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Author | : Kate Forsyth |
Publisher | : Random House Australia |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2019-07-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0143786180 |
Viviane de Faitaud has grown up alone at the Chateau de Belisama-sur-le-Lac in Brittany. Her father, the Marquis, lives at the court of Louis XVI in Versailles. After a hailstorm destroys the chateau’s orchards, gardens and fields an ambitious young Welshman, David Stronach, accepts the commission to plan the chateau’s new gardens in the hope of making his name as a landscape designer. David and Viviane fall in love, but it is an impossible romance. Her father has betrothed her to a rich duke who she is forced to marry and David is hunted from the property. Viviane goes to court and becomes a maid-in-waiting to Marie-Antoinette and a member of the extended royal family. Angry and embittered, David sails away from England with Lord Macartney, the British ambassador, who hopes to open up trade with Imperial China. In Canton, the British embassy at last receives news from home, including their first reports of the French Revolution. David hears the story of ‘The Blue Rose’, a Chinese fable of impossible love, and discovers the blood-red rose growing in the wintry garden. He realises that he is still in love with Viviane and must find her. Viviane escapes the guillotine and returns to the ruin of Chateau de Belisima to rebuild her life. David carrying a cluster of rosehips finds her there, and together they decide to grow the fabled red rose of China in France.
Author | : A. J. Downey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018 |
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ISBN | : 9780463821879 |
Author | : William Sanders |
Publisher | : Wildside Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781587156489 |
1916, in an alternative world. The independent Confederate States of America has gone to the aid of its old ally Britain, and become bogged down in the stalemate on the Western Front. At a Confederate airfield in France, a new pilot reports for duty: Lieutenant Amos Ninekiller, of the independent Cherokee Nation, comes to see how the white people wage war. He isn't going to like it...A dark antiwar comedy from the author of Journey to Fusang and The Ballad of Billy Badass and the Rose of Turkestan, now in print again in this new edition, specially revised and corrected by the author. The Wild Blue and the Gray is a tragicomic alternate look at the first great catastrophe of the twentieth century. Laughter is often the only way to shield ourselves from pain that would otherwise be intolerable. Sanders understands this well - and also that, the more things change, the more they sometimes look the same. - Harry Turtledove. God damn! I liked Sanders' new book! It pushes all the right buttons for me - a great protagonist, WWI fighter pilots, terrific background, and - mainly - a fine story with really clever twists. satisfying place to stop. The Wild Blue and the Gray is an absolutely captivating story by one of the hottest new talents in the business. Subtle, strong, gutsy, humorous - it's got it all. Watch this man. You won't regret it. - Roger Zelazny.
Author | : Jennifer Donnelly |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Australia |
Total Pages | : 866 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1743095406 |
The finale to the sweeping, multi-generational saga that began with THE TEA ROSE and continued with THE WINTER ROSE. London, 1914. World War I looms on the horizon, women are fighting for the right to vote, and explorers are pushing the limits of endurance in the most forbidding corners of the earth. As the last golden days of summer give way to the gathering clouds of war, two men and one woman find their lives forever intertwined in a lethal web of forbidden loves, hidden loyalties, and dangerous lies. With myriad twists and turns, thrilling cliffhangers, and fabulous period detail and atmosphere, tHE WILD ROSE is a highly satisfying conclusion to the sweeping, multi-generational saga that began with the tea Rose and the Winter Rose - an unforgettable trilogy. Praise for the Rose trilogy:'truly seductive, hard to put down, filled with mystery, secret passions, unique locations, and a most engaging heroine ... captivates from the first page to the last' - Barbara taylor Bradford
Author | : Stephen E. Ambrose |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2001-08-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0743217527 |
Stephen E. Ambrose, acclaimed author of Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage, carries us along in the crowded and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to destroy the German war machine during World War II. The young men who flew the B-24s over Germany in World War II fought against horrific odds, and, in The Wild Blue, Ambrose recounts their extraordinary heroism, skill, daring, and comradeship with vivid detail and affection. Ambrose describes how the Army Air Forces recruited, trained, and selected the elite few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs in the war. These are the boys—turned pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners of the B-24s—who suffered over fifty percent casualties. With his remarkable gift for bringing alive the action and tension of combat, Ambrose carries us along in the crowded, uncomfortable, and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to the death through thick black smoke and deadly flak to reach their targets and destroy the German war machine. Twenty-two-year-old George McGovern, who was to become a United States senator and a presidential candidate, flew thirty-five combat missions (all the Army would allow) and won the Distinguished Flying Cross. We meet him and his mates, his co-pilot killed in action, and crews of other planes. Many went down in flames. As Band of Brothers and Citizen Soldiers portrayed the bravery and ultimate victory of the American soldiers from Normandy on to Germany, The Wild Blue illustrates the enormous contribution that these young men of the Army Air Forces made to the Allied victory.
