2006, ISBN: 9781870519373

Paperback, Hardcover

Avon. Good. 4.19 x 1.12 x 6.75 inches. Mass Market Paperback. 2001. 426 pages. Cover worn. <br>New York Times bestselling Australian author Stephanie Laurens delivers the latest ta… More...

Avon. Good. 4.19 x 1.12 x 6.75 inches. Mass Market Paperback. 2001. 426 pages. Cover worn. <br>New York Times bestselling Australian author Stephanie Laurens delivers the latest tale in the immensel y popular Cynster series. When Chillingworth is elected an 'hon orary Cynster' at the end of All About Love, he knows he needs a wife, and an heir. His goal; a simple marriage without romance. H e agrees to marry a woman he believes to be pliant and quiet. Unf ortunately for him, the woman he thinks is Francesca Rawling is r eally her cousin, Franni. Francesca herself is proud, passionate and opinionated in short, the perfect bride for a Cynster... Edi torial Reviews Gyles Rawlings, fifth Earl of Chillingworth and an honorary member of the Cynster clan, is determined not to marr y for love. To that end, he makes an offer of marriage, sight uns een, to the niece of an old friend. He believes he's chosen a doc ile, biddable lady who will bear him an heir and leave his emotio ns uninvolved. He arrives for his own wedding without ever actual ly meeting his fianc&eaccute; and at the chapel's altar, is aston ished to discover that he's offered for the wrong woman--his wife is the cousin of the woman he thought he was marrying. The two l adies share the same name, and the woman he has married is a pass ionate female who makes his head spin. Francesca isn't docile, ce rtainly not biddable, and she has no intention of settling for an ything less than her husband's heart. The battle lines are draw n in this war of love, with both parties well aware of the stakes . Will Giles continue to barricade his heart, or will Francesca's love and loyalty tear down the walls that keep him from her? And if Giles can't thwart the strange threats to Francesca's life, n either may live to see the end of their contest of the heart. Th is installment in author Stephanie Laurens's beloved Cynster seri es has been eagerly anticipated by fans, and All About Passion do esn't disappoint. Taut with sexual tension between the hero and h eroine, rich with details of the world of Regency England, and we ll-supported with a solid plot, this latest Cynster tale is an ex cellent read. --Lois Faye Dyer From Publishers Weekly Appealing characters and red-hot chemistry breathe new life into a familia r story line in the latest entry in Laurens's Regency-era Cynster series (following All About Love). This time, Cupid's arrow fell s Gyles Rawlings, the Earl of Chillingworth and an honorary Cynst er. Gyles realizes that it's time to take a wife and carry on the line, but he's determined to go about it in a businesslike fashi on with an arranged marriage. Fortunately, country heiress France sca Rawlings, a distant relation, seems to be the perfect candida te. She's well favored, pleasant and endowed with an estate that will nicely complement his own. On his wedding day, however, he d iscovers that the serene, docile woman that he spied in the garde n a few days earlier was not Francesca, but her cousin Frannie. T he heiress he's contracted for is the passionate hoyden he's met galloping across the downs. Nevertheless, he goes through with th e marriage, seizing the opportunity to complete his estate and in dulge his passion for the spirited Francesca. She, in turn, is de termined to make the earl admit his love for her. The stubbornnes s of the hero and heroine, though the center of the story's confl ict, may irritate some readers, but Laurens's twist on the bride- switch, arranged marriage formula is fun, spicy and sure to pleas e. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Review S tephanie Laurens never fails to entertain and charm her readers. -- Romantic Times From Publishers Weekly Appealing characters an d red-hot chemistry breathe new life into a familiar story line i n the latest entry in Laurens's Regency-era Cynster series (follo wing All About Love). This time, Cupid's arrow fells Gyles Rawlin gs, the Earl of Chillingworth and an honorary Cynster. Gyles real izes that it's time to take a wife and carry on the line, but he' s determined to go about it in a businesslike fashion with an arr anged marriage. Fortunately, country heiress Francesca Rawlings, a distant relation, seems to be the perfect candidate. She's well favored, pleasant and endowed with an estate that will nicely co mplement his own. On his wedding day, however, he discovers that the serene, docile woman that he spied in the garden a few days e arlier was not Francesca, but her cousin Frannie. The heiress he' s contracted for is the passionate hoyden he's met galloping acro ss the downs. Nevertheless, he goes through with the marriage, se izing the opportunity to complete his estate and indulge his pass ion for the spirited Francesca. She, in turn, is determined to ma ke the earl admit his love for her. The stubbornness of the hero and heroine, though the center of the story's conflict, may irrit ate some readers, but Laurens's twist on the bride-switch, arrang ed marriage formula is fun, spicy and sure to please. