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A courageous wife, mother, and resister confronts the devastation
of World War II in a heartbreaking and hopeful novel by the
bestselling author of The Venice Sketchbook and The Tuscan Child.
Londoner Madeleine Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when
she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they
raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the
future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France. Staying
behind to join the resistance, Giles sends Madeleine and Olivier to
the relative safety of England, where Madeleine secures a job
teaching French at a secondary school. Yet nowhere is safe. After a
devastating twist of fate resulting in the loss of her son,
Madeleine accepts a request from the ministry to aid in the war
effort. Seizing the smallest glimmer of hope of finding Giles
alive, she returns to France. If Madeleine can stop just one Nazi,
it will be the start of a valiant path of revenge. Though her
perseverance, defiance, and heart will be tested beyond imagining,
no risk is too great for a brave wife and mother determined to
fight and survive against inconceivable odds.
A courageous wife, mother, and resister confronts the devastation
of World War II in a heartbreaking and hopeful novel by the
bestselling author of The Venice Sketchbook and The Tuscan Child.
Londoner Madeleine Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when
she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they
raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the
future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France. Staying
behind to join the resistance, Giles sends Madeleine and Olivier to
the relative safety of England, where Madeleine secures a job
teaching French at a secondary school. Yet nowhere is safe. After a
devastating twist of fate resulting in the loss of her son,
Madeleine accepts a request from the ministry to aid in the war
effort. Seizing the smallest glimmer of hope of finding Giles
alive, she returns to France. If Madeleine can stop just one Nazi,
it will be the start of a valiant path of revenge. Though her
perseverance, defiance, and heart will be tested beyond imagining,
no risk is too great for a brave wife and mother determined to
fight and survive against inconceivable odds.
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A Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Charts bestseller.
From the bestselling author of The Tuscan Child comes a beautiful
and heart-rending novel of a woman's love and sacrifice during the
First World War. As the Great War continues to take its toll,
headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to
contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and
handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long
before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of
marriage. When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a
"land girl," tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire
estate. It's here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals
of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden. The
journals inspire Emily, and in the wake of devastating news, they
are her saving grace. Emily's lover has not only died a hero but
has left her terrified-and with child. Since no one knows that
Emily was never married, she adopts the charade of a war widow. As
Emily learns more about the volatile power of healing with herbs,
the found journals will bring her to the brink of disaster, but may
open a path to her destiny.
For the first time in trade paperback, the winning second entry in
Bowen's "New York Times" bestselling series.
Molly Murphy has finally begun to forget the unpleasant murder of a
would-be rapist back in Ireland, not to mention her investigation
into the murder of a fellow Irish immigrant, and is free to begin
her life in New York City. Given her experiences so far in the New
World, Molly's first order of business is to become a private
investigator, working for families in Europe who've lost touch with
relatives in America. Her second order of business is to hook the
handsome NYPD police captain Daniel Sullivan, and she envisions
lots of opportunities to "seek his counsel" in her new profession.
Paddy Riley is a tough old Cockney P.I. who specializes in divorce
work, and with a little persuasion he's ready to take on Molly as
an apprentice. It's not exactly what she imagined, but she plans to
make the most of it. That is, until she comes to work one day to
find her new world turned upside down. Before long, Molly has set
off on a journey that will take her through the back alleys of
Manhattan and into the bars and lounges of the literary scene,
where she spends time with writers, actors, poets, and musicians.
Armed with nothing more than her fiery will and matching wild red
hair, Molly has no idea of the danger her pursuit may bring in this
fascinating, well-researched, and suspenseful second novel in
Bowen's bestselling series.
