Silken Secrets
Silken Secrets

Author: Joan Smith

Publisher: Belgrave House

Published: 2010-09-14

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1610844025

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Mary Anne Judson has an idyllic country life, except perhaps that her Uncle Edwin is of a casually larcenous nature. When he liberates an abandoned—and smuggled—cargo of fine silk and finds himself pursued by the handsome London draper, Mr. Robertson, life becomes rather hectic. And Mary Anne suspects there is more to the stylish draper than meets the eye. Regency Romance by Joan Smith; originally published by Fawcett Crest

Secret Protocols
Secret Protocols

Author: Peter Vansittart

Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers

Published: 2014-10-01

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0720617626

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Set in wartime Estonia, this was the last novel by Peter Vansittart, one of the greatest historical novelists of the 20th century. Erich's odyssey begins when his Estonian childhood is ended by the outbreak of World War II. He arrives in 1945 Paris, where his life seems full of promise. But a love affair drives him to England to work for the Estonian government-in-exile. His imagined island of monarchs, Churchill, and gentlemen evaporates into one of scornful youth, insular adults, and an underground of spies, political crooks, and fanatics. Sojourns in Europe further underline that war and corruption are not extinct and that, in his own life, the most profound shocks are those of friendship and love. Beneath the drift towards a united Europe, Erich realizes that treaties do not always end war, that solemn rites cannot guarantee love, and that the inevitable can fail to happen.

The Secret Power
The Secret Power

Author: Marie Corelli

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-26

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13:

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She gave him one lingering glance; then, turning abruptly, picked up her empty milk pail and started down the hill at a run. The man she left gave a sigh, deep and long of intense relief. Evening had fallen rapidly, and the purple darkness enveloped him in its warm, dense gloom. He sat absorbed in thought, his eyes turned towards the east, where the last stretches of the afternoon's great cloud trailed filmy threads of wooly black through space. His figure seemed gradually drawn within the coming night so as almost to become part of it, and the stillness around him had a touch of awe in its impalpable heaviness. One would have thought that in a place of such utter loneliness, the natural human spirit of a man would instinctively desire movement,—action of some sort, to shake off the insidious depression which crept through the air like a creeping shadow, but the solitary being, seated somewhat like an Aryan idol, hands on knees and face bent forwards, had no inclination to stir.

An Old Chester Secret
An Old Chester Secret

Author: Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-10

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13:

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An Old Chester Secret by Margaret Wade Campbell is about an old spinster who must stand up for herself against her son and his wife who have rejected a son at birth. Excerpt: "THERE was not a person in Old Chester less tainted by the vulgarity of secretiveness than Miss Lydia Sampson. She had no more reticence than sunshine or wind, or any other elemental thing. How much of this was due to conditions it would be hard to say; certainly, there was no "reticence" in her silence as to her neighbors' affairs; she simply didn't know them!"

Secret Ingredients
Secret Ingredients

Author: David Remnick

Publisher: Modern Library

Published: 2009-11-03

Total Pages: 535

ISBN-13: 081297641X

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The New Yorker dishes up a feast of delicious writing–food and drink memoirs, short stories, tell-alls, and poems, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons. “To read this sparely elegant, moving portrait is to remember that writing well about food is really no different from writing well about life.”—Saveur (Ten Best Books of the Year) Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker—literally. In this indispensable collection, M.F.K. Fisher pays homage to “cookery witches,” those mysterious cooks who possess “an uncanny power over food,” and Adam Gopnik asks if French cuisine is done for. There is Roald Dahl’s famous story “Taste,” in which a wine snob’s palate comes in for some unwelcome scrutiny, and Julian Barnes’s ingenious tale of a lifelong gourmand who goes on a very peculiar diet. Selected from the magazine’s plentiful larder, Secret Ingredients celebrates all forms of gustatory delight. A sample of the menu: Roger Angell on the art of the martini • Don DeLillo on Jell-O • Malcolm Gladwell on building a better ketchup • Jane Kramer on the writer’s kitchen • Chang-rae Lee on eating sea urchin • Steve Martin on menu mores • Alice McDermott on sex and ice cream • Dorothy Parker on dinner conversation • S. J. Perelman on a hollandaise assassin • Calvin Trillin on New York’s best bagel Whether you’re in the mood for snacking on humor pieces and cartoons or for savoring classic profiles of great chefs and great eaters, these offerings from The New Yorker’s fabled history are sure to satisfy every taste.

The Hidden Trail
The Hidden Trail

Author: Roy J. Snell

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-08-30

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13:

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In 'The Hidden Trail' by Roy J. Snell, two young boys, Johnny Thompson and his friend "Pant," find themselves burdened with guilt after a tragic incident unfolds on the treacherous slopes of Stone Mountain. Believing they unintentionally caused a stranger's fatal fall from the towering precipice, they are compelled to descend and search for any clues to his identity.

Silken Prey
Silken Prey

Author: John Sandford

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-05-07

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1101621192

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Murder. Scandal. Politics. And one billionaire heiress so dangerous in so many ways. An explosive Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. All hell has broken loose in the capital. An influential state senator has been caught with something very, very nasty on his office computer. The governor can’t believe it—the senator’s way too smart for that, even if he is from the other party. Something’s not right. As Davenport investigates, the trail leads to a political fixer who has disappeared, then—troublingly—to the Minneapolis police department itself, and most unsettling of all, to a woman who could give Machiavelli lessons in manipulation. She has very definite ideas about the way the world should work—along with the money, ruthlessness, and cold-blooded will to make it happen.

Silken Shadows
Silken Shadows

Author: Jennifer St. Giles

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780425217948

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When she discovers that Captain Deverell Jansen, the man she lusts after, is voyaging to Northrope in search of a brutal killer among the Druid Stones, Gemini Andrews, gifted with psychic abilities, stows away on his ship to help him in his quest and seduce his very soul. Original.