What if you could go back in time and change the course of history? What if the watershed moment you could change was JFK assassination? 11/22/63 - the date that Kennedy was shot - unless... King takes the protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phoes and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian amed Sadie Dunhill, who becomes love of the Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.
When we read about famous historical events, we may wonder about the firsthand experiences of the people directly involved. What insights could be gained if we could talk to someone who remembered the Civil War, or the battle to win the vote for women, or Thomas Edison's struggles to create the first electric light bulb? Amazingly, many of these experiences are still preserved in living memory by the final survivors of important, world-changing events.
The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Now reissued in a new cover style. Twelve hundred British soldiers isolated on the small island of Kheros off the Turkish coast, waiting to die. Twelve hundred lives in jeopardy, lives that could be saved if only the guns could be silenced. The guns of Navarone, vigilant, savage and catastrophically accurate.
Stealing things from people who had upset her was something Polly did quite a lot. There was her Aunt; a girl at school; a boyfriend who left her. And there was the man on the plane... Humiliated and scared by a total stranger Polly does what she always does. But she never could have imagined that her desire for revenge would have such results
