Download or read book This Bitter Earth written by Bernice L. McFadden and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-12-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful sequel to Bernice L. McFadden’s bestselling debut Sugar follows a young African-American woman back to her Arkansas hometown, where she must confront difficult truths about her parentage and a curse in her family’s past. When Sugar Lacey returns to Short Junction to find the aunts who raised her, she hopes they will be able to tell her the truth about her parents. What she discovers is not just a terrible story of unrequited love, but also a tale of black magic that has cursed generations of Lacey women. Armed with newfound knowledge and strength in the face of adversity, Sugar must push through the pain to find her absent father and discover the truth about the curse that has befallen her family line in hopes of breaking it before she passes it on to her own child. A powerfully realized novel that brings back the unforgettable characters from Sugar, This Bitter Earth is a testament to the ultimate triumph of the human spirit.

Download or read book Song of the Earth written by Alexander Cordell and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mostyn Evan and his family, miners turned bargees, wage a glorious but hopeless struggle against rapacious coalmasters, Irish navvies, the ravages of cholera, and the bullying illegal Unions. As they ply their trade between the furnaces of Cyfarthfa and the lush beauty of the Neath Valley, they pray and fight, sing and love, and face each obstacle undaunted with all the stubbornness and exuberance of Wales itself. This is the third instalment in Alexander Cordell's magnificent saga of nineteenth century Wales that began with classic bestseller The Rape of the Fair Country.

Download or read book If You Believe The Soldiers written by Alexander Cordell and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain in the mid-1980s is a country in the grip of a brutal fascist regime. There is rioting in the streets, cold-blood massacres by extremist political groups, attempted coups by liberating forces based on the continent. Mak Seaton is a senior civil servant whose strengths and weaknesses are bound up in the view that his duty is to the ruling faction. But when Seaton uncovers evidence of corruption at the highest levels of power, even his wealth and position cannot protect him from the Triumvirate.

Download or read book Tunnel Tigers written by Alexander Cordell and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brunel, Stephenson, Locke and Vignoles - these were the magic names. And under them 10,000 laboured, blasting, shovelling and digging, changing the contours of Britain for a new age of railways. Among them is Nick Wortley, whose love for the daughter of the local mill owner is cruelly thwarted. Taking flight he is drawn by the irresistable clamour of the great Sheffield to Manchester, a railway which is preparing to drive a path of steel under the Pennines. Stephenson said it was impossible; Nick and his companions will prove him wrong, but at a terrible price...

Download or read book Peerless Jim written by Alexander Cordell and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Driscoll, adopted Welshman, one of the greatest boxers who ever lived. Robust, hot-headed, a born fighter - and a legend in his own lifetime. Moving between South Wales, London and America in the early years of the twentieth century, this is the dramatic story of a true-life sporting hero - a story of fierce pride and burning ambition, but also of human weakness and a love that survives against all odds.

Download or read book Tales From Tiger Bay written by Alexander Cordell and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people who inhabited the dockland area of Cardiff, know as Tiger Bay, have engraved their personalities on the very air of Bute Street and, under Alexander Cordell's vivid pen, the streets are crammed again with every creed and nationality; from priests and nuns to dockers and drunks; boxers, rugby fanatics, concubines and Bute Street ladies. The place comes alive in all its bawdy strength and colour.

Download or read book This Proud and Savage Land written by Alexander Cordell and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hywel Mortymer's story begins in 1800 when he is sixteen and a dramatic change in fortune leads him, innocent and inexperienced, to a brutal and dangerous life working in the coal mines. In the mines children can be horribly maimed in devastating gas explosions, or grow deformed with the burden of their labours and babies are born underground. Wales is in turmoil. A tragic divide between rich and poor, the workers powerless, penniless, starving and diseased sparks growing unrest as the newly founded Unions move inexorably towards the Chartist Rebellion. This Proud and Savage Land is a brilliantly detailed chronicle of early nineteenth- century Wales and a prelude to the bestselling Rape of the Fair Country.

Download or read book The Traitor Within written by Alexander Cordell and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fourteen-year-old Chinese boy struggles to prove his loyalty and courage to his commune and country in the face of his fear of a predicted attack on his village by the Taiwanese enemy.

Download or read book To Slay The Dreamer written by Alexander Cordell and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Spanish sierras to the French Pyrenees, one desperate cause unites them. As the stromclouds gather in the passionate fight against the Fascists, a young Spanish countess and a trained american assassin join forces with the partisans in a desperate attempt on the life of General Franco. TO SLAY THE DREAMER is a rich and compelling story of a group of patriots ready to die for their country - a moving novel of dangerous loyalty amidst the ultimate futility of war.

