Added by: cekconsulting | Karma: 4.03 | Fiction literature | 17 August 2014
2
Happy People Live Here
On the ninth floor of an upscale apartment of well to do families, a young couple will come to terms with the loss of their son and the impending release of their daughter from a psychiatric clinic on her fourth birthday.
Strange things happen to Lucy and Paul when they go on a school trip to Greenland. A ghostly Viking ship appears in a mirage and the two teenagers soon find themselves confronting the ghosts of Eric the Red and his daughter, Freydis. Are they imagining it, or are the ghosts real? What must the teenagers do to help the ghostly Vikings find eternal rest?
Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, Abandoned by her rebellious mother when she was an infant, she was the only child of a rich man already in his mid-fifties when she was born, and her adoring father thoroughly spoiled her. Now, at thirty-two, having had many scrapes with the law, she is about to be released on probation from the California Institution for Women, having served twenty-two months of a four-year sentence for embezzlement. Though Nord Lafferty could deny his daughter nothing, he wasn't there for her when she was brought up on this charge.
A nightingale overhears a student, complaining that his professor's daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give her a red rose. The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the garden, and one tells her that it can produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale is prepared to sacrifice her life to do so. Seeing the student in tears, the nightingale carries out the ritual, and impales herself on the rose-tree's thorn so that her heart's blood can stain the rose.
The gripping new saga set in Liverpool from William Heinemann and Arrow's rising star After he is demobbed in 1919, handsome Michael Quinn, the cobbler, is a changed man. He moves his family from their comfortable home in Wallasey to live over a shop in Liverpool's notorious Scotland Road. He rules his family with a rod of iron and when his browbeaten wife dies, his daughter Vera has to keep house for him and his other two sons as well as bring up Benny, who is only a baby.
![Oscar Wilde - The Nightingale And The Rose [Audio and Text]](http://englishtips.org/uploads/posts/2014-04/1396730606_1215351116_the-nightingale-and-the-rose.jpg "Oscar Wilde - The Nightingale And The Rose [Audio and Text]")
