Thursday, January 12, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
The Stars Shine Down By Sidney Sheldon
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Novels
The novel tells the story of Lara Cameron, a successful real estate developer who came from a broken family in Nova Scotia. Lara's mother dies in childbirth and her Scottish father doesn't want her. Early in life, she learns to fend for herself and how to get her own way in a male-dominated world. After her father's death, Lara makes a deal with the owner of the boarding house to secure her first building. Thrilled at her success, she moves to Chicago to start her real estate empire. Even though she encounters many problems, she is able to overcome them all and become one of America's most successful businesswomen, and receives the nickname, "Iron Butterfly." She falls in love with a talented pianist, Philip Alder, and marries him. She is on the verge of losing everything she has achieved as well as the one man she loves, but the Iron Butterfly miraculously recovers from all her shattered dreams and gains back all her hopes and the only man whom she ever truly loved.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Sidney Sheldon - The Doomsday Conspiracy
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Novels
When a mysterious weather balloon crashes to earth in the Swiss Alps, the head of the NSA handpicks Robert Bellamy to track down and identify the ten known witnesses to the event. A man whose obsession with his covert assignments has cost him the only woman he can ever love, Bellamy now faces the impossible. But as he searches for clues from Rome to Budapest to Texas, this mission blows up in his face -- and rips the lid off an incredible conspiracy that stretches around the globe and even into space. ..
Sidney Sheldon - The Sky is Falling
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Novels
The exhilirating charisma of a '' women'' has not been denied yet again in this issue of Sidney Sheldon. He has truely forecasted the inner strength of the ''weaker sex'' and the ability of a '' women'' to struggle for a predecided motive has beautifully enhanced the quality of the marvelous masterpiece. It''s all a story of a brave and young press corespondent from America who despite of her life filled with thorny cactuses, decided to move on an impossible path.
Sidney Sheldon - If Tomorrow Comes
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Novels
A good girl discovers that crime sometimes does pay in this gripping mini-series. Starring Tom Berenger (Platoon) and Liam Neeson (Taken), and based on a page-turner by master storyteller Sidney Sheldon, If Tomorrow Comes is the story of a young woman framed by the mafia and abandoned by her fiancé. On leaving jail, all doors to a legitimate job are closed, but her criminal record is the perfect résumé for a potential jewel thief ...
Master Of The Game - Sidney Sheldon
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Novels
I had never thought to pick up a Sidney Sheldon novel until a couple of months ago when I was helping a customer to find a particular book. She told me how great his stories were and that the characters seemed so real, even if they turned out to be pretty bad people! I love family saga stories, you know, the ones that follow the same family for generations, and the book my customer was looking for fell into that category. I found the customer her book and found a second copy to look at. I read a few pages at lunch and I was sold! Sadly Mr. Sheldon passed away a few years ago just days before turning 90 years old, but he has left 3 decades of writing behind for all of us to enjoy (not to mention early in his career he wrote for movies and television winning him an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Tony). Master of the Game was a great introduction and now I have at least another 17 to go!
WHO IS KATE BLACKWELL?
She is the symbol of success, the beautiful woman who parlayed her inheritance into an international conglomerate. Winner of a unique position among the wealthy and world-renowned. And she''s a survivor, indomitable as her father, the man who returned from the edge of death to wrench a fortune in diamonds from the bleak South African earth. Now, celebrating her ninetieth birthday, Kate surveys the family she has manipulated, dominated, and loved: the fair and the grotesque, the mad and the mild, the good and the evil-- her winnings in life. Is she the...
MASTER OF THE GAME?
The story follows Kate Blackwell's family from her father's early days travelling from Scotland to South Africa in search of diamonds at the turn of the century and then later how over time she takes control. You see what she gains and what she looses, you see what people will do for power (even if it means driving some to murder). I read this book in a week and I am normally a slow reader as I have mentioned before, this story I could not put down. Even when reading parts where I totally despised the characters (most end up doing some pretty horrible things at some point in their lives) the storytelling made me keep going! Great book, must read, enjoy!!!!
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