Download or read book Footsteps to Forever written by R. Samuel Baty and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-10-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Footsteps, like Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Wouk's The Winds of War, is a story filled with suspense, romance, and sudden violence. It is 1941, only days after the infamous attack at Pearl Harbor. Two young army lieutenants-Jennifer, a beautiful nurse, and Jonathan, who falls in love with her almost immediately-are sent to rescue a world-famous physicist from behind German lines in Norway. The physicist had been dispatched by Roosevelt to spy on German atomic energy progress. Chased by the enemy, hampered by the physicist's deteriorating health, impacted by a blossoming romance, and faced with harsh winter conditions, the two young Americans struggle to avoid disaster. An epic battle occurs-with results that echo throughout the novel. The explosive action of Footsteps soon expands to include the whole war-torn world, with action scenes involving the doomed Allied raid at Dieppe, the Russian Front, the Normandy D-Day invasion, and ferocious air battles in the Pacific. Fictional characters with significant roles include an American fighter pilot, a British Special Operations officer, overworked medical personnel, and a pair of German officers-one cruel, the other surprisingly tender-hearted. World War II rages, and human emotions smolder, clouded by issues of conscience and morality. Survivors meet again-enemies as well as friends-in ways both dreamed of and quite shocking.

Download or read book On the Wings of Angels written by Dan Verner and published by eLectio Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Wings of Angels (Book 3 of the Beyond the Blue Horizon Series), continues the saga of Otto Kerchner, the airplane-obsessed Wisconsin farm boy who becomes a hero of World War II in On Wings of the Morning (Book 1). He continued to lead his family, friends, and community into new ventures—and sometimes danger—in On the Wings of Eagles (Book 2). The latest in the series picks up in 1954 with an unlikely mix of elements: a minor league baseball team, mobsters from Minneapolis, a Soviet jet, family discord, sudden death, an aviation camp, a kidnapping, and a marauding bear. Meanwhile, the Kerchners, their friends, and their community cope with a changing world. Readers of the earlier novels have praised the easy style and realistic touches in the books which help recreate the ambiance and feel of those remembered years, including the simple pleasures of picnics, birthday parties, and pick-up baseball games. The characters are at once unique and identifiable, and their hopes, fears, and struggles still resonate today. This book is a must read among must reads for just about everyone.

Download or read book Forget Me Not written by Erica Pensini and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you meet again after two hundred years? Science denies the possibility. Iris is a scientist, but when she finds herself in the pages of an antique book her certainties are breached and the boundaries between imagination and reality become dangerously labile.

Download or read book Two Brothers written by Ben Elton and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Ben Elton's most personal novel to date, Two Brothers transports the reader to the time of history's darkest hour. Berlin 1920 Two babies are born. Two brothers. United and indivisible, sharing everything. Twins in all but blood. As Germany marches into its Nazi Armageddon, the ties of family, friendship and love are tested to the very limits of endurance. And the brothers are faced with an unimaginable choice... Which one of them will survive?

Download or read book The Island written by Sarah Singleton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Otto, Jen and Charlotte have planned the trip of a lifetime to India for their gap year, before going their separate ways to university. For Charlotte, it's an opportunity to get involved in an environmental project and finally feel like she's doing something worthwhile; for Otto, it's the perfect opportunity to take some real photos to help his career as a photojournalistic; for Jen, it's the realisation of a lifelong dream. But when Otto discovers the body of a girl on the beach, things take a sinister turn as he finds himself a prime suspect in her murder. Together Otto, Charlotte and Jen start to unravel the mystery behind the girl's death. Can they discover the truth and clear Otto's name and even if they do will they be able to handle what they find as their dreams of paradise crumble around them…

Download or read book The Year of Her Second Husband written by Jeffrey Geri and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-12-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What do you want for yourself, Julia?" her first husband Michael asks her before their marriage. "I want to love and be loved. I want a happy home. I don't want money to be a problem. I want to feel safe.." is her reply. Not too big a dream for a beautiful young South African girl. But things don't quite turn out that way for Julia. This is the story of the triumphs and pitfalls she encounters on her lifes journey, first with Michael and then with her second husband, Greek billionaire George Stavros. Until finally, living in luxury on the verdant, Greek island in the Aegean virtually owned by her second husband, the dream that she thought had come true turns into a nightmare.

