Master Of His Fate

Author : Barbara Taylor Bradford
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250187413

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Master of His Fate by Barbara Taylor Bradford Pdf

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the first book in a stunning new historical saga. Victorian England is a country of sharp divides between rich and poor, but James Lionel Falconer, who spends his days working at his father’s market stall, is determined to become a merchant prince. Even as a child, he is everything a self-made man should be: handsome, ambitious, charming, and brimming with self-confidence. James quickly rises through the ranks, proving himself both hardworking and trustworthy, and catching the eye of Henry Malvern, head of the most prestigious shipping company in London. But when threats against his reputation – and his life - begin to emerge, James will have to prove that he truly is the master of his fate. Through scandal and romance, tragedy and triumph, the Falconer and Malvern family’s lives intertwine in unexpected ways in this expansive and intricately detailed new novel filled with drama, intrigue, and Bradford's trademark cast of compelling characters.

Author : James Tobin
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781627793315

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Master of His Fate by James Tobin Pdf

Master of His Fate by James Tobin is an inspiring middle-grade biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with a focus on his battle with polio and how his disease set him on the course to become president. In 1921, FDR contracted polio. Just as he began to set his sights on the New York governorship—and, with great hope, the presidency—FDR became paralyzed from the waist down. FDR faced a radical choice: give up politics or reenter the arena with a disability, something never seen before. With the help of Eleanor and close friends, Roosevelt made valiant strides toward rehabilitation and became even more focused on becoming president, proving that misfortune sometimes turns out to be a portal to unexpected opportunities and rewards—even to greatness. This groundbreaking political biography richly weaves together medicine, disability narratives, and presidential history. Christy Ottaviano Books

Author : Barbara Taylor Bradford
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Businesspeople
ISBN : 1643856103

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In the Lion's Den by Barbara Taylor Bradford Pdf

Author : Sienna Brown
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143787549

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Master Of My Fate by Sienna Brown Pdf

William Buchanan lived an extraordinary life. Born a slave on a plantation in Jamaica, he escaped the gallows more than once. His part in the slave uprisings of the 1830s led to his transportation across the world as one of the convicts sent to New South Wales. This is a story not only about a boy who fought against all odds in search of freedom, but also about a world not so long ago, when the violence of colonisation was in full force. It is a story of Jamaica, and Australia, but at its heart, it is a story about how one lives a life, whether slave or free man. Steeped in history but full of lessons that resonate for us today, William Buchanan’s coming-of-age tale of survival and fate is a thrilling tale told in a singular voice, from a startling new talent in Australian writing.

Author : Gonzalo Munévar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173007534610

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The Master of Fate by Gonzalo Munévar Pdf

A coming-of-age story centering on the life of Oscar Moreira, a privileged fourteen-year-old who attends a Catholic boarding school in Bogotá, Colombia.

Author : Stormy Glenn
Publisher : Siren-BookStrand
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781646374571

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His Dragon's Fate (Crimson Light Clan 1) by Stormy Glenn Pdf

[Siren Publishing: The Stormy Glenn ManLove Collection: Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Alternative, Shape-shifters, Fantasy, Paranormal, MM, HEA] Elam Frazier was a simple farmer with a simple life. He never expected to find a dragon shifter hiding inside of his barn. Dmitri was the High Commander for a dragon prince and he takes his duty very seriously. It didn't leave any room for love life, but one night together changes all of that and throws them into a dangerous situation that threatens all they hold dear. Dmitri had been raised from birth to do his duty and protect his prince. It was a duty he would have until he took his very last breath. When he has to take his prince on the run to save his life, he encounters a man that makes Dmitri rethink his duty, and that could be very dangerous. Warriors like him didn't get mates, but that doesn't stop Dmitri from wishing Elam was his. When the danger to his prince lands on Elam's doorstep, Dmitri is put in a situation where he has to choose between his duty and the man he wants to keep at his side forever. There is no possibility he can have both...or is there? Stormy Glenn is a Siren-exclusive author.

Author : J. Mclaren Cobban
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734022302

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Master of His Fate by J. Mclaren Cobban Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Master of His Fate by J. Mclaren Cobban

Author : Mikhail Bulgakov
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802190512

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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Pdf

