Twenty years after she mysteriously disappeared, shipping heiress Christina Fortune returns to gain control of the family business, but she must first convince her family of her identity. Original.
From a very young age, Theodora, daughter of a circus bearkeeper in Constantinople, sets her sights well above her station in life.
Fortune's Children tells the dramatic story of all the amazingly colorful spenders who dissipated such a vast inheritance.
Chronicles the odyssey of Wendi Shasta Leonardo and her encounter in the majestic land of Edoku with Pater Pan and his followers, the Gypsy Jokers. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
"Lee brings the atmosphere of the Georgian era to life with lush descriptions that beg the reader to see, hear, feel and touch it all."—RT Book Reviews She is the ultimate gamble.
Combining the beauty and unease of a dream, this haunting novel is an unflinching portrayal of a woman's innermost fears and desires. 'As relevant today as when it was published ... at once powerfully uplifting and achingly sad' Japan Times
Thrumming with energy and at once critical and hopeful, The Son of Good Fortune is a luminous story of a mother and son testing the strength of their bond to their country—and to each other.
By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating ...
A celebration of the photographer's work shines light on his remarkable achievements as an artist and a naturalist who created beautiful paintings, prints, murals, journals, wood carvings, ceramic works, poems, aphorisms, and illustrations. ...
... Francis, 184, 185, 187n, 204, 228 Lenox, Mass, 18, 37, 38, 250n, 253 n, 264n, 265, 279, 284, 306, 308, 314, 314, 317, 319 Leonard, Samuel H., 147, 148n Letters: RGS, xxi—xxii, 300n Libby Prison, 157n, 18m, 236, 258n.
Fortune's Child