Download or read book Ilona Lost written by Jim Pinnells and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ilona Lost is a compelling and unusual love story. It features two women fighting to survive in worlds dominated by men: the battlefield (1914-1918 and the Russo-Polish War), industrial management, and the bars and brothels of post-war London. The Russian Front, 1916. An English nurse rescues a Polish teenager from rape by Cossack cavalry. The two women are emotionally numb after their experiences in the army camps, field hospitals and shattered villages of the Ukraine. As Bolshevik agitators demoralise the Russian army, chaos turns to hell. Lenin and the Red Army take over. Through it all, Ilona, the peasant girl, and Evelyn, the nurse, cling together, becoming not only comrades but lovers. As the war in western Europe drags on, they find their way back to the English Midlands. Evelyn has lost three brothers during the war. The family factory makes car engines. She wins the fight to take it over and decides to build modern ambulances: at the front she has come to hate the ancient rattletraps that shake wounded men to death. Ilona works in the factory, but, unstable and demanding, she wants a kind of love from Evelyn that Evelyn finds impossible. They quarrel, and Ilona loses herself in the lesbian bars and brothels of London. But Evelyn cannot live without the girl she loves – and so starts her search for the lost Ilona, discovering the sordid and degenerate world of London, from Bloomsbury to the East End, made vicious by the war... Ilona Lost offers an unforgettable image of love triumphing over despair against a backdrop of social, political and international savagery. It also sheds a rare and powerful light on the tragic divisions in the Ukraine, a useful insight at our own insecure moment in history. It will appeal to fans of historical, literary and romance fiction.
Download or read book Ilona Lost written by James Pinnells and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Explosion A Powder Mill Chronicle written by Ilona E Holland and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fire, explosions, and flying debris test the courage of the du Pont children as they race from their home to escape an explosion of their family's powder mill and make their way to safety. Based on true events, this book combines fact with fiction to provide an exciting glimpse into life at Eleutherian Mills in 1818.
Download or read book The Sirens of Soleil City written by Sarah C. Johns and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three generations of women learn to own their mistakes and rebuild their bonds as they prepare to compete in the South Florida Senior Synchronized Swimming Competition. “A witty, touching story of resilience, forgiveness, complicated family dynamics, and second chances.”—Deepa Varadarajan, author of Late Bloomers West Palm Beach, 1999. A phone call summons fifty-eight-year-old Cherie Anderson from a frozen Minnesota to help her two mothers: Dale, the mother who left her when she was five and is facing eviction from her budget-apartment complex, Soleil City, and Marlys, the mother who raised her from that moment on—and who’s now dying, but won’t admit it to her daughter. Cherie seeks a reason to stay in town long enough to give Dale the help she’s finally asked for and Marlys the help she clearly needs. And she must find a project to distract her pregnant daughter, Laura, whose marriage has fallen apart just weeks before her due date. The South Florida Senior Synchronized Swimming Competition seems to be the answer. The publicity from winning the contest, along with the ten-thousand-dollar prize money, could help save Soleil City. With Laura, who used to captain a dance team, as their coach, they’ve got a fighting chance. And with everyone else preoccupied by the competition, Cherie can focus on saving Marlys before it’s too late. Over the course of a month in an apartment complex filled with feisty, funny, strong-willed women in their seventies, four women who make up an uneasy family will realize that in life, and motherhood, there isn’t good and bad. There’s only trying to get it right.
Download or read book Ilona s Mountain written by C. Birch Pontius and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ILONA'S MOUNTAIN is a woman's historical adventure novel circa 1820-1850. What follows is an engrossing action-packed tale of a young woman's struggles in an era where violence and conflict exists in a male-dominated society. The heroine is a destitute young girl, born 1820 into a sharecropper's family. Adopted by the famous Colonel Wade Hampton of America's Revolutionary War, Ilona Christine Rutledge grows up on the Carolina showplace, Hampton Plantation. Over the years the young Ilona matures as an educated southern lady and an astute businesswoman. Using plantation slaves, the heroine farms a sizeable garden, opens highway vegetables stand, and wisely shares her profits with the slaves. By her middle teens, she finances the re-floating of a sunken riverboat from the waters of Savannah, Georgia. She hires a New Orleans marine engineer to raise the derelict, refit it, and fashion it into an opulent riverboat casino. Unexpectedly, heavily armed enemies strike. Within years, "That Rutledge intruder," now known as The River Queen, acquires a fleet of elegant stern-wheeler gambling boats. Accumulating immense wealth, she helps many people, unwittingly including those who secretly plot to kill her. The grisly showdown comes when the duelist, Randolph Holcombe, pursues, traps, then challenges "Gray Hair," leader of the murder conspiracy, inside a snow-covered mountain cave. In spite of a surprising and horrible confrontation, the actual identity of "Gray Hair" remains hidden. Only suspicions point to why he hates The River Queen so much.
