Author : Phillipa Nefri Clark
Publisher :
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,6 MB
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780648013860
Christie Ryan inherits an old cottage full of secrets in a small seaside town. A damaged painting leads her to reclusive artist, Martin Blake, who was raised to protect the past. As Christie uncovers the truth of family lies and manipulation, her world crumbles and the one chance to make things right may destroy her own happy ending.
Author : Jiro Asada
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 2009-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781421527635
· Book a best seller in Japan (unofficial sales number: 2,190,000 copies) · Book won Naoki award for popular fiction in 1997 · 1999 film starred 1970s yakuza film icon Ken Takakura, who won a best actor award at the 1999 Montreal Film Festival for his performance · Title film was Japan’s submission to the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film · Included story “Love Letter” also made into two feature films in 1998 (Love Letter) and 2001 (Failan) · Several others of author’s works made into films, including 2007’s Tsukigami (The Haunted Samurai) ·Book marketed in Japan as the book that “made millions of Japanese cry” L to R (Western Style). To face the future, sometimes you need a little help from the past… An aging railway man facing the closure of his station and the sorrows of his past meets a mysterious young girl who brings an unexpected warmth to the old man’s cold and empty days. A man who has seen the rough side of life finds comfort in the memory of a wife he never knew. A husband and wife struggle to recapture the love they once shared by visiting the movie theater where they met as children. And more… In these eight short stories by award-winning author Jiro Asada, flawed characters haunted by loss find love, reconciliation and redemption in the most unexpected places.
Author : Indranil Mukherjee
Publisher : BecomeShakespeare.com
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 37,60 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9388081951
What would you do? When confronted with the impossible? The ghostly? The bizarre? The dangerous? Challenges demanding answers? With or without adequate resources? Against the clock? Meet Manab Banerjee, the Station Master. A regular guy, like you, or that guy there wearing that rather nondescript shirt. Except, as the quintessential Indian Railways man, he dealt with them routinely… Strange wails in the still of a misty night… a bloody beheading on the platform… a mysterious lady with an aura of danger… gold biscuits… a brutal murder… a catastrophic accident in the station… and a storm that led to a death and its consequences… all these and more. Manab meets them head-on in this collection of ten stories based on real life, resolute but accommodating, quick yet patient… and always with his heart in the right place.
Author : Susan K. Demarinis
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 13,18 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781087868745
Follow the historical changes, events and scandals that the railroad brought to Southern Oregon in the late 1880s-1920s through the life story of a pioneer woman. Alice was a woman of exceptional resourcefulness and perseverance, reveals her story in the face of upheaval, betrayal, and divorce, always supported by the deep love of her family.
Author : Derek Hansen
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1460704231
the bestselling author of Sole Survivor, Lunch with the Generals and Lunch with Mussolini returns with a gripping new novel that crosses decades and continents.Derek Hansen takes us back to Gancio\'9291s restaurant. It is a thursday and, as usual, Ramon, Lucio, Milos and Neil have gathered for their weekly lunch appointment. It is Neil\'9291s turn to take the floor - except that Milos steps in and demands to tell his story. He has no choice in the matter, he says, \'9291this story has already been too long awaiting the telling. It is not just an obligation but a repayment of a debt.\'9291 With those words he hooks the three other men - and Derek Hansen hooks his readers. We are taken back to Hungary in the 1940s, a time when Jews are persecuted and rumours of the terrifying death camps are already circulating. this is a novel with huge range, set within a real historical landscape populated by figures like Adolf Eichmann and the Russian and Hungarian secret police. It is also the story of two brothers who vie for the affections of the same girl during a time of turmoil and separation, a story which begins in Hungary and seeks its conclusion in Australia. two boys who are forced to deal, steal and kill to survive.
