Gilbert: 2100 books

Heartbeats returns readers to the quaint resort town of Sun Valley, Idaho with a moving story about three sisters rebuilding their lives when they’ve got nothing left to lose. Karyn Macadam is starting over after losing her husband to a skiing accident. She’s given her heart to a handsome...

Welcome back to the resort town of Sun Valley where you’ll find stunning mountain vistas and blue skies . . . and three close-knit sisters who depend on each other through thick and thin. Changes squeezes the heart with a life-affirming story filled with love, family, secrets, and sisterhood. “Witty,...

New York, 1940. De negentienjarige Vivian Morris heeft het eerste jaar van de universiteit niet gehaald, en haar ouders besluiten dat ze bij haar tante in New York moet gaan wonen. Haar tante is de eigenaar van de Lily Playhouse, een roemrucht maar vervallen theater in Manhattan, en Vivian voelt zich...

A milestone in U.S. historiography, Haunted by Empire brings postcolonial critiques to bear on North American history and draws on that history to question the analytic conventions of postcolonial studies. The contributors to this innovative collection examine the critical role of “domains of the...

Post-colonial theory is a relatively new area in critical contemporary studies, having its foundations more Postcolonial Criticism brings together some of the most important critical writings in the field, and aims to present a clear overview of, and introduction to, one of the most exciting and rapidly...

In this volume Mr. Chesterton reprints nearly twenty of the ingenious and brilliant papers which have delighted and puzzled the readers of the London Daily News and Speaker. The subjects are all biographical, ranging from Alfred the Great to Bret Harte, but those who have already learnt to admire...

In the sequel to the first book, you will see how trouble finds our young hero, Jack Sabre, after leaving the Ottawa train station on his way to Manning Pool, Toronto and he shows us, once again, what he is made of when he decides to step into a situation to try to prevent innocent people from receiving...

Harry Seymour and Samantha Hazelwood want to get married and build a family. He is a college student from a wealthy New Orleans family, and she is the daughter of an old Virginia family. They could be married without delay, if not for the war that tore the United States apart. With heavy heart, Harry...

Dr. Alexander Wolfe, a top genetic scientist – a key figure in British Biological Warfare Research- seemingly plunges over a cliff in his car. His body is never recovered and it emerges his life was recently insured for a considerable sum. Accordingly, Peter Manciple, an insurance loss adjuster...

By 1960, following Korea, tanks and their crews had proved themselves to be a fundamental part of the Marine Corps' combined arms team. When the Marines were ordered to Vietnam in 1965, they took their tanks with them. This book explores this decision, which created a political storm. The presence...

One night on a commuter train, Paddy Yeatman-Carter sees a man attempting suicide. Intervening, he prevents the man from going through with it. However, the very next day the same man is found dead, and Paddy believes the circumstances to be extremely suspicious. Roping in his friend and lawyer, Nap...

Detective Chief Inspector Mercer is called to the scene when a skeleton of a girl is found on Westlaugh Island in the upper reaches of the River Thames. What appears to be a straightforward and routine investigation, however, leads to unexpected events and a string of unlikely characters, including...

The slaughter of World War I in the trenches continues unabated. Luke Pagan finds himself in the Intelligence Corps, investigating an illegal organisation controlled by a Belgian, which is encouraging British soldiers to desert and move across to the German side. What began as a trickle now threatens...