CK - Fiction & Literature 19

Ein Buch über Liebe, Freundschaft, Träume und echte Ziele im Leben Als Sängerin einer Hochzeitsband hat Romily einige Happy Ends beobachtet, sie selbst wartet jedoch noch auf ihres. In den Minuten, ……続きを見る

A bloody war engulfs the Balkans' nations of Montrovia and Corabia. Walter Krang, a brutal Montrovian concentration camp guard, escapes certain death as a war criminal when an inmate forgives him a……続きを見る

In his first paperback for HarperCollins, master storyteller Jack Higgins displays all his customary skills in a heart-pounding adventure with a less familiar setting – 19th-century rural Ireland – ……続きを見る

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of A Tale of Two Cities. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print……続きを見る

"The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain" is Charles Dickens 19th century novella that concludes his series of five Christmas books written between 1843 and 1848. It is the story of Professor Redlaw……続きを見る

When They Invite You to Dinner ー Eat First by Laurie "Burnsy" Hennicker And Marshall Masters How-to Rise Above an Economic Crisis with Love and Joy Author Laurie Hennicker recounts heartw……続きを見る

Feline detectives Koko and Yum Yum get their paws dirty once again... The Cat Who Turned On & Off from Lilian Jackson Braun is another captivating case for crime's most unlikely, most unusual and mo……続きを見る

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of King Arthur in Cornwall. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in pr……続きを見る

Winner of the Miles Franklin Award 1963, this edition includes an introduction by Robyn Nevin. It's the Great Depression. Six-year-old PS is an orphan. He lives in Sydney with his Aunt Lila. But all……続きを見る

Whisper Creek is a Civil War short story about a single day in the life of Chaplain Joseph Meyers. Unsatisfied with the spiritual decisions of the men in his charge, Joseph plans to give the sermon ……続きを見る

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Blue Bird A Fairy Play in Six Acts. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Mau……続きを見る

Hard Times (Annotated & Quotes About Hard Times) The 'error' was contemporary utilitarian philosophy, exposed as philosophy by the hard head discipline Thomas Gradgrind in hard times (1854). But Dic……続きを見る

Well, there's niggers an' niggers, some just as good as any white man, said Mr. Thomas Potter as he, the second mate of the island-trading barque Reconnaisance, and Denison the supercargo, walked he……続きを見る

Crossing from Holyhead to Ireland one night the captain of the steamer and myself, during an hour's talk on the bridge, found that we each had sailed in a certain Australian coasting steamer more th……続きを見る

Every one acquainted with the manners and customs of the East must be aware that there is no situation of eminence more unstable, or more dangerous to its possessor, than that of a pacha. Nothing, p……続きを見る

Brabant's wife was sitting on the shady verandah of her house on the hills overlooking Levuka harbour, and watching a large fore and aft schooner being towed in by two boats, for the wind had died a……続きを見る

The anchor of her Majesty's ship Hannibal was underfoot and the captain on the bridge, and Rear-Admiral Garnet had shaken hands with the last of the "leading" Fijian white residents, who always did ……続きを見る

Our third offering of kitty delights and delectables features 25 cat stories, 2 nonfiction compilations of cat anecdotes, and 9 poems--but the emphasis overall is decidedly more modern than in our p……続きを見る

You cannot stir the ground of London anywhere but straightway it flowers into romance. Read the inscriptions on the crumbling tombs of our early merchant princes and adventurers in some of the old C……続きを見る

The hardest thing, finally, is to accept our insignificance in the scheme of things - or perhaps to accept that there is no 'scheme of things'. Tom Harper, a 43-year-old Australian psychologist, is ……続きを見る

Jewels on Tiger Island is a fictional suspense novel which includes romance and will also captivate the reader from the beginning to the end of the book in finding a "killer" or "killers". A young w……続きを見る

THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF Moving among the members of the second Continental Congress, which met at Philadelphia in May, 1775, was one, and but one, military figure. George Washington alone attended th……続きを見る

When General Rosecrans took command of the Army of the Ohio there were in that army five battalions of regular infantry in two different divisions; when he reorganized this army he determined to bri……続きを見る

It is set among the marshes of Kent and in London in the early to mid-1800s. From the outset, the reader is "treated" by the terrifying encounter between Pip, the protagonist, and the escaped convic……続きを見る

A predilection for the productions of Tieck and a desire to introduce this remarkable work of the great German Poet to a larger circle of the reading world: were the chief inducements, on the part o……続きを見る

The Land of the Vikings Who has not heard of the Vikingsーthe dauntless sea-rovers, who in the days of long ago were the dread of Northern Europe? We English should know something of them, for Vikin……続きを見る

Being brought up by an overbearing, competitive mother has left Virginia with an altered view of men and relationships. She rushed in to marriage to escape her mother, but her new husband, Joe, is d……続きを見る

Geoffrey Becker’s Dangerous Men was selected by Charles Baxter as the winner of the fifteenth annual Drue Heinz Literature Prize. His manuscript was selected from nearly three hundred submitted by p……続きを見る

Emma Caine is pushing forty and life is hitting her hard. Her husband has been brain damaged, she’s lost her job, and she might lose her home. Instead of giving up, Emma starts hitting back. Drawing……続きを見る

**INTRODUCED BY LISSA EVANS 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens. She's beady eyed, big hearted and blissfully funny' NINA STIBBE** ' Humorous, moving and fascinating' CLARE MACK……続きを見る