Leila Meacham

Read the USA Today bestseller from the author of Roses, a "sumptuous, full-bodied, and emotional" novel about five young spies embedded among the highest Nazi ranks in occupied Paris (Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of Tony's Wife). At the height of World War II, a handful of idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the government, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds-a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother and a wealthy businessman, a dirt-poor Midwestern fly fisherman, an orphaned fashion designer, and a ravishingly beautiful female fencer-all answer the call of duty, but each for a secret reason of her or his own. They bond immediately, in a group code-named Dragonfly. Thus begins a dramatic cat-and-mouse game, as the group seeks to stay under the radar until a fatal misstep leads to the capture and the firing-squad execution of one of their team. But...is everything as it seems, or is this one more elaborate act of spycraft?

Dragonfly

"Spanning the 20th century, the story of Roses takes place in a small East Texas town against the backdrop of the powerful timber and cotton industries, industries controlled by the scions of the town's founding families"--Provided by publisher.

Roses

A recently orphaned girl moves to the Texas panhandle and struggles to forge new friendships in a town of football glory in this unforgettable novel of surprising plot twists and unexpected beginnings. Recently orphaned, eleven-year-old Cathy Benson feels she has been dropped into a cultural and intellectual wasteland when she is forced to move from her academically privileged life in California to the small town of Kersey in the Texas Panhandle where the sport of football reigns supreme. She is quickly taken under the unlikely wings of up-and-coming gridiron stars and classmates John Caldwell and Trey Don Hall, orphans like herself, with whom she forms a friendship and eventual love triangle that will determine the course of the rest of their lives. Taking the three friends through their growing up years until their high school graduations when several tragic events uproot and break them apart, the novel expands to follow their careers and futures until they reunite in Kersey at forty years of age. Told with all of Meacham's signature drama, unforgettable characters, and plot twists, readers will be turning the pages, desperate to learn how it all plays out.

A Novel

Tumbleweeds

One hundred fifty years of Roses' Tolivers, Warwicks, and DuMonts! We begin in the antebellum South on Plantation Alley in South Carolina, where Silas Toliver, deprived of his inheritance, joins up with his best friend Jeremy Warwick to plan a wagon train expedition to the "black waxy" promise of a new territory called Texas. Slavery, westward expansion, abolition, the Civil War, love, marriage, friendship, tragedy and triumph-all the ingredients (and much more) that made so many love Roses so much-are here in abundance.

Somerset

A sweeping new drama from the beloved, bestselling author of Roses. Texas in the early 1900s, its inhabitants still traveling by horseback and barely familiar with the telephone, was on the cusp of an oil boom that, unbeknownst to its residents, would spark a period of dramatic changes and economic growth. In the midst of this transformative time in Southern history, two unforgettable characters emerge and find their fates irrevocably intertwined: Samantha Gordon, the privileged heiress to the sprawling Las Tres Lomas cattle ranch near Fort Worth, and Nathan Holloway, a sweet-natured and charming farm boy from far north Texas. As changes sweep the rustic countryside, Samantha and Nathan's connection drives this narrative compulsively forward as they love, lose, and betray. In this grand yet intimate novel, Meacham once again delivers a heartfelt, big-canvas story full of surprising twists and deep emotional resonance.

Titans

A mysterious inheritance takes lovely Cara Martin from Boston to a ranch in West Texas, where she encounters its forceful owner, Jeth Langston

Ryan's Hand

A tender, classic love story about the power of first love and the promise of a second chance . . . Aly Kingston has only ever loved one man: Marshall Wayne. But she put all of those childish dreams behind her ages ago when the Waynes left town. Her father's victory at foreclosing on the Wayne family farm, the betrayal written all over Marshall's face-it all still lingers in her mind and in her heart. But now, years later, when he comes back home to Claiborne, Aly realizes so much has changed since Marshall's been away . . . and so much remains the same. Seeing Aly again surprises Marshall Wayne. Gone is the gangly girl who followed him around. In her place is a beautiful woman with warmth and sensitivity, someone who makes him want to believe in love again. But Marshall is back home for one reason and one reason alone: to get revenge on the man who destroyed his family and to reclaim what rightfully belongs to him. As the past and the present collide, will Aly lose her heart to the man who's plotting to destroy her family? Or can she show Marshall that love runs deeper than vengeance?

