Author: Joan McNamee
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1038302048
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Even after twenty years, the tight-knit Ontario community of Long Point County remains haunted by the tragic Lake Erie shipwreck that took place just off its coast in 1852. Several of its survivors still live among them even now, having been adopted into local families after washing ashore. Even the sunken wreckage of the ship itself had changed lives, and not for the better—most notably that of one of its most promising young men, drawn by the dangerous lure of its rumoured treasures. Still, no one in town had been more affected by the tragedy than local historian Becky McCormack. She’d dedicated the past two decades of her life to intensive research in the hopes of uncovering, at last, the identities of each person who’d been lost on that horrible day and ensuring that none would remain unmourned or forgotten, whether buried namelessly in the local cemetery or lost to Lake Erie’s unforgiving waters. No longer young by anybody’s standards, and with dementia beginning to sink its claws into her once razor-sharp mind, Becky’s family and friends can now only hope that she’ll finish her life’s work before it’s too late, attaining the closure and peace she’s sought on behalf of others for so long. And in doing so ... finally reclaim her own.
in a Manor of Speaking
Author: Joan McNamee
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1038302048
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Even after twenty years, the tight-knit Ontario community of Long Point County remains haunted by the tragic Lake Erie shipwreck that took place just off its coast in 1852. Several of its survivors still live among them even now, having been adopted into local families after washing ashore. Even the sunken wreckage of the ship itself had changed lives, and not for the better—most notably that of one of its most promising young men, drawn by the dangerous lure of its rumoured treasures. Still, no one in town had been more affected by the tragedy than local historian Becky McCormack. She’d dedicated the past two decades of her life to intensive research in the hopes of uncovering, at last, the identities of each person who’d been lost on that horrible day and ensuring that none would remain unmourned or forgotten, whether buried namelessly in the local cemetery or lost to Lake Erie’s unforgiving waters. No longer young by anybody’s standards, and with dementia beginning to sink its claws into her once razor-sharp mind, Becky’s family and friends can now only hope that she’ll finish her life’s work before it’s too late, attaining the closure and peace she’s sought on behalf of others for so long. And in doing so ... finally reclaim her own.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1038302048
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Even after twenty years, the tight-knit Ontario community of Long Point County remains haunted by the tragic Lake Erie shipwreck that took place just off its coast in 1852. Several of its survivors still live among them even now, having been adopted into local families after washing ashore. Even the sunken wreckage of the ship itself had changed lives, and not for the better—most notably that of one of its most promising young men, drawn by the dangerous lure of its rumoured treasures. Still, no one in town had been more affected by the tragedy than local historian Becky McCormack. She’d dedicated the past two decades of her life to intensive research in the hopes of uncovering, at last, the identities of each person who’d been lost on that horrible day and ensuring that none would remain unmourned or forgotten, whether buried namelessly in the local cemetery or lost to Lake Erie’s unforgiving waters. No longer young by anybody’s standards, and with dementia beginning to sink its claws into her once razor-sharp mind, Becky’s family and friends can now only hope that she’ll finish her life’s work before it’s too late, attaining the closure and peace she’s sought on behalf of others for so long. And in doing so ... finally reclaim her own.
In a Manner of Speaking
Author: Charlie Haylock
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144566383X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Discover the many twists and turns through history that led to the language, accents and turns of phrase which make up modern English
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144566383X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Discover the many twists and turns through history that led to the language, accents and turns of phrase which make up modern English
A Manor Of Speaking
Author: Rory Clark
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781919622101
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
One of England's largest historic landed estates is to be sold. Thousands of acres of farmland, hundreds of cottages and priceless paintings and treasures from within the stately home are up for sale. James Aden, in his mid-thirties, is the land agent for the late Sir Charles Buckley, eighth baronet, and his son, Sir Sebastian, ninth baronet, who owns the breath-taking Frampton Hall Estate in Suffolk. When Sebastian and Serena, his beautiful wife, learn they are unable to have children they see no point in keeping their inherited estate. So they set up a charity to benefit from the assets. Nonetheless, this conflicts with the family trustees who were selected by Sir Charles to ensure its posterity. Tony Stoke, the only serious potential buyer, made his fortune manufacturing lavatory paper. His father had been a bus driver for London Transport and the family's social class is world's away from the upper-class Buckleys. James is tasked with masterminding the sale while continuing the daily management of the extraordinary array of tenants in the estate's cottages and farms in the absence of any interest from Sebastian. Will the sale proceed? Will Tony Stoke become Lord of the Manor and pursue a gracious aristocratic lifestyle? Or will the estate dwellers, the art industry experts, and the trustees put a stop to this madness before it begins? Find out this and so much more in this humorous tale which depicts an aristocratic, eccentric lifestyle not dissimilar to PG Wodehouse's characters of a bygone age.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781919622101
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
