The Girl From Junchow

Author : Kate Furnivall
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425227642

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The Girl from Junchow by Kate Furnivall Pdf

An epic journey of love and discovery from the national bestselling author of The Russian Concubine and The Red Scarf. China, 1929. For years Lydia Ivanova believed her father was killed by the Bolsheviks. But when she learns he is imprisoned in Stalin-controlled Russia, the fiery girl is willing to leave everything behind- even her Chinese lover, Chang An Lo. Lydia begins a dangerous search, journeying to Moscow with her half-brother Alexei. But when Alexei abruptly disappears, Lydia is left alone, penniless in Soviet Russia. All seems lost, but Chang An Lo has not forgotten Lydia. He knows things about her father that she does not. And while he races to protect her, she is prepared to risk treacherous consequences to discover the truth.

Author : Kate Furnivall
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101060032

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The Girl from Junchow by Kate Furnivall Pdf

An epic journey of love and discovery from the national bestselling author of The Russian Concubine and The Red Scarf. China, 1929. For years Lydia Ivanova believed her father was killed by the Bolsheviks. But when she learns he is imprisoned in Stalin-controlled Russia, the fiery girl is willing to leave everything behind- even her Chinese lover, Chang An Lo. Lydia begins a dangerous search, journeying to Moscow with her half-brother Alexei. But when Alexei abruptly disappears, Lydia is left alone, penniless in Soviet Russia. All seems lost, but Chang An Lo has not forgotten Lydia. He knows things about her father that she does not. And while he races to protect her, she is prepared to risk treacherous consequences to discover the truth.

Author : Kate Furnivall
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 042521558X

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The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall Pdf

A sweeping novel set in war-torn 1928 China, with a star-crossed love story at its center. In a city full of thieves and Communists, danger and death, spirited young Lydia Ivanova has lived a hard life. Always looking over her shoulder, the sixteen-year-old must steal to feed herself and her mother, Valentina, who numbered among the Russian elite until Bolsheviks murdered most of them, including her husband. As exiles, Lydia and Valentina have learned to survive in a foreign land. Often, Lydia steals away to meet with the handsome young freedom fighter Chang An Lo. But they face danger: Chiang Kai Shek's troops are headed toward Junchow to kill Reds like Chang, who has in his possession the jewels of a tsarina, meant as a gift for the despot's wife. The young pair's all-consuming love can only bring shame and peril upon them, from both sides. Those in power will do anything to quell it. But Lydia and Chang are powerless to end it.

Author : Kate Furnivall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 184744170X

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The Concubine's Secret by Kate Furnivall Pdf

China, 1929. For years Lydia Ivanova believed her father was killed by the Bolsheviks. But when she learns he is captive in Stalin-controlled Russia, the fiery-haired girl is willing to leave everything behind - even her Chinese lover, Chang An Lo. Journeying with her half-brother Alexei, Lydia begins a dangerous search. Tension grows between the two, for while Alexei is searching for his past, Lydia is looking for her future. Will that future include Chang An Lo? And will her father want this intrusion from the past? But when Alexei disappears, Lydia is left almost penniless in Soviet Russia - and doubting the choices she has made. Surrounded by dangers, she searches for information and soon finds herself entangled with a Russian officer. But Chang An Lo has not forgotten Lydia. He knows things about her father that she does not. And while he races to protect her, she is prepared to risk treacherous consequences to discover the truth . . .

Author : Kate Furnivall
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101569818

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Diamonds in the Dust by Kate Furnivall Pdf

A short story from the national bestselling author of The Russian Concubine . . . It is 1942, and the war has come to Darwin, Australia. Japanese planes bring fear to the streets as air raids spit death from the skies. The best way to survive is to keep your head down, but Hatti Hoot—red-haired and six foot tall—doesn’t exactly blend in with the crowd. When Hatti spots two men looting a jewelry shop during one of the raids, she intervenes and scares them off. The diamonds they had taken lay abandoned in the street, and Hatti is tempted. So is Maya, a willful young Malayan girl who also spots the treasure in the dust. But before either can react, a police officer steps in, accusing them of theft. Suddenly everything starts to go wildly wrong . . . Praise for the novels of Kate Furnivall: “Furnivall deftly evokes the details of a bygone era.” — Publishers Weekly “An engrossing adventure that sweeps readers in lush waves of drama and romance.” — Library Journal DON’T MISS: Includes a special preview chapter from Furnivall’s latest novel, The White Pearl.

