Beverley, Jo; Moore, Margaret; Simmons, Deborah:The Brides of Christmas -The Wise Virgin; The Vagabond Night; The Unexpected Guest
- Erstausgabe 2013, ISBN: 9780373771486
Taschenbuch, Gebundene Ausgabe
-: Orion Publishing, 2013. Paperback. Good. -. We all hide things, some more than others...Mia Channing appears to have an enviable life: a beautiful home in the village of Little Pelha… Mehr…
-: Orion Publishing, 2013. Paperback. Good. -. We all hide things, some more than others...Mia Channing appears to have an enviable life: a beautiful home in the village of Little Pelham, a happy, stable marriage, a job she enjoys and three grown up children to whom she`s devoted.But appearances are deceiving; the truth is that it`s all a precarious balancing act. When the family gather for her son`s thirtieth birthday, Daisy, her youngest daughter, drops a bombshell in the way only Daisy can. Once again Mia finds herself cast in the role of peacemaker. It`s a role she`s tired of, particularly since her husband refuses to believe he`s responsible for the problems they`re facing. Not surprisingly, Mia longs for escape.For Owen Fletcher, buying the Hidden Cottage was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream and provides the perfect escape for him. When Mia meets him, she must decide whether she has the courage to do something for herself for a change. And if she does, can she ever go back to the life of compromise she had before?, Orion Publishing, 2013, 2.5, Orion, UK, 2005. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 550 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Orion, UK, 2005. *** CONDITION: Good ... Covers have slight soiling. Edges of covers have superficial edgewear and corners are lightly bumped. Spine has moderate reading creases. Edges of pages are slightly soiled. Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Tara Flynn has come along way since she was a little girl growing up in the village of Ballygrace. Now mistress of Ballygrace House, the beautiful mansion overlooking the Tullamore countryside, Tara has everything she's always wanted - security, a beautiful home, and the love of a good man. But the Irish have an expression - 'the two days', meaning good and bad fortune. Tara may have everything she's ever dreamed of, but can she hold on to it? In Stockport, Tara's dear friend Biddie has problems of her own. She too has escaped a troubled past and built a new life. But when her husband is seriously injured, Biddie must once again begin taking care of herself. As Tara's half-sister arrives at her boarding-house, Biddie realises she'll need eyes in the back of her head if she's to keep both Angela and herself out of trouble. Set in the Ireland and England of the early 1960s, Tara's Fortune is the story of two women making their way in the world; a touching, heart-warming tale of friendship and ambition, with the irresistible warmth that hallmarks Geraldine O'Neill's writing. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Romance & Women's Fiction; ISBN: 0752865501. ISBN/EAN: 9780752865508. Inventory No: 20120547.. 9780752865508, Orion, 2005, 2.5, London: William Heinemann Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1972. Hard Cover. Sm 4to 0434603589 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Red cloth with bright gilt titling and decoration. No ownership marks. Colour frontis plate.Numerous colour & b/w illustrations.296 pages clean and tight. THE 1850s WERE NOT ONLY the central and most characteristic decade in the Victorian era but also the time when Victoria and Albert were happiest and most popular with their people. In this beautifully illustrated companion volume to The Prince of Pleasure and The Edwardians Mr Priestley surveys the social, political, industrial, religious, literary and artistic life of this decade. The 1850s included two of the most significant and emotive conflicts in English history - the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. They also saw a vast expansion of industry and the consolidation of the middle class, whose social and sexual prejudices and contradictions Mr Priestley describes and explains with insight and wit. The violence of religious controversy and the fascination with death, spiritualism and other esoteric experiences were as characteristic of the period as the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species or Mill's essay On Liberty. In literature it was an age of giants - Dickens, Tennyson, Thackeray, George Eliot, the Brownings, the Bront~s - on all of whom Mr Priestley gives original and perceptive judgments, as he does also on the painters of the period - the `story' pictures of some of the minor painters who are now coming back into fashion again, the huge `dream tableaux' of Frith, and the more significant, if strange and mystical, creations of the Pre-Raphaelites. Both the peaks and depths of mid Victorian society are explored in this book, and its forty pages of colour plates and numerous monochrome illustrations vividly and amusingly mirror the faces, fashions, environment and social usages of a period that has a very special fascination for people today. ., William Heinemann Ltd, 1972, 3, Albin Michel, 2003. in8. 2003. broché. 358 pages. Die-hard romantics will find it hard to resist John Burnham Schwartz's novel Claire Marvel. Reminiscent of Erich Segal's Love Story this is the tale of a great yet tragic love one foretold in the novel's first sentence: ""There was before her and now there is after her and that is the difference in my life."" Boy (Julian Rose) meets beautiful girl (Claire Marvel) in a spring shower in 1985 in Cambridge Massachusetts where they attend Harvard as graduate students. They fall in love and spend a difficult yet idyllic time in the French countryside but she is stolen away by Julian's treacherously suave advisor. Julian flees Boston for his hometown of New York City where he starts a new life. He and Claire encounter each other again years later and eventually Claire comes back to Julian but only indirectly again in France. --Susan Biskeborn French edition. Le livre présente un pli sur la 1ere d couverture des traces de stockage et d'usure sur la couverture ou les pourtours mais reste en bon état d'ensemble. Envoyé dans un emballage adapté depuis la France, Albin Michel, 