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Whilst we all have our moments and trials it is inspirational to read about the journeys of other people and see how they have coped in adversity. “Imagine growing up in Northern Ireland at that time, and eventually finding the strength and courage to break away from a life that, if you had stayed, would have ended up eating you up and making you just another sad figure amongst many who would share the same fate, just like their parents before them.” An inspirational, heartwarming story about a woman finding herself after surviving breast cancer. A story of love, betrayal and heartache. Holly finds true love that was right in front of her all along. Dealing with loss, self-confidence and...
Esteya is fifteen. As war rumbles closer, Esteya's brother - an important figure in the Revolutionary Communist Party - is able to protect their family from the worst of the privations of war. Then Esteya meets an extraordinary girl, Skizi, an outcast, shunned by all. But Esteya and Skizi are drawn to each other. Slowly and wonderfully love blossoms ... And then Esteya's family are betrayed and forcibly taken away. Skizi disappears.Esteya is left deserted, heartbroken and in terrible danger. But she must find a way to escape - and to find Skizi.
Mary Howard has always lived in the shadow of her powerful family. But when she's married off to Henry Fitzroy, King Henry VIII's illegitimate son, she is propelled right into the Tudor court's inner circle. Mary and "Fitz" join a tight clique of rebels who test the boundaries of court's strict rules with their games, dares, and flirtations. The more Mary gets to know Henry, the harder she falls for him, but she is forbidden from seeing him alone. The rules of court were made to be pushed... but pushing them too far could mean certain death. Is true love worth dying for?
It is 1536. The north of England has boiled over into rebellion against Henry VIII and the rebels march south towards London, growing stronger by the day. Sixteen-year-old Nan Ellerton, sent home from her convent when the King's commissioners arrived, has been promised in marriage to a powerful lord. When both he and his son Francis become embroiled in the revolt, Nan must choose - help the rebels, even though it could mean paying the brutal penalty for treason, or betray her beliefs and risk eternal damnation. A stunning historical novel for teenagers from debut author Katharine Edgar, Five Wounds tells a story of adventure, passion and courage, set against the backdrop of the Pilgrimage of Grace.
William Lomax was born in England about 1700. He came to America before 1740 and settled in North Carolina. He married Ann Coxe Donnelly, who was probably a widow, and they had eight children before his death in 1773. Information on many of his descendants is given in this volume. Descendants now live in Texas, South Carolina, Alabama, and elsewhere.
"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", a story by Edgar Allan Poe, recounts the adventure of Pym, who embarks clandestinely on a whaler. After a mutiny and various adversities, including cannibalism and natural disasters, the story culminates in a mysterious and inconclusive encounter at the South Pole.
Includes "Dilatory domiciles"; for some volumes, some of these updates are issued separately as supplements.
Anna and her brothers receive an inheritance from their parents after the turn of the century and leave Ohio, seeking employment and adventure, all the while staying in contact through letters to one another.
Kathleen Ann Goonan introduced Sam Dance and his wife, Bette, and their quest to alter our present reality for the better in her novel In War Times (winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel and ALA's Best Science Fiction Novel of 2008). Now, in This Shared Dream, she tells the story of the next generation. The three Dance kids, seemingly abandoned by both parents when they were younger, are now adults and are all disturbed by memories of a reality that existed in place of their world. The older girl, Jill, even remembers the disappearance of their mother while preventing the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Goonan has created a new kind of utopian Science Fiction novel, in which the changes in history have created a present world that is in many ways superior to our own, while in other worlds people strive to prevent their own erasure by restoring the ills to ours. This Shared Dream is certainly the most provocative Science Fiction speculation of the year, and perhaps the decade. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.