Vet in a Storm. Spoken Word. 5 Audio Cassettes
Author : Hugh Lasgarn
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File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 19??
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Author : Hugh Lasgarn
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Page : pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 19??
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Author : Hugh Lasgarn
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Page : pages
File Size : 33,9 MB
Release : 198?
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Page : 1942 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Audiotapes
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Author : Barbara Comyns
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 2003-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590170298
The Vet's Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister London suburb. He works constantly, captive to a strange private fury, and treats his family with brutality and contempt. After his wife's death, the vet takes up with a crass, needling woman who tries to refashion Alice in her own image. And yet as Alice retreats ever deeper into a dream world, she discovers an extraordinary secret power of her own. Harrowing and haunting, like an unexpected cross between Flannery O'Connor and Stephen King, The Vet's Daughter is a story of outraged innocence that culminates in a scene of appalling triumph.
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Page : 1804 pages
File Size : 13,54 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Audiobooks
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Author : James Herriot
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Page : pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 19??
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Author : Joseph E. Persico
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 2005-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0375760458
November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 A.M, yet in the final hours they flung men against an already beaten Germany. The result? Eleven thousand casualties suffered–more than during the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Why? Allied commanders wanted to punish the enemy to the very last moment and career officers saw a fast-fading chance for glory and promotion. Joseph E. Persico puts the reader in the trenches with the forgotten and the famous–among the latter, Corporal Adolf Hitler, Captain Harry Truman, and Colonels Douglas MacArthur and George Patton. Mainly, he follows ordinary soldiers’ lives, illuminating their fate as the end approaches. Persico sets the last day of the war in historic context with a gripping reprise of all that led up to it, from the 1914 assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand, which ignited the war, to the raw racism black doughboys endured except when ordered to advance and die in the war’s last hour. Persico recounts the war’s bloody climax in a cinematic style that evokes All Quiet on the Western Front, Grand Illusion, and Paths of Glory. The pointless fighting on the last day of the war is the perfect metaphor for the four years that preceded it, years of senseless slaughter for hollow purposes. This book is sure to become the definitive history of the end of a conflict Winston Churchill called “the hardest, cruelest, and least-rewarded of all the wars that have been fought.”
Author : Jaycee Dugard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1451629192
A revelatory memoir about a young woman whose life was stolen when she was kidnapped in 1991 and remained an object of captivity for 18 years.
Author : R R Bowker Publishing
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
Page : 2466 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780835245166
Author : Learning Express LLC
Publisher : Learning Express (NY)
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Education
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Many of us grimace when faced with grammar exercises. But in order to communicate with others, pass tests, and get your point across in writing, using words and punctuation effectively is a necessary skill. It's a fact that in our life today, good communication skills-including writing-are essential. The good news is that grammar and writing skills can be developed with practice.