Bücher von James Hilton

"As an ex-soldier and freelance fixer, Danny Gunn is no stranger to violence. Together with his older brother Clay, the pair return to Miami after Danny's new girlfriend, Chrissie Haims, is found brutally murdered. Her house is torn asunder, but thehouse invasion gone wrong explanation doesn't sit well with Danny. In clearing his name, Danny Gunn puts himself on the radar of two Miami detectives, Anderson and Brockovich. The stakes have never been higher for the Gunn brothers as they face mortal danger, from not one but two deadly gangs. On one side; the Southern Unification, an ultra-right brotherhood sworn to violent retribution. On the other side; a wild band of thrillseeking treasure hunters who care nothing for the law. The Gunn brothers have faced death many times before as combat soldiers, but this threat is much closer to home. From the back streets of Miami to the wild and untamed Everglades, the brothers tangle with their deadliest opponents yet."

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Als Mr Chipping, von seinen Schülern liebevoll »Chips« genannt, in den 1930er-Jahren in Rente geht, zieht er nur auf die gegenüberliegende Straßenseite. Brookfield ist ein durchschnittliches englisches Internat für Jungen, nicht mehr und nicht weniger, aber für den Latein- und Griechischlehrer Mr Chipping war Brookfield sein Leben. Wenn er bei der Hausherrin Mrs Wickett am Kamin sitzt, kommen ihm so viele Erinnerungen, dass er manchmal überlegt, ein Buch zu schreiben. Aber muss all das anderen nicht gewöhnlich erscheinen? Mr Chipping erinnert sich an Zeiten, als es noch keine Elektrizität an der Schule gab und ein »Lampenjunge« zur Belegschaft zählte, und an die ersten Fahrräder. Tausende Gesichter ziehen vor seinem inneren Auge vorbei. Viele seiner Schüler hat er überlebt, sie sind im Krieg gefallen. Als junger Mann war Mr Chipping an einer Schule wegen mangelnder Disziplin gescheitert, fortan versuchte er, sich mit einer Aura der Strenge zu umgeben - bis er die lebensfrohe Katherine kennenlernte, die seine milde, humorvolle Seite zum Vorschein brachte. Trotz ihres Tods nach nur vier Jahren Ehe hat er sich ihren warmherzigen Blick auf die Welt bewahrt. Dass er keine eigenen Kinder hat, bedauert Mr Chipping nicht - Generationen liebten ihn. Wie viel mehr kann man bewirken, was sonst sich vom Leben wünschen?

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While attempting to escape a civil war, four people are kidnapped and transported to the Tibetan mountains. After their plane crashes, they are found by a mysterious Chinese man. He leads them to a monastery hidden in "the valley of the blue moon" - a land of mystery and matchless beauty where life is lived in tranquil wonder, beyond the grasp of a doomed world. It is here, in Shangri-La, where destinies will be discovered and the meaning of paradise will be unveiled.We are happy to announce this classic book. Many of the books in our collection have not been published for decades and are therefore not broadly available to the readers. Our goal is to access the very large literary repository of general public books. The main contents of our entire classical books are the original works. To ensure high quality products, all the titles are chosen carefully by our staff. We hope you enjoy this classic.

Goodbye, Mr. Chips was published in both the United States and the United Kingdom 1934. Such is its popularity that it has been adapted into two films and two television series.Mr Chips is a much loved schoolteacher at Brookfield, a fictional boys' English public (private in US English) boarding school. It is a sentimental book showing how he overcomes his own mediocre academic record and his profound shyness to become a tremendous educator. It also depicts the sweeping social changes that Mr Chips experiences. He begins his tenure at Brookfield in 1870, at the beginning of the Franco-Prussion War and covers Victoria's death and along with her the social order, and the devastating impact of war on British society, with countless old masters and schoolboys dying on the battlefield in World War I. Mr Chips dies just as Adolf Hilter rises to power.This version also includes the book "To you, Mr Chips" which includes an autobiographical chapter and several additional Mr Chips stories.

Lost Horizon is a novel by English writer James Hilton. It is best remembered as the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet.Hugh Conway, a veteran member of the British diplomatic service, finds inner peace, love, and a sense of purpose in Shangri-La, whose inhabitants enjoy unheard-of longevity. Among the book's themes is an allusion to the possibility of another cataclysmic world war brewing, as indeed it was at the time. It is said to have been inspired at least in part by accounts of travels in Tibetan borderlands, published in the National Geographic by the explorer and botanist Joseph Rock. The remote communities he visited, such as Muli, show many similarities to the fictional Shangri-La. One such town, Zhongdian, has now officially renamed itself as Shangri La (Chinese: Xianggelila) because of its claim to be the inspiration for the novel.The book explicitly notes that having made war on the ground man would now fill the skies with death, and that all precious things were in danger of being lost, like the lost histories of Rome ("Lost books of Livy"). It was hoped that overlooked by the violent, Shangri-la would preserve them and reveal them later to a receptive world exhausted by war. That was the real purpose of the Lamasary; study, inner peace and long life were a side benefit to living there.Conway is a veteran of the trench warfare of WWI, with the emotional state frequently cited after that war--a sense of emotional exhaustion or accelerated emotional aging. This harmonizes with the existing residents of the lamasary and he is strongly attracted to life at Shangri-La.

It is set in the period preceding the Second World War. It is told in the first person of Harrison, and tells the story of Charles Rainier, a wealthy businessman, and politician, from his time in the army during World War I, his subsequent memory loss and partial recovery, his assuming control of the family business and his attempts to recover his memory as Hitler invades Poland.6 women, 6 men