Satan comes to Soviet Moscow in this critically acclaimed translation of one of the most important and best-loved modern classics in world literature. The Master and Margarita has been captivating readers around the world ever since its first publication in 1967. Written during Stalin’s time in power but suppressed in the Soviet Union for decades, Bulgakov’s masterpiece is an ironic parable on power and its corruption, on good and evil, and on human frailty and the strength of love. In The Master and Margarita, the Devil himself pays a visit to Soviet Moscow. Accompanied by a retinue that includes the fast-talking, vodka-drinking, giant tomcat Behemoth, he sets about creating a whirlwind of chaos that soon involves the beautiful Margarita and her beloved, a distraught writer known only as the Master, and even Jesus Christ and Pontius Pilate. The Master and Margarita combines fable, fantasy, political satire, and slapstick comedy to create a wildly entertaining and unforgettable tale that is commonly considered the greatest novel to come out of the Soviet Union. It appears in this edition in a translation by Mirra Ginsburg that was judged “brilliant” by Publishers Weekly. Praise for The Master and Margarita “A wild surrealistic romp. . . . Brilliantly flamboyant and outrageous.” —Joyce Carol Oates, The Detroit News “Fine, funny, imaginative. . . . The Master and Margarita stands squarely in the great Gogolesque tradition of satiric narrative.” —Saul Maloff, Newsweek “A rich, funny, moving and bitter novel. . . . Vast and boisterous entertainment.” —The New York Times “The book is by turns hilarious, mysterious, contemplative and poignant. . . . A great work.” —Chicago Tribune “Funny, devilish, brilliant satire. . . . It’s literature of the highest order and . . . it will deliver a full measure of enjoyment and enlightenment.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Sarah Raughley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 9781481466776

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Fate of Flames by Sarah Raughley Pdf

Four girls with the power to control the elements and save the world from a terrible evil must come together in the first epic novel in a brand-new series. When Phantoms--massive beasts made from nightmares and darkness--suddenly appeared and began terrorizing the world, four girls, the Effigies, each gained a unique power to control one of the classical elements: earth, air, fire, and water. Since then, four girls across the world have continually fought against the Phantoms, fulfilling their cosmic duty. And when one Effigy dies, another girl gains her power as a replacement. But now, with technologies in place to protect the world's major cities from Phantom attacks, the Effigies have stopped defending humanity and, instead, have become international celebrities, with their heroic feats ranked, televised, and talked about in online fandoms. Until the day that New York City's protection against the Phantoms fails, a man seems to be able to control them by sheer force of will, and Maia, a high school student, unexpectedly becomes the Fire Effigy. Now Maia has been thrown into battle with three girls who want nothing to do with one another. But with the first human villain that the girls have ever faced, and an army of Phantoms preparing for attack, there isn't much time for the Effigies to learn how to work together. Can the girls take control of their destinies before the world is destroyed forever?

Author : T. A. Barron
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0441008461

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The Mirror of Merlin by T. A. Barron Pdf

"Young sorcery fans . . . set aside Harry Potter and pick up Merlin! ["The Mirror of Merlin" is] ingeniousIfilled with rich images [and] surprising touches of humor.U--"Cincinnati Enquirer. TRich with magic."--"The New York Times Book Review."

Author : Vasily Grossman
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784871963

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Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Vasily Grossman Pdf

The great Russian 20th-century novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad. Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs. As the battle of Stalingrad looms, Grossman's characters must work out their destinies in a world torn by ideological tyranny and war. Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980, where it was hailed as a masterpiece. 'A literary genius. His Life and Fate is rated by many as the finest Russian novel of the 20th Century' Mail on Sunday VINTAGE CLASSICS RUSSIAN SERIES - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history.

Author : David Kushner
Publisher : Random House
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588362896

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Masters of Doom by David Kushner Pdf

Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to co-create the most notoriously successful game franchises in history—Doom and Quake—until the games they made tore them apart. Americans spend more money on video games than on movie tickets. Masters of Doom is the first book to chronicle this industry’s greatest story, written by one of the medium’s leading observers. David Kushner takes readers inside the rags-to-riches adventure of two rebellious entrepreneurs who came of age to shape a generation. The vivid portrait reveals why their games are so violent and why their immersion in their brilliantly designed fantasy worlds offered them solace. And it shows how they channeled their fury and imagination into products that are a formative influence on our culture, from MTV to the Internet to Columbine. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry—a powerful and compassionate account of what it’s like to be young, driven, and wildly creative. “To my taste, the greatest American myth of cosmogenesis features the maladjusted, antisocial, genius teenage boy who, in the insular laboratory of his own bedroom, invents the universe from scratch. Masters of Doom is a particularly inspired rendition. Dave Kushner chronicles the saga of video game virtuosi Carmack and Romero with terrific brio. This is a page-turning, mythopoeic cyber-soap opera about two glamorous geek geniuses—and it should be read while scarfing down pepperoni pizza and swilling Diet Coke, with Queens of the Stone Age cranked up all the way.”—Mark Leyner, author of I Smell Esther Williams

Author : Amy Tan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0399150749

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The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan Pdf

The author reflects on her family's Chinese American legacy, her experiences as a writer, her survival of natural disasters, and her struggle to manage three family members afflicted with brain disease.

Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476746609

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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Pdf

*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

Author : Susane Colasanti
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101223000

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Something Like Fate by Susane Colasanti Pdf

Best friends Lani and Erin couldn’t be more different. Lani’s reserved and thoughtful; Erin’s bubbly and outgoing. Lani likes to do her own thing; Erin prefers an entourage. There’s no possible way they could be interested in the same guy. So when Erin starts dating Jason, Lani can’t believe she feels such a deep connection with him—and it may be mutual. The more Lani fights it, the more certain she feels that it’s her fate to be with Jason. But what do you do when the love of your life is the one person you can’t have? Watch a Video