A woman's future is determined by fate and choice in a gripping
WWII novel about danger, triumph, and second chances by the New
York Times bestselling author of The Venice Sketchbook and The
Tuscan Child. London, 1940. Bombs fall and Josie Banks's world
crumbles around her. Her overbearing husband, Stan, is unreachable,
called to service. Her home, a ruin of rubble and ash. Josie's
beloved tearoom boss has been killed, and Josie herself is injured,
with nothing left and nowhere to go. Evacuated to the English
countryside, Josie ends up at the estate of the aristocratic Miss
Harcourt, a reluctant host to the survivors of the Blitz. Awed as
she is by the magnificent landscape, Josie sees opportunity. Josie
convinces Miss Harcourt to let her open a humble tea shop, seeing
it as a chance for everyone to begin again. When Josie meets Mike
Johnson, a handsome Canadian pilot stationed at a neighboring
bomber base, a growing intimacy brings her an inner peace she's
never felt before. Then Stan returns from the war. Now a threat
looms larger than anyone imagined. And a dangerous secret is about
to upend Josie's life again. Her newfound courage will be put to
the test if she is to emerge, like a survivor, triumphant.
"...Sweeping and intimate, warm and gripping. I loved it!" -Louise
Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector
Gamache novels A single twist of fate puts a servant girl to work
in Queen Victoria's royal kitchen, setting off a suspenseful,
historical mystery by the New York Times bestselling author of The
Tuscan Child and The Victory Garden. Isabella Waverly only means to
comfort the woman felled on a London street. In her final dying
moments, she thrusts a letter into Bella's hand. It's an offer of
employment in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace, and everything the
budding young chef desperately wants: an escape from the
constrictions of her life as a lowly servant. In the stranger's
stead, Bella can spread her wings. Arriving as Helen Barton from
Yorkshire, she pursues her passion for creating culinary delights,
served to the delighted Queen Victoria herself. Best of all, she's
been chosen to accompany the queen to Nice. What fortune! Until the
threat of blackmail shadows Bella to the Riviera, and a member of
the queen's retinue falls ill and dies. Having prepared the royal
guest's last meal, Bella is suspected of the poisonous crime. An
investigation is sure to follow. Her charade will be over. And her
new life will come crashing down-if it doesn't send her to the
gallows.
A woman's future is determined by fate and choice in a gripping
WWII novel about danger, triumph, and second chances by the New
York Times bestselling author of The Venice Sketchbook and The
Tuscan Child. London, 1940. Bombs fall and Josie Banks's world
crumbles around her. Her overbearing husband, Stan, is unreachable,
called to service. Her home, a ruin of rubble and ash. Josie's
beloved tearoom boss has been killed, and Josie herself is injured,
with nothing left and nowhere to go. Evacuated to the English
countryside, Josie ends up at the estate of the aristocratic Miss
Harcourt, a reluctant host to the survivors of the Blitz. Awed as
she is by the magnificent landscape, Josie sees opportunity. Josie
convinces Miss Harcourt to let her open a humble tea shop, seeing
it as a chance for everyone to begin again. When Josie meets Mike
Johnson, a handsome Canadian pilot stationed at a neighboring
bomber base, a growing intimacy brings her an inner peace she's
never felt before. Then Stan returns from the war. Now a threat
looms larger than anyone imagined. And a dangerous secret is about
to upend Josie's life again. Her newfound courage will be put to
the test if she is to emerge, like a survivor, triumphant.
In the days leading up to her wedding to Darcy O'Mara, Lady
Georgiana Rannoch takes on the responsibilities of a grand estate,
but proving she can run a household just may be the death of her...
If only Darcy and I had eloped! What I thought would be a simple
wedding has been transformed into a grand affair, thanks to the
attendance of the queen, who has offered up the princesses as
bridesmaids. Silly me! I thought that withdrawing from the royal
line of succession would simplify my life. But before Darcy and I
tie the knot in front of queen and country, we have to find a place
to live as man and wife. House hunting turns out to be a pretty
grim affair. Just as we start to lose hope, my globe-trotting
godfather offers us his fully staffed country estate. Mistress of
Eynsleigh I shall be! With Darcy off in parts unknown, I head to
Eynsleigh alone, only to have my hopes dashed. The grounds are in
disarray, and the small staff is suspiciously incompetent. Not to
mention the gas tap leak in my bedroom, which I can only imagine
was an attempt on my life. Something rotten is afoot-and bringing
the place up to snuff may put me six feet under before I even get a
chance to walk down the aisle...
"Rhys Bowen crafts a propulsive, unexpected plot with characters
who come vibrantly alive on the page." -Mark Sullivan, author of
Beneath a Scarlet Sky Love and secrets collide in Venice during
WWII in an enthralling novel of brief encounters and lasting
romance by the New York Times bestselling author of The Tuscan
Child and Above the Bay of Angels. Caroline Grant is struggling to
accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected
bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook,
three keys, and a final whisper...Venice. Caroline's quest: to
scatter Juliet "Lettie" Browning's ashes in the city she loved and
to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than sixty years. It's
1938 when art teacher Juliet Browning arrives in romantic Venice.
For her students, it's a wealth of history, art, and beauty. For
Juliet, it's poignant memories and a chance to reconnect with
Leonardo Da Rossi, the man she loves whose future is already
determined by his noble family. However star-crossed, nothing can
come between them. Until the threat of war closes in on Venice and
they're forced to fight, survive, and protect a secret that will
bind them forever. Key by key, Lettie's life of impossible love,
loss, and courage unfolds. It's one that Caroline can now make
right again as her own journey of self-discovery begins.
Captain Daniel Sullivan hires Molly to go undercover inside the
household of Senator Barney Flynn, whose wife, Theresa, has become
the latest devotee of a pair of spiritualists known as the Sorensen
Sisters. While Theresa is desperate to contact her dead child,
kidnapped years before and never found, the police are sure the
women are frauds. When Molly allows herself to be distracted by the
unsolved kidnapping as well, it is a race against time to find the
evil at work in the Flynn house before Molly herself becomes
another victim.
"As thirty-fifth in line for the throne, Lady Georgiana Rannoch
knows her table manners. It's forks on the left, knives on the
right--not in His Grace, the duke's back..."
I have been entrusted by Her Majesty with grooming Jack
Altringham--the duke's newly discovered heir fresh from the Outback
of Australia--for high society. The upside is I am to live in
luxury at one of England's most gorgeous stately homes. But upon my
arrival, my dearest Darcy has been sent to fetch Jack, leaving me
stuck in a manor full of miscreants displeased with the discovery
of my new ward.
No sooner has the lad been retrieved than the duke announces he
wants to choose his own heir. Then after quite the hubbub, Jack's
hunting knife somehow finds its way into the duke's back. Eyes
fall, backs turn, and fingers point to the young heir. As if the
rascal weren't enough of a handful, now he's suspected of murder.
Jack may be wild, but I'd bet the crown jewels it wasn't he who
killed the duke...
Electromechanical Properties in Composites Based on
Ferroelectrics investigates the problem of prediction and
non-monotonicity of the effective electromechanical (piezoelectric,
dielectric and elastic) properties in two- and three-component
composites based on ferroelectric ceramics and
relaxor-ferroelectric single crystals. The book analyzes the
interrelations between the electromechanical constants of the
components, and describes the different analytical schemes for
averaging the properties of these materials with different
connectivity and microgeometrical characteristics. The book
highlights the advantages of different methods for predicting the
electromechanical properties and choosing the optimum components,
and demonstrates the non-trivial behavior of specific composite
architectures and the parameters of value for engineering
applications. The book is of benefit to all specialists looking to
understand the detailed behavior and electromechanical response of
advanced composite materials."
Electromechanical Properties in Composites Based on Ferroelectrics
discusses the latest theoretical and experimental results on the
effective electromechanical (piezoelectric, dielectric and elastic)
properties in piezo-composites based on ferroelectrics. For the
last decades, single-crystal, bulk ceramic and thin-film
ferroelectrics have found a number of various applications as a
result of their remarkable piezoelectric properties. Recent work in
the field of smart materials demonstrates that both
ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity represent an important link
between solid state science and engineering.
