My Dearest Jonah

Author : Matthew Crow
Publisher : Legend Press Ltd
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781908775580

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My Dearest Jonah by Matthew Crow Pdf

Nominated for the Dylan Thomas Prize, a novel of long-distance love. “There is an assured precision to Crow’s observations that cannot be learned” (Jonathan Trigell, award-winning author of Boy A). “Like you I’ve been feeling forlorn of late. I don’t know how long you have to be somewhere before it begins to feel normal, before you start to feel as though you belong . . . And so all I have is you. Your letters and the thought that somewhere, something good exists in my life. For now that seems enough to get by on.” Introduced via a pen-pal scheme, Verity and Jonah write their lives, hopes and dreams to one another without ever having met. Verity is a fragile beauty. When a dangerous sequence of events is set in motion, she tries to explain to Jonah what led her to unravel so spectacularly. Jonah has been released after years of imprisonment and embarks upon the quiet life he’s always wanted. But then a dark reminder shatters his world, keen to make history repeat itself. Offering the sole strand of stability in two progressively elaborate lives, they develop a deep and delicate love, a love that becomes clouded and threatened by increasingly dark forces. Praise for Matthew Crow’s In Bloom “The Fault in Our Stars meets Adrian Mole. Moving, funny and brilliantly narrated.”—Metro “Wow. Read In Bloom right now. It will improve your life.”—Matt Haig, international bestselling author “A moving and wonderfully witty tale . . . This excellent book is worth anyone’s time.”—Daily Telegraph

Author : Barry Bennett Blander
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462835416

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The Abolitionist by Barry Bennett Blander Pdf

"THE ABOLITIONIST" is a three-act play occuring between the years, 1851 - 1861. The protagonist is Jonah MacKenzie, a wealthy minister renowned throughout the nation for his abolitionist activities. His aristocratic wife, Elizabeth, is a partial invalid from a stroke; and their only child, Reuben, adoring his father, has gone on to become a minister as well. In Act I we learn that Jonah is torn between an equally intense love and hatred for his son whom he and his wife have banished. Mary Beaton, a young well-to-do neighbor, once engaged to Reuben but secretly in love with his father Jonah, comes to visit and implores Jonah to find his son and reconcile. Elizabeth, overhearing Mary's entreaties, and wary of the young lady's intentions toward her husband, wheels herself in and commands Mary to leave, never to return. Act II occurs in the past (1851) and focuses upon the abolitionist activities of father and son. We find them in the Free state of Ohio where Jonah delivers an impassioned sermon against slavery in a little church near the Kentucky (a slave state) border, dodging stones. Jonah then visits his friends, Moses and Kathleen Pendleton, leaders of the Underground Railroad. Meantime, Reuben is in Kentucky, present at a slave auction. He is smitten with love for an exquisitely beautiful mulatto named Veronica. She is purchased by a murderous slave-holder, Roland Jeffries, from whose Kentucky plantation early in the morning Reuben rescues her. He brings her to the Pendletons. Determined to retrieve the slave-girl, Jeffries barges in, shooting and wounding Jonah who is barring the way. Reuben enters in time to save Veronica and Jonah. Reuben escorts Veronica on the Underground Railroad to Canada where he proposes marriage to her. At first dissenting, pointing out the probable social consequences, Veronica yields. Though proud of his son's rescue of Veonica, upon learning that his son intends to marry a negro Jonah becomes enraged and forbids the marriage, threatening disinheritance and banishment. The act ends with a soliloquy by Reuben expressing horror at his fate. Act III returns to the present. Elizabeth thinks she has convinced Jonah to accept a professorship he's been offered at Oxford University in England but he is secretly determined to find Reuben. After initial hesitation, but then swayed by Jonah's charm, Reuben and Veronica consent to leave Toronto and live with Jonah. When Jonah returns home to Boston he finds that Elizabeth has suffered a new major stroke which has left her in a vegetative state. Mary, once again in vain, pursues Jonah, who, in turn - flattered by daughter-in-law Veronica's coquetry and succumbing to his own weakness of mind, impulsively attempts to seduce her. Veronica's initial attraction to him quickly turns to repugnance. Once again, Jonah banishes Reuben and his daughter-in-law from his household. The play ends on a catastrophic note just before we hear the booming sound of cannon announcing the advent of The Civil War. Barry Bennett Blander

Author : Leonard H. Berman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781469112336

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A World of Secrets by Leonard H. Berman Pdf

A torrential rain beads down on a train carrying Jonah Chernov from the fortress prison in St. Petersburg to an uncertain future in Paris. A baby girl, born to his condemned twin sister, rests in the arms of Marta Birkov, a woman saved from the gallows to nurse the infant. Unknown to Jonah, his sister, barely alive, is being spirited in a coffin to Copenhagen guarded by the former head of the czars secret police. Ghosts from their pasts, and the secrets they must hide to survive, will haunt these characters as they move through the dramatic events of the Gilded Age.

