The Wheel of Fortune

But despite the remarkable talents of heir-apparent Robert Godwin, the fates have a rough, tough ride planned for him and those he loves. In the summers before 1914, music streams through the family home as the Godwins, at the height of their prosperity, dance in the ballroom with their guests. Tucked in the hills of South Wales is Oxmoon, the ancestral estate of the Godwin family.

. Fortunes shift during two world wars, disastrous love affairs leave the family battered, and finally jealousy threatens to destroy Oxmoon and all it symbolizes. An “emotion-packed” new york times–bestselling saga by the author of Cashelmara, set on a Welsh family estate in the early twentieth century San Francisco Chronicle.

Based on a true story that has been updated to modern times, redemption, revenge, hatred, The Wheel of Fortune is a timeless tale of love, and forgiveness. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Howatch including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

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Cashelmara

Full of hope for the future, cashelmara, he returns to his Irish estate, but in nineteenth-century Ireland—a country racked by poverty and famine—his family eventually becomes trapped in a sinister spiral of violence that Edward could never have foreseen. Cashelmara follows the fortunes of three generations as they struggle to survive both the tragedies of history and their own chaotic lives.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Howatch including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection. When edward de salis travels to america after the death of his first wife, he is astonished to find himself falling in love with Marguerite, a young woman many years his junior.

The new york times–bestselling saga: In nineteenth-century Ireland, a titled English family keeps an estate in an era of famine and violent conflict.


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The Rich Are Different

 . And as the boom of the twenties gives way to the despair of the Great Depression, everything threatens to come tumbling down in an avalanche of treachery and murder. During the roaring twenties, paul van zale is the undisputed king of the financial industry, an influential man of great wealth, enormous ego, unparalleled power, and insatiable appetites.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Howatch including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection. Perhaps graver still is her effect on Van Zale’s family, among whom greed, rage, and jealousy are prime motivating factors. He’s also exactly what dinah slade is looking for: a millionaire susceptible to seduction who can rescue her endangered ancestral estate and make her dream of creating her own business empire come true.

But their ensuing love affair has repercussions that will shake the foundations of the banking tycoon’s Wall Street firm, especially when his dynamic, impulsive right-hand man also falls victim to Dinah’s vibrant sensuality. The new york times bestselling novel about a powerful Wall Street family in the 1920s and the illicit affair that threatens their empire.

All it takes is one look at the intoxicating young Englishwoman—“delivered” in secret to his London office—and all thoughts of his wife and other mistresses are instantly banished from Van Zale’s mind. Inspired by the love triangle involving caesar, and mark antony, cleopatra, the author of Sins of the Fathers and The Wheel of Fortune—known for writing “impressive fiction imbued with moral questions”—presents an unforgettable saga of an American dynasty in the tumultuous years between the two world wars Publishers Weekly.

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Sins of the Fathers

 . The “grippingly readable” new york times–bestselling follow-up to The Rich Are Different: a tale of wealth, greed, and power in post-WWII New York The Sunday Times. Their lifestyle, glittering and luxurious, is the epitome of the American Dream. The family’s sprawling banking empire, run by the determined and talented Cornelius Van Zale, is thriving.

And they’re all willing to pay any price to win—no matter how deadly. But behind the gilded perfection of their public persona, bitter rivalries, the Van Zales hide dark secrets: a world of complicated affairs, dangerous alliances, and grasping corruption. Vicky van zale, caught between the maneuverings of her father, and the ambitions of her husband and lover, Cornelius, finds herself a pawn in a vicious battle for control.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Howatch including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection. Among the wall street elite, no name inspires as much awe and envy as Van Zale. Author susan howatch, mark antony, and octavian, takes on the disturbing world of the American elite in this novel inspired by the bitter reigns of Julius Caesar, renowned for her historical family sagas, a classic tale of American avarice in the booming postwar years that still resonates today.

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An Important Family

Exhilarated by this wild, primitive place on the other side of the world, Kate’s happiness is marred by a love she knows is taboo. For kate o’connor, desperate to escape her tragic past in England, the opportunity to immigrate to New Zealand with Sir John Devenish and his wife and daughter is a chance to start over.

The saga of an english family in new zealand and the secret that haunts them, from the New York Times–bestselling author of The American Heiress. When a sudden and suspicious death throws her life into turmoil, she begins to uncover the real reason the Devenish family left England. From a grand townhouse in london to a sheep farm in new zealand, an important family, which was hailed by the Cleveland Plain Dealer as “a compulsive page turner, ” is the story of a country in the midst of colonization—a transformation that parallels Kate O’Connor’s own rite of passage into womanhood as she finds her future in a magnificent new land.

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Girl in a Blue Dress: A Novel Inspired by the Life and Marriage of Charles Dickens

Though she refuses to don the proper mourning attire, Dodo cannot bring herself to demonize her late husband, something that comes all too easily to Kitty. Even her own children, save her outspoken daughter Kitty, are not there to offer her comfort--they were poisoned against her when Alfred publicly declared her an unfit wife and mother.

Instead, she reflects on their time together: their clandestine and passionate courtship, when he was a force of nature and she a willing follower; and the salad days of their marriage, before too many children sapped her vitality and his interest. Dorothea is not among the throngs in attendance when The One and Only is laid to rest.

. She uncovers the frighteningly hypnotic power of the celebrity author she married. This dazzling debut novel brings the spirit of catherine dickens--the cast-off wife of Charles Dickens--to life in the form of Dorothea “Dodo” Gibson, Alfred, a woman who is doomed to live in the shadow of her husband, the most celebrated author in the Victorian world.

