Download or read book Cavendon Hall Cavendon Chronicles Book 1 written by Barbara Taylor Bradford and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping saga set around the aristocratic Ingham family of Cavendon Hall and the Swanns who serve them, set on the eve of World War 1.

Download or read book The Cavendon Women written by Barbara Taylor Bradford and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to Cavendon Hall follows the Inghams' and Swanns' from a family weekend in the summer of 1926 through the devastation of the Wall Street crash in 1929.

Download or read book Secrets of Cavendon written by Barbara Taylor Bradford and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For years things have run smoothly at Cavendon Hall, with very few quarrels, dramas, or upsets among the Inghams and the Swanns. But since the end of World War II, things have changed. The Secrets of Cavendon picks up in the summer of 1949, with the new generation of the estate at the forefront of the scandal and intrigue. With romance, betrayal, heartbreak, and possible murder threatening to tear them apart, the Inghams and Swanns will have to find a way to come together and protect each other in the face of threats they never could have predicted"--

Download or read book The Cavendon Luck written by Barbara Taylor Bradford and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a captivating epic saga of courage and honor, following the aristocratic Inghams and the loyal Swann family who have served them for centuries. It is 1938 in England, and Miles and Cecily Ingham have lead the family in bringing the Cavendon estate back from the brink of disaster. But now, with the arrival of World War II, Cavendon Hall will face its biggest challenge yet. It is a challenge that will push the Inghams and Swanns to protect each other and the villagers, and reveal their true capacity for survival and rebirth. Told with Bradford’s deft, evocative prose and featuring a beloved cast of characters, The Cavendon Luck is a story of intrigue, romance, sorrow, and joy that readers won’t soon forget.

Download or read book Cavendon Hall written by Barbara Taylor Bradford and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, multi-generational saga set on the eve of WWI. Two entwined families: the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns, who serve them. Cavendon Hall is a grand imposing house nestled in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. But the year is 1913, and soon life as the two families of Cavendon Hall know it - Royal Ascot, supper dances, grouse season feasts - is about to change irrevocably

Download or read book Secrets from the Past written by Barbara Taylor Bradford and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaving her successful job after the unexpected death of her famous father, photojournalist Serena Stone risks her life to save a former lover and discovers an archive of her late father's work in war-torn Libya that reveals a shocking truth about her parents' marriage.

Download or read book Playing The Game written by Barbara Taylor Bradford and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford's new novel, Annette Remmington, a London art consultant and private dealer, is at the top of her game. She is considered a rising star in the international world of art, and has a roster of wealthy clients who trust her judgment and her business acumen. Her success reaches new heights when a rare and long lost Rembrandt finds its way into her hands, which she restores and sells for top dollar. Called the auction of the year, Annette becomes the most talked about art dealer in the world. Annette is married to her mentor and personal champion, the much older Marius Remmington. For twenty years, Marius has groomed her into the international art star that she has become, not to mention saving her from a dark and gritty past. She is his pride and joy, and as her best advisor, it's with great care that he hand picks only the best journalist possible to do a profile on his beloved wife in a popular London Sunday newspaper. Jack Chalmers is a bit of a celebrity himself, becoming one of the top journalists of his time. Marius believes only he will be able to capture the true brilliance of his lovely wife. But Marius never intends to put his marriage in jeopardy. How could he have known that the connection between Jack and Annette would ignite so many secrets? And how could he know that Jack would uncover a scandal that could ultimately destroy them all? Barbara Taylor Bradford does it again in this epic novel of seduction, passion and international intrigue. Playing the game has never been so thrilling.

