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Роковой портрет
Автор: Беннетт Ванора Жанр: Зарубежная историко-приключенческая проза Год: 2009 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20122013-03-26
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1527 год. Знаменитый художник Ганс Гольбейн приезжает в Лондон, чтобы написать портрет высокопоставленного придворного и видного ученого Томаса Мора в кругу семьи. Шумный, веселый и богатый дом Мора привлекает самых известных философов, политиков и людей искусства. Однако проницательного живописца не может ввести в заблуждение внешнее благополучие. В семье Мора тайны есть у каждого. Всем есть что скрывать. Порой эти тайны скандальны, порой — опасны. Но какие секреты хранит самая загадочная из обитательниц дома Мора — прекрасная Мег Джиггз, обладающая почти сверхъестественной властью над мужскими сердцами?
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Blood Royal
Автор: Bennett Vanora Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 608 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20132011-06-28
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The story of a great queen, a woman of enormous courage who made her own rules, and a true survivor. This is the first in a series of early medieval novels by Vanora Bennett, the author of Portrait of an Unknown Woman. 1420, and a young princess is offered in marriage to her country's enemy, her nation's conqueror. She is Catherine of Valois, he is Henry V. She is a princess of the French blood royal, he is the son of the usurper of the English throne. Fresh from battle he claims his bride and the right to the throne of France. Now Catherine must live as queen to a man more comfortable with war than anything else and as the wife of a man determined to destroy her people. Alone and friendless, she finds the only man who can understand what she feels: a young Welshman, Owain Tudor, who is as much adrift among the English as she is. It's a matching of souls but this friendship will turn out to be as dangerous as it is irresistible!
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Midnight in St Petersburg
Автор: Bennett Vanora Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2014 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20172016-07-24
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St Petersburg, 1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of her native Kiev to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia's capital city. Welcomed into the flamboyant Leman family, she is apprenticed into their violin-making workshop, and feels instantly at home in their bohemian circle of friends. But revolution is in the air and, as society begins to fracture, she is forced to choose between following her heart or her head. Her brooding cousin, Yasha is wild, destructive and bent on rebellion. While Horace, the Englishman who works for Faberge, promises security and respectability. As the city descends into anarchy and blood-letting, Inna is offered a chance to escape. But which man will she choose to take with her? And is she already too late?
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The White Russian
Автор: Bennett Vanora Жанр: Random House, Inc. Год: 2015 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20182018-02-29
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From the author of Midnight in St Petersburg, a novel of love, art, music and family secrets set amongst the Russian emigre community of Paris in 1937. Evie, a rebellious young American leaves New York in search of art and adventure in jazz-age Paris, where her grandmother lives. But on arrival, her grandmother's sudden death leaves Evie compelled to carry out her dying wish: to find a man from her past called Zhenya. The quest leads Evie deep into the heart of the Russian emigre community of Paris. With the world on the brink of war, she becomes embroiled in murder plots, conspiracies and illicit love affairs as White faces Red Russian and nothing is as it seems. With Jean, a liberal Russian writer by her side, Evie finally seems to have found the passion and excitement she's yearned for. But is she any nearer to discovering the identity of the mysterious Zhenya, or the heartbreak of her grandmother's past?
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