A super summer romance that tells of the scandalous world behind the glittering facade of modern royalty, and offers a revealing peek at the innermost sanctums of British society. From gracious suppers at Buckingham Palace to elegant house parties at Balmoral, the lives of the noble elite are exposed through the eyes of three remarkably perceptive women. A Times (London) bestseller.
Seberkas Sinar Mentari - A Shaft of Sunlight Author: Barbara Cartland Summary Duke of Alverstode ingin menjadi wali yang baik bagi Viscount Frome, bangsawan muda yang cenderung hidup berhura-hura dan jatuh cinta pada gadis-gadis yang tak sepandan dengannya. Karena itu ketika Viscount mengatakan ia ingin menikah dengan Claribel Stamford, Duke memutuskan untuk menyelidiki pribadi gadis itu dul…
Atas prestasinya dalam memerangi Prancis, Kapten Conrad Horn diberi kepercayaan memimpin kapal Inggris bernama Invincible. Dalam pelayaran perdananya ke Antiqua, ia ditugaskan membawa Lady Delora Horn, yang masih terhitung sepupunya. Penampilan Delora yang halus tak sesuai dengan kenyataan. Conrad yang awalnya tak menyukai gadis itu, lama-kelamaan mulai jatuh hati. Berbagai kejadian dalam perja…
The Red Tent is a historical novel by Anita Diamant, published in 1997 by Wyatt Books for St. Martin's Press. It is a first-person narrative that tells the story of Dinah, daughter of Jacob and Leah, sister of Joseph. She is a minor character in the Bible, but the author has broadened her story.[1] The book's title refers to the tent in which women of Jacob's tribe must, according to the ancien…
A beautiful novel tracing one family's account of the demise of colonialism on the island of Java.
The author of Rivals and Heiress dazzles again with a contemporary story of a woman torn between love and fame. Talented actress Kit Masters returns home to settle her father's estate and realizes she must choose between her career and a man she has not seen for ten years--the man she still loves. Teaser chapter of Dailey's forthcoming hardcover, Tangled Vines. HC: Little, Brown.
This article is about the novel. For the play, see Tobacco Road (play). For the film, see Tobacco Road (film). First edition (Scribners) Tobacco Road is a 1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell about Georgia sharecroppers. It was dramatized for Broadway by Jack Kirkland in 1933, and ran for eight years. A 1941 film version, deliberately played mainly for laughs, was directed by John Ford, and the s…
Young widow Marianne Hughes is to chaperone the even younger Louisa Crookshanks to London for her come-out. But, in a most awkward happenstance, it turns out that the one gentleman Louisa has set her sights on only has eyes for the darker, more demure beauty of Mrs. Hughes. Soon this Marquess of Gillingham finds himself entangled in a web of desire and deception--and begins to understand that H…
I read this on KU. When this author's books were first released on Kindle, this one was not among them. I periodically did a search to see if they would be released and finally a few more were, including this one. Because it was written many years ago, it's dated so no technology etc. But what is even more of an issue is the unrealistic tone of the romance. The h is a companion to her father, a…
Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey are over—until beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. But who’d do such a thing, and why? Does the madwoman who lives in G…