Woman's Place (Chivers Sound Library American Collections (Audio))
by Barbara Delinsky
The perfect wife and mother, Claire Raphael transforms a hobby into a lucrative franchise business, only to have her financial success become a nightmare when her vindictive husband sues for divorce, demanding large alimony payments and sole custody of the couple's two children.
Aleksandr Berinksi is a Russian biochemist in the U.S. on a visa that is about to expire. Marriage will allow him to stay--marriage to Julia Conrad. If Julia's going to save her Seattle-based company, she needs him as much as he needs her. There's a Groom Wanted in Julia's life. And not just any groom! A billboard on the side of a Seattle road is common enough--but one advertising for a bride? It's Chase Goodwin's solution to the problem of finding a wife quickly, a wife to bring home to Alaska...
Louise Charlton sees herself as plain and uninteresting beside her vibrant sister Sarah, a talented singer. When she falls in love with young Doctor Andrew Tate she is convinced he is not interested in her. While Sarah sails to America to pursue her musical career, Louise stays at home, duty-bound to care for her selfish manipulative stepmother. Tricked into marrying James, the son of her father's business partner, she tries to forget Andrew and make the best of things. When James reveals his...
Lord Jim (Picador Books) (Serie Aventures de Joseph Conrad, #4)
by Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim (1900): Jim is one of Conrad's most complex creations, and Conrad explores, along the vast horizon of this gorgeous novel, the phenomena of shame, guilt, retribution -- and redemption. How right it is for our times!Originally published in 1904, Nostromo is considered by many to be Conrad's supreme achievement. Set in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, the novel reveals the effects of unbridled greed and imperialist interests on many different lives. V.S. Pritchett wrot...
It is Christmas 1988. Meeting her son's girlfriend for the first time, Josie is shocked to discover that Alice is the daughter of Jack Sazzoni, a figure from her past. She and Jack had a fling but she married Ray instead. She has never forgotten Jack and she dreads meeting him again. After so many years, will they still feel the same? Jack's wife Valerie is also apprehensive about the meeting, uncomfortably aware that Jack married her on the rebound. But for the sake of their children's happines...
When spirited Alyssa Paradise unexpectedly inherits her uncle's property in Dorset, she is determined to meet the challenge of running a grand estate. However, there is a surprising condition: every week for six months she must dine tete-a-tete with the enigmatic Sir Giles Maxton, who owns the adjoining land. Alyssa wonders how she will endure this arrangement - Sir Giles cuts a dashing figure but is positively insufferable!Although Alyssa soon discovers the warm, generous man beneath his laconi...
Artistically talented Danielle is resentful when her mother cannot afford to send her to art school. She loses job after job when her temper gets the better of her, so when she discovers that her mother gave birth to her as a surrogate child for a wealthy couple but then could not part with her, she decides to go in search of the parents she should have had.At first it all seemed so simple but Danny is unaware of the convoluted difficulties that preceded her birth. Her arrival in the Naylor hous...
Rebellious society girl Arabella Raynsford is leading a double life as a music hall singer but to escape a possible scandal, she flees to Constantinople to join Florence Nightingale. Arabella's ambitious mother wants her to marry wealthy Irish landowner Oswald Delaney but she has fallen in love with humble engineer Nat Sloane, a man her parents will never accept as a suitable husband. Besides, marriage will mean having to give up singing. Will she be able to find her path to happiness?
With nowhere to go, no one to help her, Leigh fled into the arms of Luke Casteel! Leigh VanVoreen had to escape from Boston's Farthinggale Manor. The foul secret she harbored within her seemed to darken her life forever. Jillian, her mother, would not believe her... and Tony Tatterton, her stepfather, had betrayed her most cruelly. But the pure devotion of Luke Casteel promised her hope and respect. Only Luke knew her deepest of secrets only Luke would love and protect her. Bravely she bore th...
From shattered dreams to lasting love.Every time Samantha went back to the flat, John's words rang through her head :'I can't live with you any more - I've got to get out.' He's been seeing another woman, and now she was promising him the one thing Sam couldn't give: a child. The man she had shared her life with, her love and her laughter, had lied to her.When the agency gave her four months on a ranch she thought they were crazy. Did they think a holiday would change her? She knew she was wild...
In an effort to expose the newly crowned queen Marie de Medici's ruthless plot to assassinate her husband, French king Henri IV, professional duelist and court spy Valentin Rochefort inadvertently carries it out. Now the noble yet unscrupulous swordsman must plan a perilous escape from Paris, reluctantly paired with the insolent, insouciant youth Dariole, who also swings a mean epee. Their journeys take them to the glittering London court of King James Stuart, where they become involved in anoth...
From the internationally bestselling author of The Secret Orphan comes her brand new unputdownable historical fiction novel! A journey into war, but not one she’ll take alone… Orphan Kitty Pattison is young, naïve and ready to do her bit for the war effort when she volunteers with the Red Cross and pledges to help those most in need. It’s one of the most nerve-wracking moments of her life, but then she meets fellow volunteers Joan Norfolk and Trixie Du...
Phineas Finn (Palliser Novels, #2) (Centenary Edition of Anthony Trollope's Palliser Novels)
by Anthony Trollope
Phineas Finn, a red-blooded young Irishman is elected to Parliament by his local borough. In London he wins the love of the influential Lady Laura Kennedy. His career advances, but this is secondary to the social and sexual intrigues that beset him.
From turn-of-the-century New Orleans, a city renowned for sin, seduction, and sex, comes a tale of two women inextricably linked by "The District" of Storyville, where prostitution was legal—and flourishing. Kate—young, beautiful, and abandoned by a man who doesn't love her—finds herself thrown on the mercies of the city. Julia Randsome is a transplanted Yankee, a supporter of women's rights, who against everyone's advice marries into one of the city's most prominent families. Though they occup...
A Summer Without Dawn (Interlink World Fiction)
by Agop J Hacikyan, Jean-Eves Soucy, and A.J. Hacikyan
Through the epic story of the Balian family, this work recounts the tragic fate and struggle for survival of the Armenian people during World War I. Vartan Balian scours the Turkish empire in search of his wife Maro and their son, both deported from ancestral lands with tens of thousands of compatriots. Maro and her son manage to escape the ongoing genocide and find shelter in Riza Bey, a wealthy Turkish governor who falls deeply in love with Maro. Almost four years will pass before Vartan and M...
Silver Thaw (Betty Neels Collection, #49) (Betty Neels Collector's Editions, #18)
by Betty Neels
Amelia and Tom had been engaged a long time - too long! She was beginning to worry about why he was so reluctant to set a date. So when her father first suggested that the three of them should have a holiday in Norway, Amelia thought that in such relaxed surroundings she and Tom would finally be able to settle their future. Instead, Amelia found Gideon van der Tolck often at her side, and his company became increasingly appealing...
In the dying days of the Raj, can paths divided by time and circumstance ever find each other again? In 1930s Northern India, childhood friends Stella and Andrew have grown up together in the orbit of the majestic Raj Hotel. Spirited Stella has always had a soft spot for boisterous Andrew, though she dreams of meeting a soulmate from outside the close-knit community. But life is turned on its head when one scandal shatters their friendship and another sees her abandoned by the man she thought s...