Author: Amelia Dalton
Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
ISBN: 191098518X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Weary of her Yorkshire county life of grouse moors and hunt balls, Amelia Dalton threw herself instead into converting a deep sea trawler into a holiday cruiser. Unprepared by her background, she had to deal with the closed community of fishermen in NE Scotland in the '90s, negotiate red tape, oversee shipyards and deal with engineers, while coping with demanding shareholders and wayward employees. What began as a love affair with the romance of the sea became a battle to stay afloat – financially and literally. This is a lively account of an adventure like no other – and a voyage of self-discovery.
Mistress and Commander
Author: Amelia Dalton
Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
ISBN: 191098518X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Weary of her Yorkshire county life of grouse moors and hunt balls, Amelia Dalton threw herself instead into converting a deep sea trawler into a holiday cruiser. Unprepared by her background, she had to deal with the closed community of fishermen in NE Scotland in the '90s, negotiate red tape, oversee shipyards and deal with engineers, while coping with demanding shareholders and wayward employees. What began as a love affair with the romance of the sea became a battle to stay afloat – financially and literally. This is a lively account of an adventure like no other – and a voyage of self-discovery.
Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
ISBN: 191098518X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Weary of her Yorkshire county life of grouse moors and hunt balls, Amelia Dalton threw herself instead into converting a deep sea trawler into a holiday cruiser. Unprepared by her background, she had to deal with the closed community of fishermen in NE Scotland in the '90s, negotiate red tape, oversee shipyards and deal with engineers, while coping with demanding shareholders and wayward employees. What began as a love affair with the romance of the sea became a battle to stay afloat – financially and literally. This is a lively account of an adventure like no other – and a voyage of self-discovery.
Mistress of Dragons
Author: Margaret Weis
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765343901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Fantasy roman.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765343901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Fantasy roman.
Mistress
Author: Anita Nair
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429998717
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
When travel writer Christopher Stewart arrives at a riverside resort in Kerala, India to meet Koman, Radha's uncle and a famous dancer, he enters a world of masks and repressed emotions. From their first meeting, both Radha and her uncle are drawn to the enigmatic young man with his cello and his incessant questions about the past. The triangle quickly excludes Shyam, Radha's husband, who can only watch helplessly as she embraces Chris with a passion that he has never been able to draw from her. Also playing the role of observer-participant is Koman; his life story, as it unfolds, captures all the nuances and contradictions of the relationships being made—and unmade—in front of his eyes. Booklist calls Mistress "Tempestuously exotic, Nair's intricately woven multicultural and multigenerational saga pulsates with passion and desire."
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429998717
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
When travel writer Christopher Stewart arrives at a riverside resort in Kerala, India to meet Koman, Radha's uncle and a famous dancer, he enters a world of masks and repressed emotions. From their first meeting, both Radha and her uncle are drawn to the enigmatic young man with his cello and his incessant questions about the past. The triangle quickly excludes Shyam, Radha's husband, who can only watch helplessly as she embraces Chris with a passion that he has never been able to draw from her. Also playing the role of observer-participant is Koman; his life story, as it unfolds, captures all the nuances and contradictions of the relationships being made—and unmade—in front of his eyes. Booklist calls Mistress "Tempestuously exotic, Nair's intricately woven multicultural and multigenerational saga pulsates with passion and desire."
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312863555
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Science fiction-roman.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312863555
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Science fiction-roman.
The Firebird's Vengeance
Author: Sarah Zettel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440543763
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Magic and the force of destiny propelled Bridget Lederle across the void between worlds, through the Land of Death and Spirit, to the world of Isavalta, where she discovered secrets about herself and her family that had been hidden since before her birth. It seems like only yesterday that a charismatic stranger swept her from her home on the shore of Lake Superior and took her on an impossible journey to a strange, bejeweled world where sorcery could spring from the simplest of patterns, with most serious effect. In Isavalta she also discovered magical powers she had never suspected she possessed before her transit between the worlds. More than self-knowledge has changed her: she is in love with Sakra, a powerful sorcerer and her staunch ally. And she learns that her daughter, who she thought was lost to her, is alive. But that daughter is also the pawn in a dangerous game of power and politics. The powerful spells of a ruler intent on conquest threaten to destroy both mother and daughter. Torn between the contending forces of magic and empire, Bridget lives an extraordinary adventure replete with unimaginable dangers. Beset by enemies on all sides, she must rely on the aid of supernatural forces she can’t control, lest she be destroyed by a fate she cannot imagine.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440543763
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Magic and the force of destiny propelled Bridget Lederle across the void between worlds, through the Land of Death and Spirit, to the world of Isavalta, where she discovered secrets about herself and her family that had been hidden since before her birth. It seems like only yesterday that a charismatic stranger swept her from her home on the shore of Lake Superior and took her on an impossible journey to a strange, bejeweled world where sorcery could spring from the simplest of patterns, with most serious effect. In Isavalta she also discovered magical powers she had never suspected she possessed before her transit between the worlds. More than self-knowledge has changed her: she is in love with Sakra, a powerful sorcerer and her staunch ally. And she learns that her daughter, who she thought was lost to her, is alive. But that daughter is also the pawn in a dangerous game of power and politics. The powerful spells of a ruler intent on conquest threaten to destroy both mother and daughter. Torn between the contending forces of magic and empire, Bridget lives an extraordinary adventure replete with unimaginable dangers. Beset by enemies on all sides, she must rely on the aid of supernatural forces she can’t control, lest she be destroyed by a fate she cannot imagine.
