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Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher: Faber & Faber Limited
Published: 2019-01-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780571351749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Kazuo Ishiguro's hands, a snapshot of domestic realism becomes a miniature masterpiece of memory and forgetting.
Author: Susan Sallis
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-10-31
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1448109426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the pen of multi-million copy seller and Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis comes a magnificent and sweeping novel that asks whether friendships really can endure through thick and thin. Readers of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Fiona Valpy will not be disappointed. READERS ARE LOVING COME RAIN OR SHINE! "Brilliant, I couldn't put it down." - 5 STARS "Great storyline. Took me a while to place everyone, so many wonderful characters. But so worth it. Susan Sallis puts you right there, in the thick of it." - 5 STARS "Wonderful" - 5 STARS "It was exciting and intriguing and nicely slow at the same time" - 5 STARS *********************************************************************************************************** SOME FRIENDSHIPS REALLY DO STAND THE TEST OF TIME. WILL THEIRS? The four of them were close when they worked together in the 1960s: Natasha, Prudence, Rachel and Maisie. Now, twenty years later, Natasha, newly divorced and back from America with a fifteen-year-old daughter, decides there must be a reunion. Pru, always the mysterious one, deeply involved with her commune in Cornwall, unexpectedly offers to host at Prospect House, a property she has inherited in the Malvern Hills. Rachel, married to her former boss, a Liberal MP, gladly leaves a tangled domestic situation to join the friends she hasn't seen for so long. And Maisie ... Maisie, perhaps the most vulnerable of the four, mother of five children, married to the unpredictable Edward, fails to arrive at Prospect House. The drama of her disappearance has a far-reaching effect on the lives and destinies of them all...
Author: Denise Grover Swank
Publisher: DGS
Published: 2019-05-06
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 194056221X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRose Gardner collects secrets the way other people collect junk—and now she’s being asked to expose them. Special Prosecutor Mason Deveraux has called a grand jury to investigate the corruption in the Sweet Branch Police Department, and he’s summoned Rose as a witness. Any topic is fair game, and the criminals in Fenton county are rightly scared of what she might share under oath. While trying to placate the lawless men, Rose is also caring for her dying sister, Violet. Only Violet’s doctor has fled town after selling prescriptions, and Rose is sure big-time drug dealer Denny Carmichael has his hand in the situation. She has no intention of investigating, but like with a lot of her cases, clues keep falling into her lap. Then, just when it feels like everything’s at a boiling point, Rose gets shocking news that turns her life upside down. Now, she’s not just soothing the criminals’ anxiety, but actively seeking allies for a fight she hasn’t asked for—and her enemy just might be the man she loves.
Author: Rachel Garlinghouse
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013-03-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781478310860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre you prepared to adopt and parent transracially? Transracial adoption can be a daunting and exhilarating journey. At times you feel incredibly isolated and lost. However, with this conversational and practical guide in hand, you will be able to adopt with confidence and parent with education, empathy, and enthusiasm. Whether you are new to adoption, a seasoned adoptive parent, or you are an adoptee, birth parent, or adoption professional, COME RAIN OR COME SHINE will enhance your understanding and appreciation for transracial adoption. The book contains extensive resource lists, discussion/reflection questions for adoptive parents, and advice and research from experts in the adoption field. Recommended by MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry: "We had an amazing guest on the MHP show about a year ago who is white and raising black adopted children, Rachel Garlinghouse. I love her book Come Rain or Come Shine: A White Parent's Guide to Adopting and Parenting Black Children." (from Jezebel, Melissa Harris-Perry Answers Your Questions, 4/6/14)
Author: Jan Karon
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1996-02-01
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780140254488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon’s beloved series set in America’s favorite small town: Mitford. It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable. Yet, Father Tim, the bachelor rector, wants something more. Enter a dog the size of a sofa who moves in and won't go away. Add an attractive neighbor who begins wearing a path through the hedge. Now, stir in a lovable but unloved boy, a mystifying jewel theft, and a secret that's sixty years old. Suddenly, Father Tim gets more than he bargained for. And readers get a rich comedy about ordinary people and their ordinary lives.
Author: Jonathan Hill
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 1135746117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWeather Architecture further extends Jonathan Hill’s investigation of authorship by recognising the creativity of the weather. At a time when environmental awareness is of growing relevance, the overriding aim is to understand a history of architecture as a history of weather and thus to consider the weather as an architectural author that affects design, construction and use in a creative dialogue with other authors such as the architect and user. Environmental discussions in architecture tend to focus on the practical or the poetic but here they are considered together. Rather than investigate architecture’s relations to the weather in isolation, they are integrated into a wider discussion of cultural and social influences on architecture. The analysis of weather’s effects on the design and experience of specific buildings and gardens is interwoven with a historical survey of changing attitudes to the weather in the arts, sciences and society, leading to a critical re-evaluation of contemporary responses to climate change.
Author: Jan Karon
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2011-08-30
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 0143119915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollow Father Tim and Cynthia on their journey to research his Kavanagh ancestry in the Irish countryside in this novel in the beloved Mitford series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon. Vacation—the very word has been foreign to Episcopal priest Tim Kavanagh. Now retired from tending his flock in the village of Mitford, he is making good on a promise to show his wife, Cynthia, the charming land of his Irish ancestors. But after arriving at a Lough Arrow fishing lodge in the midst of a torrential downpour, the charm disappears. They find their holiday upended by an intruder, a treasured painting is stolen from the lodge, and a family conflict dating back nearly a century turns even more bitter. As three generations struggle to find deliverance from the crucifying power of secrets, Tim and Cynthia stumble upon a faded journal that might just explain the crime—and offer a chance at redemption.
Author: Edward Jablonski
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9781555533663
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The book is filled with arresting detail about Arlen's career. . . This one is required reading for anyone who cares about American popular music, or, it goes without saying, musical theatre." -- Show Music
Author: Martha Grossman
Publisher:
Published: 2015-05-13
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780692450253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComing of Age: Come Rain or Come Shine took more than ten years to write. The author, finding herself alone, her marriage of forty-two years imploding, examines each piece of her life to understand what happened to her. She "comes of age" as a senior, finding her voice to tell her story as truthfully as she can. She discovers who she is and transforms herself in the process. Others present in the story may view it differently, with varied colors and threads. This is only the author's version of the fabric of her life.
Author: Storm Dunlop
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2015-07-09
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1783725478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis charming miscellany, as wide-ranging and unpredictable as the weather itself, is filled with curious historical facts, amazing statistics and fascinating anecdotes that will keep you entertained come rain or shine!
