Silent Rescue

Silent Rescue
Author: Melinda Di Lorenzo
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488016496

A woman must trust a handsome stranger to help her find her missing niece in this romantic suspense adventure. Since her brother’s tragic death, Maryse LePrieur has been in hiding. Left to care for her niece as her own, Maryse heeded his cryptic wish: that they run fast . . . and far. But Maryse discovers far wasn’t quite far enough when she wakes up one morning to find her beloved Cami missing. Frantic, she enlists the assistance of an unexpected ally . . . When he spots a beautiful woman being forced through the streets at gunpoint, Detective Brooks Small acts quickly. But helping Maryse brings passions and unexpected connections to the surface and elevates this mission from professional to personal. Brooks soon realizes love between mother and daughter isn’t the only kind of relationship at stake.

Silent Road to Rescue

Silent Road to Rescue
Author: Denise J. Williamson
Publisher: Journeyforth
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2008-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781591668527

Describes how former Olympic star Eric Liddell helped a young Chinese boy discover courage and the love of God during a Japanese invasion of his town.

Silent as a Stone

Silent as a Stone
Author: James H. Forest
Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780881413144

The Colonel

The Colonel
Author: Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Publisher: Melville House
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012-05-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612191320

Winner of the 2013 Jan Michalski Prize Longlististed for the Man Asian Literary Prize A new novel by the master of Iranian letters that directly engages politics in Iran today Ten years in the writing, this fearless novel—so powerful it’s banned in Iran—tells the stirring story of a tortured people forced to live under successive oppressive regimes. It begins on a pitch black, rainy night, when there’s a knock on the Colonel’s door. Two policemen have come to summon him to collect the tortured body of his youngest daughter. The Islamic Revolution is devouring its own children. Set over the course of a single night, the novel follows the Colonel as he pays a bribe to recover his daughter’s body and then races to bury her before sunrise. As we watch him struggle with the death of his innocent child, we find him wracked with guilt and anger over the condition of his country, particularly as represented by his own children: a son who fell during the 1979 revolution; another driven to madness after being tortured during the Shah’s regime; a third who went off to martyr himself fighting for the ayatollahs in their war against Iraq; one murdered daughter, and another who survives by being married to a cruel opportunist. An incredibly powerful novel about nation, history and family, The Colonel is a startling illumination of the consequences of years of oppression and political upheaval in Iran.

Medical Record

Medical Record
Author: George Frederick Shrady
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1162
Release: 1917
Genre: Medicine
ISBN:

The Dead Are Silent

The Dead Are Silent
Author: Arthur Schnitzler
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Total Pages: 22
Release: 2022-10-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8728413458

The inspiration behind ‘Eyes Wide Shut,’ starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, ‘The Dead are Silent’ is a tense psychological novella. Exploring the social parameters of 19th century Vienna, Schnitzler introduces us to Franz and Emma who are having an illicit affair. One evening, they hire a carriage with tragic consequences. ‘The Dead are Silent’ is an evocative exploration of the hypocrisy of middle-class Viennese society and an unflinching dissection of the nature of grief. This novella is ideal for those new to Schnitzler's body of work. The son of a physician, Arthur Schnitzler (1862 – 1931) was born in Vienna. At the age of 17, he enrolled at the city’s university, studying medicine. After graduating, he began work as a doctor at the Vienna General Hospital. Despite seeing himself primarily as a man of science, Schnitzler began writing when he was 31. His first works, poems, and short stories, focusing on the themes of jealousy and adultery, laid the foundations for his first play, ‘Anatol.’ Due to its psychological nature, ‘Anatol’ was praised by Sigmund Freud and later adapted for film, starring Gloria Swanson. Schnitzler eventually retired from the medical profession to pursue his literary career. In addition to numerous plays, he also wrote two full-length novels, a dozen short stories, and two non-fiction books.