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Carole Barber ha llegado a París para trabajar en su novela y encontrarse a sí misma. Leyenda del cine, Carole se dedica a su familia y las causas en todo el mundo. Pero un instante de fuego y terror destruye cientos de vidas y deja a Carole inconsciente y amnesica. En los dias que siguen es asediada por una nube de paparazzi. Un misterioso extraño visita el hospital para ver a la mujer que amo una vez y nunca olvido. Pero ella permanece semiinconsciente y sin recuerdos. Una historia de supervivencia y dignidad, de pequeños milagros y grandes sorpresas, Honor Thyself crea un retrato inolvidable de una figura publica cuyas esperanzas, temores y angustias son tan reales como las nuestras.

La hermosa princesa del principado de Lienchtenstein languidece mientras representa su papel, acosada por la prensa del corazón y sometida a la rigidez de la vida pública. Su verdadera vocación es servir a una causa humanitaria desde la Cruz Roja. Por fin cumple su deseo y parte a Eritrea, donde se enamora de un medico altruista. Pero, cuando su padre y su hermano mueren en un atentado, la princesa tendra que elegir entre el amor a su pais o su felicidad junto a un plebeyo.

Cooper Winslow, Filmstar und in die Jahre gekommener Playboy, steht vor dem finanziellen Aus. Notgedrungen nimmt er zwei Untermieter in seiner Luxusvilla auf - Konflikte sind vorprogrammiert. Schwierigen Situationen und engen Bindungen ist der verwohnte Einzelganger bisher immer aus dem Weg gegangen. Als er die junge, vermogende Kinderarztin Alex kennenlernt, macht er ihr nicht gerade aus romantischen Grunden den Hof - ohne zu merken, wie schnell er in ihren Bann gerat. Alex ist fasziniert von Cooper und bald uberzeugt, ihn zu lieben - selbst als sie erfahren muss, dass er sich nichts aus Kindern macht. Dann behauptet plotzlich ein Pornosternchen, von Cooper schwanger zu sein, und als noch dazu eine junge Frau auftaucht und sich als seine Tochter ausgibt, muss Cooper endgultig einsehen, dass sein altes Leben auf dem edlen Landsitz fur immer vorbei ist ...

First time in paperback! "This compelling, centuries-spanning novel brilliantly interweaves the lives of two women--a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is an unforgettable story of courage in the face of the unknown." LEGACY At the age of thirty-eight, Brigitte Nicholson has a job she likes, a man she loves, and a book she's writing that she will finish--someday. "Someday "is Brigitte's watchword. Someday she and Ted will clarify their relationship. Someday""she will stop playing it so safe. Then, on a snowy day in Boston, Brigitte's life is jolted and everything she has counted on changes. As she struggles to plot a new course, Brigitte agrees to help her mother on a family genealogy project and makes a stunning discovery that reaches back to the French aristocracy. How did Brigitte's mysterious ancestor Wachiwi, a Dakota Sioux, travel from the Great Plains to the French court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette? How did she come to marry into Brigitte's family? What is the truth behind the tantalizing clues in the fragmented, centuries-old records? Traveling from South Dakota to Paris, following the threads of Wachiwi's life, Brigitte finds herself in the forefront of her own story. With a powerful family legacy coming to life around her, someday is no longer in the future. Instead, in Danielle Steel's mesmerizing novel, someday is now.

Valerie Wyatt is at the top of her game--she has parlayed her talent for entertaining and home decorating into a multimedia empire, and her name is synonymous with class and exquisite taste. And yet, though she has achieved enviable professional success, her ambition and hard work have given her little room for a personal life. She is divorced, and though she has a strong relationship with her daughter, she finds herself alone as her 60th birthday approaches. Valerie's daughter, April, is also a dynamo in her chosen field. A top-notch chef, she owns her own restaurant--a cozy place that dishes up both comfort food and rare delicacies. The restaurant is a smashing success, and April devotes herself to it body and soul. Like her mother, she values professional success more than romance, and she cannot find any room for a man in her life as her 30th birthday grows nearer. The closest she has come to a relationship in years is an ill-advised one night stand. Jack Adams is a famous former NFL player, who is now an immensely successful sportscaster. He is also an incorrigible womanizer, who makes a habit of bedding models who are half his age. Nearing age 50 he begins to wonder if his wild ways still suit him, or if it's finally time to grow up. These three driven professionals share the same birthday. And this year, the day that they share will prove to be one that changes their lives forever (...)

