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A gentleman's impulsive wager to marry a stranger. A young woman's determination not to marry the man she wants. When Isabel Cosgrove is informed by her father that he lost her hand in marriage while playing cards with Charles Galbraith-the gentleman she's been admiring from a distance for years-she is filled with dismay. How can she agree to wed a man whose reason for marriage is part-revenge, part-indifference? Intent on avoiding a painful union where her regard cannot be returned, she concocts a plan. Charles Galbraith didn't intend to become engaged as a result of a drunken wager at cards, but after the woman he loves spurns him, what does it matter whom he marries? But even Miss Cosgrove, the fianc e he won by wager, seems intent not to marry him-a fact that both relieves and piques him. She instead suggests a plan that has the potential to temporarily appease her father's demand of marriage while also winning back the love of the woman Charles truly wants. But when Charles and Isabel are thrown into the midst of a brewing scandal and another man's potential disinheritance, their plan begins to unravel thread by thread, challenging what Galbraith thinks he wants-and just how much more time with him Isabel's heart can stand.
La historia de un gran amor, y una gran tragedia, que se desarrollan en Cuba, dentro del ambiente del llamado periodo especial, con el mayor desempleo, los apagones, la escasez extrema de alimentos, y productos; el comienzo de la poca de circulaci n del D lar, y sus consecuencias con el jineteo, los hechos delictivos, las drogas, la corrupci n y el invento por parte de la ciudadan a para LUCHAR, para obtener esta moneda, y mejorar su existencia.
La historia de un gran amor, y una gran tragedia, que se desarrollan en Cuba, dentro del ambiente del llamado periodo especial, con el mayor desempleo, los apagones, la escasez extrema de alimentos, y productos; el comienzo de la poca de circulaci n del D lar, y sus consecuencias con el jineteo, los hechos delictivos, las drogas, la corrupci n y el invento por parte de la ciudadan a para LUCHAR, para obtener esta moneda, y mejorar su existencia.
Isabel, a Cuban American immigrant, has contemplated writing about her familys ordeal while living in Communist Cuba under the Castro regime. It is only after she suffers a sudden heart attack at the age of fifty-five that she realizes she needs to share her story with others who have had similar experiences. As a young girl growing up during turbulent times in her native Cuba, Isabel takes the reader through key events that changed her life and the anguish of persecution in her own country. Later, as an immigrant in the United States in the late sixties, Isabel experiences what it is to leave her beloved country while learning to acclimate to a new culture and learning a second language. In doing so, she experiences bullying, racism, conflict, and hopelessness. Fifty years after her arrival to the United States, the author looks back at her life thats filled with challenges as well as accomplishments. She reflects about her roles as mother, wife, daughter, and her thirty-two-year career as an educator.
Vicente Vaz um jovem professor que acabou de ser pai. Precisamente quando as suas prioridades come am a mudar, Vicente descobre que h ainda um cap tulo da sua vida que n o est encerrado. Esse cap tulo vivido todos os dias atrav s do seu livro preferido "Laudo Amorem" de um escritor desconhecido que parece conhecer os anseios de Vicente melhor do que ningu m. Vicente o anti-her i que consegue intrigar e comover o leitor na mesma frase, a sua vida tudo menos simples porque Vicente nunca quis uma vida simples. "Isabel" comovidamente viciante e consegue envolver o leitor com a sua linguagem semi-po tica, um romance intr nseco em que cada personagem humanamente inesperada.
En la vida de Isa, aparentemente no sucede nada. Situaciones y retos tan normales como las que ocurren en cualquier otro camino. No participa en la emancipaci n de un pueblo ni descubre la cura de la malaria, pero por donde pasa va sembrando paz. El personaje central nos recuerda que nuestra capacidad para pintar de calma los momentos de tensi n por los que atravesamos a diario, puede hacer la diferencia entre un trayecto de altibajos y horror, o uno que valga el gozo andar.