Author : Kate Furnivall
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425234235

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The Jewel of St. Petersburg by Kate Furnivall Pdf

The national bestselling author of The Russian Concubine takes us back to Tsarist Russia for a sweeping novel of love and intrigue. Russia, 1910. Valentina Ivanova is the darling of St. Petersburg's elite aristocracy-until her romance with a Danish engineer creates a terrible scandal and her parents push her into a loveless engagement with a Russian count. Meanwhile, Russia itself is bound for rebellion. With the Tsar and the Duma at each other's throats, and the Bolsheviks drawing their battle lines, the elegance and opulence of Tsarist rule are in their last days. And Valentina will be forced to make a choice that will change not only her own life, but the lives of those around her forever...

Author : Kate Furnivall
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101560914

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The White Pearl by Kate Furnivall Pdf

National bestselling author of The Russian Concubine, Kate Furnivall spins a tale of war, desperation, and the discovery of love off the coast of Malaya. Malaya, 1941. Connie Thornton plays her role as a dutiful wife and mother without complaint. She is among the fortunate after all-the British rubber plantation owners reaping the benefits of the colonial life. But Connie feels as though she is oppressed, crippled by boredom, sweltering heat, a loveless marriage. . . Then, in December, the Japanese invade. Connie and her family flee, sailing south on their yacht toward Singapore, where the British are certain to stand firm against the Japanese. En route, in the company of friends, they learn that Singapore is already under siege. Tensions mount, tempers flare, and the yacht's inhabitants are driven by fear. Increasingly desperate and short of food, they are taken over by a pirate craft and its Malayan crew making their perilous way from island to island. When a fighter plane crashes into the sea, they rescue its Japanese pilot. For Connie, that's when everything changes. In the suffocating confines of the boat with her life upended, Connie discovers a new kind of freedom and a new, dangerous, exhilarating love.

Author : Kate Furnivall
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101609873

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Shadows on the Nile by Kate Furnivall Pdf

1912 London. Jessie Kenton hears her young brother, Georgie, scream in the middle of the night and wakes up the next morning to find him gone. Her parents never speak of him again. 1932. Twenty years later, Jessie is haunted by the same nightmare. Her other brother, Timothy, has inexplicably vanished from her parents’ home. Wracked by guilt because of her failure to ever find Georgie, and convinced that the two events must be related, she sets out on a quest to find Timothy. She plunges into a mysterious world of séances and mystics, nebulous clues and Egyptian artifacts. With the help of a dashing and impoverished aristocrat, Sir Montague Chamford, Jessie follows the trail into the alien, swirling sands of the Egyptian desert. Amid the ancient intrigue and blistering heat, a powerful romance sparks between Jessie and Monty. But they must first confront the demons of Jessie’s past—and reveal the dark secrets that threaten not only Timothy’s life but theirs as well.

Author : Kate Furnivall
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101609880

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The Far Side of the Sun by Kate Furnivall Pdf

The new novel from the author of The Russian Concubine and Shadows on the Nile The Bahamas, 1943. Hoping to escape her turbulent past, twenty-three-year-old Dodie Wyatt has fled to Nassau. But the world is at war, and one night the peaceful life she has created for herself is shattered when she discovers a man dying in an alleyway… Ella Stanford is married to a powerful diplomat who’s been appointed to keep the Duke of Windsor far from his Nazi friends in Germany. And in this city now teeming with danger, Ella has her own secrets—ones that threaten to tear apart her safe and ordered life… When Ella’s world collides with Dodie’s, they find themselves caught in the spiral of violence and greed ripping through Nassau. But Dodie falls deeply in love with a mysterious American stranger on the island, and together they fight to uncover the truth behind the bloodshed, while struggling to keep each other alive in this perilous new world…

Author : Kate Furnivall
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698196339

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The Italian Wife by Kate Furnivall Pdf

The New York Times bestselling author of The Russian Concubine returns with a stunning new novel set in Mussolini’s Italy. Isabella Berotti is an architect, helping to create showpieces that will reflect the glory of her country’s Fascist leaders. She is not a deeply political sort, but designing these buildings of grandiose beauty helps her forget about the pain she’s felt since her husband was murdered years ago. One of her greatest accomplishments is the clock tower in the town of Bellina, outside Rome. But as she is admiring it one day, a woman approaches her, asking her to watch her ten-year-old daughter. Minutes later, to Isabella’s horror, the woman leaps to her death from that very clock tower. There are photos of the woman right after the suicide, taken by Roberto Falco. A propaganda photographer for Il Duce, he is expected to show his nation in the most flattering light. But what Roberto and Isabella have seen reflects a more brutal reality, and in a place where everyone is watching and friends turn on friends to save themselves, their decision to take a closer look may be a dangerous mistake.

