Download or read book Celia s Secret written by Michael Frayn and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is Celia, and what are the mysterious papers found concealed under the attic floorboards of an old country house? Are they simply instructions for assembling a table-tennis table, written in idiosyncratic German, or could they contain a coded message?
Download or read book Celia s Secret written by Michael Frayn and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day during the run of Michael Fryan's play Copenhagen, a curious letter arrived from a housewife in Chiswick. She enclosed a few faded pages of barely legible German which she thought might have some relevance to the mystery at the play's heart. They turned out to mark the start of a long and winding trail. The subject of Copenhagen is the strange visit that the German physicist, Werner Heisenberg, made to his former Danish colleague, Niels Bohr in 1941. The two old friends now found themselves on opposite sides in a world war, and Heisenberg could not explain to Bohr that he was running the Nazis' secret atomic programme. His intentions have intrigued and baffled historians, and the hitherto unpublished German documents which Celia Rhys-Evans now began to send Michael Frayn cast a remarkable new light on certain aspects of the story. The gradual emergence of these papers was followed with particularly close interest by the actor, David Burke, who was playing Niels Bohr, and who had happened to have a wide experience of documents of this sort. When it was all over David Burke and Michael Frayn sat down together, rather as Bohr and Heisenberg do in the play, to try to unravel the mystery, and, like Bohr and Heisenberg, to confront once again the eternal difficulty of knowing why we do what we do.
Download or read book Celia s Secret A Journey towards Reconciliation written by Martha Ashwell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Celia's Secret' is an intensely personal and truthful account of Martha Ashwell's struggle to come to terms with a family secret. The earlier part of the book is set in wartime Manchester in 1942, a time when rules and boundaries were set aside. In September 1964, the scene moves to Oxford and Martha writes evocatively about this period of her life. Seeking answers to her unresolved questions she examines the impact which the secret has had upon her and her family. Martha reflects on family relationships, her education, her training in social work and her knowledge of counselling. A life-long Christian, she explores religious and literary themes in order to express her thoughts and feelings. Martha tells this story to fulfil a deeply-felt need to be reconciled with her much-loved mother.
Download or read book Celia on the Run written by Sarah Mandell and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Novaczek is a cautious soul, a 17-year old with a boring life, a predictable future, and a quiet thirst for danger. On the eve of his beloved grandmother's funeral, danger finds him by the motel swimming pool. Her name is Celia and she's everything he's not. This foul-mouthed beauty is hitchhiking across the country to make amends with her estranged father and doesn't carry an ounce of fear or hesitation in her tattered suitcase. She's bad news all around, but for a rule-follower like Nick, she's intoxicating. Twenty-four hours after speaking to Celia for the very first time, following one extremely lucky night, Nick is hopelessly hooked and "borrows" his parents' car to join her cross-country mission, even though her story is full of holes. It's the mistake he's been waiting his whole life to make. Together, they dodge a train, jump off a bridge, and scam everyone in their path. Nick is blossoming into a teenage fugitive, just like Celia, and he's never been happier. She may not be who she says she is, but she's got his vulnerable heart. After weeks of detours, with hundreds of miles left to go, their wild adventure starts to unravel. The money dries up, Celia's dark secrets begin to surface, and it's clear they both want vastly different things out of this partnership. Celia is all about no strings attached and severing whatever they may have between them once they reach their destination, while Nick is head over heels in love and wanting a future with the girl in his passenger seat. They seem to reach a new low on a daily basis, but she won't turn back, no matter how desperate things get. After all, this is her trip and Nick is just the driver. Celia's got a charming smile to pay her way, a willing accomplice, a hidden agenda, and an endless supply of lies. Not to mention a gun.
Download or read book The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door written by Karen Finneyfrock and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That's the day the trouble started. The trouble that nearly ruined my life. The trouble that turned me Dark. The trouble that begs me for revenge. Celia Door enters her freshman year of high school with giant boots, dark eyeliner, and a thirst for revenge against Sandy Firestone, the girl who did something unspeakable to Celia last year. But then Celia meets Drake, the cool new kid from New York City who entrusts her with his deepest, darkest secret. When Celia's quest for justice threatens her relationship with Drake, she's forced to decide which is sweeter: revenge or friendship. This debut novel from Karen Finneyfrock establishes her as a bright, bold, razor-sharp new voice for teens, perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Will Grayson, Will Grayson.
Download or read book Secret Catch written by Celia Wild and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-21 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was only looking for a one-night stand. But I am coming back for more. Harper Calvin Wood is everything I hate in a man. Womanizer, dirty talking, cocky and very jealous. He's a hardcore football player and has the worst reputation in the college. I was assigned to work with him to get him in shape since the injury. It was a big mistake, or maybe it wasn't... Our flirting and kisses have transformed into something very real. Only one problem. I can't tell him that I'm pregnant with his baby. Calvin The moment I saw Harper, I couldn't get her out of my mind. She's a strong, sexy woman that resists my charms. When she's not driving me nuts, she's driving me wild For one crazy, passionate night, she was mine. But she disappeared without even telling about my baby. **Author's note: This is a full-length, standalone romance novel with no cliffhanger, no cheating and a guaranteed happily ever after.
Download or read book Secrets Unearthed written by Jennifer Brown and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sequel to Celebrity Secrets, currently available online and in bookstores actress Elissa Harner and Kevin Lytle are headed to the Virgin Islands, for Kevin to work on his first movie with his new production company...for Elissa it's to get away from everything the book Secrets Unearthed has done to her family since it's arrival in her fan mail. But when a mysterious vacationer turns up in the same hotel as Elissa and Kevin, the vacation turns into a nightmare for Elissa as secrets are unearthed about those she loves most!
