Bøger af Heather Webb

New York, 1937. Clara og Madeleines bedstemor Violet ligger for døden, og det får de to søstre til at tilsidesætte deres forskelligheder for at opfylde hendes sidste ønske: at rejse tværs gennem Europa for at levere tre afskedsbreve til bekendte, som Violet ikke har set siden sin rejse dertil fyrre år forinden.Pligtopfyldende Clara ser turen som en ubelejlig ekskurs inden brylluppet med millionæren Charles Hancock, mens den spirende journalist Madeleine øjner muligheden for at rapportere om den voksende trussel i Tyskland og Mussolinis Italien.Søstrene er i konstant strid med hinanden fra ombordstigningen på den luksuriøse Queen Mary og rejsen med Orientekspressen til opholdene i Paris og Venedig. Men da de når til Wien for at levere det sidste brev, truer gamle hemmeligheder med at spolere deres gryende forsoning.Tre afskedsord er en rørende rejse over oprørte farvande og gennem et Europa i forandring. Det er en fortælling om søskendekærlighed i skæbnens time og om at rette op på fortiden, før det er for sent.

New York, 1937. Clara og Madeleines bedstemor Violet ligger for døden, og det får de to søstre til at tilsidesætte deres forskelligheder for at opfylde hendes sidste ønske: at rejse tværs gennem Europa for at levere tre afskedsbreve til bekendte, som Violet ikke har set siden sin rejse dertil fyrre år forinden.Pligtopfyldende Clara ser turen som en ubelejlig ekskurs inden brylluppet med millionæren Charles Hancock, mens den spirende journalist Madeleine øjner muligheden for at rapportere om den voksende trussel i Tyskland og Mussolinis Italien.Søstrene er i konstant strid med hinanden fra ombordstigningen på den luksuriøse Queen Mary og rejsen med Orientekspressen til opholdene i Paris og Venedig. Men da de når til Wien for at levere det sidste brev, truer gamle hemmeligheder med at spolere deres gryende forsoning.Tre afskedsord er en rørende rejse over oprørte farvande og gennem et Europa i forandring. Det er en fortælling om søskendekærlighed i skæbnens time og om at rette op på fortiden, før det er for sent.

"Ellis Island, 1902: Two women band together to hold America to its promise: Give me your tired, your poor...your huddled masses yearning to breathe free... A young Italian woman arrives on the shores of America, her sights set on a better life. That same day, a young American woman reports to her first day of work at the immigration center. But Ellis Island isn't a refuge for Francesca or Alma, not when ships depart every day with those who are refused entry to the country and when corruption ripples through every corridor. While Francesca resorts to desperate measures to ensure she will make it off the island, Alma fights for her dreams of becoming a translator, even as women are denied the chance. As the two women face the misdeeds of a system known to manipulate and abuse immigrants searching for new hope in America, they form an unlikely friendship--and share a terrible secret--altering their fates and the lives of the immigrants who come after them. This is a novel of the dark secrets of Ellis Island, when entry to the land of the free promised a better life but often delivered something drastically different, and when immigrant strength and female friendship found ways to triumph even on the darkest days"-- Provided by publisher.

Filmstjerner og paparazzi strømmer til Cannes for at deltage i den glamourøse filmfestival, men skuespilleren Grace Kelly vil for alt i verden undvige fotografernes søgelys. Da den fattige parfumeuse Sophie Duval giver ly til Miss Kelly for at undgå den vedholdende pressefotograf, James Henderson, begynder tredive års venskab, kærlighed og tragedie for de to kvinder.James Henderson har svært ved at glemme sit korte møde med Sophie Duval. I Monaco, da feberen over det royale bryllup raser, må James og Sophie – ligesom Prinsesse Grace – i sidste ende beslutte, hvad de er villige til at opgive i kærlighedens navn.Mød mig i Monaco udspiller sig i 1950’erne med Grace Kellys stormende forelskelse og glamourøse bryllup med fyrst Rainier som bagtæppe for en malerisk, solbeskinnet rejse langs den franske riviera og en fortælling om lidenskab, skæbne og nye chancer.