Aly's House

Printemps 1900. Séparés à leur naissance, des jumeaux, Nathan et Samantha, fêtent leur vingtième anniversaire dans des comtés éloignés de l'État du Texas, sans se connaître ni soupçonner l'existence de l'autre... À la ferme de Barrows, Nathan reçoit une visite inattendue qui va bouleverser son existence. Trevor Waverling, un titan des premières heures du forage pétrolier, vient lui proposer un pacte des plus étranges... À Fort Worth, à trois jours de chevauchée au sud, Samantha décide que son destin se trouve sur les terres de Las Tres Lomas, le Ranch des trois collines, l'un des plus grands du Texas. La jeune fille entend aider son père adoptif à réaliser son rêve : devenir un titan de l'élevage texan. Mais malgré les secrets bien gardés, les routes de Nathan et Samantha sont appelées à se croiser... La vie réunira-t-elle les jumeaux séparés ?

Le Ranch des trois collines

Eine starke Frau, in deren Hand das Schicksal von drei Familien liegt Die Tolivers und die Warwicks sind die mächtigsten Dynastien von Howbutker, Texas. Seit Generationen halten sich die beiden Familien an ein ehernes Gesetz: ihre Geschäfte strikt voneinander zu trennen. Doch als Mary Toliver, die nach dem Tod des Vaters die Leitung der Baumwollplantage Somerset übernommen hat, in finanzielle Schwierigkeiten gerät, bittet sie in ihrer Not den Warwick-Erben Percy um Hilfe. Dies ist umso fataler, als Mary und Percy heiraten wollten. Als Percy jedoch von Mary verlangt, die Plantage zugunsten ihrer Ehe aufzugeben, widersetzt sie sich, obwohl sie Percy über alles liebt und von ihm schwanger ist. Ein fürchterlicher Streit entbrennt, und Percy setzt sich tief enttäuscht nach Kanada ab. Mary heiratet daraufhin Ollie Dumont, den Erben eines französischen Handelsimperiums, der schon lange in Mary verliebt ist. Eine folgenschwere Entscheidung, die das Schicksal der Familien auf lange Zeit bestimmen wird ...

Roman

Die Erben von Somerset

Elswyth Thane

Elswyth Thane is best-known for her Williamsburg series, seven novels published between 1943 and 1957 that follow several generations of two families from the American Revolution to World War II. Dawn's Early Light is the first novel in the series. In it, colonial Williamsburg comes alive. Thane centers her novel around four major characters: the aristrocratic St. John Sprague, who becomes George Washington's aide; Regina Greensleeves, a Virginia beauty spoilt by a season in London; Julian Day, a young schoolmaster who arrives from England on the eve of the war and thought of himself as a Tory; and Tibby Mawes, one of his less fortunate pupils, saddled with an alcoholic father and an indigent mother. But we also see Washington, Jefferson, Lafayette, Greene, Patrick Henry, Francis Marion, and the rest of that brilliant galaxy not as historical figures but as men and women. We see de Kalb's gallant death under a cavalry charge at Camden. We penetrate Marion's swamp-encircled stronghold on the Peedee. We watch the cat-and-mouse game between Cornwallis and Lafayette. Dawn's Early Light is the human story behind our first war for liberty, and of the men and women loving and laughing through it to the dawn of a better world.

Dawn's Early Light

Musulmano devoto, Nayir è una guida esperta del deserto saudita. Coinvolto nelle ricerche della giovane Nouf, scomparsa a pochi giorni dalle nozze combinate, sarà costretto a confrontarsi con quell'universo femminile da cui la religione lo ha sempre messo in guardia.

