Showing results for "Storm" in Contemporary Fiction

Clio is staying with her aunt, Hester, at Bridge House on the edge of Exmoor. A beautiful house, it is the scene of many happy childhood memories. But Clio has no idea that it was the setting for a terrible incident after the Second World War.

Desperate poachers are stalking the dwindling populations of Zimbabwe's great game parks. Ancient rivalries have ignited modern political ambitions and nothing is certain for those of the old Africa. But for Richard Dunn the stakes are even higher. Into his world comes the beautiful and compelling Steve Hayes, a woman struggling to guard her own dreadful secret. Richard has no choice: Face the consequences of the past and fight for the future. To lose now is to lose everything.

卢沟桥事变爆发、北平沦陷的时代背景下，以祁家四世同堂的生活为主线，形象、真切地描绘了以小羊圈胡同住户为代表的各个阶层、各色人等的荣辱浮沉、生死存亡。…… 在盧溝橋事變爆發、北平淪陷的時代背景下，以祁家四世同堂的生活為主線，形象、真切地描繪了以小羊圈胡同住戶為代表的各個階層、各色人等的榮辱浮沉、生死存亡。

Just when he begins to make progress on the last chapters of his book, a hurricane approaches his home in North Carolina. If he goes to visit his father, another storm may await in Houston. His neighbor and that family add further complications and secrets that need to be hidden or avoided, especially from the FBI.

This book was not written to impress you. It was written to confront you — gently, honestly, and without apology. What follows is not a story of linear triumph or tidy resolution. It is a story of pressure — the kind that shapes people quietly, often without witnesses, long before they understand what is happening to them. It traces how becoming rarely announces itself, how growth is often mistaken for withdrawal, and how strength is learned before it is recognised.

Book 3: The Track of a Storm: A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.

Another sumptuous novel set in the heart and heat of colonial India, Bhargava 's heroine comes to a full knowledge of herself against the backdrop of India 's route to independence. It is 1941. Princess Malvika, or Mili, and her friend Vicky have gained entrance to one of the best schools in all of India. But the times are turbulent, and the girls will not escape the changes stemming from the independence movement growing in strength around the country.

When Mairi MacDonald loses her only daughter at birth, Mairi takes Christy into the warmth and fellowship of the close-knit island community to raise as her own, but finds it hard to welcome the waif into her heart, blaming Christy for taking the place of her true daughter. Longing for a mother's love, Christy finds companionship with her cherished foster brother David. When David is crippled in a near fatal accident, Christy realizes the true depth of her feelings. But will he ever feel the same for her?

Emma læser mellemøststudier på Københavns Universitet, og i jagten på at opleve et autentisk Mellemøsten flytter hun til Kairo. Her bliver hun hurtigt venner med tre unge egyptiske mænd, der var aktive under revolutionen, men nu kæmper sig gennem tilværelsen under et kontrollerende militærdiktatur. Livet i Kairo er hektisk og uforudsigeligt, og mange lever i konstant angst for fængsling, fattigdom, biluheld og fremtidsløshed. På trods fortsætter livet, hverdagen, festerne og jagten på kærligheden.

The last storm brought death and famine to the rural town at the heart of this story. Now another storm is brewing, and many believe it to be the work of spiteful Old Lady Deakins. In this dark and unpredictable tale, the woman assumed to be responsible for the storm might be the only one able to lift the town's curse.