DA KRIGEN SKILTE DEM AD, BRAGTE DERES ORD DEM TÆTTERE SAMMEN.AUGUST, 1914. England er i krig. Da Evie Elliott sender broren Will og hans bedste ven Thomas mod fronten tror hun – ligesom alle andre – at krigen vil være ovre inden jul, hvor de tre har planer om at fejre højtiden på de romantiske caféer i Paris. Men historien vil det anderledes.Mens krigen står på, indleder Evie og Thomas en brevkorrespondance, hvor de deler håb og frygt for fremtiden. Men kan kærligheden få lov at blomstre imellem dem, eller kommer historien i vejen?JULEN, 1968. Stålsat på at stede fortidens spøgelser til hvile, vender Thomas tilbage til Paris med en dyrebar stak breve i hånden. Da han ankommer, venter der ham en sidste kuvert.En sidste jul i Paris er en fortælling om Den Store Krigs omkostninger, om uudslukkelig kærlighed og om juletidens lysende håb, der lever og dør i Paris.

A new approach to reading Dante's La Comedia Divinia through the lens of art history. Dante, Artist of Gesture brings Dante's canonical text into conversation with the visual art of his time to suggest the importance of visual cues to the reading and interpretation of the text itself.

DA KRIGEN SKILTE DEM AD, BRAGTE DERES ORD DEM TÆTTERE SAMMEN.AUGUST, 1914. England er i krig. Da Evie Elliott sender broren Will og hans bedste ven Thomas mod fronten tror hun – ligesom alle andre – at krigen vil være ovre inden jul, hvor de tre har planer om at fejre højtiden på de romantiske caféer i Paris. Men historien vil det anderledes.Mens krigen står på, indleder Evie og Thomas en brevkorrespondance, hvor de deler håb og frygt for fremtiden. Men kan kærligheden få lov at blomstre imellem dem, eller kommer historien i vejen?JULEN, 1968. Stålsat på at stede fortidens spøgelser til hvile, vender Thomas tilbage til Paris med en dyrebar stak breve i hånden. Da han ankommer, venter der ham en sidste kuvert.En sidste jul i Paris er en fortælling om Den Store Krigs omkostninger, om uudslukkelig kærlighed og om juletidens lysende håb, der lever og dør i Paris.

It was the tumultuous romance that scandalized the world: Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner fought, loved, and lived life to the hilt. Now their unbridled story is brought vividly to life by Heather Webb, the bestselling author of Meet Me in Monaco and The Next Ship Home. In the golden age of Hollywood, two of the brightest stars would define?and defy?an era...She was the small-town southern beauty transformed into a Hollywood love goddess. He was the legendary crooner whose voice transfixed the world. They were Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra. Separately they were irresistible; together they were an explosive combination.Ava's star is rising just as Frank's career?and public image as a family man?is taking a hit. Gone are the days of the screaming bobbysoxers and chart-topping hits. Ava, however, finds herself gracing the front page of every tabloid in America. Jealousy and cheating abound, and when the two succumb to their temperaments and their vices, their happiness is threatened at every turn.As the pair ride the rollercoaster of success and failure, passion and anger, they both wonder if the next turn will be the end of their careers, and most devastating of all?the end of all they've shared.A captivating novel with a star-studded cast spanning continents and decades, Strangers in the Night brings to life the most riveting love story of the twentieth century.

Christine faces an impossible choice: be a star at the Paris opera, or follow her dream-to become a master of illusions. First, she must steal the secrets of the enigmatic master who haunts her, survive a world of treachery and murder, and embrace the uncertain promise of love. To succeed, she will risk her life in the grandest illusion of all.

