Bøger af Jefferson Flanders

England, 1800. The daughter of an Oxfordshire country doctor, Caroline Fairbanks, arrives in London accompanied by her handsome but dissolute fiancé, Captain Roger Soames. But Caroline quickly sours on Roger's boorish social circle, which includes the arrogant Lord Jack Willoughby, who pursues her despite her engagement to his friend. Meanwhile, Irish-American shipwright Declan Fitzpatrick has delivered a newly-built ship to its English owners and is eager to return to his Philadelphia home. When Declan intervenes in a violent quarrel at a society party involving Caroline, he becomes her reluctant protector and that changes their futures in a way neither could ever have imagined.

Berlin, January 1959. Dillon Randolph, a young Foreign Service officer, arrives at the U.S. Mission in Berlin hoping for a fresh start after a messy scandal at his last embassy posting. A Soviet ultimatum designed to force the Allies from the city and stop the flow of East Germans to the West has put Berliners on edge. When Dillon meets Christa Schiller, an actress from the famed Berliner Ensemble, their romance entangles him in a KGB plot designed to intensify the crisis. Dillon and Christa are plunged into the shadowy struggle between competing spy agencies where the innocent become bargaining chips in a game with life-and-death consequences.

This new collection of ten short stories by Jefferson Flanders addresses love in all its forms. A country song stirs memories of an Indian Summer love affair. Red Sox baseball becomes the emotional connection between a son and his Alzheimer's-afflicted father. High school sweethearts meet by chance at Penn Central twenty years after their break-up. A psychic reading in San Francisco takes an unexpected turn. Lovers struggle with ghosts from a violent past. These evocative stories explore memory, desire, passion, and loss; they illuminate not only the stark realities of life, but also delve into the mysteries of the human heart.

Stories in the American grain Written over a span of three decades, these twelve short stories by Jefferson Flanders explore themes of memory, family, faith, and love against a distinctly American landscape. Café Carolina and Other Stories offers the reader the varied worlds of its memorable characters. A waitress in a small-town restaurant invents a romantic backstory for the secretive couple in the last booth. A burnt-out relief worker returns from Africa to find himself drawn to the New England landscape of his childhood. A retired military aviator clashes over Cold War politics with the guests at a Princeton dinner party. A preacher's son visits Jerusalem on a pilgrimage that his father hopes will revive his faith. With humor and compassion these stories address the simple joys and complex challenges of life at century's turn.

Northwest Territory, 1798. Merchant-trader Calvin Tarkington leaves behind his comfortable life in New York when he journeys to the frontier to assist an old friend who has fallen ill. Once across the Ohio River, he is drawn into the struggle between abolitionists and slaveholders. As a winter storm descends upon western Kentucky, Calvin and a group of fugitive slaves find themselves on the run, hunted by a band of ruthless slave catchers. The third installment in the Tarkingtons series, The Northwest Country delves into the history of the emerging crisis over slavery in the early American Republic. Critics have praised the Tarkington novels for their mix of historical detail and compelling action, describing them as "brilliantly drawn," and "riveting and spectacularly researched."