Midnight on Julia Street
Author: Ciji Ware
Publisher: Fawcett
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780449001875
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Author: Ciji Ware
Publisher: Fawcett
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780449001875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Fawcett Gold Medal Book.
Author: Julia Osborne
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780987502506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt's 1960 in an Australian country town - a time well before smartphones and social media. Fourteen-year-old Sandra, a shy but ambitious piano student, is on a journey of discovery. She's secretly in love with Nick Morgan, but he's already left school and hardly knows she exists. Everything changes when she finally gets to know Nick at a polocrosse carnival. Even her best friend and Sandra's beautiful piano become less important. But she is swept out of her depth by events which test the value of her friendships and challenge her in ways she could never have imagined. About the AuthorJulia Osborne was born in Sydney, Australia, but lived for many years in country New South Wales and the south coast. Her short stories have been published in Australian and overseas literary journals, anthologies and magazines. You can read some of these on Julia's website juliamaryosborne.com ABC Radio National has broadcast her short stories, and one-act plays which she adapted from her fiction for radio and stage performance. In 1991 she was awarded a grant by the Australia Council for the Arts and self-published her novel, "Falling Glass" in 2002. Julia also chose to self publish her YA novel "The Midnight Pianist", and many comments are on her website. "A delicious little book" one reader described it. Julia now lives on the NSW mid-north coast and continues to make up stories
Author: Ed O'Connor
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Published: 2015-05-21
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0749018097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs inspector John Underwood and his team frantically try to piece together the last hours of Olympic athlete Lucy Harrington, events take an extraordinary turn. Harrington's murderer contacts English Literature lecturer Heather Stussman and challenges her to explain his actions to the police. But not until another woman is murdered does Stussman realise that the key to the killer's terrifying motive lies buried in the works of a port who has been dead for nearly four hundred years...
Author: John Gardner
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2006-02-21
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0312337213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the fourth entry in Gardner's World War II-era mystery series, Detective Sergeant Suzie Mountford follows her partner, Tommy Livermore, to the town of Wantage, where the brutalized corpses of an air-force colonel and his lover have turned up. Were they merely killed, or also grilled, and did they spill that most top of secrets: the impending Allied invasion at Normandy? Enter secret agent Curry Shepherd, Tom's old school chum and fellow toff, who runs away with the case and Suzie's affections.
Author: Tony Horwitz
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2011-10-25
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1429996986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011 A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Bestselling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, Midnight Rising portrays Brown's uprising in vivid color, revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict. Brown, the descendant of New England Puritans, saw slavery as a sin against America's founding principles. Unlike most abolitionists, he was willing to take up arms, and in 1859 he prepared for battle at a hideout in Maryland, joined by his teenage daughter, three of his sons, and a guerrilla band that included former slaves and a dashing spy. On October 17, the raiders seized Harpers Ferry, stunning the nation and prompting a counterattack led by Robert E. Lee. After Brown's capture, his defiant eloquence galvanized the North and appalled the South, which considered Brown a terrorist. The raid also helped elect Abraham Lincoln, who later began to fulfill Brown's dream with the Emancipation Proclamation, a measure he called "a John Brown raid, on a gigantic scale." Tony Horwitz's riveting book travels antebellum America to deliver both a taut historical drama and a telling portrait of a nation divided—a time that still resonates in ours.
Author: Julia Reed
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 006184991X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter fifteen years of living like a vagabond on her reporter's schedule, Julia Reed got married and bought a house in the historic Garden District. Four weeks after she moved in, Hurricane Katrina struck. The House on First Street is the chronicle of Reed's remarkable and often hilarious homecoming, as well as a thoroughly original tribute to our country's most original city.
Author: Mary Lou Widmer
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2007-12-11
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 1452050473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTWO MEN...ONE LOVE... Brutally exposed to the naked facts of life, Katie Raspanti fled the dingy hovels of the slums to become a kitchen maid in New Orleans's most elegant household. She was no more than a child, but all too soon she became the tantalizing beauty who commanded the hearts of two brothers, both willing to abandon family and fortune to be at her side. Never, ever, did Katie dream that she would be the one to ignite the passions that would divide the legendary Eagan family, that would drive the Eagan boys to greatness, that would propel her to the top of New Orleans society and beyond... NIGHT JASMINE
Author: James A. Kaser
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2014-07-29
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 0810892049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe importance of New Orleans in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians. While databases of bibliographical information on New Orleans-centered fiction are available, they are of little use to scholars researching works written before the 1980s. In The New Orleans of Fiction: A Research Guide, James A. Kaser provides detailed synopses for more than 500 works of fiction significantly set in New Orleans and published between 1836 and 1980. The synopses include plot summaries, names of major characters, and an indication of physical settings. An appendix provides bibliographical information for works dating from 1981 well into the 21st century, while a biographical section provides basic information about the authors, some of whom are obscure and would be difficult to find in other sources. Written to assist researchers in locating works of fiction for analysis, the plot summaries highlight ways in which the works touch on major aspects of social history and cultural studies (i.e., class, ethnicity, gender, immigrant experience, and race). The book is also a useful reader advisory tool for librarians and readers who want to identify materials for leisure reading, particularly since genre, juvenile, and young adult fiction—as well as literary fiction—are included.
Author: Amanda Quick
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005-01-25
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1101214791
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A wonderful story of mystery and romance.… Amanda Quick is the queen of romance. All of her books are keepers, and Wait Until Midnight is no exception.”—A Romance Review The sins of Adam Hardesty’s past have been discovered. And if he does not hunt down his blackmailer quickly, his secrets will be revealed to all. But there is an obstacle in his way: sensation novelist Caroline Fordyce. She knows that Adam’s quest for justice could shatter her own reputation—and mire her family in lethal scandal. And she fears what he may find.... Together, they will navigate the shadow side of London, venturing into an underworld of cutthroats, connivers, and illusionists. And as the mystery grows ever deeper and the danger circles ever closer, they must guard not only their secrets but their lives and hearts as well.
Author: Annelisa Christensen
Publisher:
Published: 2019-04-11
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781999817381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOut of love, a mother hides her child's differences from the world. 1670, St Albans Midwife Abigale Harris protects her adopted child from prejudice, superstition and ignorance by hiding the truth about her from everybody in their busy market town. Throughout her life, she teaches Mary the importance of keeping her secret, placing strong constraints to guide and shape her. Twenty-one years later, Mary is good, kind and loyal. She is a caring sister to Abigale's two other adopted daughters and an indispensable assistant to Abigale in the birthing chamber. But Mary is increasingly unhappy and changes in her make it evident to Abigale that she may have made the wrong decision all those years ago. Is it too late to right the wrong she's done Mary and give her back her life? Or will revealing the secret destroy their livelihood and bring ruin to Abigale's whole family?