Works from Les Misirables by Victor Hugo to Citizens by Simon Schama have been inspired by the French Revolution. Now available for the first time in years, The Days of the French Revolution brings to life the events that changed the future of Western civilization. As compelling as any fiction thriller, this real-life drama moves from the storming of the Bastille to the doomed court of Louis XVI, the salon of Madame Roland, and even the boudoir of Marie Antoinette. Hibbert recounts the events that swirled around Napoleon, Mirabeau, Danton, Marat, and Robespierre with eyewitness accounts and his "usual grace and flair for divulging interesting detail" (Booklist). This trade paperback edition has twenty-eight pages of black-and-white illustrations, and will be published in time for Bastille Day. Views: 39
Suburban regular guy Earl Keese confronts the yawning pit of chaos in the persons of Harry and Ramona, a younger couple who have just moved into the only other house on their dead-end street. Literally overnight, Earl's painstakingly controlled world is turned upside down. Soon he is engaged in guerilla warfare with his new neighbors, who seem to threaten the very fabric of his carefully constructed reality. Views: 39
Read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author Carole Mortimer, now available for the first time in e-book! Bride to the billionaire! Brooke Faulkner is tired of hearing about all the women her boss, notorious playboy billionaire, Jarrod Stone, has affairs with... Deciding to teach Jarrod a lesson, Brooke announces to the press that Mr. Stone is finally getting married. And the bride-to-be? Brooke herself! But her joke backfires when Jarrod announces he has every intention of holding her to the engagement... And before long Brooke's fervently wishing for their mock engagement to be a real one...! Originally published in 1980 Views: 39
The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Girls presents one of her most compelling novels, acclaimed by Anne Tyler, Annie Dillard, and more... Everywhere about her, from the traffic on Highway 460 to the river that's gone black with coal dust, Crystal Spangler sees a current flowing from the mountain town of Black Rock into the wider world. As a teenager, she is elected beauty queen, gets good grades, and-despite her many enviable qualities-manages also to be well-loved. Everyone knows that she is destined to leave town and do great things.And she does.But no one expects her return; drawn back home by some sort of memory, as if the current that had taken her away had changed its mind...Review"The closest thing to reading this would be reading Madame Bovary while listening to Loretta Lynn."(-Roy Blount, Jr. )"Black Mountain Breakdown is like a country song. It is true and real; it is loving and sad."(-Annie Dillard ) From the Inside FlapCrystal Spangler lives in rural Appalachia. She's the apple of her mother's eye -- not yet beautiful, but she will be. She's the most popular girl at Black Rock High. She makes cheerleader, gets good grades, and is elected beauty queen. Crystal discovers God, goes to college, and falls in love. When she comes home, she's disheveled and confused. Crystal becomes a wealthy politician's wife. But there's something calling her, drawing her back to where it all began, in the shadow of Black Mountain . . .From the Paperback edition. Views: 38
She didn’t mean to get murdered, but as the elevator door slid open, the last thing she saw was a tall blonde and the flashing razor. Her psychiatrist has the killer’s voice on tape. Her son has the killer’s face on film. A call girl saw the killer at the scene. The killer is still loose, watching them, waiting, just a razor slice away.
DRESSED TO KILL
Now a psycho-shocker from Filmways Pictures Views: 38
Janet couldn't match her beautiful cousin.
She'd always lived in Renata's shadow, so when Renata decided against eloping with Alex Leandris, Janet had the unenviable task of telling him.
Jan, however, had had several skirmishes with the arrogant Greek and thought Alex despicable. She secretly anticipated seeing his face when he realized he'd been rejected.
But the tables turned as Janet found herself not only a prisoner on his luxurious yacht... but also a prisoner of love. Views: 38
Adriaan Lindhout, a Dutch chemist, takes place during World War II means that the same analgesic effect as morphine, but absolut not addictive. If his laboratory in Rotterdam was bombed, he gets the opportunity to put his work in Berlin and, if the ground to hot for him there is, in Vienna. However, as he is called in the belly of the beast, especially if it is discovered that he was of Jewish descent. Views: 37
Every novel in this collection is your passport to a romantic tour of the United States through time-honored favorites by America's First Lady of romance fiction. Each of the fifty novels is set in a different state, researched by Janet and her husband, Bill. For the Daileys it was an odyssey of discovery. For you, it's the journey of a lifetime. Your tour of desire begins with this story set in Mississippi.Lara Cochran was happy before Trevor, her charming husband, had turned to other women. But, because divorce is unheard-of in Lara's Mississippi family, she doesn't want one. She doesn't want to open her heart to anyone ever again. One disastrous marriage is enough; she is now safely immune from all men. Or so she thinks. Once she meets Rans MacQuade, the rugged and virile manager of her father's Mississippi plantation, she fears she may not be as immune as she had hoped . . . Views: 37
The Subject: The ultimate terrorist threat. The Target: New York City
In Libya, Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi has secretly, painstakingly succeeded, with the help of borrowed and stolen Western technology and his immense oil revenues, in constructing a three-megaton nuclear device. His target is not Jerusalem, but New York; his aim is to hold the city for ransom against the establishment of an autonomous Palestinian state. If he does not get his way, the bomb, smuggled into the country and hidden, will go off in thirty-six hours, killing millions of New Yorkers. There are just 36 hours to save 8,000,000 people from a threat they can't even be warned about — a threat that could be happening as you read this… Views: 36
Maggy Dundas is a star jazz pianist with looks, style, and a keen business brain. And when her hated mother Dolly dies, she is free at last from the memories that mar it all- from the woman whose wanton selfishness threatened to keep her from success. Or is she? Views: 36
The saga of Harald Harrede. "He was a huge man, fully seven feet tall and no one could stand before him in battle or sport...His manner was often curt and haughty, though he know how to win to him those whom he liked...and he could never hear enough of far lands." "So wide a world and so short a span to wander it!" Views: 35
