Randal Schaffer
Author
Publisher
Cranbrook Press
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged.
Description
In 1875, 18-year-old would-be poet, Jack Brennan, runs away from home to avoid being pushed into the priesthood. Life soon looks rosy for Jack when he lands the teaching job he's always dreamed of and meets the love of his life, Eliza Hewlett. But his world is shattered when Mary Ellen, his landlord's daughter, falsely accuses him of fathering the child she is expecting.
Jack and Eliza decide to escape to America. As they are about to sail, Jack...
Author
Publisher
Ahmad Ardalan
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged.
Description
"Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery? "Adnan leads a weary existence as a bookshop owner in modern-day, war-torn Baghdad, where bombings, corruption and assault are everyday occurrences and the struggle to survive has suffocated the joy out of life for most. But when he begins to clean out his bookshop of forty years to leave his city in search of somewhere safer, he...