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Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she had the world in the palm of her hand — until a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sister’s three orphaned children, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold.

Paul Parker was the ultimate bon vivant, charismatic but feckless, who left his wealthy wife and three beautiful daughters wounded and wary of men. But after his death, Paul shows surprising insight in the bequests he leaves to each. Knowing that Veronique's wealth is reserved for emergencies and special cases, so as to build the sense of responsibility he failed to provide, Paul aims to address their daughters' immediate needs in his will.

Danielle Steel nos brinda una emotiva y potente historia sobre tres parejas, amigos de toda la vida, para quienes el mes de vacaciones que pasan juntos en Saint-Tropez se convierte en un revelador verano de cambios, sorpresas y nuevos comienzos. Pasar el año nuevo todos juntos era una tradición sagrada para las tres parejas de amigos compuestas por Diana y Eric, Pascale y John y Anne y Robert. Durante la fiesta, los seis amigos tuvieron la idea de alquilar todos juntos una mansión en el sur de Francia el verano siguiente.

The White Dinner is a love poem to friendship, joy, elegance, and the monuments of Paris. And each year it is an unforgettable summer night, especially for Jean-Philippe Dumas, a longtime participant, and the three couples he's carefully selected to attend this exclusive and cherished event. Interweaving the stories of seven individuals, lives will be forever changed on the eve of one such White Dinner; a night that will lead to new friendships, new love, and of course, magical possibilities.

La justice est un combat de chaque instant... Tout prédestine Meredith McKenzie, fille et petite-fille d'éminents avocats de Manhattan, à suivre la voie tracée par ses ancêtres : de brillantes études, un mariage parfait, une vie au sein des élites. Mais, éprise de justice et de liberté, c'est aux côtés des minorités et des plus démunis qu'elle veut se battre. Un choix que ne comprennent pas les siens, bien décidés à ce qu'elle revienne dans le droit chemin.

Scandale ou conte de fée ? Juin 1943. Alors que la Luftwaffe bombarde sans relâche Londres et ses environs, le roi se résout à envoyer sa benjamine, de santé fragile, dans le Yorkshire. Au manoir des Hemmings, où peu de gens connaissent sa véritable identité, la fougueuse princesse Charlotte devient une simple roturière. Avec pour seule compagnie son fidèle étalon, une orpheline de guerre et un jeune homme sur le point de partir au front, le quotidien s'annonce morose. Le destin va pourtant bientôt frapper à sa porte.

At thirty-nine, Tallie Jones is a Hollywood legend. Her work as a film director is her passion and the center of her life; one after another, her award-winning productions achieve the rare combination of critical and commercial success. With no interest in the perks of her profession or the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles, Tallie maintains close and loving relationships with her college-age daughter and her aging father, and has a happy collaboration with Hunter Lloyd. her respected producing partner....

Here are four very sexy stories that blend backdoor bliss with the thrill of bondage! This audiobook includes: "Hugo’s Aim Is Way Off!", "May in Chains", "Alice Goes All In", and "Alyssa’s Valentine’s Day Gangbang".

In her powerful memoir His Bright Light, number-one New York Times best-selling author Danielle Steel opened her heart to share the devastating story of the loss of her beloved son. In A Gift of Hope, she shows us how she transformed that pain into a campaign of service that enriched her life beyond what she could imagine. For 11 years, Danielle Steel took to the streets with a small team to help the homeless of San Francisco. She worked anonymously, visiting the "cribs" of the city's most vulnerable citizens under cover of darkness, distributing food, clothing, bedding, tools, and toiletries.

Valerie Wyatt is the high priestess of elegance: She has built an empire on how to entertain, how to decorate, how to live beautifully, and is at the top of her game with licensing arrangements for fine fabrics, furniture, wallpaper; six books; and a highly rated TV show. Valerie's daughter, April, is a classically trained chef and the workaholic proprietor of a comfortable, popular downtown New York restaurant. They couldn't be happier in their chosen fields—or more different in their attitudes.

They were the best of friends and the most daunting of bachelors. Now the three friends, spending their annual summer vacation cruising the Mediterranean aboard Charlie's majestic yacht, are about to have their bachelorhood rocked. By autumn all three will fall precipitously into relationships they never saw coming.

Brillant agent secret, Marshall Everett a réussi à infiltrer un cartel de drogue en Amérique du Sud. Quand son identité est révélée, il doit rentrer précipitamment aux États-Unis, où il perd tous ceux qu'il aimait. Ariana Gregory renonce à la frénésie new-yorkaise pour accompagner son père diplomate en Argentine. Kidnappée peu de temps après son arrivée, elle est libérée dans des conditions traumatisantes et se retrouve vite, elle aussi, seule au monde. Le hasard les réunit à Paris, où chacun tente de se reconstruire.

Quand passé et présent se rencontrent... Sybil et Blake Gregory mènent une vie agréable et bien remplie à Manhattan. Épris l'un de l'autre comme au premier jour, épanouis dans leur travail, ils sont les heureux parents de trois enfants. Un bonheur sans nuages, jusqu'au jour où Blake, incapable de résister à une alléchante offre professionnelle à San Francisco, y achète sur un coup de tête une splendide demeure victorienne.

Une nuit tragique, des vies bouleversées à jamais... Le lycée Saint Ambrose, dans le Massachusetts, accueille les élites de demain. Jusque-là réservé aux garçons, l'établissement est à l'aube d'une petite révolution avec l'arrivée de ses premières étudiantes. Mais un soir, la situation bascule. Durant une fête de Halloween, une jeune fille est transportée à l'hôpital, inconsciente. À son réveil, Vivienne déclare avoir été violée, mais prétend ne pas connaître le coupable.

Bill is a dedicated young lawyer working at his family’s prestigious New York firm, who leaves everything he trained for to follow his dream and become a minister in rural Wyoming. Jenny, his wife, is a stylist whose heart and soul are invested in fashion. She leaves the milieu and life she loves to join him. The certainty they share is that their destinies are linked forever. Fast forward 38 years. Robert is a hardworking independent book publisher in Manhattan, who has given up all personal life to build his struggling business. He is looking for one big hit novel to publish. Lillibet is a young Amish woman....

Gaëlle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France and frightening changes begin. She is shocked and powerless when French gendarmes take away her closest friend, Rebekah Feldmann, and her family, and send them to a detention camp for deportation to an unknown, ominous fate.

This compelling, centuries-spanning novel brilliantly interweaves the lives of two women – a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the 18th century. The result is an unforgettable story of courage in the face of the unknown.

In the early 1920s, Japanese college professor Masao Takashimaya of Kyoto had a passion for modern ideas that was as strong as his wife's belief in ancient tradition. Twenty years later, his 18-year-old daughter Hiroko, torn between her mother's traditions and her father's wishes, boarded SS Nagoya Maru to come to California for an education, and to make her father proud. It was August 1941.

Even the most perfect lives can be shattered in an instant. In this moving, emotionally charged novel, Danielle Steel introduces listeners to an unforgettable cast of characters striving to overcome tragedy and discover the inner resources and resilience to win at life — once again.

Candy is blazing her way through Paris, New York, and Tokyo as fashion's latest supermodel. Her sister Tammy has a job producing a hit show on TV. In New York, oldest sister Sabrina is an ambitious young lawyer. And Annie is an American artist in Florence, living for her art. On one Fourth of July weekend, as they do every year, the four sisters come home to Connecticut for their family's annual gathering. But before the holiday is over, tragedy strikes, and their world is utterly changed.