Beverly swerling (244 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Synopsis coming soon.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Synopsis coming soon.

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. Set against the dramatic backdrop of America's during the War of 1812, Beverly Swerling's gripping and intricately plotted sequel to the much-loved City of Dreams plunges deep into the crowded streets of old New York. Poised between the Manhattan woods and the sea that is her gateway to the world, the city of 1812 is vibrant but raw, a cauldron where the French accents of Creole pirates mingle with the brogues of Irish seamen, and shipments of rare teas and silks from Canton are sold at raucous Pearl Street auctions. Allegiances are more changeable than the tides, love and lust often indistinguishable, the bonds of country weak compared to the temptation of fabulous riches from the East, and only a few farseeing patriots recognize the need not only to protect the city from the redcoats, but to preserve the fragile Constitutional union forged in 1787. Joyful Patrick Turner, dashing war hero and brilliant surgeon, loses his hand to a British shell, retreats to private life, and hopes to make his fortune in the China trade. To succeed he must run the British blockade; if he fails, he will lose not only a livelihood, but the beautiful Manon, daughter of a Huguenot jeweler who will not accept a pauper as a son-in-law. When stories of a lost treasure and a mysterious diamond draw him into a treacherous maze of deceit and double-cross, and the British set Washington ablaze, Joyful realizes that more than his personal future is at stake. His adversary, Gornt Blakeman, has a lust for power that will not be sated until he claims Joyful's fianc e as his wife and half a nation as his personal fiefdom. Like the Turners before him, Joyful must choose: his dreams or his country. Swerling's vividly drawn characters illuminate every aspect of the teeming metropolis: John Jacob Astor, the wealthiest man in America, brings the city's first Chinese to staff his palatial Broadway mansion; Lucretia Carter, wife of a respectable craftsman, makes ends meet as an abortionist serving New York's brothels; Thumbless Wu, a mysterious Cantonese stowaway, slinks about on a secret mission; and the bewitching Delight Higgins, proprietress of the town's finest gambling club, lives in terror of the blackbirding gangs who prey on runaway slaves. They are all here, the butchers and shipwrights, the doctors and scriv-eners, the slum dwellers of Five Points and the money men of the infant stock exchange.conspiring by day and carousing by night, while the women must hide their loyalties and ambitions, their very wills, behind pretty sighs and silken skirts.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. From the author of the acclaimed novel City of Dreams, the "spellbinding historical adventure" (Booklist) of Quentin Hale and Nicole Crane, set against the bloody and turbulent backdrop of the French and Indian War. 1754. In a low-lying glen in Ohio Country, where both the French and English claim dominion, the first musket ball fired signals the start of a savage seven-year conflict destined to dismantle France's overreaching empire and pave the way for the American Revolution. In a world on the brink of astonishing change are Quentin Hale, the fearless gentleman-turned-scout, fighting to preserve his beloved family plantation, Shadowbrook; Cormac Shea, the part-Irish, part-Indian woodsman with a foot in both worlds; and the beautiful Nicole Crane, who--struggling to reconcile her love for Hale and her calling to the convent--becomes a pawn in the British quest for territory. Moving between the longhouses of the Iroquois and Shadowbrook's elegant rooms, the frontier's virgin forests and the cobbled streets of Québec, Swerling weaves a tale of passion and intrigue, faith and devotion, courage and betrayal. Peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters and historical figures, including a young George Washington, this richly textured novel vividly captures the conflict that opened the 18th century and ignited our nation's quest for independence. A classic in the making, Shadowbrook is a page-turning tale of ambition, war, and the transforming power of both love and duty.