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The Mermaid Garden $24.99 The internationally bestselling authorof The French Gardener presentsa complex and irresistibly compelling novel that confirms the remarkablepower of love to heal and transform. Ten-year-old Floriana is captivated by the beauty of the magnificent Tuscan villa that overlooks the sea just outside her small village. She likes to spy from the crumbling wall into the gardens and imagine that one day sh… |
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The French Gardener: A Novel $1.49 A neglected garden. A cottage that holds a secret. A mysterious Frenchman (handsome, naturally). A family in need of some love. These elements are entwined in this heartwarming novel by the author reviewers consistently compare to Maeve Binchy and Rosamunde Pilcher.It begins as Miranda and David Claybourne move into a country house with a once-beautiful garden. But reality turns out to be very dif… |
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The Gypsy Madonna by Montefiore, Santa Edition , 0 $19.49 The Gypsy Madonna by Montefiore, Santa |
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Last Voyage of the Valentina by Montefiore, Santa Edition , 0 $11.99 Last Voyage of the Valentina by Montefiore, Santa |
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Sea of Lost Love by Montefiore, Santa Edition , 0 $19.99 Sea of Lost Love by Montefiore, Santa |
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The Perfect Happiness by Montefiore, Santa Edition , 0 $13.99 Wonderfully wise Santa Montefiore will capture your heart with this bittersweet and thought-provoking* novel about a modern wife who must ask herself, Would I risk everything for love? A wife who has forgotten her own beauty and allure. A distant, distracted husband. A smart, candlelit dinner party, witty conversation, and a charmingly rugged vineyard owner from South Africa. So begins Santa Montefiore’s powerful and poignant new novel in which a woman who finds herself in a common predicament must confront the most unlikely aspects of herself. I hope you don’t mind my writing to you, begins the first e-mail bestselling children’s book author Angelica receives from Jack. Surely it can’t do any harm to indulge in a mild flirtation. After all, she wouldn’t risk her stable marriage and the happiness of her treasured children. But things don’t stop at an e-mail, and when Angelica goes to Cape Town for a book tour, her affair with Jack begins in earnest. On their last day together, he makes a stunning confession, and now everything Angelica thought she knew about love and passion, safety and experience, right and wrong are entirely upended once again. A tender book about the true meaning of love and happily ever after, The Perfect Happiness is for any woman who has ever looked up from her steady, secure life and secretly wondered what if . . . |
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The Mermaid Garden by Montefiore, Santa Edition , 0 $9.99 The internationally bestselling authorof The French Gardener presentsa complex and irresistibly compelling novel that confirms the remarkablepower of love to heal and transform. Ten-year-old Floriana is captivated by the beauty of the magnificent Tuscan villa that overlooks the sea just outside her small village. She likes to spy from the crumbling wall into the gardens and imagine that one day she’ll escape her meager existence and live there surrounded by its otherworldly splendor. Then one day Dante, the son of the villa’s powerful industrialist owner, invites her inside and shows her the enchanting Mermaid Garden. From that moment, Floriana knows that the only destiny for her is there, in that garden, with Dante. But as they grow up and fall in love, their romance causes a crisis, jeopardizing the very thing they hold most dear. Decades later and hundreds of miles away, a beau-tiful old country house hotel on England’s Devon coast has fallen on hard times after the financial crash of 2008. Its owner, Marina, advertises for an artist to stay the summer and teach the guests how to paint. The man she hires is charismatic and wise and soon begins to pacify the discord in her family and transform the fortunes of the hotel. However, he has his own agenda. Is it to destroy, to seduce, or to heal? Whatever his intentions, he is certain to change Marina’s life forever. Spanning four decades and sweeping from the Italian countryside to the English coast, this new story by Santa Montefiore is a moving and mysterious tale of love, forgiveness, and the past revealed. |
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The French Gardener by Montefiore, Santa Edition , 0 $13.99 Prepare to be “spellbound by the sheer charm” (Daily Express uK) of santa montefiore’s tender and powerful new novel about marriage, passion, loss, renewal, and the healing power of love. A magical garden. A cottage that holds a secret. A mysterious Frenchman (handsome, naturally). A family in need of some love. These story elements are irresistibly entwined in this heartwarming novel by the author reviewers consistently compare to Maeve Binchy (Booklist) and Rosamunde Pilcher (Daily Mail UK). It begins as Miranda and David move out of London into a beautiful country house with a magical garden. But reality turns out to be very different from their bucolic dream. Soon the latent unhappiness in the family begins to come to the surface, isolating each family member in a bubble of resentment and loneliness. Then a mysterious Frenchman arrives on their doorstep. With the wisdom of nature, he slowly begins to heal the past and the present. But who is he? When Miranda discovers his secret in the cottage by the garden, the whole family learns that a garden, like love itself, can restore the human spirit, not just season after season, but generation after generation. Wise and winsome, poignant and powerfully moving, The French Gardener combines the savvy of contemporary women’s fiction with an old fashioned sensibility steeped in the importance of family and the magical power of love. |
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Sashenka by Montefiore, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Simon Montefiore, Simon Edition , 0 $13.99 Sashenka. Montefiore, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Simon Montefiore, Simon |
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The French Gardener by Montefiore, Santa Edition LTE, 0 $26.49 Miranda and David move out of London into a beautiful country house with a magical garden. But reality turns out to be very different from their bucolic dream. Soon the latent unhappiness in the family surfaces, isolating each family member in a bubble of resentment and loneliness.Then a mysterious Frenchman arrives on their doorstep. With the wisdom of nature, he slowly begins to heal the past and present. But who is he; When Miranda discovers his secret, the whole family learns that a garden — like love itself — can restore the human spirit. |
