Frances Osborne:
The Bolter : The Woman Who Scandalised 1920s Society And Became White Mishcief's Infamous Seductress - Taschenbuch
2023, ISBN: 9781844084807
Gebundene Ausgabe
Vine Leaves Press, 9/5/2023 12:00:01 AM. paperback. Good. 0.3900 in x 8.0000 in x 5.0000 in., Vine Leaves Press, 9/5/2023 12:00:01 AM, 2.5, Charleston, South Carolina: CreateSpace Indep… Mehr…
Vine Leaves Press, 9/5/2023 12:00:01 AM. paperback. Good. 0.3900 in x 8.0000 in x 5.0000 in., Vine Leaves Press, 9/5/2023 12:00:01 AM, 2.5, Charleston, South Carolina: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010. First Edition Assumed . Trade Paperback. Fine. 5" x 8. 265 Pages. Time doesn't always move forward. Sometimes it folds. And sometimes, people get stuck. On the morning of June 21, 1923, in a small city in upstate New York, high school senior Pearl Coveety walks across the street from her house to a city park and disappears, never to be heard from again. Fifty years later, on the same date, graduating senior Lee Capove leaves a class party at the same park and vanishes for good. Can these possibly be the same girl? Present day sophomore, Liz, thinks so when she finds both pictures in old yearbooks. As she and her study partner Matt untangle the clues to these disappearances, they're faced with a startling discovery that puts their lives in peril and jeopardizes their friendship. In their attempt to find the person in the photo, Liz and Matt toy with forces of nature that are best left alone - temporal displacement and the time space continuum. Simultaneously, the girl in the photos desperately tries to find a way back to her own time, while hiding her identity in another decade. When her path and Liz's collide, this is no coincidence. It is time itself, who plays the role of the "joker," enticing the young sleuths with anagrams, aromas and tangible evidence that time travel is no longer theoretical. In a race to make things right, Liz and Matt may become its next victims., CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010, 5, Hodder and Stoughton, UK, 2008. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. 440 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Hodder and Stoughton, UK, 2008. *** CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin. A call to police emergency from a distant lake house is cut short. A phone glitch or something more sinister? Off-duty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her family's dinner table and drives up to the deserted lake to find out. And stumbles onto the scene of a murder. Before she can call for backup, she finds herself the next potential victim. Deprived of her phone, weapon and car, Brynn flees, along with the only survivor of the crime. These unlikely allies - women from city and small town - can survive only by escaping into the dense, deserted woods, on a desperate trek to safety. And ultimately to a life or death choice: flight or fight? Creator of investigator Kathryn Dance and brilliant quadriplegic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; ISBN: 0340977884. ISBN/EAN: 9780340977880. Inventory No: 13070468.. 9780340977880, Hodder and Stoughton, 2008, 4, Pan Books, Australia, 2020. Medium Trade Paperback. Very Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 586 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pan Books, Australia, 2020. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Spine has moderate reading creases. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: A Minute to Midnight is the gripping follow up to Long Road to Mercy featuring Special Agent Atlee Pine from one of the world’s most favourite thriller writers, David Baldacci. Without Mercy. At six years old, Atlee’s twin sister, Mercy, was taken from the family home while Atlee was left for dead. Since that fateful night, Atlee has dedicated her life and career to catching those who hurt others. Word of a killer. Atlee has never stopped searching for answers about her sister. A notorious serial killer, locked in a maximum-security prison, continues to haunt her. Does he really know what happened to Mercy? Quest for justice. When Atlee oversteps the mark on the arrest of a dangerous criminal, the FBI gives her a leave of absence – the perfect opportunity to return to where it all began. Determined to finally uncover the truth, Atlee Pine’s journey home turns into a rollercoaster ride of murder, long-buried secrets and lies . . . and a revelation so personal that everything she once believed is fast turning to dust. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Thrillers; ISBN/EAN: 9781509874484. Inventory No: 22090037.. 9781509874484, Pan Books, 2020, 3, Bridge-Logos, USA, 1997. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover. 212 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Bridge-Logos, USA, 1997. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in near fine condition and comes in dust jacket. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Twenty years ago, Daryl Kraft took tranquilizers to cope with his growing business. His preoccupation with work left no time for his wife's needs. So what was the collision that turned Kraft's life around? He saw the peace a young man dying of cancer, a close friend who was content through faith. Kraft immediately knew from this experience that he wanted to leave his family a legacy of God's grace. