Download or read book The Clockmaker s Daughter written by Kate Morton and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of the New York Times bestseller Homecoming—“An ambitious, compelling historical mystery with a fabulous cast of characters…Kate Morton at her very best.” —Kristin Hannah “An elaborate tapestry…Morton doesn’t disappoint.” —The Washington Post "Classic English country-house Goth at its finest." —New York Post In the depths of a 19th-century winter, a little girl is abandoned on the streets of Victorian London. She grows up to become in turn a thief, an artist’s muse, and a lover. In the summer of 1862, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, she travels with a group of artists to a beautiful house on a bend of the Upper Thames. Tensions simmer and one hot afternoon a gunshot rings out. A woman is killed, another disappears, and the truth of what happened slips through the cracks of time. It is not until over a century later, when another young woman is drawn to Birchwood Manor, that its secrets are finally revealed. Told by multiple voices across time, this is an intricately layered, richly atmospheric novel about art and passion, forgiveness and loss, that shows us that sometimes the way forward is through the past.
Download or read book The Clockmaker s Secret written by Jack Benton and published by Slim Hardy Mysteries. This book was released on 2018-09-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A buried clock holds the key to a decades-old mystery. On holiday to escape the nightmares of his last case, disgraced soldier turned private detective John "Slim" Hardy comes upon something buried in the peat on Bodmin Moor. Unfinished and water-damaged but still ticking, the old clock provides a vital clue to an unsolved missing-persons case. As Slim begins to ask questions of the tiny Cornish village of Penleven, he is drawn into a world of lies, rumours, and secrets, some of which the residents would prefer to stay buried. Twenty-three years ago, a reclusive clockmaker left his workshop and walked out onto Bodmin Moor, taking his last, unfinished clock with him. He disappeared. Slim is determined to find out why. The Clockmaker's Secret is the stunning sequel to Jack Benton's acclaimed debut, The Man by the Sea.
Download or read book The Secret Keeper written by Kate Morton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title.
Download or read book Nancy Drew 01 the Secret of the Old Clock written by Carolyn Keene and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1930-05-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the original Nancy Drew mystery! The Secret of the Old Clock is the mystery that began it all for America's favorite teenaged slueth. The accidental rescue of a little girl who lives with her two great-aunts leads to an adventurous search for a missing will.
Download or read book The Clockmaker written by Ceri Williams and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clockmaker waits for you... A gripping supernatural novel set in post-blitz Scotland, the first of a planned trilogy.
Download or read book The Clockmaker s Wife written by Daisy Wood and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is at war. And time is running out...
Download or read book The Clockmaker s Secret a classic British locked room mystery written by Jack Benton and published by AMMFA Publishing. This book was released on with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic British locked room mystery for fans of both thrillers and crime: The Clockmaker's Secret. Currently FREE for a limited time only! A buried clock holds the key to a decades-old mystery. On holiday to escape the nightmares of his last case, disgraced soldier turned private detective John “Slim” Hardy comes upon something buried in the peat on Bodmin Moor. Unfinished and water-damaged but still ticking, the old clock provides a vital clue to an unsolved missing-persons case. As Slim begins to ask questions of the tiny Cornish village of Penleven, he is drawn into a world of lies, rumours, and secrets, some of which the residents would prefer to stay buried. Twenty-three years ago, a reclusive clockmaker left his workshop and walked out onto Bodmin Moor, taking his last, unfinished clock with him. He disappeared. Slim is determined to find out why. The Clockmaker’s Secret is the stunning sequel to Jack Benton’s acclaimed debut, The Man by the Sea. #freeebook #freemystery #classicmystery #britishmystery #privateinvestigator #lockedroom #traditionalbritish #theclockmakerssecret #doomedlove #secretsandlies
Download or read book Let s Take the Long Way Home written by Gail Caldwell and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER They met over their dogs. Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp (author of Drinking: A Love Story) became best friends, talking about everything from their love of books and their shared history of a struggle with alcohol to their relationships with men. Walking the woods of New England and rowing on the Charles River, these two private, self-reliant women created an attachment more profound than either of them could ever have foreseen. Then, several years into this remarkable connection, Knapp was diagnosed with cancer. With her signature exquisite prose, Caldwell mines the deepest levels of devotion, and courage in this gorgeous memoir about treasuring a best friend, and coming of age in midlife. Let’s Take the Long Way Home is a celebration of the profound transformations that come from intimate connection—and it affirms, once again, why Gail Caldwell is recognized as one of our bravest and most honest literary voices.
