Author: Earle W. Jacobs Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1462843689 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 103
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Are you ready to take on the Russian Mafia and assorted felons and rogues? How would you like to go adventuring to some far-off exotic land where not too many go? Would you like to meet some interesting people, maybe even a few beautiful young women? Do you like your yarns to be livened with a little humor here and there? If you do, you are bound to like Arthur Penobscot Smythe III, one of the main characters in this novel. And-----if you like this story, there is a sequel about ready to be out in print. Look for the mysterious, Madame O.
Author: Catherine King Publisher: Sphere ISBN: 0748119213 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 257
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Promises Beth thought marrying gentleman farmer Edgar Collins would rescue her from a life of endless servitude, but her future would be bleaker than she could ever imagine . . . Pain When the legitimacy of her twin babies is questioned, the tiny infants are sent far away. James is adopted by Edgar's uncle, the very wealthy Lord Redfern, master of Redfern Abbey. But Daisy is sent to a cold-hearted childless couple who raise her to be a maid, rather than a daughter. Passion When Daisy, at sixteen, finally escapes her hard life with her adoptive brother Boyd, they arrive at the Abbey to seek work. Little does Daisy know that her flesh and blood is the next in line to be lord of the Abbey. There is a strange connection between Daisy and James, something they can neither explain nor ignore. But will the truth be discovered in time?
Author: Diane Schoemperlen Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101126973 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 299
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One Monday morning in April, a middle-aged writer walks into her living room to water the plants and finds a woman standing beside her potted fig tree. Dressed in a navy blue trench coat and white Nikes, the woman introduces herself as "Mary. Mother of God.... You know. Mary." Instead of a golden robe or a crown, she arrives bearing a practical wheeled suitcase. Weary after two thousand years of adoration and petition, Mary is looking for a little R & R. She's asked in for lunch, and decides to stay a week. As the story of their visit unfolds, so does the story of Mary-one of the most complex and powerful female figures of our time-and her changing image in culture, art, history, as well as the thousands of recorded sightings that have placed her everywhere from a privet hedge to the dented bumper of a Camaro. As this Everywoman and Mary become friends, their conversations, both profound and intimate, touch upon Mary's significance and enduring relevance. Told with humor and grace, Our Lady of the Lost and Found is an absorbing tour through Mary's history and a thoughtful meditation on spirituality, our need for faith, and our desire to believe in something larger than ourselves.
Author: Overton Chambers Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1504909755 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 337
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This story involves natives of High Glen, or those that have come to love the area. An unsolved mystery plagues some of its people along with a claim of inheritance by others. Some have ties to Scotland and this is depicted through out the story. High Glen, NC may have the flavor of a Norman Rockwell painting, but things arent always as they seem. An old scrapbook containing letters from the past unveil the mystery that has shrouded Maxwell Hall for years. LOST AND FOUND A 20 year old newspaper article resurfaces about a child gone missing and stirs a hornets nest of controversy. A controversy destined to be investigated by a Savannah, GA newspaper columnist. LOST AND FOUND Family secrets, deceit from the unsuspecting, newfound romance and more in this intriguing tale reminds us that all is not lost, but sometimes they are This story involves natives of High Glen, or those that have come to love the area. An unsolved mystery plagues some of its people along with a claim of inheritance by others. Some have ties to Scotland and this is depicted through out the story. High Glen, NC may have the flavor of a Norman Rockwell painting, but things arent always as they seem. An old scrapbook containing letters from the past unveil the mystery that has shrouded Maxwell Hall for years. LOST AND FOUND A 20 year old newspaper article resurfaces about a child gone missing and stirs a hornets nest of controversy. A controversy destined to be investigated by a Savannah, GA newspaper columnist. LOST AND FOUND Family secrets, deceit from the unsuspecting, newfound romance and more in this intriguing tale reminds us that all is not lost, but sometimes they are LOST AND FOUND
