Paris, 1925. Gabrielle “Chrysis” Jungbluth, âgée de 18 ans, entre à L’Atelier de Peinture des Élèves Femmes de L’École des Beaux-Arts, pour travailler sous la direction de Jacques Ferdinand Humbert, qui fut le professeur de George Braque. Exigeant, colérique, cassant, Humbert, âgé de 83 ans, règne depuis un quart de siècle sur la seule école de peinture ouverte aux femmes. Mais malgré toute son expérience, il va vite se rendre compte que Chrysis n’est pas une élève comme les autres. Précoce, volontaire, passionnée et douée d’un véritable talent, cet esprit libre et rebelle bouscule son milieu privilégié et un monde de l’art où les hommes jouissent de tous les privilèges. Elle ne tardera pas à se perdre dans les plaisirs désinvoltes et à devenir l'une des grandes figures de la vie nocturne et émancipée du Montparnasse des années folles. C’est là qu’elle va rencontrer Bogey Lambert, un cow-boy américain sorti de la légion étrangère, avec qui elle va vivre une folle histoire d’amour. Dans un préambule émouvant, Jim Fergus nous raconte une histoire personnelle très forte liée à l'une des œuvres de Chrysis Jungbluth, peintre tombée à tort dans l’oubli. C’est cette histoire qui l’a mené à s’intéresser à la vie de cette artiste. Après de longs mois d’enquête, il a réuni un bon nombre d’éléments biographiques qui lui ont permis de romancer le destin bouleversant de cette héroïne passionnée et passionnante, à une époque unique de l’Histoire du XXe siècle, où tout semblait permis.** Views: 142
From New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper comes a novel based on the lives of two amazing sisters . . .One sailed the Titanic and started a fashion empire . . .The other overtook Hollywood and scandalized the world . . .Together, they were unstoppable.They rose from genteel poverty, two beautiful sisters, ambitious, witty, seductive. Elinor and Lucy Sutherland are at once each other's fiercest supporters and most vicious critics.Lucy transformed herself into Lucile, the daring fashion designer who revolutionized the industry with her flirtatious gowns and brazen self-promotion. And when she married Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon her life seemed to be a fairy tale. But success came at many costs—to her marriage and to her children . . . and then came the fateful night of April 14, 1912 and the scandal that followed. Elinor's novels titillate readers, and it's even asked in polite drawing rooms if you would like to "sin with Elinor... Views: 142
Because love, no matter how hard-won, is always worth fighting for.
One thing never changes from era to era—the longing for love and the sacrifices willingly made to achieve a happily ever after. This special romance collection includes THREE STORIES featuring dashing rogues and their spirited ladies—each a charming and humorous Regency romance with a dash of mystery & suspense.
What Would a Duke Do: Maxwell is bent on revenge. Gabriella is his enemy’s granddaughter. He’ll marry her…willing or not. Can Max make the impossible choice between retribution or forever losing the only woman to ever touch his heart?
Wooed by a Wicked Duke: Jessica is hiding from the past. Crispin is avoiding his future. How can he convince Jessica his rakehell’s reputation is mostly conjecture and that he’s adored her from afar? Dare Jessica believe the scoundrel who swears he’s not a rogue and vows he wants to protect her?
Duchess of His Heart: James once loved Regine beyond all reason. Dare he risk heartbreak
again? Can they overcome their differences and painful past to claim their happily ever after?
Or will their second chance at love end as disastrously as their first? Views: 141
*** THE TOP TEN BESTSELLING AUTHOR *** 'A thrilling rollercoaster of a read' Dinah Jefferies, author of The Sapphire Widow Discover a brilliant story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, from the internationally bestselling author of The Betrayal.'Directly I saw him, I knew he had to die.' Germany, 1945. Klara Janowska and her daughter Alicja have walked for weeks to get to Graufeld Displaced Persons camp. In the cramped, dirty, dangerous conditions they, along with 3,200 others, are the lucky ones. They have survived and will do anything to find a way back home. But when Klara recognises a man in the camp from her past, a deadly game of cat and mouse begins. He knows exactly what she did during the war to save her daughter. She knows his real identity. What will be the price of silence? And will either make it out of the camp alive?An unforgettably powerful, epic story of love, loss... Views: 141
Robert Macomber’s Honor series of naval fiction follows the life and career of Peter Wake in the U.S. Navy during the tumultuous years from 1863 to 1901. At the Edge of Honor is the first in the series and winner of the Patrick D. Smith Literary Award as Best Historical Novel of Florida. The year is 1863. The Civil War is leaving its bloody trail across the nation as Peter Wake, born and bred in snowy New England, joins the U.S. Navy as a volunteer officer and is assigned to steamy Key West for duty with the East Gulf Blockading Squadron. While learning to command in combat, Wake battles enemies afloat and ashore, new to the politics and illicit liaisons created by war.Wake risks his reputation as a tough officer and smart decision-maker when he falls in love with Linda Donahue, whose father is a Confederate zealot. Their love is tested as Wake must make the ugly decisions of war in a beautiful, tropical paradise—decisions that will take Peter Wake right up to the edge of honor.
