Dan Lavette, the son of an Italian fisherman, battles from the rubble of the San Francisco earthquake to build a fortune in the shipping industry. Rising to success through hard work and a loveless marriage to the daughter of the city's wealthiest family, he risks it all for the exotic beauty of a woman who shares his secret and scandalous passion. From Nob Hill to the harbor, San Francisco comes alive through three immigrant families -- Italian, Irish, and Chinese -- whose intertwining dreams are propelled by the emotional events of America's coming of age...

    . . in return for one night of unparalleled pleasure.In the fading echoes of hollow wedding vows, a promise is broken -- as a sensuous free-spirit flees to a lush Caribbean paradise, abandoning the handsome stranger she married to the gallows. But Ruark Beauchamp's destiny is now eternally intertwined with his exquisite, tempestuous Shanna's. And no iron ever forged can imprison his magnificent passion . . . and no hangman's noose will deny him the ecstasy that is rightfully his.

    Yet her name--Hatshepsut--does not appear in dynastic scrolls, nor is her reign celebrated on monuments. This is the story of the young woman who assumed the throne of Egypt, mastered the arts of war and government, lived her life by her own design, and ruled an empire--the only woman Pharaoh in history.

    But she didn't care. She was a very ambitious and beautiful woman with her eye on Van Zale's tremendous fortune. However, she hadn't counted on falling in love. Paul found himself attracted to Dinah in a way he had long forgotten. Her vitality, her sensuality, consumed him. With her he could forget his past, his wife, his enemies, his empire....

    Beginning at the turn of the last century and spanning the First World War and the Spanish Civil War, The Summer of the Spanish Woman is another spellbinding page-turner from the pen of the bestselling author of The Property of a Gentleman and Sara Dane. When her grandfather dies without leaving a male heir, Charlotte Drummond and her mother are forced to leave their family home, Clonmara. A distant cousin, Richard Selwin, inherits her grandfather's estate and the title of Lord Blodmore. He also claims Charlotte's heart, but a cruel twist of fate prevents them from being together. Charlotte and her mother begin a new life in the Spanish town of Jerez among the families and vineyards of the great Spanish sherry dynasties. There she discovers the surprising secrets of her grandfather's younger life, and the mystery surrounding “the Summer of the Spanish Woman” many decades before. As Charlotte learns more about the events of that long-ago summer she realises that its far-reaching consequences stretch into the present. Drawn into a web of deceit and vengeance, her destiny is shaped by both her enemies and her allies in this foreign land. And she must confront Isabel, Marquesa de Pontevedra, whose presence casts light or shadow over those whose lives she seeks to control. A brilliant family saga which paints a vivid picture of life among the sherry makers of early twentieth century Spain and the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War.

    Seventeen-year-old Sarah Wells is taken from a New Hampshire farm by Abnaki Indians and renamed "Ghost Fox." Line drawings by the Author.

    But, as the waif grew to beautiful womanhood, she became an object of desire to the local young men, and even to her half-brother.Against her wishes, she was married off to a gross, sensual man, but Hannah kept on fighting for the man she wanted: Ned Ridley, who adored her and taught her the meaning of true love and passion...

    Ruthie is probably the least important. Cornelia lives in a nice house, has a nice mother, and brings her lunch to school in a real lunch box. Ruthie is so poor that she seldom has any lunch at all. She lives with her father in a barn, as her mother often gets bored and leaves them for months at a time.Everybody loves Cornelia and wants to be just like her, and nobody more so than Ruthie. Cornelia hardly knows Ruthie is alive, but she tries to be kind sometimes.And then things begin to change. "Rich" Cornelia's father gets sick and cannot work, and Cornelia's mother has to sell the house and take a job. World War II starts, and suddenly Ruthie's father sells a once-worthless field for a fine sum of money, and her mother comes home to share in it. The two girls, once so unequal, are pretty much in the same boat now, and they become friends.Then the war, which had unexpectedly given Ruthie so much, threatens to take away the one thing she wants most of all. Not even Cornelia's coveted friendship is enough to make up for it, and the heartsick girl runs away. Alone in the woods, Ruthie, who has never had much, learns to accept the loss of everything, and long before her story is over, readers will discover that this wistful heroine has won a place in their hearts, much as she wins solutions to her most pressing problems.

    Told from the perspective of a Saxon peasant, this is a story about the ruling family of England and the changing succession during the early 11th century prior to William the Conqueror taking the throne in 1066 from the Earl of Wessex.

    Face-to-face with an oncoming army, he could decide matters of life and death. But now, face-to-face with one gentle woman, he was hopelessly confused and uncertain. Startled by Catherin's pale beauty when he first saw her, he was dumbfounded by her passionate radiance now, and he felt a desire far different from his usual impersonal need for a woman.

    Then, out of the blue, comes an offer he can't refuse, a ticket home to his beloved England and to the arms of his much missed fiancée Elizabeth.But this ticket comes with a heavy price to pay; Harry must marry beautiful, headstrong Princess Irena of Moldova, who's only hope of survival is to leave the country and he must risk both their lives by escorting her back to England.As they set off on their long and treacherous journey with enemies at every turn, Harry begins to realise that Irena is not only dangerous but extremely precious cargo.Will he sacrifice everything for this wartime marriage?

    Sold into slavery to the Northmen in the tenth century, a young Englishman becomes involved in a blood feud which leads him to Constantinople and a totally different way of life.

    Relates the experiences of the woman who disguised herself as a man in order to enlist and fight in the American Revolution.