Author | : Mrs. Hubert Barclay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1912 |
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Author | : Clint Granger |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2010-03-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1450064043 |
Dave Jackson earned his private pilot’s license at age sixteen, and is enamored with flying - especially an old bi-wing open-cockpit single engine Stearman PT-17, the standard Army Air Corps and Navy primary trainer for World War II. His world, and that of his girlfriend, literally explodes as terrorists strike near their Midwest home. Dave and his young friends are quickly embroiled, and seem to be the only real counter to a nasty terrorist plot. Dave’s flying skills are tested, his friends endangered, and terrorism in the nation’s heart become a reality.
Author | : Makayla Durfey |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2011-07-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1463405634 |
Riley Tomlinson has been through hell and worst of all, lived to tell the story. When she returned to England with wretched news of her dear brother Jack, she learns that she and her mother will be going to Texas to visit her Uncle for the summer. Little did she know, there were quite a few people expecting her arrivalA dark stranger, a mysterious murderer, a secret that is dangerous to everyones welfare if found in the wrong hands, and a treacherous man who is set on revenge. Now with no one but her to run the family ranch, Riley must struggle to save the ranch, protect whats left of her family, and protect her own heart that she so carefully kept hidden from suitors for so long. Follow Rileys story filled with surprises, betrayal, happiness, tears, learning to heal from a desolate past, and how she learned to love again. Can she survive this torrent on her fragile heart long enough to find that fairy-tale ending she always had longed for?
Author | : H.E. Grove |
Publisher | : Austin Macauley Publishers |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2024-05-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
What do you do in a world that no longer has a place for you? Where do you go? A lone man standing on the precipice of his own end wrestles with this on his long journey home through a world moving on from the shackles of human existence. His fears are made material and his regrets made apparent through his journey through the remnants of a world he was now excluded from; and the internal turmoil he has no choice but to reconcile. His world is over, and he is now observer to the heirs of the mutilated beauty of an Earth after people. He faces the consequences of the folly of man along with the void left by their virtues. Join our friend, the Traveler, as he faces the three perils that existence has to offer: Life, Death, and the Unknown.
Author | : Clark Strand |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2019-11-05 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 0812988957 |
What happens when a former Zen Buddhist monk and his feminist wife experience an apparition of the Virgin Mary? “This book could not have come at a more auspicious time, and the message is mystical perfection, not to mention a courageous one. I adore this book.”—Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit Before a vision of a mysterious “Lady” invited Clark Strand and Perdita Finn to pray the rosary, they were not only uninterested in becoming Catholic but finished with institutional religion altogether. Their main spiritual concerns were the fate of the planet and the future of their children and grandchildren in an age of ecological collapse. But this Lady barely even referred to the Church and its proscriptions. Instead, she spoke of the miraculous power of the rosary to transform lives and heal the planet, and revealed the secrets she had hidden within the rosary’s prayers and mysteries—secrets of a past age when forests were the only cathedrals and people wove rose garlands for a Mother whose loving presence was as close as the ground beneath their feet. She told Strand and Finn: The rosary is My body, and My body is the body of the world. Your body is one with that body. What cause could there be for fear? Weaving together their own remarkable story of how they came to the rosary, their discoveries about the eco-feminist wisdom at the heart of this ancient devotion, and the life-changing revelations of the Lady herself, the authors reveal an ancestral path—available to everyone, religious or not—that returns us to the powerful healing rhythms of the natural world.