Download or read book My Friends the MacLeans written by Jane Duncan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Janet, what do you mean? What has been going on between you and that bloody boy?' When Janet Alexander learns that young Roddy Maclean intends to defy his parents and become a writer, not an engineer, she readily helps him run away from St Jago. Her impulsive action infuriates Rob and Marion Maclean, and harsh words end a long friendship. Interwoven with Janet's discovery of deeper currents under the placid surface of the Paradise estate, are unrest among the plantation workers, the convalescence of Twice Alexander, and the advent of Madame Dulac's grandson Edward, who falls more than a little in love with Janet. Not until Roddy unexpectedly returns to the island does Janet come to know the truth about her friends the Macleans . . .
Download or read book My Friends the Macleans written by Jane DUNCAN and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Friends the Macleans written by Jane Duncan and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1972-05-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A River Runs through It and Other Stories written by Norman MacLean and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling classic set amid the mountains and streams of early twentieth-century Montana, “as beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway” (Chicago Tribune). When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, “it has trees in it.” Today, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture—for fly-fishing, for the woods, for the interlocked beauty of life and art—A River Runs Through It has established itself as a classic of the American West filled with beautiful prose and understated emotional insights. Based on Maclean’s own experiences as a young man, the book’s two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in Maclean’s own words, “a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.” “Maclean’s book—acerbic, laconic, deadpan—rings out of a rich American tradition that includes Mark Twain, Kin Hubbard, Richard Bissell, Jean Shepherd, and Nelson Algren.” —New York Times Book Review Includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award–winning film adaptation
Download or read book My Five Cambridge Friends written by Yuri Modin and published by Ballantine Canada. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a story worthy of le Carre --but it is all true. Yuri Modin's account is unique. For the first time ever, the KGB minder of the most notorious double agents of the 20th century reveals the details of their lives and the roles they played in the secret history and politics of our time.
Download or read book Home Waters written by John N. Maclean and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Beautiful. ... A lyrical companion to his father’s classic, A River Runs through It, chronicling their family’s history and bond with Montana’s Blackfoot River.” —Washington Post A "poetic" and "captivating" (Publishers Weekly) memoir about the power of place to shape generations, Home Waters is John N. Maclean's remarkable chronicle of his family's century-long love affair with Montana's majestic Blackfoot River, the setting for his father's classic novella, A River Runs through It. Maclean returns annually to the simple family cabin that his grandfather built by hand, still in search of the trout of a lifetime. When he hooks it at last, decades of longing promise to be fulfilled, inspiring John, reporter and author, to finally write the story he was born to tell. A book that will resonate with everyone who feels deeply rooted to a landscape, Home Waters is a portrait of a family who claimed a river, from one generation to the next, of how this family came of age in the 20th century and later as they scattered across the country, faced tragedy and success, yet were always drawn back to the waters that bound them together. Here are the true stories behind the beloved characters fictionalized in A River Runs through It, including the Reverend Maclean, the patriarch who introduced the family to fishing; Norman, who balanced a life divided between literature and the tug of the rugged West; and tragic yet luminous Paul (played by Brad Pitt in Robert Redford’s film adaptation), whose mysterious death has haunted the family and led John to investigate his uncle’s murder and reveal new details in these pages. A universal story about nature, family, and the art of fly fishing, Maclean’s memoir beautifully captures the inextricable ways our personal histories are linked to the places we come from—our home waters. Featuring twelve wood engravings by Wesley W. Bates and a map of the Blackfoot River region.
Download or read book Captured by the Highlander written by Julianne MacLean and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she is kidnapped by her people's sworn enemy, Highland warrior Duncan MacLean, bride-to-be Lady Amelia Sutherland is drawn to this tortured man who is using her as a pawn in a dangerous game of vengeance and war.
Download or read book Missing Man written by Katherine MacLean and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Sanford has a gift for guessing right the first time and very little else going for him. When Ahmed and his other friends graduate school and got jobs in The City, George finds himself left behind. He never wanted to sign his name, let alone fill out applications and reports. Then George bumps into the Rescue Squad and is swept up in the excitement of a hunt for a trapped girl. It is George who finds her with his special talent for guessing right ... and it is George who suddenly becomes the pride of the Rescue Squad. With a friend running interference for him with the bureaucracy, George lands a place for himself as a "consultant" - and the more he works, the more his strange talents grow. With each success George begins to change. Using his special talents to rescue a computer technician from a gang of revolutionaries, he finds he has become a pawn in a mad iconoclastic game. A game where his own talents pose the greatest threat to The City - and the world!
Download or read book How I Learned to Hate in Ohio written by David Stuart MacLean and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, hilarious, and ultimately devastating debut novel about how racial discord grows in America In late-1980s rural Ohio, bright but mostly friendless Barry Nadler begins his freshman year of high school with the goal of going unnoticed as much as possible. But his world is upended by the arrival of Gurbaksh, Gary for short, a Sikh teenager who moves to his small town and instantly befriends Barry and, in Gatsby-esque fashion, pulls him into a series of increasingly unlikely adventures. As their friendship deepens, Barry’s world begins to unravel, and his classmates and neighbors react to the presence of a family so different from theirs. Through darkly comic and bitingly intelligent asides and wry observations, Barry reveals how the seeds of xenophobia and racism find fertile soil in this insular community, and in an easy, graceless, unintentional slide, tragedy unfolds. How I Learned to Hate in Ohio shines an uncomfortable light on the roots of white middle-American discontent and the beginnings of the current cultural war. It is at once bracingly funny, dark, and surprisingly moving, an undeniably resonant debut novel for our divided world.
