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(0)Rumer Godden
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English
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The poignant, New York Times -bestselling novel of the spiritual and personal lives of nuns cloistered in a Benedictine monastery as change begins to rock the Catholic Church. For most of her adult life, Philippa Talbot has been a successful British professional. Now in her forties, the World War II-widow has made a startling decision: She's giving up her civil service career and elite social standing to join a convent as a postulant Roman Catholic...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Four evocative and moving works of fiction set in India from the New York Times- bestselling author of Black Narcissus -- including her final novel. Having spent her formative years in colonial India, British novelist Rumer Godden would continue to return to that setting for inspiration throughout her career -- from her best known work about five nuns in a Himalayan convent, Black Narcissus , to her final novel, Cromartie vs. the God Shiva . The four...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A hotel in southern India is home to a host of romantic intrigues and human misadventures in this delightful novel from a New York Times -bestselling author. Over a decade before The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, award-winning author Rumer Godden was delighting readers with the exploits of the residents and staff at a quaint getaway resort in southern India. Wily and winning Anglo-Indian hotel owner Auntie Sanni has entertained all manner of guests...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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A sixteen-year-old girl captures the dangerous attention of an older man in this New York Times -bestselling novel by the author of Black Narcissus. Soon after the end of the terrible Great War, Mrs. Grey brings her five young children to the French countryside for the summer in hopes of instilling in them a sense of history and humility. But when she is struck down by a sudden illness and hospitalized, the siblings are left to fend for themselves...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Three unforgettable novels from a New York Times -bestselling author -- including Black Narcissus, which "bears comparison with A Passage to India " (Arthur Koestler). With Black Narcissus , her novel of five nuns in a remote Himalayan convent struggling against nature -- both physical and human -- Rumer Godden established her impeccable literary reputation. The New York Times wrote of her work: "Her craftsmanship is always sure; her understanding...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
From a New York Times -bestselling author: A novel of a woman's journey from prostitute to brothel madam to murderess to nun in post-World War II France. A sense of adventure and an eagerness to savor life to the fullest impel young, orphaned Elizabeth Fanshawe to escape her cold, unloving home and enlist in the British Army as a driver in 1944. Dispatched to Paris at the close of the Allies' war against the hated Nazis, she soon finds herself swept...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The disappearance of a majestic Thoroughbred unites a community in 1930s India in "one of the greatest horse books ever written.... Moving, and highly original" (Lauren St. John, author of The White Giraffe). In Calcutta, India, John Quillan cares for racehorses belonging to wealthy owners, and Mother Morag, who lives just down the road and leads a group of nuns working with Calcutta's poor, loves to watch these beautiful animals in action. Now,...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ghosts past, present, and future haunt an old London house in this masterful work of fiction from a New York Times -bestselling author. Sir Roland Ironmonger Dane is the last of his family to occupy the house at Number 99 Wiltshire Place in London. Now, in the early days of World War II, the elderly former general has been told that he must vacate the premises when the ninety-nine-year lease is up, leaving the only home he has ever known. But Sir...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Two English children travel to Italy to rescue their wayward mother from her lover and save their family in this New York Times -bestselling novel. The lives of the two Clavering children, Hugh and Caddie, have been abruptly upended by the bitter divorce of their parents, British Army colonel Darrell and the formerly solid, dependable Fanny. Their English country home has been abandoned in favor of a London flat, and the fate of their adored pony,...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A troubled European family struggles to make a life in India during WWII in this "absorbing" novel from a New York Times–bestselling author (Kirkus Reviews). Eight years ago, Louise Pool left her husband, Charles, in India, fleeing a marriage marked by anger, disillusion, and mistrust. Now, with Europe engulfed in the flames of World War II and Germany's Nazi juggernaut rolling through occupied France, Louise is reluctantly returning to East Bengal,...