Our Yesterdays

Author : Cristin Terrill
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781408835203

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All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill Pdf

A brilliantly brain-warping thriller and a love story that leaps back and forth in time – All Our Yesterdays is an amazing first novel, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games. Em is locked in a bare, cold cell with no comforts. Finn is in the cell next door. The Doctor is keeping them there until they tell him what he wants to know. Trouble is, what he wants to know hasn't happened yet. Em and Finn have a shared past, but no future unless they can find a way out. The present is torture – being kept apart, overhearing each other's anguish as the Doctor relentlessly seeks answers. There's no way back from here, to what they used to be, the world they used to know. Then Em finds a note in her cell which changes everything. It's from her future self and contains some simple but very clear instructions. Em must travel back in time to avert a tragedy that's about to unfold. Worse, she has to pursue and kill the boy she loves to change the future . . .

Author : Karen Janowsky
Publisher : Mill City Press, Incorporated
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1545662142

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The Persistence of Memory Book 2: All Our Yesterdays by Karen Janowsky Pdf

Love is hard, even for superheroes. Nina and Daniel have never known any destiny other than fighting their separate masters' wars. Now, a secretive organization is creating a weapon that will collapse history. Their fight is to stay together. It takes them on a journey around the world and into another dimension. Nina and Daniel now face risks beyond their imagination. Sacrifices must be made, and time is running out.

Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628728118

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All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg Pdf

From “one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy” (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war. This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy from 1939 to 1944, from the anxious months before the country entered the war, through the war years, to the allied victory with its trailing wake of anxiety, disappointment, and grief. In the foreground are the members of two families. One is rich, the other is not. In All Our Yesterdays, as in all of Ms. Ginzburg’s novels, terrible things happen—suicide, murder, air raids, and bombings. But seemingly less overwhelming events, like a family quarrel, adultery, or a deception, are given equal space, as if to say that, to a victim, adultery and air raids can be equally maiming. All Our Yesterdays gives a sharp portrait of a society hungry for change, but betrayed by war. During the period described in the novel, Natalia Ginzburg was married to the writer Leone Ginzburg. Because of his underground activities, he was interned under Mussolini’s reign, along with his family, in a restricted area in the Abruzzi. When the Ginzburgs later moved to Rome, Leone was arrested and tortured by the fascists, and killed, leaving Natalia alone to raise her three children. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Author : Robert B. Parker
Publisher : Dell
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307569264

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They were the Sheridan men, ruled by passion, betrayed by love, heirs to a legacy of violence and forbidden desire. Gus, Boston's top homicide cop: he knew equally well the backroom politics of City Hall and the private passions of the very rich, a man haunted by the wanton courage and perilous obsessions he inherited from his father... Conn, the patriarch, a lawless cop who spawned a circle of vengeance and betrayal that would span half a century... and Chris, Gus's beloved son, a Harvard lawyer and criminologist, fated to risk everything to break the chain of obsession and rage... Three generations linked by crime and punishment--cops and heroes, fathers, sons, and lovers united at last by revelations that could bring a family to its knees...

Author : Henry Major Tomlinson
Publisher : London, Heinemann
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : UOMDLP:aga9940:0001.001

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All Our Yesterdays by Henry Major Tomlinson Pdf

1930. Tomlinson was a shipping clerk, a journalist, a war correspondent, a newspaper editor, and a travel writer and novelist. His subject matter is often natural history or the foolishness of mortals. His accounts of the sea, travel, and the Great War have not been surpassed. His antiwar novel, All Our Yesterdays, begins: The traffic of Dockland, where my omnibus stopped, loosened into a broadway. There the vans and lorries, released from the congestion of narrow streets, opened out and made speed in an uproar of iron-shod wheels and hooves on granite blocks. I could hear progress. It was on its way. It was pouring about in a triumphant muddle of noise too loud to be doubted. There was no need to repose on faith in the favored evolution of man. That wonderful conjuration of good things out of this planet by the steam-engine and the cotton-jenny was dominant.

Author : Frank Bury Woodford,Arthur M. Woodford
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : 0814313817

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All Our Yesterdays by Frank Bury Woodford,Arthur M. Woodford Pdf

All Our Yesterdays is the first history of the City of Detroit to be published in the last twenty-five years. It is an account based on extensive historical research, yet is written in such a style as to make interesting and enjoyable reading. The authors tell of the founding of the the town by the French, control by the British, and growth as an American city. These episodes are recounted in the words and deeds of the people who lived and worked here, men like Judge Woodward, Father Gabriel Richard, and Governor Lewis Cass. Here also are accounts of the expansion of the automobile industry, the days of the roaring twenties, prohibition, the great depression, World Wars I and II, and the city of the 1950s and 1960s. This is the story of a great city; a story of past deeds, present problems, and future hopes. But more important, this is a story by and about the people of Detroit, for it is the people that have made this city great.

Author : Joel H. Morris
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593715390

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All Our Yesterdays by Joel H. Morris Pdf

A propulsive and piercing debut, set ten years before the events of Shakespeare’s historic play, about the ambition, power, and fate that define one of literature’s most notorious figures: Lady Macbeth. Scotland, the 11th Century. Born in a noble household and granddaughter of a forgotten Scottish king, a young girl carries the guilt of her mother’s death and the weight of an unknowable prophecy. When she is married, at fifteen, to the Mormaer of Moray, she experiences firsthand the violence of a sadistic husband and a kingdom constantly at war. To survive with her young son in a superstitious realm, she must rely on her own cunning and wit, especially when her husband’s downfall inadvertently sets them free. Suspicious of the dark devices that may have led to his father’s death, her son watches as his mother falls in love with the enigmatic thane Macbeth. Now a woman of stature, Lady Macbeth confronts a world of masculine power and secures the protection of her family. But the coronation of King Duncan and the political maneuvering of her cousin Macduff set her on a tragic course, one where her own success might mean embracing the very curse that haunts her and risking the child she loves.