Download or read book Land Of My Fathers written by Alexander Cordell and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the background of the Chartist rebellion, LAND OF MY FATHERS is a heartfelt evocation of the greatest iron town in the world, Merthyr, and of the people who made it so: foundry-owners and workers, immigrants, fortune-hunters, idealists, prostitutes and wastrels. It is also the story of one man, Taliesin Roberts, robust, determined, passionate - and of a three-sided love that will never die.

Download or read book The Dreams of Fair Women written by Alexander Cordell and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong in the nineteenth century: a heady, overwhelming mixture of worldly commercialism, moral corruption and Eastern tradition. Into this strange and exciting world, on board the S.S. Mongolia comes Milly Smith, daughter of a Hong Kong tycoon, destined for a marriage of convenience to a greedy financier. But during the course of her journey Milly has attracted the attentions of fellow passanger, the wild and dashing pirate, Eli boggs. Set against a turbulent historical backdrop of Hong Kong's piracy, the slave trade and the infamous Opium War, The Dreams of Fair Women is a classic historical adventure from the author of The Rape of the Fair Country.

Download or read book The Love That God Forgot written by Alexander Cordell and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wales has reached the apex of her industrial clamour. But young Tom Mortymer, son of rich industrialist Iestyn Mortymer, has turned his back on his inheritance, exchanging the bell-clang and fire of his Upper Forest Tinplate Works in Morriston for the simplicity and wanderlust of a gypsy existence with his young Romany wife, Jen Wildflower. In time they come to settle on Flatholm Island where they become a refuge for the animals. Self-sufficiency is their ultimate goal; the substantial income from tinplate is ignored. But their simple idyll does not last. They are aware of a strange malevolence towards them. One frightening incident follows another until it is clear to tom and Jen that they will have to abandon their home and return to Cefn-Ydfa, their mansion in Maesteg. Their decision coincides with the arrival in Cardiff of Jethro Mortymer, Tom's uncle - whom he had long believed dead. Would Jethro be able to shed any light on Tom and Jen's continuing nightmare?

Download or read book Send Her Victorious written by Alexander Cordell and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1848. When the French people besiege Paris, King Louis Philippe flees to England and the French aristocracy run for their lives. Even the Pope deserts the Vatican. Europe is in turmoil. Fearing economic and social collapse, the French provisonal government distracts world attention by recruiting a Queen voctoria 'look alike', one madame Alicia Bernard, and then claiming that they have succeeded in abducting Victoria for a trial in Paris for 'crimes against the poor'. Alicia Bernard stands alone before the howling mobs, until barrister Andre Pelon is appointed to defend her...

Download or read book Requiem For A Patriot written by Alexander Cordell and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1839. The queen's realm is in the grip of revolutionary fervour. John Frost, idealistic and charismatic leader of the South Wales Chartists leads his dispossessed followers to Newport. Similar risings are planned throughout the land. these will signal a new dawn: one that heralds the end of opression by a tyrannical ruling class. But the tide of history is not turning the rebels' way. And in the depths of his struggle against a power that will severly punish him, John Frost finds succour in his passionate and enduring love for his wife.

Download or read book The White Cockade written by Alexander Cordell and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling story of high adventure, ambush and pursuit, plot and counterplot during the ill-fated United Irishmen Rebellion of 1798. When seventeen-year-old John Regan takes on a mission entrusted to him by his dying father, he rides through an Ireland seething with danger with more than just his own life in his hands. The first in a trilogy of books set in 18th century Ireland, from the bestselling author of Rape of the Fair Country.

Download or read book This Sweet and Bitter Earth written by Alexander Cordell and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Complete Tassajara Cookbook written by Edward Espe Brown and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring gourmet recipes from the renowned Zen retreat center, this vegetarian cookbook is a celebration of cooking, spirituality, and tradition California's Tassajara Zen Mountain Center has long been renowned for its gourmet vegetarian cuisine. In this comprehensive guide to the Tassajara way of cooking, the retreat center/spa's most celebrated chef, Edward Espe Brown, presents hundreds of recipes using fresh, whole foods. In addition to recipes, Brown includes detailed notes on preparing seasonal ingredients and, perhaps most important, inspiration for cooking with joyful intention and attention. Presented with humor and warmth, this book is full of insights for living a life that celebrates simple food.