It was the tumultuous romance that scandalized the world: Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner fought, loved, and lived life to the hilt. Now their unbridled story is brought vividly to life by Heather Webb, the bestselling author of Meet Me in Monaco and The Next Ship Home. In the golden age of Hollywood, two of the brightest stars would define?and defy?an era...She was the small-town southern beauty transformed into a Hollywood love goddess. He was the legendary crooner whose voice transfixed the world. They were Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra. Separately they were irresistible; together they were an explosive combination.Ava's star is rising just as Frank's career?and public image as a family man?is taking a hit. Gone are the days of the screaming bobbysoxers and chart-topping hits. Ava, however, finds herself gracing the front page of every tabloid in America. Jealousy and cheating abound, and when the two succumb to their temperaments and their vices, their happiness is threatened at every turn.As the pair ride the rollercoaster of success and failure, passion and anger, they both wonder if the next turn will be the end of their careers, and most devastating of all?the end of all they've shared.A captivating novel with a star-studded cast spanning continents and decades, Strangers in the Night brings to life the most riveting love story of the twentieth century.

?The French Revolution comes alive through the eyes of six diverse and complex women, in the skilled hands of these amazing authors.?--Martha Hall Kelly, New York Times bestselling author of Lilac GirlsA breathtaking, epic novel illuminating the hopes, desires, and destinies of princesses and peasants, harlots and wives, fanatics and philosophers?seven unforgettable women whose paths cross during one of the most tumultuous and transformative events in history: the French Revolution.Ribbons of Scarlet is a timely story of the power of women to start a revolution?and change the world.In late eighteenth-century France, women do not have a place in politics. But as the tide of revolution rises, women from gilded salons to the streets of Paris decide otherwise?upending a world order that has long oppressed them.Blue-blooded Sophie de Grouchy believes in democracy, education, and equal rights for women, and marries the only man in Paris who agrees. Emboldened to fight the injustices of King Louis XVI, Sophie aims to prove that an educated populace can govern itself--but one of her students, fruit-seller Louise Audu, is hungrier for bread and vengeance than learning. When the Bastille falls and Louise leads a women's march to Versailles, the monarchy is forced to bend, but not without a fight. The king's pious sister Princess Elisabeth takes a stand to defend her brother, spirit her family to safety, and restore the old order, even at the risk of her head.But when fanatics use the newspapers to twist the revolution's ideals into a new tyranny, even the women who toppled the monarchy are threatened by the guillotine. Putting her faith in the pen, brilliant political wife Manon Roland tries to write a way out of France's blood-soaked Reign of Terror while pike-bearing Pauline Leon and steely Charlotte Corday embrace violence as the only way to save the nation. With justice corrupted by revenge, all the women must make impossible choices to survive--unless unlikely heroine and courtesan's daughter Emilie de Sainte-Amaranthe can sway the man who controls France's fate: the fearsome Robespierre.

An unforgettably romantic novel that spans four Christmases (1914-1918), Last Christmas in Paris explores the ruins of war, the strength of love, and the enduring hope of the Christmas season.New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War.August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes?as everyone does?that it will be over by Christmas, when the trio plan to celebrate the holiday among the romantic cafes of Paris.But as history tells us, it all happened so differently... Evie and Thomas experience a very different war. Frustrated by life as a privileged young lady, Evie longs to play a greater part in the conflict?but how??and as Thomas struggles with the unimaginable realities of war he also faces personal battles back home where War Office regulations on press reporting cause trouble at his father's newspaper business. Through their letters, Evie and Thomas share their greatest hopes and fears?and grow ever fonder from afar. Can love flourish amid the horror of the First World War, or will fate intervene?Christmas 1968. With failing health, Thomas returns to Paris?a cherished packet of letters in hand?determined to lay to rest the ghosts of his past. But one final letter is waiting for him...

Top voices in historical fiction deliver an unforgettable collection of short stories set in the aftermath of World War I?featuring bestselling authors such as Hazel Gaynor, Jennifer Robson, Beatriz Williams, and Lauren Willig and edited by Heather Webb.On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month...November 11, 1918. After four long, dark years of fighting, the Great War ends at last, and the world is forever changed. For soldiers, loved ones, and survivors the years ahead stretch with new promise, even as their hearts are marked by all those who have been lost.As families come back together, lovers reunite, and strangers take solace in each other, everyone has a story to tell.In this moving anthology, nine authors share stories of love, strength, and renewal as hope takes root in a fall of poppies.Featuring:Jessica BrockmoleHazel GaynorEvangeline HollandMarci JeffersonKate KerriganJennifer RobsonBeatriz WilliamsLauren WilligHeather Webb