Best Selling Books by James Hilton

I 1931 bliver en håndfuld briter i al hast evakueret fra urolighederne i Indien til Pakistan. Undervejs styrter et af flyene ned over Tibet, og de fire passagerer befinder sig pludselig i et skjult rige højt oppe i bjergene. Beboerne tager godt imod dem og præsenterer dem for et unikt samfund, hvor alt er fred og harmoni, og hvor alderdom er et ukendt fænomen. De fire umage rejsekammerater forsøger at finde sig til rette i det mystiske rige, men lidt efter lidt må de se i øjnene, at det hele virkelig er for godt til at være sandt. ”Tabte horisonter” er en spændende roman, der er udkommet i mange lande verden over. Den udkom første gang i 1933 og blev i 1937 filmatiseret af Frank Capra. James Hilton (1900-1954) var en britisk-amerikansk romanforfatter og manuskriptforfatter, der er særligt kendt for sine romaner ”Farvel Mr. Chips” og ”Tabte horisonter”. Hans bøger er blevet oversat til et væld af fremmedsprog, ligesom de film, han var medforfatter til, fik stor succes verden over og skaffede ham en Oscar i 1942.

Portrays the lives of an Irish actress and her husband, an American writer and director.

A guide to recognising, managing, overcoming and surviving the work-related stress suffered by so many teachers and school leaders working in schools today. This unique, honest, provocative and humorous analysis of the challenges of leading a 21st century school is filled with scenarios and strategies guaranteed to inspire, reassure and help leaders overcome the pressures on them. In addition to helping school leaders recognise and manage stress in themselves, the book covers how to help and support members of staff to manage stress levels and the pressures of their job. School staff suffering from and not being able to manage high-levels of stress is a huge barrier to school improvement as well as successful sustainable educational leadership. Stress in schools is on the increase as teachers and leaders have higher imposed targets than ever before and feel like they have less support. A recent report stated that two-fifths of teachers are leaving the profession within five years of starting and teachers taking leave due to stress is also on the increase (it was reportedly up 10% over the last 4 years in 2012 and on the increase). Stress in the teaching profession has often gone untalked about and headteachers especially feel unable to talk about it openly, however it is very prevalent in the news at the moment, especially since the head of Ofsted Sir Michael Wilshaw caused outrage when he said that teachers do not know what stress is. Leading From the Edge is unique because it looks at work related-stress from a school leader''s personal experience. James Hilton worked as a headteacher for 15 years in large schools. Following a nervous breakdown, brought on by work-related stress in 2006 and after a significant period of absence, he returned to headship, more self-aware than before. Chris Roome, the mental health therapist who taught him many of the positive strategies he learned in his recovery will act as a consultant on the book adding significant credibility to the work. Each chapter will conclude with learning points and a wealth of practical self-help strategies. Foreword by Richard Gerver.

A heart pounding thriller for fans of Lee Child, Matt Hilton and James Hilton. EVEN PRAYER WON''T SAVE THEM NOW Brothers Danny and Clay Gunn were brought up an ocean apart. Both served in the military, and both know how to kill, taking work as private military contractors and freelance "fixers". Celine Chavez is the closest thing to a daughter that Clay Gunn has. But now she has disappeared while vacationing in Mexico. Clay and his brother Danny must venture into the ultra-violent criminal underworld to bring her home. From the bright lights of Cancún to a living nightmare in the wildest jungles of the Yucatán, the Gunn brothers face the direst of enemies yet. One thing is for sure: if they survive, the Gunn brothers will never be the same again.

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE LOST WORLD - 40 Books Collection: King Solomon''s Mines, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, New Atlantis, The Man Who Would be King, The Land That Time Forgot, Lost Horizon and many more" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Lost World (Arthur Conan Doyle) A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne) The Mysterious Island The Man Who Would Be King (Rudyard Kipling) At the Mountains of Madness (H. P. Lovecraft) King Solomon''s Mines (Henry Rider Haggard) She: A History of Adventure The People of the Mist When the World Shook The Yellow God The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Edgar Allan Poe) Lost Horizon (James Hilton) The Moon Pool (Abraham Merritt) The Lost Lemuria (W. Scott-Elliot) The Lost Continent of Mu - Motherland of Man (James Churchward) Gulliver''s Travels (Jonathan Swift) The Caspak Trilogy (E. Rice Burroughs) The Moon Trilogy The Pellucidar Series The Man-Eater The Cave Girl The Eternal Lover Jungle Girl The Return of Tarzan Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar The Atlantis Books: The Original Myth of Atlantis (Plato) New Atlantis (F. Bacon) Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World (I. Donnelly) The Lost Continent (C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne) The Story of Atlantis (W. Scott-Elliot) The lost world is a subgenre of the fantasy or science fiction genre that involves the discovery of a new world out of time or place. King Solomon''s Mines by H. Rider Haggard is sometimes considered the first lost-world narrative. Haggard''s novel shaped the form and influenced later lost-world books, including Kipling''s The Man Who Would Be King, Arthur Conan Doyle''s The Lost World, Burroughs'' The Land That Time Forgot, A. Merritt''s The Moon Pool, and H. P. Lovecraft''s At the Mountains of Madness. James Hilton''s Lost Horizon used the genre as a takeoff for popular philosophy and social comment and it introduced the name Shangri-La, a meme for the idealization of the lost world as a paradise.