Download or read book The Clockmaker Or The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville written by Thomas Chandler Haliburton and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises Slick's Letter and thirty-three stories.
Download or read book The Bird and the Blade written by Megan Bannen and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping and tragic debut novel perfect for fans of The Wrath and the Dawn and Megan Whalen Turner. This young adult novel is an excellent choice for accelerated tween readers in grades 7 to 8, especially during homeschooling. It’s a fun way to keep your child entertained and engaged while not in the classroom. The Bird and the Blade is a lush, powerful story of life and death, battles and riddles, lies and secrets from author Megan Bannen. Enslaved in Kipchak Khanate, Jinghua has lost everything: her home, her family, her freedom . . . until the kingdom is conquered by enemy forces and she finds herself an unlikely conspirator in the escape of Prince Khalaf and his irascible father across the vast Mongol Empire. On the run, with adversaries on all sides and an endless journey ahead, Jinghua hatches a scheme to use the Kipchaks’ exile to return home, a plan that becomes increasingly fraught as her feelings for Khalaf evolve into an impossible love. Jinghua’s already dicey prospects take a downward turn when Khalaf seeks to restore his kingdom by forging a marriage alliance with Turandokht, the daughter of the Great Khan. As beautiful as she is cunning, Turandokht requires all potential suitors to solve three impossible riddles to win her hand—and if they fail, they die. Jinghua has kept her own counsel well, but with Khalaf’s kingdom—and his very life—on the line, she must reconcile the hard truth of her past with her love for a boy who has no idea what she’s capable of . . . even if it means losing him to the girl who’d sooner take his life than his heart.
Download or read book Winter Solstice written by Rosamunde Pilcher and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Winter Solstice Rosamunde Pilcher brings her readers into the lives of five very different people.... Elfrida Phipps, once of London's stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in hopes of making a new life for herself. Gradually she settled into the comfortable familiarity of village life -- shopkeepers knowing her tastes, neighbors calling her by name -- still she finds herself lonely. Oscar Blundell gave up his life as a musician in order to marry Gloria. They have a beautiful daughter, Francesca, and it is only because of their little girl that Oscar views his sacrificed career as worthwhile. Carrie returns from Austria at the end of an ill-fated affair with a married man to find her mother and aunt sharing a home and squabbling endlessly. With Christmas approaching, Carrie agrees to look after her aunt's awkward and quiet teenage daughter, Lucy, so that her mother might enjoy a romantic fling in America. Sam Howard is trying to pull his life back together after his wife has left him for another. He is without home and without roots, all he has is his job. Business takes him to northern Scotland, where he falls in love with the lush, craggy landscape and set his sights on a house. It is the strange rippling effects of a tragedy that will bring these five characters together in a large, neglected estate house near the Scottish fishing town of Creagan. It is in this house, on the shortest day of the year, that the lives of five people will come together and be forever changed. Rosamunde Pilcher's long-awaited return to the page will warm the hearts of readers both old and new. Winter Solstice is a novel of love, loyalty and rebirth.
Download or read book The Invention of Hugo Cabret written by Brian Selznick and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An orphan and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy train station. He desperately believes a broken automaton will make his dreams come true. But when his world collides with an eccentric girl and a bitter old man, Hugo's undercover life are put in jeopardy. Turn the pages, follow the illustrations and enter an unforgettable new world!
Download or read book Clocks and More Clocks written by Pat Hutchins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the hall clock reads twenty minutes past four, the attic clock reads twenty-three minutes past four, the kitchen clock reads twenty-five minutes past four, and the bedroom clock reads twenty-six minutes past four, what should Mr. Higgins do? He can't tell which of his clocks tells the right time. He is in for a real surprise when the Clockmaker shows him that they are all correct!