Author : Gabriel Tiamo
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781625165855

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The Private Memoirs from a Chinese Love Agency by Gabriel Tiamo Pdf

The Private Memoirs from a Chinese Love Agency is a true story about seeking love over the Internet. Not the X-rated kind, but a true and lasting love with a foreign pen pal. Author Gabriel Tiamo works in a gold mine over a thousand miles from Perth, Australia, where he lives. He works two weeks and then has one week of R&R. His job is hot and dusty work, but he likes it and the guys he works with are friendly. Besides, "The food is just out of this world " His donga, where he sleeps, is a one-bedroom motel with all the modern conveniences. The only luxury missing is a woman, since his partner died two years ago, and left a big hole in his life. Gabriel believes it's time to move on, so he decides to join a Chinese love agency. He looks forward every night to getting back to his donga and cranking up his computer to see how many ladies have written him. The story follows him on a candid journey when he goes to China to visit one special lady, and the book also includes the mail that is written to him from the ladies in China. Learn how the author sees himself, the world, and women. It's also a story of a person looking for a partner in the twilight years of his life. Publisher's website: http: //sbprabooks.com/GabrielTiamo

Author : John Atkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1823
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCD:31175035212151

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Jonah Tink by John Atkin Pdf

Author : Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Random House
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409019794

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The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake Pdf

Gormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is lord and heir. Titus is expected to rule this gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons (and his eccentric and wayward subjects) according to strict age-old rituals, but things are changing in the castle. Titus must contend with treachery, manipulation and murder as well as his own longing for a life beyond the castle walls. 'A master of the macabre and a traveller through the deeper and darker chasms of the imagination' The Times 'Dark, dense, baroque and hauntingly beautiful. Peake's lush prose and imagery are a pleasure to any lover of the beauty of the written word,' Carlos Ruiz-Zafron, author of The Shadow of the Wind

Author : Fergus Hume
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547312246

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Jonah's Luck by Fergus Hume Pdf

'Jonah's Luck' is a mystery novel written by Fergus Hume. It revolves around a man named Herries, who sees himself as having the same bad luck as the Biblical figure Jonah. He had always been Jonah the unlucky, and Jonah he would remain, so far as his limited vision could see, until the end of his life, in his eyes. Throughout five and twenty years of existence he had suffered nothing but trouble. Everything went wrong with him. This new disaster was all of a piece with the rest of the pattern, that was being woven,--against his will, it would seem--on the looms of life. He wondered, with a sigh, why God permitted so many troubles to befall him, since he could see no good reason for their coming to him so persistently. Then out of sheer desire to do something, he searched his pockets for the remains of his poor fortune.

Author : Phillip Fusaro
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781478751526

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Seraph's Rise by Phillip Fusaro Pdf

It is a time of war. Veriteria has been devastated by a continental war, waged by the ruthless Bieracunian Dominion, hell-bent on establishing a new empire. They are led by the mysterious prophet of Okera, who has sworn to establish a new order. The Ardo-Gelican Alliance is the only united front, which stands against this Dominion, with seemingly limitless troops and endless resources. In Ardonei two young soldiers, Jonah and Felix brothers, will join the fight against the Dominion. Jonah travels as a member of the A.R.A.C., the Ardonein Royal Assassin Corps, leading a squad of five, in the name of the enigmatic assassins. Under his command is the skilled Katherine, the courageous Leon, the soft-spoken but deadly Jade, and the mysterious Jack a sharpshooter with a secret past. Meanwhile, his brother Felix carries the war as a lieutenant in the White Knights' Division, as he leads a squadron of cavalry knights. An unlikely ally will join his squadron in their fight against the followers of Okera. Felix will travel with The Second Army of Ardonei, to besiege Naghury, the Dominion’s seat of western power. Fly into a fantastic journey filled with lore, peril, intrigue, romance, and heartbreak as these two warriors fight to protect their homeland from this threat.

