Yesterday's Girl

Author: Anna Jacobs
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1848948859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317

Book Description
A girl with nothing left to lose . . . The Great War opened up an exciting new career for Vi in London. But that was yesterday. Now the war's over, her husband is dead and she needs to pick up the pieces of her life. On her way home from work she meets a man who is in huge need of her help. Recently demobbed, Joss Bentley has no job or home and, with his wife dead, there's a new baby to care for - and, what's more, it's not his. As he searches grimly for its real father, he runs up against people who will use any means necessary to conceal dark secrets, and Vi finds herself faced with conflicting loyalties. Whichever way she moves, it seems she'll hurt someone - or they'll hurt her . . . ********************** What readers are saying about YESTERDAY'S GIRL 'A delightful, thought provoking story' - 5 stars 'Anna Jacobs is on top form, as usual' - 5 stars 'Just couldn't put this book down!' - 5 stars 'A brilliant read - I was engrossed from start to finish' - 5 stars 'Such a moving story' - 5 stars 'Absolutely fantastic story, I enjoyed it from the beginning to end and couldn't put it down as the story got more exciting by the chapter' - 5 stars 'Another excellent book from Anna Jacobs - how does she do it?' - 5 stars

Perseverance of Yesterday's Women

Author: Dragana Djurdjev
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1641383682
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
Ms. Djurdjev wrote her book to give support and encouragement to those who unwillingly relinquished their talents and journey to someone else. To those who see themselves in her story, she sends ideas and encouragement and perhaps the sense of urgency for them to call upon their courage, create a plan, and reclaim their journey through life. She reminds us that there are no do-overs in life; it is obligatory to seek joy while living it. While in leadership roles, Ms. Djurdjev realized, like her, others have a need for ideas and guidance to find ways to reclaim their talents, which would enable them to create their own special journey through life.

The Girl Who Saved Yesterday

Author: Julius Lester
Publisher:
ISBN: 1939547245
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19

Book Description
Silence, sent on a mysterious mission by the ancient trees that raised her after she was sent away from her village, reconnects the villagers with their forgotten ancestors.

Yesterday's Girl - Ssa

Author: Anna Jacobs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781444700770
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Puck

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description

The Girl From Yesterday

Author: Shane Dunphy
Publisher: Constable
ISBN: 1472111249
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
After the death of his best friend, Shane Dunphy runs away from his life working at a special needs crèche, and attempts to avoid his child protection instincts. However, when a part time journalism job in rural Ireland leads him to a family in desperate need of intervention, and a young girl crying out for protection, Shane cannot stand idly by and watch...Little Emma Blaney lives with her three siblings in an ancient farmhouse, with a life that is like something from another time - no running water, no electricity, and no contact with the outside world. Whilst covering a land dispute between Emma's father Tom and his powerful brother Gerry, Shane discovers that there is a lot more wrong with the family than just a feud. The children are filthy, nervous and and undernourished. In order to protect Emma and her siblings, Shane finds himself at loggerheads with the church, local government, big business, property developers and industrial farmers. But Shane must discover the truth about the Girl from Yesterday, before it is too late, even if it will cost him his new life...

The Blind Musician

Author: Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description

All Our Yesterdays

Author: Cristin Terrill
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408835207
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
A brilliantly brain-warping thriller and a love story that leaps back and forth in time – All Our Yesterdays is an amazing first novel, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games. Em is locked in a bare, cold cell with no comforts. Finn is in the cell next door. The Doctor is keeping them there until they tell him what he wants to know. Trouble is, what he wants to know hasn't happened yet. Em and Finn have a shared past, but no future unless they can find a way out. The present is torture – being kept apart, overhearing each other's anguish as the Doctor relentlessly seeks answers. There's no way back from here, to what they used to be, the world they used to know. Then Em finds a note in her cell which changes everything. It's from her future self and contains some simple but very clear instructions. Em must travel back in time to avert a tragedy that's about to unfold. Worse, she has to pursue and kill the boy she loves to change the future . . .

Yesterday's Girl

Author: Madeline Sunshine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description

Yesterday's News

Author: R. G. Belsky
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
ISBN: 1608092828
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
"Tell me what happened to my daughter?" For fifteen years this anguished plea has haunted reporter Clare Carlson When eleven-year-old Lucy Devlin disappeared on her way to school more than a decade ago, it became one of the most famous missing child cases in history. The story turned reporter Clare Carlson into a media superstar overnight. Clare broke exclusive after exclusive. She had unprecedented access to the Devlin family as she wrote about the heartbreaking search for their young daughter. She later won a Pulitzer Prize for her extraordinary coverage of the case. Now Clare once again plunges back into this sensational story. With new evidence, new victims, and new suspects—too many suspects. Everyone from members of a motorcycle gang to a prominent politician running for a US Senate seat seem to have secrets they're hiding about what really might have happened to Lucy Devlin. But Clare has her own secrets. And in order to untangle the truth about Lucy Devlin, she must finally confront her own torturous past. Perfect for fans of Robert Crais and Harlan Coben While all of the novels in the Clare Carlson Mystery Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is: Yesterday's News Below the Fold The Last Scoop Beyond the Headlines It's News to Me (coming in 2022)