Download or read book The Man by the Sea written by Jack Benton and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John "Slim" Hardy, heavy drinker and disgraced soldier turned bumbling private detective, is hired to investigate Ted Douglas, an investment banker who slips out of work every Friday to visit a desolate cove on the Lancashire coast. There, he walks to the shore, opens an old book, and begins to read aloud.His wife thinks he's having an affair.Slim thinks he's insane.The truth is more incredible than either could imagine.The Man by the Sea is the sensational debut novel by Jack Benton, a classic story of love, betrayal, murder, and intrigue.
Download or read book The Distant Hours written by Kate Morton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long-lost letter arriving at its destination fifty years after it was sent lures Edie Burchill to crumbling Milderhurst Castle, home of the three elderly Blythe sisters, where Edie's mother was sent to stay as a teenager during World War II.
Download or read book CLOCK OF STARS written by FRANCESCA. GIBBONS and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kik Ten Boom The Clockmaker s Grandson written by Guillermo Font and published by Pacificarnos. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KIK TEN BOOM, THE CLOCKMAKER ́S GRANDSON: TIMELY & INSPIRING READING FOR 2022 Five decades after Corrie ten Boom -the prominent Dutch humanitarian activist and survivor of Nazism- touched the world with the publication of her memoirs, it comes to light the until now unknown story of Kik ten Boom, her nephew and main fellow in the rescue of persecuted Jews and dissidents during the Second World War. REVIEW On May 10, 1940 the Netherlands (Holland) were invaded by Nazi Germany. Over the five years of occupation, the Dutch lived under the shadow of fear and took different positions in the face of the looting and oppression of the Third Reich: a great majority decided to adapt themselves to the situation, a shameful minority decided to collaborate with the enemy and an honorable minority decided to resist. Christiaan Johannes (Kik) ten Boom (1920-1945), inspired by his grandfather's spirituality and social ethics, took up the dangerous challenge of joining the resistance movement. As a worker of the LO-LKP underground organizations and under the pseudonym Phylax, he played a decisive role together with his aunt Corrie ten Boom in the leadership of the BJ Group: a secret network made up of his entire family, his girlfriend, many friends and dozens of anonymous fellows. It was in that network, with headquarters in the cities of Haarlem and Hilversum, where more than eight hundred persecuted Jews and political dissidents found not only hiding places, forged identity documents and ration cards stolen to survive, but also an affective and supportive community that helped them to face life and even death through the wisdom of love, common good and peace. Kik ten Boom, The Clockmaker's Grandson is a historical novel based on true events, the result of an exhaustive research carried out from Argentina, that rescues from oblivion a detained-disappeared under Nazism and hero of the Dutch resistance. It is a very timely reading for those who, dissatisfied with the deceptive system of injustice oppressing the world, seek alternative paradigms that contribute to the individual and collective construction of an authentic good living. "My love, once the war ends, will take up my studies, we will get married and have happy children... But in these days of desolation, while the Nazis are destroying our people, I could not do anything but to help save the most possible number of lives." (Words of Kik ten Boom to his girlfriend Hanneke, 1944) Booktrailer: https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr08UKlN_Is Website under construction: https: //www.kiktenboom.com/ AUTHOR Guillermo Font was born and lives in Argentina where exercises the profession of Psychological Counselor and practices the art of writing. He is an active member of the Asociación Argentina de Counselors (AAC) [Argentine Association of Counselors] and a professional member of the International Association for Couselling (IAC). He is creator and director of Pacificarnos - Program for Dialogical Accompaniment of Human Relations. He has vast experience in providing his professional services to Spanish-speaking individuals, couples, families, companies, communities, and organizations from different countries around the world. For twenty-five years, he served as Pastoral Counselor in four religious communities and as Counselor in two social organizations. At the same time, he worked as journalistic and editorial collaborator in two Argentine magazines for twelve years, as well as director of a Latinoamerican publishing house and a Latinoamerican magazine for eight years. He has served as group coordinator, lecturer and teacher in Argentina and many countries of Latin America, Africa and Europe.
