Beggars All, a Novel
Author: Lily Dougall
Publisher:
Published: 1891
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13:
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A Beggar's Kingdom
Author: Paullina Simons
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-07-23
Total Pages: 716
ISBN-13: 0062098187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second novel in Paullina Simons's stunning End of Forever saga continues the heartbreaking story of Julian and Josephine, and a love that spans lifetimes. Is there a fate beyond the fates? Julian has failed Josephine once. Despite grave danger and impossible odds, he is determined to do the unimaginable and try again to save the woman he loves. What follows is a love story like no other as the doomed lovers embark on an incredible adventure across time and space. Racing through history and against the merciless clock, they face countless dangers and deadly enemies. Living amid beauty and ecstasy, bloodshed and betrayal, each time they court and cheat death brings Julian and Josephine closer to an unthinkable sacrifice and a confrontation with the harshest master of all…destiny.
Beggars All
Author: Lily Dougall
Publisher:
Published: 1892
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13:
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Author: Lucy Caldwell
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2013-01-29
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 0571270573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Lara was twelve, and her younger brother Alfie eight, their father died in a helicopter crash. A prominent plastic surgeon, and Irishman, he had honed his skills on the bomb victims of the Troubles. But the family grew up used to him being absent: he only came to London for two weekends a month to work at the Harley Street Clinic, where he met their mother years before, and they only once went on a family holiday together, to Spain, where their mother cried and their father lost his temper and left early. Because home, for their father, wasn't Earls Court: it was Belfast, where he led his other life... Narrated by Lara, nearing forty and nursing her dying mother, All the Beggars Riding is the heartbreaking portrait of a woman confronting her past just as she realises that time is running out
Proud Beggars
Author: Albert Cossery
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2011-12-27
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1590174631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarly in Proud Beggars, a brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel. But the real mystery at the heart of Albert Cossery’s wry black comedy is not the cause of this death but the paradoxical richness to be found in even the most materially impoverished life. Chief among Cossery’s proud beggars is Gohar, a former professor turned whorehouse accountant, hashish aficionado, and street philosopher. Such is his native charm that he has accumulated a small coterie that includes Yeghen, a rhapsodic poet and drug dealer, and El Kordi, an ineffectual clerk and would-be revolutionary who dreams of rescuing a consumptive prostitute. The police investigator Nour El Dine, harboring a dark secret of his own, suspects all three of the murder but finds himself captivated by their warm good humor. How is it that they live amid degrading poverty, yet possess a joie de vivre that even the most assiduous forces of state cannot suppress? Do they, despite their rejection of social norms and all ambition, hold the secret of contentment? And so this short novel, considered one of Cossery’s masterpieces, is at once biting social commentary, police procedural, and a mischievous delight in its own right.
Beggars in Spain
Author: Nancy Kress
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-05-13
Total Pages: 479
ISBN-13: 0061931950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a world where the slightest edge can mean the difference between success and failure, Leisha Camden is beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent ... and one of an ever-growing number of human beings who have been genetically modified to never require sleep. Once considered interesting anomalies, now Leisha and the other "Sleepless" are outcasts -- victims of blind hatred, political repression, and shocking mob violence meant to drive them from human society ... and, ultimately, from Earth itself. But Leisha Camden has chosen to remain behind in a world that envies and fears her "gift" -- a world marked for destruction in a devastating conspiracy of freedom ... and revenge.
The Beggar King
Author: Dan Hamilton
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780830816712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe enigmatic beggar transforms everyone he encounters in this first book in Dan Hamilton's trilogy, Tales of the Forgotten God. 156 pages, paper
Beggars and Choosers
Author: Nancy Kress
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 1995-12-28
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780812550108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a genetically altered future America that is overrun by beautiful and super-intelligent people, the entire planet faces destruction in the face of overpopulation and unemployment. Reprint.
This Forsaken Earth
Author: Paul Kearney
Publisher: Spectra
Published: 2006-11-28
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0553903152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe’s spoken of only in whispers. His origins are a mystery. Some say that he’s descended from the last of the angels. Others say much worse. By all appearances, Rol Cortishane is just another ruthless pirate roaming the lawless seas, raiding warships and slavers. But the truth is something far more complicated and dangerous than anyone can imagine, including Rol. Even as he seeks to escape his birthright, Rol is slowly discovering who—and what—he really is. But the revelation won’t come without exacting a terrible price from Rol and all he loves. Now a treacherous figure from his past has made him a proposition it would be fatal to turn down. Racing against time, Rol must chart a harrowing course across the sea, back to the beautiful Rowen and the people she would rule as Queen. With his steadfast crew—the battle-scarred Creed, the mirthful halftroll Gallico, and a young escaped slave named Giffon—Rol will plunge headlong into a destiny as dark as they come. And toward a terrifying battle against an enemy as determined to destroy the world as Rol is to save it.
A Beggar in Jerusalem
Author: Elie Wiesel
Publisher: Schocken
Published: 1997-05-27
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 0805210520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen the Six-Day War began, Elie Wiesel rushed to Israel. "I went to Jerusalem because I had to go somewhere, I had to leave the present and bring it back to the past. You see, the man who came to Jerusalem then came as a beggar, a madman, not believing his eyes and ears, and above all, his memory." This haunting novel takes place in the days following the Six-Day War. A Holocaust survivor visits the newly reunited city of Jerusalem. At the Western Wall he encounters the beggars and madmen who congregate there every evening, and who force him to confront the ghosts of his past and his ties to the present. Weaving together myth and mystery, parable and paradox, Wiesel bids the reader to join him on a spiritual journey back and forth in time, always returning to Jerusalem.
