A young lawyer in Los Angeles lives alone with his cat until he meets a young lady and in one night together they agree to marry. Their plan is placed on hold because her mother kills her father and Lionel (the central character) is asked to defend her in court. After a successful outcome, the young couple marries only to become involved with a crime boss's daughter Valentina. This leads to tragedy for Lionel and almost costs the life of him and Valentina. Her father is killed in a gangland shootout and his family is placed in danger from the new crime boss. Lionel must find a way to prevent him from killing Valentine and her family.
Lured by the prospect of free land, a group of New Englanders emigrate to Nova Scotia in the spring of 1760 to claim land seized from the Acadians by the British. Weary of poverty and religious oppression, Connecticut farmer Zadoc Bennet hopes to build a peaceful new life there for his family. But there is no sanctuary from war and revolution, and private tragedy stalks the family. On their first day ashore, one of their sons vanishes. Another son later succumbs to religious fanaticism and pays for his obsession with his life. Mercy, their mother, holds a secret fear close to her heart. Is she somehow at fault? Life in Nova Scotia was to be a new beginning for the family, but the past cannot be undone. Their fates are inextricably entwined with that of Catherine Dupuis, an exiled Acadian woman with her own dark grief. She has suffered hatred, brutality and degradation, but she is determined to redeem what she has lost. Separated from her brother in the expulsion of the Acadians, she will stop at nothing to find him. In a story set against the backdrop of pre-revolutionary North America, these humble people struggle to survive and prosper in a harsh new land.
Beneath the Surface deals with a diverse and volatile group of teenagers and their innovative teacher who sets out to bridge differences and bring peace to the school. It addresses serious issues affecting today's teens, such as peer pressure, drug abuse, and self esteem.
This is the story of a boy and his three wonderful companions, a dog, a sheep, and a galah growing up in a remote community in Western Australia. The ups, the downs, the excitement the disappointment of a wonderful, sometimes hilarious, sometimes sad childhood. 1939—1944. I WAS SO GLAD TO BE A PART OF IT!
This is another highly satisfying story from the author of Growing Up In Ghooli, Good Night Elizabeth, Warren, and Tiffany - The Girl On The Beach. Mike Edwards is a successful writer who buys an old French plantation house. It's been badly neglected and that's where his problems begin. He encounters a woman named Adele who once lived in and disappeared from the very same house. The mystery is, she disappeared in 1865 and it is now 2005, so Adele has been presumed dead for 140 years. Mike then has problems concluding his latest story because someone is continually trying to kill him by various methods. It's a race to see who will reach their objective first, and the odds are not in his favour.
This is a story of a boy growing up in a remote community isolated from the world. His sister dominates his early life as they drift from one exciting situation to another, attempting to do dangerous things. She threatens to have him buried in the goat yard if he dies while trying to accomplish them, but his fear of God is greater than his fear of dying. It's full of fun and daring as they struggle to grow up and Warren becomes obsessed with trying to accomplish a daring feat that could well have him in the goat yard should he fail. The family are forced to move to the city and Warren's world comes crashing down. He rebels at this change in his life until he meets a girl who captivates him with her beauty. Although their meeting is brief she lifts his spirit until they lose contact with each other leaving him wondering if fate will allow him to find her again or if she is lost to him forever.
Growing up with fears that almost killed him, a small boy struggles on through life with no purpose. Disillusioned by the circumstances that surround him, he becomes an angry loner and is forced to change his life by learning to swim. Never does he re
A story of love, devotion, temptation and strength of two people as they travel through life together facing the happy and the sad times. Elizabeth faces an illness that threatens to end her life and she makes plans for her husband to go on without her. During her illness she never loses her sense of humour or her love for her husband.
As a port city, Dublin owes much to the labourers who strove against the heavy-duty tide of imports and exports; a league of thousands who were hired on a day-to-day basis for generations, defining the bustle of Dublin city centre – a cornerstone of the urban industrial working class in Ireland. The Dublin Docker is a sumptuously illustrated history that determines the dockers’ and stevedores’ importance as an industrial subculture within the Dublin that they navigated. The authors excavated the archive of the Dublin Dockworkers Preservation Society to discover a wealth of photographs, spanning the mid-nineteenth century to the 1970s, that capture the dockers’ arduous labour and the energy of Dublin port. These evocative images bring this beautifully designed social history to life, complementing the inimitable voices revealed in interviews with the dockers themselves. How they negotiated working hours and pay, the changes that came with epochal events – the Dublin Lockout, the First World War, the Easter Rising and War of Independence – and the innumerable myths and ‘dark stories’ that shrouded their image: The Dublin Docker is a history of the dockers and their deep-woven connection to the city.
In baseball, great teams are the stuff of legend. Even the most casual fan is fascinated by the seemingly unanswerable question; who's the greatest team of all time? The 1961 Yankees, with Mantle and Maris? The 1927 Yankees, with Ruth and Gehrig? Or is it a more recent team -- the 1975 Reds? Or the 1998 Yankees, who won 114 games and completed the first of two consecutive World Series sweeps? The Ultimate Dream Team Playoff uses a terrific computer simulation -- Diamond Mind Baseball -- and a fresh approach (64 teams playing their way toward a final best-of-seven struggle) to answer this eternally popular question. The reader will live through eight concurrent pennant races as the teams vie for berths in baseball's equivalent of the NCAA's "Sweet Sixteen".
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