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Gypsy Madonna by Montefiore, Santa Edition , 0 $13.99 A writer that can put the glamour into mass market publishing |
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The Perfect Happiness by Montefiore, Santa Edition LTE, 0 $13.49 After her South African lover, Jack, makes a shocking confession on the last day of their affair, best-selling children’s book author Anjelica must draw on the lessons she learned to save her marriage. |
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Sea of Lost Love by Montefiore, Santa Edition LTE, 0 $13.99 Celestria Montague always spends her summers at Pendrift Hall, the rambling Cornish mansion that has been home to the Montague family for generations. It is 1958, and the family is celebrating her father’s fiftieth birthday at a lavish ball. The gala event ends in tragedy and death, and young Celestria learns that the family may lose Pendrift Hall. At her grandfather’s urging, Celestria plays detective in an effort to solve the mysteries surrounding the night’s events — and to save the ancient estate if at all possible. Her quest takes her to Italy’s rugged, beautiful Puglia, and into the dark, cool cloisters of the Convento di Santa Maria del Mare. Here, Celestria meets an enigmatic stranger — a man who teaches her that truth is at the heart of all love. |
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Sashenka by Montefiore, Simon Sebag Edition , 0 $13.99 Sashenka by Montefiore, Simon Sebag |
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La virgen Gitana / The Gipsy Madonna by Montefiore, Santa; De Miquel Serra, Isabel Edition , $18.99 Shortly before her death, the mother of Mischa, donates to the Metropolitan Museum in New York The Gypsy Lady, an original painting of the famous Renaissance painter Titian, which she had hidden all those years without his son’s knowledge. Gradually, Mischa discovers that the mysterious and hypnotic painting is closely related to his own life. |
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The Miracles of Jesus by Montefiore, Hugh Edition , 0 $13.49 Montefiore looks at what is meant by a miracle and then examines all the major miracles of Jesus including the resurrection. He concludes that most of the miracles did happen as the gospels recount them, and proposes that in some cases this was due not so much to supernatural intervention as to powers of perception, intuition, and other paranormal powers which Jesus was able to exercise. |
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A Philosophical Retrospective by Montefiore, Alan Edition , 0 $28.99 As a young lecturer in philosophy and the eldest son of a prominent Jewish family, Alan Montefiore faced two very different understandings of his identity: the more traditional view that an identity such as his carried with it, as a matter of given fact, certain duties and obligations, and an opposing view, emphasized by his studies in philosophy, according to which there can be no rationally compelling move from statements of fact—whatever the alleged facts may be—to judgments of value. According to this second view, individuals must in the end take responsibility for determining their own values and obligations.In this book, Montefiore looks back on his attempts to understand the nature of this conflict and the misunderstandings it may engender. In the process, he illustrates through personal experience the practical implications of a characteristically philosophical issue. Montefiore finally settles on the following: while everyone has to accept that facts, including those of their own situation, are whatever they may be, both the traditional assumption that individuals must recognize certain values and obligations as rooted in those very facts, and the contrary view that individuals are ultimately responsible for determining their own values, are deeply embedded in differing conceptions of society and its relation to its members. Montefiore then examines the misunderstandings between those for whom identity constitutes in effect a conceptual bridge connecting the facts of who and what a person may be to the value commitments incumbent upon them, and those for whom the very idea of such a bridge can be nothing but a confusion. Using key examples from the notoriously vexed case of Jewish identity and from his own encounters with its conflicting meanings and implications, Montefiore depicts the practical significance of the differences between these worldviews, particularly for those who hove to negotiate them. |
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Stalin by Montefiore, Simon Sebag Edition ILL, 0 $22.99 This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers—killers, fanatics, women, and children—during the terrifying decades of his supreme power. In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research and narrative ?lan, Simon Sebag Montefiore gives us the everyday details of a monstrous life.We see Stalin playing his deadly game of power and paranoia at debauched dinners at Black Sea villas and in the apartments of the Kremlin. We witness first-hand how the dictator and his magnates carried out the Great Terror and the war against the Nazis, and how their families lived in this secret world of fear, betrayal, murder, and sexual degeneracy. Montefiore gives an unprecedented understanding of Stalin’s dictatorship, and a Stalin as human and complicated as he is brutal. |
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Dunkirk by Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh Edition ILL, 0 $29.49 In May of 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany were marching through France. In the face of this devastating advance, one of World War II’s greatest acts of heroism would be a retreat: the evacuation of the British Army from Dunkirk.In Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man, we are given an unprecedented vision of these harrowing days. Hugh Sebag-Montefiore has created a bold and powerful account of the small group of men who fended off the German army so that hundreds of thousands of their comrades could exit this doomed land. These brave troops, members of the British Expeditionary Forces and the French army, held a series of strong points inland, allowing the rest of the battered battalions to escape to the coast. Those that remained were ordered to fight to the last man.Much has been written about the efforts of the Royal Navy in shuttling soldiers to safety, but here we are given an unparalleled look inside this massive operation and the invaluable role played by the BEF. Without the ferocity and bravery of the officers and ordinary soldiers on the ground, the German army would likely have encircled nearly half a million Allied soldiers. The loss of these battalions, Sebag-Montefiore argues, could have dramatically changed the direction of the war, and enabled Hitler to invade a weakened Britain.This is military history at its best: a judicious analysis of the movement of the war, and a vivid feel of what it was like to be on the front line. Sebag-Montefiore brings these men—the forgotten heroes of Dunkirk—to life, and it is their valiant exploits and devotion to their brethren that form the heart of this important book. |
