THE family lawyer had left her; she had listened with tightened lips, as through a labyrinth of legal phrases, he had informed her that she could only count upon five-and-twenty pounds per annum to feed, clothe, and provide for herself a roof to shelter her.
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At the Missouri frontier town, on the banks of the Mississippi River, the intrigue revolves around two boys-one, born into slavery, with 1/32 black ancestry; the other, white, born to be the master of the house.
Sir Geoffrey Peveril and Major Bridgenorth had been boys together, and although they adopted different views in religion and politics, the Roundhead major had saved the Royalist's life after the battle of Bolton-le-Moors, and Lady Peveril had brought up major's girl, Alice, with her own son.
Fountain of the Drowning is a multi-layered narrative set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a period when Egypt witnessed dramatic events, from the constructionof the Suez Canal to the British occuation, which brought about rapid modernaization and the Europeanization of social norms.
In 2035 at Bradfield in Western Sydney, a love triangle develops during a national computer and internet breakdown and the social disruption that follows.
'Ms Conroy's writing is fresh and entertaining, it's like an episode of Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries sprinkled with what I can only describe as a good old-fashioned Miss Marple.
James Schuyler Grim, or "e;Jimgrim"e; is an American secret agent who had been recruited by the British intelligence services, and stationed in post World War I Jerusalem because of his in-depth knowledge of Arab life.
Um ihre Familie vor dem unverschuldeten Bankrott zu bewahren, lässt sich die temperamentvolle Lucia zur Heirat mit einem wohlhabenden Mann von hohem Stand überreden.
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Eine mutige junge Frau in einer Welt voller Verrat und AberglaubeGrafschaft Hanau-Münzenberg, 1524: Das Glück der Hirtin Gertrud Dey, die sich in den fahrenden Händler Franz Schott verliebt hat, scheint perfekt.