Catalog Search Results
32141) The Non-Affair
Author
Language
English
Description
A girl, a book a man and a desk come together in a university setting about an affair that never happened. He is tall, dark and handsome, charming and attentive. He becomes an admirer when he realizes she is his best student. She is shy, sheltered, naive, her life circumscribed by tradition, convention, and her parent's wishes. They come together discussing "Montaillou," by Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie, a sociological study of French village life in 1294....
32142) Greener Grass
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Kit Byrne's family is a strong one, but their strength and unity are being severely tested, as life becomes more and more desperate in 19th-century rural Ireland. Lord Fraser is the wealthy landowner, from which the Byrne's and many other families rent their lands. When the potato blight hits, the farmers can no longer make their payments much less produce food for themselves, and the cruel system has no mercy as Lord Fraser wields an iron fist, driving...
32143) Thursday's Child
Author
Language
English
Description
Helen Forrester's moving story of an English girl and her love affair with an Indian man. Peggy Delaney was a Lancashire girl born and bred, beginning to live again after the heartache of the war. Ajit Singh was a charming young Indian student, shortly to return to his homeland and an arranged marriage. When Peggy and Ajit fell in love, each one knew the future would not be easy. But as they began their new life, far from their homes and their families,...
32144) Refuge
Author
Language
English
Description
To whom do we offer refuge - and why? After a life that rubbed up against the century's great events in New York City, Mexico, and Montreal, 96-year-old Cassandra MacCallum is surviving well enough, alone on her island, when a young Burmese woman contacts her, claiming to be kin. Curiosity, loneliness, and a slender filament of hope prompts the old woman to accept a visit. But Nang's story of torture and flight provokes memories in Cass that peel...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
With this novel, Andreï Makine, whose work has been compared to that of Balzac, Chekhov, Pasternak, and Proust, brings to a stunning conclusion his epic trilogy that began with Dreams of My Russian Summers and continued with Requiem for a Lost Empire.
The novel opens in 1942, in a burning, gutted Stalingrad, where the German and Russian armies are locked in a struggle to the death. Amid these ruins, a French pilot and a nurse, also French, are engaged...
Author
Language
English
Description
Bring Your Heart: A Journey to Freedom introduces readers to Mei, a Vietnamese immigrant whose journey to the United States is filled with family, hardships, and hope. Dylan Luong weaves a tale that takes readers from South Vietnam to Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The journey begins at the end of the Vietnam War when Mei, a shy teenager, is forced out of the only home she has ever known. Her family escapes the conflict, but the perils they face along...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Shay Devereaux had been alone, angry and bereft of hope - until a deathbed plea had sent him into the arms of Jenny Pennington, the one woman who could resurrect him, heart and soul! Though the war had scarred her in places deep and secret, Jenny had refused to let it break her. Then, suddenly, Shay Devereaux rode into her life and her womanhood awakened, for this heaven-sent man without a past had brought her a future - filled with unimaginable love!...
32148) The Knight's Kiss
Author
Language
English
Description
An arranged marriage interferes with star-crossed love in this sweeping medieval romance from Sally Nicholls – perfectly pitched for struggling teen readers. Lady Elinor of Hardford has fallen in love for the first time, with Dan, her cousin and knight-in-training. But her father has other plans. She must marry his friend, Sir William of Courtney – and he's nearly 50! Ellie must draw on all her skills to work out a solution to her dilemma. Can...
Author
Language
English
Description
Ruqayya was only thirteen when the Nakba came to her village in Palestine in 1948. The massacre in Tantoura drove her from her home and from everything she had ever known. She had not left her village before, but she would never return. Now an old woman, Ruqayya looks back on a long life in exile, one that has taken her to Syria, Lebanon, the Gulf, and given her children and grandchildren. Through her depth of experience and her indomitable spirit,...
32150) Hawaii End of the Rainbow
Author
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the Japanese who immigrated to Hawaii around the turn of the present century, worked as forced laborers on the sugar plantations, and afterwards remained in Hawaii to work as free men and to raise families. It is the story also of their children, born and raised in Hawaii, and who, during World War II, won fame and glory for themselves and their country on the bloody battlefields of Italy and southern Europe. But more than all...
32151) The Templar Lance
Author
Language
English
Description
A secret society…A relic that can change human history…A mystery that spans the centuries…A young priest must solve it, but will his faith survive Author R.A. Johnson brings you The Templar Lance, the first entry in the Enclave Series of historical thrillers that will make you question centuries of dogma and doctrine. Father Dan Koprowicz is assigned to an isolated parish with a long, dark history and secrets that date back to the Crusades and...