Il vento e le rose

Bozkir Cicekleri

A sweeping, classic romance about the ties that bind us together-and the promises that can break us apart ... Some friends are more like family...and that's exactly how Cara Martin feels about Ryan Langston. He stood by her side through the most difficult time of her life and there's nothing she won't do for him, even now after his death. But inheriting Ryan's share of his family's ranch in west Texas and living there for a year? Cara doesn't understand what he was thinking. Still, she cannot, will not deny Ryan's last request...even if it means sharing a roof with his brooding, arrogant older brother. Jeth Langston doesn't trust Cara as far as he can throw her. Jeth is certain she prevented his baby brother from spending his last days at home. And he'll be damned if he lets this stranger take over the Langston family legacy too. Whatever the cost, he's determined to drive this beautiful outsider away-no matter how intriguing he finds her. But as the days grow longer and sunshine sweeps across the plains, Cara can't help but fall for the untamed land-and the man whose passion for it captures her, heart and soul. Can their love bloom wild and free on this Texas ranch?

Williamsburg, Virginia, is once more the scene in this second book of Thane's series, but the time is now the 1860s. Some of the characters are the descendants of those in the first novel, Dawn's Early Light, and Grandmother Day, who was 16 when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, is now 95. Once, she can remember, it was Massachusetts that was threatening to secede instead of South Carolina. And when she was a girl they never seemed to think much about Yankees, one way or the other. But when a Yankee comes to Williamsburg in the tense autumn of 1860 and red-haired Eden Day falls heels over head in love with him, her great grandmother takes the long view—besides, she likes him herself. The story moves from Williamsburg to Richmond to Washington and back again during the dreadful years between Fort Sumter and Appomattox. In addition to the fictitious characters, Jeb Stuart and General Lee, Pickett, Magruder, and Stonewall Jackson are all seen through the eyes of the men who followed them into battle. Like Dawn's Early Light, Yankee Stranger is full of action and romance, but most importantly, it presents a vivid re-creation of a vanished world.

Yankee Stranger

Two East Texas families must deal with the aftermath of a marriage that never happened leading to deceit, secrets, and tragedies in a sweeping multigenerational Southern saga "with echoes of Gone with the Wind." (Publishers Weekly) Spanning the 20th century, the story of Roses takes place in a small East Texas town against the backdrop of the powerful timber and cotton industries, controlled by the scions of the town's founding families. Cotton tycoon Mary Toliver and timber magnate Percy Warwick should have married but unwisely did not, and now must deal with consequences of their momentous choice and the loss of what might have been--not just for themselves but for their children, and their children's children. With expert, unabashed, big-canvas storytelling, Roses covers a hundred years, three generations of Texans, and the explosive combination of passion for work and longing for love. LOOK FOR LEILA MEACHAM'S HISTORICAL WWII EPIC, DRAGONFLY, COMING JULY 2019.

One hundred fifty years of RosesRoses so much-are here in abundance.

Who would want to destroy the careful life Decorah has designed for herself? Could the man she jilted in Virginia so long ago still reach out to her after all these years.

Crowning Design

Parijs in september

Howbutker, Texas, 1916. À la mort de son père, la jeune Mary Toliver hérite de la plantation de coton des Toliver, l’une des familles fondatrices de Howbutker. La jeune femme devra-t-elle sacrifier son amour pour Percy Warwick, magnat de l’exploitation forestière, pour faire vivre le sol de ses ancêtres ? Confrontés aux trahisons, aux secrets et aux tragédies qui les entourent, renonceront-ils à ce qui aurait pu exister, non seulement pour eux, mais aussi pour les générations suivantes ? Dans ce récit haletant, Leila Meacham renoue avec les codes des grandes sagas historiques (Les Oiseaux se cachent pour mourir, La Couleur des Sentiments) pour mieux les réinventer. Écrit comme on filme une série TV, avec des chapitres courts et un suspense à couper le souffle, ce roman d’amour et de sacrifice fait vibrer les filles des lectrices de Margaret Mitchell. Leila Meacham vit à San Antonio, Texas. Ses premiers livres, Les Roses de Somerset (+ de 60 000 ex. vendus) et La Plantation (+ de 30 000 ex. vendus) sont des best-sellers. Originaire du Texas, elle a situé ses romans dans cette partie des États-Unis. Cette ancienne enseignante rencontre aujourd’hui le succès partout dans le monde.

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