 | 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...
 |  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | The Last Prince of Ireland
Publication Date: March 15, 2001The history of Ireland is studded with tragedies, but none is more poignant, or more decisive, that the battle of Kinsale. There the Gaelic nobility who held sway over Ireland for two thousand years were finally and resolutely crushed by the English invaders. There would follow four hundred years of English domination.The Last Prince is Donal Cam O'Sullivan, still determined after the battle not to surrender his homeland. He flees with his clan toward an inland stronghold, as the Gaelic nation is ripped apart not only by war but by the seed of betrayal planted...
|  | War and Peace (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: July 29, 1982| Series: Penguin Classics Few would dispute the claim of "War and Peace" to be regarded as the greatest novel in any language. This massive chronicle, to which Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) devoted five whole years shortly after his marriage, portrays Russian family life during and after the Napoleonic war. Tolstoy's faith in life and his piercing insight lend universality to a work which holds the mirror up to nature as truly as those of Shakespeare or Homer. ...
|  | 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 ...
|  | Web of Dreams (Casteel Saga)
Release Date: November 1, 1990| Series: Casteel Saga (Book 5) With nowhere to go, no one to help her, Leigh fled into the arms of Luke Casteel! Leigh Van Voreen had to escape from Boston's Farthinggale Manor. The foul secret she harbored within her seemed to darken her life forever. Jillian, her mother, would not believe her...and Tony Tatterton, her stepfather, had betrayed her most cruelly.But the pure devotion of Luke Casteel promised her hope and respect. Only Luke knew her deepest of secrets...only Luke would love and protect her. Bravely she bore the suspicions of the Willies' hillfo...
|  | Mary, Queen of France: The Tudor Princesses
Release Date: October 28, 2003| Series: A Novel of the Tudors Legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy brings to life the story of Princess Mary Tudor, a celebrated beauty and born rebel who would defy the most powerful king in Europe—her older brother.Princess Mary Rose is the youngest sister of Henry VIII, and one of the few people whom he adores unconditionally. Known throughout Europe for her charm and good looks, Mary is the golden child of the Tudor family and is granted her every wish.Except when it comes to marriage. Henry VIII, locked in a political showdown with France, dec...
|  | On Canaan's Side: A Novel
Publication Date: September 8, 2011Told in the first person, as a narrative of her life over seventeen days, On Canaan's Side is the heartbreaking story of a woman whose capability to love is enormous and whose compassion, even for those who have wronged her, is astonishing. Sebastian Barry returns with the extraordinary story of Lilly Bere. Forced to flee Ireland with her fiance' as a teenager, under threat of death from the Irish Republican Army, Lilly discovers herself in America. Her rich and tragic life takes her from Chicago, where her fiance' is brutally murdered, to Cleveland, where ...
|  | Heartbeat
Release Date: February 3, 1992Bill Thigpen, writer producer of the No.1daytime TV drama was so busy watchinghis career soarthat he never noticed his marriage collapse. Now,nine years later,living alone in Hollywood, even without his wifeand kids, his life and successare still reasonably sweet. Top-of-the-chartratings, good-natured casual affairs,and specialvacations with his two young sons. His life is inperfect balance,he thinks. Adrian Townshed thought she hadeverything: a job she liked as a TVproductionassistant and a handsome husband who was a rising starin his own field.In as enviable...
|  | The Thistle and the Rose: The Tudor Princesses
Release Date: January 27, 2004| Series: A Novel of the Tudors From the pen of the legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy comes the story of Princess Margaret Tudor, whose life of tragedy, bloodshed, and scandal would rival even that of her younger brother, Henry VIII.Princess Margaret Tudor is the greatest prize when her father, Henry VII, negotiates the Treaty of Perpetual Peace with neighboring Scotland. The betrothal is meant to end decades of bloody border wars, but it becomes a love match: To Margaret’s surprise, she finds joy in her marriage to the dashing James IV of Scotlan...
|  | 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 ...
|  | City of Darkness, City of Light
Release Date: August 12, 1997"FAST-PACED . . . PIERCY BREATHES LIFE INTO THE ACTUAL HISTORICAL FIGURES WHO SHAPED THE REVOLUTION."--San Francisco Examiner & ChronicleIn her most splendid, thought-provoking novel yet, Marge Piercy brings to vibrant life three women who play prominent roles in the tumultuous, bloody French Revolution--as well as their more famous male counterparts. Defiantly independent Claire Lacombe tests her theory: if men can make things happen, perhaps women can too. . . . Manon Philipon finds she has a talent for politics--albeit as the ghostwriter of her husband's speec...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Confederado
Publication Date: September 1, 2012Alvis Stevens has a price on his head. The death of one abusive federal occupation soldier in the wake of the Civil War weighs more heavily upon him than all of the men he killed during the conflict as a member of Mosby's Rangers. The devastation visited upon the South already has forced some of its citizens to seek new lives abroad; among them, Lavinia, the prewar love Alvis believes he has lost forever. At the urging of his uncle, Thomas Bocock, Alvis seeks to evade his pursuers and join the migration to Brazil. Based on a true story and rich in historica...
|  | 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...
|  | 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, ...
|  | 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 ...
|  | Broken Wings
Release Date: April 29, 2003| Series: Broken Wings (Book 1) Three girls from different worlds with one thing in common: They were born to be wild.Robin...With a mom who's more absorbed in her singing career than in her own daughter, Robin's left to her own devices when the two move to Nashville. That's where her mom hopes to strike gold -- and where Robin finds nothing but trouble.Teal...This rich girl will do anything to get her parents' attention...even break the law. But after she takes things too far for the guy she adores, Teal loses their trust completely -- and is treated like a p...
|  | Warleggan (The Poldark Saga)
Publication Date: March 1996| Series: The Poldark Saga Ross Poldark plunges into a speculative mining venture which threatens his financial security and his stormy marriage to Demelza. When the old attraction between Ross and Elizabeth begins to rekindle itself, Demelza retaliates by becoming dangerously involved with a Scottish cavalry officer. ...
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