 | Illumination Night
Release Date: February 5, 2002Beginning on the night of the Grand Illumination, a festival of lanterns held each summer on Martha’s Vineyard, this novel is a modern chronicle of a marriage and a bittersweet exploration of an extraordinary passion. Illumination Night follows the lives of a young blond giant who is as beautiful as he is frightening; an old woman at the end of her life whose last mission is to save her granddaughter’s soul; a family torn apart by a wife’s fears and a husband’s unrealized desires—and the high school girl who comes to Martha’s V...
 |  | Queen of This Realm
Release Date: May 18, 2004In this "memoir" by Elizabeth I, legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy reveals the Virgin Queen as she truly was: the bewildered, motherless child of an all-powerful father; a captive in the Tower of London; a shrewd politician; a lover of the arts; and eventually, an icon of an era.It is the story of her improbable rise to power and the great triumphs of her reign--the end of religious bloodshed, the settling of the New World, the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Brilliantly clever, a scholar with a ready wit, she was also vain, bold, and unpredictable, ...
|  | Changes
Release Date: July 1, 1989Top TV anchorwoman Melanie Adams had given up on love after a failed marriage andan unhappy affair.With her two teenage children and her television news career,she had no room in her life for a man.Then she met famous heart surgeon Peter Hallam,a widower with three children of his own.Suddenly Melanie was experiencing feelingsshe thought were gone forever.But two families (one in New York and one in LosAngeles), two exciting careers, and two strong-willed people were too much to handle. And Melanie faced a painful choice between herglamorous life in the public eye,h...
|  | Dating Game
Release Date: February 3, 2004In her 57th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel brilliantly chronicles the roller-coasterride of dating the second time around—and tells a captivating story of the surprisesone woman encounters when she’s thrust into the terrifying, exhilarating world ofthe Dating Game.Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children anda lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, herlife. So when her husband of twenty-four years said they needed to talk, Paris couldn’ t imagine what he was about to say.“I...
|  | El cuarto arcano II /The Fourth Arcane II (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: July 15, 2008Second Installment of El Cuarto Arcano. In 1806 the British, commanded by Gen. Beresford, prepare to invade Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Roger Blackraven, charged with protecting his cousins, the children of Luis XVI and Marie Antoinette, escapes to the coasts of Brazil. Reading almost like a big-screen adventure, this final installment is jam-packed with action, conspiracy, murder, and high seas boarding. New characters and landscapes accompany this new adventure. Description in Spanish: Nuevos personajes y nuevos escenarios acompanan las aventuras del Capitan...
|  | The Pregnant Widow
Release Date: May 11, 2010The year is 1970, and the youth of Europe are in the chaotic, ecstatic throes of the sexual revolution. Though blindly dedicated to the cause, its nubile foot soldiers have yet to realize this disturbing truth: that between the death of one social order and the birth of another, there exists a state of terrifying purgatory—or, as Alexander Herzen put it, a pregnant widow.Keith Nearing is stuck in an exquisite limbo. Twenty years old and on vacation from college, Keith and an assortment of his peers are spending the long, hot summer in a castle in Italy. The tr...
|  | Second Generation
Publication Date: May 1, 2010Risking all, a young socialite discovers her calling to fight injustice "A novel of satisfying depth and breadth, written in good, clean, forceful prose." -Chicago Tribune Desperate for independence and scornful of the hypocrisy of the upper class, Barbara Lavette returns to her family home in San Francisco following her first year of college determined to make her own way in the world. After abandoning her privileged life to disguise herself as a poor volunteer down on the wharf, Barbara journeys to France to report on the onset of Nazi terror and the coming of ...
|  | Fern Michaels CD Collection 3: Vegas Rich, Vegas Heat, Vegas Sunrise (Vegas Series)
Publication Date: January 29, 2011| Series: Vegas Series Vegas Rich:When Sallie Coleman abandons Texas to follow her dreams in Vegas, she never imagines she’ll win so soon—and so big. But a stroke of luck makes her the richest, most powerful businesswoman in Nevada, and in no time at all her transformation is complete—when she marries Philip Thornton and becomes Vegas’s most elegant first lady. Like her future mother-in-law before her, Pennsylvania beauty Fanny Logan makes her fortune in Vegas, building one of the city’s most successful clothing empires. He...
|  | The Rebels: Sons of Texas
Release Date: November 4, 2008| Series: Sons of Texas (Book 3) It is the mid 1830s and a growing flow of American pioneers into Mexican Texas has sown the seeds of revolution. In the midst of the turmoil are the Lewis brothers – Andrew, Michael, and James – scions of Mordecai Lewis, who crossed the Sabine River into Texas a decade past.Now the news along the Texas frontier is of a young general, a self-styled "Napoleon of the West," named Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who wants to stamp out any gringo talk of independence from Mexico and oust the American interlopers from Texas....
|  | The Dinosaur Hunter: A Novel
Release Date: November 9, 2010"A fascinating thriller, well crafted and relentless ... A cross between Tony Hillerman and Larry McMurtry, this is one hell of a good read.”--Douglas Preston, author of Tyrannosaur Canyon and BlasphemyThe cowboys who work on the ranchlands of Montana expect more than their fair share of trouble. One of them is Mike Wire, a former homicide detective. Mike is about to learn murder and mayhem can happen under Motnana's big skies, too. Beneath the earth lie enough dinosaur fossils to fill several museum collections---and make a fortune for whoever claims them...