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Enigma by Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh Edition , 1 $21.99 ACCLAIM FOR ENIGMA“CRACKING STUFF…VIVID AND HITHERTO UNKNOWN DETAILS.” –Sunday Times (London)“IN A CROWD OF BOOKS DEALING WITH THE ALLIED BREAKING OF THE WORLD WAR II CIPHER MACHINE ENIGMA, HUGH SEBAG-MONTEFIORE HAS SCORED A SCOOP.” –Washington PostWinston Churchill called the cracking of the German Enigma Code “the secret weapon that won the war.” Now, for the first time, noted British journalist Hugh-Sebag-Montefiore reveals the complete story of the breaking of the code by the Allies—the breaking that played a crucial role in the outcome of World War II.This fascinating account relates the never-before-told, hair-raising stories of the heroic British and American sailors, spies, and secret agents who faced death in order to capture vital codebooks from sinking ships and snatch them from under the noses of Nazi officials. Sebag-Montefiore also relates new details about the genesis of the code, little-known facts about how the Poles first cracked the Luftwaffe’s version of the code (and then passed it along to the British), and the feverish activities at Bletchley Park, Based in part on documents recently unearthed from American and British archives—including previously confidential government files—and in part on unforgettable, firsthand accounts of surviving witnesses, Enigma unearths the stunning truth about the brilliant piece of decryption that changed history. |
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Potemkin by Montefiore, Simon Sebag Edition ILL, 0 $20.49 As a young guardsman, Grigory Potemkin caught the eye of Catherine the Great with a theatrical act of gallantry during the coup that placed her on the throne. Over the next thirty years he would become her lover, co-ruler, and husband in a secret marriage that left room for both to satisfy their sexual appetites. Potemkin proved to be one of the most brilliant statesmen of the eighteenth century, helping Catherine expand the Russian empire and deftly manipulating allies and adversaries from Constantinople to London.This acclaimed biography vividly re-creates Potemkin’s outsized character and accomplishments and restores him to his rightful place as a colossus of the eighteenth century. It chronicles the tempestuous relationship between Potemkin and Catherine, a remarkable love affair between two strong personalities that helped shape the course of history. As he brings these characters to life, Montefiore also tells the story of the creation of the Russian empire. This is biography as it is meant to be: both intimate and panoramic, and bursting with life. |
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Men and Women Writers of the 1930s by Montefiore, Janet Edition , 1 $14.16 Men and Women Writers of the 1930s is a searching critique of the issues of memory and gender during this dynamic decade. Montefiore asks two principle questions; what part does memory play in the political literature of and about 1930s Britain? And what were the roles of women, both as writers and as signifying objects in constructing that literature? Montefiore’s topical analysis of 1930s mass unemployment, fascist uprise and ‘appeasement’ is shockingly relevant in society today. Issues of class, anti-fascist historical novels, post war memoirs of ‘Auden generation’ writers and neglected women poets are discussed at length. Writers include: * George Orwell * Virginia Woolf * W.H. Auden * Storm Jameson * Jean Rhys * Rebecca West |
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Jerusalem by Montefiore, Simon Sebag Edition ILL, $27.99 Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence.   How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the “center of the world” and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem’s biography is told through the wars, love affairs and revelations of the men and women—kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whores—who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. As well as the many ordinary Jerusalemites who have left their mark on the city, its cast varies from Solomon, Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent to Cleopatra, Caligula and Churchill; from Abraham to Jesus and Muhammad; from the ancient world of Jezebel, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and Nero to the modern times of the Kaiser, Disraeli, Mark Twain, Lincoln, Rasputin, Lawrence of Arabia and Moshe Dayan.   Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers and a lifetime’s study, Montefiore illuminates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a unique chronicle of the city that many believe will be the setting for the Apocalypse. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice—in heaven and on earth. |
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Enigma by Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh Edition ILL, 0 $13.99 Breaking the German Enigma codes was not only about brilliant mathematicians and professors at Bletchley Park. There is another aspect of the story which it is only now possible to tell. It takes in the exploits of spies, naval officers and ordinary British seamen who risked, and in some cases lost their lives snatching the vital Enigma codebooks from under the noses of Nazi officials and from sinking German ships and submarines. This book will tell the whole Enigma story: the original invention and use by German forces and how it was the Poles who first cracked – and passed on to the British – the key to the German airforce Enigma. The more complicated German Navy Enigma appeared to them to be unbreakable.Hugh Sebag-Montefiore – like his brother Simon a journalist and author – has unearthed files at the Ministry of Defence and further documents now declassified in the US. He has also traced and made contact with many of the last surviving witnesses to the Enigma story, including Paul Pailliole, who was head of French counterintelligence and has a detailed first hand knowledge of the spying and double crossing which took place in relation to Enigma. |
