Lose yourself in this captivating and heart-wrenching saga from much loved author Jess Foley, written in the bestselling tradition of Josephine Cox, Catherine Cookson and Dilly Court. You will not want to put it down... READERS ARE LOVING TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN 'Good story couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review 'Keeps you gripped to the end'-- ***** Reader review 'A stunning read'-- ***** Reader review 'An emotional rollercoaster of a book'-- ***** Reader review ************************************************** HOW HIGH A PRICE MUST SHE PAY TO KEEP HER FAMILY SAFE? Grace Harper's world falls apart when she is orphaned and she and her little brother Billy are left homeless and alone. Putting her grief and fear aside, she must think practically. When she finds a job as companion to the wealthy, lonely Mrs Spencer, she and Billy are relieved to have a roof over their heads again, but just as Grace starts to find her feet disaster strikes again. Things look desperate, and when she is offered marriage and a good life for herself and Billy, Grace is tempted. But is her suitor to be trusted? Or is she, desperate in her search for safety for her little family, flying too close to the sun?
Curtis Roosevelt was three when he and his sister, Eleanor, arrived at the White House soon after their grandfather’s inauguration.
A New York Times Notable Book, this portrait of the famed African explorer portrayed by Robert Redford in the film Out of Africa covers Hatton's prestigious education, relationships with Beryl Markham and Karen Blixen, and his achievements ...
The first major survey to reveal the ways in which Classical mythology has inspired art throughout the last 2,500 yearsFrom the films of Woody Allen and the Coen Brothers to...
Shuttle Air Boeing 727 Captain Christina Shepard's life is derailed when she is diagnosed with an illness that will end her lifelong airline pilot career.
Flying Close to the Sun is the stunning memoir of a white middle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the Weather Underground, one of the most notorious groups of the 1960s.
The Boy who Flew Too Near the Sun
This is a wise book by a wise man about the most taboo of all subjects. Read it, and fear not.
" ... Concise explanations and descriptions - easily read and readily understood - of what we know of the chain of events and processes that connect the Sun to the Earth, with special emphasis on space weather and Sun-Climate.
Gurewitsch, Edna P. Kindred Souls: The Devoted Friendship of Eleanor Roosevelt and Dr. David Gurewitsch. New York: Plume, 2002. Jackson, Robert H. That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt. John Q. Barrett, ed.
Here is the moving, mordantly funny, and uncompromising account of one Israeli's life.