The Clockmaker’s Wife
Author | : Daisy Wood |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021-07-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780008402310 |
ISBN-13 | : 0008402310 |
Rating | : 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
The world is at war. And time is running out...
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Author | : Daisy Wood |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021-07-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780008402310 |
ISBN-13 | : 0008402310 |
Rating | : 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
The world is at war. And time is running out...
Author | : Kate Morton |
Publisher | : Atria Books |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2019-05-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781451649413 |
ISBN-13 | : 145164941X |
Rating | : 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of the New York Times bestseller Homecoming—“An ambitious, compelling historical mystery with a fabulous cast of characters…Kate Morton at her very best.” —Kristin Hannah “An elaborate tapestry…Morton doesn’t disappoint.” —The Washington Post "Classic English country-house Goth at its finest." —New York Post In the depths of a 19th-century winter, a little girl is abandoned on the streets of Victorian London. She grows up to become in turn a thief, an artist’s muse, and a lover. In the summer of 1862, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, she travels with a group of artists to a beautiful house on a bend of the Upper Thames. Tensions simmer and one hot afternoon a gunshot rings out. A woman is killed, another disappears, and the truth of what happened slips through the cracks of time. It is not until over a century later, when another young woman is drawn to Birchwood Manor, that its secrets are finally revealed. Told by multiple voices across time, this is an intricately layered, richly atmospheric novel about art and passion, forgiveness and loss, that shows us that sometimes the way forward is through the past.
Author | : Matthew J. Kirby |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780545323079 |
ISBN-13 | : 054532307X |
Rating | : 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Three ordinary children are brought together by extraordinary events. . . Giuseppe is an orphaned street musician from Italy, who was sold by his uncle to work as a slave for an evil padrone in the U.S. But when a mysterious green violin enters his life he begins to imagine a life of freedom.Hannah is a soft-hearted, strong-willed girl from the tenements, who supports her family as a hotel maid when tragedy strikes and her father can no longer work. She learns about a hidden treasure, which she knows will save her family -- if she can find it.
Author | : Brian Selznick |
Publisher | : Scholastic |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2015-09-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781407166575 |
ISBN-13 | : 1407166573 |
Rating | : 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
An orphan and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy train station. He desperately believes a broken automaton will make his dreams come true. But when his world collides with an eccentric girl and a bitter old man, Hugo's undercover life are put in jeopardy. Turn the pages, follow the illustrations and enter an unforgettable new world!
Author | : Laurie Penman |
Publisher | : Aztex Corporation |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 1984-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 0852428251 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780852428252 |
Rating | : 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Author | : Kate Morton |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2011-07-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781439152799 |
ISBN-13 | : 1439152799 |
Rating | : 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
A long-lost letter arriving at its destination fifty years after it was sent lures Edie Burchill to crumbling Milderhurst Castle, home of the three elderly Blythe sisters, where Edie's mother was sent to stay as a teenager during World War II.
Author | : George Daniels |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2012-10-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780857732842 |
ISBN-13 | : 0857732846 |
Rating | : 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
All in Good Time is the remarkable story of George Daniels (1926-2011), the master craftsman, who was born into poverty but raised himself to become the greatest watchmaker of the twentieth century. Daniels stands alone in modern times as the inventor of the revolutionary co-axial escapement, the first substantial advance in portable mechanical timekeeping over the lever escapement, which has dominated ever since its invention in 1759. Daniels's love of mechanics embraced not only the minute, however - he was also a passionate collector and driver of historic motorcars. This revised and expanded edition of his autobiography also contains a new section that illustrates and discusses over thirty of the pocket and wrist-watches Daniels himself made over the years. Witness here the triumph of intelligence, ingenuity, matchless skill and singularity of purpose over the most unpromising of beginnings.
Author | : Kate Morton |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 746 |
Release | : 2011-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781458732217 |
ISBN-13 | : 1458732215 |
Rating | : 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
A lost child On the eve of the first world war, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but the Authoress has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell O'Connor learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the strange and beautiful Blackhurst Manor, once owned by the aristocratic Mountrachet family. A mysterious inheritance On Nell's death, her grand-daughter, Cassandra, comes into an unexpected inheritance. Cliff Cottage and its forgotten garden are notorious amongst the Cornish locals for the secrets they hold - secrets about the doomed Mountrachet family and their ward Eliza Makepeace, a writer of dark Victorian fairytales. It is here that Cassandra will finally uncover the truth about the family, and solve the century-old mystery of a little girl lost. A captivating and atmospheric story of secrets, family and memory from the international bestselling author Kate Morton.
Author | : Paula Brackston |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2019-10-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781466884113 |
ISBN-13 | : 1466884118 |
Rating | : 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
The second novel in a bewitching series "brimming with charm and charisma" that will make "fans of Outlander rejoice!" (Woman's World Magazine) New York Times bestselling author Paula Brackston’s The Little Shop of Found Things was called “a page-turner that will no doubt leave readers eager for future series installments” (Publishers Weekly). Now, Brackston returns to the Found Things series with its sequel, Secrets of the Chocolate House. After her adventures in the seventeenth century, Xanthe does her best to settle back into the rhythm of life in Marlborough. She tells herself she must forget about Samuel and leave him in the past where he belongs. With the help of her new friends, she does her best to move on, focusing instead on the success of her and Flora’s antique shop. But there are still things waiting to be found, still injustices needing to be put right, still voices whispering to Xanthe from long ago about secrets wanting to be shared. While looking for new stock for the shop, Xanthe hears the song of a copper chocolate pot. Soon after, she has an upsetting vision of Samuel in great danger, compelling her to make another journey to the past. This time she'll meet her most dangerous adversary. This time her ability to travel to the past will be tested. This time she will discover her true destiny. Will that destiny allow her to return home? And will she be able to save Samuel when his own fate seems to be sealed?
Author | : Harry Lenga |
Publisher | : Citadel Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2022-06-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780806541938 |
ISBN-13 | : 0806541938 |
Rating | : 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
2022 National Jewish Book Award Finalist “Inspiring. Exhilarating. Astonishing. An epic tale of brotherhood, ingenuity, and survival.” —Heather Dune Macadam, International Bestselling author of 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz Told through meticulous interviews with his son, this is an extraordinary memoir of endurance, faith, and a unique skill that kept three brothers together—and alive—during the darkest times of World War II. “A truly extraordinary book.” —Damien Lewis, #1 international bestselling author Harry Lenga was born to a family of Chassidic Jews in Kozhnitz, Poland. The proud sons of a watchmaker, Harry and his two brothers, Mailekh and Moishe, studied their father’s trade at a young age. Upon the German invasion of Poland, when the Lenga family was upended, Harry and his brothers never anticipated that the tools acquired from their father would be the key to their survival. Under the most devastating conditions imaginable—with death always imminent—fixing watches for the Germans in the ghettos and brutal slave labor camps of occupied Poland and Austria bought their lives over and over again. From Wolanow and Starachowice to Auschwitz and Ebensee, Harry, Mailekh, and Moishe endured, bartered, worked, prayed, and lived to see liberation. Derived from more than a decade of interviews with Harry Lenga, conducted by his own son Scott and others, The Watchmakers is Harry’s heartening and unflinchingly honest first-person account of his childhood, the lessons learned from his own father, his harrowing tribulations, and his inspiring life before, during, and after the war. It is a singular and vital story, told from one generation to the next—and a profoundly moving tribute to brotherhood, fatherhood, family, and faith. “Deeply moving.” —Jesse Kellerman, bestselling author “Vivid and compelling.” —Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of Ordinary Men