The Splendour Falls

Author : Susanna Kearsley
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781402258626

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The Splendour Falls by Susanna Kearsley Pdf

"I've loved every one of Susanna's books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly's delicate touch with characters—sure recipe for historical fiction that sucks you in and won't let go!"—DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlander In an intricate balance of past and present, Susanna Kearsley offers a story of French historical fiction full of breathless suspense, Gothic romance, and priceless treasure. Emily Braden has stopped believing in fairy tales and happy endings. When her fascinating but unreliable cousin Harry invites her on a holiday to explore the legendary town of Chinon, France and promptly disappears—well, that's Harry for you. As Emily makes the acquaintance of Chinon and its people, she begins to uncover dark secrets beneath the charm. Legend has it that during a thirteenth-century siege of the castle that looms over the city, Queen Isabelle, child bride of King John, hid a "treasure of great price." And in the last days of the German occupation during World War II, there was another Isabelle living in Chinon, a girl whose love for an enemy soldier went tragically awry. As the dangers of the past become disastrously real, Emily is drawn ever more deeply into a labyrinth of mystery as twisted as the streets and tunnels of the ancient town itself. A tale that deftly examines the ripples of the past through the present, The Splendour Falls brings the romance of French history to life for fans of Diana Gabaldon, Kate Morton, and Kate Mosse. Also by Susanna Kearsley: The Winter Sea The Firebird A Desperate Fortune The Rose Garden The Shadowy Horses Named of the Dragon Season of Storms Mariana Bellewether

Author : Rosemary Clement-Moore
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780375893698

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The Splendor Falls by Rosemary Clement-Moore Pdf

Can love last beyond the grave? Sylvie Davis is a ballerina who can’t dance. A broken leg ended her career, but Sylvie’s pain runs deeper. What broke her heart was her father’s death, and what’s breaking her spirit is her mother’s remarriage—a union that’s only driven an even deeper wedge into their already tenuous relationship. Uprooting her from her Manhattan apartment and shipping her to Alabama is her mother’ s solution for Sylvie’s unhappiness. Her father’s cousin is restoring a family home in a town rich with her family’s history. And that’s where things start to get shady. As it turns out, her family has a lot more history than Sylvie ever knew. More unnerving, though, are the two guys that she can’t stop thinking about. Shawn Maddox, the resident golden boy, seems to be perfect in every way. But Rhys—a handsome, mysterious foreign guest of her cousin’s—has a hold on her that she doesn’t quite understand. Then she starts seeing things. Sylvie’s lost nearly everything—is she starting to lose her mind as well? "Lush with Southern atmosphere, The Splendor Falls expertly weaves together romance, tension, and mystery. Haunting and unforgettable!" --Carrie Ryan, bestselling author of The Forest of Hands and Teeth "Sylvie's voice is sharp and articulate, and Clement-Moore . . . anchors the story in actual locations and history. . . . Her ear for both adolescent bitchery and sweetness remains sure, and her ability to write realistic, edgy dialogue without relying on obscenity or stereotype is a pleasure."-Publishers Weekly "Long, satisfying and just chilling enough, this will please a wide audience and leave readers hoping for more."-Kirkus Reviews

Author : Susanna Kearsley
Publisher : Allison & Busby
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780749011826

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The Splendour Falls by Susanna Kearsley Pdf

In the labyrinths of an ancient city lies a Queen’s treasure... 1205 - the town of Chinon is beseiged by enemies of King John, and his young Queen calls upon a trusted servant to conceal her treasured jewels. Emily Braden is intrigued by the medieval story of Queen Isabelle, and cannot resist when her cousin Harry, a historian, suggests a trip to the white-walled town of Chinon, nestling in France's Loire Valley. But when Harry vanishes and Emily begins to search for him, she stumbles across another intriguing mystery -- a second Isabelle, a chambermaid during the Second World War, who had her own tragedy, and her own treasure to hide. As Emily explores the ancient town of labyrinthine tunnels, old enmities, and new loves, she finds herself drawn ever closer to the mysterious Isabelles and their long-kept secrets.

Author : Erin E. Kelly
Publisher : White Wolf Games Studio
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1565048636

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The Splendour Falls by Erin E. Kelly Pdf

Author : Laurie McBain
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781492608059

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When the Splendor Falls by Laurie McBain Pdf

One stolen kiss. Two hearts from different worlds. When war and time threaten to keep them apart, will love be enough? Virginia, 1860. For Leigh Alexandra Travers, life at her family's Virginia plantation is a paradise of summer picnics and sweet tea. The daughter of a wealthy Southern horse breeder, Leigh has no interest in the outside world. Until she meets Neil Braedon... Young and beautiful, Leigh catches the sharp eye of Neil Braedon, raised to manhood by Comanches, not by the Braedons of Royal Bay Manor. Their stolen kiss inflames a life-altering passion. As war storms across the divided land, Leigh's family fights to preserve their fading Southern heritage, even as Neil joins the Union army. Against all odds, in tumultuous times, can Leigh and Neil forge a new future in the untamed West? Praise for Laurie McBain: "Wonderfully romantic."—Romantic Times "Lush and evocative."—Publishers Weekly

Author : Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWP8I7

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In Memoriam by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson Pdf

Author : Sophie Meredith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781633556034

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The Splendour Falls by Sophie Meredith Pdf

The Splendour Falls ... is about claustrophobia in all its forms. ... is told in two voices, and is a convoluted affair. Lou is "adopted" by a wealthy French family with the view of grooming her as a bride for their son. Lou's mother returns to England after the death of her French husband and finds late life romance. What really happened in the secret chamber of the château? Follow the story and the minds of the protagonists.