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Review Stephanie Laure ns never fails to entertain and charm her readers. -- Romantic Ti mes Review Stephanie Laurens never fails to entertain and charm her readers. -- Romantic Times From the Back Cover New York Tim es bestselling Australian author Stephanie Laurens delivers the l atest tale in the immensely popular Cynster series. When Chilling ton is elected an ?honorary Cynster? at the end of All About Love , he knows he needs a wife , and an heir. His goal; a simple marr iage without romance. He agrees to marry a woman he believes to b e pliant and quiet. Unfortunately for him, the woman he thinks is Francesca Rawling is really her cousin, Franni.Francesca herself is proud, passionate and opinionated in short, the perfect bride for a Cynster... About the Author #1 New York Times bestselli ng author Stephanie Laurens began writing as an escape from the d ry world of professional science, a hobby that quickly became a c areer. Her novels set in Regency England have captivated readers around the globe, making her one of the romance world's most belo ved and popular authors. </div About the Author #1 New York Tim es bestselling author Stephanie Laurens began writing as an escap e from the dry world of professional science, a hobby that quickl y became a career. Her novels set in Regency England have captiva ted readers around the globe, making her one of the romance world 's most beloved and popular authors. </div ., Avon, 2001, 2.5, Random House. Good. 5.94 x 9.13 x 1.22 inches. Paperback. 2006. 422 pages. Text tanned<br>This magnificent novel by one of Americ a's finest writers is the epic of one man's remarkable journey, s et in nineteenth-century America against the background of a vani shing people and a rich way of life. At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound bo y. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a ho me. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will w ins - for a brief moment - a mysterious girl named Claire, and hi s passion and desire for her spans this novel. As Will's destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians - including a C herokee Chief named Bear - he learns how to fight and survive in the face of both nature and men, and eventually, under the Corn T assel Moon, Will begins the fight against Washington City to pres erve the Cherokee's homeland and culture. And he will come to kno w the truth behind his belief that only desire trumps time. Bri lliantly imagined, written with great power and beauty by a maste r of American fiction, Thirteen Moons is a stunning novel about a man's passion for a woman, and how loss, longing and love can sh ape a man's destiny over the many moons of a life. From the Hard cover edition. Editorial Reviews From Bookmarks Magazine Critic s voiced great expectations for Thirteen Moons, coming nearly ten years after Charles Frazier's National Book Award-winning Cold M ountain (1997). Unfortunately, this second novel fails to achieve the same uniform critical acclaim. Certainly, similarities betwe en the two books abound, including a deep appreciation for the So uthern Appalachian landscape, a protagonist embarking on a life-d efining odyssey, an elegiac tone, and swatches of excellent prose . Here, Frazier frames Will's story against America's transition from a frontier society into an industrial nation. Despite some p raise, reviewers generally agree that Thirteen Moons is an airier production (New York Times), with perhaps more clichés, less con vincing characterizations and relationships, and a less wieldy pl ot. What critics do agree on, however, is the excellent period de tail and research that makes Frazier a first-rate chronicler of A merican history. Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of t his title. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Once in a grea t while, all of the elements of an audio book come together to cr eate a near-perfect experience for the listener. Frazier's follow -up to his 1997 National Book Award-winner, Cold Mountain, is ano ther saga of enduring love. It's no small gift to work with great material, and Patton transforms the text into a tale that sounds as if it were meant to be read aloud. It's a story to be told by the fire over the course of a long winter, just as the narrator Will Cooper and his adoptive Cherokee father, Bear, swap yarns wh ile they are hunkered down until the end of the snow season. Patt on's voice has an unidentifiable Southern lilt, which nicely fits a novel vaguely set in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Patto n makes the correct choice not to individualize each character's voice as this is so much Cooper's tale. Bluegrass melodies played by Ryan Scott and Christina Courtin enhance the production. The CDs have been thoughtfully designed, with the numbers circling ea ch disc like a moon. This attention to detail makes for a beautif ul production of a love story that listeners will not put down an d will want to replay. Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or una vailable edition of this title. From Booklist In one of the most anticipated novels of the current publishing season, Frazier, au thor of the widely applauded Cold Mountain (1997), remains true t o the historical fiction vein. The author's second outing finds g rounding in a timeless theme: a grand old man remembering his glo ry days. As a teenager during the James Monroe administration, Wi ll Cooper is sent off, in an indentured situation, into the wilde rness of the Indian Nation to run a trading post. From a mixed-ra ce Indian, he wins a girl with whom he will be besotted for the r est of his life, and his passion will extend into personal involv ement in Indian affairs, to the highest level of politics. Thus F razier also remains faithful to the theme of his previous novel: the odyssey, especially one man's path through trials and tribula tions to be by the side of the woman he loves. And he remains fai thful to a method that marked Cold Mountain in readers' memories: a proliferation of detail about customs and costumes, about food and recreation--pretty much what everything looked and smelled l ike. Unfortunately, for the first fourth of the book, there is to o much detail for the plot to easily bear. But, finally, the char acters are able to step out from behind this blanket of particula rs and incidentals and make the story work. Expect considerable d emand, of course. Brad Hooper Copyright © American Library Associ ation. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review Gorgeous...Thirteen Moons calls Cold Mountain to mind in its wonder at the natural w orld; its pacificist undercurrents; its dismay at the dismantling of what matters, and its convication that one love, no matter ho w tortured and inexplicable, can be life-defining...fascinating.. .vivid and alive. -Newsweek Thirteen Moons brings this vanished world thrillingly to life... One of the great Native American, an d American stories, and a great gift to all of us, from one of ou r very best writers. -Kirkus Reviews, starred review There are t hings so masterful words can't do them justice. Frazier's writing falls in that category...With Thirteen Moons, he's doing importa nt work filling in the gaps, helping restore the roots, of our kn owledge of our own history. -Asheville Citizen-Times Fascinatin g...Reading Thirteen Moons is an intoxicating experience...This i s 21st-century literary fiction at its very best. -BookPage Thi rteen Moons is rare in many ways and occupies a literary plane of such height that reviewing it is not really salient....Thirteen Moons has the power to inspire great performances from succeeding generations of writers....For those who simply value the literar y experience, Thirteen Moons will provide the immense satisfactio n of taking a literary journey of magnitude. Whether on a plane, in an office or curled in a window seat, readers who absorb Will' s story will find their own lives enriched....Thirteen Moons belo ngs to the ages. -Los Angeles Times Magical...the history lesson in Thirteen Moons is fascinating and moving...You will find much to admire and savor in Thirteen Moons. -USA Today Verdict: A po werhouse second act....a brilliant success...Frazier's second act should convince everyone that he's here to stay. It is a powerfu l, dramatic, often surprising and memorable novel. -Atlanta Journ al Constitution Thirteen Moons is a boisterous, confident novel that draws from the epic tradition... Frazier is a natural storyt eller, and throughout his picaresque