W hrend einer Reise nach Mexiko ger t die junge, spanische Professorin f r Geschichte, Isabel M ndez, durch einen mysteri sen Steinkreis unfreiwillig in das Dunkel des Azteken-Reichs des 16. Jahrhunderts zur Zeit der spanischen Konquistadoren und grausamen Inquisition. Dort wird sie zur Gefangenen des gro en Herrschers Aztek n - und zum Spielball geheimnisvoller M chte. ber drei Jahre lang ist sie gezwungen, lebensgef hrliche Abenteuer auf sich zu nehmen, bevor sie - vielleicht - wieder in die Arme ihres geliebten Pedro Gonz les zur ckkehren darf. Die fiktionale Geschichte einer spannenden und aufregenden Zeitreise - eine fantasievolle Erz hlung, die sich an wahre Begebenheiten anlehnt.
During her search for clues into the past of her late mother, Avery James finds herself and her true talents in a Southwestern sanctuary as she becomes involved with her mother's work, friends, foes, and lovers, ultimately discovering a surprising love in the process. By the author of Bread Alone. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.
Critiques such stories as "The House of Spirits" and "Daughter of Fortune," while providing biographical information about the Latin American author.
'Sisterhood, espionage, and an unstoppable romance between two passionate leads - Isabel and the Rogue is utterly delightful and charming and not to be missed!' EVIE DUNMOREA wallflower and a spy collide during the London season in this exciting new historical romance novel . . . Isabel Luna Valdés has long since resigned herself to being the 'forgotten' Luna sister. But thanks to familial connections to the Mexican ambassador in London, wallflower Isabel is poised to unearth any British intelligence hidden by the ton that might aid Mexico during the French Occupation. Though she slips easily from crowded ballrooms into libraries and private studies, Isabel's search is hampered by trysting couples and prowling rogues - including the rakish Captain Sirius Dawson. As a covert agent for the British Home Office, Sirius makes a game of earning the aristocracy's confidence. He spends his days befriending foolish politicians and seducing well-born ladies in order to learn their secrets. But after he spies a certain sharp-tongued Luna sister lurking in the shadows where no proper debutante should venture, it's clear Sirius is outmatched, outwitted, and soon to be outmanoeuvred by the one woman he can't resist. Their mutual attraction is undeniable, but when Isabel discovers private correspondence that could turn the tide of political turmoil in Mexico, she's willing to do whatever it takes to protect her country - even if this means ignoring her heart and courting danger . . .'A clever and resourceful Isabel Luna heats up the pages with a dangerously charming captain . . . an exciting and equally steamy romp!' AMALIE HOWARD'A shining star of historical romance' EVA LEIGH'Filled with history, wit, intrigue, and above all, chemistry' FELICIA GROSSMAN
Eleven-year-old Isabel is a "plain old" girl living in Provincetown, Massachusetts, who believes that she is destined to accomplish something special. When her fifth-grade class goes on a whale-watch field trip, something amazing happens: Dozens of different species of whales surround the boat, bumping the deck and sending Isabel flying into the ocean. Isabel is shocked to hear the whales speaking to her--she is a mermaid, they tell her, a "Chosen One" who has the ability to turn from a human into a whale and back again. She is destined to live among the whales long enough to learn their ways, and teach them about the human world. Living among her pod is fun, at first, but Isabel has an important mission. She will change the whales' future forever, and learn a lot about herself in the process. From the Hardcover edition.
A girl discovers a connection between her home in the Philippines and her new home in the U.S. through a special garden in this middle grade novel that celebrates nourishment and growth. Twelve-year-old Isabel is the new kid in her San Francisco middle school. It's the first time in many years that she'll be living with her mother again. Mama's job in the US allowed Isabel and her grandparents to live more comfortably in the Philippines, but now Isabel doesn't really know her own mother anymore. Making new friends in a new city, a new country, is hard, but joining the gardening and cooking club at school means Isabel will begin to find her way, and maybe she too, will begin to bloom. In this beautifully rendered novel-in-verse, Mae Respicio explores how growth can take many forms, offering both the challenges and joy of new beginnings.