Ursula S Secret

Author : Mairi Wilson
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781785300226

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Ursula's Secret by Mairi Wilson Pdf

In just a few heartbreaking days, Lexy Shaw's world has fallen apart. After her mother is killed in a tragic hit-and-run, her mother's childhood guardian, Ursula, also dies suddenly, leaving everything to Lexy. But as Lexy reads through Ursula's hidden papers, what she discovers raises doubts about her own identity and if she really is now all alone in the world. Desperate to find out if she has any surviving family, Lexy travels to Africa hoping she can unravel the mystery she's now tormented by, only to find that she's stumbled into a past full of lies and deceit and that her life is in grave danger. Winner of the Sunday Mail Fiction Competition 2014 "Part detective thriller, part emotional journey, Ursula's Secret is a highly enjoyable and intelligent adventure that will appeal to fans of Kate Atkinson and Maggie O'Farrell. A very promising debut." SOPHIE COOKE, author of The Glass House "Lovely straightforward and absorbing story telling of complex lives and a secret that spans decades and continents." ISLA DEWAR, author of Dancing in a Distant Place "The complex story accelerates to a dramatic denouement that leaves Lexy enlightened and chastened, and on the verge of a new phase in her life, and leaves the reader wholly satisfied with Wilson's adept, sympathetic and colourful storytelling." MORAG JOSS, award-winning author of the Sara Selkirk novels 'Ursula's Secret is packed full of tension, questions, problems, secrecy and intrigue right until the concluding chapter.' EMMA CROWLEY, Shaz's Book Blog 'This book is filled with twist after twist, secret after secret which will keep you guessing right to the end.' PORTOBELLO BOOK BLOG 'I was completely captured from the beginning of Ursula's Secret, enveloped in the mystery and memories of Ursula and the beauty of her home. With it's 'smiling' staircase and Lexy's obvious wonder I was lost to the tale and it's descriptive content... I loved this read.' **** TRACY SHEPHARD, Postcard Reviews Blog

Author : Ursula Nordstrom
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1972-09-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0064400220

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The Secret Language by Ursula Nordstrom Pdf

Eight-year-old Vicky goes to live at a boarding school where she is miserable until she gets to know Martha, a different girl with a secret language.

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307790262

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My Secret History by Paul Theroux Pdf

"Theroux's best novel in years." CHICAGO TRIBUNE MY SECRET HISTORY is Paul Theroux's tour de force. It is the story of Andre Parent, a writer, a world traveler, a lover of every kind of woman he chances to meet in a life as varied as a man can lead. From his days as an altar boy, to his job as a teenaged lifeguard, and then as a youth caught between the attentions of a beautiful young student and an amorous older woman. And as the boy becomes a man he turns his attention to writing, which brings him fame, and a wife, who may finally bring him to know himself. But not before he sets up his most dangerous secret life, one that any man might envy, but that could cost Andre Parent the delicate balance that makes him who he is....

Author : Ben Macintyre
Publisher : Signal
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771001956

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Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre Pdf

The international bestselling author of A Spy and the Traitor and A Spy Among Friends reveals one of the last great untold spy stories of the twentieth century--the woman hidden in plain sight who set the stage for the Cold War. If you happened to be in the quiet English village of Great Rollright in 1942, you might have seen a thin, elegant woman emerging from a cottage and climbing onto her bicycle. Ursula Burton had three children and a husband named Len, who worked as a machinist nearby. She was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a very slight foreign accent. Her neighbours in the Cotswolds knew little about her. They did not know that Burton was a dedicated communist, a Soviet Colonel, and a veteran spy who had already conducted espionage operations in China, Poland, and Switzerland. They did not know that Len was also a Soviet spy, or that Burton kept a powerful radio transmitter connected to Moscow in their outhouse. They did not know that in her last espionage mission, Burton had infiltrated communist spies into a top-secret American intelligence operation parachting anti-Nazi agents into the Third Reich. But perhaps the most remarkable thing they did not know was that when Burton hopped onto her bike and pedaled away, she was heading to a countryside rendezvous with Klaus Fuchs, the nuclear physicist working on Britain's top secret atomic weapons program. Klaus was Burton's best agent, and together they were gathering the scientific secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the bomb. Ben Macintyre's latest true-life spy story is a masterpiece about the woman code-named "Sonya," one of the most important female spies in history. Hunted by the Chinese, the Japanese, the Nazis, MI5, MI6, and the FBI, she evaded all of them, and survived as well the brutal Soviet purges that left many of her friends and colleagues dead. Her story reflects the great ideological clash of the twentieth century, between communism, fascism, and Western democracy, and casts new light on the spy battles and shifting allegiances of our own times. With access to Sonya's papers and her intelligence files from multiple countries, Macintyre has conjured a thrilling secret history of a landmark agent, a true original who altered the course of the Cold War and helped plunge the world into a nuclear standoff that would last for decades.