32152) Hindkin and Huntress
Author
Language
English
Description
In the Pictish kingdom of Cait, human stone-carver Eithni and her fey lover, the deer-woman Sable, survive in exile-even if they chafe at the need to hide their true selves from the people of Cenn River. But they know that if Sable's one-time liege, a Lightlord of the fey, finds them here in the mortal realm, his revenge will eclipse anything mere humans could enact ten-fold.So when gathering winter storms give rise to old superstitions about "The...
32153) Lakeland Lily
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When tragedy strikes, she must find a new path...
Lily Thorpe is spirited, ambitious and desperate to escape the poverty of her Lake District home, and marry her secret sweetheart Dick Rawlins. But tragedy strikes and Dick is killed in a boating accident caused by the wealthy and arrogant Clermont-Read family. Lily is forced to reassess her future, and she embarks on a quest for revenge and marries Bertie Clermont-Read.
The young couple are rejected...
32154) L'Anneau d'améthyste
Author
Series
Language
Français
Description
Extrait : "Madame Bergeret quitta la maison conjugale, ainsi qu'elle l'avait annoncé, et se retira chez madame veuve Pouilly, sa mère. Au dernier moment, elle avait pensé ne point partir. Pour peu qu'on l'en eût pressée, elle aurait consenti à oublier le passé et à reprendre la vie commune, ne gardant à M. Bergeret qu'un peu de mépris d'avoir été un mari trompé."
À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN :
Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des...
32155) Un étrange chagrin
Author
Language
Français
Description
Un Etrange chagrin se veut comme reflet de l'évolution de la société algérienne depuis la décennie noire, société meurtrie dans sa chair et dans sa conscience, jusqu'aux temps présents traversés en profondeur par la quête de la moralisation du social et du politique.
Le roman s'attache aux pas d'un homme, Sefwane, dévasté par la disparition tragique de sa fille, la veille de son mariage. Les causes du drame lui échappent. Dans ses tentatives...
32156) The Plume Hunter
Author
Language
English
Description
Bird-watchers will love this journey back to the 1880s West Coast when vast populations of wild birds still filled the skies in annual migrations. But the birds were imperiled by plume hunters intent on personal fortune. This story of violence, love, and loss portrays the advent of the Audubon Society. A moving story of conflict, friendship, and love, The Plume Hunter follows the life of Fin McFaddin, a late-nineteenth century Oregon outdoorsman who...
Author
Language
English
Description
History is brought alive by the people it affects, rather than those who created it. In Beautiful Star we meet Eilmer, a monk in 1010 with Icarus-like dreams; Charles I, hiding in 1651, and befriended by a small boy; the trial of Jane Wenham, witch of Walkern, seen through the eyes of her grand-daughter. This is a moving and affecting journey through time, bringing a new perspective to the defence of Corfe Castle, the battle of Waterloo, the siege...
Author
Language
English
Description
UNREST tells the story of seventeen-year-old Annie Patterson, plucked from her comfortable existence in the American Midwest, to travel with her mom and siblings to join her lieutenant colonel father in Tehran, Iran. It's the late 1970s, and unbeknownst to the Patterson family, Iran is on the verge of phenomenal and unprecedented change. Initially, culture shock envelopes Annie as much as the black robes that cloak the people milling in the airport,...
32159) The Hell of Osirak
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
COULD YOU PREVENT A NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST FROM ENGULFING THE MIDDLE EAST? British spy Nikki Sinclair must do exactly that.
Traumatised after a failed mission, Nikki is sent undercover to Osirak. Her orders are clear. Using any means necessary, discover when the reactor goes online.
Nikki's romantic attachment with an older woman, the mysterious Margot Lambert, provides compensations, but then her ex-lover, Mossad spy Dvora Bar Zahavi, arrives on the...
32160) 4 Empty Graves
Author
Language
English
Description
Martin Teebs has spent years of his life traveling between present day and the old west of Lincoln, NM and the Lincoln County War. Unknown to him, he is well known in the past by his pal Billy the Kid, his lover Rosita Luna, and his sworn enemy Carl Farber. Having taken part in every major battle of the war, Martin suffered an unbelievable loss just when it looked like his life might be turning around. In this final shocking chapter of the "Back to...