Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, "Against the Day" moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the revolution, Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it i...
Ma-l's Grand Gathering (An Improbable Emergence, #3)
by Francis Voignier
A Janette Oke Classics for Girls book. Kendra is not yet four when she goes to live with her trapper grandfather after her parents' tragic death. As Kendra grows into a young teen, life in the wilderness is all she knows. Soon the time comes for her to attend school. Is Kendra ready to leave home and face the unknowns of civilization?
London 1975. As the great World War grinds to a halt a force more sinister than Hitler's Nazis has seized control of Europe and is systematically destroying every adversary -- except one.In the heart of France a crack unit of British soldiers survive, overcoming all opposition under the leadership of a hardened military strategist highly trained in every method of combat and known only as "The Lieutenant".Ordered to return to British Headquarters, the Lieutenant is torn between obeying the polit...