Download or read book Master of His Fate written by Barbara Taylor Bradford and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the first book in a stunning new historical saga. Victorian England is a country of sharp divides between rich and poor, but James Lionel Falconer, who spends his days working at his father’s market stall, is determined to become a merchant prince. Even as a child, he is everything a self-made man should be: handsome, ambitious, charming, and brimming with self-confidence. James quickly rises through the ranks, proving himself both hardworking and trustworthy, and catching the eye of Henry Malvern, head of the most prestigious shipping company in London. But when threats against his reputation – and his life - begin to emerge, James will have to prove that he truly is the master of his fate. Through scandal and romance, tragedy and triumph, the Falconer and Malvern family’s lives intertwine in unexpected ways in this expansive and intricately detailed new novel filled with drama, intrigue, and Bradford's trademark cast of compelling characters.

Download or read book Bronte s Mistress written by Finola Austin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] meticulously researched debut novel…In a word? Juicy.” —O, The Oprah Magazine The scandalous historical love affair between Lydia Robinson and Branwell Brontë, brother to novelists Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, gives voice to the woman who allegedly brought down one of literature’s most famous families. Yorkshire, 1843: Lydia Robinson has tragically lost her precious young daughter and her mother within the same year. She returns to her bleak home, grief-stricken and unmoored. With her teenage daughters rebelling, her testy mother-in-law scrutinizing her every move, and her marriage grown cold, Lydia is restless and yearning for something more. All of that changes with the arrival of her son’s tutor, Branwell Brontë, brother of her daughters’ governess, Miss Anne Brontë and those other writerly sisters, Charlotte and Emily. Branwell has his own demons to contend with—including living up to the ideals of his intelligent family—but his presence is a breath of fresh air for Lydia. Handsome, passionate, and uninhibited by social conventions, he’s also twenty-five to her forty-three. A love of poetry, music, and theatre bring mistress and tutor together, and Branwell’s colorful tales of his sisters’ imaginative worlds form the backdrop for seduction. But their new passion comes with consequences. As Branwell’s inner turmoil rises to the surface, his behavior grows erratic, and whispers of their romantic relationship spout from Lydia’s servants’ lips, reaching all three Brontë sisters. Soon, it falls on Mrs. Robinson to save not just her reputation, but her way of life, before those clever girls reveal all her secrets in their novels. Unfortunately, she might be too late.

Download or read book The Women in His Life written by Barbara Taylor Bradford and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of A Woman of Substance comes a billionaire tycoon’s lifelong search for the right woman’s love. Born in Berlin and orphaned by World War II, Maxim Westheim is left to fend for himself. With brains, charm, and grit, he forges a new identity for himself as Maximilian West, billionaire corporate raider. Max is ruthless in the business world, but his personal affairs are another story. His work takes him around the world to such opulent locales as London, New York, Paris, Venice, and Morocco, mingling with the world’s rich and powerful. But his marriages end in divorce, and even his mistresses can’t avoid heartbreak. When his life is shattered, he looks back at the women who have loved him and begins a search into his own soul which will lead to the one woman who holds the key to his heart. “Legions of readers undoubtedly will be satisfied by the romantic fortunes of the cultured, wealthy and powerful people whose lives she evokes.” —Publishers Weekly “[Bradford] is one of the world’s best at spinning yarns.” —The Guardian

Download or read book Letter from a Stranger written by Barbara Taylor Bradford and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justine lost her beloved grandmother a decade agoNthe person who was the only source of comfort in her life. When she inadvertently opens a letter addressed to her mother, Justine discovers that her grandmother is alive and her mom has deliberately estranged the family from her. Martin's Press.

Download or read book The Yellowwood Tree written by Rick Auterson and published by Beacon Publishing Group. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1918, World War One and the Spanish Flu left unimaginable numbers of orphaned children. In every corner of the planet, one person in twenty perished. Emma Taylor is a twelve-year-old girl, living on a farm in Indiana. Her mother is taken by the flu and her father dies in The Great War. Children left without their parents due to war or influenza do not fare well. They are most often thrown into orphanages and their homes auctioned off at pennies on the dollar to a select group of buyers. Emma must keep secret that only children are living at Yellowwood Farm. Emma struggles to cope and care for her younger brother. When her neighbor falls ill, she takes in his twin grandsons. Their parents were killed by the flu and they have nowhere to go. Emma cannot refuse him. He relieved her of the terrible burden of burying her mother. The following spring, two more children come to Yellowwood Farm. Emma hides a brother and sister who ran away from an orphan train to avoid being separated. In 1918, Indiana enacted a bone-dry law, prohibiting the possession of alcohol of any sort. When the state realized the enormous cost of enforcing the new law, Indiana’s Attorney General issued badges to Klan members. They were given powers to conduct investigations and make arrests. Accepting Holy Communion was punishable by law. This story is about six orphaned children struggling to stay together and run Yellowwood Farm in a time of war, pandemic and the second coming of the Ku Klux Klan. Emma changes the world with relentless gentle nudges—punctuated by the rare shotgun blast.

