The American Heiress

The American Heiress
Author: Daisy Goodwin
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2011-06-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429987081

Now including an excerpt from VICTORIA: A Novel, by Daisy Goodwin, the Creator/Writer of the Masterpiece Presentation on PBS. "Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms (who isn't?) will find an instant tonic in Daisy Goodwin's The American Heiress. The story of Cora Cash, an American heiress in the 1890s who bags an English duke, this is a deliciously evocative first novel that lingers in the mind." --Allison Pearson, New York Times bestselling author of I Don't Know How She Does It and I Think I Love You Be careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts', suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England. Nothing is quite as it seems, however: Ivo is withdrawn and secretive, and the English social scene is full of traps and betrayals. Money, Cora soon learns, cannot buy everything, as she must decide what is truly worth the price in her life and her marriage. Witty, moving, and brilliantly entertaining, Cora's story marks the debut of a glorious storyteller who brings a fresh new spirit to the world of Edith Wharton and Henry James. "For daughters of the new American billionaires of the 19th century, it was the ultimate deal: marriage to a cash-strapped British Aristocrat in return for a title and social status. But money didn't always buy them happiness." --Daisy Goodwin in The Daily Mail One of Library Journal's Best Historical Fiction Books of 2011

Decidedly Married (Mills & Boon Vintage Love Inspired)

Decidedly Married (Mills & Boon Vintage Love Inspired)
Author: Carole Gift Page
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2014-01-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1472064194

BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE? Her life looked perfect, but Julie Ryan wondered why she felt so empty inside. Why did her charming husband and teenage daughter seem so distant? Julie whispered a simple prayer, asking that her family grow closer.

SECRET OBSESSION

SECRET OBSESSION
Author: Charlotte Lamb
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2011-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459276396

Sins Pride comes before a fall…. Will Nerissa's love for another man come before her husband? Nerissa is married to Ben and she has tried to love him. But, since she was a child, Nerissa has also adored her cousin, Philip. Now Philip lies in a coma and Nerissa's special bond with him is perhaps the only means of bringing him around. But how can she tell Ben she must leave him for Philip's bedside? Ben is so proud and will never let her end their marriage! Love can conquer the deadliest of Sins.

ALWAYS LOVE

ALWAYS LOVE
Author: Emma Darcy
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2020-08-03
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 4596782636

“I can’t make you happy anymore…” That was what was written in the letter left behind by Luke, Genevra’s lover, four years ago. And yet she hasn’t been able to get over him. One day, Genevra goes in for a job interview with a man named Christian Nemo. However, the man who appears before her looks exactly like Luke! His name and his clothes are different, but Christian Nemo is definitely Luke! Genevra believes this without a doubt and decides to spend the night with him in order to confirm his true identity… The feelings he awakens are undeniable. Is Luke really her soul mate? Or is it Christian Nemo?

The Uncommon Reader

The Uncommon Reader
Author: Alan Bennett
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2007-09-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429934530

From one of England's most celebrated writers, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely (from J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and Ivy Compton-Burnett to the classics) and intelligently, she finds that her view of the world changes dramatically. Abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines of her role as monarch. Her new passion for reading initially alarms the palace staff and soon leads to surprising and very funny consequences for the country at large. With the poignant and mischievous wit of The History Boys, England's best loved author Alan Bennett revels in the power of literature to change even the most uncommon reader's life.

The Second Mrs Adams

The Second Mrs Adams
Author: Sandra Marton
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2011-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459269179

An accident… Amnesia…. A chance to fall in love again! David Adams is going to have to let his wife back into his life. He'd been about to divorce Joanna, when she had the accident. True, she's undergone a complete personality change since then, and has turned back into the lovely girl he married. But does that mean he's going to fall right back in love with her? David is convinced that what he feels for Joanna right now is lust. But he must resist their reborn attraction…because, once Joanna's memory has returned, this pretense of a real marriage must surely be over…?

Wanting

Wanting
Author: Penny Jordan
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2019-01-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488051461

Read this classic romance by New York Times bestselling author Penny Jordan, now available for the first time in e-book! This man is more than a match for her! As a model, Heather is accustomed to being regarded as a sex object, but she makes certain no one in her private life treats her that way. She keeps men at a distance, rejecting would-be lovers as retribution for the traumatic experiences of her past. But all that changes when she meets Race Williams. He is a master at the game of enticement and denial, and for the first time Heather knows what it is to burn for something she can’t have… Originally published in 1984

Hawaii's Story

Hawaii's Story
Author: Liliuokalani (Queen of Hawaii)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 478
Release: 1898
Genre: Hawaii
ISBN:

Vision's Immanence

Vision's Immanence
Author: Peter Lurie
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2004-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0801879299

"Lurie takes particular interest in the influence of cinema on Faulkner's fiction and the visual strategies he both deployed and critiqued. These include the suggestion of cinematic viewing on the part of readers and of characters in each of the novels; the collective and individual acts of voyeurism in Sanctuary and Light in August; the exposing in Absalom! Absalom! and Light in August of stereotypical and cinematic patterns of thought about history and race; and the evocation of popular forms like melodrama and the movie screen in If I forget thee, Jerusalem. Offering innovative readings of these canonical works, this study sheds new light on Faulkner's uniquely American modernism."--BOOK JACKET.