2003, 0, -: Hodder & Stoughton, 2008. Paperback. Good. -. Sara Fitzgerald`s daughter Kate is just two years old when she is diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia. Reeling with the helpless shock of it, Sara knows she will do anything - whatever it takes - to save her child. Then the tests results come back time and again to show that no one in their family is a match for Kate. If they are to find a donor for the crucial bone marrow transplant she needs, there is only one option: creating another baby, specifically designed to save her sister. For Sara, it seems the ideal solution. Not only does Kate live, but she gets a beautiful new daughter, Anna, too. Until the moment Anna hands Sara the papers that will rock her whole world. Because, aged thirteen, Anna has decided that she doesn`t want to help Kate live any more. She is suing her parents for the rights to her own body. --> Genre: Literary Fiction Humour, Hodder & Stoughton, 2008, 2.5, London: Cassell. Very Good/Good. 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket complete, unclipped, foxing spots, some fading to spine. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Frontis plate. 65 photographs by the author. 278 pages clean and tight. "This is a record of hopeful travel-travel for its own sake. It is also the story of a car and of her nomadic owners." This is what the author says himself of the journey he and his wife made from the extreme south to the farthest north of Sweden. It was no tourist trip from one luxury hotel to the next; there were no luxury hotels in the places they went to, and in any case they preferred to "do for themselves" at each vandrarhem, or hiker's hostel, they stayed at. If there wasn't a vandrarherrz they camped. From Gothenburg to Lapland and Finland, up the heart of Sweden, and back south again along the shores of the Baltic; through remote villages and by busy little market towns; amid the solemnity of the vast pine forests or the majesty of the mountains, the travellers saw Sweden as it has seldom or never been seen by British visitors before, and they were welcomed and made to feel at home by every Swede they met-except, of course, the policeman of Boden ! Wilson MacArthur has a delightful style peculiarly his own. In the Auto Nomad he takes his readers with him to see what he sees and enjoy what he enjoys in one of the most beautiful but least known countries of Europe. ., Cassell, 1948, 2.75, Oldbourne Press, 1963. Book. Illus. by 24 Fine Tipped in coloured plates. Almost Very Good. Cloth Hard Back. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Translated by Eric Mosbacher Internally almost fine with again almost 24 fine beautiful coloured tipped in full page plates. The cream cloth boards are marked with heavy shelflife title printing VG & clear - No D/j & small inscription to endpaper - Guaranteed posting 24hrs from St Ives in Cornwall STL., Oldbourne Press, 1963, 3, New American Library, USA, 1997. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 342 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: New American Library, USA, 1997. *** CONDITION: Good ... Covers have light creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine has moderate reading creases. Edges of pages are slightly soiled. Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: A beautiful army lieutenant goes down in a helicopter crash, and awakens to find herself back in time to the American Civil War. As she falls in love with a brooding but heroic Union officer, she cannot imagine that the power that pulled her from her own century may now separate them again. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Romance & Women's Fiction; ISBN: 0451407350. ISBN/EAN: 9780451407351. Inventory No: 19030322.. 9780451407351, New American Library, 1997, 2.5, New York, New York, U.S.A.: Silhouette Books, 2003. Silhouette paperback. Condition is near fine, has a very slight crease on front hinge and a couple light creases on back cover, light edge wear, red line through scan bar on inside of front cover, pages tight and clean, cover bright and glossy...**We have other titles by this author in stock and give discounts in shipping on additional books, please contact us for more information**..........*We have other titles in this genre in stock and give discounts in shipping on additional books sent in the same package, please contact us for more info.**.......WRAPPED IN PLASTIC BAG TO PROTECT CONDITION OF BOOK....Summary - Thorn Westmoreland was not enough to convince Tara Matthews to risk her heart in love again..or was it? The beautiful pediatrician and the hard-riding motorcycle tycoon mixed like oil and water. Why, then, couldn't Tara burn the sexy racer from her head or the memory of his passionate caresses from her body? Thorn had wanted Tara since the day they'd met. He'd planned to seduce the prickly lady doctor and indulge in a no-commitment-required affair. But before he could savor the success of his sultry seduction she'd turned the tables on him. Now instead of working her out of his system, he was striving to win her love... No Edtion Given. Soft Cover. Near Fine., Silhouette Books, 2003, 4, Don Mills, ON, Canada: Harlequin Enterprises, Limited, 2005. Historical romance trade size paperback, Condition is fine, no crease on spine, slight crease on front hinge, corners slightly bumped, light edge wear with back cover has slight bend, no writing or stamps, cover is bright and glossy, a nice looking book..**.............WRAPPED IN A PLASTIC BAG TO PROTECT CONDITION OF BOOK........We have other titles in this genre in stock and give discounts in shipping on additional books sent in the same package, ...........Summary - THE WISE VIRGIN - A lord from a rival clan steals the wrong holiday bride for his brother, and discovers his own true love in the witty and wise captive maiden!..............THE VAGABOND NIGHT - Two wounded souls, a roguish mercenary and a stern beauty, teach each other how to live and love again during a yuletide blizzard... ..........THE UNEXPECTED GUEST - The head of the mighty de Burgh family finds his quiet reserve shattered by the seductive young widow who stays at his keep for the twelve days of Christmas!. First Printing. Soft Cover. Fine. Trade Paperback., Harlequin Enterprises, Limited, 2005, 5<
