
The Four Winds of Love
- Author : Compton Mackenzie
- Publisher : Unknown
- Release Date : 1949
- Genre : Uncategorized
- Pages : 231
- ISBN : OCLC:940197692
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‘Powerful and compelling’ - Delia Owens, number one international bestselling author of Where The Crawdads Sing 'The Four Winds seems eerily prescient in 2021 . . . Its message is galvanizing and hopeful' - New York Times The Four Winds is a deeply moving, powerful story about the strength and resilience of women and the bond between mother and daughter, by the multi-million copy number one bestselling author of The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah. She will discover the best of herself in the worst of times . . . Texas, 1934. Elsa Martinelli had finally found the life she’d yearned for. A family, a home and a livelihood on a farm on the Great Plains. But when drought threatens all she and her community hold dear, Elsa’s world is shattered to the winds. Fearful of the future, when Elsa wakes to find her husband has fled, she is forced to make the most agonizing decision of her life. Fight for the land she loves or take her beloved children, Loreda and Ant, west to California in search of a better life. Will it be the land of milk and honey? Or will their experience challenge every ounce of strength they possess? From the overriding love of a mother for her child, the value of female friendship and the ability to love again – against all odds, Elsa’s incredible journey is a story of survival, hope and what we do for the ones we love. Praise for Kristin Hannah ‘A rich, compelling novel of love, sacrifice and survival’ - Kate Morton ‘A masterclass’ - Karen Swan **** What readers LOVE about The Four Winds 'Everyone should read this book. This is the new American classic' 'It will break your heart and bring you to tears. It will also be one of the best books you read all year!' 'This is historical fiction at its best: compelling, compassionate, enraging and courageous. I absolutely loved this book!' 'Gripping and captivating . . . heartbreaking and inspiring' 'We fall in love with a warrior who finds her power and strength, surrounded by love. Beautiful' '
Do you really know your parents? Their loves? Their lives? Their secrets? Can a child ever recover lost memories and finally know the truth about his parents? This story begins in Paris in the thirties and ends in Israel in the nineties. It is told through four voices, whose lives and loves intertwine through a complex of feelings, secrets, and loyalties: Yakir, the cultured translator, and Jacob, the small town school teacher, are both involved back and forth in Betty's life. Her son, the deserted, innocent witness, will later reconstruct the pieces, glued together by memories. A unique, impassioned true-life story interwoven with a true-life history But mostly, it is a novel about a unique woman, about desertions, loneliness, acceptance and forgiving. With exceptional sensitivity this family story unfolds, with heroes whose pain, joy, vulnerability, and vitality blend with moving historical events to create a tantalizing evocation of the power of the imagination to remember and heal what the heart has been striving to forget. Scroll up now to get your copy of Four Winds of Love!
When Ross Heaven, a psychologist and ex-pharmaceutical industry consultant, embarks on a shamanic apprenticeship in the rainforests and mountains of South America his intention is to unlock the secrets of San Pedro, the mescaline cactus that has been used as a sacrament and teacher plant in Peru for millennia, and to learn about love and healing. What he finds is more remarkable, painful, enriching, liberating and extraordinary than he could have imagined.
Dramatic operations of an overseas airline as the background of a love story.
Summer is a woman of endurance. On the family farm where she grew up, she lived through the death of her mother and a near rape. She longed for the father she never knew. When Bobby, the love of her life, goes off to college, she feels alone. It would be years before they meet again. Summer moves to D.C. to be near her sisters, and becomes very successful. Everything in her life is the way it should be until the men she becomes involved with are mysteriously murdered. The detective investigating the murders hounds Summer, believing she is involved. Summer is determined to find who and why the person doing the killing has targeted the men in her life.
In Four Winds, Elsa Martinelli finds herself living on a farm, loved and thriving, despite it being a hard life of challenges, getting on well with her in-laws, Tony and Rosa, particularly close to Rosa, with two children, Loreda and Ant. Elsa's son becomes gravely ill, and she must decide whether to stay it out and hope for an end to the present hell, or leave on a dangerous journey west to California.The Four Winds is a great story of few families trying to survive. I loved Elsa immediately, her fire and her weaknesses, and that I wanted so badly for her to urge her family to safety. When she moves to California, she finds herself and her children in poverty and hunger. Everyone there is prejudiced and that they don't welcome migrants there and that they call them Okies. Elsa was such a robust female character. She raises from her ashes by becoming a hard-working farmer and an excellent mother, she will do anything for the love of her kids.Her life can never be defined as a fairytale. Till her childhood times she has been forced to be a survivor, a fighter. She fought with serious illness, she worked hard to earn love of her parents who never respected or accepted who she is.
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The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.