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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America comes this powerful portrayal of individual dissolution and resolution in the face of political catastrophe.“It’s brash, audacious and…intoxicatingly visionary.”—Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune
| Автор | Tony Kushner |
This book recounts how the Wake Island garrison survived nearly daily bombings and repulsed the first Japanese attempt to take the atoll. The author uses extensive Japanese materials–many never before used or available– to identify the enemy order of battle and the roles each unit played in the drama.
| Автор | Robert J. Cressman |
Scandal Comes Courting!Caught in a coach accident, Lady Eleanor Ashby seeks help from a mysterious stranger. But the dashing Matthew Thomas is not all he seems. And when it appears someone is trying to hurt her Eleanor doesn’t know who to trust.Disowned by his family, Matthew is living under an assumed name.Falling under Eleanor’s spell, he determines to protect her. It’s time for Matthew to return home and confront his scandalous past if Eleanor is to be part of his future…Men About Town:...
| Автор | Janice Preston |
She Hated Him On SightCattleman's daughter Rachel Tolliver believed that sheep ranchers like Luke Vincente had no business out on the open range. Yet despite his troubled past, he was an honorable man, driven by a passion for the West–and for her. But the range war brewing would surely forbid any declaration of their wildfire love!Luke Vincente had little use for rich men's daughters, and Rachel Tolliver's blood ran royal blue with cattle-baron cash. And yet, for all she was «the...
| Автор | Elizabeth Lane |
Fearing a forced betrothal with a man known for his cruelty, Heloise Bergeron throws herself on the mercy of Charles Fawley, Earl of Walton. He believes himself attracted to her younger, beautiful sister, so what is he doing entertaining thoughts of marriage to the plain, quiet Heloise?But marry her he does. Returning to England with a convenient wife, who inspires a very inconvenient desire, Charles is about to discover just how untouched his French bride really is….
| Автор | Энни Берроуз |
Branded the queen's whore, Lady Sarah of Remy must wed William of Bronwyn. A powerful and notoriously dangerous warrior, he makes her quiver with a fear-and desire-she has never experienced before. William has known the very worst barbarity. He has no time for emotion. But it comes as a shock, when their desire explodes into full-blown passion, to discover that Lady Sarah is actually an innocent.Their marriage is convenient for William, although he soon finds there's nothing easy about...
| Автор | Denise Lynn |
A SEASON OF SCANDAL Richard, Lord Ledbury, has had his fair share of adventure on warring battlefields, but even this seasoned soldier isn’t prepared for the outrageous escapades going on in London’s ballrooms! Lady Jayne Chilcott is under orders to find a husband, and Lord Ledbury has caught her eye.But nothing is simple when courting under the glittering spotlight of the ton. Richard has always risen to any challenge, but Lady Jayne might just be the first to get the better of him… Let the...
| Автор | Энни Берроуз |
Brandon Sayer Wanted His Wife Back. What Could Be Simpler?Jana would come home, and they could resume their marriage. All he had to do was give her a little guidance–as all wives needed. But Jana was not the naive girl he married, and didn't seem to want his guidance!Jana Sayer Wanted A Divorce. What Could Be Simpler?Brandon's buiness dealings still kept him too busy to be married, let alone be a father to the son he'd never seen. But he insisted Jana try marriage for one month...
| Автор | Judith Stacy |
An enlisted radioman recalls his years of action in the Pacific with candor and humor.
| Автор | Theodore C. Mason |
The authors were with the Japanese Naval Special Attack Force (Kamikaze Corps) from its inception in late 1944.
| Автор | Roger Pineau |
Developed in workshops with award-winning actors, these are the works in Fugard's canon that most directly confront the dehumanizing brutality of apartheid. Includes: Sizwe Bansi is Dead, The Island, and Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act.
| Автор | John Kani |
–Second play on 3 part project begun with «Doubt» -"Doubt" has sold over 40,000 copies and was awarded the Pulizter Prize
| Автор | John Patrick Shanley |
Based on ten years of study in the Italian archives and on the ground, “Vincere” examines a little-known topic: the counterinsurgency operations carried out by the Italian Royal Army in Libya and Ethiopia from 1922 to 1941.
| Автор | Federica Saini Fasanotti |
Could this infamous rake……finally have found his Countess?Part of The Sinful Sinclairs. When Lucas, Lord Sinclair, receives a mysterious summons from a Miss Olivia Silverdale he’s sceptical about helping her. But Olivia, although eccentric, is in earnest about her quest to restore her late godfather’s reputation. Lucas’s curiosity is piqued—and not just by Olivia’s intelligent eyes and lithe form. A new challenge quickly presents itself: keeping Miss Silverdale at arm’s length!