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Set against the dramatic backdrop of America's during the War of 1812, Beverly Swerling's gripping and intricately plotted sequel to the much-loved City of Dreams plunges deep into the crowded streets of old New York. Poised between the Manhattan woods and the sea that is her gateway to the world, the city of 1812 is vibrant but raw, a cauldron where the French accents of Creole pirates mingle with the brogues of Irish seamen, and shipments of rare teas and silks from Canton are sold at raucous Pearl Street auctions. Allegiances are more changeable than the tides, love and lust often indistinguishable, the bonds of country weak compared to the temptation of fabulous riches from the East, and only a few farseeing patriots recognize the need not only to protect the city from the redcoats, but to preserve the fragile Constitutional union forged in 1787. Joyful Patrick Turner, dashing war hero and brilliant surgeon, loses his hand to a British shell, retreats to private life, and hopes to make his fortune in the China trade. To succeed he must run the British blockade; if he fails, he will lose not only a livelihood, but the beautiful Manon, daughter of a Huguenot jeweler who will not accept a pauper as a son-in-law. When stories of a lost treasure and a mysterious diamond draw him into a treacherous maze of deceit and double-cross, and the British set Washington ablaze, Joyful realizes that more than his personal future is at stake. His adversary, Gornt Blakeman, has a lust for power that will not be sated until he claims Joyful's fianc e as his wife and half a nation as his personal fiefdom. Like the Turners before him, Joyful must choose: his dreams or his country. Swerling's vividly drawn characters illuminate every aspect of the teeming metropolis: John Jacob Astor, the wealthiest man in America, brings the city's first Chinese to staff his palatial Broadway mansion; Lucretia Carter, wife of a respectable craftsman, makes ends meet as an abortionist serving New York's brothels; Thumbless Wu, a mysterious Cantonese stowaway, slinks about on a secret mission; and the bewitching Delight Higgins, proprietress of the town's finest gambling club, lives in terror of the blackbirding gangs who prey on runaway slaves. They are all here, the butchers and shipwrights, the doctors and scriv-eners, the slum dwellers of Five Points and the money men of the infant stock exchange.conspiring by day and carousing by night, while the women must hide their loyalties and ambitions, their very wills, behind pretty sighs and silken skirts.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. From the author of the acclaimed novel City of Dreams, the "spellbinding historical adventure" (Booklist) of Quentin Hale and Nicole Crane, set against the bloody and turbulent backdrop of the French and Indian War. 1754. In a low-lying glen in Ohio Country, where both the French and English claim dominion, the first musket ball fired signals the start of a savage seven-year conflict destined to dismantle France's overreaching empire and pave the way for the American Revolution. In a world on the brink of astonishing change are Quentin Hale, the fearless gentleman-turned-scout, fighting to preserve his beloved family plantation, Shadowbrook; Cormac Shea, the part-Irish, part-Indian woodsman with a foot in both worlds; and the beautiful Nicole Crane, who--struggling to reconcile her love for Hale and her calling to the convent--becomes a pawn in the British quest for territory. Moving between the longhouses of the Iroquois and Shadowbrook's elegant rooms, the frontier's virgin forests and the cobbled streets of Québec, Swerling weaves a tale of passion and intrigue, faith and devotion, courage and betrayal. Peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters and historical figures, including a young George Washington, this richly textured novel vividly captures the conflict that opened the 18th century and ignited our nation's quest for independence. A classic in the making, Shadowbrook is a page-turning tale of ambition, war, and the transforming power of both love and duty.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A riveting dual-period narrative that blends a haunting supernatural thriller with the vivid history of Tudor LondonHistorian Annie Kendall arrives at London?s Bristol House on an assignment to research ancient artifacts from the Holy Land. She?s desperate to escape her troubled past with the help of the shadowy employer who has hired her for an unusual, but well-paid, mission. So Annie is determined to ignore the strange manifestations in her flat?including the appearance of a ghostly Carthusian monk. When she crosses paths with Geoff Harris, a well-known TV journalist and a dead ringer for the strange apparition, they are called upon to crack an enigmatic code, still unbroken after five hundred years.Widely acclaimed for her historical fiction, Beverly Swerling delivers an enchanting and epic tale of a historian and a monk half a millennium apart?and the unsolved mysteries of Tudor London that bring them together.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Illustrated. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Zustand: Good. Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers.

