Download or read book Mr Chen s Emporium written by Deborah O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A real charmer and a fine debut.' - Deborah Rodriguez, author of The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul. Mr Chen's Emporium is an enchanting tale of forbidden love and following one's heart... In 1872, seventeen - year - old Amy Duncan arrives in the Gold Rush town of Millbrooke, having spent the coach journey daydreaming about glittering pavilions and gilded steeples. What she finds is a dusty main street lined with ramshackle buildings. That is until she walks through the doors of Mr Chen's Emporium, a veritable Aladdin's cave, and her life changes forever. Though banned from the store by her dour clergyman father, Amy is entranced by its handsome owner, Charles Chen ... In present - day Millbrooke, recently widowed artist Angie Wallace has rented the Old Manse where Amy once lived. When her landlord produces an antique trunk containing Amy's intriguingly diverse keepsakes - both Oriental and European - Angie resolves to learn more about this mysterious girl from the past. And it's not long before the lives of two very different women, born a century apart, become connected in the most poignant and timeless ways.
Download or read book The Last Crimefighter written by Bradley S. Hartman and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been twenty-five years since the world collapsed. The great cities left to ruin. Three quarters of the worlds population dead from a man made disease only known as The Reaping. Great minds lost. Technology stopped. Mankind in an attempt to survive, rebuilt several cities in the image of an long ago and almost forgotten, World Fairs. The grandest of these cities, White City rests on the shores of the Great Lake, where humankind has returned to steam, to power its needs. The people now adapted to steam power, live in a world mixed with the wonders of two eras, where societies lower classes are classified, ranked and placed. Then, rumors of a Hero from the past spread. Some say, to fight the latest form of government and bring hope back to the people of White City. With the backing of the Council of Literary Research, Ryan Fuggles and a very surprising ally, the startling beautiful, Miss Ophelia Whitecastle must find, not only a legend from the past, but together they must find a magical place once known as, Riverview. It is up to these two to succeed, if humankind is to ever dream again.
Download or read book When You Wish Upon a Lantern written by Gloria Chao and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed author Gloria Chao creates real-world magic in this luminous romance about teens who devote themselves to granting other people's wishes but are too afraid to let themselves have their own hearts' desires—each other. Liya and Kai had been best friends since they were little kids, but all that changed when a humiliating incident sparked The Biggest Misunderstanding of All Time—and they haven’t spoken since. Then Liya discovers her family's wishing lantern store is struggling, and she decides to resume a tradition she had with her beloved late grandmother: secretly fulfilling the wishes people write on the lanterns they send into the sky. It may boost sales and save the store, but she can't do it alone . . . and Kai is the only one who cares enough to help. While working on their covert missions, Liya and Kai rekindle their friendship—and maybe more. But when their feuding families and changing futures threaten to tear them apart again, can they find a way to make their own wishes come true?
Download or read book New Statesman written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Statesman written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seduced by Crimson The Jade Lee Romantic Fantasies Book 4 written by Jade Lee and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ago Los Angeles became Crimson City, a glittering home and sometimes battleground for humans, werewolves, and vampires. But the veil between Crimson City and the Demon World has been torn, and the demons want Earth for their own. There exist few who can oppose the Dark Ones: Patrick, the Druid's Draig-Uisge, is one. Able to shape energy to harm or heal, Patrick must first have something to bend, and such power can come from only one source: Xiao Fei, the Phoenix Tear. Xiao's blood is the key, coupled with her ecstasy. Her union with Patrick is Earth's salvation. As foes rise from every shadow, and peril infuses every caress, redemption and oblivion lay with one woman being SEDUCED BY CRIMSON. REVIEWS: "Starts off running and never lets up." ~Sinclair Reid "A totally engrossing story." ~ParaNormal Romance THE JADE LEE ROMANTIC FANTASIES, Dragonborn Dragonbound A Magic King Seduced by Crimson Sexy Bites OTHER SERIES by Jade Lee The Regency Rags to Riches Series A Lady's Lessons Series
Download or read book United States Economist and Dry Goods Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Pointed Death written by Kath Russell and published by Katharine Russell. This book was released on 2010 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When techno whiz Nola Billingsley finds her former employee, an amoral creep who was stealing from startup companies, dead, she doesn't shed tears. But she is determined to sovle the crime, even as she begins falling for the detective assigned to the case. Soon, though, both her life and her love are on the line. With the help of her shorthaired pointer Skootch and the stunning backdrop of San Francisco, Nola unravels a helix of clues to find a murderer. 'A Pointed Death' reinterprets the thriller as never before. Smart, funny, and full of plot twists and turns, 'A Pointed Death' introduces a feisty female heroine solving crimes in the world of high finance, bioscience, and technology." --