| Автор | Lara Temple |
GIVING IN TO TEMPTATION WOULD BE THE RUIN OF THEM ALL!Having spent years believing a lie about his birth, Dr Samuel Hastings has been condemned to a personal hell of his desire’s making – his sinful thoughts of the one woman he can never touch would damn his soul for eternity.Lady Evelyn Thorne is engaged to the very suitable Duke of St Aldric when a shocking truth is revealed – and now Sam will play every bit of the devil to seduce the woman he thought would always be denied him! The Sinner and...
| Автор | Christine Merrill |
Indulge your fantasies of delicious Regency Rakes, fierce Viking warriors and rugged Highlanders. Be swept away into a world of intense passion, lavish settings and romance that burns brightly through the centuriesKnown to her friends as a free spirit, Elizabeth Lane has traveled the world in search of new adventures and good stories.She has lived in Mexico, Guatemala, Panama and Germany and traveled to such exotic spots as China and Nepal, but she is most at peace in the mountains of her native...
| Автор | Elizabeth Lane |
UNCOVERED: A LIST OF NOBLEMEN’S NAMES – EACH ONE GUILTY OF TREASONTo save his family legacy Rafe Densmore must seize a courtesan’s infamous register. No one can ever know how his father betrayed his country! One person stands in Rafe’s way – the beautiful Cornelia, Comtesse de Vane.In the card rooms of Paris, Rafe and Cornelia once made an unbeatable… intimate team. Until, convinced of Rafe’s desertion, desperate Cornelia married an elderly comte. Now, returning to London an impoverished widow,...
| Автор | Georgie Lee |
This acclaimed sequel to the Peattie/Evans prizewinning work, Kaigun, illuminates the rise of Japanese naval aviation from its genesis in 1909 to its thunderbolt capability on the eve of the Pacific war. In the process of explaining the navy s essential strengths and weaknesses, the book provides the most detailed account available in English of Japan s naval air campaign over China from 1937 to 1941. A final chapter analyzes the utter destruction of Japanese naval air power by 1944.
| Автор | Mark Peattie |
The first collection of writings from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America. Includes Slavs!
| Автор | Tony Kushner |
HE COULD SAVE HER…With the scandalous nature of her birth to live down, Isabella Fairmont dreams of a proper marriage – even if it is passionless. She saves her deepest desires for her novel, wherein a handsome lord with dark powers seduces her.But then her courtship with an appropriate suitor is threatened by the attentions of the reclusive Earl of Black… whose blue eyes and brooding sensuality are exactly as described in her book. Isabella tries to resist the mysterious Earl of Black.Yet he...
| Автор | Charlotte Featherstone |
DEVIL BY NAME… Rupert Stirling, Duke of Stratton, has long since acquired the nickname Devil. And with outrageous exploits both in and out of ladies’ bedchambers, my, has he earned it! Risqué behaviour is beyond Pandora Maybury, widowed Duchess of Wyndwood – although with her dark secret she’s far too well acquainted with being the subject of ribald gossip for her liking.If only the Ton knew just how innocent she really was…including Rupert who, after rescuing her from a compromising situation,...
| Автор | Кэрол Мортимер |
A countess in name only……tempted by a night with her husband!Part of Penniless Brides of Convenience: Eloise Brannagh has witnessed first-hand the damage unruly passion can cause. Yet she craves freedom, so a convenient marriage to the Earl of Fearnoch seems the perfect solution! Except Alexander Sinclair is more handsome, more intriguing, more everything, than Eloise anticipated. Having set her own rules for their marriage, her irresistible husband might just tempt Eloise to break them!
| Автор | Marguerite Kaye |
JUST WHO IS LADY DEBORAH?I am the Dowager Countess of Kinsail, and I have enough secrets to scandalise you for life. I will never reveal the truth of my soul-destroying marriage – some things are too dark to be told. But at least no one can guess that I, a famously icy-hearted widow, am also the authoress of the shamelessly voluptuous romances currently shocking the ton…!Only now I have a new secret identity, one that I will risk my life to keep – accomplice to Elliot Marchmont, gentleman,...
| Автор | Marguerite Kaye |
BENEATH THE GOVERNESS’S BLUSH…Heiress Sarah Hardcastle is convinced her plan to escape the unwanted attentions of a fortune-hunter is foolproof. Buried deep in the countryside, and with a whole new identity as prim governess Miss Goodrum, Sarah is looking forward to the quiet life for once…But her careful masquerade is shaken when she meets her pupils’ mentor, Lord Rupert Myers. An incorrigible flirt, Rupert has the looks and the charm to make Sarah blush all the way down to her high-buttoned...
| Автор | Anne Herries |