Second Edition of "an Advertisement ": With "a Candid Exposition of Facts " (Classic Reprint), Coventry C. B.

Автор: Townsend Sue
Название: Rebuilding Coventry
ISBN: 0718194837 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780718194833
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 8790.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: When Midlands housewife Coventry Dakin kills her neighbour in a wild bid to prevent him from strangling his wife, she goes on the run. Finding herself alone and friendless in London she tries to lose herself in the city`s maze of streets. There, she meets a bewildering cast of eccentric characters.

Автор: Coventry Susan
Название: The Queen`s Daughter
ISBN: 0805089926 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780805089929
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Цена: 10410.00 T
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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Joan’s mother is Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, the most beautiful woman in the world. Her father is Henry II, the king of England and a renowned military leader. She loves them both—so what is she to do when she’s forced to choose between them? As her parents’ arguments grow ever more vicious, Joan begins to feel like a political pawn. 

When her parents marry her off to the king of Sicily, Joan finds herself stuck with a man ten years her senior. She doesn’t love her husband, and she can’t quite forget her childhood crush, the handsome Lord Raymond.

As Joan grows up, she begins to understand that her parents’ worldview is warped by their political ambitions, and hers, in turn, has been warped by theirs. Is it too late to figure out whom to trust? And, more importantly, whom to love?

Автор: Coventry David
Название: The Invisible Mile
ISBN: 1609453972 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609453978
Издательство: TBS/GBS
Цена: 15630.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This acclaimed novel based on true events in the 1928 Tour de France "is a powerful story of grim determination and one man's forlorn hope to conquer fear" (Publishers Weekly).

In 1928, the Ravat-Wonder cycling team became the first English-speaking peloton to compete in the Tour de France. The riders, hailing from New Zealand and Australia, were treated as exotics and isolated by language and cultural barriers. Underfinanced and undertrained, the team faced one of the toughest routes in the race's history: 5,476 kilometers over unsealed roads through a landscape heavy with the legacy of the Great War. 162 cyclists began the race that year; only 42 finished.
A deeply introspective book, The Invisible Mile is narrated by a fictional, unnamed rider on the Ravat-Wonder team. Speaking no French and knowing few of his fellow riders, his race becomes a confrontation with memories of the Great War and a quest to understand his own place in its history. He rides on the alternating highs of cocaine and opium, pain and pleasure, victory and defeat. As he nears his final mile along the northern battlefields, trauma, exertion, and his personal demons take over.

"Bruising, beautiful and ultimately transcendent, there's a perfect thought on sport, humanity or endurance on just about every page."--Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief