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Author | : John Jakes |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-10-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0451222342 |
In the late nineteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island-with its giant marble mansions, lavish dinner parties, and vicious social climbing- is a summer playground of the very rich. Into this rarefied world comes infamous railroad mogul and robber baron Sam Driver. He wants his beautiful daughter to have the best Newport has to offer-even if that means breaking all the rules...
Author | : John Jakes |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780525949763 |
Determined to secure entry into the elite social circles of late nineteenth-century Rhode Island, Sam Driver enlists the help of a pair of social gadflies but finds his efforts complicated by his daughter's romance with an impoverished young Irishman.
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Release | : 2007 |
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ISBN | : 9780451996015 |
Author | : Deborah Goodrich Royce |
Publisher | : Post Hill Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2019-06-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 164293173X |
Mrs. Ford leads a privileged life. From her Blenheim spaniels to her cottage on the coast of Watch Hill, Rhode Island, she carefully curates her world. Hair in place, house in place, life in place, Susan Ford keeps it under control. Early one morning in the summer of 2014, the past pays a call to collect. The FBI arrives to question her about a man from Iraq—a Chaldean Christian from Mosul—where ISIS has just seized control. Sammy Fakhouri, they say, is his name and they have taken him into custody, picked up on his way to her house. Back in the summer of 1979, on the outskirts of a declining Detroit, college coed Susan meets charismatic and reckless Annie. They are an unlikely pair of friends but they each see something in the other—something they’d like to possess. Studious Susan is a moth to the flame that is Annie. Yet, it is dazzling Annie who senses that Susan will be the one who makes it out of Detroit. Together, the girls navigate the minefields of a down-market disco where they work their summer jobs. It’s a world filled with pretty girls and powerful men, some of whom—like Sammy Fakhouri—happen to be Iraqi Chaldeans. What happened in that summer of 1979 when Susan and Annie met? Why is Sammy looking for Susan all these years later? And why is Mrs. Ford lying?
Author | : John Jakes |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 681 |
Release | : 2012-07-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 145325594X |
The Kent family faces internal clashes as the Civil War ignites—from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of North and South. In the hellish years of the Civil War, the Kent family faces its greatest trials yet. Louis, the devious son of the late Amanda Kent, is in control of the dynasty—and of its seemingly inevitable collapse. His cousin Jephtha Kent, meanwhile, backs the abolitionist cause, while his sons remain devoted Southerners. As the country fractures around the Kents, John Jakes introduces characters that include some of the most famous Americans of this defining era. Spanning the full breadth of the Civil War—from the brutal frontlines in the South to the political tangle in Washington—The Titans chronicles two struggles for identity: the country’s and the Kents’. This ebook features an illustrated biography of John Jakes including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
Author | : Giles, Zeny |
Publisher | : Giles |
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Release | : 2022-01-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781911282501 |
Author | : Barbour Publishing |
Publisher | : Barbour Publishing |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1607422913 |
What is it that keeps God's children hopeful in a hopeless world? What guarantees can a person cling to on the most difficult of days? Readers will find dozens of God's most uplifting guarantees in 199 Promises of God. This compact book offers real and powerful promises from the Creator of the universe and true refreshment for the spirit and a renewed sense of God's commitment to His children.
Author | : John Jakes |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780451207333 |
Follows the experiences of an aristocratic family from the turbulent antebellum years through the Civil War, during which they harbor dark secrets and jealously guard their privilege and power.
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Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780451197016 |
Follows the historical saga of the Crown family, German immigrants who settle in Chicago, as they participate in the events of the early twentieth century
Author | : Haruki Murakami |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2009-08-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307373088 |
From the best-selling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and After Dark, a rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running, and the integral impact both have made on his life. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Haruki Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a slew of critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and—even more important—on his writing. Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and includes settings ranging from Tokyo’s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvellous lens of sport emerges a cornucopia of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs and the experience, after the age of fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in distance running.