Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up and become sweethearts and marry, people gossip and grumble and dream their lives away. For it is a place where change comes slowly. Until one day, beautiful, mysterious Helen McMahon disappears, presumed drowned in the lake, and then the gossip runs wild. The consequences for Helen's husband, her son, but above all for her daughter, Kit, are unimaginable and will leave not one of their lives unchanged. Forlag: Orion Udgivelsesår: 2006 Sider: 704 Sprog: Engelsk
In a small town, Ford Grant, a billionaire seeking anonymity, faces unexpected challenges when a young girl claims to be his daughter. Amidst running a business and parenting, he struggles to resist his best friend's sister, Rosie Belmont. Rosie's return brings chaos, but Ford hires her despite his intentions to keep her at a distance Titel: Wild love Genre: Romantik Type: Paperback
Attending a New England summer camp as an adolescent, young Erik Schroder - a first generation East German immigrant - adopts a new name and a new persona - Eric Kennedy - in the hopes that it will help him fit in. This fateful white lie will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course.Schroder relates the story of Eric's urgent escape years later through the New England countryside with his six-year-old daughter, Meadow, in an attempt to outrun the authorities amidst a heated custody battle with his wife, who will soon discover that her husband is not who he says he is. From a correctional facility, Eric surveys the course of his life in order to understand - and maybe even explain - his behaviour; the painful separation from his mother in childhood; a harrowing escape to America with his taciturn father; a romance that withered under a shadow of lies; and his proudest moments
Memoirs of WW2 (prisoner #3521) Noel and her husband moved from Java to Holland, then to Canada with their son. Their two daughters where born while living in Kimberley, BC. Currently, Noel resides on Vancouver Island. Titel: My Guardian Angel was There Forfatter: Noël Sevensma Forlag: Trafford Publishing Udgivelsesår: 2003 Sider: 178 Sprog: Engelsk
Fifteen-year-old Grainne alone after her mother s death is being taken back to Ireland from America by her grandmother. She will meet a father she has never known her heart pulled between a far-distant home and a family she cannot remember. On the rocky shores of Inis Muruch she will discover her own sexual identity even as she struggles to understand the forces that have torn her family apart. There is an island off the west coast of Ireland called Inis Muruch--the Island of the Mermaids--a world where myth is more powerful than truth and love can overcome even death. It is here that Lisa Carey sets her lyrical and sensual first novel weaving together the voices and lives of three generations of Irish and Irish-American women. Years ago the fierce and beautiful Grace stole away from the island with her small daughter Gráinne unable to bear its isolation. Now Gráinne is motherless at fif
It is 1955 and two cousins, Nora and Alicia, are growing up in Cuba, where the sea is a beguiling turquoise and at night the lights glitter like stars along Havana's shoreline. But revolutionary storm clouds are gathering, and as Castro comes to power, banks are closed, religion outlawed, and food shortages begin. Nora and her family emigrate to California; Alicia and hers stay behind she becomes a woman, Alicia writes of her marriage to Tony, the birth of her daughter, and the terrible privations ordinary Cubans are suffering daughter's survival becomes increasingly hand-to-mouth, Nora knows she must leave her privileged life in America, and return to help them. imagined... Forfatter: Cecilia Samartin Forlag: Random House Udgivelsesår: 2005 Sider: 404 Sprog: Engelsk
A winning mix of power and politics. -- USA TodayBaldacci delivers. -- New York Daily NewsPowerful....The story will leave readers lying awake at night. -- Associated PressFast and scary. -- CosmopolitanNon-stop action, taut plotting, sizzling suspense. -- Stephen Coonts, author of Under SeigeTotal deceit...the ultimate betrayalSidney Archer has been living the perfect life -- a loving husband, adorable daughter, and a successful career at a major Washington law firm. Suddenly her husband is killed in a fiery plane crash, and her life is shattered. But the nightmare is just beginning: the FBI believes that her husband was responsible for the crash, and that he is still alive. Did he betray his wife and his country? The hunt is on for Jason Archer -- and the startling truth which threatens to destroy the country's most powerful individual. Udgivelsesår: 1997 Sider: 520 Sprog: Engelsk
When her husband mysteriously disappears in a plane crash into the Virginia countryside, a devastated wife must sort out truth from lies in this page-turning New York Times bestseller. Sidney Archer has it all: a husband she loves, a job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust. Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered into a deadly game. He is about to disappear--leaving behind a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths, an accident team that wants to know why the plane he was ticketed on crashed, and a veteran FBI agent who wants to know it all Forlag: Warner Books Udgivelsesår: 1997 Sider: 6
