Marion: 1935 books

Would you risk your life to save your enemy? Prison guard Ursula Hermann does. A prisoner escapes. She looks the other way. Ursula has always lived the law, never broken the rules in her life. That is until the day she finds escapee British airman Tom Westlake and does...

Richard is a soldier. He obeys orders… …until he sees her. He never wanted to be a Wehrmacht soldier, he'd much rather stick his nose into a book. But Hitler's war thrust him deep into Russia on the Eastern Front when he was but sixteen years old. Two years later and...

Loving her is a crime… … that could ruin his entire military career. Royal Air Force pilot Tom is desperate to find the woman he left behind in Nazi Germany. When he finally does, he discovers he can never be with her.  Too deep are the wounds of their nations from World War 2.  Ursula...

Whom can you trust when friends become foes? Hiding from the Nazis… … right under their noses. Lotte works for the Wehrmacht and spies for the British. A race against the time begins, when her contact in the Norwegian resistance is captured. Who will be faster, the...

Here you will find the following works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Austen, Jane: “Northanger Abbey” Benson, E. F.: “Caterpillars” Bierce, Ambrose: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Blackwood, Algernon: “The Listener” Blackwood, Algernon: “The Willows” Brontë,...

In this edition of his widely acclaimed study, Marion B. Lucas tackles one of the most debated questions about the Civil War: Who burned South Carolina's capital city on February 17, 1865? Before the fires had finished smoldering, Confederates and Federals accused each other of starting the blaze,...

The fifteenth and sixteenth states to join the United States of America, Kentucky and Tennessee were cut from a common cloth -- the rich region of the Ohio River Valley. Abounding with mountainous regions and fertile farmlands, these two slaveholding states were as closely tied to one another, both...

When Jill Cahill was leaving to return home after visiting with her family for a week, she turned to her sister with a grin, and said: "If Jeff kills me, you can have all my things." A few days later, she was in a coma in a Syracuse hospital, her skull shattered by a savage beating inflicted...

Contents THE PROPHETIC PICTURES By Nathaniel Hawthorne THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW By Washington Irving THE GOLD-BUG By Edgar Allan Poe CORPORAL FLINT'S MURDER (From "The Oak Openings") By J. Fenimore Cooper UNCLE JIM...

Italian executive Roberto Romeo seems very taken by his pretty sales assistant. So as the snow falls and the Christmas festivities begin, he sets about finding a new role for her… as his fiancée! THE TYCOON'S CHRISTMAS ENGAGEMENT by Rebecca Winters Annie can scarcely believe it when her...

Twenty ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the ninth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 9 in the series contains stories published between 1841 and 1899,...

This is the life story of ‘Injun Joe’, born Wellwyn Harris Collins, in 1950. His mother was half-caste Maori of the Ngati Kahungunu tribe, his father a Scottish-Irish immigrant whose family had substantial holdings in Hawke’s Bay.Joe became well known as an elite hunterhelicopter pilot, one of...

Francis Marion Crawford takes us on a lively tour of the Capital where east meets west during the waning years of Ottoman rule. He portrays a lively city of the dying empire. This is the 1893 serialization that predated the his book Constantinople. Well illustrated.

A cross between Nora Ephron and David Sedaris, longtime NPR commentator Marion Winik has a uniquely hilarious and relatable way of looking at life. Her stories of being single in middle age, marked by stylish writing and stunning candor, left readers bent double with laughter when they appeared in...