The sensational new novel from the world's favourite author. Annie Ferguson was one of Manhattan's brightest young architects. But overnight she became mother to her sister's three orphaned children. It wasn't the life she'd planned, but one that rewarded her tenfold for every sacrifice she'd had to make. Now, at forty-two, with a satisfying career and a fulfilling family life, Annie has reconciled herself to being single. With the children now grown into young adults and confronting major challenges of their own, she is navigating a parent's difficult passage between lending them a hand and letting them go. Then, an accident leads Annie to a man who will tempt her to reconsider her belief that it isn't too late to fall in love, after all...

Swiss-born Hugues Martin has worked for the world's most prestigious hotels, so when he purchases a small, run-down place in New York, everyone thinks he must be crazy! He alone sees it for the rough diamond it is, transforming it into a beautiful boutique hotel of impeccable elegance, run with the precision and attention to detail he learnt through his hotelier training in Europe.

Assistant D.A. Alexa Hamilton has just been handed the kind of case that makes careers: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Sifting through mountains of forensic evidence, Alexa relentlessly builds her case and prepares for a high-stakes trial ...until threatening letters throw her private life into turmoil. The letters are addressed to Alexa's beautiful 17-year-old daughter, Savannah, who Alexa has raised alone since her painful divorce years before. Alexa is certain that Quentin is behind the letters - and that they are too dangerous to ignore. Suddenly Alexa must make the toughest choice of all - and send her daughter back to the very place that Alexa swore she would never return: to her ex-husband's world of southern tradition, long memories, and the antebellum charm of Charleston. While Alexa's trial builds to a climax in New York, her daughter is settling into southern life, discovering a part of her family history she's never known. As a family's wounds are exposed and the healing begins, Alexa and Savannah, after a season in different worlds, will come together again - strengthened by the trials they have faced, changed by the mysteries they have unraveled, armed with miracles that are uniquely their own.

Brigitte Nicholson is thirty-eight years old and a passive academic stuck in a dead-end job and a desultory relationship. Her life becomes strangely linked to that of Wachiwi, the young daughter of a great Dakota Sioux chief in the late eighteenth century Stolen from her tribe by a Crow raiding party, Wachiwi went on to become a marquise in the court of Louis XVI.

What makes a house...a home? Everything is falling to pieces for Francesca Thayer. Her beautiful, old house is full of leaks and in need of total restoration. Then her relationship with lawyer Todd collapses and he moves out. As the owner of a struggling art gallery she can't possibly manage the mortgage alone, so she is forced to do the one thing she never imagined she would: she advertises for lodgers. First arrives Eileen - a young, attractive schoolteacher who has just moved from LA. Then comes Chris, a newly-divorced father struggling with a difficult ex-wife and the challenges of parenting his seven-year-old son who visits every other weekend. Last to arrive is Marya - a famous cookery author who is hoping to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. And so Francesca finds that her house has become a whole new world - and as things begin to turn around, she realises that her accidental tenants have become the most important people in her life. Over their year together, the house at 44 Charles Street fills with laughter, hope and heartbreak. And Francesca discovers that she might be able to open her heart again after all...

IN HIS FATHER S FOOTSTEPS

Accidental Heroes is a heart-stopping thriller about ordinary men and women who embark on a journey they will never forget. On a beautiful May morning at New York's JFK Airport, a routine plane departs for San Francisco. Security agent Bernice Adams finds a postcard of the Golden Gate Bridge bearing an ambiguous message. Who left the postcard behind, which flight is that person on, and what exactly does the message mean? Her supervisor dismisses her concerns but she is compelled to contact Homeland Security. As the flight takes off each of the passengers is looking forward to reaching San Francisco, whether it's for a family reunion, a wedding, or a new way of life. But as it emerges, there's someone on the flight planning something terrible and these strangers' lives entwine as they come together to help to avert a tragedy at the eleventh hour. Danielle Steel combines intense action with stories of emotionally rich, intertwined lives. As the plane bears down on its destination of San Francisco, the futures of these strangers will be changed forever by a handful of accidental heroes.