Download or read book The Stars at Night written by Anita D. Hall and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-02-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stars At Night colorfully portrays successfully creative personalities achieving self-awareness and spiritual insight through their dreams. Likewise, the book shows that everyone can become more creative and spiritual by tending to his or her own dreams. In this text, Anita Hall shares the techniques, attitude, and approach that she uses, as well as actual dreams of the generous personalities, such as Alan Arkin and
Download or read book Shame and Desire written by Tarja Laine and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shame and Desire defines the contemporary cinematic experience in terms that go beyond the visual. Adopting an intersubjective perspective on film studies, the author maintains that the dialectical poles of subject and object, seeing and being seen no longer seem to be valid. We are now surrounded by images that look back at us provocatively, seductively, indifferently; and not only in movies, but also in art, television, the city, in chance encounters, and in our private relationships. Taking her cue from Jean-Paul Sartre, the author shows how emotions exemplify the way in which we are 'forced' to see ourselves through the eyes of others, unable to escape an identity that is imposed upon us from the outside but nevertheless resides 'in the flesh' - in the affective operations of the body and the senses. To illustrate her account of the intersubjective dynamics and affective bonds of cinema, the author explores the contemporary aesthetic investment in the emotional in the work of filmmakers such as Lars von Trier, Michael Haneke and Eija-Liisa Ahtila. This book proposes an insight into the ways in which we are engaged with visual displays and the look with which they respond to our looking.
Download or read book Ghost in the Vault written by Jonathan Moeller and published by Azure Flame Media. This book was released on with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caina has made many enemies, and chief among them is Lord Corbould Maraeus, the most powerful noble in the Empire of Nighmar. But the Empire is facing dire peril, and Corbould needs all the allies he can find. If Caina can find a missing ambassador, Corbould is willing to forego his vengeance against Caina. Except no mere political intrigue has snared the missing ambassador. For the ancient evils in the forgotten Vault of the Moroaica are awakening...
Download or read book Buddy Bison s Yellowstone Adventure written by Ilona Holland and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Butterflies flutter, birds soar, and geysers burst into the sky. Join Buddy Bison and his two new friends as they explore the majestic Yellowstone National Park. Breathtaking photographs of Yellowstone serve as the backdrop for the wacky adventures of a curious pair of twins, Elana and Christopher, who are spending the summer with their aunt Rosa, a park ranger...This charming tale is sprinkled with helpful tidbits about the park, weird-but-true facts about the animals, and more fun facts kids adore. A comprehensive afterword offers a short history of the park and ways kids can get involved in parks preservation"--
Download or read book The Play s the Thing written by Ferenc Molnár and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P.G. Wodehouse's adaptation of Jatek a Kastelyban (The Play in the Castle) brings Ferenc Molnar's classic comedy to a wider audience. The play is a romantic farce without the usual door-slamming and comic entrances and exits. Instead, we are treated to a party of guests seemingly overhearing a lover's tryst, only to find (with the help of a very quick-witted playwright) that they are actually hearing something very different. The play combines beautifully formed characters with an exquisite text.
Download or read book The Gentleman s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.
Download or read book The Lost Locket of Lewes written by Ilona Holland and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picture book for children 5-9 inspired by historical events, people, and places. This book combines facts with fiction to to help children learn about Lewes, DE and life in the 19th century.
Download or read book Ghost in the Council written by Jonathan Moeller and published by Azure Flame Media. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all her life, Caina has served as a Ghost of the Empire, one of the Emperor's spies and assassins. Now the Empire teeters on the precipice of ruin. If Caina cannot forge an alliance among the lords of the Empire, the brutal sorcerers of the Umbarian Order will enslave mankind. After they have taken their vengeance upon Caina...
Download or read book San Diego Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1984-03 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Proud Princess written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having survived the 1871 siege of Paris with her mother the Queen of Dabrozka, Princess Ilona is summoned back to the war-ravaged kingdom of her father, a tyrannical monarch whose unjust rule has divided the nation into two factions: her own Rad k people and the S ros. Worse still, Russia threatens to march on Dabrozka to impose their iron-clad style of order. Only Ilona can save her country from this fate - by making a terrible sacrifice. At the Prime Minister's request, she must marry the Prince of S ros, their union bringing together the people. This she will do; this she must do - but what her pride will not allow her is to love the aloof, indifferent Prince. Humiliated by the Prince's evident disregard, and beaten by her own father on the eve of her wedding, it seems that love will never fill her heart - but as warclouds gather over Dabrozka, both the Prince and the Proud Princes are about to share a dramatic change of heart!
Download or read book Who Brought the Luck to the Lucky Country Great Australian Migrant Business written by Carolyn Ford and published by Red Dog Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book and then the Fat Lady Sang written by Eva Fischer-Dixon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-09-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My mother began to tell me stories when I was about 12 years old. As the years passed, her stories become even more intricate. I knew one thing for certain, one day, I will write down as much as I could recall, so I did, although it took me over 45 years. The large Willinger family’s story begins with a matchmaking attempt and the birth of a number of children. My mother was the second born. Their hardship that I wrote about was common of the era, but through Ilona’s life and encounters, the lives of others in the Budapest ghetto come alive and that include her first and significant heartbreak. VOLUME I is two books, the second one concludes on March 21, 1973, the day I arrived in the United States and where I began my own adventures. VOLUME II will continue my life story from 1973 until Present Day. VOLUME III will include fascinating individual stories of my family members.
