Download or read book Veronica s Grave written by Barbara Bracht Donsky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award: Silver for Memoir 2017 National Indie Excellence Awards: Finalist 2017 Independent Press Award: Distinguished Favorite for Memoir 2016 Beverly Hills Book Awards: Memoir Finalist 2016 Readers' Favorite:Silver Medal for Non-fiction Memoir New York Public Library Top Pick Summer 2017 When Barbara Bracht's mother disappears, she is left a confused child whose blue-collar father is intent upon erasing any memory of her mother. Forced to keep the secret of her mother's existence from her younger brother, Barbara struggles to keep from being crushed under the weight of family secrets as she comes of age and tries to educate herself, despite her father's stance against women's education. The story is not only of loss and resilience, but one showing the power of literature—from Little Orphan Annie to Prince Valiant to the incomparable Nancy Drew—to offer hope where there is little. Told with true literary sensibility, this captivating memoir asks us to consider what it is that parents owe their children, and how far a child need go to make things right for her family.
Download or read book The Grave Diggers written by Cole Figene and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Perilous Undertaking written by Deanna Raybourn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visiting a ladies-only club for intrepid women, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell is challenged to save a society art patron from execution.
Download or read book The Story of Veronica written by Denise Robins and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1939, war clouds are gathering. Veronica Hallard is happily married and living in Lagos with her husband Charles, until he sends her back to England ahead of him. But he doesn't arrive as expected - his boat is torpedoed. At first Veronica refuses to believe he is dead. Her broken heart causes her to suffer a complete nervous collapse. Her only consolation is the friendship of Boyd Mansell, who she met on the voyage home. In Boyd, she finds new happiness and a new marriage, and the memory of Charles begins to fade. Until one day, fate delivers another cruel blow - Charles returns from the dead! A captivating love story from the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1946 and now available for the first time in eBook.
Download or read book An Unexpected Peril written by Deanna Raybourn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A princess is missing and a peace treaty is on the verge of collapse in this new Veronica Speedwell adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. January 1889. As the newest member of the Curiosity Club--an elite society of brilliant, intrepid women--Veronica Speedwell is excited to put her many skills to good use. As she assembles a memorial exhibition for pioneering mountain climber Alice Baker-Greene, Veronica discovers evidence that the recent death was not a tragic climbing accident but murder. Veronica and her natural historian beau, Stoker, tell the patron of the exhibit, Princess Gisela of Alpenwald, of their findings. With Europe on the verge of war, Gisela's chancellor, Count von Rechstein, does not want to make waves--and before Veronica and Stoker can figure out their next move, the princess disappears. Having noted Veronica's resemblance to the princess, von Rechstein begs her to pose as Gisela for the sake of the peace treaty that brought the princess to England. Veronica reluctantly agrees to the scheme. She and Stoker must work together to keep the treaty intact while navigating unwelcome advances, assassination attempts, and Veronica's own family--the royalty who has never claimed her.
Download or read book A Grave Robbery written by Deanna Raybourn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veronica and Stoker discover that not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, in this latest historical mystery from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–nominated author Deanna Raybourn. Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud’s. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. But who would do such a dreadful thing, and why? Sleuthing out the answer to this question sets Veronica and Stoker on their wildest adventure yet. From the underground laboratories of scientists experimenting with electricity to resurrect the dead in the vein of Frankenstein to the traveling show where Stoker once toured as an attraction, the gaslit atmosphere of London in October is the perfect setting for this investigation into the unknown. Through it all, the intrepid pair is always one step behind the latest villain—a man who has killed once and will stop at nothing to recover the body of the woman he loved. Will they unmask him in time to save his next victim? Or will they become the latest figures to be immortalized in his collection of horrors?
Download or read book Veronica A Novel By the Author of Aunt Margaret s Trouble Etc Reprinted from All the Year Round written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spirit and Soul written by Theodore Kirkland and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deputy superintendents remarks were degrading and insulting. He thought that my soul could be bought for being allowed the privilege to walk through the front door at Elmira Prison, a symbol of status in his mind, but not mine. The front door of the prison was only a symbol of influence in the minds of fools, not in the minds of free men with thoughts based on liberty and equality. As a matter of fact, the rear was where my ancestors were forced to enter, so there is a sense of pride to walk in the footsteps of ones ancestors. Mr. Superintendent, I personally dont give a damn which door I come in. Apparently you didnt hear anything I said. Its not me I am concerned about. I am used to the back doors of America. Its those black women and children standing out in the cold, waiting to be processed and being denied the decency of using the restroom that concerns me. Its not about me. Its about decency and what is right, I assured him. He then told me that he could not change the policy and do anything about the situation at hand but that he could take care of me and make it more convenient and comfortable for me when I come back to Elmira. I thought of the times I heard the line We can take care of you, but we cant do anything about all those others. As a police officer and head of the black police organization, I had heard this more times than I care to remember from police officials, elected officials, politicians, businessmen, and now a prison superintendent. But it wasnt until that moment, standing in the gym at Elmira Prison, that I realized how much their use of others sounded so much like niggers.