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Sashenka by Montefiore, Simon Sebag; Montefiore, Simon Edition , 0 $17.99 From the bestselling author of Young Stalin comes a sweeping novel of Russia in the early 20th century–a captivating tale of love, politics, family, and survival. |
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Sashenka by Montefiore, Simon Edition , 0 $14.99 Winter, 1916: In St Petersburg, Russia on the brink of revolution.Outside the Smolny Institute for Noble Young Ladies, an Englishgoverness is waiting for her young charge to be released from school.But so are the Tsar's secret police…Beautiful and headstrong,Sashenka Zeitlin is just 18. In the evenings when her motheris partying with Rasputin and her dissolute friends, Sashenka becomesComrade Snowfox and slips into the frozen night to play her part in adangerous game of conspiracy and seduction. Twenty years on, andSashenka is married to a dashing Communist leader with whom she has twochildren. Around her people are disappearing, but her own family issafe. But she is about to embark on a forbidden love affair, which willhave devastating consequences. Sashenka's story lies hidden for half acentury, until a young historian goes deep into Stalin's privatearchives and uncovers a heart-breaking story of passion and betrayal,savage cruelty and unexpected heroism—and one woman forced to make anunbearable choice. |
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The Prince of Princes by Montefiore, Sebag Edition ILL, 1 $13.99 Prince Grigory Potemkin was Catherine the Great’s lover, secret husband, and partner in ruling the Russian Empire. Their affair was so tumultuous, they negotiated an arrangement that allowed them to share power while he was free to love his beautiful nieces, and Catherine, her favorites. But they never stopped loving each other. Their endearing and passionate relationship remains one of history’s most remarkable love affairs.Potemkin shone as an outstandingly gifted statesman, winning the Crimea, founding the Black Sea Fleet, reforming the Cossacks, planning new cities like Sebastopol and Odessa, and making Russia a Near Eastern power – achievements in war and peace that emulated his hero Peter the Great.He embodied the strengths and weaknesses of Russia itself – volatile, ebullient, handsome, sensual, and always astonishing. His bizarre magnificence enchanted and scandalized Europe. Yet he disdained his own success. He was surrounded by a cosmopolitan court that included brilliant Americans, such as Admiral John Paul Jones, and Lewis Littlepage, a friend of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Both served under Potemkin against the Turks. An obsessive Anglophile, he commissioned Joshua Reynolds and created an English garden wherever he stopped for the night. In 1787, this master showman presided over Catherine’s Crimean river-tour, so sumptuous it was compared to Cleopatra’s progress. Potemkin’s enemies claimed he displayed fake houses – Potemkin villages – a smear this biography lays to rest.After five years’ new research in archives from Petersburg to Odessa, Sebag Montefiore shoes how Potemkin and Catherine, with their younger lovers, created their own family. He brings blazingly to life Potemkin’s loving partnership with Catherine and restores him to his place as a colossus of the eighteenth century. When he died, Catherine was heartbroken. She said there could never be another Potemkin. |
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Integrity in the Public and Private Domains by Montefiore, Alan; Vines, David Edition , 1 $57.38 Integrity in the Private and Public Domains explores the issue of public and private integrity in politics, the media, health, science, fund-raising, the economy and the public sector. Over twenty essays by well-known figures such as Amelie Rorty, David Vines, the late Hugo Gryn, Alan Montefiore and Hilary Lawson present a compelling insight into debates over integrity today. A key chapter of the book concerns the highly publicised donation to Oxford University by Gert-Rudolf Flick, an issue which attracted wide media attention by raising questions of fund-raising and the holocaust. |
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Santa Claus $19.9 Santa Claus |
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Chocolates on the Pillow Aren’t Enough: Reinventing The Customer Experience $14.95 In today’s world, organizations of every kind—from for-profit businesses to government agencies and nonprofit groups—are experiencing huge difficulties in attracting and retaining clients. With competition intensifying, consumers becoming more demanding, and old ways of creating loyalty losing their impact, it’s no longer enough to offer just a good product or a useful service. Today’s consumers are looking for something more—an experience that will truly enrich their lives.As the Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels and a global leader in the travel and tourism industry, Jonathan Tisch establishes strong and lasting connections with countless customers every day, by providing them with experiences that are unique, memorable, and deeply rewarding. And now, in Chocolates on the Pillow Aren’t Enough, he wants to help you do the same.In an appealing and personal style, Tisch—with the help of business writer Karl Weber—distills the important customer relation lessons that he has learned from his successful career in the hospitality industry, and discusses how these lessons can make any organization more customer-centric. Chocolates on the Pillow Aren’t Enough will also show you how to improve every customer touch point; understand what customers really want and need; and design organizational structures to meet those needs. These ideas are brought to life through stories of triumphs achieved and challenges faced by organizations ranging from In-N-Out Burger, Commerce Bank, and Urban Outfitters to the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Santa Fe’s Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, and New York City’s 311 system.The proven insights that fill these pages will help you:Use technology to create intimate connections with customers—without losing the human touchFind ways to expand your organization’s offerings beyond the basic product or service you’re known forRecognize your customers’ needs for physical |
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El Ultimo viaje de la Valentina (Last Voyage of the Valentina) $10 Santa Montefiore, Alejandro Palomas (Translator),Paperback – Spanish-language Edition,Pub by Urano Publishing, Inc. |
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El Ultimo viaje del Valentina $8.75 Santa Montefiore,Paperback – Spanish-language Edition,Pub by Books4pocket |
