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Author | : Peggy Abkhazi |
Publisher | : Sono NIS Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Peggy Abkhazi was one of many Europeans who resided in Shanghai before the second World War. Until the Japanese invasion in 1941, Europeans and Americans in that city led comfortable, almost idyllic lives. When the Japanese took control, the lifestyles of the expatriates changed dramatically. Their movements were monitored, some foreigners were arrested, money was devalued, and homes and possessions were confiscated. Peggy Abkhazi, along with all other "enemy subjects," was placed in an internment camp, where she lived for more than two years. In defiance of Japanese orders, Peggy kept a detailed journal of camp life. Her journal, reproduced in A Curious Cage, is at once a valuable historical document and a beautifully written memoir that displays great wit and charm in the face of adversity.
Author | : Peggy Abkhazi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Prisoners of war |
ISBN | : |
Edited by S.W.Jackman, a first-hand account of a woman held captive by the Japanese as an 'enemy subject' in Shanghai during the Second World War. Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of VJ Day.
Author | : Mark Hodder |
Publisher | : Pyr |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2011-03-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1616143606 |
Mark Hodder's second Burton & Swinburne steampunk adventure, following the acclaimed The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack, is filled with eccentric steam-driven technology, grotesque characters, and a deepening mystery. When a clockwork-powered man of brass is found abandoned in Trafalgar Square, Burton and his assistant, the wayward poet Algernon Swinburne, find themselves on the trail of the stolen Garnier Collection--black diamonds rumored to be fragments of the Lemurian Eye of Naga, a meteorite that fell to Earth in prehistoric times. From a haunted mansion to the Bedlam madhouse, from South America to Australia, from séances to a secret labyrinth, Burton struggles with shadowy opponents and his own inner demons. Can the king's agent expose a plot that threatens to rip the British Empire apart, leading to an international conflict the like of which the world has never seen? And what part does the clockwork man have to play? From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author | : Peggy Abkhazi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : International Settlement (Shanghai, China) |
ISBN | : |
WHILE IN A JAPANESE INTERNMENT CAMP DURING WORLD WAR II, THE BRITISH AUTHOR KEPT A JOURNAL WHICH RECORDS THE ROUTINES OF CAMP LIFE AND THE VARIETY OF WAYS PRISONERS COPED WITH THEIR NEW EXISTENCE.
Author | : Fouad Laroui |
Publisher | : Deep Vellum Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2016-06-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1941920268 |
Award-winning English-language debut by Morocco's most prominent contemporary author, a linked story collection exploring what it means to be foreign.
Author | : Paul Roland |
Publisher | : Plexus Publishing |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2014-10-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 085965883X |
H.P. Lovecraft is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of modern horror fiction and a pervasive influence on popular culture. His monstrous creations have influenced the look of films such as Alien, Hellboy and even Pirates of the Caribbean, while his fiction has inspired authors as diverse as Robert Bloch, Clive Barker and Neil Gaiman. In this comprehensive new biography, Paul Roland examines the life and work of the man Stephen King called 'the 20th century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale', and reveals that Lovecraft's vision was a projection of his inner demons, his recurring nightmares and his inability to live in what he considered a hostile world.
Author | : Vic James |
Publisher | : Del Rey |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2017-02-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0425284131 |
MAGIC RULES. WE SERVE. In a darkly fantastical debut set in modern-day Britain, magic users control everything: wealth, politics, power—and you. If you’re not one of the ultimate one-percenters—the magical elite—you owe them ten years of service. Do those years when you’re old, and you’ll never get through them. Do them young, and you’ll never get over them. This is the darkly decadent world of Gilded Cage. In its glittering milieu move the all-powerful Jardines and the everyday Hadleys. The families have only one thing in common: Each has three children. But their destinies entwine when one family enters the service of the other. They will all discover whether any magic is more powerful than the human spirit. Have a quick ten years. . . . Look for all three books in the mesmerizing Dark Gifts trilogy: GILDED CAGE • TARNISHED CITY • BRIGHT RUIN Praise for Gilded Cage “Beautifully characterised and compellingly plotted, Gilded Cage is an impressive debut.”—The Guardian “Exquisitely wicked . . . a lavishly opulent, yet brutally vivid, alternate England which subtly questions modern beliefs . . . If ever there was a speculative fiction book that captured the zeitgeist of an era this is it.”—SFFWorld “An alternate modern-day England where enticing drama and social unrest mix with aristocratic scandal and glamorous magic . . . conjuring up the specters of Les Misérables and Downton Abbey . . . an absorbing first installment that presages an intriguing new fantasy series.”—Kirkus Reviews “Gilded Cage is a heart-pounding combination of dark magic, political revolution, and forbidden romance that had me addicted from the first page!”—Danielle L. Jensen, USA Today bestselling author of The Malediction Trilogy “Devious and deliciously dark with lashings of magic, mystery, and mayhem, this juggernaut of a book will keep you hanging on by your fingernails until the very last page.”—Taran Matharu, New York Times bestselling author of the Summoner series “A dark and intriguing vision of an alternate, magic-drenched Britain, Gilded Cage kept me up long into the night.”—Aliette de Bodard, author of The House of Shattered Wings
Author | : Erle Stanley Gardner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Bigamy |
ISBN | : 9781627229258 |
After con man Greg Moxley married Rhoda Lorton, he took her money and flew, only to have his plane crash. Years later, Rhoda weds millionaire scion Carl Montaine. But now Moxley has turned up alive and well, with plans to pocket the Montaine fortune...or else make Rhoda's bigamy public.
Author | : Harry Mitsidis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2018-11-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781729286449 |
The extreme travel community goes to places beyond the ordinary - and William Baekeland, a young man with incredible riches, joins expeditions to isolated islands of Antarctica, the Russian Arctic, Central African Republic, Sudan and Timor-Leste, among others. He becomes the awe and the inspiration of many travellers, young and old, on his quest to 'go everywhere'. But is all as it seems? This incredible true story written by one of the world's most experienced travellers will take you on a journey to some of the most unusual places of our planet while turning into a real-life detective story as the elusive truth finally reveals itself.
Author | : Ellie Hattie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2017-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781610675925 |
Enter a magical world where dinosaurs and knights have come to life in this fact-filled, lift-the-flap caper!It's midnight in the museum and there's a mammoth on the loose! Can Oscar catch him before the witching hour is up?