The Secret Father

Author : James Carroll
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618485352
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Father written by James Carroll and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005-01-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A beautifully textured exploration of relationships between husbands and wives, parents and sons, friends and lovers. Love, in its harsh and dreadful facets, is portrayed as a powerful force, capable of fusing hearts but also of destroying them. . . . The taut drama of history, interlaced with the emotional sagas of these marvelously drawn figures, makes for a very satisfying narrative." Library Journal, starred review From the author of City Below and Prince of Peace, a suspenseful drama of family and politics set in Cold War Berlin. Missed signals, cloaked motives, false postures, and panicked responses echo tragically across borders and generations when, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a father and son recount the tense events of nearly thirty years before. In 1961, just before the Wall rises, three teenagers from an American school in West Germany travel to the Communist side of the divided city to join a rally. Unknown to them, their parents have unfinished business reaching back to World War II which will pull the teens into the vortex of an international incident.

Author : Sean Patrick Dolan
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039116361
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Father's Secret written by Sean Patrick Dolan and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Declan Keenan begins to clean out his family’s house after his father’s death, he makes an unexpected discovery. His father, a former RCMP Security Service agent, left a videotape message that drops responsibility for resolving an old case into his son’s lap. Unable to refuse his father’s dying wish, Declan begins his search for answers in an attempt to satisfy justice. In the process, the motive, means, and opportunities that led to the 1973 bombing of BOAC Flight 281 are revealed; but so too are the agendas to have the case buried. Solving this thirty-year-old case with its inherent obstacles and challenges is frustratingly elusive, especially when compounded by present-day tragedy and official cover-ups. Despite threats, destruction of evidence, and murder, Declan perseveres, knowing that he must do his utmost to reveal his father’s secret and expose a long hidden truth. This entertaining thriller resonates with the themes of justice and injustice, reconciliation and alienation, and duty and denial—together representing both the admirable and dishonourable aspects of the Canadian national identity.

Author : Jean Lafrance
Publisher : Médiaspaul
ISBN 13 : 9782890399822
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pray to Your Father in Secret written by Jean Lafrance and published by Médiaspaul. This book was released on 1987 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clayton Emery
Publisher : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
ISBN 13 : 9780671013721
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Father-Daughter Disaster! written by Clayton Emery and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Mack isn't thrilled about the upcoming Father-Daughter Dance, which George Mack has volunteered to chaperone. If only her dad weren't so boring. Then rumors start that some tough kids from school are planning on crashing it as revenge. So much for boring.

Author : Lucinda Franks
Publisher : Miramax Books
ISBN 13 : 9781401309336
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Father's Secret War written by Lucinda Franks and published by Miramax Books. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this moving and compelling memoir about parent and child, father and daughter, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Lucinda Franks discovers that the remote, nearly impassive man she grew up with had in fact been a daring spy behind enemy lines in World War II. Sworn to secrecy, he began revealing details of his wartime activities only in the last years of his life as he became afflicted with Alzheimer's. His exploits revealed a man of remarkable bravado -- posing as a Nazi guard, slipping behind enemy lines to blow up ammunition dumps, and being flown to one of the first concentration camps liberated by the Allies to report on the atrocities found there. My Father's Secret War is an intimate account of Franks coming to know her own father after years of estrangement. Looking back at letters he had written her mother in the early days of WWII, Franks glimpses a loving man full of warmth. But after the grimmest assignments of the war his tone shifts, settling into an all-too-familiar distance. Franks learns about him -- beyond the alcoholism and adultery -- and comes to know the man he once was. Her story is haunting, and beautifully told, even as the tragedy becomes clear: Franks finally comes to know her father, but only as he is slipping further into his illness. Lucinda Franks understands her father as the disease claims him. My Father's Secret War is a triumph of love over secrets, and a tribute to the power of the connection of family.

Author : Kim Lawrence
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 1472031954
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Father (Mills & Boon Modern) (Triplet Brides, Book 2) written by Kim Lawrence and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He wanted his son– but did he need a wife? Sam Rourke was handsome and successful– but it was a family that he craved.... Lindy Lacey was determined to discover if there was more to Sam than his glamorous image! Sam kept hidden his secret pain over the son he couldn't keep. He couldn't hide his passion for Lindy– was he ready for marriage?.

