Smoke Portrait

Smoke Portrait
Author: Trilby Kent
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Belgium
ISBN: 9781846881732

Set in 1936 in Belgium and Ceylon, Smoke Portrait traces the development of an unlikely friendship between a young Belgian teenager, Marten Kuypers, and Glen Phayre, an Englishwoman in her twenties. Glen has left England to live on her aunt's tea plantation in Ceylon, where she embarks on the task of writing charitable letters to a Belgian prisoner. But the letters go astray, and are received instead by Marten, eager to discover the wide world outside his small village, and desperately missing his older brother Krelis, who has vanished and is presumed dead...Marten decides to reply to Glen in the guise of the grown-up prisoner she is expecting to hear from, and as their correspondence evolves, they both assume identities that, while false in many respects, remain true to their own selves in other ways. Gradually they come to depend on each other, and their pen friendship proves to be crucial when events in their real lives take on a darker, more threatening turn in the shadow of the impending world war...

Portrait in Smoke / The Longest Second

Portrait in Smoke / The Longest Second
Author: Bill S. Ballinger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-06-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781944520489

One man's obsession leads him on the destructive trail of a very resourceful woman; and a man awakens to amnesia only to discover that whoever he is, someone is trying to kill him. Two classic mysteries from the 1950s, now back in print.

Portrait of Smoke

Portrait of Smoke
Author: Bill S. Ballinger
Publisher: Signet
Total Pages:
Release: 1960-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780451026507

Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea

Iqbal and His Ingenious Idea
Author: Elizabeth Suneby
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1525300903

A boy, a science project and an answer to a critical problem. During monsoon season in Bangladesh, Iqbal’s mother must cook the family’s meals indoors, over an open fire, even though the smoke makes her and the family sick. So when Iqbal hears that his school’s science fair has the theme of sustainability, he comes up with the perfect idea for his entry: he’ll design a stove that doesn’t produce smoke! Has Iqbal found a way to win first prize in the science fair while providing cleaner air and better health for his family at the same time? Sometimes it takes a kid to imagine a better idea — make that an ingenious one!

Portraits

Portraits
Author: Stef Ann Holm
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2015-02-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501110705

From USA TODAY bestselling author Stef Ann Holm, “Portraits is a treasure of love and life that will make you laugh and cry and, above all, feel the true joy in reading a good romance” (Rendezvous magazine). The only woman photographer in Eternity, Colorado, or just about anywhere else, Leah Kirkland longs to be famous. Her dream of studying in a renowned Italian academy precludes traditional courting. But that doesn’t mean she’s averse to romance with a free spirit like herself. Men don’t intimidate her, though nothing prepares Leah for the purely physical attraction she feels for Wyatt Holloway, the stranger in town… Wyatt Holloway had been an outlaw in his youth, and he’d done hard time to pay for it. Now he’s looking for gold he’d stashed in Eternity nearly two decades before. Instead he discovers a treasure he wants more than money—Leah Kirkland. Having known notoriety, Wyatt would be content to lead a quiet life on a ranch with Leah as his wife. But her big-city ideas contradict his plan, especially when she discovers that a bullet from his own gun may have murdered her mother long ago…