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3 days ago · The action outside the house is the terrifying background to the family story. It’s summer 1919, Chicago’s red summer, and there’s violence in the street. We hear an occasional gunshot and sometimes crowd noise, and everyone in the house reacts with great fear. Mr. Bass announces that everyone is going to stay there for the night—and gets out his rifle.
Oct 10, 1999 · DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE. by Isabel Allende & translated by Margaret Sayers Peden ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 10, 1999. Allende’s first novel in six years (The Infinite Plan, 1993, etc.) delivers her gentle, often plush style at extravagant length to tell the life of Eliza Sommers, a Chilean woman who immigrates to San Francisco in the 1840s.
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Feb 15, 2013 · A critical piece of evidence in this unabashedly Ricardian tale is the Bill of Attainder brought by Henry VII against Richard III, which makes no mention whatsoever of the princes—certainly suggestive to Grant of their being alive at the time. Critics point out that this is a work of fiction. Rightly so.
The Daughter of Time is a 1951 detective novel by Josephine Tey, concerning a modern police officer's investigation into the alleged crimes of King Richard III of England. It was the last book Tey published in her lifetime, shortly before her death. In 1990 it was voted number one in The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time list compiled by the ...
3.90. 34,365 ratings4,317 reviews. Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitive face actually belong to a heinous villain — a king who killed his brother's children to secure his crown? Grant seeks what kind of man Richard was and who in fact killed the princes in the tower.
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Oct 21, 1999 · Sobel, author of the bestselling Longitude (1995), has elegantly translated the letters Galileo’s eldest child, Virginia, wrote to him and uses them as a leitmotif to illuminate their deep mutual love, religious faith, and dedication to science. Yes, Galileo had a daughter, in fact two daughters and a son, the illegitimate offspring of a liaison with a Venetian beauty. Both daughters ...
Mar 19, 2024 · “The Wrong Daughter” by Dandy Smith is a gripping psychological thriller that follows the story of Caitlin and Olivia, two sisters whose lives are turned upside down when Olivia mysteriously disappears one night while their parents are out.
