Amanda Johnson leads a comfortable life. She's married to a successful businessman and her daughter is grown and off blazing her own bright trail in the business world, leaving Amanda free to fill her days volunteering at the local charity thrift shop. It isn't an exciting life but it's secure, and most days Amanda is content to accept the path that she has chosen.But all of that changes one day when a woman walks in with a crate full of LP records to donate. As Amanda flips through the stack, there's one album in particular that drags her back to an alcohol-fueled senior year summer outing and a bonfire where she kissed a girl on a dare. She doesn't know it yet, but that very same girl is standing in front of her, all grown up now and peering into Amanda's eyes over a crate of vintage vinyl. There's a flash of recognition and Amanda begins to wonder what her life would have been like if she had followed her heart instead of everyone's expectations. What if she had turned... Views: 694
The playwright J. M. Synge was a key figure in the Irish Literary
Revival and was one of the co-founders of the Abbey Theatre. Today he is
best known for his controversial play ‘The Playboy of the Western
World’, which caused riots in Dublin during its opening run. Synge’s
writings are chiefly concerned with the world of the Roman Catholic
peasants of rural Ireland and with what he saw as the essential paganism
of their world view. He was a poetic dramatist of great power, whose
modern plays are celebrated for their sophisticated craftsmanship. For
the first time in digital publishing, this eBook presents Synge’s
complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative
introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Synge’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the plays
* All 6 plays, with individual contents tables
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Rare poetry available in no other collection
* Includes Synge’s prose, featuring many essays and reviews– available in no other collection
* Features two biographies, including Yeats’ seminal work ‘Synge and the Ireland of His Time’ – discover Synge’s literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
CONTENTS:
The Plays
In the Shadow of the Glen
Riders to the Sea
The Well of the Saints
The Playboy of the Western World
The Tinker’s Wedding
Deirdre of the Sorrows
The Poetry Collections
Collected Poems
The Prose
The Aran Islands
In Wicklow and West Kerry
Miscellaneous Essays and Reviews
The Biographies
Synge and the Ireland of His Time by W. B. Yeats
Brief Biography of John Millington Synge by William Kirkpatrick Magee
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A woman whose life is in danger, the bodyguard sworn to protect her, and a race against time to get her to safety.Medical student Lexi Maheras has one goal—get matched to a top hospital so she can complete her residency. When her father calls, telling her he’s arranged for her to marry a man she barely knows, Lexi is positive something is wrong. In an effort to give herself some time to figure out what’s going on, she decides the only way to slow things down is to arrange her own marriage.Ex-Army Ranger Jake Maverick promised Basil Maheras that he’d keep Lexi safe at all costs—he just never thought the cost would include his bachelor status. But when Lexi tells him her father is forcing her to marry the man he was hired to protect her from in the first place, he feels the only way to keep her safe is to marry her in an attempt to get her father from Greece to the states so he can figure out what’s going on.When their secret is leaked, and Lexi’s life is put in danger, they have no choice but to run. Now, they’re stuck together, and the more they learn about each other, the less pretend their marriage feels. Views: 694
CIA operations officer Quinn King will do whatever it takes to find the person who killed her partner. She follows the evidence to Innovative Rocket Technologies, a start-up company and current darling of the rocket world. Their most recent launch, however, ended in an explosion that Quinn believes is connected to her partner's death. The CIA sends Cam Mitchell to provide backup for Quinn — and to make sure she isn't too emotionally invested. With Cam watching her back, Quinn embeds herself at IRT. She soon discovers there is more to the failed launch than IRT has shared with the public. And someone has a vested interest in keeping that information under wraps. When the CIA finds new evidence that someone is actively sabotaging the next launch, they call in Parker, Ree and Mike from the FBI to help manage a growing number of loose ends. However, once Cam and Quinn realize why the rocket is being sabotaged, it puts them right in the crosshairs of a... Views: 694
A Deal With the Devil is the first collection of short stories by one of today s favorite writers of mystery novels and short stories. The stories in A Deal With the Devils show how even the most mundane things can lead to a whirl of mystery a randy husband, a bingo game on a cruise liner, an ugly bridesmaid dress, a husband jogging with a startlingly beautiful trainer (a dangerous situation at the best of times), and Satan ready to take over people s lives. Viets is the creator of several popular detectives reporter Francesca Vierling, Dead-End Jobs worker Helen Hawthorne, Death Investigator Angela Richman, and Mystery Shopper Josie Marcus. This collection includes two stories in the Dead-End Jobs series and one each about Francesca Vierling and Angela Richman. Two of the stories received Best Short Story Mystery Awards, the Anthony for Red Meat and the Agatha for Wedding Knife. Introduction and prefaces to each story by the author and including a complete Elaine Viets bibliography. Cover design by Gail Cross
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When Josie Matthews buys a Victorian mansion with a notorious past, she hopes to turn it into a successful inn. While she expects all the headaches of renovating an old house, she isn't prepared to be sent back in time to the site of a double-murder which occurred at the mansion in 1929. While the murders were never solved, they were believed to have been committed by Wall Street financier, David Remington, forever known as the Tycoon Murderer.At the height of the Roaring Twenties, David Remington has invited several friends and acquaintances to a house party, including a Chicago bootlegger and his moll, a Broadway playwright and his best friend, a corrupt U.S. Senator and his wife, a handsome silent screen star and a disgruntled federal agent. After a mysterious woman arrives uninvited, guests start dying one-by-one, making everyone wonder who will be next.Determined to solve the murders before being sent back to her own time, Josie investigates the crimes and... Views: 694
Teenager Dilya Stevenson's life at the White House is like no one else's. As the First Family's nanny and dog walker, her duties are sometimes light and always enjoyable. Which leaves her plenty of time to keep her eyes and ears open behind the scenes. Facing danger as a child, and even death has taught her to be a loner—too much so her elders fear. Retired spy Miss Watson takes pride in trusting no one. But she keeps a weather eye on Dilya from her secret library in the White House's deepest basement. Both she and Major Emily Beale, an old friend, wish to save the girl from following in either of their footprints. Little knowing that all their lives will be impacted, they set Dilya's Christmas Challenge. Don't miss the companion story: Emily's Christmas Gift, a Henderson's Ranch story. Views: 694
