Far to Go
Far to Go

Author: Alison Pick

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-04-19

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0062034634

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The Man Booker Prize finalist Far to Go by acclaimed author Alison Pick is historical fiction at its very best. When Czechoslovakia relinquishes the Sudetenland to Hitler, the powerful influence of Nazi propaganda sweeps through towns and villages like a sinister vanguard of the Reich's advancing army. A fiercely patriotic secular Jew, Pavel Bauer is helpless to prevent his world from unraveling as first his government, then his business partners, then his neighbors turn their back on his affluent, once-beloved family. Only the Bauers' adoring governess, Marta, sticks by Pavel, his wife, Anneliese, and their little son, Pepik, bound by her deep affection for her employers and friends. But when Marta learns of their impending betrayal at the hands of her lover, Ernst, Pavel's best friend, she is paralyzed by her own fear of discovery—even as the endangered family for whom she cares so deeply struggles with the most difficult decision of their lives. Interwoven with a present-day narrative that gradually reveals the fate of the Bauer family during and after the war, Far to Go is a riveting family epic, love story, and psychological drama.

How Far We Go and How Fast
How Far We Go and How Fast

Author: Nora Decter

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2018-09-25

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1459816900

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Sixteen-year-old Jolene, named after the girl in the Dolly Parton song, is from a long line of lowlifes, but at least they're musical lowlifes. Her mother is a tanning-salon manager who believes she can channel her karaoke habit into a professional singing career. Jolene's dad, a failed bass player, has gone back to the family demolition business and lives by the company motto: "We do not build things; we only tear them down." But Jolene and her big brother, Matt, are true musicians, writing songs together that make everything Jo hates about their lives matter less. When Matt up and leaves in the middle of the night, Jo loses her only friend, her support system and the one person who made her feel cool. As it becomes clear that Matt is never coming back, Jo must use music to navigate her loss.

Far to Go
Far to Go

Author: Noel Streatfeild

Publisher:

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13:

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Margaret Thursday, an orphan, auditions for a role in a play durin g the early twentieth century.

How Far Will You Go?
How Far Will You Go?

Author: Evelyn McFarlane

Publisher: Villard

Published: 2010-09-08

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 0307764176

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What is the strongest opinion you hold? What is the biggest lie you've ever told? What is the one thing you'd most like to change about the world? Who have you most feared in your life? What is the strongest craving you get? What have you lost that you would most like to retrieve? Where and when have you felt most uncomfortable being nude? In , the bestselling authors of the If . . . series launch their signature format in a new direction: What and where are the limits that make each of us the personalities we are? Five hundred thought-provoking questions, illustrated with compelling black-and-white photo-graphs, help you explore the world around you and relive your funniest, scariest, weirdest, greatest, and most indelible moments. Our answers to these queries reflect our priorities, define our limits, and probe the boundaries of who we truly are. Running the gamut from the worst boss to the most euphoric moment, these questions can help us discover more about ourselves, our friends, and our family members.

Once You Go This Far
Once You Go This Far

Author: Kristen Lepionka

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Published: 2020-07-07

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1250309387

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Once You Go This Far is the fourth thrilling mystery from Shamus Award-winning and Anthony and Macavity Award-nominated author Kristen Lepionka. Junior-high school nurse Rebecca Newsome was an experienced hiker—until she plummeted to her death at the bottom of a ravine in a Columbus metro park. Her daughter, Maggie, doesn't believe it was an accident, and Rebecca's ex-husband is her prime suspect. But he's a well-connected ex-cop and Maggie is certain that's the reason no one will listen to her. PI Roxane Weary quickly uncovers that the dead woman's ex is definitely a jerk, but is he a murderer? As she pieces together the days before Rebecca died, what Roxane finds doesn't quite add up. From a series of trips to Detroit and across the border to a casino in Windsor, Canada, to strange calls from Rebecca's home to a charismatic political candidate, to a women's health organization, to a secretive church group that seems to have more information about its members than it should, Roxane needs to figure out how everything is connected before a dangerous secret gets someone else killed.

Souls and Bodies
Souls and Bodies

Author: David Lodge

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0140130187

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The ups, downs, and exploits of a group of British Catholics--for whom the sexual revolution came a little later than it did for everybody else... In this bracing satire, a group of university students make their way through the fifties and into the turbulent sixties and seventies. We first meet Dennis, Michael, Ruth, Polly, and the others at the altar rail of Our Lady and St. Jude, but soon enough they get caught up in the alternately hilarious and poignant preoccupations of work, marriage, sex, and babies--not always in that order. A satirical comedy in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh, Souls and Bodies take an unblinking look at the sexual revolution and the contemporaneous upheavals in the Catholic Church. The result is as unsettlingly true as it is funny.

Noel Streatfeild 2-book Collection: Thursday’s Child and Far to Go
Noel Streatfeild 2-book Collection: Thursday’s Child and Far to Go

Author: Noel Streatfeild

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2020-04-02

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0008384894

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Join the unforgettable heroine Margaret Thursday as she makes her way from an orphanage to the stage in this ebook collection containing the classic novels Thursday’s Child and Far to Go by Noel Streatfeild, the beloved author of Ballet Shoes.

Oh, the Places You'll Go! Read & Listen Edition
Oh, the Places You'll Go! Read & Listen Edition

Author: Dr. Seuss

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 2013-09-24

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 0385372086

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Dr. Seuss’s wonderfully wise Oh, the Places You’ll Go! celebrates all of our special milestones—from graduations to birthdays and beyond! This Read & Listen edition features optional audio narration for compatible ebook readers. “[A] book that has proved to be popular for graduates of all ages since it was first published.”—The New York Times From soaring to high heights and seeing great sights to being left in a Lurch on a prickle-ly perch, Dr. Seuss addresses life’s ups and downs with his trademark humorous verse and whimsical illustrations. The inspiring and timeless message encourages readers to find the success that lies within, no matter what challenges they face. A perennial favorite for anyone starting a new phase in their life!

Thursday's Child Has Far to Go
Thursday's Child Has Far to Go

Author: Kay Susan Hack

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-03-04

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9781530372706

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(Partly based on my own true story) Some of us live in a world of frustration and discontent. Most of us long to break our chains of restriction and follow our dreams. This novel is about a young and beautiful girl named Jess Able. Her life was safe, routine and boring. She takes a leap of faith by walking out of her secure, mundane job in a large upmarket department store, working as a complaints manager. Jess is free spirited and has a zest for life, a zest of which her friends lack. Flying across the world to California USA, she seeks adventure and begins a new life. However, her stalker is waiting for her at Los Angeles airport. At first Jess acknowledges him and thinks nothing of his gaze. But, throughout the months that follow, he closes in on her. By meeting and falling in love with a handsome private detective, Bryce Hammond, she is drawn into a false sense of security when he is left in a coma from a near fatal car accident. Will Jess ever be free from the terrifying encounters with her stalker?

How Far Can You Go?
How Far Can You Go?

Author: David Lodge

Publisher: Harvill Secker

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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"Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the rest are bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the journey between university in the 1950s and the marriages, families, careers and deaths that follow. On the one hand there's Sex and then the Pill, on the other there is the traditional Catholic Church. In this razor-sharp novel, David Lodge exposes the pressures that assailed Catholics everywhere within a more permissive society, and voices their eternal question: how far can you go?" -- Provided by publisher.