“Macomber skillfully describes tactical strategizing while providing the history of Florida's Civil War sea battles.” —Publishers Weekly“At last! Finally we have an American character the equivalent of Hornblower or Aubry, a sailor who can do the evolutions and the special missions, who makes things happen and is human besides . . . a rollicking sea adventure. Not to be missed.” —John Prados, author of Combined Fleet Decoded “At the Edge of Honor is a well-written, page-turning tale . . . and would appeal to anyone interested in the naval aspect of the Civil War, or of Florida during the period.” —Civil War News Magazine“Throughout the novel, the author draws stunning images of the land and sea along the tropical coast of Florida, which is a haunting contrast to the unfolding events.” —The Historical Novel Review“Here is a fiction novel of the Civil War era that introduces a character who will someday rival Horatio Hornblower. Well written by a man who obviously knows what a boat is for, and how to sail her.” —Latitudes and Attitudes Magazine“It's a wonderful first novel from an author who may be one of the most promising of the next generation of Civil War fiction writers.” —Civil War Interactive Magazine Views: 141
Immortality is a gift from the Highland Stag - but even the Stag has to face its fate.In a desperate fight to save her family, Corran commits the ultimate sin and murders her husband’s brother. With their lives in mortal danger, the family’s dreams of a quiet life in York are destroyed by the horrifying discovery that Angus was not their only threat. In a bid to save his wife and unborn child, Simon turns to a friend for help and billets his family in an ancient pub, where their lives collide with Robert and Grace Hamilton. Entwined takes you on an enchanting journey of myth, magic and history - a complex tale of entwined lives and twisted fate, alternative realities and dark risings. Views: 141
A glimpse into the melting pot of reputations and rumours in the twilight years of communism in Albania, as the morning's orthodoxies become heresies by dinner-time, and everyone must step nimbly to keep out of jail. The fragile nature of political realities in present-day China too, is summed up.From Publishers WeeklySet in the mid-1970s, as the alliance between Albania and Communist China unravels, this subversively inventive satire traces the impact of the zigzagging Albanian party line on the personal lives of a group of friends and associates. These include a jittery Albanian diplomat in Beijing, his jealously insecure wife, an establishment novelist who confronts "the void inside him" and a civil servant who writes an "autocritique" castigating himself for his petty-bourgeois mentality. A Kafkaesque subplot concerns an army officer who's arrested, apparently for refusing to obey an order. Albanian novelist Kadare ( The Palace of Dreams ), who lives in France, sketches a devastating portrait of Mao Zedong as a megalomaniac whose goal is "the brainwashing of the human race." Historical figures like Zhou Enlai and genocidal Cambodian leader Pol Pot appear intermittently in an elliptic narrative spliced with dreams, officers' coerced confessions and short-short stories. China, depicted as a dystopia where simple human relations are stultified and surveillance is a way of life, becomes a mirror image of Albania through Kadare's mordantly ironic vision. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalUnder communism, foreign relations between a smaller country and the huge country that serves as its "host" affect the day-to-day lives of many individuals, especially in the smaller country. An Albanian by birth now living in France, Kadare (The Palace of Dreams, LJ 9/1/93) shows how Albania's relationship with China affects the life of Silva Dibra, a government employee, wife, and mother. The endless succession of her days seem to blend together as Silva worries about her husband, Gjergi, who makes sudden and frequent trips to China, and her brother, Arian, who is in the military. She also thinks constantly about her dead sister, Ana. Through Silva, we learn the thoughts of too many other characters: her husband, daughter, brother, co-workers, endless friends, Chairman Mao, Zhou En-lai, and a stream of other Chinese bureaucrats. There are some good, funny ideas here, and a number of chapters would work effectively as short stories. Strung together, however, they create what is essentially a plotless novel that strains the reader's interest.Olivia Opello, Onondaga Cty. PL, Syracuse, N.Y.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. Views: 141