Author : Matthew Crow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481418751

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The Brilliant Light of Amber Sunrise by Matthew Crow Pdf

Life threatening cancer brings two teens together in this “story about moving through the trajectory of illness and loss and then beyond it” (Bulletin, starred review) in the bestselling tradition of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars. Francis is determined to forge his own way in school and life despite his loony, awkward, broken family...and noticeable lack of friends. Then he is diagnosed with leukemia. It wasn’t part of his strategy, but there are moments when he can see the upside. After all, people are nice to you when you’re sick. While in the hospital, Francis meets Amber. She’s outspoken and sarcastic, and Francis falls for her almost immediately. Together, they take on the other cancer ward patients, overbearing mothers, and treatments with a positive attitude and lively wit. But Francis’s recovery is taking a different path from Amber’s. He’s actually getting better. And although he knew who he was before cancer, before Amber, now he has no idea how to live—or how to let go…

Author : Matthew Crow
Publisher : Atom
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472105684

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Another Place by Matthew Crow Pdf

A small town. A missing schoolgirl. A terrible secret. And one girl's fight to survive. Sixteen-year-old Claudette Flint is coming home from hospital after an escalating depression left her unable to cope. She may seem unchanged on the outside; but everything's different. The same could be said about her seaside hometown. A local teenager, Sarah, has disappeared. Sarah had a bad reputation round town; but now she's vanished the close-knit community seems to be unspooling. As the police investigate and the press digs around for dirt, small town scandals start to surface. What nobody knows yet is that Claudette and Sarah had a secret friendship. And that the last secret Sarah shared may be the key to the truth. After weeks of focusing solely on herself, Claudette realizes she is not the only part of the world that needs fixing - and that if she can piece together the fragments of Sarah's story, then maybe she can piece herself back together too. Another Place is a novel about lost girls, recovered life - and the meaning of home.

Author : Anna Maclean
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101547564

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Louisa and the Country Bachelor by Anna Maclean Pdf

Louisa May Alcott returns in this "historically accurate and entertaining mystery series." (The New York Review of Books) Louisa convinces her family to visit cousins in rural New Hampshire, only to confront tragedy. A local bachelor is found dead in a ravine, the apparent victim of an accidental fall while hiking. But Louisa suspects foul play and sets out to uncover the vicious murderer hiding among her family's new friends...

Author : Jessie Keith
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781665569392

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The Eye of the Seeker by Jessie Keith Pdf

Anna, surrounded by a world of laws and walls, discovers she’s the subject of a dark prophesy. Plagued by a fate she doesn’t understand, she must leave everything behind to change her destiny and uncover the truth of who she really is.

Author : Mervyn Peake
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448104192

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Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake Pdf

THE FINAL PART OF THE MIGHTY GORMENGHAST TRILOGY 'I would not for anything have missed Gormenghast' C S Lewis In this final part of the trilogy, we follow Titus, now almost twenty, as he escapes from the Castle, flees its oppressive Ritual, and becomes lost in a sandstorm. Helped by the owner of a travelling zoo, Muzzlehatch, and his ex-lover Juno, Titus ends up stranded in a big, bustling city. No one there having heard of Gormenghast, the general consensus is that the boy is deranged, and with no papers, he's soon arrested for vagrancy. But there are a few people who believe in his story, or at least who are intrigued by it, and they try to help him. And now Titus, the deserter, the traitor, longs for his home, and looks for it all the time to prove, if only to himself, that Gormenghast is truly real. '[The Gormenghast Trilogy] is one of the most important works of the imagination to come out of the age that also produced The Four Quartets, The Unquiet Grave, Brideshead Revisited, The Loved One, Animal Farm and 1984.' Anthony Burgess

Author : Alisha Karpol
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781426936647

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The Gift by Alisha Karpol Pdf

Alisha escapes from a tyrannical mother and meets Allen Semco, a university student. He falls in love with her and they marry. While courting her theres nothing he wont do for her. He appears to be the perfect idyllic mate, attentive, charming and eager to please his bride on every occasion. But it doesnt take long for the real Allen to emerge.

Author : Simon R. Green
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101208212

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Nightingale's Lament by Simon R. Green Pdf

The name’s John Taylor. I work the garish streets of the Nightside—the hidden heart of London where it’s always three A.M., where in human creatures and otherworldly gods walk side by side in the endless darkness of the soul. I have a talent for finding things. People…property…no problem. But now I’m after something different. A local diva called the Nightingale has cut herself off from her family and friends, and I’ve been hired to find out the reason. I’m also wondering why her suicide—prone fans think she has a voice to die for. Literally. To get the truth, I’ll have to lend an ear to the most enticingly beautiful and deadly voice in all of the Nightside—and survive.