Author : Kate Furnivall
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425221644

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The Red Scarf by Kate Furnivall Pdf

The Russian Concubine dazzled readers. Now, its gifted author delivers another sweeping historical novel. Davinsky Labor Camp, Siberia, 1933: Only two things in this wretched place keep Sofia from giving up hope: the prospect of freedom, and the stories told by her friend and fellow prisoner Anna, of a charmed childhood in Petrograd, and her fervent girlhood love for a passionate revolutionary named Vasily. After a perilous escape, Sofia endures months of desolation and hardship. But, clinging to a promise she made to Anna, she subsists on the belief that someday she will track down Vasily. In a remote village, she's nursed back to health by a Gypsy family, and there she finds more than refuge--she also finds Mikhail Pashin, who, her heart tells her, is Vasily in disguise. He's everything she has ever wanted--but he belongs to Anna. After coming this far, Sofia is tantalizingly close to freedom, family--even a future. All that stands in her way is the secret past that could endanger everything she has come to hold dear!

Author : Kate Furnivall
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101205877

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The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall Pdf

A sweeping novel set in war-torn 1928 China, with a star-crossed love story at its center. In a city full of thieves and Communists, danger and death, spirited young Lydia Ivanova has lived a hard life. Always looking over her shoulder, the sixteen-year-old must steal to feed herself and her mother, Valentina, who numbered among the Russian elite until Bolsheviks murdered most of them, including her husband. As exiles, Lydia and Valentina have learned to survive in a foreign land. Often, Lydia steals away to meet with the handsome young freedom fighter Chang An Lo. But they face danger: Chiang Kai Shek's troops are headed toward Junchow to kill Reds like Chang, who has in his possession the jewels of a tsarina, meant as a gift for the despot's wife. The young pair's all-consuming love can only bring shame and peril upon them, from both sides. Those in power will do anything to quell it. But Lydia and Chang are powerless to end it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSD:31822036342517

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kate Furnivall
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : British
ISBN : 0425241009

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The White Pearl by Kate Furnivall Pdf

Malaya, 1941. Connie Hadley plays her role as a dutiful wife and mother without complaint, although she feels oppressed by her life and loveless marriage. When the Japanese invade, Connie and her family flee in their yacht to British controlled Singapore. When they learn that Singapore is already under siege, they make their perilous way from island to island, short of food and with tensions mounting. When a Japanese fighter plane crashes into the sea, they rescue the pilot and Connie discovers a new kind of freedom and a new, dangerous, exhilarating love.

Author : Kate Furnivall
Publisher : B de Bolsillo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : China
ISBN : 8490701628

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La Concubina Rusa / the Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall Pdf

Una historia de amor apasionante ambientada en la naciente China comunista. Año 1928 . Exiliadas de Rusia tras la revolución bolchevique, Lydia Ivannova y su madre hallan refugio en Junchow, China. La situación de los rusos, expulsados de su país sin pasaporte ni patria a la que regresar, es muy difícil. La ruina económica las acecha y Lydia, consciente de que tiene que exprimir su ingenio para sobrevivir, recurre al robo. Cuando un valioso collar de rubíes -regalo de Stalin- desaparece, Chang An Lo, amenazado por las tropas nacionalistas a la caza de los comunistas, interviene en la vida de Lydia y la salva de una muerte segura. Atrapados en las peligrosas disputas que enfrentan a las violentas Tríadas -organizaciones criminales de origen chino- de Junchow, y prisioneros de las estrictas normas vigentes en el asentamiento colonial, Lydia y Chang se enamoran y se implican en una lucha atroz que les obliga a enfrentarse a las peligrosas mafias que controlan el comercio de opio, al tiempo que su atracción sin fin se verá puesta a prueba hasta límites insospechados. La crítica ha dicho... «Maravillosa, una historia de amor apasionante, una novela épica extraordinariamente ambiciosa en la que los ambientes se recrean con maestría.» Kate Mosse, autora de El laberinto