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Author: Michael Prescott
Publisher: Signet Book
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780451200792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbby Sinclair hunts stalkers, bringing them down before they explode. And when the stalker of a television news anchor steps out from the shadows, Abby moves in for the kill. From the author of "Comes the Dark".
Author: Lara Prescott
Publisher: Bond Street Books
Published: 2019-09-03
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0385693273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE WORK OF FICTION IN 2019 AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2019 A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--the real-life story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago. At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dares publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world--using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets out of powerful men. Irina is a complete novice, and under Sally's tutelage quickly learns how to blend in, make drops and invisibly ferry classified documents. The Secrets We Kept combines a legendary literary love story--the decades-long affair between Pasternak and his mistress and muse, Olga Ivinskaya, who was sent to the Gulag and inspired Zhivago's heroine, Lara--with a narrative about two women empowered to lead lives of extraordinary intrigue and risk. From Pasternak's country estate outside Moscow to the brutalities of the Gulag, from Washington, DC, to Paris and Milan, The Secrets We Kept captures a watershed moment in the history of literature--told with soaring emotional intensity and captivating historical detail. And at the centre of this unforgettable debut is the powerful belief that a piece of art can change the world.
Author: Jon M. Fishman
Publisher: LernerClassroom
Published: 2018-08
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 154152800X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott.
Author: Royal A. Gettmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-06-10
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521153201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a study of the rise and activity of the London publishing house which started in 1829 as Bentley and Colburn and was finally absorbed by Macmillan in 1898. Professor Gettmann has worked from the surviving papers of the firm and it is probable that he has here given more detail about the aims, methods and successes of an English publisher of the time than can be found anywhere else. Since there is constant reference from the activities of Bentley to that of his contemporaries, it is also a microcosm of English authorship and publishing from the time of Scott to that of Meredith: one of the great period of English publishing enterprise. It discusses movements of taste and cycles of popular reading and illustrates the relationship between publisher and author. It also deals with authors' contracts and rewards and in short, deals with every aspect of English publishing in an important period.
Author: Michael Prescott
Publisher: Michael Prescott
Published: 2011-11-10
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of Final Sins and Cold Around the Heart, comes an electrifying novel of terror and suspense. C.J. Osborn was ten years old when the boogeyman came for her. Ever since, she has feared his return. Now an LAPD cop, C.J. faces danger every day on the streets of Newton Division — "Shootin' Newton," the city's roughest territory. But the greatest danger lies in C.J.'s own home, where a stranger's eyes are watching her — a stranger who plans to finish what he started sixteen years ago ...
Author: Joanne Mattern
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781680201277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Dak Prescott was growing up in Louisiana, his family didn't have much money. Yet his mother taught him to work as hard as he could and reach for his dreams. Dak's biggest dream was to play quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys. All through high school and college, Dak did everything he could to make his dream come true. When he finally got the chance, he faced many challenges before he could rise to the top. Through it all, Dak showed that he is truly a champion!
Author: Eileen K. Cheng
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 0820330736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican historians of the early national period, argues Eileen Ka-May Cheng, grappled with objectivity, professionalism, and other “modern” issues to a greater degree than their successors in later generations acknowledge. Her extensive readings of antebellum historians show that by the 1820s, a small but influential group of practitioners had begun to develop many of the doctrines and concerns that undergird contemporary historical practice. The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth challenges the entrenched notion that America’s first generations of historians were romantics or propagandists for a struggling young nation. Cheng engages with the works of well-known early national historians like George Bancroft, William Prescott, and David Ramsay; such lesser-known figures as Jared Sparks and Lorenzo Sabine; and leading political and intellectual elites of the day, including Francis Bowen and Charles Francis Adams. She shows that their work, which focused on the American Revolution, was often nuanced and surprisingly sympathetic in its treatment of American Indians and loyalists. She also demonstrates how the rise of the novel contributed to the emergence of history as an autonomous discipline, arguing that paradoxically “early national historians at once described truth in opposition to the novel and were influenced by the novel in their understanding of truth.” Modern historians should recognize that the discipline of history is itself a product of history, says Cheng. By taking seriously a group of too-often-dismissed historians, she challenges contemporary historians to examine some ahistorical aspects of the way they understand their own discipline.
Author: C. Harvey Gardiner
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2013-12-06
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0292735154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis biography of a distinguished historian and man of letters is the first study of William Hickling Prescott (1796–1859) to be written by a historian who has worked with the very themes explored by Prescott. And it is the first to treat him not only as creative historian but also as family man, as traveler and clubman, as investor and humanitarian, and as private citizen with strong political preferences. Prescott the socialite and Prescott the introvert writer emerge in the round as the magnificent amateur who helped establish canons that have enriched American historical scholarship ever since. Blending history and literature, his multivolume works won Prescott the first significant international reputation to be accorded to an American historian. Working despite persistent obstacles of health and against a penchant for society and leisure that was always part of his personality, Prescott came to be considered the finest interpreter of the Hispanic world produced by the Anglo-Saxon world. His Conquest of Mexico and Conquest of Peru were pronounced classics. C. Harvey Gardiner takes the reader back to the nineteenth century in style and in subject to present William Hickling Prescott, gentleman and scholar, firmly fixed in relationship to his community and his times. But Gardiner's Victorian stance and respect for nineteenth-century historiography do not prevent his presenting Prescott as a whole man, viewed in retrospect, stripped of myth, and evaluated for moderns.
Author: Winward Prescott
Publisher:
Published: 1914
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13:
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