Author : Sara Blaedel
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781538763247
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Father's Secret written by Sara Blaedel and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman's murder is only the beginning as a daughter races to unravel the maze of secrets her father left behind--before she becomes the next victim--in the latest emotionally gripping novel from Sara Blaedel, #1 internationally bestselling author with over 3 million copies sold worldwide. After suddenly inheriting a funeral home from her father--who she hadn't heard from in decades--Ilka Jensen has impulsively abandoned her quiet life in Denmark to visit the small town in rural Wisconsin where her father lived. There, she's devastated to discover her father's second family: a stepmother and two half sisters she never knew existed. And who aren't the least bit welcoming, despite Ilka's efforts to reach out. Then a local woman is killed, seemingly the unfortunate victim of a home invasion turned violent. But when Ilka learns that the woman knew her father, it becomes increasingly clear that she may not have been a completely random victim after all. The more Ilka digs into her father's past, the more deeply entangled she becomes in a family drama that has spanned decades and claimed more than one life--and she may be the next victim... "Sara Blaedel knows how to reel in her readers and keep them utterly transfixed." --Tess Gerritsen "One of the best I've come across." --Michael Connelly "Crime-writer superstar Sara Blaedel's great skill is in weaving a heartbreaking social history into an edge-of-your-chair thriller." --Oprah.com

Author : Chris Offutt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501112473
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Father, the Pornographer written by Chris Offutt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir in which "writer Chris Offutt struggles to understand his recently deceased father based on his reading of the 400-plus novels [Andrew Offutt]--a well-known writer of pornography in the 1970s and 80s--left him in his will"--Publisher marketing.

Author : Sing-Yung (&
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781977243966
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Father's Gold Secret: 父親的黃金秘密 - 1949 written by Sing-Yung (& and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of American gift of gold to China was truly monumental. It is also remarkable that details of the American gift of gold in its movement and its role in the Chinese Civil War described in this book were not forever lost to history, because many of them only exist within the pages of the Author's Father's diaries and in the memories of a handful of people with personal knowledge of the events. A loss of this historical record would rob the Chinese people of a significant component of their cultural heritage, and obfuscate the actions and true intent of the Chinese political factions and the United States in the creation of what would become the People's Republic of China and Taiwan (Republic of China), one nation with two separate governments. Considering the time we live in today, these events are of astounding historical relevance.

Author : Scott C Johnson
Publisher : WW Norton
ISBN 13 : 0393239802
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wolf and the Watchman written by Scott C Johnson and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a father asks his son to lie for the greater good? Growing up, Scott C. Johnson always suspected that his father was different. Only as a teenager did he discover the truth: his father was a spy, one of the CIA’s most trusted officers. At first the secret was thrilling. But over time Scott began to have doubts. How could a man so rigorously trained to deceive and manipulate simply turn off those skills at home? His father had been living a double life for so long that his lies were hard to separate from the truth. When Scott embarked on a career as a foreign correspondent, he found himself returning to many of the troubled countries of his youth. In the dusty streets of Pakistan and Afghanistan, amid the cold urbanity of Yugoslavia, and down the mysterious alleys of Mexico City, he came face to face with his father’s murky past—and his own complicity in it. Scott learned that his chosen profession was not so different from his father’s: they both worked to gain people’s trust and to uncover their secrets. The only difference was what they did with that information. In the aftermath of 9/11, father and son found themselves on assignment in Afghanistan and the Middle East, one as a CIA contractor, the other as a reporter for Newsweek. Suddenly, an unsettled Scott was forced to keep his father’s secret all over again. As their professional lives collided, Scott and his father inched toward a personal reckoning, struggling to overcome a lifetime of suspicion and deception. The Wolf and the Watchman is a provocative, meditative account of truth and duplicity, of manipulation and loyalty. It is also a moving, intensely personal portrait of a bond between father and son that endured in the shadow of one of the world’s most secretive and unforgiving institutions.