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In Bed with Anthology $0.01 “An unashamedly sexy collection” (Glamour) featuring today’s top female writers hiding behind naughty pseudonyms. A unique and sexy collection of bedtime stories by bestselling, award- winning, and well-known novelists delivering the goods under their X- rated pseudonyms. So who’s who? We’re not telling. After all, a woman should have at least one good secret.Feturing Adele Parks, Ali Smith, Bella Pollen, Chris Manby, Daisy Waugh, Emma Darwin, Esther Freud, Fay Weldon, Jane Moore, Joan Smith, Joanne Harris, Justine Picardi, Louise Doughty, Rachel Johnson, Santa Montefiore, Stella Duffy, Imogen Edwards-Jones, Jessica Adams, Kathy Lette, and Maggie Alderson. |
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Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson $49.2 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jeremy James Palmer-Tomkinson (born 4 November 1943) was a British Olympian who competed at the Winter Olympics in 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1980. His father James and brother Charles were also Olympians, while his nieces Santa Montefiore and Tara Palmer-Tomkinson are famous in their own right. The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games, w |
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Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson $37.02 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jeremy James Palmer-Tomkinson (born 4 November 1943) was a British Olympian who competed at the Winter Olympics in 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1980. His father James and brother Charles were also Olympians, while his nieces Santa Montefiore and Tara Palmer-Tomkinson are famous in their own right. The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games, w |
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La Sonata de Nomeolvides $4.04 Santa Montefiore, Montse Batista (Translator),Paperback – Spanish-language Edition,Pub by Urano Publishing, Inc. |
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La Virgen gitana $12.95 Santa Montefiore,Paperback – Spanish-language Edition,Pub by Spanish Publishers, LLC |
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La Virgen gitana $14.99 Santa Montefiore,Paperback – Spanish-language Edition,Pub by Urano Publishing, Inc. |
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La golondrina y el colibri (The Swallow and the Hummingbird) $7.28 Cuando George vuelve de la guerra, descubre que nada ha cambiado en su pequeño pueblo natal de Frognal Point: los campos verdes, su familia… incluso su amada Rita, la joven a la que ha amado desde que tiene memoria, que le espera llena de ilusión. Pero George ya no es el mismo. La alegría de su juventud se ha quemado en la batalla, y se siente tan atrapado en el pueblo como lo estaba en la cabina de su Spitfire. Cuando se va Argentina, Rita quiere creer que sólo es algo temporal. Pero en aquellas tierras George conoce a otra mujer, emprende una nueva vida… Hasta que años después, se ve obligado a retornar a Frognal Point. Una historia hermosa, intensa y conmovedora, con la que la autora de A la sombra del ombú vuelve a demostrar su enorme talento y sensibilidad para explorar los extraños senderos del corazón, la fuerza de los sentimientos y los caprichos del destino.Santa Montefiore conquistó al público y a la crítica con A la sombra del Ombú, a la que siguieron La caja de Mariposa y La sonata de Nomeolvides, todas publicadas por Umbriel. Nacida en argentina, de origen británico, Montefiore ha sido calificada por la crítica como la nueva Rosamunde Pilcher.’ |
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Last Voyage of the Valentina $0.01 Exotically beautiful but desperately unhappy, Alba lives on a houseboat on the Thames, where she enjoys a life of leisure and entertains an endless and unfulfilling succession of lovers. Though irresistible to men, her striking Mediterranean features and fiery temper distance her from her father and stepmother’s aristocratic and highly traditional English family. When Alba discovers a portrait of her dead mother, Valentina — a mysterious Italian beauty she’d hardly known, whose story has been kept from her by her still grieving father — she is instantly shaken from complacency. Determined to learn the truth about Valentina, Alba returns to the olive groves of the Amalfi coast of Italy, to her mother’s tiny village of Incantellaria, ignoring the friends and family who urge her to leave the past alone. Once there, Alba discovers cultural roots and the love of a new family, and begins to uncover wartime secrets protected for decades. Alba’s quest to understand her mother’s identity takes her beyond anything she could have imagined, revealing a mysterious tale of desperation, decadence, deception, murder, and betrayal involving partisans and Nazis, peasants and counts. Alba’s journey leads her not only to the truth of her family’s hidden past but to the possibility of love and happiness in her own future. Last Voyage of the Valentina is a sweeping, romantic story that makes for a great escape for any booklover. |
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Last Voyage of the Valentina $11.99 Exotically beautiful but desperately unhappy, Alba lives on a houseboat on the Thames, where she enjoys a life of leisure and entertains an endless and unfulfilling succession of lovers. Though irresistible to men, her striking Mediterranean features and fiery temper distance her from her father and stepmother’s aristocratic and highly traditional English family. When Alba discovers a portrait of her dead mother, Valentina — a mysterious Italian beauty she’d hardly known, whose story has been kept from her by her still grieving father — she is instantly shaken from complacency. Determined to learn the truth about Valentina, Alba returns to the olive groves of the Amalfi coast of Italy, to her mother’s tiny village of Incantellaria, ignoring the friends and family who urge her to leave the past alone. Once there, Alba discovers cultural roots and the love of a new family, and begins to uncover wartime secrets protected for decades. Alba’s quest to understand her mother’s identity takes her beyond anything she could have imagined, revealing a mysterious tale of desperation, decadence, deception, murder, and betrayal involving partisans and Nazis, peasants and counts. Alba’s journey leads her not only to the truth of her family’s hidden past but to the possibility of love and happiness in her own future. Last Voyage of the Valentina is a sweeping, romantic story that makes for a great escape for any booklover. |
