INNOCENCE OF ANGELS is the first in a linked four-volume series of carefully researched and beautifully written historical romances about young nurse Anna Donovan's life before, during, and after World War Two. The second volume, MINISTRY OF ANGELS, follows Anna to the Maine coast after her husband is declared missing in action early in World War Two. ODYSSEY OF ANGELS takes her deep into the hell of the Pacific War as an ensign nurse aboard USS Compassion, a Navy hospital ship. ORDINARY A...

AT 4 PM ON A HOLIDAY WEEKEND IN 1943, the Pennsylvania Railroad’s premier express departs Washington’s Union Station for a high-speed run to Penn Station in New York City. Among the 541 passengers in its sixteen coaches are a disillusioned war widow and a Navy submarine officer on route to an exciting new duty. Over the next hours, these strangers discover they share not only adjoining seats but the same final destination—Portsmouth, New Hampshire—and an intriguing attraction. As the Congr...

MINISTRY OF ANGELS is the second in a linked series of four carefully researched and beautifully written historical romances about young nurse Anna Donovan’s life before, during, and after World War Two.In October, 1943, after the loss of both her Navy officer husband and the baby they were expecting, 25-year old widow Anna Donovan leaves her parents’ New Hampshire home to work as resident nurse on a remote, isolated island off the coast of Maine. Hoping to find new purpose for her...

To World War Two battlefield casualties evacuated from bloody Pacific beachheads to the clean white beds of hospital ships, the Navy nurses who care for them seem angels indeed. For young war widow Ensign Anna Donovan, however, the unrelenting stresses of this duty soon begin to chip away at her morale, eventually revealing a side of her that is anything but angelic. Far from family, friends and fiancé, she’s horrified to find herself drawn to Mark Whitmore, a charismatic but married chapl...

ORDINARY ANGELS, the fourth and concluding novel in a series about young nurse Anna Donovan, begins with Anna's homecoming at the end of World War II. Though still caught up in recollections of her hospital-ship romance with Chaplain Mark Whitmore, she jumps into marriage to Dr. Jim Millett, to whom she was engaged before she joined the Navy. Yet even as her plans come to fruition, the shadows of her past darken this wonderful new life. Forced to confront the ghosts of former losses, Anna ...

La més important de les novel·les escrites en llengua catalana.Tirant lo Blanc és una novel·la cavalleresca, o d'aventures, en la qual trobem magnífiques narracions,passatges doctrinals i reflexius, però també episodis divertits, carregats d'ironia intel·ligent i de jovesensualitat.La present edició reprodueix el text fixat per Martí de Riquer, revisat per a aquesta nova edició a labutxaca, i precedit per un pròleg de Joan F. Mira.

CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES BY20 VENDORS OF VILLAINYMystery Writers of America is pleased to present this sinister volume of larceny, deception, and murder, brought to you by the very finest purveyors of perfidy.Donald E. Westlake tells a tale of a cheating wife who tries to turn the tables on her blackmailer, only to find herself caught in a bigger web of lies than she could have imagined. From Robert Bloch comes a story of a man whose ve...

Occitània, qu’es aquò? Quantes còps avèm aguda aquela question! E tanben: “Veni de Pampaligosta o de Pampaligòssa. Es en Occitània?” Avèm agut d’istòrias d’Occitània (amb de qualitats e de mancas) mas pas ges sa geografia. Sus la Wikipèdia en francés, s’es quitament escafat l’article jos l’aflat dels gardians de la puretat geografica de l’Exagonia: “Es pas un país, a pas de geografia"Èra temps doncas d’i poder respondre en marcant la frontièra, e per çò faire en davalant al nivèl c...

Joan Fuster es va interessar pel 'Tirant lo Blanc' d'una manera particular al llarg de tota la seua vida, però les seues aproximacions a la novel·la cimera de la literatura catalana medieval han estat fins ara ben poc remarcades. Aquestes lectures fusterianes són abordades de manera minuciosa en aquest estudi, que traça un recorregut cronològic per l'atenció de Fuster envers l'obra i també analitza com l'escriptor maldà per recuperar el 'Tirant' com a clàssic de la literatura catalana, esp...

Descripción / Resumen (Catalán): Josep Maria Capdevila (Olot, 1892-Banyoles, 1972), filòsof, crític literari, periodista, és una figura notable i molt significativa del panorama intel·lectual català anterior a l’anomenada «Transició democràtica». Destacà per un ferm compromís amb el país, per les seves conviccions cristianes, però també per una sensibilitat extraordinària pels problemes de justícia social. En un dels seus llibres, En el llindar de la filosofia, escrigué el següent: «No ens...