Download or read book Toward a Dark Horizon written by Beryl Carpenter and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara Elena flees Spain in 1492, narrowly avoiding capture by her pursuer, Don Antonio Morales, evil deputy of the Inquisition. On the eve of her departure, she marries Juan, the man she has come to love. However, she and her new groom must soon travel different paths and endure dangerous separation for a time. Juan travels west with Columbus on the voyage of discovery. Will loneliness subdue him? Will he fall victim to temptation? Sara sails eastward seeking a welcome and a home. But which country will receive her, one of the hundreds of Jews exiled by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand? Along the way she makes friends. Evil follows her as Sara builds a new life in a foreign country. Just when joy is about to overtake her, a cruel violence and heart-breaking news threaten to overwhelm her. Will her dream of a real home vanish like a wisp of smoke?
Download or read book Towards a Dark Horizon written by Maureen Reynolds and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the 1930s and having survived the Great Depression the Neill family must now face up to the hardships of war. The legacy Ann Neill has inherited from her kindly employer has been a godsend but just as their lives seem set to improve, the threat of war with Germany looms and they seem headed for a similarly dark horizon. Full of dark family secrets, Towards A Dark Horizon tells the next part of the story of Ann and Lilly Neill, their father Johnny as well as the Ryan clan and the budding relationship between Danny and Maddie. But in the turbulent years before and after the start of the Second World War, no one can escape the conflict or what fate has in store. In Towards A Dark Horizon, Maureen Reynolds continues her compelling story describing the trials and tribulations of working-class life in the close-knit community of pre-war and wartime Dundee.
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Download or read book From a Dark Horizon written by Luke McCallin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the waning days of World War I, a horrific crime behind the lines sends Lieutenant Gregor Reinhardt on a search for a killer in this electrifying thriller from the author of The Man from Berlin. It's the final days of the Great War and four years of grinding conflict has warped more than one man's mind. When a secret meeting of top brass is called, someone sets off a bomb that kills all the attendees. It looks for sure that one of the men in Gregor Reinhardt's company is the culprit. But since that man killed himself, the General is looking for someone else to share the blame. Reinhardt must prove his trooper innocent if he hopes to avoid the fate of a co-conspirator. The search for answers leads Reinhardt deep into a potential conspiracy populated by mutinous soldiers, a mysterious Russian nobleman, and a pair of doctors who may be doing more than treating battlefield injuries. The trenches are home to any number of horrors, but what if the greatest danger is right next to you?
Download or read book The Dark Horizon written by Simon Hall and published by Thames River Press. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A television reporter is forced to turn detective in order to solve a bizarre riddle and try to prevent one of the worst terrorist atrocities Britain has ever known. The young are set against the old, today against tomorrow, in a deadly battle between warring generations and conflicting visions for an uncertain future. Written by a journalist with more than twenty years’ experience in the TV industry, ‘The Dark Horizon’ tackles one of the greatest scandals of our time, and provides a new twist on the crime fiction genre with an insight into the subtle ways the police can use the media to help them crack crimes.
Download or read book The Nice Series written by Celia Imrie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 1057 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The witty and enchanting Nice series, from the well-loved actress and Sunday Times-bestselling author Celia Imrie 'Utterly delicious in every way' Joanna Lumley Not Quite Nice Nice Work (If You Can Get It) A Nice Cup of Tea In the beautiful town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and the plush red carpets of Cannes, join Theresa, Carol, William, Benjamin and Sally: five retired expats whose adventures in love, friendship and business are never short of laughs - or disaster!
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Download or read book Dragon Land written by Maureen Reynolds and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic story of love, hope and survival from Scotland to Shanghai. When six-year-old Lizzie Flint's father, Peter, is killed in the trenches of the First World War, she knows life will never be the same again. And as Lizzie's mother Beth, who refuses to believe that Peter is dead, becomes isolated and embittered, she grows up taking care of her mother - at the cost of her own dreams of adventure. After her mother passes away, Lizzie finally tastes freedom when she travels to Hong Kong to be a teacher. There she falls in love not only with the country itself - the exotic Dragon Land - but with Jonas O'Neill, an author. Jonas and Lizzie marry and move to Shanghai, where they have a son. But as the Japanese army advances towards China, the family finds itself separated by the turmoil of war. In the midst of conflict in a foreign land, can Lizzie win her own battles, get herself to safety and reunite her family?
Download or read book The Twinning Verse Three written by Justin R. Cary and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two years have passed since the fall of the Cerulean School and the return of Lucas Allcraft. Mya VanVargott. A powerful Fabricantress searching for a way to save both her world and her brother. Michael Smith. A powerful Magican whose choices have led him down a path from which, perhaps, he cannot return. Serafina. Earth's twin world-now at the brink of destruction. The epic third and final verse of The Twinning trilogy concludes with sinister twists and unexpected turns as Michael, Mya and all those who have shared in their journey come face to face with an ultimate and terrifying truth.
