Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue. A scheming nobleman, a beautiful heiress, and, of course, a mysterious woman in white confined to an asylum for the insane are just a few of the unforgettable characters in this marvelous tale of mistaken identities, locked rooms, and surprise revelations.
Rumours of a jihad of ten thousand men was forming in Khinjan Caves in India, sent Athelstan King of the British Secret Service up the Khyber Pass to keep an appointment with a mysterious woman - a woman who might be saint or she-devil, but a woman whose word in the hills was law. And in the hills, there was no law save that of the gun and the knife.
He is a man with an unknown past and an uncertain future. A man dragged from the sea riddled with bullets, his face altered by plastic surgery-a man bearing the dubious identity of Jason Bourne. Now he is running for his life, the target of professional assassins, at the center of a maddening deadly puzzle. Who is Jason Bourne? To answer that question, he must find the secret buried deep in his own past. And the only one who can help him is a beautiful stranger-the woman who once would do anything to escape him.
A series of eye-opening profiles and stories about women as warriors, from a Roman empress to an Irish pirate, from a woman samurai to a Russian fighter pilot in World War II.
In its light, the long-awaited debut collection, award-winning writer Maureen F. McHugh, dry and delicately explores the impact of social and technological changes in the family. Using beautiful, deceptively simple prose, she illuminates the relationship between parents and children, and the expected and unexpected chasm that opened between the generations. - A woman introduces her new lover of her late brother. - A teenager interviewed about the relationship of her peers to have sex., And baby boomers
