Heirs And Graces

Author : Sally E King
Publisher : Autharium
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780251929

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Heirs and Graces by Sally E King Pdf

Lottie Bingham is on the run. Hounded by the press and paparazzi, she flees her home, her job, her family and friends and runs to the anonymity of life in a lodge house on a remote estate in the North Yorkshire moors, wanting only to lick her wounds and reconnect with her true self. Lullingworth, is the ancestral home of the famous son and heir of the Tippetts Tea dynasty, Oliver Tippetts, who, after suffering a tragic loss has become a recluse. Oliver returns to Lullingworth to run the estate but cannot bring himself to enter the grand house that was once his family home. Instead, holed up at the gate house, he closes out the world and is lost in grief. On exploring her new home, Lottie discovers a tin of fascinating letters in the attic. Written by the mysterious Grace, they reveal astounding family secrets, long buried and forgotten, that when discovered by Lottie, have the potential to completely change hers and Oliver’s lives. These letters contain with them not only the answers to so many questions about the Tippetts family but also vital lessons in the art of grace. Can Lottie and Oliver come to terms with their own grief and reveal the truth to one another about who they really are, or will their secrets overwhelm them and destroy everything they hold dear?

Author : Rhys Bowen
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425260036

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Heirs and Graces by Rhys Bowen Pdf

While grooming Jack Altringham, the Duke's newfound heir, for high society, Lady Georgiana Rannoch finds herself investigating murder when the Duke's body is found with Jack's hunting knife in its back.

Author : Rhys Bowen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425222527

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Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen Pdf

THE FIRST ROYAL SPYNESS MYSTERY! The New York Times bestselling author of the Molly Murphy and Constable Evan Evans mysteries turns her attentions to “a feisty new heroine to delight a legion of Anglophile readers.”* London, 1932. Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th in line for the English throne, is flat broke. She's bolted Scotland, her greedy brother, and her fish-faced betrothed. London is a place where she'll experience freedom, learn life lessons aplenty, do a bit of spying for HRH—oh, and find a dead Frenchman in her tub. Now her new job is to clear her long family name...

Author : Tracy Banghart
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316471398

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Grace and Fury by Tracy Banghart Pdf

Bold, brutal, and beautiful, this must-read fantasy is full of fierce sisterhood, action, and political intrigue for fans of The Selection series, Caraval, and The Handmaid's Tale. Serina Tessaro has been groomed her whole life to become a Grace—someone to stand by the heir to the throne as a shining, subjugated example of the perfect woman. It's her chance to secure a better life for her family, and to keep her headstrong and rebellious younger sister, Nomi, out of trouble. But when Nomi catches the Heir's eye instead, Serina is the one who takes the fall for the dangerous secret her sister has been hiding. Trapped in a life she never wanted, Nomi has only one option: surrender to her role as a Grace until she can use her position to save Serina. But this is easier said than done...a traitor walks the halls of the palazzo, and deception lurks in every corner. Meanwhile, Serina is running out of time. Imprisoned on an island where she must fight to the death to survive, surrounded by women stronger than she is, one wrong move could cost her everything. There is no room for weakness on Mount Ruin, especially weaknesses of the heart. Thrilling and captivating, Grace and Fury is a story of fierce sisterhood, and survival in a world that's determined to break you.

Author : Michael Estorick
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0297779559

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Heirs & Graces by Michael Estorick Pdf

Author : Ellen Raskin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593204504

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The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin Pdf

A Newbery Medal Winner For over thirty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. They could become millionaires-it all depends on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, a game involving blizzards, burglaries, and bombings! Ellen Raskin has created a remarkable cast of characters in a puzzle-knotted, word-twisting plot filled with humor, intrigue, and suspense. Winner of the Newbery Medal Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award An ALA Notable Book A School Library Journal One Hundred Books That Shaped the Century "A supersharp mystery...confoundingly clever, and very funny." —Booklist, starred review "Great fun for those who enjoy illusion, word play, or sleight of hand." —The New York Times Book Review "A fascinating medley of word games, disguises, multiple aliases, and subterfuges—a demanding but rewarding book." —The Horn Book

Author : Gerald Hammond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Crime investigations
ISBN : 0749083093

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Heirs and Graces by Gerald Hammond Pdf

Shortly after Grace Gillespie's marriage and honeymoon her cantankerous old uncle dies. It is discovered that substantial withdrawals have been taken from the uncles account in his last days. Grace falls under suspicion and she must prove her innocence.

Author : Carol Hopkins
Publisher : Martingale
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781604685466

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Civil War Legacies by Carol Hopkins Pdf

Step back in time with 15 favorite patchwork-quilt patterns from the Civil War Legacies collection by Carol Hopkins. Each pattern design features classic blocks evocative of the era, beautifully showcasing today's reproduction quilt fabrics. Wonderfully scrappy, small quilt patterns in sizes perfect for wall hangings and doll quilts Simple, step-by-step instructions with clear diagrams and pressing directions Value-packed collection with something for every skill level

Author : Simon Spurrier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1534306633

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Angelic Volume 1 by Simon Spurrier Pdf

Centuries after humanity has disappeared, the Earth belongs to our leftovers: the animals, genetically modified for a war they don't remember, guarding a world they don't understand. But for one young winged monkey the repressive tribal routines are unbearable. Her name is QORA. She yearns to explore, to discover... to fly free. Eisner nominee SIMON SPURRIER (The Spire, CRY HAVOC, X-Men Legacy) and star artist CASPAR WIJNGAARD (LIMBO, Dark Souls, Assassin's Creed) unite for an all-ages-friendly fable about teenage rebellion and animal antics amidst the ruins of civilization. Collects ANGELIC issues 1-6.