Download or read book H I V E 3 Escape Velocity written by Mark Walden and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pupils and staff at H.I.V.E. are horrified to discover that Dr Nero has been captured by the forces of H.O.P.E., the Hostile Operative Prosecution Executive, the world's newest and most ruthlessly efficient security force. Three months pass without any news of his fate, and Number One has decided to appoint a sinister new headmistress for the school, somebody that the pupils and staff had thought that they'd seen the last of. Meanwhile Otto is also struggling to cope with new abilities that are starting to manifest themselves; can he really be unconsciously interfacing with computers without physical contact? And if he is, what exactly do these new powers really mean? The only way to find Nero and the truth behind the lies is to escape H.I.V.E.. Otto must get out, and take the risks which come with being a rogue agent. Then he just has to break into MI6.

Download or read book Dutch Courage written by Martin Parsons and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jakob Jansen was just an ordinary shop keeper, who lived with his wife, and a very attractive assistant, when life took a drastic turn.

Download or read book Coward Plays 3 written by Noël Coward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of Coward's plays contains some of his best work from the thirties. Design for Living is about a triangular alliance between two men and a woman, based on friends of Coward's, which he waited to write "until she and he and I had arrived by different roads in our careers at a time and a place when we felt we could all three play together with a more or less equal degree of success." Cavalcade was Coward's most ambitious stage project, set during the Boer War, which cost £30,000 in its day and which includes scenes of the relief of the sinking of the Titanic and the coming of the Jazz Age. Conversation Piece is a musical comedy that Noël wrote for the Parisian star Yvonne Printemps and includes the song "I'll Follow My Secret Heart". Also in the volume are three short plays from Tonight at 8.30 including Hands Across the Sea, a gentle satire of colonials and London Society; Still Life which became the film Brief Encounter and Fumed Oak a suburban comedy about a 'worm who turns'.

Download or read book 52 German years written by Harald Walter and published by novum pro Verlag. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1895-1945: An exciting family saga spanning 5 decades The decline of the German Empire and the Weimar Republic, the Roaring Twenties, the bitter course of the Third Reich: a Prussian family is thrown back and forth over two generations by the political turmoil and dramatic events. Otto and Käthe Waischwillat, and later their two daughters Waltraud and Kriemhild, desperately try to keep their heads above water. In the uncertain times between 1894 and 1945, this meant a constant balancing act between love and renunciation, between fleeing and fighting, between morality and the fulfillment of duty. Will the family manage to steer their lives in the right direction?

Download or read book Alex and the Enderson Brothers written by Roz Monette and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enderson brothers-Scott, Chris, Otto, and Ryan-dominate the social scene and bring excitement to the uneventful town of Plainville. They are well-known and well-liked-most of the time. Their loyalty to each other is indestructible until one brother drifts into the wrong crowd. Then there's Alex, the family's youngest child and only daughter, who is constantly battling the reputation established by her brothers. The Enderson parents work long hours and often leave their kids home alone. While the brothers enjoy their teenage freedom, Alex deals with the frustrations of youth without a positive female role model. She is constantly reminded that someday she will become a mature woman, boys will like her, and she'll look back at her youth and laugh. Looking forward to the future doesn't help Alex conquer her current problems. By age fourteen, Alex believes the most difficult part of growing up is over. She's still no beauty queen, but nonetheless blossoms into an attractive young woman. After a revelation by the outcast brother, the family is divided. Dad has to remind all the kids who's really in charge despite the devastating consequences. Will the Enderson family ever be the close-knit group they once were?

