Download or read book Backroom on the Hill written by Gail Elizabeth and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-22 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cloak of secrecy was deep. The forbidden was bittersweet. The bitter made her strong; the sweet made her weak. Muzzled to never speak. Hands of time untied knots. Things once tightly locked up fell open and fell apart. The demise broke her heart. She was spent. She gave all that she could give. Heal the child so the woman can live. Heal the child so the woman can live!
Download or read book Backroom Boys written by Francis Spufford and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, beautiful account of how British boffins triumphed across the decades in creating everything from computer games to Martian landers. The book contains chapters on the Beagle II, Elite - the 80s computer game, the Blue Streak missile, Concorde, mobile phone technology and the Human Genome Project, among others. Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit. Starting with this forgotten episode, 'Backroom Boys' tells the bittersweet story of how one country lost its industrial tradition and got back something else. Sad, inspiring, funny and ultimately triumphant, it follows the technologists whose work kept Concorde flying, created the computer game, conquered the mobile-phone business, saved the human genome for the human race - and who now are sending the Beagle 2 probe to burrow in the cinnamon sands of Mars. 'Backroom Boys' is a vivid love-letter to quiet men in pullovers, to those whose imaginings take shape not in words but in mild steel and carbon fibre and lines of code. Above all, it is a celebration of big dreams achieved with slender means.
Download or read book The Secret Bedroom written by R.L. Stine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lea Carson can’t believe it when her family moves into the creepy old house on Fear Street. Creepiest of all is the secret room up in the attic. The room has been locked and boarded up for at least a hundred years. A murder was committed in that room, the story goes, and it has been closed up ever since. Lea knows she should stay away. But she thinks she hears footsteps inside the secret room. And voices. Someone—or something—is waiting for Lea in there. Should she open the door? Can she resist?
Download or read book The Small Back Room written by Nigel Balchin and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secrets written by Robert Noonan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third and final story from Robert Noonan's Orphan Train Trilogy, Secrets explores the fate of orphan children who arrived on an orphan train during the late 1800s to find a new life in the Midwest. Who adopts them is the key to their happiness or sorrow. Despite harboring secrets from a past filled with physical abuse, shame, murder, and prostitution, the children and their new parents begin a new and exciting life. But overcoming their haunting memories won't be easy. After fleeing from their home following a horrible crime, Hillary and her new parents, John and Kate Hanley, have found a new life in Galena, Illinois. Hillary longs to visit her former hometown and reunite with her friends in the club called the Wildflowers. But going back could mean the ruin of her new family. Filled with vivid historical detail and heartfelt emotion, Noonan delivers a compelling look at a little-known event in American history.
Download or read book The Secret of the Sealed Room written by Bailey MacDonald and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play’s the thing . . . To the outside world, Tom Pryne is an orphan traveling Elizabethan England with his uncle’s theater troupe. In actuality, “Tom” is Viola, in disguise because her parents’ Catholic sympathies have put them at odds with the Crown and forced them into hiding. When the troupe arrives in the sleepy little town of Stratford-on-Avon, Viola’s uncle is arrested for murder, and she joins forces with an irksome local boy, named Will Shakespeare, with an active imagination, a penchant for trouble, and a smart turn of phrase, to uncover the real culprit. A perfect blend of humor, drama, and adventure and a rich evocation of 16th-century England inform this fresh and original historical mystery that introduces an appealing pair of amateur sleuths.
Download or read book Justice in the Back Room written by Selwyn Raab and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret written by Elizabeth Hunter and published by Recurve Press, LLC. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only when the darkness falls can you see the light of the stars. For thousands of years, the scribes and singers of the Irin race have existed to protect humanity and guard the gifts of the Forgiven. They have lived in the shadows. They have kept their secrets. But the Irin aren’t the only race with secrets. Ava and Malachi have survived the darkness, but will they ever discover the light? A powerful cabal of the Fallen may hold the answers, but to surrender them, it wants the Irin race to finally face their enemies. Both those coming from the outside and those raging within. The Secret is the third book the Irin Chronicles, a contemporary fantasy series by Elizabeth Hunter, USA Today bestselling author of the Elemental Mysteries.
Download or read book Approaches to Teaching the Works of Carmen Mart n Gaite written by Joan L. Brown and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The career of Spain's celebrated author Carmen Martín Gaite spanned the Spanish Civil War, Franco's dictatorship, and the nation's transition to democracy. She wrote fiction, poetry, drama, screenplays for television and film, and books of literary and cultural analysis. The only person to win Spain's National Prize for Literature (Premio Nacional de las Letras) twice, Martín Gaite explored and blended a range of genres, from social realism to the fantastic, as she took up issues of gender, class, economics, and aesthetics in a time of political upheaval. Part 1 ("Materials") of this volume provides resources for instructors and a literary-historical chronology. The essays in part 2 ("Approaches") consider Martín Gaite's best-known novel, The Back Room (El cuarto de atrás), and other works from various perspectives: narratological, feminist, sociocultural, stylistic. In an appendix, the volume editor, who was a friend of the author, provides a new translation of Martín Gaite's only autobiographical sketch, alongside the original Spanish.