Zustand: good. Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly. …

Zustand: acceptable. This copy has clearly been enjoyedâ"expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The third installment in the bestselling Old New York series set in the tumultuous years before the Civil War, where New York City stands on the brink of transformation--and destruction. In 19th-century New York, Manhattan is a place of astonishing contrasts--fabulous wealth and brutal poverty, fervent faith and moral outrage, glittering society and blood-soaked streets. Waves of immigrants crowd Manhattan as religious movements ignite, gangs rule entire neighborhoods, and the drums of war grow louder. Ships from around the world fill the wharves with riches, while just blocks away men fight to the death with broken bottles and filed teeth. It is a city tearing itself apart even as it hurtles toward a powerful, perilous future. Nicholas Turner is a young physician who knows that the discoveries of antisepsis and anesthesia promise medical miracles beyond the dreams of ages. But he learns that to make such progress reality he must battle the city's corrupt politics and survive the snake pit that is Bellevue Hospital, all while resisting his forbidden love for Carolina Devrey, the wife of his powerful cousin. Sam Devrey, a shipping magnate and dreamer of empire, believes the future belongs to his fleet of magnificent clipper ships. Yet the life he presents to society--in an elegant Fifth Avenue brownstone with a beautiful, devoted wife--is a carefully maintained illusion. His true heart lies with Mei-hua, his secret Chinese child-bride hidden away downtown. When Sam's double life places Mei-hua in mortal danger, Nick's skill becomes the only things standing between love and catastrophe. As riots erupt and the city nearly burns to the ground, secrets are exposed and loyalties tested. Carolina and Mei-hua are forced to confront the devastating truths of their marriages, while love gives way to rage, revenge, and reckoning. Set against a glittering New York rising from the ashes--where luxury dining rooms echo with ambition and gold glints in every eye--City of God is a sweeping tale of desire, deception, and survival in a city struggling to define its soul.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The third installment in the bestselling Old New York series set in the tumultuous years before the Civil War, where New York City stands on the brink of transformation--and destruction. In 19th-century New York, Manhattan is a place of astonishing contrasts--fabulous wealth and brutal poverty, fervent faith and moral outrage, glittering society and blood-soaked streets. Waves of immigrants crowd Manhattan as religious movements ignite, gangs rule entire neighborhoods, and the drums of war grow louder. Ships from around the world fill the wharves with riches, while just blocks away men fight to the death with broken bottles and filed teeth. It is a city tearing itself apart even as it hurtles toward a powerful, perilous future. Nicholas Turner is a young physician who knows that the discoveries of antisepsis and anesthesia promise medical miracles beyond the dreams of ages. But he learns that to make such progress reality he must battle the city's corrupt politics and survive the snake pit that is Bellevue Hospital, all while resisting his forbidden love for Carolina Devrey, the wife of his powerful cousin. Sam Devrey, a shipping magnate and dreamer of empire, believes the future belongs to his fleet of magnificent clipper ships. Yet the life he presents to society--in an elegant Fifth Avenue brownstone with a beautiful, devoted wife--is a carefully maintained illusion. His true heart lies with Mei-hua, his secret Chinese child-bride hidden away downtown. When Sam's double life places Mei-hua in mortal danger, Nick's skill becomes the only things standing between love and catastrophe. As riots erupt and the city nearly burns to the ground, secrets are exposed and loyalties tested. Carolina and Mei-hua are forced to confront the devastating truths of their marriages, while love gives way to rage, revenge, and reckoning. Set against a glittering New York rising from the ashes--where luxury dining rooms echo with ambition and gold glints in every eye--City of God is a sweeping tale of desire, deception, and survival in a city struggling to define its soul.