Author: Beatrice King
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710828538
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Snowed in at the Hof Himmel bed and breakfast on their annual ski vacation in the Alps, the Müller family wakes to find Opa Wolfgang frozen to death outside. What at first seems to be a schnaps-induced accident, quickly turns murderous as family members recount the events of the ski trip thus far. Spouses feud over misplaced inheritance, grandchildren duel for attention, and an unsolicited English cousin stirs up dark, bitter motives for murder. In a world where crises reshape a new family dynamic, was Opa Wolfgang able to protect the ones he loved? Or did he die trying? For in the quaint snowy Alps, a murderer hides in plain sight.
Death in the Alps. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Beatrice King
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710828538
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Snowed in at the Hof Himmel bed and breakfast on their annual ski vacation in the Alps, the Müller family wakes to find Opa Wolfgang frozen to death outside. What at first seems to be a schnaps-induced accident, quickly turns murderous as family members recount the events of the ski trip thus far. Spouses feud over misplaced inheritance, grandchildren duel for attention, and an unsolicited English cousin stirs up dark, bitter motives for murder. In a world where crises reshape a new family dynamic, was Opa Wolfgang able to protect the ones he loved? Or did he die trying? For in the quaint snowy Alps, a murderer hides in plain sight.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710828538
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Snowed in at the Hof Himmel bed and breakfast on their annual ski vacation in the Alps, the Müller family wakes to find Opa Wolfgang frozen to death outside. What at first seems to be a schnaps-induced accident, quickly turns murderous as family members recount the events of the ski trip thus far. Spouses feud over misplaced inheritance, grandchildren duel for attention, and an unsolicited English cousin stirs up dark, bitter motives for murder. In a world where crises reshape a new family dynamic, was Opa Wolfgang able to protect the ones he loved? Or did he die trying? For in the quaint snowy Alps, a murderer hides in plain sight.
Machu Picchu - until death do us part. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Bigna Gadient
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711549470
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
It's a regular Wednesday, she'll show up, like she always does. It's a regular Wednesday, until it isn't. It's a regular Wednesday, until she dies. The five stages of grief - one day we will all get the phone call that forces us to endure them. But the sisters Noah and Riley were supposed to have years together until that point. Yet, time betrays them both. When Riley unexpectedly dies, Noah's life flips upside down. How do you navigate through life, if your better half is no longer with you? How do you move on with life, if grief is always around the corner, waiting for you to slip up? Denial, anger, bargaining , depression, acceptance - Noah stands to face them all. Because in her world, it has always been just Noah and Riley, until death really does do them part.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711549470
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
It's a regular Wednesday, she'll show up, like she always does. It's a regular Wednesday, until it isn't. It's a regular Wednesday, until she dies. The five stages of grief - one day we will all get the phone call that forces us to endure them. But the sisters Noah and Riley were supposed to have years together until that point. Yet, time betrays them both. When Riley unexpectedly dies, Noah's life flips upside down. How do you navigate through life, if your better half is no longer with you? How do you move on with life, if grief is always around the corner, waiting for you to slip up? Denial, anger, bargaining , depression, acceptance - Noah stands to face them all. Because in her world, it has always been just Noah and Riley, until death really does do them part.
XII Changes. Life is a Story - Story.one
Author: Yasmina Abdeen
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710890128
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3710890128
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Author: Mark Sullivan
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
ISBN: 9781503902374
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A teenage boy in 1940s Italy becomes part of an underground railroad that helps Jews escape through the Alps, but when he is recruited to be the personal driver for a powerful Third Reich commander, he begins to spy for the Allies.
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
ISBN: 9781503902374
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A teenage boy in 1940s Italy becomes part of an underground railroad that helps Jews escape through the Alps, but when he is recruited to be the personal driver for a powerful Third Reich commander, he begins to spy for the Allies.
