Master of His Fate

Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250187397
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413

Book Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the first book in a stunning new historical saga. Victorian England is a country of sharp divides between rich and poor, but James Lionel Falconer, who spends his days working at his father’s market stall, is determined to become a merchant prince. Even as a child, he is everything a self-made man should be: handsome, ambitious, charming, and brimming with self-confidence. James quickly rises through the ranks, proving himself both hardworking and trustworthy, and catching the eye of Henry Malvern, head of the most prestigious shipping company in London. But when threats against his reputation – and his life - begin to emerge, James will have to prove that he truly is the master of his fate. Through scandal and romance, tragedy and triumph, the Falconer and Malvern family’s lives intertwine in unexpected ways in this expansive and intricately detailed new novel filled with drama, intrigue, and Bradford's trademark cast of compelling characters.

Master of His Fate

Author: James Tobin
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1627793313
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
Master of His Fate by James Tobin is an inspiring middle-grade biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with a focus on his battle with polio and how his disease set him on the course to become president. In 1921, FDR contracted polio. Just as he began to set his sights on the New York governorship—and, with great hope, the presidency—FDR became paralyzed from the waist down. FDR faced a radical choice: give up politics or reenter the arena with a disability, something never seen before. With the help of Eleanor and close friends, Roosevelt made valiant strides toward rehabilitation and became even more focused on becoming president, proving that misfortune sometimes turns out to be a portal to unexpected opportunities and rewards—even to greatness. This groundbreaking political biography richly weaves together medicine, disability narratives, and presidential history. Christy Ottaviano Books

Master Of My Fate

Author: Sienna Brown
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 0143787543
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
William Buchanan lived an extraordinary life. Born a slave on a plantation in Jamaica, he escaped the gallows more than once. His part in the slave uprisings of the 1830s led to his transportation across the world as one of the convicts sent to New South Wales. This is a story not only about a boy who fought against all odds in search of freedom, but also about a world not so long ago, when the violence of colonisation was in full force. It is a story of Jamaica, and Australia, but at its heart, it is a story about how one lives a life, whether slave or free man. Steeped in history but full of lessons that resonate for us today, William Buchanan’s coming-of-age tale of survival and fate is a thrilling tale told in a singular voice, from a startling new talent in Australian writing.

The Master of Fate

Author: Gonzalo Munévar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
A coming-of-age story centering on the life of Oscar Moreira, a privileged fourteen-year-old who attends a Catholic boarding school in Bogotá, Colombia.

Master of His Fate

Author: J. Mclaren Cobban
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734022304
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90

Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Master of His Fate by J. Mclaren Cobban

Fate is the Hunter

Author: Ernest K. Gann
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671636030
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 421

Book Description
An episodic log of some of the author's more memorable hours aloft in peace and as a member of the Air Transport Command in war.

The Fate of Katherine Carr

Author: Thomas H. Cook
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547488637
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
An “eerily poignant novel” about a grieving father and a cold-case mystery, from an Edgar Award winner (PublishersWeekly, starred review). George Gates used to be a travel writer who specialized in places where people disappeared—Judge Crater, the Lost Colony. Then his eight-year-old son was murdered, the killer never found, and Gates gave up disappearance. Now he writes stories of redemptive triviality about flower festivals and local celebrities for the town paper, and spends his evenings haunted by the image of his son’s last day. Enter Arlo McBride, a retired missing-persons detective still obsessed with the unsolved case of Katherine Carr. When he gives Gates the story she left behind—a story of a man stalking a woman named Katherine Carr—Gates too is drawn inexorably into a search for the missing author’s brief life and uncertain fate. And as he goes deeper, he begins to suspect that her tale holds the key not only to her fate, but to his own. “Every Thomas H. Cook novel is a subtle mind game, but The Fate of Katherine Carr is positively haunting.” —The New York Times Book Review “Disturbing, psychologically complex . . . At each level, the novel ponders questions of good and evil, of guilt and retribution, and the power of storytelling itself.” —Associated Press

A Dance with Fate

Author: Juliet Marillier
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451492803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514

Book Description
A young woman who is both a bard--and a warrior--seeks to repay her debts and settle scores in this thrilling historical fantasy series. The young warrior and bard Liobhan has lost her brother to the Otherworld. Even more determined to gain a place as an elite fighter, she returns to Swan Island to continue her training. But Liobhan is devastated when her comrade Dau is injured and loses his sight in their final display bout. Blamed by Dau's family for the accident, she agrees to go to Dau's home as a bond servant for the span of one year. There, she soon learns that Oakhill is a place of dark secrets. The vicious Crow Folk still threaten both worlds. And Dau, battling the demon of despair, is not an easy man to help. When Liobhan and Dau start to expose the rot at the center of Oakhill, they place themselves in deadly danger. For their enemy wields great power and will stop at nothing to get his way. It will take all the skills of a Swan Island warrior and a touch of the uncanny to give them a hope of survival. . . .

The Mirror of Merlin

Author: T. A. Barron
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780441008469
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
"Young sorcery fans . . . set aside Harry Potter and pick up Merlin! ["The Mirror of Merlin" is] ingeniousIfilled with rich images [and] surprising touches of humor.U--"Cincinnati Enquirer. TRich with magic."--"The New York Times Book Review."

Conrad's Fate

Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780007508709
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
A magical adventure from Diana Wynne Jones, set in the worlds of Chrestomanci!