Author : Alexandra Styron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 35,83 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416591818
"Reading My Father" is an intimate, moving, and beautifully written portrait of the novelist William Styron by his daughter, Alexandra.
Author : Madison Faye
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 2018-05-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781724473622
She's off-limits. Inappropriate. A tease, a brat, a scandal waiting to happen, and a royal pain in my ass.Oh, and she's one more thing too: all mine....She just doesn't know it yet. I have a problem. A five-foot-five, brown-haired, green-eyed little tease of a problem. A problem that's lived under my roof ever since I took her in as if she were my own years ago. Lola. Princess Lola, that is. Lola with the fiery sass, the softest lips, the sweetest skin, and the most temping curves these rough hands have ever wanted to grab ahold of. I'm her guardian - the man who took care of her and raised her up. But my eyes have started lingering longer than they should. My thoughts have turned darker, and there's no turning back. See, I want the little Princess to be my little Princess. I want her laid out dressed in nothing but jewels and a smile - a present waiting for me to unwrap and claim. The world will say this is so f*cking wrong. They'll say I'm more than twice her age. They'll say a rough, hardened, ex-soldier like myself has no business being with her. They'll say a lot to try and keep us apart. ...They can all go to hell. Because whatever my Lola wants, she'll get. And she's about to get every inch of what she wants. ...But only if she says please. Are you sitting on your throne? Got your tiara and jewels ready? Good, you're going to need them. Get ready for that kind of book. You know what I'm talking about ;). Wild, out of control, and pure dirty fantasy at it's finest. Packed with insta-love, kindle-melting steam, and one very dominant alpha. As with all my books, this one is safe, with no cheating, and a HEA guaranteed.
Author : Joanna Shupe
Publisher : Joanna Shupe
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781087877495
Violet knows that her father's best friend, the Duke of Ravensthorpe, is the most powerful man in all of London with a reputation for sin. But nothing can stop Violet from wanting to shed her wallflower ways and fulfill her darkest, most forbidden desires...even if it means seducing a man twice her age. "Shupe is a true queen of filth, expert at spinning heartfelt love stories alongside tantalizingly wicked scenarios." -Entertainment Weekly Note: My Dirty Duke was originally published in the Duke I'd Like to F... anthology.
Author : Aissa Wayne
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 1998-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0878339590
The daughter of John Wayne and his third wife, Pilar, Aissa delves into her father's childhood, his film career, and his life off the screen. John Wayne: My Father reports Wayne's life faithfully and compassionately, resulting in an affecting portrait that offers a new perspective on one of America's most enduring heroes.
Author : Harper St. George
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593197208
Even a fortune forged in railroads and steel can't buy entrance into the upper echelons of Victorian high society--for that you need a marriage of convenience. American heiress August Crenshaw has aspirations. But unlike her peers, it isn't some stuffy British Lord she wants wrapped around her finger--it's Crenshaw Iron Works, the family business. When it's clear that August's outrageously progressive ways render her unsuitable for a respectable match, her parents offer up her younger sister to the highest entitled bidder instead. This simply will not do. August refuses to leave her sister to the mercy of a loveless marriage. Evan Sterling, the Duke of Rothschild, has no intention of walking away from the marriage. He's recently inherited the title only to find his coffers empty, and with countless lives depending on him, he can't walk away from the fortune a Crenshaw heiress would bring him. But after meeting her fiery sister, he realizes Violet isn't the heiress he wants. He wants August, and he always gets what he wants. But August won't go peacefully to her fate. She decides to show Rothschild that she's no typical London wallflower. Little does she realize that every stunt she pulls to make him call off the wedding only makes him like her even more.