Download or read book Villains For Justice written by Marta Nater and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Villains for Justice By: Marta Nater A story about fictional villains seeking justice where there is injustice instead. With the lives of children and women being affected in the hands of rapists and child abusers, Nina, Cherry, and Cora, in separate but connected stories, shows what can happen when a citizen with built up anger takes justice and the laws into their own hands.
Download or read book Shadows Of War written by Michael Ridpath and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: October, 1939: War has been declared, but until the armies massed on either side of the French–German border engage, all is quiet on the Western Front. There are those who believe the war no one wants to fight should be brought to a swift conclusion, even if it means treachery. A year ago, Conrad de Lancey came within seconds of assassinating Hitler. Now the British Secret Service want him to go back into Europe and make contact with a group of German officers they believe are plotting a coup. But this is the Shadow War, and the shadows are multiplying: it's not only disaffected Germans who are prepared to betray their country to save it...
Download or read book Winter Birds written by Jamie Langston Turner and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plain and dutiful, Sophia Hess has lived most of her life without ever knowing genuine love. Her professor husband had married her for the convenience of having a typist for his scholarly papers. The discovery of a dark secret opens her eyes to the truth about her marriage and her husband. Eventually nephew Patrick and his wife, Rachel, take Sophia into their home, and she observes from a careful distance their earnest faith and the simple gifts of kindness they generously bestow upon her and others-this in spite of an unthinkable tragedy they've suffered. Dare she unlock the door behind which she stalwartly conceals her broken heart? An insightful and moving portrayal of the transforming power of love
Download or read book To Walk in the Sun written by Jane Charles and published by Second Wind Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiding from a dangerous man, Tess Crawford thought The Wiggons' School for Elegant Young Ladies would be the perfect place to disappear. Or it would be if the local villagers weren't on edge because of the vampire in their midst, at least they think he's a vampire. The fascination with the reclusive viscount disrupts the girls' studies and Tess fights an unending battle to convince her students that monsters do not exist. Vincent Latimer, Viscount Atwood, is not a vampire, no matter what the villagers believe. He wishes the book, Wake Not the Dead, had never been written. There is a very good reason he visits his wife's grave at night, and it has nothing to do with trying to raise her from the dead. When a storm thrusts Tess into Vincent's path and destroys the school, both of their pasts collide.
Download or read book Sebastian Swanson Rise of the Lycan written by S.K. Ballinger and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-02-23 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every legend has a beginning and they same holds true with Stanley, the son of Sebastian Swanson. Being the first Lycan which he did not ask for, Sebastian learns over time his abilities, weaknesses and life in general. Making an agreement with a powerful Drackulis to not bite a human or war will one day happen, Sebastian out of loneliness disregarded those words. Years pass and he is settled down when he hears information from a dear friend which was the first one he bit, that they are now in danger by his own mistake. The hunt for Sebastian is on as he, his wife and friend relocate back to England where it all began. In this book you will take a journey of how Stanley and his brother Stephen became and other original characters such as Sirtimi were part of the first book 'Stanley Swanson Breed of a Werewolf'.
Download or read book Blood Thirst written by Leonard Wolf and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999-01-28 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Blood Thirst: One Hundred Years of Vampire Fiction, Leonard Wolf gathers thirty tales in which vampires of all varieties make their ghastly presence felt.
Download or read book True Home written by Anny Scoones and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the lead of her earlier bestselling books, Anny Scoones once again charms and inspires readers with her insights and observations. Using her experiences on a farm as a backdrop, Anny muses on the environment, fate, time and aging. In this collection of personal memoirs, Anny reaches deeper into what nature, rural life and agriculture mean to us. She explores the thrills, joys and disasters of what really happens in the countryside and nearby towns. Stories vary from a rescued dog Anny met in the town bank, to a grand old white pine tree that was given a new purpose, to a horse who couldn't relax without blackberries, to the joys of the garage sale--even a recipe for quince jelly. The book is illustrated by renowned Canadian artists Molly Lamb Bobak and Bruno Bobak. True Home is the third and final part of the Glamorgan Farm collection, tales of one of the oldest pioneer farms on Vancouver Island.
Download or read book A Man Made of Money and The Chronicles of Clovernook written by Douglas Jerrold and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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