One of England's largest historic landed estates is to be sold. Thousands of acres of farmland, hundreds of cottages and priceless paintings and treasures from within the stately home are up for sale. James Aden, in his mid-thirties, is the land agent for the late Sir Charles Buckley, eighth baronet, and his son, Sir Sebastian, ninth baronet, who owns the breath-taking Frampton Hall Estate in Suffolk. When Sebastian and Serena, his beautiful wife, learn they are unable to have children they see no point in keeping their inherited estate. So they set up a charity to benefit from the assets. Nonetheless, this conflicts with the family trustees who were selected by Sir Charles to ensure its posterity. Tony Stoke, the only serious potential buyer, made his fortune manufacturing lavatory paper. His father had been a bus driver for London Transport and the family's social class is world's away from the upper-class Buckleys. James is tasked with masterminding the sale while continuing the daily management of the extraordinary array of tenants in the estate's cottages and farms in the absence of any interest from Sebastian. Will the sale proceed? Will Tony Stoke become Lord of the Manor and pursue a gracious aristocratic lifestyle? Or will the estate dwellers, the art industry experts, and the trustees put a stop to this madness before it begins? Find out this and so much more in this humorous tale which depicts an aristocratic, eccentric lifestyle not dissimilar to PG Wodehouse's characters of a bygone age.
Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Based on the International Dictionary 1890 and 1900
Author: William Torrey Harris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1358
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1358
Book Description
Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Noah Webster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Speaking from Among the Bones
Author: Alan Bradley
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0345538684
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by USA Today as “one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.” Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they’re found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters’ diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred’s death, the English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint’s tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and inexplicably masked. Who held a vendetta against Mr. Collicutt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place? The irrepressible Flavia decides to find out. And what she unearths will prove there’s never such thing as an open-and-shut case. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Alan Bradley’s The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches. Acclaim for Speaking from Among the Bones “[Alan] Bradley scores another success. . . . This series is a grown-up version of Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and all those mysteries you fell in love with as a child.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune “The precocious and irrepressible Flavia . . . continues to delight.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Fiendishly brilliant . . . Bradley has created an utterly charming cast of characters . . . as quirky as any British mystery fan could hope for.”—Bookreporter “Delightful and entertaining.”—San Jose Mercury News
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0345538684
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by USA Today as “one of the most remarkable creations in recent literature.” Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they’re found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters’ diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred’s death, the English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint’s tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and inexplicably masked. Who held a vendetta against Mr. Collicutt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place? The irrepressible Flavia decides to find out. And what she unearths will prove there’s never such thing as an open-and-shut case. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Alan Bradley’s The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches. Acclaim for Speaking from Among the Bones “[Alan] Bradley scores another success. . . . This series is a grown-up version of Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and all those mysteries you fell in love with as a child.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune “The precocious and irrepressible Flavia . . . continues to delight.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Fiendishly brilliant . . . Bradley has created an utterly charming cast of characters . . . as quirky as any British mystery fan could hope for.”—Bookreporter “Delightful and entertaining.”—San Jose Mercury News
The Lady of the Manor. Being a Series of Conversations on the Subject of Confirmation. Intended for the Use of the Middle and Higher Ranks of Young Females
Author: Mary Martha Sherwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charity
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charity
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language
Author: John Ogilvie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Men Speak Out
Author: Shira Tarrant
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135127441
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power, Second Edition highlights new essays on pornography, pop culture, queer identity, Muslim masculinity, and the war on women. With personal candor and political insight, this collection of diverse authors explores sex work, digital activism, incarceration, domestic violence, surviving incest, and standing firmly as male allies facing the backlash against women’s reproductive rights. Featuring eleven new essays and six revised thematic sections, this second edition of a favorite anthology continues to encourage robust discussion and vibrant debate about masculinity and the possibilities for progressive change. The contemporary, compelling essays in Men Speak Out appeal to students, scholars, activists, and everyday readers.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135127441
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex, and Power, Second Edition highlights new essays on pornography, pop culture, queer identity, Muslim masculinity, and the war on women. With personal candor and political insight, this collection of diverse authors explores sex work, digital activism, incarceration, domestic violence, surviving incest, and standing firmly as male allies facing the backlash against women’s reproductive rights. Featuring eleven new essays and six revised thematic sections, this second edition of a favorite anthology continues to encourage robust discussion and vibrant debate about masculinity and the possibilities for progressive change. The contemporary, compelling essays in Men Speak Out appeal to students, scholars, activists, and everyday readers.
A Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals Explained in Their Different Meanings
Author: Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description