Letters Literature

Treasure hunters Peter Fallon and Evangeline Carrington are heading for adventure in Washington, D.C., the sleek, modern, power-hungry capital of America...and the crowded, muddy, intrigue-filled nexus of the Civil War. Their prize? A document of incredible historical importance and incalculable value: Abraham Lincoln’s diary. What if Lincoln recorded his innermost thoughts as he moved toward the realization that he must free the slaves? And what if that diary slipped from his fingers in 1862?

When the Nancy Drew Clue Colloquium converges on Castleton Manor in Lighthouse Bay, Massachusetts, scholars and fans, dressed as their favorite detective, arrive in their 1930s roadsters. But it turns into a bumpy ride when Nancy A. and Nancy Z. - the good-natured bad girls of Nancy Drew fandom - start pulling pranks. Their group, the River Heights Roundtable, clashes with the Nancy Drew Clue Society, and librarian Faith Newberry strives to keep the peace between the two rival groups.

As James Schiff writes in the introduction to this volume, of the writer who would eventually express himself in written form as fully as any American writer since Henry James, "Updike needed to write the way the rest of us need to breathe or eat." With his stunning rhetorical gifts—allowing him to thrive in both fiction and nonfiction, in criticism as well as poetry—he was also a consummate letter writer.

In the sleepy college town of Zenobia, New York, the only supernatural trace on display is the name of Gwen Engel’s business - Abracadabra Odd Job Service. But Gwen’s family has some unusual abilities they’ve been keeping under wraps - until one little letter spells big trouble....

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In the summer of 1905, Katherine Arthur's mother arrives on her doorstep, dying, forcing her to relive a past she wanted to forget. When Katherine was young, the Arthur family had been affluent city dwellers until shame sent them running for the prairie, into the unknown. Taking her family, including young Katherine, to live off the land was the last thing Jeanie Arthur had wanted, but she would do her best to make a go of it. For Jeanie's husband, Frank, it had been a world of opportunity. Dreaming, lazy Frank.

Quand on enferme la vérité sous terre, elle s'y amasse, elle y prend une force telle d'explosion, que, le jour où elle éclate, elle fait tout sauter avec elle. On verra bien si l'on ne vient pas de préparer, pour plus tard, le plus retentissant des désastres. Zola publie en 1898 l'article "J'accuse !" dans "L'Aurore", pour dénoncer l'incroyable erreur judiciaire portée à l'encontre d'Alfred Dreyfus.

Some words were never meant to be spoken. Some letters were written but never sent, folded away in the quiet corners of time. Still, they linger. In the hush before dawn, in the spaces between footsteps, in the salt-laced wind that moves through empty rooms. This book is not a collection of answers, nor a search for closure. It is a meditation on what remains—on the echoes of voices we can no longer hear, on the weight of things left behind, on the way absence shapes us as much as presence does.

Chief Superintendent Strange's opinion was that too little progress had been made since the discovery of a corpse in a North Oxford flat. The victim had been killed by a single stab wound to the stomach. Yet the police had no weapon, no suspect, no motive.

Jonathan Landry está cada vez más agobiado por su trabajo y por su matrimonio fracasado. Un día su madre le pide que se reúna urgentemente con su tío, Julian Mantle, a quien casi no conoce. Hace años Julian, un abogado de gran éxito, decidió vender todas sus posesiones, incluido su flamante Ferrari, y se refugió en un monasterio del Himalaya. Ahora Julian necesita la ayuda de Jonathan.

ಬಿ ಜಯಶ್ರೀ ಅವರಂತಹ ಶಕ್ತಿಯನ್ನು, ಸ್ವಾಭಿಮಾನಿಯನ್ನು, ಪ್ರತಿಭೆಯನ್ನು ಅಕ್ಷರಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಬಂಧಿಸುವುದಾದರೂ ಹೇಗೆ? ನಾನು ಈ ಸವಾಲಿಗೆ ಮುಖಾಮುಖಿಯಾದಾಗಲೆಲ್ಲ ನನಗೆ ದೊಡ್ಡ ಬೆಂಬಲ ಮತ್ತು ಬೆನ್ನು ಚಪ್ಪರಿಸುವಂಥಾ ನಂಬಿಕೆಯ ಮಾತುಗಳು ಬಂದದ್ದು ಸ್ವತಃ ಜಯಶ್ರೀ ಅವರಿಂದ.