The Dawn of Reckoning is a novel by James Hilton. Hilton was an English novelist and screenplay writer, here exploring a story of marriage and jealousy. Excerpt: "The Monsells lived in the Essex market-town of Chassingford, and had the reputation of being "peculiar." Mr. Monsell, a high Foreign Office official, had died when Philip was quite young, and his wife''s managerial efficiency had made a fairish private income into a rather good one. Philip had grown up amidst surroundings which only his mother''s shrewdness had prevented from being luxurious."

A.J. Fothergill can pass as a Russia, and he is recruited to spy on the revolutionary movement in Russia in 1913. He becomes imprisoned in Siberia, as a revolutionary, until the 1917 uprisings. Amid the turmoil of the civil war between the red and white armies, he tries to flee Russia along with the beautiful Countess Alexandra.

This is the story of two modern people-a young American who, both as a scientist and as a man, faced some of the biggest problems of our times; and the girl who gave him all her heart and brain. When Jane met Dr. Mark Bradley in London she was only eighteen. She and her mother were both attracted by ''Brad, '' and the situation thus engendered proved fateful, since it led to Brad''s association with a great Viennese physicist and to his involvement in a tragic drama. But there was another drama, larger and less personal, that drew him into its widening orbit, a drama that became a secret and later an obsession. Probing yet protective, Jane''s love makes the strong thread in a pattern of deeply moving and significant events-strange events, too-and yet, to quote Daniel Webster, there is often "nothing so strange" as the truth. Although the earlier scenes of Nothing So Strange are laid abroad, its outlook is American and its climax could only have taken place in America. It is as exciting and as human as anything Mr. Hilton has ever written

Quatre Europeens, fuyant l''Afghanistan en revolte sont conduits par un mysterieux aviateur dans un monastere du Tibet, blotti sous la montagne bleue de Shangri-La. Des lamas centenaires y conservent intacts tous les tresors de la civilisation mise en peril dans le reste du monde. Cette petite flamme du genie humain pourra-t-elle quitter son refuge pour rallumer l''espoir universel ? L''immense succes international du roman de James Hilton semble lui garantir cette eternite dont les lamas avaient le secret.

Un classico indimenticabile definito dal New York Times «un piccolo miracolo». Struggente, svagato, munito di un''ironia tutta British, Mr Chips è un professore da cui ci si congeda con il groppo in gola. Durante i quarantadue anni in cui ha insegnato a Brookfield, Arthur Chipping per i suoi studenti è sempre stato Mr Chips. Dai tempi della guerra franco-prussiana fino ai grandi cambiamenti del Novecento e la Prima guerra mondiale, Chips ha visto passare generazioni di ragazzi. E ora che si è ritirato a vivere davanti al college, ripensa alla sua vita nella scuola, alla donna che ha amato, al mondo che con lui tramonterà per sempre. Da Addio, Mr Chips! sono stati tratti un film hollywoodiano di grande successo nel 1939, un musical nel 1969, due serie televisive e un radiodramma. «Una bella beffa, questa del tempo che passa. Triste, anche, per certi versi. E quando Chips si sedeva accanto al fuoco con i temporali autunnali che facevano tremare i vetri, le ondate di allegria e tristezza lo investivano a tal punto da rigargli il viso di lacrime, di modo che quando arrivava a servirgli il tè Mrs Wickett non capiva mai se lui avesse riso o pianto. E nemmeno Chips avrebbe saputo dirlo».

Die Zigarren waren heruntergebrannt, und wir begannen, die Enttäuschung zu spüren, die alte Schulfreunde gewöhnlich befällt, wenn sie sich als Männer wiedersehen und feststellen, dass sie weniger gemeinsam haben, als sie geglaubt hatten. Rutherford schrieb Romane; Wyland war einer der Sekretäre der Botschaft; er hatte uns gerade ein Abendessen in Tempelhof gegeben - nicht sehr fröhlich, wie ich fand, aber mit dem Gleichmut, den ein Diplomat für solche Gelegenheiten immer auf Lager haben muss. Es schien wahrscheinlich, dass nichts anderes als die Tatsache, drei zölibatäre Engländer in einer fremden Hauptstadt zu sein, uns zusammengebracht hatte, und ich war bereits zu dem Schluss gekommen, dass der leichte Anflug von Sturheit, an den ich mich bei Wyland Tertius erinnerte, mit den Jahren und einem M.V.O. Rutherford, den ich mehr mochte, nicht abgenommen hatte; er war aus dem dünnen, frühreifen Säugling, den ich einst abwechselnd schikaniert und bevormundet hatte, gut gereift. Die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass er viel mehr Geld verdiente und ein interessanteres Leben führte als wir beide, gab Wyland und mir unser einziges gemeinsames Gefühl - einen Anflug von Neid.