Noah Brown is a man hollowed out by the weight of leadership. Desperate to escape the crushing expectations of the corporate world, he flees to the iron gates of WillowCreek, the estate of the notorious and exacting Lady Mia. He doesn't come for a vacation; he comes for a sentence. He begs her to strip him of his choices, his name, and his very will.

These stories are based on episodes and materials from my personal life, and are widely varied. Most are set in Montreal, between 1967 and 2012, while a few are set in Newfoundland, and 1 is set in Africa. They are about women, men, children, politics and community, and the conflicts, as well as the harmony, that arise from all of these.

Dickens and Empire offers a reevaluation of Charles Dickens's imaginative engagement with the British Empire throughout his career. Employing postcolonial theory alongside readings of Dickens's novels, journalism and personal correspondence, it explores his engagement with Britain's imperial holdings as imaginative spaces onto which he offloaded a number of pressing domestic and personal problems, thus creating an entangled discourse between race and class. Drawing upon a wealth of primary...

Trees of the World: A Celebration of the Beauty and Diversity of Species Across Continents profiles 380 tree species from every continent with vivid full-color photographs highlighting key identification traits such as shape, bark, leaves, flowers, and fruit. Each entry includes detailed descriptions of natural habitats, ecological roles, and distribution maps. The guide also explores taxonomy, cultural significance, and history for each species. Organized geographically by contin...

An inquiry into the history of adoption, the internal motivations that make people want to adopt and the ethics and issues behind the practice.

This book introduces students to the Victorian novel and its contexts, teaching strategies for reading and researching nineteenth-century literature. Combining close reading with background information and analysis it considers the Victorian novel as a product of the industrial age by focusing on popular texts including Dickens's Oliver Twist, Gaskell's North and South and Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.The Victorian Novel in Context examines ...

Si vous souhaitez perdre du poids naturellement, rapidement et en toute sécurité, sachez que l'hypnose est un outil très puissant, à condition d’être expliquée et correctement appliquée; sinon, vous perdrez tout simplement votre temps et obtiendrez des effets totalement opposés.C'est pourquoi j'ai décidé de regrouper tous mes meilleurs livres :Perte de poids rapide grâce à l’hypnoseL'anneau Gastrique Virtuel Hypnoti...

An Irish mother must flee her beloved homeland for a new life in America, in the "gripping" second novel of the acclaimed historical trilogy ( Publishers Weekly).Forced to flee Ireland, Gracelin O'Malley boards a coffin ship bound for America, taking her young daughter with her on the arduous transatlantic voyage. In New York, Gracelin struggles to adapt to a strange new world and to the harsh realities of immigrant life in a city teeming with crime, corrup...

Set during Ireland's devastating potato famine, a spellbinding novel of a young woman torn between love for her family and duty to her English husband.Patrick O'Malley names his newborn daughter Gracelin for the light of the sea that shines in her eyes. But when young Gracelin is only six years old, her mother's untimely death drains joy and laughter from the O'Malley clan.At fifteen, Gracelin saves her family from financial ruin by marrying Bram Donnelly, t...

Grace O’Malley heeft haar man in de Ierse onafhankelijkheidsstrijd verloren. Zijzelf moest het door hongersnood geteisterde Ierland ontvluchten. Na een zware zeereis bereikt ze aan de andere kant van de oceaan de Nieuwe Wereld, waar ze een nieuw leven wil opbouwen voor zichzelf en haar kinderen.Het leven voor Ierse immigranten in Manhattan is echter ondraaglijk zwaar. Grace besluit naar San Francisco te gaan; daar woont de kapitein die haar ooit ten huwelijk heeft gevraagd. Omwille ...

'Dochter van Ierland'' van Ann Moore is het eerste deel van de meeslepende Ierland-trilogie. Het verhaal begint in 1840. Grace, een knap en levendig meisje uit het arbeidsgezin O'Malley, wordt tijdens een dorpsfeest opgemerkt door de Engelse landheer Bram Donelly. Hij is zo van haar gecharmeerd dat hij Grace, de dochter van één van zijn eigen pachters, ten huwelijk neemt. Geïsoleerd van haar familie doet de vijftienjarige Grace haar best zich te handhaven in het chique milieu en aan de ver...

An Irish mother faces her destiny in California as the acclaimed trilogy comes to an end—" a vibrant picture of American history in the mid-19th century" (Historical Novel Society).With her two children, Gracelin O'Malley travels to post–Gold Rush San Francisco to meet the sea captain who has proposed marriage to her. But when she arrives, he is nowhere to be found. Destitute in a city filled with gangs, disillusioned soldiers, and professional gamb...