By day, Reginald Sinclair works in the post office, but by night, he is the increasingly infamous Paladin, the gallant highwayman making young women swoon all over Somerset. With a vendetta against the wealthy that spans both past and present, Reggie's escapades allow him to take justice into his own hands while helping his uncle avoid insolvency.

When I sold a vintage typewriter, I never imagined its new owner would become my pen pal, best friend, and secret crush. We have two rules: no photos and no real names. Over the years, "Remington" and I have gone from typewritten notes to daily texts, but our rules stay the same. And so does my life. I'm a wannabe writer who can't complete a novel, and I've fallen for a guy who I've never met. So when I received a letter my Nanna wrote before she died encouraging me to embark on a summer of risks—my first on the list was to break all the rules.

Ne crois pas, ne crois pas, Alfred, que je puisse être heureuse avec la pensée d'avoir perdu ton cœur. Que j'aie été ta maîtresse ou ta mère, peu importe. Que je t'aie inspiré de l'amour ou de l'amitié ; que j'aie été heureuse ou malheureuse avec toi, tout cela ne change rien à l'état de mon âme à présent. Je sais que je t'aime et c'est tout. Veiller sur toi, te préserver de tout mal, de toute contrariété, t'entourer de distractions et de plaisirs, voilà tout le besoin et le regret que je sens depuis que je t'ai perdu. George Sand à Alfred de Musset, Venise, le 15 avril 1834

Publicado em 1963, Da próxima vez, o fogo se tornou um clássico incontornável no debate sobre os direitos civis nos Estados Unidos. Não acredite na palavra de ninguém, inclusive na minha, mas confie em sua experiência. Saiba de onde você veio. Se você sabe de onde veio, não há limite para onde poderá ir", escreve James Baldwin para seu sobrinho, também chamado James, um adolescente prestes a completar quinze anos.

Lydia's life is turning upside down. Her family has converted to Orthodox Christianity without her, she's just about to leave home for college, one of her friends is pregnant, and soon she'll be facing all the trials and temptations encountered by every young adult who is on her own for the first time. Lydia needs a friend badly and she finds one in the most unexpected place: an icon of St. Lydia. Young Lydia pours out her troubles in letters to St. Lydia, who (invisibly to Lydia) answers, guiding her through her time of troubles with deep love and compassion.

The letter is a tribute to the servicemen and women who fought in the Afghanistan War. A letter to her son that every parent dreads. It is a letter from a grieving mother to her son to enable her to make sense of it all. The letter follows Karen and her husband during their last days as service personnel.

A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book. More than 100 of Cronkite's letters from 1943-45 (plus a few earlier letters) survive. They reveal surprising and little-known facts about this storied public figure in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation". They chronicle both a great love story and a great war story.

Most believers support the idea that the Almighty sends mankind messages through angelic thoughts, actions, and interventions. Many believers also admit that the workers of iniquity throw obstacles in the pathway of spiritual seekers. Though the angelic hierarchical structure put forth in The Daystar Letters: Unmasking Screwtape’s Trade Secrets is fantasy, it lends itself to some useful insights about the workings of these two opposing powers, one real and the other supposititious.

In 1970s Vancouver, six-year-old Gianni Bosa faces a world where letters twist and words won’t stay still. Growing up in an Italian immigrant family, Gianni struggles with dyslexia in a society that doesn’t yet understand. With the quiet strength of his father, a builder with unwavering resilience, and the warmth of his mother, who learns English from soap operas, Gianni begins to find his voice.