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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 |
Memoir of Melton's career as a cadet at the fledgling U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and as a merchant mariner in WWII.
| Автор | Herman Melton |
A young ensign on the bridge of the fabled battleship Yamato during her final battle, recounts his experience.
| Автор | Yoshida Mitsuru |
Vigorous and highly readable, this portrait of the enlisted man's life aboard the U.S. battleship California depicts the devastation at Pearl Harbor from the hazardous vantage point of the open «birdbath» atop the mainmast.
| Автор | Theodore C. Mason |
Dramatic version of Dogeaters *New book being published by Viking/Penguin in 2003
| Автор | Jessica Hagedorn |
The remarkable World War II story of PC 1264's crew of fifty African-American enlisted men as recounted by the ship's captain
| Автор | Eric Purdon |
The heroic story of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet at the outbreak of World War II and their disastrous encounter with vastly superior Japanese forces.
| Автор | Walter G. Winslow |
CAN SHE EVER PEN HER OWN LOVE STORY?Meeting Alistair Devlin, London’s most eligible bachelor, causes Victoria Bretton no end of problems. Masking her attraction is even more difficult than concealing her alter ego – playwright Valentine Lawe – not to mention the fact that this man’s unsettling gaze is causing her the most terrible writer’s block!Alistair’s not in the market for love…although he can’t help but be beguiled by Victoria and intrigued by the secrets she’s hiding. As they grow closer...
| Автор | Gail Whitiker |
LOOKING FOR PEACE FINDING…TROUBLEColt Wesson Travers is headed for a life of tranquillity in Texas. Here, he’ll finally escape the obligations demanded by his notorious outlaw family. But when he meets his stubborn lodger, Holly Jane Munroe, his illusions of peace are shattered. Colt is thrown right into the middle of two feuding families intent on winning Holly Jane’s hand…and her grandfather’s land! He quickly realises that life with delicious Holly Jane is going to be anything but quiet…
| Автор | Carol Arens |
Dishonourable intentions on his mind!Beatrice Dewey keeps falling for unsuitable men… She believes the man she loved, Hugh Kendrick, is lost to her for ever, and now her new fiancé has cancelled their wedding!But then Hugh re-enters her life, trailing rumours of illicit love affairs in his wake. Instead of marriage he offers her a very public, passionate kiss! To succumb to his skilful seduction would be the ultimate road to ruin, but is there enough of the old Hugh left to convince Bea to give...
| Автор | Mary Brendan |
He Could Never Love AgainOf that, Matthias Barrington was certain, despite the well-intentioned meddling of his neighbors. But now they'd sent him a special delivery in the form of the very comely Miss Abigail Smyth, who'd stepped off the stagecoach and announced that he needed a wife–and she was just the woman!Mail-order bride Abby Smyth just wanted a place to belong–preferably at rancher Matthias Barrington's side, making a home for his motherless boys. Ever practical, she knew...
| Автор | Mary Burton |