Irresistible Forces
ISBN : 9780552145053
For fourteen years, Steve and Meredith Whitman have sustained a marriage of passion and friendship, despite the demands of two all-consuming careers. Meredith is a top investment baker, Steve a gifted physician - the only thing missing in their life is children. Steve longs for them. But Meredith keeps putting off motherhood, and now she has been offered an extraordinary job opportunity in San Francisco, there thousand miles away. Steve urges her to accept, saying that he 's more than happy to uproot himself and will join her as soon as he can fond a new job himself. Perhaps in California, he hopes, they can begin a family at last. Neither Steve or Meredith had reckoned on a prolonged separation, but Steve's job keeps him on New York for months longer than planned. Weekends together fall prey to their hectic schedules. Alone in San Francisco, Meredith is spending long hours at the office with her boss, charismatic entrepreneur Callan Dow. Steve is working late shifts at the hospital, grabbing an occasional dinner with a new female colleague. Almost unnoticed, Steve and Meredith have begun living separate lives, and irresistible forces to tear their lives and hearts apart. With unerring insight, Danielle Steel explores what happens when lives fit together like delicately balanced puzzles are shifted, changer and drift apart. Who survives, and if love survives, is at the core of Irresistible Forces.
Five Quarters of the Orange
ISBN : 9780552998833
Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and brown as a sunning snake - but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow named after a raspberry liqueur, plies her culinary trade at the crêperie - and lets her memory play strange games. Into this world comes the threat of revelation as Framboise's nephew - a profiteering Parisian - attempts to exploit the growing success of the country recipes she has inherited from her mother, a woman remembered with contempt by the villagers of Les Laveuses. As the spilt blood of a tragic wartime childhood flows again, exposure beckons for Framboise, the widow with an invented past.
THE CIDER HOUSE RULES
ISBN : 9780552992046
Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a peverse world in which Homer Wells' odyssey begins. As the oldest unadopted offspring at St Cloud's orphanage, he learns about the skills which, one way or another, help young and not-so-young women, from Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder -- a man of rare compassion and an addiction to ether.
Lone Eagle
ISBN : 9780552148511
The phone call came on a snowy December afternoon. Kate was certain it was Joe, her soulmate since they'd met thirty-four years before - but what she got was the one call she had never wanted. It took her mind back to the moment when she and Joe first met, when she was just seventeen and he was young, powerful, dazzling and different from any man she'd ever known Christmas, 1940, and Kate is making her début in New York society. Joe, the brilliant protege of Charles Lindbergh, seems just out of Kate's reach. As the months pass, they meet again, and although Kate goes off to study at Radcliffe and Joe skyrockets to fame in modem aviation, he is always drawn back to her, as a moth to a flame. When the war is over Kate wants a marriage and family - while Joe wants the world. Unwilling to wait any longer, Kate moves on with her life. But when a chance encounter brings them together again, the time has come to make a choice, one that will have profound consequences for the rest of their lives. A novel of extraordinary grace and compassion from a master storyteller.
Be useful - Seven tools for life
ISBN : 9781529146554
The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest-paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth-largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke, but this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident. Success is the result of clear vision, hard work, curiosity, and a commitment to giving back. For Arnold, all of it is guided by the one lesson his father hammered into him above all : be useful. Distilling his hard-earned wisdom into seven essential rules for realising your true purpose, Be Useful is an indispensable guide to building the life you want, from a master of ceaseless reinvention.
How to stand up to a dictator
ISBN : 9780753559215
A personal hero of mine... she's an important warning for the rest of us' 'Maria Ressa is five feet two inches, but she stands taller than most in her pursuit of the truth' How to Stand up to a Dictator maps a network of disinformation that spans the globe and affects what you click on, how you think, and how you vote - from Britain's Brexit to Russia's invasion of Ukraine ; from Chinese cyber-warfare to America's Capitol Hill and Silicon Valley. Told from the frontline of the digital war, this is Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa's urgent cry for all of us to wake up and hold the line, and to fight for our collective future before it is too late.
