A commercial pilot regularly flies the air routes out of "naughty" Singapore; and all it's fleshpots; to all the islands around the Pacific. On one such trip, The Japanese invade the island he has landed at, and his aircraft is destroyed.He escapes the Japanese, but his co-pilot and best friend who owns the airfield/ village store/ bar restaurant are killed.After finding a small fishing boat to escape in; he has to knock out a nun who wishes to stay and be a martyr to death for her church. So over the next 4 months on the fishing boat, she is livid that this stupid pilot has foiled her destiny of martyrdom. After many adventures they fall in love and are rescued by a US Navy submarine from Brisbane Australia. They marry and start a new airline in Australia naming their aircraft after saints.
Haunted by the final words of a newly baptized congregation member who was subsequently murdered by her husband, the Reverend Stephen Drew abandons his pulpit to spend time with an author who writes best-selling books about angels.
When sophisticated, wealthy Sydney Fox marries the suave, jet-setting Prince Alessandro Di Contini, everything seems perfect, until the Prince rapes his wife's sister, Lindsay Fox, a crime that triggers a deadly chain of events.
A biography of the personal physician to both Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr reveals how he was driven to create the Republic's first botanical garden.
As she struggles to accept that this is likely her last season in Long Harbor, Becca is inspired by her granddaughter’s boldness in the face of impending single-motherhood, and summons the courage to reveal a secret she was forced to bury ...
Idlewild continued its role as a distinctive American resort throughout the 1950s, with photographs ranging from Phil Giles' Flamingo Club and Arthur Braggs's Idlewild Revue.
"What would you do tot survive if your very existence were illegal? Rowan is a second child in a world where population control measures make her an outlaw, marked for death ..."--
Ecrit en 1909, ce roman quasi autobiographique constitue une excellente introduction aux livres nombreux de cet écrivain américain. Méconnu et injustement oublié, on le redécouvre comme un conteur captivant et vigoureux. [SDM].
Art meets science in this beautiful catalogue of botanical illustration.
Or were they Tasaday farmers who had been coerced? In answering that question, Hemley has written a gripping and ultimately tragic tale of innocence found, lost, and found again.
... thought through this aspect of their plan So when the hero offered sacrifice after exiting the boat “[the gods sniffed] the smell, they gathered [like flies] over the offering” (Arnold and Beyer, Readings from the Ancient Near East, ...