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Articles 101 à 120 sur 1681
Par Anita Stansfield. 2018
A grand adventure in Africa ends in heartbreak for Enid when her husband dies. She hopes to find refuge at…
the English estate of her late husband's family. Instead she finds a bleak home in the depths of mourning. Enid is unprepared for the hostility that meets her arrival. The Earl of Thornewell is grief-stricken following the loss of his wife, his child, and his brother. He blames Enid for his losses. Yet fate has other plans. LDS fiction. AdultPar Alyssa Palombo. 2015
"Like most 18th century Venetians, Adriana d'Amato adores music except her strict merchant father has forbidden her to cultivate her…
gift for the violin. But she refuses to let that stop her from living her dreams and begins sneaking out of her family's palazzo under the cover of night to take violin lessons from virtuoso violinist and composer Antonio Vivaldi. However, what begins as secret lessons swiftly evolves into a passionate, consuming love affair. Adriana's father is intent on seeing her married to a wealthy, prominent member of Venice's patrician class and a handsome, charming suitor, whom she knows she could love, only complicates matters but Vivaldi is a priest, making their relationship forbidden in the eyes of the Church and of society. They both know their affair will end upon Adriana's marriage, but she cannot anticipate the events that will force Vivaldi to choose between her and his music. The repercussions of his choice and of Adriana's own choices will haunt both of their lives in ways they never imagined. Spanning more than 30 years of Adriana's life, Alyssa Palombo's The Violinist of Venice is a story of passion, music, ambition, and finding the strength to both fall in love and to carry on when it ends." -- Provided by publisherPar Heidi Kimball. 2020
Juliet Graham fervently counts the days until her twenty first birthday, when she can claim the inheritance that will grant…
her the freedom she has always craved and the guardianship of her younger brother. Then a chance encounter with a boorish stranger stirs up an unexpected whirlwind of emotions in her. LDS fiction. AdultPar Chanel Cleeton. 2020
"When her grandmother Elisa Perez dies, Marisol Ferrera--who grew up on Elisa's romanticized tales of Cuba--travels to Havana to learn…
more. Meanwhile, in 1958, nineteen-year-old Elisa has lived a sheltered life, but she falls in love with a passionate revolutionary. And as Marisol discovers these family secrets, she, too, falls in love." -- Provided by NLSPar Tabetha Waite. 2022
A celebrated courtesan realizes that what used to be a fulfilling existence no longer holds any excitement for her. Tired…
of empty temporary passion, she becomes drawn to a mysterious man. As their hearts become entangled, they have to decide if what they feel for each other runs deeper than the demons of their past and if love is even possible for their broken souls. Adult. Explicit descriptions of sex. Violence and strong languagePar G. G Vandagriff. 2014
It is 1938, and Austria has just fallen to the Nazis. Amalia von Schoenburg's husband, Rudolf, has been murdered by…
the SS before her eyes. A woman of exceptional inner strength, she flees first to Switzerland and eventually to England with a vital message from Rudolf for Mr. Winston Churchill. LDS Fiction AdultPar Katie Stewart Stone. 2020
What begins as a pleasant holiday with a new friend in Brighton quickly turns to devastation for Anabelle when she…
receives the tragic news: her parents are dead. Turned out of the only home she's ever known, Anabelle is sent to live with an aunt and uncle who are strangers to her. She finds an unexpectedly warm welcome, as well as the chance for the first time to choose her own path. LDS Fiction AdultPar Rachael Renee Anderson. 2020
Miss Sophia Gifford is firmly on the shelf, and she's determined to accept her current suitor, a man she likes…
but cannot love. When her sister decides to throw an impromptu summer house party, Sophia reluctantly agrees to help. What she doesn't realize is that her sister has plans of her own. Plans that would bring a certain childhood friend back into Sophia's life. LDS Fiction AdultPar Samantha Hastings. 2019
1861. Lucinda is shocked when she learns the author of her favorite serialized novel has died befor completing the story.…
Determined to learn how it ends, Lucinda reluctantly enlists the help of ther father's young business patner to track down the reclusive author's former whereabouts. David is overwhelmed by his workload. He doesn't have the time, nor the interest, for this endeavor, but Lucinda is not the type to take no for an answer. LDS Fiction AdultMail order brides travel to Cottonwood, ID. In Farmer's Bride, a woman from New York City's high society marries a…
homesteader. In Rancher's Bride, a journalist researching mail order brides decides to become one herself. In Butcher's Bride, Samantha seeks to escape the man her mother is pressuring her to marry. In Prospector's Bride, Matthew's bride arrives with two young brothers in tow. LDS fiction. AdultPar Ted Dekker. 2010
"At the close of World War II, a shell-shocked soldier, Jan Jovic, was forced to inflict a game of life…
and death on a peaceful Bosnian community. In a few short hours, this young man was confronted by more love-and hate-than most experience in a lifetime. Years later, Jan has become a world-renowned writer with widespread influence in the United States, his past buried deep in his memory. Until, at the most inopportune time, the game Jan witnessed comes back to haunt him . . . and unwittingly leads him to a beautiful broken woman caught in an underworld of crime. Jan must now defeat an evil rarely seen. But there is a price. One that even this war-scarred soldier can't imagine." -- Amazon.comPar José Ignacio Valenzuela. 2022
"Angela has decided to listen to her heart. She has decided to stay in Almahue to love Fabian without fear,…