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Last Voyage of the Valentina By Santa Montefiore $15 Exotically beautiful but desperately unhappy, Alba lives on a houseboat on the Thames, where she enjoys a life of leisure and entertains an endless and unfulfilling succession of lovers. Though irresistible to men, her striking Mediterranean features and fiery temper distance her from her father and stepmother’s aristocratic and highly traditional English family. <P>When Alba discovers a portrait of her dead mother, Valentina — a mysterious Italian beauty she’d hardly known, whose story has been kept from her by her still grieving father — she is instantly shaken from complacency. Determined to learn the truth about Valentina, Alba returns to the olive groves of the Amalfi coast of Italy, to her mother’s tiny village of Incantellaria, ignoring the friends and family who urge her to leave the past alone. Once there, Alba discovers cultural roots and the love of a new family, and begins to uncover wartime secrets protected for decades. Alba’s quest to understand her mother’s identity takes her beyond anything she could have imagined, revealing a mysterious tale of desperation, decadence, deception, murder, and betrayal involving partisans and Nazis, peasants and counts. Alba’s journey leads her not only to the truth of her family’s hidden past but to the possibility of love and happiness in her own future.<P><I>Last Voyage of the Valentina</i> is a sweeping, romantic story that makes for a great escape for any booklover. |
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Last Voyage of the Valentina By Santa Montefiore $11.99 Exotically beautiful but desperately unhappy, Alba lives on a houseboat on the Thames, where she enjoys a life of leisure and entertains an endless and unfulfilling succession of lovers. Though irresistible to men, her striking Mediterranean features and fiery temper distance her from her father and stepmother’s aristocratic and highly traditional English family. <P>When Alba discovers a portrait of her dead mother, Valentina — a mysterious Italian beauty she’d hardly known, whose story has been kept from her by her still grieving father — she is instantly shaken from complacency. Determined to learn the truth about Valentina, Alba returns to the olive groves of the Amalfi coast of Italy, to her mother’s tiny village of Incantellaria, ignoring the friends and family who urge her to leave the past alone. Once there, Alba discovers cultural roots and the love of a new family, and begins to uncover wartime secrets protected for decades. Alba’s quest to understand her mother’s identity takes her beyond anything she could have imagined, revealing a mysterious tale of desperation, decadence, deception, murder, and betrayal involving partisans and Nazis, peasants and counts. Alba’s journey leads her not only to the truth of her family’s hidden past but to the possibility of love and happiness in her own future.<P><I>Last Voyage of the Valentina</i> is a sweeping, romantic story that makes for a great escape for any booklover. |
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Last Voyage of the Valentina By Santa Montefiore $24 Exotically beautiful but desperately unhappy, Alba lives on a houseboat on the Thames, where she enjoys a life of leisure and entertains an endless and unfulfilling succession of lovers. Though irresistible to men, her striking Mediterranean features and fiery temper distance her from her father and stepmother’s aristocratic and highly traditional English family. <P>When Alba discovers a portrait of her dead mother, Valentina — a mysterious Italian beauty she’d hardly known, whose story has been kept from her by her still grieving father — she is instantly shaken from complacency. Determined to learn the truth about Valentina, Alba returns to the olive groves of the Amalfi coast of Italy, to her mother’s tiny village of Incantellaria, ignoring the friends and family who urge her to leave the past alone. Once there, Alba discovers cultural roots and the love of a new family, and begins to uncover wartime secrets protected for decades. Alba’s quest to understand her mother’s identity takes her beyond anything she could have imagined, revealing a mysterious tale of desperation, decadence, deception, murder, and betrayal involving partisans and Nazis, peasants and counts. Alba’s journey leads her not only to the truth of her family’s hidden past but to the possibility of love and happiness in her own future.<P><I>Last Voyage of the Valentina</i> is a sweeping, romantic story that makes for a great escape for any booklover. |
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Sea of Lost Love $0.01 Escape to this bestselling storyteller’s world “full of mystery, romance, and suspense”* in this unforgettable and uplifting new novel about family secrets and the triumph of love. Celestria Montague always spends her summers at Pendrift Hall, the rambling, shabby mansion adorned with wisteria and clematis that has been home to the Montague family for generations. It is 1958, and the family is celebrating her father’s fiftieth birthday at a lavish ball. The celebratory night ends in death and tragedy, however, and young Celestria learns that the family may lose Pendrift Hall. Her grandfather urges Celestria to play detective, to solve the mysteries surrounding the night’s events, and to save the ancient mansion if at all possible. Her quest takes her to Italy’s rugged and beautiful Puglia, and into the dark, cool cloisters of the Convento di Santa Maria del Mare. Here Celestria meets an enigmatic stranger and confronts unwelcome truths about her family — and herself. Sea of Lost Love is Santa Montefiore at her very best — sensitive, sensual, and complex. |
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Sea of Lost Love $11.99 Escape to this bestselling storyteller’s world “full of mystery, romance, and suspense”* in this unforgettable and uplifting new novel about family secrets and the triumph of love. Celestria Montague always spends her summers at Pendrift Hall, the rambling, shabby mansion adorned with wisteria and clematis that has been home to the Montague family for generations. It is 1958, and the family is celebrating her father’s fiftieth birthday at a lavish ball. The celebratory night ends in death and tragedy, however, and young Celestria learns that the family may lose Pendrift Hall. Her grandfather urges Celestria to play detective, to solve the mysteries surrounding the night’s events, and to save the ancient mansion if at all possible. Her quest takes her to Italy’s rugged and beautiful Puglia, and into the dark, cool cloisters of the Convento di Santa Maria del Mare. Here Celestria meets an enigmatic stranger and confronts unwelcome truths about her family — and herself. Sea of Lost Love is Santa Montefiore at her very best — sensitive, sensual, and complex. |