Download or read book Design for Living written by Noël Coward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Its fusion of passion and mischief remains striking and there is something undeniably heady about its celebration of a kind of sexual liberation that looks a lot like flippancy" - Evening Standard From 1930s bohemian Paris to the dizzying heights of Manhattan society, a tempestuous love triangle unravels between a vivacious interior designer, Gilda, playwright Leo and artist Otto - three people unashamedly and passionately in love with each other. But can such a lavish love affair survive the real world? Exploring themes of bisexuality, celebrity, success and self-obsession, Design for Living is a stylish and scandalous comedy, that is often revered as Coward's most controversial and risqué work. This new edition is published in Methuen Drama's iconic Modern Classics series to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Coward's death and features a new introduction by Oliver Soden.

Download or read book Bear Stories written by Donald Lee Shaffer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred F. Dunn from Brooklyn, CT has released a book published by AuthorHouse titled BEAR STORIES. The stories, written in rhyme, by the late Donald Lee Shaffer, consist of witty puns and satire with an occasional hint of opinionated sarcasm from a bears point of view. Hilarious twists to familiar fairy tales demonstrate Mr. Shaffers unique sense of humor. Amusing clarification of BEARS being depicted as the true hero of historical events reveals Shaffers distinctive wit. His exceptional styles in maintaining rhyme along with a smooth flowing story-line, coupled with an abundance of humor makes this book a MUST-READ for people (Or Bears) of all ages. The book consists of seventy seven stories and parodies. You will laugh, you will chuckle, you will enjoy.

Download or read book The Trouble with May Amelia written by Jennifer L. Holm and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited and highly anticipated sequel to the Newbery Honor winner "Our Only May Amelia, " by the bestselling and cherished author Holm. Illustrations.

Download or read book Forged by Fire written by Astrid Kepler Neitzke and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard-working and straightforward people of unshakable faith who leave footprints that their descendants will follow! The book, written in a romantic style, will absorb you. You will be involved in stories of secure and resilient families who build successful companies. The Author is Astrid Kepler Neitzke. Her father, Otto Kepler, is a first-generation immigrant. Her grandfather, Adolfo, was a courageous and tireless explorer, who came from Europe as a teenager. The Kepler Weber company started with blacksmithing and is today known worldwide in the agribusiness sector in the post-harvest stage of the grain production chain. Astrid is his youngest daughter, who was born when her parents’ life was at its peak. As a baby of four months, she loses her father! What he left behind gave her lasting impressions that shaped the course of her life. A huge treasure! Her mother, Fanny Stillner Kepler, continues to lead the family, keeping them happy together in the small town called initially New Württemberg and today Panambi, where until the Second World War, they also spoke the German language. Astrid discovers that her grandfather, Vincenz Stillner, a native of Austria, was a street boy in Vienna, who became a beloved and respected pastor in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The Kepler family continues to work and have faith. Other families are connected, like the Richters, the Rehns, the Stillners, and the Neitzkes. Astrid marries Ari Neitzke. The Author upholds the cheerful and adventurous humor she inherited. People forged by fire which left a legacy to be remembered and imitated.

Download or read book Escape Velocity written by Mark Walden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, a riveting installment in an action-packed series. Students and staff at H.I.V.E.—the Higher Institute of Villainous Education—are horrified to discover that Dr. Nero has been captured by the forces of H.O.P.E.—the Hostile Operative Prosecution Executive—the world’s newest and most ruthlessly efficient security force. Otto decides that the only way to find Nero and the truth behind the lies is to escape H.I.V.E. But he’s also struggling with some newfound abilities: Can he really unconsciously interface with computers without physical contact? And if he can, what exactly do his new powers mean? In his search for answers, Otto must flee H.I.V.E., and take the risks that come with being a rogue agent. Then he just has to break into MI6…..

Download or read book Blackvine Manor written by Wendy Meadows and published by Majestic Owl Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2021-12-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A struggle against those trying to bury the truth… Seeking insight to her estranged mother’s life, Alexis Cole, moves into the notoriously haunted Blackvine Manor. As she uncovers her mother’s debilitating obsession with a local legend, all clues point to the horseshoe of twelve apartments. Strange events interrupt her treasure hunting and Alexis quickly gets caught up in the perennial paranormal investigations of Blackvine Manor. Can Alexis find the answers she needs before the ruthlessly skeptical landlord, Maxwell Charles, sells the problem property to developers?