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.

The Book of Fate

Author: Brad Meltzer
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 0759568421
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 455

Book Description
"Six minutes from now, one of us would be dead. None of us knew it was coming." So says Wes Holloway, a young presidential aide, about the day he put Ron Boyle, the chief executive's oldest friend, into the president's limousine. By the trip's end, a crazed assassin would permanently disfigure Wes and kill Boyle. Now, eight years later, Boyle has been spotted alive. Trying to figure out what really happened takes Wes back into disturbing secrets buried in Freemason history, a decade-old presidential crossword puzzle, and a two-hundred-year-old code invented by Thomas Jefferson that conceals secrets worth dying for.

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

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!

His Dragon's Fate (Crimson Light Clan 1)

Author: Stormy Glenn
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
ISBN: 1646374576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
[Siren Publishing: The Stormy Glenn ManLove Collection: Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Alternative, Shape-shifters, Fantasy, Paranormal, MM, HEA] Elam Frazier was a simple farmer with a simple life. He never expected to find a dragon shifter hiding inside of his barn. Dmitri was the High Commander for a dragon prince and he takes his duty very seriously. It didn't leave any room for love life, but one night together changes all of that and throws them into a dangerous situation that threatens all they hold dear. Dmitri had been raised from birth to do his duty and protect his prince. It was a duty he would have until he took his very last breath. When he has to take his prince on the run to save his life, he encounters a man that makes Dmitri rethink his duty, and that could be very dangerous. Warriors like him didn't get mates, but that doesn't stop Dmitri from wishing Elam was his. When the danger to his prince lands on Elam's doorstep, Dmitri is put in a situation where he has to choose between his duty and the man he wants to keep at his side forever. There is no possibility he can have both...or is there? Stormy Glenn is a Siren-exclusive author.