Before We Were Strangers
Author: Renée Carlino
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501105787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501105787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M
Catalogue of English Prose Fiction and Books for the Young in the Lower Hall of the Boston Public Library
Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Story of My Life
Author: Augustus John Cuthbert Hare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
The Story of My Life (Complete)
Author: Augustus John Cuthbert Hare
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465581979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1823
Book Description
IN 1727, the year of George the First's death, Miss Grace Naylor of Hurstmonceaux, though she was beloved, charming, and beautiful, died very mysteriously in her twenty-first year, in the immense and weird old castle of which she had been the heiress. She was affirmed to have been starved by her former governess, who lived alone with her, but the fact was never proved. Her property passed to her first cousin Francis Hare (son of her aunt Bethaia), who forthwith assumed the name of Naylor. The new owner of Hurstmonceaux was the only child of the first marriage of that Francis Hare, who, through the influence first of the Duke of Marlborough (by whose side, then a chaplain, he had ridden on the battle-fields of Blenheim and Ramilies), and afterwards of his family connections the Pelhams and Walpoles, rose to become one of the richest and most popular pluralists of his age. Yet he had to be contented at last with the bishoprics of St. Asaph and Chichester, with each of which he held the Deanery of St. Paul's, the Archbishopric of Canterbury having twice just escaped him. The Bishop's eldest son Francis was "un facheux détail de notre famille," as the grandfather of Madame de Maintenon said of his son. He died after a life of the wildest dissipation, without leaving any children by his wife Carlotta Alston, who was his stepmother's sister. So the property of Hurstmonceaux went to his half-brother Robert, son of the Bishop's second marriage with Mary-Margaret Alston, heiress of the Vatche in Buckinghamshire, and of several other places besides. Sir Robert Walpole had been the godfather of Robert Hare-Naylor, and presented him with a valuable sinecure office as a christening present, and he further made the Bishop urge the Church as the profession in which father and godfather could best aid the boy's advancement. Accordingly Robert took orders, obtained a living, and was made a Canon of Winchester. While he was still very young, his father had further secured his fortunes by marrying him to the heiress who lived nearest to his mother's property of the Vatche, and, by the beautiful Sarah Selman (daughter of the owner of Chalfont St. Peter's, and sister of Mrs. Lefevre), he had two sons—Francis and Robert, and an only daughter Anna Maria, afterwards Mrs. Bulkeley. In the zenith of her youth and loveliness, however, Sarah Hare died very suddenly from eating ices when overheated at a ball, and soon afterwards Robert married a second wife—the rich Henrietta Henckel, who pulled down Hurstmonceaux Castle. She did this because she was jealous of the sons of her predecessor, and wished to build a large new house, which she persuaded her husband to settle upon her own children, who were numerous, though only two daughters lived to any great age. But she was justly punished, for when Robert Hare died, it was discovered that the great house which Wyatt had built for Mrs. Hare, and which is now known as Hurstmonceaux Place, was erected upon entailed land, so that the house stripped of furniture, and the property shorn of its most valuable farms, passed to Francis Hare-Naylor, son of Miss Selman. Mrs. Henckel Hare lived on to a great age, and when "the burden of her years came on her" she repented of her avarice and injustice, and coming back to Hurstmonceaux in childish senility, would wander round and round the castle ruins in the early morning and late evening, wringing her hands and saying—"Who could have done such a wicked thing: oh! who could have done such a wicked thing, as to pull down this beautiful old place?" Then her daughters, Caroline and Marianne, walking beside her, would say—"Oh dear mamma, it was you who did it, it was you yourself who did it, you know"—and she would despairingly resume—"Oh no, that is impossible: it could not have been me. I could not have done such a wicked thing: it could not have been me that did it." My cousin Marcus Hare had at Abbots Kerswell a picture of Mrs. Henckel Hare, which was always surrounded with crape bows.
