Bøger af Beatrice Gormley

With full coverage of the 2004 presidential election, this biography of President George W. Bush has been fully revised to include the events of September 11, 2001, the war against terrorism, and Bush's election to a second term in the Oval Office.

Diana, the beloved "People's Princess" in England, is the subject of this biography that charts her extraordinary life, from her childhood and her "fairy-tale wedding" to Prince Charles to her charity work through to her tragic death in 1997.

Nine-year-old Andrea orders wings through the mail with a guarantee to fly. Incredibly, they work, but there is a frightening side effect.

"The soldier heaved me over his shoulder as if I were a spring lamb." I am not Israelite!" I screamed.Adara has always longed to do the things that well-brought-up girls ofher time are not supposed to do. She wants to learn toread and write -- like men. And she wants the freedom totravel -- like men -- outside the boundaries of her sheltered life.One day she awakens to a blast of trumpets as the Israelites andArameans battle just outside the safety of her village walls. Curious, Adara sneaks out to see the battle. Little does she know that this willbe her last day of freedom for a very long time.Sold into slavery, Adara becomes a servant to General Namaan andhis family and begins a remarkable journey of self-discovery, healing, and redemption -- a journey that, in the end, faces herwith the hardest decision of her life . . .