Author : Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : English poetry
ISBN : BL:A0026366380

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Maud, and Other Poems by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson Pdf

Author : Sharon Kay Penman
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429930093

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The Sunne In Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman Pdf

The classic, magnificent bestselling novel about Richard III, now in a special thirtieth anniversary edition with a new preface by the author In this triumphant combination of scholarship and storytelling, Sharon Kay Penman redeems Richard III—vilified as the bitter, twisted, scheming hunchback who murdered his nephews, the princes in the Tower—from his maligned place in history. Born into the treacherous courts of fifteenth-century England, in the midst of what history has called The War of the Roses, Richard was raised in the shadow of his charismatic brother, King Edward IV. Loyal to his friends and passionately in love with the one woman who was denied him, Richard emerges as a gifted man far more sinned against than sinning. With revisions throughout and a new author's preface discussing the astonishing discovery of Richard's remains five centuries after his death, Sharon Kay Penman's brilliant classic is more powerful and glorious than ever.

Author : Susanna Kearsley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501184789

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The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley Pdf

A modern tale of love, war, and historical intrigue from New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author, Susanna Kearsley. When Verity Grey is asked to join archaeologist Peter Quinnell’s dig on the Scottish Borderlands, she is thrilled. She has long been drawn to the dark legends of the area, and Quinnell has spent his whole life searching for the resting place of the invincible ninth Roman Legion, which marched from York to fight the Northern tribes before mysteriously vanishing from the pages of history. But after her first day on the job, Verity isn’t sure she’s made the right decision. Her eccentric boss is convinced he’s finally found what he’s been looking for—not because of any scientific evidence, but because a local boy has “seen” a Roman soldier walking in the fields, a ghostly sentinel guarding the bodies of his long-dead comrades. Despite Verity’s misgivings, it soon becomes clear that there must indeed be secrets lying beneath the windswept shores, because someone is intent on sabotaging the dig. What do the sentinel’s urgent warnings mean? And who is trying so desperately to drive the team away and keep what is buried hidden?

Author : Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433059331722

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The Passing of Arthur by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson Pdf

Author : Susanna Kearsley
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501184796

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Season of Storms by Susanna Kearsley Pdf

In this intriguing novel filled with romance and mystery, a young actress travels to a lakeside villa in northern Italy for the role of a lifetime only to find herself haunted by the ghost of a missing woman—from the New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Susanna Kearsley. When promising young actress Celia “Sullivan” Sands receives a letter from Italy offering her the lead role in a play, she is baffled. The invitation from Alessandro D’Ascanio is curiously addressed to her under her real name, which she has long kept secret. D’Ascanio is planning to stage the first performance of his grandfather Galeazzo D’Ascanio’s masterpiece at an isolated villa on Lake Garda. The stunning play—Galeazzo’s final work—was written in the early 1900s for his muse and mistress, his most enduring obsession: the original Celia Sands. But the night before she was to take the stage in the leading role, she vanished without a trace. Now, decades later, her namesake accepts the part and travels to Italy. She is instantly drawn to the mysteries surrounding the play—and to her compelling, compassionate employer. But as she settles into the role, she begins to wonder if what happened to the first Celia will come back to haunt her....

Author : Emily Henry
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780451480729

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When the Sky Fell on Splendor by Emily Henry Pdf

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry's A Song Below Water meets Stranger Things novel is a gripping story about a group of friends in a small town who find themselves dealing with unexpected powers after a cosmic event Almost everyone in the small town of Splendor, Ohio, was affected when the local steel mill exploded. If you weren't a casualty of the accident yourself, chances are a loved one was. That's the case for seventeen-year-old Franny, who, five years after the explosion, still has to stand by and do nothing as her brother lies in a coma. In the wake of the tragedy, Franny found solace in a group of friends whose experiences mirrored her own. The group calls themselves The Ordinary, and they spend their free time investigating local ghost stories and legends, filming their exploits for their small following of YouTube fans. It's silly, it's fun, and it keeps them from dwelling on the sadness that surrounds them. Until one evening, when the strange and dangerous thing they film isn't fiction--it's a bright light, something massive hurtling toward them from the sky. And when it crashes and the teens go to investigate...everything changes.

Author : John Keats
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044002711505

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Endymion, a Poetic Romance by John Keats Pdf

Author : Benoit Lalonde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : NATURE
ISBN : 177310022X

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Waterfalls of Nova Scotia by Benoit Lalonde Pdf

An Atlantic Bestseller Nova Scotia is blessed with numerous must-see waterfalls, and this volume from self-described "waterfall addict" Benoit Lalonde brings together 100 of the province's best. Conveniently categorized by the government of Nova Scotia scenic route system, this rich compendium includes famous waterfalls such as Garden of Eden Fall, Wentworth Falls, Cuties Hollow, Annandale Falls and Butcher Hill Falls, as well as lesser-known but easy to locate gems. In addition to providing useful information on the height, type, and hiking distance of each waterfall, their degree of difficulty to reach is also assessed for the convenience of both novice and advanced hikers alike. Featuring gorgeous colour photographs and individual maps of each location, Waterfalls of Nova Scotia offers an invaluable reference as well as a tribute to the beauty of the falls and the natural splendour waiting to be discovered.