Believing herself abandoned by her parents, a young girl sets off on a quest to find them and on the way finds herself. Travelling through Russia, Romania, Finland, Sweden and America, her search is aided at different times by her Aunts Aninya, Elena and Katya. On a journey of discovery spanning the early 1900s until the 1920s, set against the backdrop of WW1 and a time of great change, she finally finds herself in Jazz Age New York looking for answers. This is a story of hope and belief in oneself, aided by fate and circumstance.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Get ready to be swept up in a whirlwind romance. It absolutely charmed me.”—Reese Witherspoon (A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick) “The perfect book to get lost in . . . Josie Silver’s characters sneak their way into your heart and stay.”—Jill Santopolo, author of The Light We Lost Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love story. Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic...and then her bus drives away. Certain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn't find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they "reunite" at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It's Jack, the man from the bus. It would be. What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.

Come and join Anna on her whimsical adventure into discovering what the true meaning of Christmas really is. This story allows your children to use their imagination without diminishing the true meaning of why we celebrate one of the greatest days in human historywhen Jesus was born. This story will take your child to the scenes of the Bible and show them why Jesus came to this earth and also how they themselves can invite Jesus to live in them.

Story name: 31st December night. It’s a story of a serial killer, who kills his victims brutally and leaves the dead body naked on the street of Kolkata. The body of the victims are found to be affected with following things, firstly the face is burnt with acid; secondly the back bone is broken into pieces, and thirdly the penis of the man is uprooted. As the body, is found naked with its facial skin badly burnt, leaves no sign of identification. The story does not have any detective aspect, but it deals with the plots and actions performed by the killer to murder and the reason underlying behind his murder. The serial killer is a 19years old guy name, Sam, who takes his revenge against those men who killed his love Adity. Adity is a girl, two years elder than Sam, who once become the victim of gang rape and finally murdered. Sam, without getting his desired response from Indian Judiciary, starts his voyage of revenge, killing those men in the same way as Adity was killed. How they met each other? How and what kind of hindrances cropped up in their relation? How Adity had to face such consequence? And How Sam took his revenge? The story answers back these sets of questions.

A Broken Down Car. A Lonely Farmhouse. A Cold December Night. Gabe Turner drives along a narrow country road. His car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Gabe walks off to find help. Leon looks after his parents’ farmhouse. He suffers a broken heart. Leon wants someone with him. Sparks fly the moment they meet. Can Leon and Gabe help each other on the Cold December Night? If you enjoy heart-melting, touching gay romance short stories. You will love this story! GRAB IT NOW! Available in Sweet Christmas Complete Collection.

The Third Battle of Ypres was officially terminated by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig with the opening of the Battle of Cambrai on 20 November 1917. Nevertheless, a comparatively unknown set-piece attack - the only large-scale night operation carried out on the Flanders front during the campaign - was launched twelve days later on 2 December. This volume is a necessary corrective to previously published campaign narratives of what has become popularly known as 'Passchendaele'. It examines the course of events from the mid-November decision to sanction further offensive activity in the vicinity of Passchendaele village to the barren operational outcome that forced British GHQ to halt the attack within ten hours of Zero. A litany of unfortunate decisions and circumstances contributed to the profitless result. At the tactical level, a novel hybrid set-piece attack scheme was undermined by a fatal combination of snow-covered terrain and bright moonlight. At the operational level, the highly unsatisfactory local situation in the immediate aftermath of Third Ypres' post-strategic phase (26 October-10 November) appeared to offer no other alternative to attacking from the confines of an extremely vulnerable salient. Perhaps the most tragic aspect of the affair occurred at the political and strategic level, where Haig's earnest advocacy for resumption of the Flanders offensive in spring 1918 was maintained despite obvious signs that the initiative had now passed to the enemy and the crisis of the war was fast approaching. A Moonlight Massacre provides an important contribution and re-interpretation of the discussion surrounding Passchendaele, based firmly on an extensive array of sources, many unpublished, and supported by illustrations and maps.

American Charles Hayden came to England to forget the past. Failed father, failed husband, and failed scholar, Charles hopes to put his life back together with a biography of Caedmon Hollow, the long-dead author of a legendary Victorian children's book, In the Night Wood. But soon after settling into Hollow's remote Yorkshire home, Charles learns that the past isn't dead.