tale are grand themes and eu logies -Boston Globe Warm hearted...Frazier is a remarkably meti culous and tasteful writer...Thirteen Moons is a worthy successor to the first novel and a highly readable book. -Seattle Times T o Charles Frazier, words are playthings. Like very few other cont emporary American novelists, he puts them together in such a way that they can transform an otherwise mundane moment, scene or con versation into one that is transcendent....No sophomore jinx here . Reading a Frazier novel is like listening to a fine symphony. H e's a maestro whose pen is his baton, beckoning the best that eac h sentence has to offer. And just as you wouldn't rush a conducto r, you should take the time to savor Frazier's work, to take in e ach thought, to relish the turn of phrase or the imagery of a cra ftsman. -Denver Post Two for two...Here is a book brimming with vivid, adventurous incident...Charles Frazier set himself a daunt ing challenge with this book. He set out to write a historical no vel that was retrospective and meditative, yet still vibrant and immediate with life. Thirteen Moons succeeds in classy fashion. - Raleigh News & Observer If current fiction is anything to go by, it's hard for a novelist to make Santayana's puzzle pieces - lyr icism, comedy, tragedy - fit together, as they do in real life an d real history. Frazier has done it...Thirteen Moons makes you fe el that change that happened so long before our own time, and mak es you mourn it. -Newsday Thirteen Moons is a fitting successor to Cold Mountain...fans of Frazier's debut will be cheered to dis cover that the new book is another compulsively readable work of historical fiction. -St. Louis Post-Dispatch If there is any dou bt that Frazier is an incredibly gifted storyteller - and not jus t a lucky name or a one-hit wonder - it will be put to rest with the publication of Thirteen Moons. Within 10 pages, this long-awa ited new novel bears the reader swiftly out of the waking world i nto its own imagined universe like nothing else published this ye ar. -Minneapolis Star Tribune Forget the sophomore jinx. Frazier demonstrates that Cold Mountain was no one-hit wonder with this fully realized historical novel again set in the South....Again, Frazier shows himself a master of landscape and language, both of ten fresh and surprising in his telling. -Seattle Post-Intelligen cer Thirteen Moons contains achingly beautiful passages of snowf alls, fog-wrapped rivers and moonlit forests. There are ribald an d hilarious events, too, including a description of the Cherokee Booger Dance that is a masterpiece of satire. The love affair bet ween Cooper and Claire threads its way through this pseudo-histor ic epic like a brilliant, scarlet ribbon. There is also a melanch oly refrain that celebrates a wondrous time and place that is gon e and will never return. -Smoky Mountain News Fiction of the hig hest order...Another indelible character. Charles Frazier has a k nack for them. -Charlotte Observer What a story!... Frazier's cr eation, Will Cooper, is utterly charismatic....Frazier's genius l ies in his ability to convey emotions that feel pure and genuine. ..It was worth the wait. -Dayton Daily News From the Hardcover e dition. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edit ion of this title. About the Author Charles Frazier grew up in t he mountains of North Carolina. Cold Mountain, his highly acclaim ed first novel, was an international bestseller, and won the Nati onal Book Award in 1997. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From The Washington Post Cha rles Frazier is an intelligent, occasionally witty author who wri tes incredibly long-winded, sentimental, soporific novels. His fi rst, Cold Mountain, published nine years ago, was the most unlike ly bestseller since Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (19 89), by his fellow North Carolinian Allan Gurganus, and the most improbable National Book Award winner since John O'Hara's Ten Nor th Frederick half a century ago. Now Frazier weighs in with Thirt een Moons, which manages to be even longer and even duller than C old Mountain. No doubt it too will be a huge bestseller. That F razier's success parallels Gurganus's is purely coincidental, but it's just about impossible not to remark upon the oddness of the coincidence. As a rule, the American book-buying public has only a limited appetite for Southern-fried fiction, yet Frazier and G urganus somehow have tapped into it. They deal (Frazier somewhat more skillfully than Gurganus) in what a North Carolina newspaper editor of my long-ago acquaintance used to call