Electromechanical Properties in Composites Based on
Ferroelectrics investigates the problem of prediction and
non-monotonicity of the effective electromechanical properties in
different two- and three-component composites based on
ferroelectric ceramics and relaxor-ferroelectric single crystals.
Central to the book is the analysis of interrelations between the
electromechanical constants of the components, and the description
of different analytical schemes for averaging the properties of
these materials with different connectivity and microgeometrical
characteristics. The book not only highlights the advantages of
different methods for predicting the electromechanical properties
and choosing the optimum components, but also demonstrates the
non-trivial behavior of specific composite architectures and their
parameters which are valuable for transducer, sensor, actuator,
hydroacoustic, and other applications.
Electromechanical Properties in Composites Based on
Ferroelectrics is a valuable resource for engineers, researchers,
and postgraduate students in the field offerroelectric,
piezoelectric and related materials. This book will be of benefit
to all specialists looking to understand the detailed behavior and
electromechanical response of advanced composite materials.
"Instantly absorbing, suspenseful, romantic, and stylish-like
binge-watching a great British drama on Masterpiece Theater." -Lee
Child, New York Times bestselling author Winner of the Left Coast
Crime Award winner for Best Historical Mystery Novel and the Agatha
Award for Best Historical Novel. World War II comes to Farleigh
Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters,
when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the
estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5
operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with
determining if the man is a German spy. The assignment also offers
Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham's middle daughter, Pamela,
whom he furtively loves. But Pamela has her own secret: she has
taken a job at Bletchley Park, the British code-breaking facility.
As Ben follows a trail of spies and traitors, which may include
another member of Pamela's family, he discovers that some within
the realm have an appalling, history-altering agenda. Can he, with
Pamela's help, stop them before England falls? Inspired by the
events and people of World War II, writer Rhys Bowen crafts a
sweeping and riveting saga of class, family, love, and betrayal.
1930s London. Poor Lady Georgiana - thirty-fourth in line to the
throne - has nothing to serve her Bavarian princess houseguest,
even though the Queen of England has requested that she entertain
her. Then there's the matter of the body in the bookshop and the
princess's unwitting involvement with the Communist party. It's
enough to drive a girl mad.
She may be thirty-fifth in line for the throne, but Lady Georgiana
Rannoch cannot wait to ring in the New Year - before a Christmas
killer wrings another neck . . . On the first day of Christmas, my
true love gave to me - well, actually, my true love, Darcy O'Mara,
is spending a feliz navidad tramping around South America.
Meanwhile, Mummy is holed up in a tiny village called
Tiddleton-under-Lovey with that droll Noel Coward! And I'm snowed
in at Castle Rannoch with my bumbling brother, Binky, and sourpuss
sister-in-law, Fig. So it's a miracle when I contrive to land a
position as hostess to a posh holiday party in Tiddleton. The
village is like something out of A Christmas Carol! But then there
are three deaths, so-called accidents. Perhaps a recent prison
break could have something to do with it . . . that, or a
long-standing witch's curse. But after Darcy shows up beneath the
mistletoe, anything could be possible in this wicked wonderland.
Lady Georgiana Rannoch knows nothing is simple when you're
thirty-fifth in line for the British crown, but her upcoming
marriage proves to be the ultimate complication in the tenth
mystery in the New York Times bestselling Royal Spyness series. As
Lady Georgiana's beloved Darcy drives her out of London, she soon
discovers that he isn't planning to introduce her to the pleasures
of sinning in secret-as she had hoped-but to make her his wife! Of
course, she'll need special permission from the king to marry a
Roman Catholic. Though he will inherit a title, Darcy is as broke
as Georgie. Even his family's Irish castle has been sold to a rich
American who now employs his father. Nothing will deter them from
their mission - except perhaps the news that Georgie's future
father-in-law has just been arrested for murdering the rich
American. With the elopement postponed, they head for Ireland,
where the suspect insists he's innocent, and it's up to them to
prove it - for better or worse.
