20 títulos para "Amolibros"

Nine Lives

Brooks, Ruth

Your school days, so the saying goes, are the happiest days of your life. But what happens to those who are excluded from mainstream school – children who are so scarred by personal trauma that normal classroom interaction is simply not possible? Or those who cannot attend through serious illn...

A Shilling on Good Friday

Hoare, Adrian John

Continuing the story based on the brief, eventful and tragic life of Englishman William Reynolds and the parallel exploits of the furtive Atzerodt. Arriving in the bustling city of Baltimore, William is soon to realise his ambition to become a soldier. Following attestation in a Union Army Voluntee...

Verse And More (from Sheffield)

Morris, Editha

Poems: understanding and putting into words the way local Sheffield people speak.Of mixed Welsh, Irish and Silesian origin, Editha Morris was born in Derby in 1916; she had two sons: Adrian and Paul.?She started working as a beautician when the family moved to Sheffeld in 1947; the family then lived...

Holding Back the Tears

Tickner, Susan

In 1952 Susan and her brother were given away by their mother and subsequently sent to Australia under the Child Migrant Scheme. Susan's first book Goodbye, Mummy Darling described her journey through life and her constant search for reasons why. Does a return trip to Australia, compensation from t...

Over the Hills and Far Away

Logan, Harford / McHardy, Joanne / Bennett, Holly

Harford Logan has spent a lifetime working and winning trials with his Border Collies but ask him what's so special about them and he's likely to look somewhere in the middle distance and eventually reply, "Well, now, that's hard to put into a few words." And that's why he's written this book - an u...

Salome's Daughters

Tatam, Jane F

Siamese cats rule in the House of Bast and live in a world where mankind no longer exists. They worship the Egyptian goddess Bast and live peacefully and happily in the world that She has created for them. Ruled by females, all is well until good Queen Salome dies and Belvedere, her daughter is abou...

Testimony to Love

Steele-Perkins, Gwen F

This book is fascinating on many levels. It is a glimpse, through her own words, into the life of a woman, Gwen, born in the nineteenth century into a life of privilege. Much of her early adult life was lived in expatriate communities in Egypt, Hong Kong and India. It reveals – perhaps inadver...

Walking Wounded

Osborne, Anna Franklin

Born at the end of the First World War, a young girl struggles to find her own identity in her big family and is pushed into a stormy marriage through a terrible misunderstanding from which her pride refuses to let her back down. As her own personal world begins to crumble, the foundation of the wor...

Looking for the Way

Flint, Jeremy

Look around...have you ever wondered how all this works? What is the goal of life, its object or purpose and what is the best way to achieve that goal? Me, too, so I embarked on a journey to find the fundamental law of the Universe. Sometimes you simply cannot see the wood for the trees. Two...

The Kid on Slapton Beach

Thompson, Felicity Fair

War is hard enough when your dad is missing in action, and even harder when you have to leave everything you know and love. Twelve-year-old Harry is one of three thousand people leaving the coast in Devon during the Second World War as US troops move into the area, planning secret D-Day rehearsals...

Move Over

Lynch, Martha / Marie, Martha

The book is about the relationships between ten siblings who were born and brought up in Dublin by a selfish, greedy and manipulative mother. The eldest girl was eighteen when her youngest sibling was born. The book opens in late spring in 1969. Sheila Malone's four eldest daughters are coming home...

The Way of an Eagle

Phillips, N. R.

From Cornwall to Yemen, four innocent bird watchers are manipulated into a sequence of intrigue, threat and violence, from which there seems no escape. In a departure from his previous books, set in his native Cornwall, N.R. (Roy) Phillips draws on his experience of ornithological expeditions to Yem...