A Dangerous Crossing
Title | A Dangerous Crossing PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Rhys |
Publisher | Random House Australia |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2017-04-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0143783203 |
'An exquisite story of love, murder, adventure and dark secrets, Rachel Rhys brings this dangerous crossing brilliantly and beautifully alive' LISA JEWELL 'Thrilling, seductive, utterly absorbing' PAULA HAWKINS England, September 1939 Lily Shepherd boards a cruise liner for a new life in Australia and is plunged into a world of cocktails, jazz and glamorous friends. But as the sun beats down, poisonous secrets begin to surface. Suddenly Lily finds herself trapped with nowhere to go ... Australia, six weeks later The world is at war, the cruise liner docks, and a beautiful young woman is escorted onto dry land in handcuffs. What has she done? 'Thrilling, captivating. Simply stunning' Daily Express 'It is written so beautifully it seems to glide by way too quickly, transporting you on a journey you won't want to end' Sunday Mirror 'Rhys creates such a powerful sense of foreboding that you may well gulp down the entire book in a single day' The Irish Times
Dangerous Crossings
Title | Dangerous Crossings PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Jean Kim |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2015-04-20 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1107044944 |
Dangerous Crossings interprets disputes in the United States over the use of animals in the cultural practices of nonwhite peoples.
Constance and the Dangerous Crossing
Title | Constance and the Dangerous Crossing PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Gilbert |
Publisher | Girls Survive |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1515883345 |
In 1620 an orphaned fifteen-year-old servant girl joins Separatists seeking religious freedom and others aboard the Mayflower as they undertake a perilous journey to the New World. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.
A Dangerous Crossing
Title | A Dangerous Crossing PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Mitchell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2017-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781910411582 |
Desert Crossing
Title | Desert Crossing PDF eBook |
Author | Elise Broach |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2006-05-02 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1466831944 |
There are some kinds of trouble you never see coming, like those thunderstorms that start from nothing at all. One minute the sky is bright blue and distant. Then, all of a sudden, it's dark and thick with clouds, pressing down right on top of you. The leaves turn silvery and twist in the wind, the air starts to hum, and the rain comes, so heavy and fast you can't even see. You almost never make it to the house on time. A dead body on the road—who is responsible and how will it affect the lives of three teens? For fourteen-year-old Lucy Martinez, the moment when everything changes comes one night during a long car trip with her older brother and his friend Kit. They are on their way to visit Lucy's father for spring break, but never make it. While driving across northern New Mexico through a blinding rainstorm, their car hits something—an animal, they think. But when they backtrack, they find a dead body on the side of the road. With amazing insight and compelling prose, Elise Broach charts a suspenseful journey full of danger, loss, and painful self-discovery. What will happen to the lives of three teenagers who can suddenly no longer pretend innocence?
Dangerous Crossing
Title | Dangerous Crossing PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Krensky |
Publisher | Dutton Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Biographical fiction, American |
ISBN | 9780525469667 |
In February 1778, at the height of the Revolutionary War, the American representative from Massachusetts, John Adams, is sent on a secret mission to France. It is dangerous to cross the Atlantic in winter, but the situation is desperate-the colonies need France's help against the British army. Adams is accompanied by his ten-year-old son, Johnny. Together, father and son must weather an angry ocean, perilous sea battles, and other dangers to help the colonies achieve freedom. Vivid illustrations and a fast-paced narrative bring to life this little-told story of a character-defining event in the lives of two future presidents.
Butcher's Crossing
Title | Butcher's Crossing PDF eBook |
Author | John Williams |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2011-03-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1590174240 |
Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Gabe Polsky. In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher’s Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.