Download or read book The 29th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK Katherine MacLean written by Katherine MacLean and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katherine MacLean (born January 22, 1925) is an American science fiction author best known for her short fiction of the 1950s, which often examined the impact of technological advances on individuals and society. This volume collects 8 of her classic science fiction stories: Contagion Pictures Don’t Lie The Snowball Effect The Man Who Staked The Stars The Carnivore Games The Natives If you enjoy this volume of classic stories, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 270+ other entries in this series, including science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, adventure, horror, westerns -- and much, much more!
Download or read book Mona Maclean Medical Student written by Graham Travers and published by Edinburgh and London : W. Blackwood. This book was released on 1894 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Friend the Swallow written by Jane Duncan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'She was very small with fragile birdlike bones, and although she had slept in the white shirt and shorts she still looked fresh and airy, as if she had just flown in from the open sky . . . ' When Janet Sandison returns to her Caribbean home from a holiday in Scotland she finds her husband Twice Alexander wonderfully restored to his old self, full of hope for the future and no longer haunted by the illness which had shadowed their lives for several years. Sir Ian has made him Manager of the Paradise sugar mills, with gawky young Mackie as his assistant; but Janet senses that almost the main contribution to his recovery is the arrival on the island of a girl who is keeping house for a team of young social workers, whom the island has nicknamed the 'Teeth and Feet people'. For Twice this is the daughter he has never had, but for Janet the relationship is more complicated. The girl has flown into Janet's house and Twice's heart but seems somehow always ready to take wing again, like the swallows of Janet's beloved childhood home, Reachfar. This is a wise story of ends and beginnings, for the lives of not only Janet and her husband but of all their friends in St Jago and in Scotland are moving on, changing and developing in a way which holds sadness and fortitude, gaiety and love, all woven together with that mixture of humour, hard sense and understanding which make Jane Duncan's novels such engrossing reading.
Download or read book S G MacLean Captain Damian Seeker Books 1 to 5 written by S. G. MacLean and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 1849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the story from start to finish with this complete collection of the Captain Damian Seeker Series from prize-winning author S. G. MacLean. London, 1654. Oliver Cromwell is at the height of his power and has declared himself Lord Protector. Yet he has many enemies, at home and abroad. The city is a teeming warren of spies and merchants, priests and soldiers, exiles and assassins. One of the web's most fearsome spiders is Damian Seeker, agent of the Lord Protector. No one knows where Seeker comes from, who his family is, or even his real name. All that is known of him for certain is that he is utterly loyal to Cromwell, and that nothing can be hidden from him. Spies, plotters and murderers have all met their match in the mysterious and cutthroat Seeker. Join him as he roots out royalist plots and investigates murders in this thrilling series. ************************* Praise for S. G. MacLean 'MacLean's characters are subtle and convincing' Sunday Times 'One of the best writers of historical crime' The Times 'Gold-plated research' Daily Mail 'Transports your body and soul to another time and place' Craig Russell 'A delight on all levels . . . engaging and moving' Manda Scott 'MacLean is a terrific storyteller' Big Issue
Download or read book S G MacLean Alexander Seaton Books 1 to 4 written by S. G. MacLean and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the story from start to finish with this complete collection of the Alexander Seaton Series from prize-winning author S. G. MacLean. Scotland, 1620s. Alexander Seaton's life is in tatters. Once a minister, he has been cast out of the kirk in disgrace after his affair with the Laird's daughter was discovered. When a body is discovered in Seaton's house and his own friend is accused of murder, Seaton decides to investigate. And so begins a new chapter of his life. Join Seaton as sets he investigates poisoners, witchcraft and murder - embarking on a journey through the darkest parts of other men's souls, as well as his own. A sleuth to rival Shardlake and Cadfael, these are the perfect novels for readers of Rory Clements and S. J. Parris. ******************* Praise for S. G. MacLean 'Transports your body and soul to another time and place' Craig Russell 'A delight on all levels . . . engaging and moving' Manda Scott 'MacLean is a terrific storyteller' Big Issue 'Truly memorable and exciting' Historical Novels Review 'Seaton is a compelling flawed yet indomitable figure' Scottish Field
Download or read book Mona Maclean Medical Student written by Graham Travers and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-08-21 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mona Maclean, Medical Student: A Novel" by Graham Travers is a book written by a Scottish doctor. The book follows the titular character as she faces the intense trials and tribulations of studying medicine in the early 1900s. It's an eye-opening look at just how difficult learning to be a doctor is.
Download or read book The Season written by Sarah MacLean and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-old Lady Alexandra Stafford doesn't fit into the world of Regency London. Somehow between ball gown fittings, dances, and dinner parties, Alex and her friends manage to get entangled in her biggest scrape yet.
Download or read book A Memoir of John Maclean M D the First Professor of Chemistry in the College of New Jersey written by John Maclean and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
