Stranger in the House looked at how women coped when the men came home from the war, while When the Children Came Home examined the impact of evacuation on family life in the war’s aftermath. Since then I have been exploring the impact of the Second World War on people’s lives, with particular focus on women on the Home Front. Fearless on Everest was published in 2000 and was followed in 2005 by The Colonel of Tamarkan, a biography of my grandfather, Brigadier Sir Philip Toosey, the ‘real’ colonel who built the Bridge on the River Kwai. However I have always wanted to be a writer and when the opportunity arose to work on a biography of my great uncle, Sandy Irvine, I took it with relish. Born on the Wirral and brought up in Cheshire, I spent the first half of her career working in the art world. I am the author of eleven works of non-fiction, including the best-selling book Jambusters which inspired the ITV drama series Home Fires.
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The film received an Academy Award nomination for cinematography. It was adapted for a 1999 film of the same title, directed by Scott Hicks and starring Ethan Hawke. To date it has sold nearly four million copies. He is best known as the author of the novel Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), which won the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award. Guterson was bor David Guterson is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist. He is also the author of a short story collection, The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind (1989) and of a book of essays on education called Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense (1992). Guterson's subsequent novels are East of the Mountains (1999), Our Lady of the Forest (2003), and The Other (2008). David Guterson is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist. 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Get the conversation rolling with discussion questions from each section of the book. In Middlesex, Cal is on a quest for the truth. Start at the very beginning of the epic journey of Calliope's Greek-American family. Middlesex is a story about what it means to occupy the unnamed middle ground between male and female, Greek and American, past and present. On the road to self-discovery, family secrets are exposed and an astonishing genetic history is uncovered. As a child, Calliope Stephanides never felt like other girls her age. Conrad Ellis - privileged and spoiled and Ella's nemesis since childhood - steps into this arena of teeming hostility to exact his vengeance and demonstrate the extent of his blind hatred and unlimited cruelty. The climate of desperation creates a fertile atmosphere for racial tensions and social unrest. In an effort to save their families from homelessness and hunger, farmers and cattlemen are forced to make choices that come with heartrending consequences. Friends and neighbors who've thus far maintained a tenuous grip on their meager livelihoods now face foreclosure and financial ruin. The changes are echoed by the turbulence beyond the house walls. Rainwater moves into her house.and impacts her life in ways Ella could never have foreseen. However, times are hard, and in order to make ends meet, Ella's house must remain 100 percent occupied. Rainwater will bring about unsettling changes. When David Rainwater arrives at the house looking for lodging, he comes recommended by a trusted friend as "a man of impeccable character". Between chores of cooking and cleaning for her residents, she cares for her 10-year-old son, Solly, a sweet but challenging child whose misunderstood behavior finds Ella on the receiving end of pity, derision, and suspicion. With the country in the stranglehold of drought and economic depression, Ella Barron runs her Texas boardinghouse with an efficiency that ensures her life will be kept in balance. Inside the cellar, these men, women, and children put their hopes and dreams on hold as they wait out the war, only emerging to look for food, water, and medicine. Outside the safety of their little refuge the war rages on-fiery bombs torch the beautiful Filipino countryside, Japanese soldiers round up and interrogate innocent people, and from the hills guerillas wage a desperate campaign against the enemy. The Karangalan family and their neighbors huddle for survival in the cellar of a house a few miles from Manila. When the Elephants Dance introduces us to the incandescent voice of Tess Uriza Holthe, who sets her remarkable first novel in the waning days of World War II, as the Japanese and the Americans engage in a fierce battle for possession of the Philippine Islands. And our Philippine Islands? We are the small chickens." Once in a great while comes a storyteller who can illuminate worlds large and small, magical and true to life. "Papa explains the war like this: 'When the elephants dance, the chickens must be careful.' The great beasts, as they circle one another, shaking the trees and trumpeting loudly, are the Amerikanos and the Japanese as they fight. There’s a lot of back and forth between them, a lot of arguing as they struggle to get to know each other’s values and cultural ideas, and eventually fall in love. Young girl is taken from her village by a large, ‘Conan the Barbarian-esque’ Warrior King, is scared of him at first but gradually gets to know him and realizes that there is more to him than initially meets the eye, etc. It reminds me of steamy harlequin bodice rippers, with all of the tropes of the genre. But as I struggle with my new reality, I discover that the surly, mysterious, dominant horde king never intended for me to be his concubine… He wants me as his queen.