|  | The Campaigners (Morland Dynasty)
Publication Date: August 1, 1995| Series: Morland Dynasty (Book 14) In the Morland Dynasty series, the majestic sweep of English history is richly and movingly portrayed through the fictional lives of the Morland family. It is 1815, and Napoleon’s escape from Elba has convulsed Europe. The Allied Army is gathered in Flanders, and where the Army is, the fashionable world must follow. So Lucy and Heloise both take their daughters to Brussels for the most exhilarating season ever, and romance flourishes in the warlike atmosphere. Rosamund must finally come to terms with her feelings for h...
|  | Sense and Sensibility (Broadview Literary Texts)
Publication Date: April 3, 2001| ISBN-10: 155111125X | ISBN-13: 978-1551111254Jane Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, is a witty satire of the sentimental novel, a popular genre in Britain throughout the 1790s and the Regency. When it first appeared in 1811, the words in its title carried significant cultural weight beyond the confines of the novel, and into both popular and learned discourse. Through her dual heroines, Austen addresses, and satirizes, notions of sense and sensibility, and engages with the issues of inheritance, marriage, and love. The story concerns ...
|  | The Queen's Secret: A Novel (A Queens of England Novel)
Release Date: April 24, 2007| Series: A Queens of England Novel Katherine of Valois was born a princess, the daughter of King Charles VI of France. But by the time Katherine was old enough to know him, her father had come to be called “Charles the Mad,” given to unpredictable fits of insanity. The young princess lived a secluded life, awaiting her father’s sane moments and suffering through the mad ones, as her mother took up with her uncle and their futures became more and more uncertain. Katherine’s fortunes appeared to be changing when, at nineteen, she was married...
|  | You Must Remember This
Release Date: November 1, 1998Joyce Carol Oates's epic novel of an American family in the 1950's probes the tender division between the permissible and the forbidden, between ordinary life and the secret places of the heart. Set in an industrial, working-class town in upstate New York, this book chronicles the frustrating marriage of parents Lyle and Hannah; the idealistic political journey of son Warren, and the passionate, obsessive relationship that develops between 15-year-old Enid Maria and her uncle Felix, a professional boxer twice her age. While brilliantly re-creating a decade that ...
|  | While My Sister Sleeps
Release Date: October 27, 2009NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROnce again New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky brings us a masterful family portrait, filled with thought-provoking insights into how emotions affect the decisions we make and how letting go can be the hardest thing to do and the greatest expression of love all at the same time. Molly and Robin Snow are sisters in the prime of life. So when Molly receives the news that Robin has suffered a massive heart attack, the news couldn't be more shocking. At the hospital, the Snow family receives a grim prognosis: Robin may never r...
|  | The Long Shadow (Morland Dynasty)
Publication Date: June 1, 1994| Series: Morland Dynasty (Book 6) In the Morland Dynasty series, the majestic sweep of English history is richly and movingly portrayed through the fictional lives of the Morland family. It is 1670, and Morland Place has flourished under Ralph’s stewardship, while Annunciata is a great lady of the Court. Splendid futures seem to be promised for her children; but the religious rift opened by Henry VIII has never been fully healed, and conflict resurfaces at the accession of the Catholic James II. Frightening times ensue, when it is impossible to know who ...
|  | Corazon del mar / Heart of the Sea (Irish Jewels Trilogy) (Spanish Edition) (Trilogia Irlandesa)
Publication Date: August 15, 2010| Series: Trilogia Irlandesa (Book 3) La llegada a Ardmore de Trevor, un atractivo y orgulloso hombre de negocios, altera la vida del pequeno pueblo irlandes y aviva las ansias de amor de la joven y ambiciosa Darcy, la menor de los hermanos Gallagher. ...
|  | Unfinished Symphony
Release Date: November 12, 2011Melody Logan had only just found a safe harbor when a new storm set her adrift all over again....Melody had always believed her mother, Haille, and dear stepdaddy had died in tragic accidents -- that's why she'd come to stay with her secretive Logan relatives on Cape Cod. But then a friend recognized Haille's picture in a catalog and kindled Melody's hopes. Maybe her mother hadn't perished in a fire in California after all, but was in some desperate trouble that kept her out of reach....Melody's dream of finding her mother seemed as flimsy as the scrap of p...
|  | All That Glitters (Landry Saga)
Publication Date: June 1, 1995| Series: Landry Saga (Book 3) Driven from the Dumas Mansion back to her beloved bayou, Ruby's only hope is that fate will let her begin anew...Living again in a humble shack, Ruby is determined to make a secure and happy home for her precious infant daughter, Pearl. Paul Tate -- her first love, whom she was forced to abandon -- is at her side once more, now a man of dazzling wealth. When he whisks her into his grand house, it seems their future is assured. As mistress of Cypress Woods, Ruby can forget even the shocking reason she and Paul must wed in a secret...
|  | Leon and Louise
Publication Date: October 30, 2012Longlisted for the German Book Prize.A life-long love affair that survives the tribulations of two World Wars, Léon and Louise tells the story of Alex Capus' French grandfather. It charmed readers in Germany, where it sold nearly two hundred thousand copies and, in the year following publication, never left the Der Spiegel bestseller list.Summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when Léon falls in love with Louise Janvier. Both are severely wounded by German artillery fire, are separated, and believe each other to be dead. Briefly reu...
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