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Business, Finance & Marketing; ISBN: 0882707442. ISBN/EAN: 9780882707440. Inventory No: 11010154.. 9780882707440, Bridge-Logos, 1997, 4, Piatkus, UK, 2004. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 383 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Piatkus, UK, 2004. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: In high school Sugar Carey had reigned supreme. She alone had decided what or who was cool. Her spiral perm had been the perm against which all others were measured, and her opinion on which boys were acceptable to date the only one that counted. A beautiful, blonde - if not always benevolent - dictator, she had a reputation for being the wild child in her hometown, the girl most likely to set the world on fire, and leave a trail of destruction in her wake. When she left home she swore she'd never return. Only now, fifteen years and several husbands later, she's run out of money, luck and options...Only Sugar arrives back home to discover that everyone else is living her life. Her half sister is married to Sugar's high school sweetheart, the teacher she schemed to get fired is now a successful novelist and owns her old house. She also discovers that people have long memories - especially where Sugar is concerned... *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Romance & Women's Fiction; ISBN: 0749934298. ISBN/EAN: 9780749934293. Inventory No: 13070017.. 9780749934293, Piatkus, 2004, 3, Simon & Schuster, London, 2004. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. 326 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Simon & Schuster, London, 2004. *** CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Olivia Hunt is unemployed, living alone, and working on the fourth draft of her suicide note when she gets a phone call that lets her know what real trouble is. Madeleine Hunt is her younger sister, the annoyingly happy one who married her childhood sweetheart while Olivia set out to conquer Hollywood. And Maddie is in trouble. Pulled home for the first time in years, Olivia gets a painful dose of real life as she tries to help her sister, keep her parents from running off the rails, and reconnect with the boyfriend who left without a word but might still be the love of her life. And, of course, the movie she's been trying to put in front of a camera for years heats up just as she leaves town. Racing between Hollywood, hospital rooms, and film sets in Spain, Olivia has to do the impossible at work and at home - and learns that love will let her do no less. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Romance & Women's Fiction; ISBN: 0743248287. ISBN/EAN: 9780743248280. Inventory No: 13070570.. 9780743248280, Simon & Schuster, 2004, 4, Pan Books, UK, 2009. Reprint. Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback. 323 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pan Books, UK, 2009. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition except for the first page has a crease in the margin. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: All easy-going butcher Bob Davis wanted after his divorce was to get on with his job, have a few beers with his mates, and be left alone. But this was Sydney in the early Eighties - the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic, street gangs, gay bashings and murders. When a gang of skinheads bash Davo's old school- friend to death simply because he was gay, and leave Davo almost dead in an intensive care unit, they unleash a crazed killer onto the city streets. Before the summer had ended, over thirty corpses had turned up in the morgue, leaving two bewildered detectives to find out where they were coming from. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; ISBN: 0330272926. ISBN/EAN: 9780330272926. Inventory No: 22020131.. 9780330272926, Pan Books, 2009, 4, Orion, UK, 2007. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 432 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Orion, UK, 2007. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Naples, 1750. In the dead of the night, three men with swords burst into the palazzo of a marquis. The intruders' leader, the Prince of San Severo, accuses the marquis of being an imposter, and demands to know a secret that he believes the man harbours. In the fight that ensues, the false marquis escapes over the rooftops, leaving behind a burning palazzo and a raging prince who is now obsessed with finding his quarry at any cost. Baghdad, 2003. An American army unit hunting down Saddam's inner circle makes a horrifying discovery: a state-of-the-art, concealed lab where dozens - men, woman, children - have died after enduring gruesome experiments. The mysterious scientist they were after, a man believed to be working on a bioweapons program and known only as the hakeem - the doctor - escapes, taking with him the startling truth about his work. A puzzling clue is left behind, crudely carved into the wall of one of the underground prison's cells: a circular symbol of a snake feeding on its own tail. So begins Raymond Khoury's explosive new novel, placing two bold women at the centre of the action as they get caught up in a murderous trail of ancient clues. Ripped from the history books and coupled with cutting-edge science, THE SANCTUARY delivers even more of the brilliant mystery and rapid-fire suspense that made Khoury's debut novel, THE LAST TEMPLAR, a Sunday Times, New York Times and #1 international bestseller. