Book Description
While vacationing in Europe, the Dana sisters agree to help a former Austrian prince locate his family's long lost heirlooms, a search that takes them into the dangerous snow-covered Swiss Alps.
Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher :
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN :
While vacationing in Europe, the Dana sisters agree to help a former Austrian prince locate his family's long lost heirlooms, a search that takes them into the dangerous snow-covered Swiss Alps.
Author : Julie Caplin
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 2021-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008431221
*Buy this heartwarming and feel good cosy novel for a slice of escapism at the turn of a page!*
Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 20,1 MB
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1481436767
Nancy, Bess, and George are off on a continental adventure into the gorgeous heart of Europe: Switzerland. And gorgeous is just the word for jet-setter Franz Haussman, who invites the girls out for a night of dancing at a chic club on the shores of Lake Geneva. But before the music ends, the mystery begins…and Franz’s life hangs in the balance!
Author : Greg Gildersleeve
Publisher : Rogue Phoenix Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 2020-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 162420497X
Damon couldn’t wait to start the eighth grade: being in the top grade of the district school, getting to be a crossing guard, and seeing old friends. But at the new school, eighth grade is the lowest grade, there are no crossing guards, and old friends move on. Worse, Damon’s power to control darkness keeps turning itself on and off. Even worse, two former members of The Power Club start a new club—without him. But things at the new school aren’t what they seem. A menacing shapechanger and a friendly werewolf complicate matters as Damon learns of a plot to send his friends away for good and start a war with “ords.” Will his new club—The Secret Club—be enough to prevent a war?
Author : Padraig Rooney
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1473645026
Part detective work, part treasure chest, full of history and scandal, The Gilded Chalet takes you on a grand tour of two centuries of great writing by both Swiss and foreign authors and shows how Switzerland has always been at the center of literary Europe. Two centuries after the Romantics went there to invent Gothic horror, the lure of Switzerland hasn't left us. Writers from the Fitzgeralds to Fleming, Highsmith to Hemingway, Conan Doyle to le Carré, came to escape world wars, political persecution, tuberculosis. They came for sanctuary (from oppression or the tax man), for fresh air and nude sunbathing, for scenery resembling, as Rooney puts it, 'Mother Nature on steroids.' Patricia Highsmith spent her last years in a granite home in Ticino with a fridge containing little but peanut butter and vodka. Hermann Hesse had himself buried to the neck as a cure for alcoholism. Nabokov chased butterflies and played tennis on the hotel courts. When it comes to literature, it seems all roads lead to Switzerland. Padraig Rooney peers through the chalet windows and discovers how Switzerland has influenced some of the greatest authors and characters of literature.
Author : Selina Hastings
Publisher : Random House
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0679603719
He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the most famous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maugham’s own true story has never been fully told. At last, the fascinating truth is revealed in a landmark biography by the award-winning writer Selina Hastings. Granted unprecedented access to Maugham’s personal correspondence and to newly uncovered interviews with his only child, Hastings portrays the secret loves, betrayals, integrity, and passion that inspired Maugham to create such classics as The Razor’s Edge and Of Human Bondage. Hastings vividly presents Maugham’s lonely childhood spent with unloving relatives after the death of his parents, a trauma that resulted in shyness, a stammer, and for the rest of his life an urgent need for physical tenderness. Here, too, are his adult triumphs on the stage and page, works that allowed him a glittering social life in which he befriended and sometimes fell out with such luminaries as Dorothy Parker, Charlie Chaplin, D. H. Lawrence, and Winston Churchill. The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham portrays in full for the first time Maugham’s disastrous marriage to Syrie Wellcome, a manipulative society woman of dubious morality who trapped Maugham with a pregnancy and an attempted suicide. Hastings also explores Maugham’s many affairs with men, including his great love, Gerald Haxton, an alcoholic charmer and a cad. Maugham’s courageous work in secret intelligence during two world wars is described in fascinating detail—experiences that provided the inspiration for the groundbreaking Ashenden stories. From the West End to Broadway, from China to the South Pacific, Maugham’s restless and remarkably productive life is thrillingly recounted as Hastings uncovers the real stories behind such classics as “Rain,” The Painted Veil, Cakes & Ale, and other well-known tales. An epic biography of a hugely talented and hugely conflicted man, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham is the definitive account of Maugham’s extraordinary life.
Author : Bobbie Ann Mason
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820317397
The author of Feather Crowns examines the girl detective in her various guises--including Cherry Ames, Nancy Drew, and Trixie Belden--in a work first published in 1975 recalling a rural youth spent longing for mysteries. Reprint. UP.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1328 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Copyright
ISBN :
Author : John Bolden
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0997685506
This is a true story of a successful Berlin Wall escape that happened in August of 1986, where three American Soldiers helped an East Berlin Woman Escape in to West Berlin where she obtained her freedom. This book contains the exciting details of how each event unfolded before, during, and after the escape. A very captivating story!!!
Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN :
Nancy Drew travels to Hawaii to uncover the mystery surrounding the Kaluakua estate.