Author : Alexandra Styron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 21,21 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 : 25,54 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 : 25,7 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 : 11,76 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 : 36,77 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 : Angela Thirkell
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 31,3 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 : Jami Albright
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,45 MB
Release : 2021-09-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781736448786
It's game, set, and match when this pro football player turned trainer squares off against a gorgeous tennis player with an attitude as big as Texas.Duke Wayne returns to his hometown for one reason and one reason only-reckless pro tennis star Sienna Ramsey has lost her ever-lovin' mind. His feisty client is ready to throw her career away in favor of a simple life.It doesn't get much simpler than tiny, gossipy Ryder, Texas. Duke figures a few days with the locals should have the infuriating woman begging for a stadium full of cheering fans in no time at all. But Sienna and the small town go together like fleas on a farm dog.Duke's plan blows up in his face when he discovers there's more to Sienna than a smart mouth and a killer backhand. The closer they get, the harder it is to keep things professional.What in the hell is a high-performance trainer to do when he stops thinking about his client on the court and starts fantasizing about her between the sheets?
Author : Elizabeth Lennox
Publisher : Elizabeth Lennox Books (www.ElizabethLennox.com)
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0988338106
A rebellious princess. An arrogant duke. Princess Zarah is no typical royal; she rebelled against being arm candy and any limiting role. Seeking solace in a quaint town, her life took a fiery turn when an arrogant duke, Derrick Huntington, swaggered into her world. His charm ignited Zarah's desires, sparking a passionate, secretive affair that led Derrick on a relentless quest to conquer her heart.
Author : Kieran Kramer
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 20,86 MB
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466805536
SAY YES TO THE DUKE Kieran Kramer Janice Sherwood wants to marry for love, but she's failed to make a match after two Seasons. Her parents, the Marquess and Marchioness of Brady, arrange to send her to the Duke of Halsey's country estate as a short-term guest of his grandmother, the dowager, in hopes that she might win the duke's affections. What they never could have imagined is that Janice would fall for the ruggedly handsome servant Luke, who lives in the stables and carries an air of mystery and temptation. When Luke Callahan learns that he is the legitimate heir to a dukedom, he will stop at nothing to claim what is his. But first, he must begin a game of disguise to secure his rightful inheritance. Janice isn't part of his plan. But by engaging her in this dance of deception, might he lose her forever?
Author : Jo McDougall
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,94 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."