Download or read book The Trivia Man written by Deborah O'Brien and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Mr Chen’s Emporium comes a quirky and heartwarming tale about finding your true place in the world, set against the backdrop of a weekly trivia competition. ‘Trivia is a serious business, not a social occasion’ Kevin Dwyer, the 'trivia man' Dubbed ‘brainbox’ by his peers and ‘weirdo’ by his sister, Kevin Dwyer is a middle-aged forensic accountant who has never had a real friend, other than his eight-year-old nephew Patrick. When Kevin joins the Clifton Park Sports Club trivia competition as a one-man team, and convincingly wins the first round, he is headhunted by the other contestants. But Kevin would prefer to be on his own. That is, until he meets Maggie Taylor . . . Maggie is a Latin teacher and movie buff, who’s good at her job but unlucky in love. In fact, she’s still besotted with the man who dumped her years ago. Nagged by her friend Carole about getting out and meeting people, Maggie reluctantly joins the trivia team founded by Carole’s husband Edward. Over a season of trivia nights, Kevin, Maggie and her team will experience arguments and crises, friendships and romances, heartbreaks and new beginnings. And maybe, just maybe, Kevin will find his happy ever after ...
Download or read book Millard s Review of the Far East written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 34 includes "Special tariff conference issue" Nov. 6, 1925.
Download or read book A Place of Her Own written by Deborah O'Brien and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling novel of starting over from the author of Mr Chen's Emporium. Eighteen months ago Angie Wallace thought her world had ended. Now she's fighting off suitors – and facing a crisis she never saw coming . . . ‘Unrequited love hurt like hell – whether you were fifteen or fifty-something.’ Following the death of her beloved husband Phil, Angie has made a new life for herself in the enchanting gold rush town of Millbrooke. The proud proprietor of the Old Manse B&B and a fierce protector of local history, her transition from ‘blow-in’ to bona fide Millbrooker is complete. She’s even fallen for the erudite but scruffy Richard Scott, owner of Millerbrooke House. But just as the relationship between Angie and Richard seems to be blossoming, a woman from his past arrives back in town – and turns their world upside down. Because Diana Goodmann isn’t all she seems, and when Angie vows to unearth the truth about her rival she finds herself a long way from home - and in very grave danger.
Download or read book International Commerce written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art Index Retrospective written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When We Were Orphans written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-01-16 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born in early twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition—and that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust as the people around him. Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, When We Were Orphans offers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility of avenging one’s past.
Download or read book On Their Own Terms written by Benjamin A. Elman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations of Hindu-Arabic origin, Tychonic cosmology, Euclidian geometry, and various computational advances. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, imperial reformers, early Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Chinese Communists have all prioritized science and technology. In this book, Elman gives a nuanced account of the ways in which native Chinese science evolved over four centuries, under the influence of both Jesuit and Protestant missionaries. In the end, he argues, the Chinese produced modern science on their own terms.
Download or read book Building Shanghai written by Edward Denison and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shanghai's illustrious history and phenomenal future is celebrated in this book, which examines the evolution of the city's architecture and urban form in order to contextualise the challenges facing the city today. The physical legacies that reflect Shanghai's uniqueness historically and contemporarily are examined chronologically using specific case studies of exemplary architecture interwoven in a compelling narrative that unlocks the many mysteries surrounding this amazing metropolis. Some of the most influential colonial architecture in the world, outstanding examples of Modernism and Art Deco, and an exceptional selection of eclectic and vernacular architecture reflecting Shanghai's many adopted cultures are revealed. This is the first book ever to examine this remarkable subject in a manner that is both comprehensive and captivating in its written content and stunningly illustrated with over 300 archive and contemporary photographs and maps.
