Author: Judith Lennox
Publisher: Review
ISBN: 0755386973
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365
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Secrets can bind a family - or tear them apart... Judith Lennox's A Step in the Dark is a powerful family drama set in India and Scotland that spans from 1915 to the 1960s. Perfect for fans of Lucinda Riley and Kate Morton. 'The unforgettable story of the secrets that can bind a family or ultimately destroy one' - Reading Evening Post It's 1915 when young Bess Ravenhart, recently widowed, leaves her baby son Frazer with her mother-in-law, Cora, while she sails from India to Britain to set up a home. But Cora has no intention of returning Frazer to his mother's care. Though Bess makes a new life in Edinburgh and knows the joy - and pain - of motherhood with further children, her heart always aches for the little boy she left behind. When Frazer travels to Scotland twenty years later, it seems Bess's dreams of a reconciliation will come true. But Frazer trails danger in his wake, and it's possible that not only he but also Bess and her whole family will live to rue the day of his return... What readers are saying about A Step in the Dark: 'Convincing and page turning, moving from romance to a detective tale and, satisfyingly, the ends are all tied together, almost too late as the book draws to a close' 'She is a fantastic storyteller, and this book's rich historical tapestry places it above most romantic fiction. You really care about the characters and as such are gripped to the last page' 'One of the best books I have ever read'
Author: Meera Shivashankar
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
ISBN: 9364945158
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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In the bustling heart of London, classical dancer Maya and celebrated cricketer Ishaan cross paths in a whirlwind of passion. Both with pasts, find themselves drawn together in a moment of passion, never expecting a one-night encounter to change their lives forever. But when Maya discovers she’s pregnant with twins, their fleeting moment becomes the start of an unexpected journey. As Maya grapples with scars from a painful divorce and Ishaan’s cricket career teethers on the edge, they’re forced to face their new reality together. With societal judgment looming and ghosts of their past threatening their future, Maya and Ishaan must decide whether to embrace their hastily formed bond or let it crumble under the weight of their fears. Amidst the turmoil, an undeniable love begins to bloom, proving that even in the darkest moments, love has the power to light the way. A Step in the Dark is a sweeping tale of love and the courage to take a leap of faith when the future feels uncertain. It is a reminder that, even in the darkest of times, love has the power to heal, to transform, and to guide us home.
Author: Meera Shivashankar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789364949972
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In the bustling heart of London, classical dancer Maya and celebrated cricketer Ishaan cross paths in a whirlwind of passion. Both with pasts, find themselves drawn together in a moment of passion, never expecting a one-night encounter to change their lives forever. But when Maya discovers she's pregnant with twins, their fleeting moment becomes the start of an unexpected journey. As Maya grapples with scars from a painful divorce and Ishaan's cricket career teethers on the edge, they're forced to face their new reality together. With societal judgment looming and ghosts of their past threatening their future, Maya and Ishaan must decide whether to embrace their hastily formed bond or let it crumble under the weight of their fears. Amidst the turmoil, an undeniable love begins to bloom, proving that even in the darkest moments, love has the power to light the way. A Step in the Dark is a sweeping tale of love and the courage to take a leap of faith when the future feels uncertain. It is a reminder that, even in the darkest of times, love has the power to heal, to transform, and to guide us home.
Author: Ethel Lina White
Publisher: Murder Room
ISBN: 1471917126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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On what trivialities the big things in life hang. From the moment when, dining alone in her Brussels hotel, Georgia Yeo, celebrated writer of detective thrillers, opens her cigarette case and the Count comes into her life with the polite offer of a light, she realises that here is fate. In that moment too begins the strange and inimitable spell of Georgia's story. It is an enthralling story, of a woman successful in her career, yet timid and hesitant in making a decision which might have a far-reaching effect on her private life. It's truly a step in the dark ...