Download or read book The Vampires Secret written by Sebastian Sabir and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sebastian Sabir was born on the 25th of March 2000. He grew up in Emerton. His dad is a teacher and his mum; well, she is looking after the kids at home. He started dancing lessons when he was four and still continues. In 2010, Sebastian has changed his hobby many times. First its wallet making, then it’s being a magician, a cook, a scientist, an astronomer and now he has chosen to be an author. He has tried to write other books but has given up. He started writing this book when he was 10, in around August 2010. His inspiration to writing this book was the Twilight saga. He really enjoys the books so he thought of writing his own book. It took him about 2 months to write this one and has plans to write more. Meanwhile he still goes to school, still does dancing lessons, he still helps his parents and does what normal kids do. When he has the time, he gets his laptop and writes bits and pieces trying to complete this book. When he finished this book, he started to work on the front and back cover. Finally, after almost 2 months of writing, his book is finished on the 1st of October 2010.
Download or read book Anne Frank s Tales from the Secret Annexe written by Anne Frank and published by Halban Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In these tales the reader can observe Anne's writing prowess grow from that of a young girl's into the observations of a perceptive, edgy, witty and compassionate woman"--Jacket flaps.
Download or read book Secret Bi Polar written by Jane Miller and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret Bi-Polar is an informative nonfiction story about a divorced woman who has to start over while raising two teenagers alone. All three of them have bipolar/manic depressive disorder, and the daughter has borderline personality disorder. Their entire lives they have done impulsive and irrational things that, a lot of times, resulted in trouble. The story draws the reader in and at times you are sitting on the edge of your seat and cant put the book down. When the woman is sixty-two and the teens are thirty-one and thirty-two, they find out they have these illnesses and start medication which ends the story on a happy note. It is very informative for anyone dealing with bipolar/manic depressive disorder and a good story that will keep you intrigued until the end. Read about the crisis and tragedies this family endures until they become enlightened and get on medication. Sure to keep your attention. Recommended for anyone even thinking they have bipolar or manic depressive disorder.
Download or read book The Rancher s Secret Wife written by Brenda Minton and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this cowboy says “I do” to a stranger, he might find his forever love. A sweet western romance from the author of The Bull Rider’s Baby. After knowing his bride for all of three hours, soldier Reese Cooper married waitress Cheyenne Jones. She was pregnant and scared, alone in Las Vegas—and he was about to ship out on a dangerous tour of duty. But months later, Reese comes home to Dawson, Oklahoma, no longer the strong cowboy who vowed to help Cheyenne. Shrapnel and a guarded heart changed everything. But with a wife and baby counting on him, Reese is about to learn what real courage is all about. “What could have been a fairly ordinary tale of a hurried Vegas wedding is lifted by the fact of the new husband’s serving overseas and coming home injured . . . Brenda Minton has given us strong characters with a depth of heart.” —Fresh Fiction From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness, and hope. Experience more western romances in the rest of the Cooper Creek series: The Cowboy’s Holiday Blessing The Bull Rider’s Baby The Cowboy’s Healing Ways The Cowboy Lawman The Cowboy’s Christmas Courtship The Cowboy’s Reunited Family Single Dad Cowboy
Download or read book The Secret Wisdom of the Earth written by Christopher Scotton and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A marvelous debut...has everything a big, thick novel should have, and I hated to put it down." - John Grisham "A page-turner." - New York Times Book Review For readers of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, this is a dramatic and deeply moving novel about an act of violence in a small Appalachian town and the repercussions that will forever change a young man's view of human cruelty and compassion. After seeing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, fourteen-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this town of Medgar, Kentucky, a peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The town is beset by a massive mountaintop removal operation that is blowing up the hills and back filling the hollows. Kevin's grandfather and others in town attempt to rally the citizens against the "company" and its powerful owner to stop the plunder of their mountain heritage. But when Buzzy witnesses a brutal hate crime, a sequence is set in play that will test Buzzy and Kevin to their absolute limits in an epic struggle for survival in the Kentucky mountains. *Includes Reading Group Guide*
Download or read book The Nanny s Secret written by Elizabeth Lane and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Billionaires and Babies novel, the nanny wants her boss…but can she have him and keep her secrets, too? Haughty and handsome, resort owner Wyatt Richardson has never met a problem he couldn't buy his way out of. Facing custody of his teenage daughter and her newborn son, he hires a nanny to handle them both. His attraction to Leigh Foster is an unexpected perk. He's confident the feeling is mutual. But Leigh knows she's on shaky ground. Falling for her new boss could prove devastating—especially if Wyatt finds out her true connection to baby Mikey. But when the billionaire's arms beckon, will she be powerless to refuse?
Download or read book Secret Agenda written by Jerry Banks and published by SterlingHouse Publisher. This book was released on 2009 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barry O'Shea is back and he's smokin'! When O'Shea joins a team of high-powered lawyers in a mega-watt arson case, the old legal beagle find him self jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Ouch! As if facing off against a polished opposition wasn't tricky enough, O'Shea isn't even sure if his own client is on his side. And that's just the first twist of the trial. If O'Shea doesn't want to get cooked in the court room, he has to rely on his gritty talents and wit like never before. Vital to the Defense sizzles with courtroom drama.
Download or read book The Secret Life of Lotus written by Terri Yogi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At three months pregnant, eighteen year old Tara is forced to leave her home and the love of her life under the threat of being killed. She escapes to the Hawaiian Islands where she starts a new life and keeps her identity a secret. Years later her past resurfaces and the mysteries of her life unfold in this modern day love story.