A sweeping tale of love and loss that was long-listed for both the man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize, Girl in a Blue Dress is both an intimate peek at the woman who was behind one of literature’s most esteemed men and a fascinating rumination on marriage that will resonate across centuries. Now liberated from his hold on her, the sister who betrayed her, Dodo finds the courage to face her adult children, and the charming actress who claimed her husband’s love and left her heart aching.

Her mourning must take place within the walls of her modest apartment, a parting gift from Alfred as he ushered her out of their shared home and his life more than a decade earlier. Girl in a blue dress opens on the day of Alfred’s funeral.


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Ceremony of the Innocent: A Novel

As america’s enemies gather, Ellen must face her own demons. Living with her aunt in poor, pennsylvania, rural Preston, thirteen-year-old Ellen Watson loves books and music and is completely oblivious to her own beauty. Played out against the backdrop of early twentieth-century America, Ceremony of the Innocent intertwines Ellen’s personal journey with America’s emergence from the devastation of World War I.

New york times bestseller: the quest for the American Dream soars to new heights in this coming-of-age story of a young woman and her country. The wife of the scion of a powerful political family, and a successful, children, she has everything she could ever desire: security, adoring husband. As the years pass, ellen’s life parallels the hopes, dreams, and fears of a no-longer innocent nation.

Hired as a housemaid in the palatial home of the village mayor, Ellen soon catches the attention of his son, Jeremy Porter, who captures her heart in turn. It raises vital questions, such as: are we as good as we believe we are? And is faith enough to keep us moving forward even in the face of unimaginable loss?

He offers to send her to school, and four years later he proposes marriage. But her extraordinary looks arouse envy and malice in the female townspeople—and lust in the males. But when tragedy rips her life apart, her family, Ellen will be forced to confront some terrible truths about her marriage, and herself.

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Beneath the Apple Leaves

But there is one piece of beauty in this rugged land. Wilhelm kiser, has found his american dream in Pittsburgh, with a well-paying job as a brakeman, a German immigrant, and a secure pension. From the author of daughter of australia comes a sweeping, heartfelt historical novel that follows a family of German immigrants who trade city living for the harsh realities of Pennsylvania farm life.

In 1914, andrew houghton’s family is one of hundreds eking out an existence in the coal mines of southwestern Pennsylvania. Though he longs to be a veterinarian, he’s fated for a life underground, picking rock alongside his father. That destiny changes when his aunt, Eveline Kiser, arranges for her husband to secure Andrew an apprenticeship on the railroad.

Andrew’s bond with her will help steer them through all the challenges to come, even as anti-German sentiment spreads across America with the outbreak of World War I. Beneath the apple leaves is a vivid, deeply moving portrait of family—its hardships, triumphs, and passions—and a powerfully authentic evocation of life on the land and the hearts that sustain it.

Praise for daughter of australia“a stunning debut novel that evokes the epic scope of Colleen McCullough’s classic The Thorn Birds, Harmony Verna creates a poignant, beautifully told story of love and courage. Library Journal. The soil is slow to yield and their farmhouse is in disrepair. Lily morton is quick-witted and tough on the outside, but bears her own secret scars inside.




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Daughter of Fortune: A Novel

By the time she finally hears news of him, Eliza must decide who her true love really is. California opens the door to a new life of freedom and independence to the young Chilean, and her search for her elusive lover gradually turns into another kind of journey. An orphan raised in valparaiso, chile, by a victorian spinster and her rigid brother, vivacious young Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849.

Entering a rough-and-tumble world of new arrivals driven mad by gold fever, Eliza moves in a society of single men and prostitutes with the help of her good friend and savior, the Chinese doctor Tao Chi'en.


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Glittering Images: A Novel Starbridge

Slowly, he too is drawn into the secret drama that is being played out in the shadow of the cathedral, a drama that he could never have foreseen. Praise for glittering Images“A terrific story. The dialogue throughout this book is brilliantly crisp. The philadelphia inquirerit is the 1930s, adam alexander Jardine, and Charles Ashworth is dispatched by the Archbishop of Canterbury to learn the truth about the flamboyant Bishop of Starbridge, and his mousy wife.

. But as he struggles to understand the strange relationships in the household, Ashworth ceases to be an innocent, objective observer. Glittering images is driven by passion, emotional and spiritual, and its spiritual antagonists are brilliant characters. San jose mercury news“she may well be the Anthony Trollope of the 20th century.

Andrew greeley, The Washington Post“Bold and exciting. Los angeles Times. Do jardine's outspoken denouncements of the Anglican Church's strict divorce laws have a personal motive? When he meets the cool and beautiful Lyle Christie, Mrs. Jardine's companion, Ashworth believes they do. New york times bestseller • the first in susan howatch's acclaimed novels centering on the glorious Cathedral of Starbridge,  Glittering Images is a masterful depiction of spiritual hubris, the seductions of power, and the moral dilemmas of England between the wars.




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The Song of Hartgrove Hall: A Novel

Candles flicker, a gramophone scratches out a tune as guests dance and sip champagne—for one night Hartgrove Hall relives better days. Harry fox-talbot and his brothers have returned from World War II determined to save their once grand home from ruin. Until his connection with his four-year old grandson—a music prodigy—propels him back into life, and ultimately to confront his past.

From the new york times bestselling author of the house at tyneford comes a captivating 1940s English country novel of a love triangle, family obligations, and rediscovering joy in the face of grief—perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Downton Abbey. New year’s eve, dorset, England, 1946. An enthralling novel about love and treachery, joy after grief, and a man forced to ask: is it ever too late to seek forgiveness?

But the arrival of beautiful Jewish wartime singer Edie Rose tangles the threads of love and duty, and leads to a devastating betrayal. Fifty years later, now a celebrated composer, Fox reels from the death of his adored wife, Edie.


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