Author : Anne-Marie Casey
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 34,65 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425268519
Forced to give up her posh life and move to a tiny Manhattan apartment when her husband loses his job, Lucy unexpectedly falls in love with her new home and forges close friendships with three women who are also struggling with the disparities between the ambitions of their youth and middle age.
Author : Anne-Marie Casey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0698142829
A free preview of No One Could Have Guessed the Weather by Anne-Marie Casey, featuring a Q&A with Eleanor Brown, author of the New Yorks Times bestseller, The Weird Sisters. “If you loved The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, this book is right up your alley.” —Isabel Gillies, New York Times–bestselling author of Happens Every Day Sometimes what you want in your twenties isn’t what you want or need in your forties. . . . When Lucy Lovett’s husband loses his job, she is forced to give up her posh life in London and move their family to a tiny apartment in Manhattan, where her husband has managed to secure a lowly position. Lucy finds herself living in the center of cool and hip. Across from their apartment is a trendy bar called PDT—whenever Lucy passes by, she thinks, Please Don’t Tell anyone I’m a middle-aged woman. Homesick and resentful at first, Lucy soon embarks on the love affair of her life—no, not with her husband (though they’re both immensely relieved to discover they do love each other for richer or poorer), but with New York City and the three women who befriend her. There’s Julia, who is basically branded with a Scarlet A when she leaves her husband and kids for a mini nervous breakdown and a room of her own; Christy, a much older man’s trophy wife, who is a bit adrift as only those who live high up in penthouses can be; and disheveled and harried Robyn, constantly compensating for her husband, who can’t seem to make the transition from wunderkind to adult. Spot-on observant, laugh-out-loud funny, yet laced with kindness through and through, No One Could Have Guessed the Weather is a story of what happens when you grow up and realize the middle part of your story might just be your beginning.
Author : Anne-Marie Casey
Publisher : Penguin Adult HC/TR
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,4 MB
Release : 2013
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9780399160219
"Four women navigate twists and turns in Manhattan"--
Author : Group Captain Kenneth Hubbard OBE DFC AFC
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1844157474
On 15 May 1957 Vickers Valiant V-Bomber X.D.818 under the command of Wg. Cdr. Kenneth Hubbard, O.C. 49 Squadron R.A.F., dropped Britains first live thermonuclear bomb. The success of Operation Grapple broadcast to the world that the UK had the resolve and the capability to protect her own democracy and that of her Commonwealth. It was a major breakthrough that ensured Britain maintained her place in the most senior influential positions of the United Nations and other corridors of world power, and in the ensuing years provide Britains deterrent throughout the decades of the Cold War. The theme of this book is to explain how the R.A.F. selected and trained the crews who would be responsible for the precision dropping of the several weapons that would detonate during Grapple. It also provides a complete background to the parts played by all other services during this unique period in British history.
Author : Neil Gordon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 2004-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101651369
Now a major motion picture directed by Robert Redford and starring Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie, Terence Howard, Anna Kendrick, Nick Nolte, and Stanley Tucci It is 2006. Seventeen-year-old Isabel Montgomery starts to receive emails from her father, a man who had abandoned her in a hotel room ten years ago when his past finally caught up with him. Why has he contacted her now? Because he needs her help and is finally ready to reveal the truth. Over the course of the next month, further emails arrive telling her more about her family's past. Isabel discovers that her father adopted a false identity in the hope of avoiding murder charges for a robbery gone wrong in 1974. By 1996, with a marriage falling apart around him, he is one last Vietnam-era fugitives still wanted by the law. When he is finally tracked down by a young newspaper reporter in search of a story he must abandon years of safe underground life in an attempt to exonerate himself. Set against the rise and fall of the radical anti-war group the Weather Underground, The Company You Keep is a sweeping American saga about sacrifice, the righteousness of youth, and the tension between political ideals and family loyalties.
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Page : 554 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN :
Author : Melissa Bank
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,17 MB
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141909633
Generous-hearted and wickedly insightful, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing is the New York Times bestselling novel by Melissa Bank The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing maps the progress of Jane Rosenal as she sets out on a personal and spirited expedition through the perilous terrain of sex, love, relationships, and the treacherous waters of the workplace. Soon Jane is swept off her feet by an older man and into a Fitzgeraldesque whirl of cocktail parties, country houses, and rules that were made to be broken, but comes to realise that it's a world where the stakes are much too high for comfort. With an unforgettable comic touch, Bank skilfully teases out universal issues, puts a clever new spin on the mating dance, and captures in perfect pitch what it's like to come of age as a young woman. 'This chronicle of a New Yorker's relationships has a wit and perceptiveness that singles it out from the crowd' Guardian 'As hilarious as Girls' Guide is, there's a wise, serious core here' Wall Street Journal 'A sexy, pour-your-heart-out, champagne tingle of a read-thoughtful, wise, and tell-all honest. Bank's is a voice that you'll remember' Cosmopolitan
Author : David Weber
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 46,59 MB
Release : 2002-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743435427
Hurtled back in time into the Thirty Years' War by an unknown force, Mike Stearns and his fellow West Virginia coal miners join forces with the king of Sweden to take on the scheming Cardinal Richelieu.
Author : Katherine Fleet
Publisher : Random House
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 31,3 MB
Release : 2024-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1405957840
READ THE INTENSE, EVOCATIVE DESTINATION THRILLER FOR FANS OF LUCY CLARKE AND WILL DEAN Two sisters. One missing girl. An island full of secrets . . . 'Compelling and utterly transportive, a scorching summer read' LUCY CLARKE 'Beautiful writing and characterisation and a gripping plot. Such an atmospheric read ' SARAH PEARSE ---- I thought I saw her today. Down by the water. It was her hair I noticed. Do you ever see her, Lex? Does she haunt you too? I haven’t been back to Eos since I first met my step-sister, Lex. It’s been twenty-five years since that summer. Since we went from strangers to sisters. Since Abigail went missing. Since we told the first lie. Now we’re back together on the island. So much has changed since we were teenagers. We’ve both tried to move on from the past – from each other. But the island won’t let us escape our secrets. Only me and Lex know the truth about Abigail. We’ve been living a lie for so long. And if the truth comes out – neither of us will survive it . . . ---- 'Taut, tense, stylish and incredibly atmospheric, with a thrilling twist. The perfect book for summer!' Daisy Buchanan ‘Completely addictive and wonderfully compelling. A sun-dappled summer escape with a jagged dark heart. You won't be able to put it down’ B P Walter ‘Sinister and sun-soaked, and razor-sharp on teenage girl friendships and insecurities. This is a perfectly crafted mystery that I flew through in days’ Caz Frear Why readers love The Liars ‘It will be the book of the summer. It’s three wonderful reads in one. A gripping cold-case crime novel, a moving coming-of-age novel, and a glorious shenanigan on a Greek holiday novel, all ticking along as one’ 5***** Reader Review ‘The setting is stunning – this story gave me a real feeling, relaxation and sparkling sea’ 5***** Reader Review ‘The perfect holiday thriller! I was full of suspense throughout and was so sad to finish the book’ 5***** Reader Review ‘The setting, the characters, the story – all amazing’ 5***** Reader Review
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Page : 904 pages
File Size : 24,98 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Adventure stories, English
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