies her way into an unlikely refuge: the nursing school at Bellevue Hospital. Based on Florence Nightingale's nursing principles, Bellevue is the first school of its kind in the country. Where once nurses were assumed to be ignorant and unskilled, Bellevue prizes discipline, intellect, and moral character, and only young women of good breeding need apply. At first, Una balks at her prim classmates and the doctors' endless commands. Yet life on the streets has prepared her for the horrors of injury and disease found on the wards, and she slowly gains friendship and self-respect. Just as she finds her footing, Una's suspicions about a patient's death put her at risk of exposure, and will force her to choose between her instinct for self-preservation, and exposing her identity in order to save others. Amanda Skenandore brings her medical expertise to a page-turning story that explores the evolution of modern nursing--including the grisly realities of nineteenth-century medicine--as seen through the eyes of an intriguing and dynamic heroine.
The Agent's Secret Past
Author: Debby Giusti
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373445873
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
THREAT FROM HER AMISH PAST Eight years ago, a drifter destroyed Becca Miller's ties to her Amish community--and murdered her family. Now a special agent with Fort Rickman's criminal investigation department, Becca knows her past has caught up with her and doesn't want to relive it. She's convinced that the killer, who supposedly died years ago, is very much alive and after her. Special agent Colby Voss agrees to help her investigate. Yet the closer they get to the truth, the closer the killer gets to silencing her permanently. Military Investigations: Serving their country and solving crimes
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373445873
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
THREAT FROM HER AMISH PAST Eight years ago, a drifter destroyed Becca Miller's ties to her Amish community--and murdered her family. Now a special agent with Fort Rickman's criminal investigation department, Becca knows her past has caught up with her and doesn't want to relive it. She's convinced that the killer, who supposedly died years ago, is very much alive and after her. Special agent Colby Voss agrees to help her investigate. Yet the closer they get to the truth, the closer the killer gets to silencing her permanently. Military Investigations: Serving their country and solving crimes
The Tin Box; a Story of the Last Century ...
Author: G. W.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The Secret of Toni
Author: Molly Elliot Seawell
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
At the beginning of this novel Toni, the central character, is a little 10-year-old boy living in Bienville in the South of France. His real name is Antoine but he has never been called that except for at his Christening. He is an only child and has a vivid imaginary life. His mother runs a sweet shop which he feels is one reason for one of his friends to be his best friend; his other friend is a tin soldier called Jaques and he has already planned to marry Denise, the eight-year-old girl who lives across the road.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
At the beginning of this novel Toni, the central character, is a little 10-year-old boy living in Bienville in the South of France. His real name is Antoine but he has never been called that except for at his Christening. He is an only child and has a vivid imaginary life. His mother runs a sweet shop which he feels is one reason for one of his friends to be his best friend; his other friend is a tin soldier called Jaques and he has already planned to marry Denise, the eight-year-old girl who lives across the road.
Secret Selves
Author: Oliver S. Buckton
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807847022
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Focusing on the representation of same-sex desire in Victorian autobiographical writing, Oliver Buckton offers significant new readings of works by such influential 19th-century writers as Edward Carpenter, John Henry Newman, John Addington Symonds, and, in an epilogue, E.M. Forster, and reveals the "confessional" elements of their writings.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807847022
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Focusing on the representation of same-sex desire in Victorian autobiographical writing, Oliver Buckton offers significant new readings of works by such influential 19th-century writers as Edward Carpenter, John Henry Newman, John Addington Symonds, and, in an epilogue, E.M. Forster, and reveals the "confessional" elements of their writings.
Lady Audley's Secret
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Three-decker novels
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Three-decker novels
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description