From New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Rhys
Bowen comes a haunting novel about a woman who braves her father's
hidden past to discover his secrets... "Pass the bread, the olives,
and the wine. Oh, and a copy of The Tuscan Child to savor with
them." -NPR In 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted
from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied
Tuscany. Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and
in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. But the love that kindled between
them was shaken by an irreversible betrayal. Nearly thirty years
later, Hugo's estranged daughter, Joanna, has returned home to the
English countryside to arrange her father's funeral. Among his
personal effects is an unopened letter addressed to Sofia. In it is
a startling revelation. Still dealing with the emotional wounds of
her own personal trauma, Joanna embarks on a healing journey to
Tuscany to understand her father's history-and maybe come to
understand herself as well. Joanna soon discovers that some would
prefer the past be left undisturbed, but she has come too far to
let go of her father's secrets now...
New York, Autumn, 1907: Former private detective Molly Murphy
Sullivan is happy with her place in the world. She and her
policeman husband, Daniel, have built quite a life for themselves
in Greenwich Village, in their modest-yet-beautiful-home in Patchin
Place, filled with family, friends, and laughter. Molly and Daniel
have a good marriage, a true partnership where they value each
other’s opinions in all things. So when he tells her they’re
moving to a fancy home on Fifth Avenue - and that he’s running
for the sheriff of New York - Molly is left reeling. Daniel begs
Molly to trust him, but why would he run for sheriff on the Tammany
ticket? A party known more for kickbacks and quid pro quo than
anything else, it used to be everything Daniel despised. So
what’s changed? And why didn’t he discuss it with her
beforehand? Molly can’t help but wonder what Daniel’s got
himself tangled up in… and whether he needs her help to get out.
In this latest installment in this beloved series, the incomparable
Molly is drawn into the dangerous world of politics, forced to
navigate through the webs of lies and deceit which are hidden
behind a veil of vast wealth and grandeur.
Lady Georgiana Rannoch is just back from her honeymoon with dashing
Darcy O'Mara when a friend in need pulls her into a twisted Gothic
tale of betrayal, deception and, most definitely, murder. . . . I
am a bit at loose ends at the moment. My cook, Queenie, is making
my new role as mistress of Eynsleigh something akin to constant
torture as Darcy is off on another one of his top secret jaunts.
And Grandad is busy helping wayward youths avoid lives of crime. So
when my dearest friend, Belinda, inherits an old cottage in
Cornwall and begs me to go with her to inspect the property, I jump
at the chance. After a heart-stopping journey in Belinda's beast of
a motorcar, we arrive at the creaky old cottage called White Sails
and quickly realize that it is completely uninhabitable. Just when
I'm starting to wonder if I would have been better off trying to
get Queenie to cook a roast that hasn't been burnt beyond all
recognition, we meet Rose Summers, a woman Belinda knew as a child
when she spent time in Cornwall. Rose invites us to stay at Trewoma
Hall, the lovely estate now owned by her husband, Tony. Belinda
confesses that she never liked Rose and had a fling with Tony years
ago, so staying with them is far from ideal but beggars can't be
choosers as they say. Trewoma is not the idyllic house Belinda
remembers. There's something claustrophobic and foreboding about
the place. Matters aren't helped by the oppressively efficient
housekeeper Mrs. Mannering or by the fact that Tony seems to want
to rekindle whatever he and Belinda once had right under his wife's
nose. Our increasingly awkward visit soon turns deadly when a
member of the household is found murdered and all clues point to
Belinda as the prime suspect. I soon learn that some long buried
secrets have come back to haunt those in residence at Trewoma Hall
and I'll need to sift through the ruins of their past so Belinda
doesn't lose her chance at freedom in the present. . . .
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