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Sea of Lost Love: A Novel By Santa Montefiore $11.99 <b><big>Escape to this bestselling storyteller’s world “full of mystery, romance, and suspense”* in this unforgettable and uplifting new novel about family secrets and the triumph of love.</big></b><P>Celestria Montague always spends her summers at Pendrift Hall, the rambling, shabby mansion adorned with wisteria and clematis that has been home to the Montague family for generations. It is 1958, and the family is celebrating her father’s fiftieth birthday at a lavish ball. The celebratory night ends in death and tragedy, however, and young Celestria learns that the family may lose Pendrift Hall. Her grandfather urges Celestria to play detective, to solve the mysteries surrounding the night’s events, and to save the ancient mansion if at all possible. Her quest takes her to Italy’s rugged and beautiful Puglia, and into the dark, cool cloisters of the Convento di Santa Maria del Mare. Here Celestria meets an enigmatic stranger and confronts unwelcome truths about her family — and herself.<P><I>Sea of Lost Love</i> is Santa Montefiore at her very best — sensitive, sensual, and complex. |
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Sea of Lost Love: A Novel By Santa Montefiore $15 <b><big>Escape to this bestselling storyteller’s world “full of mystery, romance, and suspense”* in this unforgettable and uplifting new novel about family secrets and the triumph of love.</big></b><P>Celestria Montague always spends her summers at Pendrift Hall, the rambling, shabby mansion adorned with wisteria and clematis that has been home to the Montague family for generations. It is 1958, and the family is celebrating her father’s fiftieth birthday at a lavish ball. The celebratory night ends in death and tragedy, however, and young Celestria learns that the family may lose Pendrift Hall. Her grandfather urges Celestria to play detective, to solve the mysteries surrounding the night’s events, and to save the ancient mansion if at all possible. Her quest takes her to Italy’s rugged and beautiful Puglia, and into the dark, cool cloisters of the Convento di Santa Maria del Mare. Here Celestria meets an enigmatic stranger and confronts unwelcome truths about her family — and herself.<P><I>Sea of Lost Love</i> is Santa Montefiore at her very best — sensitive, sensual, and complex. |
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The French Gardener $11.99 Prepare to be “spellbound by the sheer charm” (Daily Express uK) of santa montefiore’s tender and powerful new novel about marriage, passion, loss, renewal, and the healing power of love. A magical garden. A cottage that holds a secret. A mysterious Frenchman (handsome, naturally). A family in need of some love. These story elements are irresistibly entwined in this heartwarming novel by the author reviewers consistently compare to Maeve Binchy (Booklist) and Rosamunde Pilcher (Daily Mail UK). It begins as Miranda and David move out of London into a beautiful country house with a magical garden. But reality turns out to be very different from their bucolic dream. Soon the latent unhappiness in the family begins to come to the surface, isolating each family member in a bubble of resentment and loneliness. Then a mysterious Frenchman arrives on their doorstep. With the wisdom of nature, he slowly begins to heal the past and the present. But who is he? When Miranda discovers his secret in the cottage by the garden, the whole family learns that a garden, like love itself, can restore the human spirit, not just season after season, but generation after generation. Wise and winsome, poignant and powerfully moving, The French Gardener combines the savvy of contemporary women’s fiction with an old fashioned sensibility steeped in the importance of family and the magical power of love. |
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The French Gardener $15 Prepare to be “spellbound by the sheer charm” (Daily Express uK) of santa montefiore’s tender and powerful new novel about marriage, passion, loss, renewal, and the healing power of love. A magical garden. A cottage that holds a secret. A mysterious Frenchman (handsome, naturally). A family in need of some love. These story elements are irresistibly entwined in this heartwarming novel by the author reviewers consistently compare to Maeve Binchy (Booklist) and Rosamunde Pilcher (Daily Mail UK). It begins as Miranda and David move out of London into a beautiful country house with a magical garden. But reality turns out to be very different from their bucolic dream. Soon the latent unhappiness in the family begins to come to the surface, isolating each family member in a bubble of resentment and loneliness. Then a mysterious Frenchman arrives on their doorstep. With the wisdom of nature, he slowly begins to heal the past and the present. But who is he? When Miranda discovers his secret in the cottage by the garden, the whole family learns that a garden, like love itself, can restore the human spirit, not just season after season, but generation after generation. Wise and winsome, poignant and powerfully moving, The French Gardener combines the savvy of contemporary women’s fiction with an old fashioned sensibility steeped in the importance of family and the magical power of love. |
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The French Gardener: A Novel $33.95 A neglected garden. A cottage that holds a secret. A mysterious Frenchman (handsome, naturally). A family in need of some love. These elements are entwined in this heartwarming novel by the author reviewers consistently compare to Maeve Binchy and Rosamunde Pilcher.It begins as Miranda and David Claybourne move into a country house with a once-beautiful garden. But reality turns out to be very different from their dream. Soon the latent unhappiness in the family begins to come to the surface, isolating each family member in a bubble of resentment and loneliness.Then an enigmatic Frenchman arrives on their doorstep. With the wisdom of nature, he slowly begins to heal the past and the present. But who is he? When Miranda reads about his past in a diary she finds in the cottage by the garden, the whole family learns that a garden, like love itself, can restore the human spirit, not just season after season but generation after generation.Wise and winsome, poignant and powerfully moving, The French Gardener is a contemporary story told with an old-fashioned sensibility steeped in the importance of family and the magical power of love. |