Ĭaptive of the Horde King is a dubcon romance novel. I agree to warm his furs, to travel with his horde across the wild lands of Dakkar, and to never see my family again. I sell myself to the horde king as his war prize. In order to save my brother’s life, I do the unthinkable. Unfortunately, the same couldn’t be said for my brother, and one careless mistake brings a horde of the nomadic, barbarian Dakkari straight to our doorstep, led by their powerful horde king-a cold, ruthless, battle-scarred warrior demanding retribution. On the unforgiving planet of Dakkar, I did what all the humans in our village did: kept my head down, worked to provide for my family, and I certainly didn’t break any Dakkari laws to risk inciting the alien race’s merciless wrath. “Even the Swedes were dismayed by Söderberg’s grim-grey novel when it was published in, but today it is recognized as a Scandinavian masterpiece.” -TIME These days, that’s a fairly distasteful combination.” -LOS ANGELES TIMES Söderberg offers both a moral and a roadmap. “Written in a world before the two world wars, the novel has an icy wind in it, a sense of weeding the world so that only the strongest and loveliest can live. Söderberg a marvelous writer.” -THE NEW YORKER offers the voyeuristic thrill of reading over the doctor’s shoulder as he wrestles with his conscience.” -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Arranged in the form of a journal, this fascinating, deeply moral (yet never moralizing) novel. He does intervene, but when it becomes clear that the Reverend will not give up his ‘rights,’ Glas begins planning his murder. Smitten with her, he agrees, even though she already has another lover. The beautiful young wife of the repellant Reverend Gregorius confides to Glas that her sex life is making her miserable and begs for his help. “First published in 1905, Doctor Glas is considered to be Swedish novelist Hjalmar Söderberg’s masterpiece. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Two stories, past and present, merge to produce what impor tant fiction must: a sense of the enchantment of life." -Los Angeles Times This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Jackson J. A superb novel with an amplitude of scale and richness of detail altogether uncommon in contemporary fiction." -The Atlan tic Monthly "Brilliant. What emerge s is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family. But his research r eveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit. Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of personal, historical, and geograp hic discovery Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write hi s grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civi lization into the surface of America's western frontier. He was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist. Stegner was born on Februin Lake Mills, Iowa. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. In 1972, Wallace Earle Stegner won a Pulitzer Prize for Angle of Repose (1971), a novel about a wheelchair-bound mans recreation of his New England grandmothers experience in a late nineteenth-century frontier town. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. If you would like to know just my overall opinion of the book, and otherwise go into reading it blind, please scroll down to my overall and would I recommend it section. Please note that while try my best to avoid this, all reviews can contain spoilers of some kind. This book may be unsuitable for anyone under 18 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence. His touch could mean the end for her, but resisting her is the hardest battle he’s ever fought-and the only battle he fears he can’t win.What's in store, and where to find more. When the powerful beauty with shocking vulnerabilities escapes from a centuries-long imprisonment, the desire that simmers between her and Torin is scorching. Carnal pleasure is utterly forbidden, and though he has always overcome temptation with an iron will, his control is about to shatter. Torin’s every touch causes sickness and death-and a worldwide plague. Genres: Paranormal Romance, Demon, Heaven/Hellįrom New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter comes the long-awaited story of Torin, the most dangerous Lord of the Underworld yet…įierce immortal warrior. Published by Harlequin HQN on November 25, 2014Īlso in this series: The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld #1) The Darkest Touch (Lords of the Underworld #11) by Gena Showalter |