Download or read book REVEROF written by Timothy Dorr and published by Timothy Dorr. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathan Christensen, eager to become a top Neuroscientist, attends the University of Minnesota, where he begins working feverishly to build one of the great discoveries in the United States and worldwide. After all, he meets up with another neuroscientist wonder, Kaitlyn, who helps with the creation, and together, they find a scientific breakthrough that could change the way people look at life and death, mortality and immortality, innovating one of the most distinguished and celebrated inventions of all time. But their brilliance may be thwarted by the manifesto and wishes of a French terrorist, harboring a grudge on American enterprises, leading a band of young saboteurs in explosive destructions across the globe. And joining up with the gang of terrorists, a prominent, wealthy Russian, who tries to mend his broken heart by helping the wandering troupe, while searching for a new love, travelling the harbors of the winding seas. With scenes of breathtaking devotion, adventurous ocean treks, and the hottest music bands on the planet, this science fiction tale will lead the reader through a foretelling journey of a lifetime, as the young couple rides the typical coffee clutch, follows their dream of inventing a new solution to life, and death, thereby changing everyone’s view of living perpetually.
Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of Grant Allen Illustrated written by Grant Allen and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-10-08 with total page 8278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian science writer and novelist, Grant Allen was an early proponent of the theory of evolution. His first books dealt with scientific subjects, being influenced by associationist psychology as expounded by Alexander Bain and by Herbert Spencer. However, as his career developed he became a bestselling novelist of the Victorian era, penning intriguing sensation and science-fiction books. This comprehensive eBook presents Allen’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Allen’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * 19 novels, with individual contents tables * Features many rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Includes Allen’s rare poetry collection ‘The Lower Slopes’ – available in no other collection * A wide selection of Allen’s non-fiction - spend hours exploring the author’s diverse areas of study * Features Edward Clodd’s seminal memoir - discover Allen’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels Philistia Babylon This Mortal Coil The White Man’s Foot The Jaws of Death What’s Bred in the Bone The Great Taboo Dumaresq’s Daughter The Duchess of Powysland Recalled to Life Blood Royal Michael’s Crag The Scallywag The Woman Who Did The British Barbarians A Splendid Sin Linnet Rosalba Hilda Wade The Shorter Fiction Strange Stories The Beckoning Hand, and Other Stories Ivan Greet’s Masterpiece and Other Stories Wednesday the Tenth An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay Miss Cayley’s Adventures Twelve Tales The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Poetry The Lower Slopes The Non-Fiction The Colour-Sense: Its Origin and Development Anglo-Saxon Britain Evolutionist at Large Flowers and Their Pedigrees Biographies of Working Men Charles Darwin Force and Energy Falling in Love Science in Arcady Post-Prandial Philosophy The Mediterranean Moorland Idylls Florence Paris Cities of Belgium County and Town in England Flashlights on Nature Side Lights The Autobiography My First Book The Biography Grant Allen: A Memoir by Edward Clodd Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
Download or read book The Siege of Youth written by Frances Asa Charles and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sunflower written by Colin McLaren and published by Victory Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a small town in country Australia, railway man George Bingham toils away, dreaming of adventure in far-off lands. When the call for Great War volunteers comes, he leaves behind his worn mattock and his first love, jumping the first ship to set sail for a stricken Europe. As the war moves from Gallipoli to the Somme, George becomes 'Sunflower', enduring squalid trenches and immeasurable heartbreak, a prophecy foretold by a beautiful Bedouin in the backstreets of a Cairo marketplace. As George struggles to reclaim his humanity amid the tragedy, he meets a French nurse who heals his wounds and teaches him to dream again. A novel of war, survival and love, Sunflower proves the redemptive power of hope in the hideousness of battle.
Download or read book The Sunbird written by Wilbur Smith and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wilbur Smith's The Sunbird, Dr. Ben Kazin is a brilliant archeologist. Louren Sturvesant is rich, impulsive, and physically imposing, everything Ben is not. Now, the two men--friends, competitors and partners--are searching for the legendary lost city of Opet, built by an Egyptian culture that reached Africa two thousand years ago, then vanished completely. For Ben, the expedition is a chance to prove a controversial thesis. For Louren, it is a chance to spend millions--and make it all back in gold and glory. But what awaits them is an astounding discovery, a siege of terror, and an act of betrayal that will tear the two men apart and bind them together forever... Hidden beneath water, jungle, and blood-red cliffs is a lost world where two men and a beautiful woman were caught in a furious battle of passions two thousands years ago, but which has begun once again....
Download or read book Ivan Greet s Masterpiece written by Grant Allen and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
