Added by: il.crystal.li | Karma: 54.97 | Fiction literature | 25 October 2015
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Tears of the Giraffe
Among her cases this time are wayward wives, unscrupulous maids, and the challenge to resolve a mother’s pain for her son who is long lost on the African plains. Indeed, Mma Ramotswe’s own impending marriage to the most gentlemanly of men, Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, the promotion of Mma’s secretary to the dizzy heights of Assistant Detective, and the arrival of new members to the Matekoni family, all brew up the most humorous and charmingly entertaining of tales.
Thomas Kydd was promoted to acting lieutenant at the bloody Battle of Camperdown in October 1797. Now, he must sit an examination to confirm his rank - or face an inglorious return before the mast. But this is only the first of many obstacles for a man who was pressed into the King's Service and discovered a calling for the sea. Kydd is from humble origins, yet he attains the lofty heights of the quarterdeck as an officer in His Majesty's Navy. If he is to avoid spending the rest of his career as a tarpaulin officer, he must also become a gentleman.
In Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, we have a tale of romance. Follow the sordid journey of Heathcliff as he seeks revenge for losing his soul-mate Catherine to Edgar. This is a study of the nature of love including good versus evil, chaos versus order, selfishness and betrayal and obsession.
My name is Alan Quatermain. My companions and I journeyed through the jungles with death lurking on every hand; travelled over arid desert wastes where the torturing sun evaporated the very blood from our veins; climbed stony paths to mountain heights until we turned blue from freezing gales; and at last we came to the valley - The Valley of Death!
Perhaps the most haunting and tormented love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of the troubled orphan Heathcliff and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw.