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Barbara Cartland 100. A Portrait of Love
How can beautiful young Fedora Colwyn and her ailing father be on the verge of starvation when the walls of their run-down home are hung with a magnificent collection of paintings by the great Masters? Alexander Colwyn is renowned as the nation's greatest restorer of pictures and his valuable works of art are in trust for future generations and so cannot be sold. Fedora is desperate, not knowing where to turn or how to restore her beloved father to health with virtually no money, but she has a loyal...
Engels | PDF, 1 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 101. The Enchanted Waltz
Prince Metternich of Austria is growing weary of the political machinations of the European nations arguing over the spoils of Napoleon's Empire, especially those of the duplicitous Czar of all the Russias, Alexander I. They are all gathered for the Congress of Vienna in 1815Presented with an exquisitely beautiful young girl with eyes as piercingly blue as his own Prince Metternich is powerfully reminded of a siren he once loved in his past and accepts Wanda as his Ward. But he has an ulterior motive...
Engels | PDF, 1,1 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 106. Love's dream in peril
The beautiful Adella May is filled with joy as she sees Digby Dryden, the man she loves, walking towards her. But why does he turn away, refusing to look at her? Humiliated and hurt and her golden dream of love in ruins, what can Adella do now and where can she turn? Will she be forced to give up her hopes of seeing Digby again and obey her tyrannical Uncle Edgar and accept the proposal of the rich and suitable aristocrat, Lord Ranulph Fowles, a man she cannot love? Adella's dear school friend, Jane...
Engels | PDF, 0,8 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 102. Alone and Afraid
Ever popular with the grasping and greedy beauties of the Social world, the handsome Marquis of Elkesley is becoming disillusioned with their constant requests for expensive gifts and so he travels to Paris to forget them. There he receives a pleading letter from his close friend, Celeste, one of Paris's most notorious demi-mondaines. She has taken under her wing a frightened but beautiful young waif called Kitrina and, Celeste's sinful lifestyle rendering her unsuitable as a Guardian, she asks the...
Engels | PDF, 0,8 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Clar Ni Chonghaile Fractured
International Hostage Thriller
Longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016'Clar provides access to the beating hearts on all sides of terror that even our best journalists can't reach... ' -- Christopher Bollen, author'Compelling and relentless... page-turner of a novel' -- Damien Lewis'A turbulent journey to the world's most forgotten corners' -- Celeste Hicks, author and former BBC journalist'A stunning debut' -- Nick Brownlee, author and journalist'This is a layered, textured, wholehearted novel that will stay with...
Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Legend Press, [Nederland] | 2016
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Raymond Carver Cathedral
Raymond Carver said it was possible ''to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman''s earring - with immense, even startling power''. Nowhere is this alchemy more striking than in the title story of Cathedral in which a blind man guides the hand of a sighted man as together they draw the cathedral the blind man can never see. Many view this story, and indeed this collection, as a watershed...
Engels | ePub3, 0,6 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 103. She wanted love
The beautiful Lady Eleta Renton returns from France where she has stayed long over her time at the Convent School in Paris. Because her mother had married again after becoming widowed and then she died too, Eleta was in no hurry to come home When she arrives back in London, rather sad at leaving the Convent School, she is horrified when her stepfather, whom she had never liked, tells her that she is to marry the Duke of Hazelware, because he is important to him in his business of shipbuilding and...
Engels | PDF, 0,7 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 103. The Call of The Highlands
Handsome, noble Lord Alistair McDonon's gay life, as a denizen of London's Beau Monde far, far away from his Scottish roots, comes to a sudden and abrupt end. When the tragic news arrives that his two brothers have drowned at sea, he is summoned to Scotland by his estranged father not only to take up his title of the Marquis of Kildonon and position of heir to the Chieftainship of the Clan but also to marry, Lady Morag McNain, in order to unite their Clans, who have been at war with each other for...
Engels | PDF, 0,9 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 104. The Glittering Lights
The beautiful Cassandra Sherburn has everything a young lady could possibly desire. Slender, flame-haired and alabaster-skinned and the heiress to her father's immense fortune, her father has promised her hand in marriage to the dashing young Marquis of Charlbury, heir to the ancestral home and estates of the Duke of Alchester and she believes that she is in love with him. And over the years she has collected newspaper cuttings about him and pasted them secretly into albums. Now the Marquis's father...
Engels | PDF, 1 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 105. A sacrifice for love
Princess Caterina of Theiss receives a letter from her close friend Princess Henriet of Istria asking her to stay with her immediately. The two Provinces were close to each other and part of Austria. On arrival at the Palace in Istria, Princess Caterina is horrified to hear that, owing to the Russians' threatening behaviour in the Balkans, the Emperor of Austria has written to Queen Victoria asking her to send an English husband for Princess Henriet so that the Union Jack can fly over Istria and...
Engels | PDF, 0,8 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 107. Love's dream in peril
Lady Georgina Lang returns to The Castle from her father's funeral to wonder what the future holds for her. Because her father had always longed for a son to succeed him, he had brought her up and educated her exactly as if she was a boy. She dressed as a boy and, although she had been christened Georgina, he liked calling her George. She was completely alone in the huge castle, which was now inherited by the new Earl of Langfield, a distant cousin who had been difficult to trace. Alister, however,...
Engels | PDF, 0,8 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 108. An Archangel Called Ivan
Arliva Ashdown is not only the most beautiful girl in London Society but the richest as she has inherited her father's huge fortune. At a ball she is giving she overhears two people talking outside the window and she is horrified to learn that, although they are very much in love with each other, the man is telling the girl that the only chance he has of obtaining money for his crumbling house and estate is to marry Arliva. A little later she overhears another conversation between the Countess of...
Engels | PDF, 0,8 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 108. Pride and the poor princess
Handsome, infinitely wealthy war hero, the Duke of Buckminster or 'Buck' to his many friends, is bored with civilian life after the excitement of the Great War. His fabulous yacht, The Siren, is packed with guests, including Dolly, a famous Society beauty who is determined to trap the Duke into marriage. He reluctantly agrees to sail to Constantinople so that he may purchase for Dolly a treasure trove of jewels and sables, exploiting the desperation of Russian refugees from the 1917 Revolution. The...
Engels | PDF, 1 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 109. A Prisioner in Paris
After visiting the lovely Countess of Helston as her husband is away, Lord Lanwood did not arrive home until the early hours of the morning. And after sleeping later than usual the following morning, he is ready to go riding when his valet tells him that a strange man was waiting downstairs to see him urgently. Pierre, a rough-looking, rough-speaking Frenchman gave him a letter from his nephew Charles. It said that he was being kept a prisoner until he told his captors and their patron, the scheming...
Engels | PDF, 0,7 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 109. Stars In My Heart
Soon to be twenty-one years old, the lovely red-haired Gisela Musgrave is tormented and oppressed by her cruel and jealous stepmother until one day riding with the local hunt, Gisela rushes to the aid of a beautiful woman who has fallen from her horse. Everyone but Gisela notices her striking resemblance to this Noblewoman, who reveals herself to be none other than the exquisite Elizabeth, Empress of Austria, whose beauty is renowned throughout Europe and who is staying incognito in the English countryside...
Engels | PDF, 1,1 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 01 Elizabethan Lover
Having sailed with Sir Francis Drake, swashbuckling privateer Rodney Hawkhurst yearns for a galleon of his own with which to plunder the Spanish Main in the name of Queen Elizabeth. Seeking investment from Sir Harry Gillingham, he has a fleeting encounter with an elfin, tomboyish golden-red-haired beauty ? Sir Harry?s youngest daughter Lizbeth ? and is bewitched by her limpid green eyes. Yet it is fair and golden-haired elder sister Phillida with whom he first falls in love... Granted his finances...
Engels | PDF, 1,4 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 11. Bezaubernde Hexe
Prinzessin Laetitia mochte ihre Cousine, Prinzessin Stephanie, vor einer von ihrer Grotante arrangierten Heirat mit dem Konig von Zvotana zu retten. Denn Stephanie ist in ihren Bruder Kyril verliebt. Doch Laetitia und ihre Familie sind selbst von der Gnade der Grotante abhangig, da ihr Vater fruh verstorben ist. Sie muss also vorsichtig sein. Da fallt ihr ein, dass die Zigeuner, deren Blut auch in ihren Adern fliet, vielleicht mit einem Zauber helfen konnten. Kann sie Stephanie vor einer lieblosen...
Engels | PDF, 0,9 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 02 Love in the Highlands
When the Balkan Prince Stanislaus demanded an English bride, Queen Victoria decided to send him Lady Lavina, whose family had a slight connection with royalty. Determined to avoid this fate, Lavina threw herself on the mercy of the Marquis of Elswick, a disagreeable man who had turned his back on the world following betrayal by the woman he had loved. Surprisingly, he agreed to help by pretending to be engaged to Lavina, and, with her father, they left to visit her relatives in Scotland. In the highlands...
Engels | PDF, 0,6 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 03 Love Finds The Way
When John Chester returned to England after suddenly inheriting a Dukedom he knew his life had changed forever. But he didn't know just how much. Gina Wilton was like a breath of fresh air. But she was also everything John disapproved of in a young women, independent, assertive, always ready to contradict him. Yet she had ideas about restoring his dilapidated castle, and he found he needed her help. The more they were together, the more he noticed how pretty she was, how witty and sparkling. But...
Engels | PDF, 0,6 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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Barbara Cartland 11 Sailing To Love
Venetia was very lonely after the death of her parents. So when her cousin Mary begged her to help to save her from a forced marriage, Venetia was ready. Mary was in love with another man and expecting his child. yet the Queen wanted her to marry the Earl of Mountwood at a moment's notice and go with him to India. A reckless impulse made Venetia promise to take Mary's place at the altar. She would worry about the consequences later. Lord Mountwood was handsome, but he was also haughty and autocratic,...
Engels | PDF, 0,7 MB | Barbara Cartland Ebooks Ltd, [Nederland] | 2016
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