Piers Paul Read
Author
Series
Avon book ; 21535
Language
English
Description
On February 13, 1972, a Fairchild F-227 of the Uruguayan Air Force crashed with a rugby team and twenty-five of the friends and relatives aboard.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Español
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Bestseller #1 de TheNew York Times: La verdadera historia de un equipo de rugby que recurre a lo inimaginable cuando su avión se estrella en los Andes.
Reinaba el buen ánimo cuando el Fairchild F-227 despegó desde Mendoza, Argentina, con rumbo a Santiago, Chile. Había cuarenta y cinco pasajeros a bordo, entre ellos un equipo de rugby amateur uruguayo y los amigos y parientes de los jugadores....
Reinaba el buen ánimo cuando el Fairchild F-227 despegó desde Mendoza, Argentina, con rumbo a Santiago, Chile. Había cuarenta y cinco pasajeros a bordo, entre ellos un equipo de rugby amateur uruguayo y los amigos y parientes de los jugadores....
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
By critically acclaimed author Piers Paul Read, Alice in Exile is an exquisite historical novel featuring Alice Fry-a free-thinking and independent-minded woman in a world ruled by men-and the two men who love her. It is 1913 when Alice, the daughter of a radical publisher, meets Edward Cobb, the eligible young son of a baronet who has recently quit the army to pursue his political ambitions. Edward's family could accept his liaison with a girl they...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Archaeologists in Jerusalem make a revolutionary discovery in this "beautifully written" thriller from a #1 New York Times–bestselling author (Ruth Rendell). John Lambert, Catholic priest and professor of biblical archaeology, returns to London from an archaeological dig in Israel-and not long after, he's found dead, hanged in his room. It's only the first shocking discovery for his assistant, Andrew Nash, a young friar. The second is the reason...
9) The patriot
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
A spy thriller featuring Russian agent Andrei Serotkin and Francesca McDermott, an American art historian. They become involved in a plot to hijack an exhibition of paintings in Germany and hold it for ransom. The plot is part of a scheme by diehard Communists to regain power in Russia. By the author of Ablaze.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"Describes the ordeal of the survivors of an airplane crash in 1972 in the Andes wilderness in which over half of the forty-five passengers died, discussing the challenges the men faced during their ten weeks in the shelter of the plane's fuselage without supplies and with little hope of rescue." --
18) Scarpia
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"It is the late 18th century and Sicilian nobleman Vitello Scarpia finds himself penniless and in disgrace on the streets of Rome. After leaving his home in pursuit of a military career, his fiery passion has seen him expelled from the Spanish royal guard and left to seek his fortune in Italy; a fortune inseparably bound to the Pope, whose rule is put in question by the French Revolution. Scarpia enrolls in the papal army and is soon taken up by a...
19) The upstart
Author
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
The son of a poor Yorkshire parson, Hilary Fletcher grows to manhood with a deep loathing of the smug and privileged upper classes, a loathing burned into him by his humiliation at the hands of the wealthy Metherall family.