Author : Jo McDougall
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1610754832
Jo McDougall brings a poet's sensibility to memoir. Recounting five generations of Delta rice farmers, through family archives and oral histories, she traces how the clan made their way into the fabric of America, beginning with her Belgian-immigrant grandfather, a pioneer rice farmer on the Arkansas Delta at the turn of the twentieth century. As John Grisham has for a 1950s Arkansas cotton farm, McDougall illuminates an Arkansas rice farm in the 1930s and 1940s. The Garot family's acreage near DeWitt and the town itself provide the stage for McDougall's wry, compelling, and layered account of the day-to-day of rice growing on the farm that her father inherited. In that setting she discovers a rich "universe of words" in the Great Depression, comes of age during World War II, and finds her way alongside "that whole quirky, compelling cast of characters" that comprised her kin. In this conflicted, ironic, southern-but-universal account of betrayal, heartbreak, loss, and joy, "the vagaries and the grace" of the land join forces with the power of money as family bonds are both forged and dissolved. Deeply felt, unsentimental, and often humorous,Daddy's Money presents McDougall's life and the lives of her relatives in the way that all our lives are eventually framed-as stories. "When all else is lost," the author maintains, "the stories remain."
Author : Carole Mortimer
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 4596283346
【A story by USA Today bestselling author becomes a comic!】Lexie hid her identity to get close to Lucan St. Claire, a duke from the family that hated her grandmother. She wanted to see if he really was a heartless man, so she became his private secretary. But she was trapped by a dilemma from the very first day when Lucan insisted she accompany him on a business trip to the St Claire estate. Her grandmother had terrible experiences at both that mansion and in the village. If Lexie stays there, her identity could be revealed!
Author : Angela Thirkell
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1504091159
Matches are being made among the cream of postwar English society in this novel of “warmth, whimsy, quirks, and vinegar with a dash of vitriol”(The New York Times). The England of old may be fading away (it’s so hard to find good help these days!)—but that doesn’t stop the prominent families of Barsetshire from producing a new generation of genteel brides and grooms in this funny, entertaining portrait of stubbornly cherished traditions in a changing world. “It is difficult not to become charmed, amused and engrossed. [Thirkell’s] sense of the ludicrous is enchanting. Perhaps, above all, it is her basic human kindness and her remarkable insight into the delicate relationship between parents and adolescent and grown children, that endear her books to so many people.” —The New York Times “Thirkell writes with an asperity and wit and glorious clowning that are all her own.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Author : Alexandra Styron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416595066
PART MEMOIR AND PART ELEGY, READING MY FATHER IS THE STORY OF A DAUGHTER COMING TO KNOW HER FATHER AT LAST— A GIANT AMONG TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELISTS AND A MAN WHOSE DEVASTATING DEPRESSION DARKENED THE FAMILY LANDSCAPE. In Reading My Father, William Styron’s youngest child explores the life of a fascinating and difficult man whose own memoir, Darkness Visible, so searingly chronicled his battle with major depression. Alexandra Styron’s parents—the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Sophie’s Choice and his political activist wife, Rose—were, for half a century, leading players on the world’s cultural stage. Alexandra was raised under both the halo of her father’s brilliance and the long shadow of his troubled mind. A drinker, a carouser, and above all “a high priest at the altar of fiction,” Styron helped define the concept of The Big Male Writer that gave so much of twentieth-century American fiction a muscular, glamorous aura. In constant pursuit of The Great Novel, he and his work were the dominant force in his family’s life, his turbulent moods the weather in their ecosystem. From Styron’s Tidewater, Virginia, youth and precocious literary debut to the triumphs of his best-known books and on through his spiral into depression, Reading My Father portrays the epic sweep of an American artist’s life, offering a ringside seat on a great literary generation’s friendships and their dramas. It is also a tale of filial love, beautifully written, with humor, compassion, and grace.
Author : Stephen Mack Jones
Publisher :
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1616959592
When the body of a young Hispanic woman dressed as Marie Antoinette is dredged from the Detroit River, the Detroit Police Department wants the case closed fast. Wayne County Coroner Dr. Bobby Falconi gives the woman's photo to August Snow, insisting August show it around his native Mexican town to see if anyone recognises her. August's good friend Elena recognises the woman immediately. Her story is one the authorities don't want getting around - and she's not the only young woman to have disappeared during an ICE raid, only to turn up dead a few weeks later. August Snow, ex-police detective, will not sit by and watch his neighbours suffer in silence.
