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Money, Banks and Business in British and American Literature, Culture and Language – ebook
Marek Błaszak
This monograph should be of interest to a wide range of readers because money, banks and business have been an integral part of history of all societies as well as an experience shared by each one of us. The book is divided into two parts - the more extensive part one comprises: - several texts that follow advancement of capitalist economy in 18th and 19thcentury Britain with all the concurrent developments...Data dostępności:
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The Pilot – ebook
James Fenimore Cooper
In The Pilot (1824), James Fenimore Cooper invented a new literary genre: the sea novel. Bold, vigorous, original, it is a tale of high adventure that vividly captures the majesty and power of the seafaring life. Cooper drew on his direct knowledge of ships and sailors to present a truer picture of life on the sea than had ever before achieved in literature. As a boy of seventeen he had experienced...Data dostępności:
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Indiscretion – ebook
Hannah Fielding
A young woman’s journey of discovery takes her to a world of forbidden passion, savage beauty - and revenge. Spring, 1950. Alexandra de Falla, a half-English, half-Spanish youngwriter abandons her privileged but suffocating life in London and travels to Spain to be reunited with her long-estranged family. Instead of providing the sense of belonging she yearns for, the de Fallas are riven by...Data dostępności:
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Aphroditie’s tears – ebook
Hannah Fielding
In ancient Greece, one of the twelve labours of Heracles was to bring back a golden apple from the Garden of Hesperides. To archaeologist Oriel Anderson, joining a team of Greek divers on the island of Helios seems like the golden apple of her dreams. Yet the dream becomes a nightmare when she meets the devilish owner of the island, Damian Lekkas. In shocked recognition, she is flooded with the memory...Data dostępności:
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The Echoes of Love – ebook
Hannah Fielding
Seduction, passion and the chance for new love. A terrible truth that will change two lives forever. Venetia Aston-Montagu has escaped to Italy’s most captivating city to work in her godmother’s architectural practice, putting a lost love behind her. For the past ten years she has built a fortress around her heart, only to find the walls tumbling down one night of the carnival when she...Data dostępności:
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Concerto – ebook
Hannah Fielding
Can love escape from the darkness into the light? When Catriona Drouot, a young music therapist, honours an opera diva’s dying request to help her son, Umberto Monteverdi, recover his musical gift, she knows it will be a difficult assignment. She had shared a night of passion with the once-celebrated composer ten years before, with unexpected consequences. The extent of her challenge becomes...Data dostępności:
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Masquerade – ebook
Hannah Fielding
Description A young writer becomes entangled in an illicit gypsy love affair, pulling her into a world of secrets, deception and dark desire. Summer, 1976. Luz de Rueda returns to her beloved Spain and takes a job as the biographer of a famous artist. On her first day back in Cádiz, she encounters a bewitching, passionate young gypsy, Leandro, who immediately captures her heart, even though...Data dostępności:
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Song of the Nile – ebook
Hannah Fielding
Luxor, 1946. When young nurse Aida El Masri returns from war-torn London to her family’s estate in Egypt she steels herself against the challenges ahead. Eight years have passed since her father, Ayoub, was framed for a crime he did not commit, and died as a tragic result. Yet Aida has not forgotten, and now she wants revenge against the man she believes betrayed her father - his best friend,...Data dostępności:
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Legacy – ebook
Hannah Fielding
Love, intrigue and redemption under the scorching Spanish sun A troubled young journalist finds her loyalties tested when love and desire unearth dark secrets from the past. Spring, 2010. When Luna Ward, a science journalist from New York, travels halfway across the world to work undercover at an alternative health clinic in Cadiz, her ordered life is thrown into turmoil. The doctor she is to investigate,...Data dostępności:
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Burning Embers – ebook
Hannah Fielding
Coral Sinclair is a beautiful but naive twenty-five-year-old photographer who has just lost her father. She’s leaving the life she’s known and traveling to Kenya to take ownership of her inheritance-the plantation that was her childhood home-Mpingo. On the voyage from England, Coral meets an enigmatic stranger to whom she has a mystifying attraction. She sees him again days later on the...Data dostępności:
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