Author : Clifford D. Simak
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 27,25 MB
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1504013182
Hugo Award Winner: In backwoods Wisconsin, an ageless hermit welcomes alien visitors—and foresees the end of humanity . . . Enoch Wallace is not like other humans. Living a secluded life in the backwoods of Wisconsin, he carries a nineteenth-century rifle and never seems to age—a fact that has recently caught the attention of prying government eyes. The truth is, Enoch is the last surviving veteran of the American Civil War and, for close to a century, he has operated a secret way station for aliens passing through on journeys to other stars. But the gifts of knowledge and immortality that his intergalactic guests have bestowed upon him are proving to be a nightmarish burden, for they have opened Enoch’s eyes to humanity’s impending destruction. Still, one final hope remains for the human race . . . though the cure could ultimately prove more terrible than the disease. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, Way Station is a magnificent example of the fine art of science fiction as practiced by a revered Grand Master. A cautionary tale that is at once ingenious, evocative, and compassionately human, it brilliantly supports the contention of the late, great Robert A. Heinlein that “to read science-fiction is to read Simak.”
Author : Ellee Seymour
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 27,27 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1838774564
A heartwarming and dramatic World War I saga of secrets, love and the British royal family for readers of Daisy Styles and Maisie Thomas. 'A heartwarming historical novel' Rosie Goodwin 'A gripping historical saga' Daisy Styles Roll out the red carpet. The royal train is due in half an hour and there's not a minute to be wasted. It's 1915 and the country is at war. In the small Norfolk village of Wolferton, uncertainty plagues the daily lives of sisters Ada, Jessie and Beatrice Saward, as their men are dispatched to the frontlines of Gallipoli. Harry, their father, is the station master at the local stop for the royal Sandringham Estate. With members of the royal family and their aristocratic guests passing through the station on their way to the palace, the Sawards' unique position gives them unrivalled access to the monarchy. But when the Sawards' estranged and impoverished cousin Maria shows up out of the blue, everything the sisters thought they knew about their family is thrown into doubt. The Royal Station Master's Daughters is the first book in a brand-new World War I saga series, inspired by the Saward family, who ran the station at Wolferton in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through this history-making family we get a glimpse into all walks of life - from glittering royalty to the humblest of servants. Don't miss the rest of this heartwarming historical trilogy - The Royal Station Master's Daughters at War and The Royal Station Master's Daughters in Love. 'Anyone who reads romantic fiction in a historical setting should love [The Royal Station Master's Daughters] but for anyone who knows Sandringham it really does evoke something of the place and life on the estate' Neil Storey, WWI historian
Author : Brian Selznick
Publisher : Scholastic
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 13,99 MB
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1407166573
An orphan and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy train station. He desperately believes a broken automaton will make his dreams come true. But when his world collides with an eccentric girl and a bitter old man, Hugo's undercover life are put in jeopardy. Turn the pages, follow the illustrations and enter an unforgettable new world!
Author : C. J. Cherryh
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 2008-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101662271
The Hugo Award-winning classic sci-fi novel about interstellar war. The Beyond started with the Stations orbiting the stars nearest Earth. The Great Circle the interstellar freighters traveled was long, but not unmanageable, and the early Stations were emotionally and politically dependent on Mother Earth. The Earth Company which ran this immense operation reaped incalculable profits and influenced the affairs of nations. Then came Pell, the first station centered around a newly discovered living planet. The discovery of Pell's World forever altered the power balance of the Beyond. Earth was no longer the anchor which kept this vast empire from coming adrift, the one living mote in a sterile universe. But Pell was just the first living planet. Then came Cyteen, and later others, and a new and frighteningly different society grew in the farther reaches of space. The importance of Earth faded and the Company reaped ever smaller profits as the economic focus of space turned outward. But the powerful Earth Fleet was sitll a presence in the Beyond, and Pell Station was to become the last stronghold in a titanic struggle between the vast, dynamic forces of the rebel Union and those who defended Earth's last, desperate grasp for the stars.
Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429917172
An essential American novel from Sandra Dallas, an unparalleled writer of our history, and our deepest emotions... During World War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlopers, the strangers. This is Tallgrass as Rennie Stroud has never seen it before. She has just turned thirteen and, until this time, life has pretty much been what her father told her it should be: predictable and fair. But now the winds of change are coming and, with them, a shift in her perspective. And Rennie will discover secrets that can destroy even the most sacred things. Part thriller, part historical novel, Tallgrass is a riveting exploration of the darkest--and best--parts of the human heart.
