The Lady from Holsten

The Lady from Holsten
Author: Michelle Burgin
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2016-09-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1532007345

Belthus is the fabled land of dense jungles and exotic spices. Sharpenia is home to large predators, vast forests, and frozen landscapes. Laura Mendlin dreams of visiting strange, faraway lands from her room in Holsten on the coast of Welchstad. But Laura is not supposed to attend the Yuletide Ball, let alone sail the ocean to Belthus. Her parents expect her to rescue the family from financial ruin by marrying her to her fathers new business partner. Excuses are heaped on her for why this must be. But Laura rejects them all. Laura flees her lawful marriage to hide out at Castle Redscales Yuletide Ball. She needs to marry welland fast. She has no time for love or doubts about her plan. And yet shes plagued by doubt. She meets an eligible man but finds herself drawn to another. Yet her father is sure to come after her. She cant legally refuse his demand either. Marriage is her problem and solution. Laura wants another choice. But with even her friends pushing her to marry, will Laura ever get to choose a life for herself?

Saving His Runaway Bride

Saving His Runaway Bride
Author: Sue Lyndon
Publisher: Sue Lyndon
Total Pages: 79
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

I don't care that I'm almost twice her age. LUKE One glance at Nora's image, captured so perfectly on the small canvas, causes a surreal pang of warmth in my chest. Her expressive light blue eyes enchant the darkest parts of me. As the months pass, that pang of warmth smolders to an all-consuming need to possess the girl in the painting. To claim her. To make her beg. To own her. Soon those expressive blue eyes will look to me for guidance. Soon Nora will belong to me. I have so much to teach her... NORA I've made a terrible mistake, and now I'm headed to an auction block in a brutal mountain town. I should've been a good girl and married the man of Papa's choosing, and now I'm going to pay for my sins. Before I'm sold to the highest bidder, however, a handsome stranger rides out of nowhere and buys me from the slavers. I'm shocked to discover my new master is Luke Holsten--the very man to whom I was betrothed. There's no escaping the arranged marriage now, and my new husband is quick to make me understand that he expects not only obedience, but my absolute surrender...

'By the Banks of the Neva'

'By the Banks of the Neva'
Author: Anthony Cross
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 491
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521552931

This book offers a unique and fascinating investigation into the lives and careers of the British in eighteenth-century Russia and, more specifically, into the development of a vibrant British community in St Petersburg during the city's first century of existence as the new capital of an ever-expanding Russian empire. Based on an extremely wide use of primary sources, particularly archival, from Britain and Russia, the book concentrates on the activities of the British within various fields such as commerce, the navy, the medical profession, science and technology and the arts, and ends with a broad survey of travellers and of travel accounts, many of them completely unknown. Also included are many attractive and unusual illustrations which help demonstrate the variety and character of Russia's British community.

The 68th Art Directors Annual

The 68th Art Directors Annual
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 572
Release: 1989
Genre: Commercial art
ISBN: 9780823058419

Shows award winning examples of advertising, promotion, graphic design, posters, book design, illustration, photography, and television commercials.