The Winds of War
Title | The Winds of War PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Wouk |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Total Pages | 896 |
Release | 2013-12-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1444779273 |
Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II, which begins with THE WINDS OF WAR and continues in WAR AND REMEMBRANCE, stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - the drama, the romance, the heroism and the tragedy of World War II - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very centre of the maelstrom.
War and Remembrance
Title | War and Remembrance PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Wouk |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1382 |
Release | 1983-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780671463144 |
This is a historical romance. The subject is World War II, the viewpoint American.
The Winds of War
Title | The Winds of War PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Wouk |
Publisher | Back Bay Books |
Total Pages | 885 |
Release | 2008-11-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0316050091 |
Like no other masterpiece of historical fiction, Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II is the great novel of America's Greatest Generation. Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events, as well as all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II, as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom. The Winds of War and its sequel War and Remembrance stand as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers.
Braving Home
Title | Braving Home PDF eBook |
Author | Jake Halpern |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 237 |
Release | 2015-02-10 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 0544635388 |
A journalist visits five of America’s disaster-zone towns and the devoted residents who chose to stay despite hellish conditions. As a young reporter, Jake Halpern became obsessed with stories about "some outlandish and often hellish place inhabited by a handful of stalwarts who refused to leave." His fellow reporters joked with him and nicknamed him the Bad Homes Correspondent. But the more he learned about these people, the more he was drawn to them. Braving Home is Halpern’s irresistible portrait of these hometowns and his friendships with their most loyal residents. In North Carolina, Halpern meets a retired mill worker who single-handedly manned his hometown in the wake of a devastating flood. In Alaska, he visits a lone snowbound high-rise at the foot of a glacier. At the base of a Hawaiian volcano, he stays with a hermit whose house was surrounded by molten lava. Among the glitterati of Malibu, a longtime "hillbilly" teaches him the traditions of firefighting. And on a barrier island off the coast of Louisiana, a legendary storm rider tells of surviving hurricanes—even if it means tying one's hair to a tree. Throughout his journey, Halpern explores the value of rootedness in an age when American society is more mobile than ever.
The Winds of Autumn (Seasons of the Heart Book #2)
Title | The Winds of Autumn (Seasons of the Heart Book #2) PDF eBook |
Author | Janette Oke |
Publisher | Bethany House |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2010-05-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781441202833 |
Josh Jones realizes his family isn't typical, but it's the only life he's ever known. Aunt Lou, Gramps, Uncle Charlie, Grandpa--they all have shaped the young man he has become. But as he grows into manhood, Josh begins to face important questions about life, love, and faith. Three million books sold in the series!
The Californios
Title | The Californios PDF eBook |
Author | Louis L'Amour |
Publisher | Bantam |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2004-11-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 055389899X |
Captain Sean Mulkerin comes home from the sea to find his family home in jeopardy. After the death of his father, Sean’s determined mother, Eileen, took it upon herself to run the sprawling Rancho Malibu—until a fire destroyed her hard-earned profits. Now, on the edge of financial ruin, Eileen hopes Sean can help them find a way out. The rumor is that her late husband found gold in the wild and haunted California hills, but the only clue to its whereabouts lies with an ancient, enigmatic Indian. When Sean and Eileen set forth to retrace his father’s footsteps, they know they are in search of a questionable treasure—with creditors, greedy neighbors, and ruthless gunmen watching every move they make. Before they reach their destination, mother and son will test both the limits of their faith and the laws of nature as they seek salvation in a landscape where reality can blur like sand and sky in a desert mirage.
The Lawgiver
Title | The Lawgiver PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Wouk |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 2012-11-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1451699409 |
For more than fifty years, legendary author Herman Wouk has dreamed of writing a novel about the life of Moses. Finally, at age ninety-seven, he has found an ingeniously witty way to tell the tale in The Lawgiver, a romantic and suspenseful epistolary novel about a group of people trying to make a movie about Moses in the present day. The story emerges from letters, memos, e-mails, journals, news articles, recorded talk, Skype transcripts, and text messages. At the center of The Lawgiver is Margo Solovei, a brilliant young writer-director who has rejected her rabbinical father’s strict Jewish upbringing to pursue a career in the arts. When an Australian multibillionaire promises to finance a movie about Moses if the script meets certain standards, Margo does everything she can to land the job, including a reunion with her estranged first love, an influential lawyer with whom she still has unfinished business. Two other key characters in the novel are Herman Wouk himself and his wife of more than sixty years, Betty Sarah, who, almost against their will, find themselves entangled in the Moses movie when the Australian billionaire insists on Wouk’s stamp of approval. As Wouk and his characters contend with Moses and marriage, and the force of tradition, rebellion, and reunion, The Lawgiver reflects the wisdom of a lifetime. Inspired by the great nineteenth-century novelists, one of America’s most beloved twentieth-century authors has now written a remarkable twenty-first-century work of fiction.