without the curse of Malamor on her shoulders. Fabian will no longer have to resort to those concoctions that only momentarily relieved the terrible pains that the spell (now just a bad memory) provoked in the lovers. A miraculous recovery of the tree, that tree that every day dried up a little more, seems to announce that Almahue will finally be able to continue his story in peace and tranquility. However, a mysterious stranger appears in the picture and there is something about her that is tremendously disturbing. Perhaps the time has come for Rayen to take revenge. She is eager to take action.... Will she be able to destroy Almahue to keep the promise she made many, many years ago in front of the church where Ernesto betrayed his promise to love her until the end of time? Will she also end the love story between Angela and Fabian?" -- Translation provided by NLSPar José Ignacio Valenzuela. 2022
"The third book of the Malamor Trilogy concludes the stories of Angela, Rayen and the peculiar village of Almahue and…
its hapless inhabitants, condemned to suffer from the curse of Malamor. With the village destroyed by a devastating earthquake and Fabián at the bottom of the earth, Ángela will go underground because she has decided that, although her life will be spent trying to rescue her lover from the bottom of the earth, she will never again allow disgrace or misfortune to separate them. Perhaps times have changed and that tree in the center of Almahue's square, a symbol of bad love, now lies as a corpse of branches and roots as dry as the sands of a desert. That can only herald a transformation, the end of an era. The time has also come for explanations, and Rosa will reveal something of that past that she jealously guards: a new legend. And Angela will have to find the strength to confront Rayén and the Decapitator in a journey through time and Chilean geography." -- Translation provided by NLSPar José Ignacio Valenzuela. 2022
"A captivating story bound to leave you breathless from internationally acclaimed author Jose Ignacio Valenzuela. When Angela receives an eerie…
text message from her estranged, best-friend Patricia, her heart stops. Something is off and Angela knows it. She quickly embarks on a biting quest to Almahue, a small town in the Chilean Patagonia, which, according to the Malamor Legend, is cursed to live without love or face death. Deception and mystery unfold, as true love leaves Angela defying the legend she once brushed off and fighting alongside the entire town for their own lives." -- GoodreadsPar Sarah M Eden. 2018
Orphaned as a child, Arabella was the unwanted and unloved charge of a cruel aunt and neglectful uncle. the only…
light in her young life was the kindness of the Jonquil family. Years later, she is lady's companion to the dowager countess. As she takes up residence at the estate, the young woman soon finds that life at he Park is far more complicated than she imagined. LDS fiction. AdultPar Anita Stansfield. 2022
Vivian Peyton and Theodore Weatherby could not be more different: she is a penniless orphan, raised in humble circumstances by…
her grandfather, and he is the cold-hearted nephew of a wealthy widow. One common thread connects these strangers the same shipwreck took their parents' lives. But the commonality has left Theo with a simmering hatred for the Peyton family. LDS fiction. Adult. UnratedPar Cheryl Holt. 2020
"Joanna James had a brief moment of notoriety at age four when she survived a shipwreck in the Caribbean. She…
was returned to England and raised quietly in the country by a doting auntie. She's descended from an ancient line of wise women, so she's very different from other young ladies. She has the sight, and she can cast spells and brew potions, but she's cautious with her peculiar gifts and hides them from her rural neighbors who don't always understand her odd talents. Captain Jacob Ralston works hard to be boring and ordinary. After learning at age ten that his notorious father was a bigamist and liar, he swore he'd grow up to be the most moral man in the kingdom. He would never rock a boat or raise a brow. After a stellar career in the navy, he's determined to retire to the country, marry the fiancée his mother picked for him, and force himself to be content. When he crosses paths with peculiar, fascinating Joanna, he's instantly bowled over. She's beautiful, intriguing, and not like any woman he's ever met. He can't imagine how he would ever bind himself, but Fate and destiny have other plans for him, and Joanna just might be the one woman who can make him happy forever...." -- Provided by publisherPar Lizzie Page. 2022
"England, 1951. A tear-jerking and uplifting story about children orphaned by war, the grieving young woman who cares for them,…
and their journey together to healing. When Clara Newton's American pilot fiancé died during the war, she thought she might never heal. But now she has a new life looking after orphans in a children's home named in his memory. Like wide-eyed, musical little Rita, who refuses to believe her mother died during the war. With the Festival of Britain approaching, Clara is delighted to see the children singing and preparing to audition together. And with D-Day war hero and handyman Ivor living next door, she begins to open her heart once more. But when a deeply troubled orphan arrives on Clara's doorstep, she faces her greatest challenge yet. Clifford has arrived without a background file and while Clara struggles to meet his needs, she is desperately in need of help. Turning to Ivor for comfort, she is broken-hearted when he decides he may never be ready for love again, as he adjusts to life as a single father. Clara has never failed to help any of the orphans in her care. And when little Rita encourages Clifford to join their singing group, she hopes he may begin to find his way. But soon he endangers not only their beloved plans for the Festival of Britain but the lives of the other children.... When disaster strikes, can Clara save the orphans and make Rita's dreams of singing for Britain come true? And while Ivor cares for his baby alone, can Clara have a future with the man she loves?" -- Provided by publisherPar M. A Nichols. 2018
The woman Simon loves wed another, and now it is time to settle for someone with whom he can share…
his life. Love is no longer an option for a man whose heart is irrevocably broken. Mina longs for a loving marriage but facing a lifetime of being the spinster sister living on her brother's charity, she considers something she never thought she would--a marriage of convenience. LDS Fiction AdultPar Catherine Palmer. 2009