Bøger af Nicholson

The story begins in the womb. Our heroine is born into a very happy life with adoring parents who she comes to love deeply. Then, tragically, she becomes an orphan when her beloved parents are killed in an air crash. She has to go into an orphanage and then a foster home and at long last she is adopted by a lovely couple but she can never love them. She wants to be an actress and eventually ends up in Los Angeles. At the age of twenty-one she inherits a fortune from her parents. She marries a man who she thinks is her dream. But is he her dream or is there another agenda at play?

The book is a travelogue of 23 years gap year travel. Mr. Tambourine Man is a book written up from a travel diary describing the experiences of and places visited by author. This is a truthful account of an author experiences traveling and this offer a wide breadth of information, experience, and knowledge. This shares about other people, other countries, other customs and cultures.

In Maria Romanov: Third Daughter of the Last Tsar, Diaries and Letters, 1908-1918, by translator and researcher Helen Azar with George Hawkins, Mashka's voice is heard again through her intimate writings, presented for the first time in English. The Grand Duchess was much more than a pretty princess wearing white dresses in hundreds of faded sepia photographs; Maria's surviving diaries and letters offer a fascinating insight into the private life of a loving family--from festivals and faith, to Rasputin and the coming Revolution; it is clear why this middle child ultimately became a pillar of strength and hope for them all. Maria's gentle character belied her incredible courage, which emerged in the darkest hours of her brief life. "The incarnation of modesty elevated by suffering," as Maria was described during the last weeks of her life, she was able to maintain her kindness and optimism, even in the midst of violence and degradation.

Professor Nicholson's English translation of selected poems from the Divan of Rumi is often credited as being the best-known version in a European language. The Persian text is printed with facing English translations, and there are copious notes, a lengthy introduction, appendices and indices.

Create greetings cards with a difference with this collection of 14 innovative novelty desgins that are as fun to make as to receive.