The Robinson Family consisting of 4 boys, a mother and a father are all shipwrecked on a deserted island. Using their own ingenuity and the natural resources surrounding them they manage to survive.
The Brown family lived in a quiet, old-fashioned English village, under the shadow of the everlasting hills. This is where Tom was born, the eldest son of Squire Brown, Justice of the Peace, and his good-natured wife. The Browns were a fighting family, and Tom was a fighter from the first.
The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is a book by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, focusing upon the conflict between two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745.
On the 26th day of October, 1585, the barriers of the Porte Saint Antoine, one of the gates to Paris, were still closed at half past ten in the morning. Thousands of Parisians poured in from every quarter to witness the execution of Salcede, a Spaniard who had been found guilty of attemted assassination against the royal family. Rumours of plots, counter-plots, and threatened revolt filled the air as the people waited patiently for the gates to open.
What do we actually talk about when we talk about love? Research on love and emotions has been met with suspicion although people live in a network of relationships from birth to death, and the ability to build and maintain relationships is an important strength. This book provides a comprehensive research-based analysis of love in human life: romantic love and its ups and downs, and the fascination of love, the combination of work and family, the secrets of a long-lasting marriage, senior love, and the throes and relief of a divorce.
