Hettys Secret War

Author : Rosie Clarke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789542227
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hetty's Secret War written by Rosie Clarke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1939, with the world on the brink of war, one women faces a future more uncertain than she had ever imagined... Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Cathy Sharp. Georgie - when the man she has always loved is sent to France on a secret war office mission every knock of the door fills her with dread of it being the feared telegram boy... Beth - orphaned as a child, Beth is coming of age and determined to do her bit for the war effort. Caught up in a whirlwind romance, she marries only to become a war widow... and one expecting a baby who will never know his brave father. Can she find happiness again? Hetty - desperately trying to make her way back from Paris to her beloved family in England, a fateful and tragic encounter brings Hetty to Chateau de Faubourg where she joins the resistance and risks both her heart and her life fighting for charismatic resistance leader Stefan Lefarge... However dark the times, courage, determination and the power of friendship can overcome the hardships of war.

Author : Rosie Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781004038404
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hetty's Secret War written by Rosie Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgie - when the man she has always loved is sent to France on a secret war office mission every knock of the door fills her with dread of it being the feared telegram boy. Beth - orphaned as a child, Beth is coming of age and determined to do her bit for the war effort. Caught up in a whirlwind romance, she marries only to become a war widow - and one expecting a baby who will never know his brave father. Can she find happiness again? Hetty - desperately trying to make her way back from Paris to her beloved family in England, a fateful and tragic encounter brings Hetty to Chateau de Faubourg where she joins the resistance and risks both her heart and her life fighting for charismatic resistance leader Stefan Lefarge. However dark the times, courage, determination and the power of friendship can overcome the hardships of war.

Author : James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Deerslayer; Or, The First War-path written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the adventures of the brave and bold frontiersman, Natty Bumppo.

Author : Brian Gallagher
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
ISBN 13 : 1847175376
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secrets and Shadows written by Brian Gallagher and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her home is destroyed in the Luftwaffe bombing of the North Strand, Dublin in 1941, Grace Ryan is forced to move in with relatives in a different part of the city. There she meets Barry Malone, an English boy sent to neutral Ireland to escape the terrible air raids on his native city of Liverpool. Wary of each other at first, Grace and Barry become friends when she acts to stop him being bullied in his new school. Barry later saves Grace from losing her part-time job in a shop and, with school about to end, a summer of fun stretches before them in the sports club run by his teacher, Mr Pawlek. However, Barry begins to suspect Mr Pawlek of spying for the Nazis and he enrols Grace in his attempts to find proof. But what starts as an exciting challenge becomes increasingly risky, and their friendship is put to the test when their very lives hang in the balance.

Author : Rosie Clarke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784977179
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jessie's Promise written by Rosie Clarke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of LIZZIE'S SECRET and LIZZIE'S WAR, a story about a resilient, strong woman surviving adversity post World War 1. DEVON 1918. When Jessie Hale loses her nursing job at the end of the First World War, she leaves London to become the nurse maid to the Kendle family in Devon. On arrival she finds the family in disarray. Captain Kendle is a loving father but is traumatised by the war and kept at arm's length by his frosty wife. When their elderly Nanny suffers a bad fall, Jessie has to try to bring the household together. Gradually Jessie finds her place in their lives, becoming devoted to Captain Kendle's lively son Jack, his lovely, but quiet daughter Catherine, as well his invalid Mother. Jessie soon starts to love her life at Kendlebury Hall, but problems arise when her feelings for her employer start to change... What people are saying about JESSIE'S PROMISE: 'A beautiful story very well written' 'I quickly got drawn into this book, the description made me realise how tough life in service was' 'Jessie's Promise is a book that HAS to be devoured this year'

Author : Claudia Orenstein
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617030970
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Festive Revolutions written by Claudia Orenstein and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are traditions of popular theatre still alive in politically-engaged theatre today? In San Francisco they are. The San Francisco Mime Troupe is a modern link in the long history of public performances that have a merry air but have a voice of political protest and social comment. Every summer since 1962 the Troupe has taken free outdoor performances to public parks in the Bay Area. In a style that is festive and a spirit that is revolutionary the Mime Troupe has relied on popular theatre forms to address timely political and social issues. Their productions maintain a contemporary political edge, while showing their origins to be the popular traditions of the commedia dell'arte, circus clowning, vaudeville, puppetry, and minstrel shows. With The Minstrel Show or Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel (1965) they expressed support of the civil rights movement. With L'Amant Militaire (1967) they voiced support of Vietnam War protests. To discover what makes these apparently frivolous theatrical traditions effective for contemporary political theatre, Festive Revolutions explores the historical origins of the popular forms the Mime Troupe draws on. In old Europe, where performance traditions began, political turmoil blended with festive celebration. The lineage of the Mime Troupe's Punch the Red can be traced back to the Italian puppet figure Pulcinella through its English and Russian counterparts Punch and Petrushka. In the Mime Troupe the use of stereotypes and reliance upon colorful festivity are diverse strategies for dodging censorship. Productions like Ripped Van Winkle continue today to rekindle the radicalism the Troupe inherited from the culture of the 1960s. Festive Revolutions shows that such forms have inspired political theatre for centuries.

Author : Morgan Llywelyn
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
ISBN 13 : 1847173853
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cave of Secrets written by Morgan Llywelyn and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirates and crooked rulers make seventeenth-century Ireland a dangerous place. When Tom feels rejected by his father, he finds a secret second family among the group of smugglers who trade in and around Roaringwater Bay. Though Tom doesn't know it, his family in the Big House is under huge pressure. His father has had savage losses in business; his mother is always sad and worried, and his sisters have no hopes for a good future. This is seventeenth-century Ireland when cut-throat interests control everybody and everything, and land-grabbing is the order of the day. Friend turns into foe, and loyalty counts for nothing. From his new family, Tom learns all about boats and smuggling – and secret treasure. And then Tom discovers the best-kept secret of all ...

Author : Helen Hunt Jackson
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hetty's Strange History written by Helen Hunt Jackson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hetty's Strange History" by Helen Hunt Jackson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Charles Slack
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062038117
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hetty written by Charles Slack and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When J. P. Morgan called a meeting of New York's financial leaders after the stock market crash of 1907, Hetty Green was the only woman in the room. The Guinness Book of World Records memorialized her as the World's Greatest Miser, and, indeed, this unlikely robber baron -- who parlayed a comfortable inheritance into a fortune that was worth about 1.6 billion in today's dollars -- was frugal to a fault. But in an age when women weren't even allowed to vote, never mind concern themselves with interest rates, she lived by her own rules. In Hetty, Charles Slack reexamines her life and legacy, giving us, at long last, a splendidly "nuanced portrait" (Newsweek) of one of the greatest -- and most eccentric -- financiers in American history. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Author : Digby Westwood
Publisher : Authors On Line Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780755200276
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tanngnost written by Digby Westwood and published by Authors On Line Ltd. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A United States senator instigates enquiries into his family background. The investigator uncovers the story of the surfacing of an intense love between two people, the immediate disruption that this causes and its tragic aftermath. 1984. A Florida State Senator faces re-election. To be ahead of his muck-raking opponents he instigates enquiries into his family who he has not seen since he left The Netherlands in 1944 at the age of 10. The investigator's enquiries lead him to the village of Schandelah in West Germany, the site of a former Nazi Labour and concentration camp, there he is faced with a question of identity which he partially resolves. The core of the story is the surfacing of an intense love between two people, the immediate disruption that this causes and its tragic aftermath.