Download or read book The Secrets of Celia written by Hazel Townson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celia Lamb's school essays reveal far more than she realises about her family, her home life and the mysterious crime wave in the area, creating a panic among the teaching staff. Suggested level: primary.
Download or read book The Goldsmith s Secret written by Elia Barcelo and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One snowy night in New York City, a successful but solitary goldsmith reflects on his life, and his unreliable memories intertwine and collide. Returning to the village where he grew up, he hopes with some trepidation that he will encounter Celia, "the Black Widow," a beautiful and mysterious friend of his mother with whom he had a short and passionate affair when he was a teenager, before she rejected him. But instead he meets a young woman who opens doors onto a strange world, and takes him back in time. The Goldsmith's Secret is a remarkable story with a magical twist, of a love trapped between two parallel times, set Spain in the fifties, seventies, and in the last year of the twentieth century. In beautifully economical language, and with a structure as intricate and refined as a bevelled jewel, The Goldsmith's Secret is filled with intense nostalgia, memories and desires. Elia Barcelo has come to be known across Europe as a truly original voice, and her books as poetic works of great subtlety.
Download or read book Celia and the Fairies written by Karen McQuestion and published by Two Lions. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammy's whimsical stories of a nearby wood populated by fairies intrigue 10-year-old Celia Lovejoy, and while her parents dismiss the tales as pure nonsense, Celia is enchanted by the thought that the stories may be true.
Download or read book 59 Memory Lane Pengelly Series Book 1 written by Celia Anderson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The top kindle and USA Today Bestseller! ’A brilliantly original and enchanting tale’ Sun ‘Wonderful characters make this a great read’ Good Housekeeping ‘Truly unique...unforgettable’ Woman’s Weekly
Download or read book Dreaming in Cuban written by Cristina García and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post
Download or read book Everett written by Melverna McFarlane and published by McFarlane Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celia James was happily single. She had things to do, and if any man-child popped up talking about pledging himself forever, her overprotective twin was there to show him the door. So yeah, relationships weren’t on her radar. Even if she did want a relationship, she definitely wouldn’t want one with Everett Baldwin, the bashful nerd who made her laugh and forget her worries. But this unlikely candidate was determined to win her over. His weapon of choice, the sexiest smile Celia had ever seen and a penchant for temptation that drove her wild. He was too good to be true, and her sister was determined to find all his secrets, even if it meant destroying the one relationship guaranteed to make Celia happy. Soon Celia would have to choose between relying on her family’s meddling or trusting in the love of a good man.
Download or read book Corralled written by Lorelei James and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the rodeo arena, all you have to worry about is surviving. But in the arena of love, things get much more complicated in the first romance in the Blacktop Cowboys series. Lainie Capshaw has been tending to injured cowboys long enough to know that a charming Western drawl combined with a fine physical form doesn’t mean you should fall for a man. As a sports therapist, she travels the rodeo circuits patching up riders—and fending off their sweet-talking, swaggering advances. So no one is more surprised than Lainie when she finds herself interested in not one, but two different men on different circuits: Hank Lawson, a bullfighter, and Kyle Gilchrist, a bull rider trying to stage a comeback. She’s more shocked to learn Hank and Kyle are hometown buddies. But when the men offer to share her—in every way—she knows that both of them are going to try to win her, body and soul. And even as their sensual journey becomes the ride of her life, Lainie must choose which cowboy is worthy of her heart....
Download or read book Secrets Beyond the Door written by Maria Tatar and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Tatar analyses the many forms the tale of Bluebeard's wife has taken over time, showing how artists have taken the Bluebeard theme and revived it with their own signature twists.
Download or read book Adventures of Celia written by Jackie C. Myrtle and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celia and her father are making a big change for a high-paced life to the laid back lifestyle of a small town. She is not entirely thrilled about the move as she is leaving behind her friends who she used to investigate mysteries with. However it does not take her long to make a few new friends. Both have their own quirks, with Dawn's talkative nature, and Shaun's bright green hair, but Celia is glad to have met them. Soon she is wrapped up in a brand new mystery with them. There is a secret tunnel that runs through the woods not far from her house. Rumor has it, something supernatural has been going on inside of it. Celia is eager to get to the bottom of it, but along the way the mysteries of her own past begin to unravel right before her very eyes. When her father becomes more secretive every day, and even grows frustrated with her questioning, Celia is certain it has something to do with her mother. Her mother had disappeared three years before. Celia knew she was missing, but many of her father's friends and family believed she had simply abandoned the family. Celia was certain that could not be possible. She begins to discover that her father might know a lot more about her mother's disappearance than he was letting on. As hopeful as Celia is that one day she will be reunited with her mother, she has to wonder, what could possibly have been so important, that it would keep a mother from her daughter? As she probes more into the mystery of the tunnel, its secrets become less supernatural and more sinister. Celia is in more danger than she could ever imagine. Somehow a stranger in the town knows her father's name despite never having been introduced. It is not long before Celia is literally directly caught up in the mystery of the town, but somehow the mystery of the town is leading her in a strange winding journey right back to the mystery of her mother's disappearance. Celia is determined to solve all the mysteries she is confronted with; she just hopes that when she does she will not end up losing her father in the process. With her new friends loyal and sticking close to her side she navigates through the suspenseful twists and turns of the truth about the tunnel. In the middle of it all she feels more distant from her father than she ever has. In the past he has been the one that Celia trusted; could he have really been lying to her all along? Just when she discovers too much, her friends begin to disappear. Will anyone believe her about the true activities in the tunnel? Will she ever figure out how it is connected to her mother? Will she be able to rescue her friend in time, or will she be the next to disappear? Celia is a very brave young girl, but when facing an intricate combination of abduction and experimentation, will she be brave enough to find a way to escape and reveal the truth to a town that has already begun to believe she has lost her way?
Download or read book The Smart Set written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
