On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service

Author: Rhys Bowen
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425283518
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Lady Georgiana Rannoch juggles secret missions from the Queen, her beau, and her mother in this mystery in the Royal Spyness series. When royal sleuth Georgie Rannoch receives a letter from her dearest friend Belinda, who's in an Italian villa awaiting the birth of her illegitimate baby, she yearns to run to her side. If only she could find a way to get there! But then opportunity presents itself in a most unexpected way—her cousin the queen asks her to attend a house party in the Italian Lake Country. The Prince of Wales and the dreadful Mrs. Simpson have been invited, and Her Majesty is anxious to thwart a possible secret wedding. What luck! A chance to see Belinda, even if it is under the guise of stopping unwanted nuptials. Only that's as far as Georgie's fortune takes her. She soon discovers that she attended finishing school with the hostess of the party—and the hatred they had for each other then has barely dimmed. Plus, she needs to hide Belinda's delicate condition from the other guests. And her dashing beau, Darcy's (naturally) working undercover on a dangerous mission. Then her actress mother shows up, with a not-so-little task to perform. With all this subterfuge, it seems something is bound to go horribly wrong—and Georgie will no doubt be left to pick up the pieces when it does.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Author: Ian Fleming
Publisher: LA CASE Books
ISBN: 195354634X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the second book in what is known as the "Blofeld trilogy", which begins with Thunderball and concludes with You Only Live Twice. The story centres on Bond's ongoing search to find Ernst Stavro Blofeld after the Thunderball incident; through contact with the College of Arms in London Bond finds Blofeld based in Switzerland. After meeting him and discovering his latest plans, Bond attacks the centre where he is based, although Blofeld escapes in the confusion. Bond meets and falls in love with Contessa Teresa "Tracy" di Vicenzo during the story.

My Father, Marconi

Author: Degna Marconi
Publisher: Guernica Editions
ISBN: 9781550711516
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
The daughter of Guglielmo Marconi draws upon her father's personal journals and letters as well as from scientific and historical records to chronicle the life and profession of the internationally known inventor.

Economic Sophisms

Author: Frédéric Bastiat
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Free trade
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description

Some Early Records of the Macarthurs of Camden

Author: Elizabeth Macarthur Macarthur-Onslow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New South Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 538

Book Description
John Macarthur, of Camden, New South Wales, introduced the merino sheep into Australia and founded the Australian wool trade.

Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials, and Legends

Author: Lucian Lamar Knight
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781589800007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 676

Book Description
Includes DeSoto memorials, Georgia's state seals, and the first steamboat patent.

The Shenandoah; Or, The Last Confederate Cruiser

Author: Cornelius E. Hunt (C.S.N.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150

Book Description

The Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover

Author: Kevin Joel Berland
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469606941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 527

Book Description
After his 1728 Virginia-North Carolina boundary expedition, Virginia planter and politician William Byrd II composed two very different accounts of his adventures. The Secret History of the Line was written for private circulation, offering tales of scandalous behavior and political misconduct, peppered with rakish humor and personal satire. The History of the Dividing Line, continually revised by Byrd for decades after the expedition, was intended for the London literary market, though not published in his lifetime. Collating all extant manuscripts, Kevin Joel Berland's landmark scholarly edition of these two histories provides wide-ranging historical and cultural contexts for both, helping to recreate the social and intellectual ethos of Byrd and his time. Byrd enriched his narratives with material appropriated from earlier authors, many of whose works were in his library--the most extensive in the American colonies. Berland identifies for the first time many of Byrd's sources and raises the question: how reliable are histories that build silently upon antecedent texts and present borrowed material as firsthand testimony? In his analysis, Berland demonstrates the need for a new category to assess early modern history writing: the hybrid, accretional narrative.

Shadow Girl

Author: Gerry Schmitt
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698197488
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
The brutal murder of a business tycoon leaves Afton Tangler and the Twin Cities reeling, but that’s just the beginning of a gruesome crime spree... Leland Odin made his fortune launching a home shopping network, but his millions can’t save his life. On the list for a transplant, the ailing businessman sees all hope lost when the helicopter carrying his donor heart is shot out of the sky. Now with two pilots dead and dozens injured, Afton Tangler, family liaison officer for the Minneapolis Police Department, is drawn into the case. As she and her partner investigate family members and business associates, whoever wants Leland dead strikes again—and succeeds—in a brazen hospital room attack. The supposedly squeaky clean millionaire has crossed the wrong person—and she’s not finished exacting her revenge. The case explodes into an international conspiracy of unbridled greed and violence. And as Afton gets closer to unearthing the mastermind behind it, she gets closer to becoming collateral damage...

The Complete Yes Prime Minister

Author: Jonathan Lynn
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 144641650X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514

Book Description
'Scalpel-sharp in observation, deceptively simple in construction... at its frequent best Yes Prime Minister exhibits the classical perfection of a Mozart sonata' - Richard Last in The Times 'Its closely observed portrayal of what goes on in the corridors of power has given me hours of pure joy' - Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher MP 'Yes Prime Minister... is not only a continuing marvel of editing by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay but also a collector's must' - John Coldstream in the Daily Telegraph 'Yes Prime Minister is a comedy in a class of its own' - Celia Brayfield in The Times