Contrasts drama soft cover

  Product details Author: Joseph Sherman Title:  Contrasts in Drama Paperback:  144 pages Publisher:  Juta 1975 Language:  English ISBN-10:  07131195x Product Dimensions: 12.4cm x21.5cm x 0.8cm   The Book is in a good condition. All pages intact. Previous onwner's name written on inside.  

Used book in good condition (2010) " Her Mother's Hope has all the meaty elements of a blockbuster." — The Denver Post The first in a two-book saga by the beloved author of Redeeming Love and The Masterpiece, Her Mother's Hope is a rich, moving epic about faith and dreams, heartache and disappointment, and the legacy of love passed down through four generations in one family. Near the turn of the twentieth century, fiery Marta Schneider leaves Switzerland for a better life, determined to fulfill her mother's hope. Her formative journey takes her through Europe and eventually to Canada, where she meets handsome Niclas Waltert. But nothing has prepared her for the sacrifices she must make for marriage and motherhood as she travels to the Canadian wilderness and then to the dusty Central Valley of California to raise her family. Marta's hope is to give her children a better life, but experience has taught her that only the strong survive. Her tough love is often misunderstood, especially by her oldest daughter, Hildemara Rose, who craves her mother's acceptance. Amid the drama of World War II, Hildie falls in love and begins a family of her own. But unexpected and tragic events force mother and daughter to face their own shortcomings and the ever-widening chasm that threatens to separate them forever.

In Daniel Vilmure's powerful first novel,two brothers take off on a rampage through a seedy Florida port town on a hot August night. The older one is illiterate; one moment he is hypertense, ready to snap, the next, he is James Dean cool.  His kid brother - the one with the sense - goes along to save him but in the end is no match for such hell-bent momentum. "A gratifying first novel.  The talent of the author, who was born in Tampa in 1965, shines in the book's compelling imagery, irony and framing device.  His vivid, terse language aptly embodies the hard-driving, violent drama and makes us feel we are running through the night with these brothers driven by a painful loss of innocence, and fate"  New York Times Book Review. Soft cover, fairly good condition, although the cover is bent in places.  225 pages, all intact.

 1464.  Cousin is at war with cousin, as the houses of York and Lancaster tear themselves apart... And Elizabeth Woodville, a young Lancastrian widow, armed only with her beauty and her steely determination, seduces and marries the charismatic warrior king, Edward IV of York.  Crowned Queen of England, surrounded by conflict, betrayal and murder, Elizabeth rises to the demands of her position, fighting tenaciously for her family's survival.  Most of all she must defend her two sons, who become the central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the missing Princes in the Tower. Set amid the turmoil and intrigue of the War of the Roses, this is the first of a stunning new series in which author Philippa Gregory brings this extraordinary drama to vivid life through the women - beginning with Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen. Soft cover, very good condition.  455 pages. 

 John Dillinger was the most notorious criminal of his time. In March 1934 he made a spectacular escape from Lake County Jail, Indiana - and vanished. Reports came in of him being sighted in Chicago...New Orleans...California...even London. But what really happened to him? In this vivid reconstruction, Harry Patterson unfolds an enthralling drama of the last great American outlaw...Hiding out in Mexico, Dillinger is drawn into a bloody and barbaric struggle between a rich mine-owner and the local Apaches - where kidnap and murder are part of the deadly contest. Soft cover, good condition.  191 pages.