What do you do when your mum, your dad and sixteen camels are in trouble and only you can save them?The sometimes sad but mostly funny story of a boy, a girl, a dog and four trillion dollars. Views: 47
From the acclaimed author of Blood Orange comes this unforgettable, mesmerizing tale of the power of friendships-and the secrets that can destroy them...It has been over thirty years since the words "Bluegang Creek" passed their lips. Because something that happened near that shady stream has shaped their lives-and haunted their darkest hours. Now, Liz can no longer bear the silence. What she is about to bring out into the light will test the very limits of friendship-and take all three women back to that fateful summer day when their innocence was shattered forever...A novel of friendship and forgiveness, Wildwood brings to life the lengths to which women will go to protect themselves-and each other-in the name of loyalty...and in the name of love."The pull of family and career, the limits of friendship and the demands of love all come to vivid life in Wildwood." -Susan Vreeland, author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue"Resist the urge to turn... Views: 47
After discovering
her true identity, Willow De Beers leaves her North Carolina town to
live with her real mother and her half-brother in Palm Beach, Florida.
Now caught up in a world of glamour and extravagant wealth -- where nosy
neighbors, fueled by gossip and greed, keep an eye on her eccentric
family -- Willow is determined to make a fresh start. Thatcher
Eaton, the debonair attorney, uses his intoxicating charm once again,
this time convincing Willow to give him her hand in marriage. It¹s to be
the ritziest wedding of the decade, even by Palm Beach standards. But
as future plans are made, families feud and rumors fly -- and Willow
soon learns the horrifying truth: from the darkest of secrets, there is
no escape.... Views: 47
A thrilling and passionate First World War saga - second in the Leonora Trilogy - 1914. When Leonora Malham Brown's brother and fiance head to the front, she must remain behind, unable to make use of her nursing experience in the Balkans. She is deeply frustrated, but there is another reason for her disappointment: despite her fondness for her fiance, her heart belongs to dashing Colonel Sasha Malkovic. Their love can never be, for his family have promised him to another, but even while Leonora joins the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, and bravely confronts typhoid outbreaks and Zeppelin bombs, she never gives up hope that they will be reunited. Views: 47
Levi Coffin kills scores of enemies in battle. Sickened of death, he flees from the killing fields. Errin Scanlan, an English highwayman, escapes from prison in Australia and comes to San Francisco. The two join Celeste Beremendes, owner of vast land holdings, to fight Brol Mattoon, the ruthless ruler of the waterfront who plots to destroy them. Views: 47
On a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgruntled barons in a meadow by the river Thames named Runnymede. Beset by foreign crisis and domestic rebellion, King John was fast running out of options. On 15 June he reluctantly agreed to fix his regal seal to a document that would change the world.A milestone in the development of constitutional politics and the rule of law, the 'Great Charter' established an Englishman's right to Habeas Corpus and set limits to the exercise of royal power. For the first time a group of subjects had forced an English king to agree to a document that limited his powers by law and protected their rights.Dan Jones's elegant and authoritative narrative of the making and legacy of Magna Carta is amplified by profiles of the barons who secured it and a full text of the charter in both Latin and English. Views: 47
A HIGHLY UNSUITABLE MATCHWhen Alexander, Viscount Stewart, arrives on Emma Darling's doorstep, protesting his brother's engagement to her younger sister, she's furious! Emma cares not a jot that Alex is the heir to an earldom and she's a society unknown--how dares this high-handed gentleman meddle in her family's private affairs? Buoyed up by anger, the last thing independent Emma needs is the realisation that she's developed an extremely inappropriate tendre for Alex himself. For if their younger siblings' match is considered unsuitable, a relationship between them is well nigh unthinkable... Views: 47
A novel based on the imagined life of Hank Williams's sidekick and sometimes doctor, Doc Ebersole, and his haunting by his famous, dead friend. Views: 47
