Susan Aitken returns home looking forward to the Easter weekend to find her husband, Sir Gerald Aitken, with a bullet in his head. What appears to be a suicide is much more sinister. Four teenage friends, all now mature women, become reunited at his funeral. Thirty years have passed and none of them realise that their lives have been intertwined. The months following the funeral open up a catalogue of lies and as Susan struggles to cope with the consequences, police investigate further and find links to blackmail, homosexuality and child abuse amongst all of them. The family and trusted friends are in total disbelief, but one of them is Gerald's killer. How do these happenings, spanning over four decades, lead to a massive police cover-up and who is behind it all?
Bromley Bear and friends scale Cradle Mountain and enter the caves of Twilight Cove in their search for hidden treasure. Third book in the 'Bromley Bear' series for preschool and early primary school aged children.
Bromley Bear's rescue mission to save Skye the magic unicorn from the giant bunyip slayer, Sir Griswald, is filled with adventure. Second book in the 'Bromley Bear' series for preschool and early primary school aged children.
To escape the terrible realities of an alcoholic son, a departed husband, a bedridden uncle, and a dreary parttime job, Edith records the activities of a happy family in her journal.
A contemporary novel about a woman’s struggles in life. After her husband Harry dies suddenly in Provence, she returns to England. She meets a priest called Gabriel and then a doctor called Victor. When she is diagnosed with breast cancer she has part of her breast removed and a course of radiotherapy but she refuses chemotherapy. She decides to visit her son in New Zealand but before she leaves, Denys, her accountant, defrauds her of money. The novel ends ambiguously in New Zealand.
Illustrated by Aileen Johnston For many years the foremost name in Irish writing for children, Patricia Lynch is known for her charming classics set in an Ireland now vanished but still familiar to many whose children are now re-reading this wonderful writer. This great collection is the ideal book, gathering together all aspects of this writer's extraordinarily wide writing career.
Living in 1920s’ Darjeeling, a young woman makes an unforgivable mistake. As we follow her story from India to England, where she determines to build a life worth living, regardless of the past, we’re shown a unique glimpse into the social climate that fuelled the British Empire in early twentieth-century India. Once in England, she lives through the Second World War, is married twice and achieves a complete change of lifestyle, eventually living in a mansion with several staff. Her daughter is given the best of everything, including training at a finishing school in Paris and a marriage reception at the Dorchester. As the years go by, however, she can no longer live with the choices she has made during her life in spite of the respectability and security she has found. Tormented by the implications of what she has done she begins to break down and, as time runs out, we follow her urgent search for forgiveness.
HIS LIGHT BELONGS IN THE DARKNESS Here is a Book That Will Set You Free For many years we have believed that those truly hungry for the Lord Jesus would simply come into our church buildings. We have forgotten that Jesus shined among those who needed Him most by being among those who need Him most. Now we know. The Holy Spirit is sending us into the darkest places of the earth, where humanity is in its most desperate state. It is here that His light shines the brightest and the response will be the most powerful. You are about to discover some amazing things about God's will for you: God fully intends that you be part of the next great in-gathering of souls. You are on the brink of a mighty manifestation of His Presence in your life. You do not have to be a preacher to do God's will and to be "the Light of the world." When you respond to the leading of the Holy Spirit, signs and wonders follow. You will learn how to apply supernatural gifts in a practical manner.
For more than two centuries, Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury--royal governor of New York and New Jersey from 1702 to 1708--has been a despised figure, whose alleged transgressions ranged from raiding the public treasury to scandalizing his subjects by parading through the streets of New York City dressed as a woman. Now, Patricia Bonomi offers a challenging reassessment of Cornbury. She explores his life and experiences to illuminate such topics as imperial political culture; gossip, Grub Street, and the climate of slander; early modern sexual culture; and constitutional perceptions in an era of reform. In a tour de force of scholarly detective work, Bonomi also reappraises the most "conclusive" piece of evidence used to indict Cornbury--a celebrated portrait, said to represent the governor in female dress, that hangs today in the New-York Historical Society. Stripping away the many layers of "the Cornbury myth," this innovative work brings to life a fascinating man and reveals the conflicting emotions and loyalties that shaped the politics of the First British Empire. "A tour de force of historical detection.--Tim Hilchey, New York Times Book Review "Bonomi's book is more than an exoneration of Cornbury. It is a case study of what she aptly calls the politics of reputation." --Edmund S. Morgan, New York Review of Books "A fascinating, authoritative glimpse into the seamy underside of imperial politics in the late Stuart era.--Timothy D. Hall, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography "An intriguing detective story that....casts light upon the operation of political power in the past and the nature of history writing in the present.--Alan Taylor, New Republic For more than two centuries, Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury--royal governor of New York and New Jersey from 1702 to 1708--has been a despised figure whose alleged transgressions ranged from looting the colonial treasury to public cross dressing in New York City. Stripping away the many layers of "the Cornbury myth," Patricia Bonomi offers a challenging reassessment of this fascinating figure and of the rough and tumble political culture of the First British Empire--with its muckraking press, salacious gossip, and conflicting imperial loyalties. -->
Perhaps the most significant event in twentieth-century American Protestant churches has been the entry of tens of thousands of women into the church's ordained ministry. How are these women's experiences as ministers different from those of their male counterparts? What are their callings and careers like? What are their prospects for employment, income, and satisfaction? Based on a wealth of statistical data as well as in-depth personal interviews, this book offers the most authoritative information ever about the real experiences of clergy women (and men), along with anecdotes that show what the life of American clergy today is really like.
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