Download or read book A Woman of Substance written by Barbara Taylor Bradford and published by HarTorch. This book was released on 2004-07-27 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes a triumphant novel of an unforgettable woman Determined to rise above all that she has ever known, a young and impoverished Emma Harte embarks on a journey first of survival, then of unimaginable achievement. Driven to succeed, the iron-willed Emma parlays a small shop into the world's greatest department store and an international business empire: Harte Enterprises. Unhappily married twice, loving only the one man she can never marry, personal happiness eludes her. Harte Enterprises, the realization of her grand dreams, is her all: her heart, her soul, her life. When those closest to her threaten to destroy her empire through their greed and envy, Emma brilliantly outwits her enemies. She wreaks her devastating revenge on those who would betray her in a way only she knows how. Drawing us into the mesmerizing life of a remarkable woman who dared to seize a dream and was willing to pay any price to make it come true, Barbara Taylor Bradford's deeply involving novel is a celebration of an indomitable spirit.

Download or read book Heavenly Khan written by Victor Cunrui Xiong and published by Airiti Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical fiction is based on the true story of Li Shimin (also known as Tang Taizong), the greatest sovereign in Chinese history. About 30 years younger than Muhammad, he grew up in a world of devastating upheaval that tore China asunder and was thrust into the role of a military commander in his father’s rebel army while still a teenager. In the process of vanquishing his enemies on the battlefield, he proved himself to be a great military genius. As emperor he encouraged critical suggestions by his court officials, which he often adopted, and lent support to the religions of his day, notably, Buddhism, Daoism, and Christianity. The international prestige he had won for Tang China was so high that the states of Central and North Asia honored him with the title of “Heavenly Khan.” Although his father founded the dynasty, it was his reign that laid the groundwork for a brilliant empire that was to endure for centuries. 本書根據史實，描述唐太宗李世民透過一場場的征戰，消滅敵軍，開疆闢土；同時鼓勵諫言，包容不同宗教，進而成就唐代偉大盛世，獲得「天可汗」的美名。

Download or read book On the Rooftop written by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An utterly original and brilliant story' Reese Witherspoon A Most Anticipated Book according to The Millions, Ms. Magazine and Good Housekeeping Ruth, Esther and Chloe have been singing in harmony since before they could speak. Together they are The Salvations. Driven to success by their formidably ambitious mother, Vivian, they’re soon the hottest jazz band in San Francisco. When the girls receive a once-in-a-lifetime offer from a renowned talent manager, Vivian knows this is the big break she has been praying for. She can see a different future for her girls, one that is a far cry from her childhood in racially segregated Louisiana. But somewhere between the grind of endless rehearsals on the rooftop and the glamour of weekly gigs at the Champagne Supper Club, the girls grow up and start to imagine a life beyond their mother's reach. As Vivian’s hold on her family begins to weaken, she must confront changes in The Salvations, in the San Francisco neighbourhood she has made her home, and even in her own family.

Download or read book Everything to Gain written by Barbara Taylor Bradford and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping story of triumph over tragedy from the author of A Woman of Substance

Download or read book The Ravenscar Dynasty written by Barbara Taylor Bradford and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ravenscar Dynasty, introducing the house of DeRavenel, launches Barbara Taylor Bradford’s epic new series spanning a century.