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 | Giving up the Ghost | corra | Novel | 3 | n/a | Jun 17, 2008 |
Summary:This is the story of a little boy who refused to give up on his father. In a journey of hope that sweeps across five wars, two continents, and seven generations, one man has 320 days to see his life through a child's eyes - and change history.Chapters: |
 | Providence | becket | Novel | 4 | n/a | Jun 8, 2008 |
Summary:Providence was meant to accompany a good bottle of wine, an easy chair, and an evening away from the TV and the 21st Century. This is the story of an American tall ship's voyage around Cape Horn to San Francisco. The story is set in 1872
and lands the reader on the deck and up in the rigging of a magnificent, wooden square rigger. Experience the dangerous lives of men at sea in harm's way. Feel the bonds that tie these men to each other and their ship. Meet Yankee Down East captains and mates, aspiring apprentices, and sailors who swear, tell tall tales, and chew tobacco. Also read about the remarkable lives of the women who love them. Prepare yourself for the adventure of a lifetime. The ancient mystery and awe of the sea still beckons.
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 | Moving Shadows | Kay Lovell | Novel | 1 | n/a | May 14, 2008 |
Summary:The story is based upon real facts but with the added writers license to indulge. Romance, and intrigue are part of the story. The development of the harbour in a remote Cornish village, the leading figure of this area was a Solicitor and a Banker, the Cornish family of long standing with connections to the throne. He has an affair with a male clerk, although married, not very satisfactory and his wife eventually meets an officer in the Royal Navy, whose frigate regularly berths at Georgetown, they immediately strike up a relationship.
Poverty in a Fishing Village, a hamlet of nine houses and the wonderful backdrop of the cornish scenery provides the setting for this gentle story.
Feedback: constructive critism please, any weaknesses please point out. development suggestions.
Thanks: I would like to thank those of you that have taken the trouble to give an opinion and it has been taken on board. The rest of the book is still under construction, and yes I do use too many words. But the editing is still underway. I have only just realised that I could alter the layout, still learning you see. Ooops!Chapters: |
 | The Willow Tree of Tullamaine | Roisin Moriarty | Novel | 2 | n/a | May 6, 2008 |
Summary:The Willow Tree of Tullamaine tells the story of Caitlin Donovan, a sixteen-year old, Irish tenant-farmer's daughter. Her only ambition is to marry Dillon Banion and raise a family with him in Tullamaine, a small village tucked into the hills of Wicklow, but she becomes enmeshed in the tangle of Anglo and Celt, Protestant and Catholic, faerie and mortal that is Ireland. She is forced to take a path not of her choosing.
The novel explores the moral dilemmas that occur in a politically charged atmosphere, dilemmas no less relevant today than they were in 1892 Ireland. It is also a story about the persistence of the human impulse to love.Chapters: |
 | The Female Factory | Pamala J | Novel | 1 | n/a | Apr 27, 2008 |
Summary:It is the beginning of the 19th century in England when two sisters, Bridget and Ivy, find themselves separated by a series of untimely events in their homeland of England. This story is about their search to reunite, Bridget's unwanted journey to an untamed land called New South Wales and to a prison called The Female Factory, the finding of love and resolution.
None of this may have happened had it not been for the women Bridget meets in the English gaol. These prisoners become her world and her hope in finding her sister. Two of the prisoners are Cossette and Annie. Cossette makes Bridget a promise in the following excerpt: "After a few moments, Bridget lifted her head and stared at Cossette and Annie. She must survive to find her beloved Ivy, she told herself.
Drying her tears, she said to Cossette, “I am so afraid I will never find my sister.”
Cossette recognized the fear, all too well, behind her words. Her fear was existence, without recognition, stretching into an unknown future. It was being, completely and utterly, alone in the world, with no one who loved you.
Cossette promised, “I will help you, little one, find Ivy. The day will come, be patient. But first, let’s find a way to leave this place.”
This is the beginning, you will want to know the ending. I promise.
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 | THE SEVENTH HOUR | rlvs | Novel | 1 | n/a | Apr 14, 2008 |
Summary:seven hours to save the world and kill the devil.Chapters: |
 | The Thracian Connection | emma rooney | Novel | 8 | n/a | Apr 7, 2008 |
Summary:my story begins in thracia 44AD during the thracian/roman wars. it describes early thracian life focusing om the thracian leader Hermious and his family.
Future chapters will make a connection with the present day via a school teacher called Olivia. it follows her on a journey of discovery to bulgaria were she understands the meaning behind the gold bracelet she wears. she falls in love with a bulgarian archeologist and together they discover both her past and her possible future.Chapters: |
 | The Captain's Head | Eben Wilson | Novel | 2 | n/a | Apr 6, 2008 |
Summary:A beautiful young woman stows away on a Yankee Clipper in the 1830's to escape her tumultuous life. Tragically she dies at sea, but not before she is reunited with an extraordinary woman from her past who has the power to bring resolution to both of their lives and carry on a special family legacy in a most remarkable and surprising way.Chapters: |