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465581979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1823
Book Description
IN 1727, the year of George the First's death, Miss Grace Naylor of Hurstmonceaux, though she was beloved, charming, and beautiful, died very mysteriously in her twenty-first year, in the immense and weird old castle of which she had been the heiress. She was affirmed to have been starved by her former governess, who lived alone with her, but the fact was never proved. Her property passed to her first cousin Francis Hare (son of her aunt Bethaia), who forthwith assumed the name of Naylor. The new owner of Hurstmonceaux was the only child of the first marriage of that Francis Hare, who, through the influence first of the Duke of Marlborough (by whose side, then a chaplain, he had ridden on the battle-fields of Blenheim and Ramilies), and afterwards of his family connections the Pelhams and Walpoles, rose to become one of the richest and most popular pluralists of his age. Yet he had to be contented at last with the bishoprics of St. Asaph and Chichester, with each of which he held the Deanery of St. Paul's, the Archbishopric of Canterbury having twice just escaped him. The Bishop's eldest son Francis was "un facheux détail de notre famille," as the grandfather of Madame de Maintenon said of his son. He died after a life of the wildest dissipation, without leaving any children by his wife Carlotta Alston, who was his stepmother's sister. So the property of Hurstmonceaux went to his half-brother Robert, son of the Bishop's second marriage with Mary-Margaret Alston, heiress of the Vatche in Buckinghamshire, and of several other places besides. Sir Robert Walpole had been the godfather of Robert Hare-Naylor, and presented him with a valuable sinecure office as a christening present, and he further made the Bishop urge the Church as the profession in which father and godfather could best aid the boy's advancement. Accordingly Robert took orders, obtained a living, and was made a Canon of Winchester. While he was still very young, his father had further secured his fortunes by marrying him to the heiress who lived nearest to his mother's property of the Vatche, and, by the beautiful Sarah Selman (daughter of the owner of Chalfont St. Peter's, and sister of Mrs. Lefevre), he had two sons—Francis and Robert, and an only daughter Anna Maria, afterwards Mrs. Bulkeley. In the zenith of her youth and loveliness, however, Sarah Hare died very suddenly from eating ices when overheated at a ball, and soon afterwards Robert married a second wife—the rich Henrietta Henckel, who pulled down Hurstmonceaux Castle. She did this because she was jealous of the sons of her predecessor, and wished to build a large new house, which she persuaded her husband to settle upon her own children, who were numerous, though only two daughters lived to any great age. But she was justly punished, for when Robert Hare died, it was discovered that the great house which Wyatt had built for Mrs. Hare, and which is now known as Hurstmonceaux Place, was erected upon entailed land, so that the house stripped of furniture, and the property shorn of its most valuable farms, passed to Francis Hare-Naylor, son of Miss Selman. Mrs. Henckel Hare lived on to a great age, and when "the burden of her years came on her" she repented of her avarice and injustice, and coming back to Hurstmonceaux in childish senility, would wander round and round the castle ruins in the early morning and late evening, wringing her hands and saying—"Who could have done such a wicked thing: oh! who could have done such a wicked thing, as to pull down this beautiful old place?" Then her daughters, Caroline and Marianne, walking beside her, would say—"Oh dear mamma, it was you who did it, it was you yourself who did it, you know"—and she would despairingly resume—"Oh no, that is impossible: it could not have been me. I could not have done such a wicked thing: it could not have been me that did it." My cousin Marcus Hare had at Abbots Kerswell a picture of Mrs. Henckel Hare, which was always surrounded with crape bows.
The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3
Author: Augustus J. C. Hare
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3" by Augustus J. C. Hare. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3" by Augustus J. C. Hare. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Heidi
Author: Johanna Spyri
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539191896
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Detie in Maienfeld, Switzerland after the early deaths of her parents, Tobias and Adelheid (Detie's sister and brother-in-law). Detie brings 6-year-old Heidi to her paternal grandfather's house, up the mountain from D�rfli. He has been at odds with the villagers and embittered against God for years and lives in seclusion on the alm. This has earned him the nickname Alm-Uncle. He briefly resents Heidi's arrival, but the girl's evident intelligence and cheerful yet unaffected demeanor soon earn his genuine, if reserved, affection. Heidi enthusiastically befriends her new neighbors, young Peter the goatherd, his mother, Bridget, and his blind maternal grandmother, who is "Grannie" to everyone. With each season that passes, the mountaintop inhabitants grow more attached to Heidi.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539191896
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Detie in Maienfeld, Switzerland after the early deaths of her parents, Tobias and Adelheid (Detie's sister and brother-in-law). Detie brings 6-year-old Heidi to her paternal grandfather's house, up the mountain from D�rfli. He has been at odds with the villagers and embittered against God for years and lives in seclusion on the alm. This has earned him the nickname Alm-Uncle. He briefly resents Heidi's arrival, but the girl's evident intelligence and cheerful yet unaffected demeanor soon earn his genuine, if reserved, affection. Heidi enthusiastically befriends her new neighbors, young Peter the goatherd, his mother, Bridget, and his blind maternal grandmother, who is "Grannie" to everyone. With each season that passes, the mountaintop inhabitants grow more attached to Heidi.