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Author: Annie Burrows Publisher: ISBN: 9781488750496 Category : Languages : en Pages : 846
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Portrait Of A Scandal — Annie Burrows Her heart and hope long since shattered, Amethyst Dalby is content with her life as an independent woman. Until a trip to Paris throws her into contact with the one man who still has a hold over her — Nathan Harcourt! Living as an artist, Nathan is determined to show Amethyst that life is much more fun if you walk on the dark side. Lady Beneath The Veil — Sarah Mallory When Gideon Albury lifts his new bride's veil he can't believe his eyes — this dark-haired dab of a girl isn't the golden beauty he's been courting! Gideon resolves to seek an annulment at the earliest opportunity, so he must make sure Dominique Rainault's virtue stays intact. But despite their good intentions, the marital bed beckons... The Major's Wife — Lauri Robinson Major Seth Parker knows his wife, and this manipulative vixen that tricked him into marriage could never possess such innocence! Millie St Clair has travelled far to pull off one of the greatest deceptions ever. But with everything at stake, it becomes clear the hardest part might be walking away from the Major when it's all over...
Author: Annie Burrows Publisher: ISBN: 9781488750496 Category : Languages : en Pages : 846
Book Description
Portrait Of A Scandal — Annie Burrows Her heart and hope long since shattered, Amethyst Dalby is content with her life as an independent woman. Until a trip to Paris throws her into contact with the one man who still has a hold over her — Nathan Harcourt! Living as an artist, Nathan is determined to show Amethyst that life is much more fun if you walk on the dark side. Lady Beneath The Veil — Sarah Mallory When Gideon Albury lifts his new bride's veil he can't believe his eyes — this dark-haired dab of a girl isn't the golden beauty he's been courting! Gideon resolves to seek an annulment at the earliest opportunity, so he must make sure Dominique Rainault's virtue stays intact. But despite their good intentions, the marital bed beckons... The Major's Wife — Lauri Robinson Major Seth Parker knows his wife, and this manipulative vixen that tricked him into marriage could never possess such innocence! Millie St Clair has travelled far to pull off one of the greatest deceptions ever. But with everything at stake, it becomes clear the hardest part might be walking away from the Major when it's all over...
Author: Sarah Mallory Publisher: HarperCollins Australia ISBN: 1488703973 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 496
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Portrait Of A Scandal – Annie Burrows Her heart and hope long since shattered, Amethyst Dalby is content with her life as an independent woman. Until a trip to Paris throws her into contact with the one man who still has a hold over her – Nathan Harcourt! Living as an artist, Nathan is determined to show Amethyst that life is much more fun if you walk on the dark side. Lady Beneath The Veil – Sarah Mallory When Gideon Albury lifts his new bride's veil he can't believe his eyes – this dark–haired dab of a girl isn't the golden beauty he's been courting! Gideon resolves to seek an annulment at the earliest opportunity, so he must make sure Dominique Rainault's virtue stays intact. But despite their good intentions, the marital bed beckons... The Major's Wife – Lauri Robinson Major Seth Parker knows his wife, and this manipulative vixen that tricked him into marriage could never possess such innocence! Millie St Clair has travelled far to pull off one of the greatest deceptions ever. But with everything at stake, it becomes clear the hardest part might be walking away from the Major when it's all over...
Author: Deborah Rodriguez Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1588366073 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 290
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Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills–as doctors, nurses, and therapists–seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother of two from Michigan, despaired of being of any real use. Yet she soon found she had a gift for befriending Afghans, and once her profession became known she was eagerly sought out by Westerners desperate for a good haircut and by Afghan women, who have a long and proud tradition of running their own beauty salons. Thus an idea was born. With the help of corporate and international sponsors, the Kabul Beauty School welcomed its first class in 2003. Well meaning but sometimes brazen, Rodriguez stumbled through language barriers, overstepped cultural customs, and constantly juggled the challenges of a postwar nation even as she learned how to empower her students to become their families’ breadwinners by learning the fundamentals of coloring techniques, haircutting, and makeup. Yet within the small haven of the beauty school, the line between teacher and student quickly blurred as these vibrant women shared with Rodriguez their stories and their hearts: the newlywed who faked her virginity on her wedding night, the twelve-year-old bride sold into marriage to pay her family’s debts, the Taliban member’s wife who pursued her training despite her husband’s constant beatings. Through these and other stories, Rodriguez found the strength to leave her own unhealthy marriage and allow herself to love again, Afghan style. With warmth and humor, Rodriguez details the lushness of a seemingly desolate region and reveals the magnificence behind the burqa. Kabul Beauty School is a remarkable tale of an extraordinary community of women who come together and learn the arts of perms, friendship, and freedom.
Author: Shahzad Rizvi Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1300690399 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 240
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Rashida, an Indian Muslim woman with a questing spirit, falls in love with an author whose work she admires, though she's never laid eyes on him. She refuses other suitors, to the horror of her large, loving family. After years of political turmoil have convulsed India, with the author's fate unknown, he suddenly appears at her door. Rashida marries him at last, and sees him for the first time on their wedding night. His ugliness, slovenly habits, vanity--and finally, treachery--throw her emotions and her family's life into chaos. She begins a scandalous affair with a handsome teacher, defying her culture and destroying her family's honor. Rashida's story unfolds against a sweeping panorama of Indian history and culture, and a vivid, sensuous portrait of a changing India.