Author: Emma L.E.Rees Publisher: University of Chester ISBN: 1908258578 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 181
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He is my miracle, says Sarah Frost Mellor's protagonist, of her lover, Joe: Found by accident, in the least likely of places. Sarah won the 2012 Cheshire Prize for Literature with her short story Udumbara in Lytham St Anne's, and it's in this modest seaside town that Lost and Found begins. Reading through the stories in this collection, the reader will find many things: surreal flotsam on a desolate beach; a love letter mislaid for decades; turns of phrase in a classroom; relationships shaped in unusual settings. But to find something means simultaneously to acknowledge the possibility of loss. And loss figures largely in the anthology, too: from beloved relatives, to despised spouses, and from inconsequential objects to an individual s very sense of self, life's losses are portrayed here in a variety of humorous, dark, and frequently surprising ways. The Cheshire Prize for Literature was inaugurated in 2003 as the High Sheriff s Cheshire Prize for Literature. It is funded by the Bank of America Europe Card Services and is administered by the University of Chester. The 2012 competition was for short stories,and this collection contains 24 of the shortlisted entries, including those of the eventual winner. Details of the Prize are available at: http://www.chester.ac.uk/literatureprize
Author: Hiraku Shimoda Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 1684175399 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 181
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"Lost and Found offers a new understanding of modern Japanese regionalism by revealing the tense and volatile historical relationship between region and nation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Aizu, a star-crossed region in present-day Fukushima prefecture, becomes a case study for how one locale was estranged from nationhood for its treasonous blunder in the Meiji Restoration, yet eventually found a useful place within the imperial landscape. Local mythmakers—historians, memoirists, war veterans, and others—harmonized their rebel homeland with imperial Japan so as to affirm, ironically, the ultimate integrity of the Japanese polity. What was once “lost” and then “found” again was not simply Aizu’s sense of place and identity, but the larger value of regionalism in a rapidly modernizing society. In this study, Hiraku Shimoda suggests that “region,” which is often regarded as a hard, natural place that impedes national unity, is in fact a supple and contingent spatial category that can be made to reinforce nationalist sensibilities just as much as internal diversity."
Author: Mark Landon Jarvis Publisher: Mark Landon Jarvis ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 393
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All is lost. After five years of destruction and chaos, a brainwashed world careens towards annihilation. An unlikely cast of characters pulls it together with bootstrapped tech on borrowed time to beat back corporate giants and contain the mindless mob. It's the fight of their lives in this near-future sci-fi thriller. Ashley Winston's lost it all--her lover, her reputation, and her empire... All is lost. After five years of destruction and chaos, a brainwashed world careens towards annihilation. An unlikely cast of characters pulls it together with bootstrapped tech on borrowed time to beat back corporate giants and contain the mindless mob. It's the fight of their lives in this near-future sci-fi thriller. Ashley Winston's lost it all--her lover, her reputation, and her empire. Rival corporations have stolen and weaponized the Rainmakers, her father's airships. She can't resist a good fight, and for her and her ragtag crew, this is The Good Fight. How can they win against the infinite resources of an emerging teleportation corporate giant, the Port Authority? If Winston fails, this showdown in Wyoming will establish one iron-fisted powerhouse to rule them all. Laramie locals and Eat the Rich rebels join the fray. Already impossible odds just get worse when the fight draws unwarranted attention from the future. Relentless, no quarter warriors descend by the dozen. These time traveling huntsmen will stop at nothing to get the results they came for. Surviving all this in the shadow of a Lightning's Hand seems less likely with every chapter. You've found the read you need. Get it now.
Author: Danielle Steel Publisher: Delacorte Press ISBN: 039917947X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 290
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Spurred by old memories and a life-changing accident, Madison embarks on a cross-country adventure to reconnect with three very different men to reevaluate her past choices.
Author: Earle W. Jacobs
Author: Catherine King
Author: Diane Schoemperlen
Author: Samuel Byram Halliday
Author: Michael Cadnum
Author: Overton Chambers
Author: Emma L.E.Rees
Author: Hiraku Shimoda
Author: Mark Landon Jarvis
Author: Danielle Steel