shucks-'n'-nubbi ns, which is loosely defined as tiny ears of corn. Frazier's corn is anything but tiny -- more than 400 pages of it in the case of Thirteen Moons -- but it's corn all the same. Reading Frazier is like sitting by the cracker barrel for hour after hour and lis tening to an amiable but impossibly gassy guy who talks real slow , says I reckon a whole lot and never shuts up. His novels have l ittle structure and not much in the way of plot; in Cold Mountain he gave us the wounded Confederate soldier, Inman, limping his w ay back to his gal, Ada, in the North Carolina mountains, and in Thirteen Moons it's the ancient Will Cooper reminiscing about his nine decades and his Cherokee buddies and the gal, Claire, whom he managed to love and lose. He is a far less interesting man tha n Frazier obviously believes him to be, which is a little surpris ing because he's based on a very interesting historical figure. Will Cooper is not William Holland Thomas, Frazier says in an au thor's note, and then coyly adds, though they do share some DNA. Actually, they share a whole lot. William Holland Thomas was born in North Carolina in 1805, was almost immediately orphaned, work ed as a boy in a general store in the mountains, taught himself t he law, worked to secure the right of the Cherokees to remain in their territory as Andrew Jackson sought to drive all Indians wes tward, served in the state senate and organized a company of Cher okee soldiers on behalf of the Confederacy. All of which is exact ly what Will Cooper does in Thirteen Moons; where fact and fictio n part is that Thomas married and had children while Cooper remai ns single, and Thomas's mental condition gradually deteriorated a fter the Civil War while Cooper remains alert, if rather tired, t o the novel's end. In other words, in Thirteen Moons Frazier es sentially has fictionalized history. Nothing wrong with that: hap pens all the time. But the novel provides less imagination and in vention than readers are likely to expect; it reads more like a d utifully researched (check out that author's note) graduate schoo l paper than a work of fiction. It also is chock-a-block with hom espun aphorisms that aren't exactly full of original wisdom: One of the few welcome lessons age teaches is that only desire trumps time, and Grief is a haunting, and Writers can tell any lie that leaps into their heads, and Our worst pain is confined within ou r own skin, and We are not made strong enough to stand up against endle, Random House, 2006, 2.5, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1940 Book. Very Good-Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. ix, 407 pp, preface, Book I. The Beginnings, 1789-1820: I. The Triumph of the Novel; II. Richardson and Seduction; III. The Elegant Epistolarians; IV. Sterne and Sensibility; V. Sex and Sensibility; VI. The Sentimental Formula. Book II. The Sentimental Years, 1820-1860: I. Popular Isms and Ologies; II. Ten Thousand and One Nights in a Barroom; III. Uncle Tom's and Other Cabins; IV. Home, Sweet Home; V. Stepping Hevenward; VI. The Sentimnental Compromise; bibliography, index. First Edition, 1940. "Although very few of these once popular novels are read today by critical readers, the secret of their wide appeal is not entirely obscured by their feverish sentiment. The provided a welcome compensation for the emotions, activities, and ideals which life denied to countless readers. The contained an amazing vitality which often transcended their preposterous plots. Frequently they voiced the genuine aspirations of their age." from the preface. Ex Library with donation plate on ffep and stamp on title page, else, no other library markings. Inked underlining and notation in margin of page 33, 40, 358 and 359. Light age-tonning to text block edges, else, clean, tight and strong binding with no other underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Russet textured cloth with gilt lettering to spine.., Duke University Press, 1940, 2.75, Bookmarque Publishing, 1996. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover: Limited edition, this book is number 118 out of 1,000 copies and is signed by author on title page. Yellow binding with title in gold on spine. Endpapers and pages are crisp and clean. Dust jacket is in excellent condition. Photo montage illustrated front and back covers. Very attractive/desirable copy in protective mylar. This is an 'A to Z' book on the Grand Prix cars of 1961-to 1965, an era that would completely change the fortunes of British motor racing. Profusely illustrated. Nice tight binding., Bookmarque Publishing, 1996, 4<