    

    Thirteen-year-old Roger's disappointment is greatest, since, having moved place to place all his life with his gifted actor-father, he longs for some measure of stability. Then Roger and his father discover under peeling wallpaper and rotted paneling traces of a much older, more graceful house, and their misgivings disappear— until, that night, the house is filled with a sound of wild grieving that Roger traces to an empty room. Only Roger— and later his small stepsister Pippa— sees the ghosts, among them that of Tom Garland, a well-known actor in Shakespeare's time. But Roger's father, playing Hamlet in the famous National Theatre, is caught up, unknowingly, in Tom's old tragedy. It is a frightened Roger who has to risk his life to find a way to mend the past before the present becomes its tragic echo. POOR TOM'S GHOST, dramatic, wholly convincing, a fascinating intermingling of the centuries, portrays a family whose uncertain bonds are tested and strengthened by a threat from the past.

    Set in Sydney, it begins in 1932 as the Harbour Bridge opens and the future is full of promise.At the core of the story are two people, Neil Atkins and Maggie McGhee. Neil is an aspiring actor torn by guilt and frustrated desire. Raised in poverty by a gutsy, passionate ex-showgirl, he wants to leave that life behind and win the love of intriguing, wealthy Carrie Mazzini, who is looking for a man to transform her. Generous, expansive, Maggie has come from Winnidee to find work on a big-city newspaper. She becomes a successful columnist, yet despite her readiness to reach out to others, a love of her own proves elusive. The events of their lives and those of the people who form their realities take place through the thirties, the Depression and World War II, a time of shifting values and new horizons.

    

    Visited by a census-taker in 1831, 60-year-old Sally is encouraged to recount her past.

    By turns harsh, kind, immoral, hypocritical, hilarious and spiteful, they are all dominated by the baleful presence of Marjory's unrepentantly Victorian grandmother. Marjory is motherless, her father a remote, weekend visitor to 'Gran's house', where Marjory belongs, but is isolated. Gran would crush her individuality, or crush her entirely: and Marjory has to bring all her intelligence, tenacity and humour into play to survive. As she remarks at one point, 'Some of the animals in our family are nicer than some of the people.' But she does survive. Glimpses of her adult life tell us the price she pays - but how she also never loses her wit, integrity and spark for life. No End to Yesterday won the Whitbread Prize in 1977 as a children's book, but it's an adult story. Whitbread judge Lynne Reid Banks said: 'The writing showed signs of a literary gift far beyond what one normally expects in children's books or finds in adult novels. The whole environment and the period are imparted. The imagination is pricked awake by the author's skill... and finds itself capable of evoking settings, smells, textures and even the strongly "other" emotions of that earlier time.'

    This picture-magic he returns to again and again as he grows up, to the puzzlement and ridicule of his fellows. In the end it is his gift that releases his tribe from their own conquerors and gives them the freedom to start their clan life anew.In this interpretation of how the White Horse of Uffington, in Berkdhire, might have been made, Rosemary Sutcliff has created a story of great sensitivity and understanding.

    Love of Paris and France prompts a sixteen-year-old to join the resistance movement shortly after the Nazi invasion of 1940.

    She quickly befriends Donald and Ronald, but is repeatedly frustrated by her inability to tell them apart. After she and the boys have several adventures together--some of which involve her deliberately trying to fashion ways to tell them apart--she finds that knowing who's who becomes second nature.

    

    

    Essays such as “Our Feminist Heritage” (1973) documented historical Mexican and Mexican American women activists to challenge the notion that feminism was foreign to Mexican American culture. Another essay, “Feminism as We See It” (1972), inspired by the difficulties she faced working with the largely white, middle-class Texas Women's Political Caucus, outlined the differences between Anglo feminists and Chicana feminists while also highlighting their similar political goals. Cotera's critical, politically astute, and often humorous commentary on the topics of feminism, gender roles, coalition politics, and public policy have been germane to contemporary Chicana feminist thought.Read more: Martha Cotera Biography - (b. 1938), Political Association of Spanish-Speaking Organizations http://www.jrank.org/cultures/pages/3...

    On publication it was welcomed as a work useful both for reference and reading, for the general reader, student and specialist alike. It has now been reprinted, with corrections, and for ease of handling the original two hardcover volumes have each been divided into two separate paperbacks.

    

    

    Sometimes it is a barnyard, sometimes a pasture, a distant mountain, an orchard, a panorama of corn fields and sky; often times, as at End o' Way, it is a meadow that one looks out upon. Whatever the view, it is a tangible link between the life within the house and the farm without.

    

    

    This over-size volume (14.5" high x 11" wide [37 cm x 27.5 cm]) includes contributions by a long list of well-known writers and historical figures as well as leading photographers of the time. The copious photos include several fold-out images that measure 2' 6" (76 cm) across when fully revealed.The cast of writers includes: David Eisenhower; Abbie Hoffman; Michael McClure; Dick Clark; Joseph Heller; James Meredith; Tom Hayden; Nora Ephron; David Halberstam; Pete Townshend; Daniel Ellsberg; Tom Wolfe; Diana Vreeland; Allen Ginsburg; Stewart Brand; Paul Krassner; Teenie Weenie Deanie; Eldridge Cleaver; Muhammad Ali; Lou Adler; Bill Graham; Ron Kovic; Andrew Young; Eugene McCarthy; Wavy Gravy; Buzz Aldrin; Gloria Steinem; David Dellinger; John Dean; Seymour Hersh; and Greil Marcus.