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A five-year story of love between ordinary people who survived World War II on just 49 days spent together. How did they do it? This true story based on real lives explores the conundrum.
"Death Comes for the Archbishop" is a masterful work of historical fiction by Willa Cather. Set in the American Southwest in the mid-19th century, the novel tells the story of a young French priest who is sent to establish a Catholic diocese in a rugged and unfamiliar land. Through his encounters with the indigenous people and his fellow settlers, the priest comes to understand the complexities and beauty of the human spirit. With its vivid descriptions and deep insight into the human soul, "Death Comes for the Archbishop" is a timeless meditation on the meaning of faith, community, and the quest for spiritual fulfillment.Mostra libro
Read by Hugh Fraser The meticulous detective Hercule Poirot suspects the worst of the death of a dentist in this classic mystery by Queen of Whodunits, Agatha Christie. Even the great detective Hercule Poirot harbored a deep and abiding fear of the dentist, so it was with some trepidation that he arrived at the celebrated Dr. Morley’s surgery for a dental examination. But what neither of them knew was that only hours later Poirot would be back to examine the dentist, found dead in his own surgery. Turning to the other patients for answers, Poirot finds other, darker, questions.…Mostra libro
The Modern Age is one of information overload. Bombarded, surrounded, and battered by facts, figures, opinions and seemingly whatever else comes out of anyone’s head from all directions at all hours of the day and night. It’s exhausting. However, in this volume we go back a little way to when social media was an actual chat on the street corner or a dinner party, when breaking news was tomorrow’s newspaper or something momentous when a TV or radio programme could be interrupted with the outbreak of war or the death of a leader or sovereign. In the pens of such luminaries as Henry James, E M Delafield, C E Montague, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and many others we connect with old fashioned media from publishing and advertising to telegrams and radio and everything in between in ways that are surprising, enlightening but always entertaining. 1 - The Media - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 2 - The Death of the Lion - Part 1 by Henry James 3 - The Death of the Lion - Part 2 by Henry James 4 - The Voice of God by Winifred Holtby 5 - Home Life Relayed by E M Delafield 6 - His Wife's Deceased Sister by Frank R Stockton 7 - Over the Wires by H D Everett 8 - The Night Wire by W F Arnold 9 - The Millionaire's Telegram by Barry Pain 10 - Mutiny by Dorothy Edwards 11 - The Eidoloscope by Robert Duncan Milne 12 - The Cloud-Men by Owen Oliver 13 - Why Herbert Killed His Mother by Winifred Holtby 14 - Looking at the Classics by E M Delafield 15 - Making a Living by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 16 - Two or Three Witnesses by C E MontagueMostra libro
In "Alexander's Bridge," Willa Cather crafts a poignant narrative of ambition and inner turmoil. Follow Bartley Alexander, a successful bridge engineer whose life seems enviable, yet is fractured by a rekindled romance with a former lover. As he balances a demanding career and personal conflicts, the emotional strain threatens to unravel his stability. Cather's debut novel explores the delicate architecture of identity, the passions that bind us, and the inevitable cost of unresolved desires.Mostra libro
In the Shadow of the Prophet is a novel set in the Middle East, during the time of transition from paganism to Islam. The novel chronicles the stories of two sisters, Noor and Sawdah, whose lives are transformed by their personal experiences and by the dramatic changes in the world around them.Mostra libro
The blockbuster thriller from Graham Hurley, The Blood of Others is part of the SPOILS OF WAR Collection, a thrilling, beguiling blend of fact and fiction born of some of the most tragic, suspenseful, and action-packed events of World War II. A catastrophe no headline dared admit. Summer 1942. Abwehr intelligence officer Wilhelm Schultz is baiting a trap to lure thousands of Allied troops to their deaths. George Hogan is a devout young Canadian journalist who has caught the eye of press baron Lord Beaverbrook. Now he faces an assignment that will test his faith to breaking point. Jackie Wrenne, meanwhile, is working in Lord Louis Mountbatten's cloak-and-dagger Combined Operations headquarters and is privy to the boldest cross-Channel raid yet conceived. Three lives interlinked by a name and a date that no Canadian will ever forget: Dieppe, 19 August 1942. At dawn, over six thousand men storm ashore on heavily defended French beaches. Barely hours later, less than half will make it back alive... From highly acclaimed thriller author GRAHAM HURLEY, the blockbuster SPOILS OF WAR non-chronological collection features compelling recurring characters whose fragmented lives mirror the war that shattered the globe. For fans of Philip Kerr and Robert Harris. Praise for the author: 'A penetrating, compelling, and skilfully vivid slice of historical fiction' LOVEREADING 'Historical fiction of a high order' THE TIMES 'Tense, absorbing and faultlessly plotted' SUNDAY TIMES 'Beautifully constructed... This is one of Hurley's finest' DAILY MAIL 'Capable and understated characterization' PUBLISHERS WEEKLYMostra libro