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. The third installment in the bestselling Old New York series set in the tumultuous years before the Civil War, where New York City stands on the brink of transformation--and destruction. In 19th-century New York, Manhattan is a place of astonishing contrasts--fabulous wealth and brutal poverty, fervent faith and moral outrage, glittering society and blood-soaked streets. Waves of immigrants crowd Manhattan as religious movements ignite, gangs rule entire neighborhoods, and the drums of war grow louder. Ships from around the world fill the wharves with riches, while just blocks away men fight to the death with broken bottles and filed teeth. It is a city tearing itself apart even as it hurtles toward a powerful, perilous future. Nicholas Turner is a young physician who knows that the discoveries of antisepsis and anesthesia promise medical miracles beyond the dreams of ages. But he learns that to make such progress reality he must battle the city's corrupt politics and survive the snake pit that is Bellevue Hospital, all while resisting his forbidden love for Carolina Devrey, the wife of his powerful cousin. Sam Devrey, a shipping magnate and dreamer of empire, believes the future belongs to his fleet of magnificent clipper ships. Yet the life he presents to society--in an elegant Fifth Avenue brownstone with a beautiful, devoted wife--is a carefully maintained illusion. His true heart lies with Mei-hua, his secret Chinese child-bride hidden away downtown. When Sam's double life places Mei-hua in mortal danger, Nick's skill becomes the only things standing between love and catastrophe. As riots erupt and the city nearly burns to the ground, secrets are exposed and loyalties tested. Carolina and Mei-hua are forced to confront the devastating truths of their marriages, while love gives way to rage, revenge, and reckoning. Set against a glittering New York rising from the ashes--where luxury dining rooms echo with ambition and gold glints in every eye--City of God is a sweeping tale of desire, deception, and survival in a city struggling to define its soul.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. City of God, the latest installment in Beverly Swerling's gripping saga of old New York, takes readers to Manhattan's clamorous streets as the nation struggles to find a compromise between slave and free, but hears the drums of war. This is New York when one synagogue is no longer adequate for thousands of Jewish immigrants, when New Evangelicals rouse complacent Protestants with the promise of born-again salvation, and when it first sees Catholic nuns and calls them whores of Satan. It is New York when ships bring the fabulous wealth of nations to its wharves and auction houses, while a short distance away rival gangs fight to the death with broken bottles and teeth filed to points. Into this churning cauldron comes young Dr. Nicholas Turner. Nick knows that the discoveries of antisepsis and anesthesia promise medical miracles beyond the dreams of ages. He learns that to make such progress reality he must battle the city's corrupt politics and survive the snake pit that is Bellevue Hospital, all while resisting his love for the beautiful Carolina Devrey, his cousin's wife. Sam Devrey, head of the shipping company that bears his name and a visionary who believes the future will be ushered in by mighty clipper ships spreading acres of sail, battles demons of his own. The life he lives with Carolina in the elegant brownstone on newly fashionable Fifth Avenue is a charade meant to disguise his heart's true home, the secret downtown apartment of the exquisite Mei-hua, his Chinese child-bride. The worlds of all four are imperiled when Sam must rely on Nick's skills to save the woman he loves, and only Nick's honor guards Sam's secret. On a night when promises of hellfire seem to become reality and the city nearly burns to the ground, Carolina and Mei-hua confront the truth of their duplicitous marriages. Rage and revenge join love and passion as driving forces in a story played out against the background of the glittering New York that rises from the ashes, where Delmonico's and the Astor House host bejeweled women and top-hatted men, both with the din of commerce in their ears and the glint of gold in their eyes. As always, Swerling has conjured a dazzling cast of characters to people her city. Among those seeking born-again salvation are Addie Bellingham, befriended by the widow Manon Turner but willing to betray her, and Lilac Langton, who confesses her sins but avoids mentioning that she's a skilled abortionist in a city that has recently made abortion a crime. Ben Klein, a brilliant young physician, must balance devotion to his mentor and dedication to research with duty to the Jewish community. Wilbur Randolf, Carolina's father, indulges her in everything but fails her when she needs him most. Jenny Worthington, Wilbur's longtime mistress, is driven by avarice to make common cause with Fearless Flannagan, a member of a New York police force as corrupt as the city it serves. Ah Chee, Mei-hua's devoted servant, struggles through Manhattan's streets on bound feet and burns incense to the kitchen god in this place of foreign devils. They are all here, heroines and saints, villains and victims, and a vanished New York made to live again in an intricate tale of old debts and new rivalries.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.