Author : Оноре де Бальзак
Publisher : Litres
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040759453

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Ursula by Оноре де Бальзак Pdf

Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:49015002073477

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Ursula by Honoré de Balzac Pdf

Author : Gertrude Parsons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026852419

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Ursula's love story [by G. Parsons]. by Gertrude Parsons Pdf

Author : Audel Cayce
Publisher : Turning Stone Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618520029

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Windland's Rescue by Audel Cayce Pdf

On the morning of Windland Cloud’s sixteenth birthday, she awoke from a frightening dream that left her feeling shaken and in desperate need of human company, but the house was empty. Her parents were nowhere to be found and they left no note. This adds to her sense of unease and the need to escape the residue from the dream and thoughts of her family’s dysfunctional life teetering on the edge of poverty, which is nearly unbearable. Windland grabs her hiking boots, laces up, and heads to a nearby state park to try and clear her mind. On the way there her fantastical journey begins… Falling off a mountain into the year 1896, dealing with a woman who wants her dead, and avoiding an overly suspicious sheriff are the downside of the adventure Fate throws her into. The upside seems to be rescuing a reclusive woman, who may hold the secret to how Windland can get home, and a blue-eyed Irishman who holds not only Windland’s heart but her future in his hands. Will she be able to return to her own time? And what will happen when she does? Windland’s Rescue is a coming of age tale with a cast of characters that span time and galaxies; energy grids and traveling portals; wicked women and secret rooms – and the ultimate need to find your way back home.

Author : Nicholas Wright
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573629560

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Vincent in Brixton by Nicholas Wright Pdf

A dramatization of the time that Van Gogh spent in Brixton in the 1870s--a period before he became a painter and one that changed him completely. Vincent develops a rapport with a widow twice his age, which blossoms into a full-blown love affair, only to be cruelly curtailed by the arrival of his fiercely puritan young sister. From the author of Cressida, Mrs. Klein, and the recent adaptation of Wedekind's Lulu.

Author : Phyllis Scheiber
Publisher : BelleBooks
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781611940350

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The Manicurist by Phyllis Scheiber Pdf

Tessa and Walter have, by all appearances, the perfect marriage. And they seem to be ideal parents for their somewhat rebellious teenage daughter, Regina. Without warning, however, their comfortable lives are thrown into turmoil when a disturbing customer comes into the salon where Tessa works as a manicurist. Suddenly, Tessa's world is turned upside down as revelations come to light about the mother she thought had abandoned her in childhood and the second sight that she so guardedly seeks to keep from others. Phyllis Schieber's first novel, Strictly Personal, for young adults, was published by Fawcett-Juniper. Willing Spirits was published by William Morrow. The Sinner's Guide to Confession was published by Berkley Putnam in 2008. Her short story, The Stocking Store, appears in Bell Bridge Books' 2011 anthology, The Firefly Dance. Married and a mother, Phyllis Schieber lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. www.phyllisschieber.com

Author : Maggie Tonki,Mandy Treagus,Madeleine Seys,Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Publisher : University of Adelaide Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781922064745

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Changing the Victorian Subject by Maggie Tonki,Mandy Treagus,Madeleine Seys,Sharon Crozier-De Rosa Pdf

The essays in this collection examine how both colonial and British authors engage with Victorian subjects and subjectivities in their work. Some essays explore the emergence of a key trope within colonial texts: the negotiation of Victorian and settler-subject positions. Others argue for new readings of key metropolitan texts and their repositioning within literary history. These essays work to recognise the plurality of the rubric of the 'Victorian' and to expand how the category of Victorian studies can be understood.

Author : Sarah Hardesty
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781646280773

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Reading Mastery Prescription (RMP) by Sarah Hardesty Pdf

Many methods for teaching people to read exist today. Reading mastery on the whole is made of many segments summed together. Reading programs have taken a fraction out of order, attempting to teach an end segment at the beginning. Some segments are left out entirely. This will frustrate a new reader. Sounding out letters is a great beginning and should not be omitted. But there is also a vital fraction of reading wholeness that should immediately follow sounding out, which shows the resemblance of rhyming and patterns in the smallest portions of words. These two, sounding out and identifying patterns, are most important to the mastery of reading. Sounding out makes accomplished goals stick in the mind. Showing small patterns in repetition through fun enhances faster learning. The title for this book, Reading Mastery Prescription, came about while I was pondering the book's utility for those who would teach reading. I visualized the analogy of someone who is illiterate meeting with a reading teacher just as a sick person must go to the doctor, seeking a cure for an illness. The doctor will write a prescription and discuss other things that can be done to assist with optimum health. The medication must be taken in the exact dose and method as prescribed, over a period of time, until the illness is conquered. The reading teacher and aspiring teachers can prescribe these easy lessons and use this straightforward method of reading instruction to cure a person's illiteracy. The lessons should be followed exactly, without skipping a dose, and in the order set out until illiteracy is conquered. Whether the student is young, middle-aged, or elderly, if the teacher prescribes this reading method and the student applies it, reading will produce its own joys and great satisfaction.

Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015066274021

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The Works of Honoré de Balzac: The two brothers, Ursula by Honoré de Balzac Pdf

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439144763

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Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi Pdf

From the acclaimed author of Floating in My Mother’s Palm and Children and Fire, a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times—“epic, daring, magnificent, the product of a defining and mesmerizing vision” (Los Angeles Times). Trudi Montag is a Zwerg—a dwarf—short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share—from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he’s a girl, to the Jews Trudi harbors in her cellar. Ursula Hegi brings us a timeless and unforgettable story in Trudi and a small town, weaving together a profound tapestry of emotional power, humanity, and truth.

Author : Effie Adelaide Rowlands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Dime novels
ISBN : NYPL:33433107874632

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The Spell of Ursula by Effie Adelaide Rowlands Pdf