Author: Laura Joh Rowland Publisher: Crooked Lane Books ISBN: 1643852426 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 321
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Award-winning author Laura Joh Rowland is back with the fourth in her critically acclaimed Victorian mysteries where the case of a mutilated "Sleeping Beauty" washes ashore in London. London, June 1890. Sarah Bain and her friends Lord Hugh Staunton and Mick O'Reilly are crime scene photographers for the Daily World newspaper. After solving a sensational murder, they're under pressure to deliver another big story. On a foggy summer night, they're called to the bank of the river Thames. The murder victim is an unidentified woman whose face has been slashed. But as Sarah takes photographs, she discovers that the woman is still alive. The case of "Sleeping Beauty" becomes a public sensation, and three parties quickly come forward to identify her: a rich, sinister artist who claims she's his wife; a mother and her two daughters who co-own a nursing home and claim she's their stepdaughter/sister; and a precocious little girl who claims Sleeping Beauty is her mother. Which party is Sleeping Beauty's rightful kin? Is someone among them her would-be killer? Then Sleeping Beauty awakens--with a severe case of amnesia. She's forgotten her name and everything else about herself. But she recognizes one of the people who've claimed her. Sarah is delighted to reunite a family and send Sleeping Beauty home--until one of the claimants is murdered. Suddenly, Sarah, her motley crew of friends, and her fiancé Detective Sergeant Barrett are on the wrong side of the law. Now they must identify the killer before they find themselves headed for the gallows.
Author: Ed Tarkington Publisher: Algonquin Books ISBN: 1616206802 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 321
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“The Fortunate Ones feels like a fresh and remarkably sure-footed take on The Great Gatsby, examining the complex costs of attempting to transcend or exchange your given class for a more gilded one. Tarkington’s understanding of the human heart and mind is deep, wise, and uncommonly empathetic. As a novelist, he is the real deal. I can’t wait to see this story reach a wide audience, and to see what he does next.” —Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife When Charlie Boykin was young, he thought his life with his single mother on the working-class side of Nashville was perfectly fine. But when his mother arranges for him to be admitted as a scholarship student to an elite private school, he is suddenly introduced to what the world can feel like to someone cushioned by money. That world, he discovers, is an almost irresistible place where one can bend—and break—rules and still end up untarnished. As he gets drawn into a friendship with a charismatic upperclassman, Archer Creigh, and an affluent family that treats him like an adopted son, Charlie quickly adapts to life in the upper echelons of Nashville society. Under their charming and alcohol-soaked spell, how can he not relax and enjoy it all—the lack of anxiety over money, the easy summers spent poolside at perfectly appointed mansions, the lavish parties, the freedom to make mistakes knowing that everything can be glossed over or fixed? But over time, Charlie is increasingly pulled into covering for Archer’s constant deceits and his casual bigotry. At what point will the attraction of wealth and prestige wear off enough for Charlie to take a stand—and will he? The Fortunate Ones is an immersive, elegantly written story that conveys both the seductiveness of this world and the corruption of the people who see their ascent to the top as their birthright.
Author: Florence Hartley Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 348
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Do unto others as you would others should do to you. You can never be rude if you bear the rule always in mind, for what lady likes to be treated rudely? True Christian politeness will always be the result of an unselfish regard for the feelings of others, and though you may err in the ceremonious points of etiquette, you will never be im polite. Politeness, founded upon such a rule, becomes the expression, in graceful manner, of social virtues. The spirit of politeness consists in a certain attention to forms and ceremonies, which are meant both to please others and ourselves, and to make others pleased with us ;a still clearer definition may be given by saying that politeness is goodness of heart put into daily practice; the.re can be no true, politeness without kindness, purity, singleness of heart, and sensibility. Many believe that politeness is but a mask worn in the world to conceal bad passions and impulses, and to make a show of possessing virtues not really existing in the heart; thus, that politeness is merely hypocrisy and dissimulation. Do not believe this; be certain that those who profess such a doctrine are practising themselves the deceit they condemn so much.
Author: Diane Gaston Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 1426861559 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 299
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In this “fabulously entertaining” Regency romance, a rake on the road to reform meets an innocent beauty with a penchant for courting scandal (Booklist). Cyprian Sloane’s reputation is of the very worst. A gambler, smuggler, rake and a spy, he now faces the greatest challenge of all—attaining respectability! Moving to a new home and courting a proper young lady, nothing will stop him from becoming the sort of man who is accepted by Society. . . . until he meets his new neighbor, Morgana Hart. When Morgana’s caring nature thrusts her into the company of ladies of the night, her secret activities risk a scandal that would destroy them both. To become a gentleman, Cyprian must sacrifice the lady—or is there a way for the rake to save them both?
Author: Jennifer Finney Boylan Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0451496345 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 322
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Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2017 For fans of Donna Tartt and Megan Abbott, a novel about a woman whose family and identity are threatened by the secrets of her past, from the New York Times bestselling author of She's Not There On a warm August night in 1980, six college students sneak into the dilapidated ruins of Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary, looking for a thrill. With a pianist, a painter and a teacher among them, the friends are full of potential. But it’s not long before they realize they are locked in—and not alone. When the friends get lost and separated, the terrifying night ends in tragedy, and the unexpected, far-reaching consequences reverberate through the survivors’ lives. As they go their separate ways, trying to move on, it becomes clear that their dark night in the prison has changed them all. Decades later, new evidence is found, and the dogged detective investigating the cold case charges one of them—celebrity chef Jon Casey— with murder. Only Casey’s old friend Judith Carrigan can testify to his innocence. But Judith is protecting long-held secrets of her own – secrets that, if brought to light, could destroy her career as a travel writer and tear her away from her fireman husband and teenage son. If she chooses to help Casey, she risks losing the life she has fought to build and the woman she has struggled to become. In any life that contains a “before” and an “after,” how is it possible to live one life, not two? Weaving deftly between 1980 and the present day, and told in an unforgettable voice, Long Black Veil is an intensely atmospheric thriller that explores the meaning of identity, loyalty, and love. Readers will hail this as Boylan’s triumphant return to fiction.
Author: Annie Burrows
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