When a high-powered gallery owner collides with a wildly offbeat artist, it's the perfect recipe for disaster. But in her 63rd bestselling novel, Danielle Steel proves that when two hopelessly mismatched people share a love for art, a p assion for each other, and a city like Paris, nothing is truly impossible..or is it? With unerring insight into the hearts of men and women-and into the soul of the artist -Danielle Steel takes us into a world of glamour and genius, priceless art and dazzling creativity. With brilliant color and breathtaking emotion, Danielle Steel has written her most compelling novel to date.
From the glittering ballrooms of Manhattan to the fires of World War I, Danielle Steel takes us on an unforgettable journey in her new novel - a spellbinding tale of war, loss, history, and one woman's unbreakable spirit....
It's difficult to imagine a harder first act to follow than The Kite Runner: a debut novel by an unknown writer about a country many readers knew little about that has gone on to have over four million copies in print worldwide. But when preview copies of Khaled Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, started circulating at Amazon.com, readers reacted with a unanimous enthusiasm that few of us could remember seeing before.
Miss Harriet Vane discovers a body on a deserted beach and becomes a suspect in a murder case. Lord Peter Wimsey is once again only too eager to help her. This novel has been dramatized by the BBC, and the author's other books include "Murder Must Advertise" and "Busman's Holiday".
Bloom - The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel
Starting from the botanical crazes inspired by Linnaeus in the eighteenth century, and exploring the variations it spawned--natural history, landscape architecture, polemical battles over botany's prurience--this study offers a fresh, detailed reading of the courtship novel from Jane Austen to George Eliot and Henry James. By reanimating a cultural understanding of botany and sexuality that we have lost, it provides an entirely new and powerful account of the novel's role in scripting sexualized courtship, and illuminates how the novel and popular science together created a cultural figure, the blooming girl, that stood at the center of both fictional and scientific worlds.