Doris Van Der Stratten, the Australian Mistress of the Japanese Commander of Kuala Lumpur
Author: Andrew Barber
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789834337261
Category : Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
"The true story of Doris van der Stratten, an Australian housewife who at the outset of the Second World War survived a massacre, a five-month trek through the jungles of Malaya, incarceration with POWs and then became the mistress of the Japanese Commander of the Kuala Lumpur Garrison, before finally and fatally encountering the Japanese military police - the dreaded Kempetei. This is the story of her extraordinary life and tragic death"--Back cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789834337261
Category : Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
"The true story of Doris van der Stratten, an Australian housewife who at the outset of the Second World War survived a massacre, a five-month trek through the jungles of Malaya, incarceration with POWs and then became the mistress of the Japanese Commander of the Kuala Lumpur Garrison, before finally and fatally encountering the Japanese military police - the dreaded Kempetei. This is the story of her extraordinary life and tragic death"--Back cover.
The Warlords of Woodmyst
Author: Robert E Kreig
Publisher: Whitekeep Books
ISBN: 0645235490
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Darkness approaches and death comes with it. The Mirikin advance. Their forces are mighty. Cities crumble and fall. Humanity burns. The White Witch returns for vengeance. This time, she has the Mistresses and their armies at her disposal. A prophecy is unveiled and a new power emerges in the form of a boy. Is he to become the great Maji spoken about by the members of the coven? Tomas Warde rises to the challenge of leading his people against familiar foes and strange creatures as battles against opposing forces attack from outside the village, and emotional conflict tests his strengths from within. With their allies disbanded and their world falling apart, the only hope mankind has left lies with Woodmyst.
Publisher: Whitekeep Books
ISBN: 0645235490
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Darkness approaches and death comes with it. The Mirikin advance. Their forces are mighty. Cities crumble and fall. Humanity burns. The White Witch returns for vengeance. This time, she has the Mistresses and their armies at her disposal. A prophecy is unveiled and a new power emerges in the form of a boy. Is he to become the great Maji spoken about by the members of the coven? Tomas Warde rises to the challenge of leading his people against familiar foes and strange creatures as battles against opposing forces attack from outside the village, and emotional conflict tests his strengths from within. With their allies disbanded and their world falling apart, the only hope mankind has left lies with Woodmyst.
Author:
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385445744
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385445744
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Master and Commander
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007255837
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Set sail for the read of your life! Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007255837
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Set sail for the read of your life! Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets.
The Alchemist's Agent Omnibus 1
Author: E.M. Burnham
Publisher: E.M. Burnham
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
Ibram Ucalegon is a private investigator in the strictest sense of the term. He only has one client: Lady Azadiya Hobon, the intelligent, poised, and beautiful alchemist who oversees the daily struggles of life in the alchemical village of Lityen, and he investigates whatever she tells him to. In a village crammed with foreign deities, potion pushers, and folk who can see through a man's skin straight to his bones, Ibram's the thoroughly mundane answer to every murky question. Together with his childhood friend, Ahksell Solari, alchemist and movable mountain, they tidy up the dark corners and murderous disputes of Lityen's population amidst the never-ending upheaval of merchants, adventurers, and displaced nobility seeking their fortunes. In The Gilty Party: Ibram thought he knew everything he needed to know about the death of Harken Tolk, but when the man who found him disappears before the inquest, Lady Azadiya has no choice but to reopen the investigation. Did Ibram sign off on a natural death, when the verdict should have been murder? Or is Rustam Monbrith hiding some other secret? In Cursebird On A Wire: Following a short period of unfortunate incarceration, Ibram buys his freedom by promising his jailer an introduction to Lady Azadiya. But on the day of the introductory gala, a cursebird flies in the face of everybody's plans. Can Lady Azadiya discover the culprit and save the party before Ibram trades in his smooth sailing for another hard landing? The Alchemist's Agent Omnibus 1 is a collection of two books in E.M. Burnham's standalone fantastical mystery series: The Alchemist's Agent. The books included are: The Gilty Party, the first book in the series, and Cursebird On A Wire, a prequel novella.
Publisher: E.M. Burnham
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
Ibram Ucalegon is a private investigator in the strictest sense of the term. He only has one client: Lady Azadiya Hobon, the intelligent, poised, and beautiful alchemist who oversees the daily struggles of life in the alchemical village of Lityen, and he investigates whatever she tells him to. In a village crammed with foreign deities, potion pushers, and folk who can see through a man's skin straight to his bones, Ibram's the thoroughly mundane answer to every murky question. Together with his childhood friend, Ahksell Solari, alchemist and movable mountain, they tidy up the dark corners and murderous disputes of Lityen's population amidst the never-ending upheaval of merchants, adventurers, and displaced nobility seeking their fortunes. In The Gilty Party: Ibram thought he knew everything he needed to know about the death of Harken Tolk, but when the man who found him disappears before the inquest, Lady Azadiya has no choice but to reopen the investigation. Did Ibram sign off on a natural death, when the verdict should have been murder? Or is Rustam Monbrith hiding some other secret? In Cursebird On A Wire: Following a short period of unfortunate incarceration, Ibram buys his freedom by promising his jailer an introduction to Lady Azadiya. But on the day of the introductory gala, a cursebird flies in the face of everybody's plans. Can Lady Azadiya discover the culprit and save the party before Ibram trades in his smooth sailing for another hard landing? The Alchemist's Agent Omnibus 1 is a collection of two books in E.M. Burnham's standalone fantastical mystery series: The Alchemist's Agent. The books included are: The Gilty Party, the first book in the series, and Cursebird On A Wire, a prequel novella.