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Author: Jane Parkhurst
Publisher: Jove
ISBN: 9780515043341
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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Author: Jinny Alexander
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735392615
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Women's fiction book describing the fallout and recovery from an affair and its effect on both families. Two marriages. A bucket full of dreams and a pile of broken hearts. She's not sharing her name. She's been judged enough. She's known as a wife, mother, friend, and to one person-a lover. In a tiny Irish village she runs a business with family friends. Except it doesn't stay only business. In love with a man not her husband, she becomes the other woman, the marriage wrecker, the cheat and the betrayer. When the illicit relationship ends and is discovered, she's stuck between the ruined affair and a crumbling marriage. Jobless and heartbroken she must discover what she can salvage. Will talking to Isobel help pick up the pieces or shatter their lives forever?

Author: James Oliver Curwood
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8726611236
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181

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Sergeant Billy MacVeigh and his partner Pelliter are tasked to defend the outpost of Point Fullerton. They are all alone in the Canadian Northwest, hundreds of miles from civilisation. Their last mission, right before the end of their service, is to find and arrest the ruthless murderer Scottie Deane. Part of the mission is also to capture Eskimo women traders, if they come across any of them. How will Billy and Pelliter deal with the frozen wilderness? Will they finally capture the elusive Deane? Can someone help them to find the murderer? Find all the answers in James Oliver Curwood’s rough and tumble adventure novel "Isobel" from 1913. James Oliver Curwood (1878 - 1927) was an American writer as well as an unwavering nature lover and conservationist. As such, many of Curwood’s action-adventure stories were based on real events from the rugged landscapes of the American Northwest. He built himself Curwood Castle, which he used as a writing studio and as a place to greet guests. More than 150 motion pictures have been adapted to or directly inspired by his novels.

Author: Isobel English
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781574231991
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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A brief, elegant, rediscovered novel of the Fifties, much in the vein of the author's mentor Muriel Spark, about an Englishwoman who misunderstands her and her family's past."

Author: James Oliver Curwood
Publisher: New York; Grosset & Dunlap
ISBN:
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Author: Frank Bridge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Songs (High voice) with piano
Languages : en
Pages : 5

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Author: Alan Reed
Publisher: Coach House Books
ISBN: 1552452271
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Told in a stark, minimalist voice, Isobel and Emile is the hypnotizing story of two lovers without each other. It is about staying true to what they hold dear, no matter that it is hopeless and that nothing will ever come of it, because sometimes that is all that is left. And sometimes, it is enough.

Author: Harriet Miller Davidson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Author: Amy Witting
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1922148741
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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Winner of the Barbara Ramsden Prize, 1990. This was life: no sooner had you built yourself your little raft and felt secure than it came to pieces under you and you were swimming again. Born into a world without welcome, Isobel observes it as warily as an alien trying to pass for a native. Her collection of imaginary friends includes the Virgin Mary and Sherlock Holmes. Later she meets Byron, W.H. Auden and T.S. Eliot. Isobel is not so much at ease with the flesh-and-blood people she meets, and least of all with herself, until a lucky encounter and a little detective work reveal her identity and her true situation in life. I for Isobel, a modern-day Australian classic, was followed by Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop, winner of the Age Book of the Year Award. Amy Witting was born in Annandale, an inner suburb of Sydney, in 1918. She attended Sydney University, then taught French and English in state schools. Beginning late in life she published six novels, including The Visit, I for Isobel, Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop and Maria's War; two collections of short stories; two books of verse, Travel Diary and Beauty is the Straw; and her Collected Poems. 'When we come to write the history of Australian writing in the twentieth century, the strange case of Amy Witting will be there to haunt us. Here is a writer who not only has great gifts - the kind of expert and mimetic gifts that would impel instant recognition from someone who admired a fine-lined American naturalist like William Maxwell - but a realist who has an effortless immediacy and a compelling sense of drama that should have ensured the widest kind of appeal, the sort of appeal that Helen Garner could command in her fiction-writing days. And yet this woman who published in the New Yorker and commanded the respect of Kenneth Slessor was scarcely encouraged during the long grey sleep of Australian fiction publishing. It wasn't until the publication of I for Isobel...that Witting gained a national profile.' Peter Craven 'Australia's Amy Witting is comparable to Jean Rhys, but she has more starch, or vinegar. The effect is bracing.' New Yorker 'Isobel is instinctively searching for a lost part of her substance, the very memory of which has been obliterated. Prompted by her inexplicable sense of loss, she goes on her way, deviating, baffled, yet rejecting substitutes. To call the ending happy is to say both too much and too little. Was the lost part also searching for her? Amy Witting's admirers will find this novel as distinctive and compelling as her stories and her poetry.' Jessica Anderson '[Witting] lays bare with surgical precision the dynamics of families, sibling, students in coffee shops, office coteries. One sometimes feels positively winded with unsettling insights. There is something relentless, almost unnerving in her anatomising of foibles, fears obsessions, private shame, the nature of loneliness, the nature of panic.' Janette Turner Hospital 'A beautifully but unobtrusively honed style, a marvellous ear for dialogue, a generous understanding of the complex waywardness of men and women.' Andrew Riemer 'Terrific - incredibly wise...When I finished it I went straight back to the first page.' Cate Kennedy

Author: Carol Townend
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460315715
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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His Lady in Waiting In her long years at the convent, waiting for her betrothed, Lady Isobel de Turenne has built the Comte d'Aveyron into a fantasy—a man who will rescue, protect and love her.… But when the comte finally returns to claim his bride, Isobel finds instead a man of contradictions—one who masks dark secrets with desire. Wary of a man's touch but desperate to grasp her new freedom, Isobel must decide if it's solely duty forcing the comte to marry or whether he is truly her longed-for champion.