Author : Kitty Hauser
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783782475

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Bloody Old Britain by Kitty Hauser Pdf

O. G. S. Crawford (1886-1957) thought history held the answers to everything. A field archaeologist, he later became a photographer flying over the Western Front during the First World War - an experience that made him a pioneer of aerial archaeology. An impassioned Marxist, it seemed to him that 1930s Britain would soon disappear, conquered by history's inevitable march to world socialism, and he made a photographic study of everyday things - churches and advertising hoardings - as future evidence of how unenlightened British society had once been. Later there came angry disillusionment and a book, too bitter to be published, called Bloody Old Britain. In recounting Crawford's extraordinary story, Kitty Hauser uses many of his photographs and penetrates neglected but fascinating aspects of British life and belief that have themselves become history.

Author : Rhys Bowen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440629528

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A Royal Pain by Rhys Bowen Pdf

Lady Georgiana finds herself in a heap of royal trouble in the second novel in the New York Times bestselling Royal Spyness Mystery series. London, 1932. Poor Lady Georgiana—thirty-fourth in line to the throne—has nothing to serve her Bavarian princess houseguest, even though the Queen of England has requested that she entertain her. Then there's the matter of the body in the bookshop and the princess's unwitting involvement with the Communist party. It's enough to drive a girl mad...

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199986989

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Death-Devoted Heart by Roger Scruton Pdf

A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's arms. While critics have lauded Wagner's Tristan and Isolde for the originality and subtlety of the music, they have denounced the drama as a "mere trifle"--a rendering of Wagner's forbidden love for Matilde Wesendonck, the wife of a banker who supported him during his exile in Switzerland. Death-Devoted Heart explodes this established interpretation, proving the drama to be more than just a sublimation of the composer's love for Wesendonck or a wistful romantic dream. Scruton boldly attests that Tristan and Isolde has profound religious meaning and remains as relevant today as it was to Wagner's contemporaries. He also offers keen insight into the nature of erotic love, the sacred qualities of human passion, and the peculiar place of the erotic in our culture. His argument touches on the nature of tragedy, the significance of ritual sacrifice, and the meaning of redemption, providing a fresh interpretation of Wagner's masterpiece. Roger Scruton has written an original and provocative account of Wagner's music drama, which blends philosophy, criticism, and musicology in order to show the work's importance in the twenty-first century.

Author : Solomon Volkov
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307427724

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Shostakovich and Stalin by Solomon Volkov Pdf

“Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that.” So said the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose first compositions in the 1920s identified him as an avant-garde wunderkind. But that same singularity became a liability a decade later under the totalitarian rule of Stalin, with his unpredictable grounds for the persecution of artists. Solomon Volkov—who cowrote Shostakovich’s controversial 1979 memoir, Testimony—describes how this lethal uncertainty affected the composer’s life and work. Volkov, an authority on Soviet Russian culture, shows us the “holy fool” in Shostakovich: the truth speaker who dared to challenge the supreme powers. We see how Shostakovich struggled to remain faithful to himself in his music and how Stalin fueled that struggle: one minute banning his work, the next encouraging it. We see how some of Shostakovich’s contemporaries—Mandelstam, Bulgakov, and Pasternak among them—fell victim to Stalin’s manipulations and how Shostakovich barely avoided the same fate. And we see the psychological price he paid for what some perceived as self-serving aloofness and others saw as rightfully defended individuality. This is a revelatory account of the relationship between one of the twentieth century’s greatest composers and one of its most infamous tyrants.

Author : Rhys Bowen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101460900

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Royal Blood by Rhys Bowen Pdf

A royal wedding brings Lady Georgiana Rannoch to Transylvania and lands her in a truly draining state of affairs in the fourth mystery in the New York Times bestselling Royal Spyness series. London, 1932. With her hateful brother Binky in town, Georgie has been desperately seeking an escape. So when an invitation from the Queen of England arrives asking her to represent the royals at a wedding in Transylvania—legendary home of vampires—she's delighted to accept. But when the bride starts acting a little batty and a prominent wedding guest is poisoned, something must be done lest the couple's vows become "till undeath do they part..."

Author : Rhys Bowen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101612194

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The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen Pdf

In the sixth mystery in the New York Times bestselling Royal Spyness series, Lady Georgiana Rannoch cannot wait to ring in the New Year—before a Christmas killer wrings another neck… Scotland, 1933. While her true love, Darcy O’Mara, is spending his feliz navidad tramping around South America and her mother is holed up in a tiny village called Tiddleton-under-Lovey with droll playwright Noel Coward, Georgie is quite literally stuck at Castle Rannoch thanks to a snowstorm. It seems like a Christmas miracle when she manages to land a position as hostess to a posh holiday party in Tiddleton. The village should be like something out of A Christmas Carol, but as soon as she arrives things take a deadly turn when a neighborhood nuisance falls out of a tree. On her second day, another so-called accident results in a death—and there’s yet another on her third, making Georgie wonder if there's something wicked happening in this winter wonderland... Includes an English Christmas companion, full of holiday recipes, games, and more!