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The French Gardener: A Novel By Santa Montefiore $11.99 Prepare to be “spellbound by the sheer charm” (Daily Express uK) of santa montefiore’s tender and powerful new novel about marriage, passion, loss, renewal, and the healing power of love. <P>A magical garden. A cottage that holds a secret. A mysterious Frenchman (handsome, naturally). A family in need of some love. These story elements are irresistibly entwined in this heartwarming novel by the author reviewers consistently compare to Maeve Binchy (Booklist) and Rosamunde Pilcher (Daily Mail UK). It begins as Miranda and David move out of London into a beautiful country house with a magical garden. But reality turns out to be very different from their bucolic dream. Soon the latent unhappiness in the family begins to come to the surface, isolating each family member in a bubble of resentment and loneliness. Then a mysterious Frenchman arrives on their doorstep. With the wisdom of nature, he slowly begins to heal the past and the present. But who is he? When Miranda discovers his secret in the cottage by the garden, the whole family learns that a garden, like love itself, can restore the human spirit, not just season after season, but generation after generation. Wise and winsome, poignant and powerfully moving, The French Gardener combines the savvy of contemporary women’s fiction with an old fashioned sensibility steeped in the importance of family and the magical power of love. |
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The French Gardener: A Novel By Santa Montefiore $15 Prepare to be “spellbound by the sheer charm” (Daily Express uK) of santa montefiore’s tender and powerful new novel about marriage, passion, loss, renewal, and the healing power of love. <P>A magical garden. A cottage that holds a secret. A mysterious Frenchman (handsome, naturally). A family in need of some love. These story elements are irresistibly entwined in this heartwarming novel by the author reviewers consistently compare to Maeve Binchy (Booklist) and Rosamunde Pilcher (Daily Mail UK). It begins as Miranda and David move out of London into a beautiful country house with a magical garden. But reality turns out to be very different from their bucolic dream. Soon the latent unhappiness in the family begins to come to the surface, isolating each family member in a bubble of resentment and loneliness. Then a mysterious Frenchman arrives on their doorstep. With the wisdom of nature, he slowly begins to heal the past and the present. But who is he? When Miranda discovers his secret in the cottage by the garden, the whole family learns that a garden, like love itself, can restore the human spirit, not just season after season, but generation after generation. Wise and winsome, poignant and powerfully moving, The French Gardener combines the savvy of contemporary women’s fiction with an old fashioned sensibility steeped in the importance of family and the magical power of love. |
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The Gypsy Madonna $0.01 A beguiling new novel from the internationally bestselling author of Last Voyage of the Valentina When an elegant French antiques dealer dies in her adopted hometown of New York City, her son, Misha, is astonished to learn that she owned a priceless, uncataloged Titian known as The Gypsy Madonna. Misha wonders how she could have kept such a secret from him, bonded inseparably as they were since his childhood in German-occupied France. Now with the discovery of the Titian masterpiece and the loss of his mother, he must at last journey back to Bordeaux to uncover the truth about The Gypsy Madonna — and himself. |
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The Gypsy Madonna $11.99 A beguiling new novel from the internationally bestselling author of Last Voyage of the Valentina When an elegant French antiques dealer dies in her adopted hometown of New York City, her son, Misha, is astonished to learn that she owned a priceless, uncataloged Titian known as The Gypsy Madonna. Misha wonders how she could have kept such a secret from him, bonded inseparably as they were since his childhood in German-occupied France. Now with the discovery of the Titian masterpiece and the loss of his mother, he must at last journey back to Bordeaux to uncover the truth about The Gypsy Madonna — and himself. |
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The Gypsy Madonna By Santa Montefiore $15 A beguiling new novel from the internationally bestselling author of <I>Last Voyage of the Valentina</i><P>When an elegant French antiques dealer dies in her adopted hometown of New York City, her son, Misha, is astonished to learn that she owned a priceless, uncataloged Titian known as <I>The Gypsy Madonna.</i> Misha wonders how she could have kept such a secret from him, bonded inseparably as they were since his childhood in German-occupied France. Now with the discovery of the Titian masterpiece and the loss of his mother, he must at last journey back to Bordeaux to uncover the truth about <I>The Gypsy Madonna</i> — and himself. |
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The Gypsy Madonna By Santa Montefiore $11.99 A beguiling new novel from the internationally bestselling author of <I>Last Voyage of the Valentina</i><P>When an elegant French antiques dealer dies in her adopted hometown of New York City, her son, Misha, is astonished to learn that she owned a priceless, uncataloged Titian known as <I>The Gypsy Madonna.</i> Misha wonders how she could have kept such a secret from him, bonded inseparably as they were since his childhood in German-occupied France. Now with the discovery of the Titian masterpiece and the loss of his mother, he must at last journey back to Bordeaux to uncover the truth about <I>The Gypsy Madonna</i> — and himself. |
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The House by the Sea $29.75 Santa Montefiore,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Audiogo Limited |
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The Mermaid Garden $24.99 Ten-year-old Floriana is captivated by the magnificent Tuscan villa that overlooks the sea just outside her small village. She likes to spy from the crumbling wall into the gardens and imagine that one day she’ll escape her meager existence and live there surrounded by its splendor. Then, one day, Dante, the son of the villa’s powerful industrialist owner, invites her inside and shows her the enchanting Mermaid Garden. . . . Decades later and hundreds of miles away, a beautiful old country hotel on England’s Devon coast has fallen on hard times. Its owner, Marina, hires an artist to stay for the summer and teach the guests how to paint. Charismatic and wise, he soon begins to pacify the discord in her family and transform the fortunes of the hotel. However, he is not who he seems, and whatever his intentions are, he is certain to change Marina’s life forever. |