Author: Ethel Lina White
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026841166
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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This carefully crafted ebook: "Step in the Dark (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. While dining in one of glamorous Brussel hotels, a well known writer of detective novels, Georgia Yeo, meets charming and rich Count. She gets intrigued with this mysterious character and it will come back to haunt her. Under false pretenses she is invited to the estate on his private island, and over there the hank unfolds and strange things start happening. Ethel Lina White (1876-1944) was a British crime writer, best known for her novel The Wheel Spins, on which the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Lady Vanishes, was based.
Author: Johanna Hurwitz
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307556689
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
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When a childhood illness leaves her blind and deaf, Helen Keller's life seems hopeless indeed. But her indomitable will and the help of a devoted teacher empower Helen to triumph over incredible adversity. This amazing true story is finally brought to the beginner reader level.
Author: Donna Augustine
Publisher: Strong Hold Publishing
ISBN: 9781945946011
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Kane says he can end my misery. He says he believes in the monsters and knows they killed my family. What he isn't saying is how bad it's going to get. That if I fulfill my part of the bargain and get him his information, I'll be clinging to sanity by my fingertips.
Author: Michelle Hart
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593329678
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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"Hart’s novel does something exceptional that few pieces of fiction have done successfully….[H]as flashes of Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends." – New York Times “An unforgettable account of a forbidden romance.” – Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Patsy “Moving and memorable.” – Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion “Sensual and wise.” – Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage A novel about a young woman’s life-altering affair with a much older, married woman. Mallory is a freshman in college when she meets the woman. She sees her for the first time at the university’s gym, immediately entranced by this elegant, older person, whom she later learns is married and works at the school. Before long, they begin a clandestine affair. Self-possessed, successful, brilliant, and aloof, the woman absolutely consumes Mallory, who is still reeling from her mother’s death a few months earlier. Mallory retreats from the rest of the world and into a relationship with this melancholy, elusive woman she admires so much yet who can never be fully hers, solidifying a sense of solitude that has both haunted and soothed her as long as she can remember. Years after the affair has ended, Mallory must decide whether to stay safely in this isolation, this constructed loneliness, or to step fully into the world and confront what the woman meant to her, for better or worse. This simmering, unsettling debut novel reveals the consequences of desire and influence, portraying two women whose lives have been transformed by love, loss, and secrecy.
Author: C. S. Pacat
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062946161
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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* Instant New York Times Bestseller * Indie Bestseller * In this stunning new fantasy novel from international bestselling author C. S. Pacat, heroes and villains of a long-forgotten war are reborn and begin to draw new battle lines. This epic fantasy with high-stakes romance will sit perfectly on shelves next to beloved fantasy novels like the Infernal Devices series, the Shadow and Bone trilogy, and the Red Queen series. Sixteen-year-old dock boy Will is on the run, pursued by the men who killed his mother. Then an old servant tells him of his destiny to fight beside the Stewards, who have sworn to protect humanity if the Dark King ever returns. Will is thrust into a world of magic, where he starts training for a vital role in the oncoming battle against the Dark. As London is threatened and old enmities are awakened, Will must stand with the last heroes of the Light to prevent the fate that destroyed their world from returning to destroy his own. Like V.E. Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic and Shelby Mahurin’s Serpent & Dove, Dark Rise is more than just high intrigue fantasy—it’s fast-paced, action-packed, and completely surprising. Readers will love exploring the rich setting of nineteenth-century London. This thrilling story of friendship, deception, loyalty, and betrayal is sure to find a passionate audience of readers.
Author: Rebecca Solnit
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608465799
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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“[A] landmark book . . . Solnit illustrates how the uprisings that begin on the streets can upend the status quo and topple authoritarian regimes” (Vice). A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of activists at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them—and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argues that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next. Now, with a moving new introduction explaining how the book came about and a new afterword that helps teach us how to hope and act in our unnerving world, she brings a new illumination to the darkness of our times in an unforgettable new edition of this classic book. “One of the best books of the 21st century.” —The Guardian “No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that’s marked this new millennium.” —Bill McKibben, New York Times–bestselling author of Falter “An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways.” —The New Yorker