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN/EAN: 9780752875897 . Inventory No: 13040273.. 9780752875897, Orion, 2007, 3, Flamingo, Australia, 2000. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 385 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Flamingo, Australia, 2000. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are reasonably tanned. Previous owner's signature in ink. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO ANGELA'S ASHES 'The reader of this stunning memoir can only hope that Mr McCourt will set down the story of his subsequent adventures in America in another book. Angela's Ashes is so good it deserves a sequel.' MICHIKO KAKUTANI, New York Times Angela's Ashes was a publishing phenomenon. Frank McCourt's critically acclaimed, lyrical memoir of his Irish-American childhood won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics' Circle Award, the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Award amongst others, and rapidly became a word-of-mouth bestseller topping all charts worldwide for over two years. It left readers and critics alike eager to hear more about Frank McCourt's incredible, poignant life. 'Tis is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant with rotten teeth, infected eyes and no formal education to brilliant raconteur and schoolteacher. Saved first by a straying priest, then by the Democratic party, then by the United States Army, then by New York University -- which admitted him on a trial basis though he had no high school diploma -- Frank had the same vulnerable but invincible spirit at nineteen that he had at eight and still has today. And 'Tis is a tale of survival as vivid, harrowing, and often hilarious as Angela's Ashes. Yet again, it is through the power of storytelling that Frank finds a life for himself. 'It is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he's done...McCourt proves himself one of the very best' (Newsweek) 'Tis blesses readers with another chapter of McCourt's story, but as it closes, they will want still more. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0002570815. ISBN/EAN: 9780002570817. Inventory No: 11080730.. 9780002570817, Flamingo, 2000, 3, UK,12mo wraps,no dw/dj - as issued,paperback 1st edn.FINE.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj - as issued,has reading creases to spine/backstrip? Colour imaging by Black Sheep to original,colour artwork wraps and TVM logo; with negligible shelf-wear to edges,no bumping/creasing to either head or foot of spine/backstrip.Production(?) fault wrinkles to spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges slightly aged - but generally clean; contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to pages' corners.UK,12mo p/back,1st edn,3-280pp [paginated] includes 20 chapters+prologue; plus [unpaginated] title page,an introduction,and 5pp blanks+1pp publisher's advert to rear. Featuring the 6th Doctor and Frobisher,this adventure is set between the TV stories 'THE TRIAL OF A TIME LORD' and 'TIME AND THE RANI'. Book now out-of-print.The 12th book in the series of original novels of 'Past Doctors' - see below. In June 1996,the BBC started their range with Terrance Dicks series 'The Eight Doctors',a series of original adventures for the eighth Doctor, and Keith Topping+ Martin Day's 'The Devil Goblins from Neptune',a series for past Doctors.The initial editor at the BBC was Nuala Buffini who oversaw the first six or so releases before leaving to join Hodder Headline,and Steve Cole took over the reins of the BBC range.Cole eventually left in 2000,to be replaced by Justin Richards.The BBC released two adventures/novels a month,except for December. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.BBC,1998., 5, Orion, UK, 2007. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 375 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Orion, UK, 2007. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Spine has minimal reading creases. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Annabelle has had many names in her life - Sally, Cindy, Lucille. Though her father moved her from city to city from the age of ten, changing names, houses, careers and histories every few months, Annabelle never knew what they were running from. Now in her thirties, with both parents dead, she's settled in Boston. But old habits die hard and she still looks over her shoulder when she leaves her apartment, still blends in with the crowd on the subway. Then at the Boston State Mental Hospital a multiple grave is discovered. Six young girls left to die in an underground chamber decades ago, while their captor looked on. When her original name appears in the paper, wrongly identifying her as one of the dead girls, Annabelle finally knows. This was the work of the monster her father fled from. But the killer is still on the loose. And he's looked for her for a very long time. Bobby Dodge has been haunted by the Catherine Gagnon case for years. It nearly cost him his job and his sanity. As a child, Catherine was also held prisoner underground, like the victims in this latest case.But Catherine's captor was in prison when these girls were taken. Yet the similarities are too numerous to be just coincidence... *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; ISBN: 0752876341. ISBN/EAN: 9780752876344. Inventory No: 13070055.. 9780752876344, Orion, 2007, 3, Mayflower, UK, 1975. Reprint. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 288 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Mayflower, UK, 1975. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing and superficial rubbing/wear. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine has moderate reading creases. . Pages are considerably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Kit Geraldo, master of the Seaflower, was a man without a name. Because the shameful secret of his birth was shrouded in mystery somewhere in Cadiz, he had turned to piracy as the only means of winning power and love. and revenge. Swift as a peregrine falcon, straight as the mast of a brigantine, with eyes as blue as the waters of the Caribbean, he took what he wanted throughout the ports of the New World. Spanish Dons shuddered and crossed themselves when they spoke of him, whispered as they told of the volcanic fury that drove him ever onward, leaving a trail of broken ships and desirous women in his wake. This is his story- of his lifelong search for revenge on Don Luis del Toro, the Spanish grandee who had killed his mother and touched his life with unspeakable horror. it was a search that was to take Kit from the Old World to the New, from the buccaneer harbors of Sainte Domingue, Porto Bello and Cul-de-Sac to the gray, grim walled city of Cartagena in Spanish South America. The Golden Hawk is also the story of the women who loved Kit- Rouge, the English gentlewoman turned pirate, Rouge of the sea-green eyes and flaming hair, whose treatment at the brutal hands of Don Luis had left a scar upon her that made her turn against the entire masculine sex. She fought Kit with knife and lash and pistol, goaded to redoubled fury by the slowly dawning recognition that here was one man she could not master. it is the story of Bianca del Toro, wedded half against her will to Don Luis and loving Kit with all the warmth of her Spanish nature- Bianca whose great love was to bring her pain, anguish and ecstasy. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; General; ISBN: 0583118372. ISBN/EAN: 9780583118378. Inventory No: 21090278.. 9780583118378, Mayflower, 1975, 2.5, Penguin, UK, 2006. Medium Trade Paperback. Very Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 230 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Penguin, UK, 2006. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. Tanned pages. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: When Richard Benson was growing up he felt like 'the village idiot with O'levels' - glowing school reports aren't much help when you're trying to help a sow give birth, or drive a power harrow in a straight line without getting half the hedgerow stuck in the tines. He left Yorkshire to work as a journalist in London, but returned when his dad called with the news that they were going to have to sell the family farm, and, in so doing, leave the home and livelihood that the Bensons had worked for generations. This is not only a moving personal account, but also one that reflects a profound change in rural life. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Family & Relationships; Farming & Rural Life. ISBN: 0141012943. ISBN/EAN: 9780141012940. Inventory No: 12100012.. 9780141012940, Penguin, 2006, 3, Virago, UK, 2009. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 319 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Virago, UK, 2009. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine has moderate reading creases. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off to Africa with a near penniless man. An inspiration for Nancy Mitford's character The Bolter, painted by William Orpen, and photographed by Cecil Beaton, Sackville went on to divorce a total of five times, yet died with a picture of her first love by her bed. Her struggle to reinvent her life with each new marriage left one husband murdered and branded her the 'high priestess' of White Mischief's bed-hopping Happy Valley in Kenya. Sackville's life was so scandalous that it was kept a secret from her great-granddaughter Frances Osborne. Now, Osborne tells the moving tale of betrayal and heartbreak behind Sackville's road to scandal and return, painting a dazzling portrait of high society in the early twentieth century. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781844084807. Inventory No: 22080130.. 9781844084807, Virago, 2009, 2.5<