Author : Cristin Terrill
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781408835197

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All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill Pdf

A brilliantly brain-warping thriller and a love story that leaps back and forth in time - All Our Yesterdays is an amazing first novel, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games.Em is locked in a bare, cold cell with no comforts. Finn is in the cell next door. The Doctor is keeping them there until they tell him what he wants to know. Trouble is, what he wants to know hasn't happened yet. Em and Finn have a shared past, but no future unless they can find a way out. The present is torture - being kept apart, overhearing each other's anguish as the Doctor relentlessly seeks answers. There's no way back from here, to what they used to be, the world they used to know. Then Em finds a note in her cell which changes everything. It's from her future self and contains some simple but very clear instructions. Em must travel back in time to avert a tragedy that's about to unfold. Worse, she has to pursue and kill the boy she loves to change the future . . .

Author : Peter Rimmer
Publisher : Kamba Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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All Our Yesterdays by Peter Rimmer Pdf

This is not a true story; I hope it never becomes one. In the summer of 1956, sixteen-year-old Marguerite Stearle, daughter of a housekeeper, falls in love with the squire of Mirelton’s nephew, Myles Featherstone. A delightful romance ensues, but in a class-conscious society, Myles has no choice but to end the liaison. With few prospects, a wretched Marguerite embarks on a new life in London, hoping her heart will mend. Unexpectedly, Marguerite is introduced to a tobacco farmer from the British colony of Rhodesia. Falling in love yet again, a new future beckons, one full of excitement as well as forbidding dangers. But with foresight is it a destiny Marguerite would be willing to follow knowing how it would all end? And is this new love worth life itself? In what is believed to be Peter Rimmer’s first novel, written in 1961, this tragic story is Peter’s perception and almost prophetic vision he had of what was to become of Britain’s last African colony. If you like historical fiction full of love, passion and sheer determination to win through, then you will love All Our Yesterdays…a story that will keep you in suspense right until the very end.

Author : Kenneth C. Gardner Jr.
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491735336

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“And All Our Yesterdays...” and Nine Other Stories by Kenneth C. Gardner Jr. Pdf

The stories in "All Our Yesterdays..." and Nine Other Stories continue to explore the lives of the Cockburn family and other characters in and around the fictional town of Menninger, North Dakota, first created in the novel The Song Is Ended and continued in the novel The Dark Between The Stars and the short stories in Meatball Birds and Seven Other Stories. While the events and the characters found in the ten stories exist in rural and small town settings, the themes explored have a universal appeal.

Author : Jason Quinn
Publisher : Campfire
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789381182222

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The Beatles by Jason Quinn Pdf

The Beatles are the world's most enduring and biggest rock band ever! This is the story of their struggle for success. Taking us through the early days of rock 'n' roll, and their lives in Liverpool during the 1950s, we journey with them to Hamburg as they come of age and through grit, determination and masses of talent became the lads who made the sixties swing! This 145 page graphic novel is part of the Campfire Graphic Novel series, which brings classics, biographies and more to graphic novel format.

Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1559700262

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All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg Pdf

Author : John Conway,C. M. Kosemen,Darren Naish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Animals, Fossil
ISBN : 1291177124

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All Yesterdays by John Conway,C. M. Kosemen,Darren Naish Pdf

All Yesterdays is a book about the way we see dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Lavishly illustrated with over sixty original artworks, All Yesterdays aims to challenge our notions of how prehistoric animals looked and behaved. As a criticalexploration of palaeontological art, All Yesterdays asks questions about what is probable, what is possible, and what iscommonly ignored.Written by palaeozoologist Darren Naish, and palaeontological artists John Conway and C.M. Kosemen, All Yesterdays isscientifically rigorous and artistically imaginative in its approach to fossils of the past - and those of the future.

Author : Janet Lane Walters
Publisher : New Concepts Pub
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1586087878

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All Our Yesterdays by Janet Lane Walters Pdf

Captive of an ancient curse, Astrid must journey through the ages, through deceit and betrayal, to find true love and break the curse.... Egypt.... When the touch of an ancient Egyptian necklace hurtles her back through time into the turbulent life of another woman, she discovers the trap holding her spirit captive.... Babyon.... When Astrid touches an ancient Babylonian necklace, she's thrust into the the life of a priestess in the temple of Marduke. When the temple is captured by an Assyrian warrior, he claims all inside as his own ... including her. Britain.... The heat between Astrid and Duncan becomes incandescent. When she finds a pair of Viking gold medallions, she re-lives her life as Starr, daughter of a village headman about to be forced into marriage with a man she doesn't like or trust. Her flight sends her into the arms of Ragnar, a Viking. Eight realms await her. Eight chances to redeem herself and break the curse holding her spellbound...perhaps for eternity.... Rating: Contains graphic sexual content, adult language, and violence.

Author : A.C. Crispin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743419628

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Yesterday's Son by A.C. Crispin Pdf

The Romulans attack the planet Gateway, where Federation scientists are studying the Guardian of Forever -- the mysterious portal to the past. The Starship Enterprise™ must protect the Guardian -- or destroy it. But Spock has already used the portal to journey to the past. On the planet Sarpedion, 5,000 years ago, Spock knew a beautiful, primitive woman. Now he has gone back to meet his son!