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Danielle
Steel
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A woman with
her finger on the pulse of life and
an author we
never get enough of.
Steel's many international bestsellers
include: Mirror Image, The Klone and I, The Long Road Home, The Ghost,
The Ranch, Silent Honor, Malice, Special Delivery, Five Days in Paris,
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Danielle Steel has been
hailed as one of the world's most popular authors, with over 380 million
copies of her novels sold.
Millions of readers worldwide
connect with this gentle woman on a deep, personal level and Danielle thinks
she understands why.
"I try to write about life,
about experiences people share and care about. The characters are in a
difficult situation...but they prevail."
She knows personally that
"heartbreak happens to everybody" so "my stories are about hope, courage,
finding one's way through difficult situations and not giving up." She
is also the author of
His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick
Traina's life and death |
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Answered
Prayers
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Faith has enjoyed her role
as mother and wife, and the good life that emanates from their bustling
Manhattan town house. But every step of the way, Faith has carried within
her a secret she could divulge to no one. And with it, she has kept an
even more painful secret from herself. For Faith, it is the sudden death
of her stepfather--a man who, like her husband, Alex, always remained just
beyond her reach that will touch off a journey of... |
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His
Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina
Danielle Steel's powerful, personal
story of the 19-year-old son she lost to the masked killer called manic
depression recounts the author's tender, painful memories and shares Nick's
remarkable journals, bringing readers a haunting duet between a singular
young man and the mother who loved him. |
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Mirror
Image
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To look at one was to see
the other. For family, even the girls' own father, it was a constant guessing
game. For strangers, the surprise was overwhelming. And for the twins Olivia
and Victoria Henderson, two remarkable young women coming of age at the
turn of the century, their bond was mysterious, marvelous, and often playful--a
secret realm only they inhabited. In the girls' twenty-first year, as the
first world war escalated overseas, a fateful choice changed their lives
forever. |
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The
Wedding
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As an attorney for the stars,
29-year old Allegra Steinberg is used to handholding her celebrity clients
through their tangled lives and loves, negotiating major movie deals, and
fielding phone calls at all hours of the day and night. But with a career
that consumes so much of her time, Allegra has little time for a private
life. Until a chance encounter with a New York writer turns Allegra's life
upside down. And suddenly, she finds herself planning a wedding at her
parents' Bel Air home. In a compelling portrait of real people in an unreal
world, Danielle Steel uses Hollywood as a backdrop to reveal the dreams,
the fears, and the expectations of a ceremony that unites us all--from
movie stars to long-married couples to nervous teenagers--and changes the
lives of real men, women, and families forever...The Wedding. |
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Five
Days in Paris
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As president of a pharmaceutical
empire, Peter Haskell has everything. Power, position, a career and a family,
which mean everything to him, and for which he has sacrificed a great deal.
Compromise has been key in Peter Haskell's life, and integrity is the base
on which he lives. Olivia Thatcher is the wife of a famous senator. She
has given to her husband's ambitions and career until her soul is bone
dry. She is trapped in a web of duty and obligation, married to a man she
once loved and no longer even knows. When her son died, a piece of Olivia
died too. Accidentally, on the night of a bomb threat, they meet in Paris,
at the Ritz. Their totally different lives converge for one magical moment
in the Place Vendôme, as Olivia... |
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Silent
Honor
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A man ahead of his time, Japanese
college professor Masao Takashimaya of Kyoto had a passion for modern ideas
that was as strong as his wife's belief in ancient traditions. .20 years
later, his 18-year old daughter Hiroko, torn between her mother's traditions
and her father's wishes, come to California for an education and to make
her father proud. From the ship, she went directly to the Palo Alto home
of her uncle, Takeo, and his family. To Hiroko, California was a different
world. Her cousins had become more American than Japanese. And much
to Hiroko's surprise, Peter Jenkins, her uncle's assistant at Stanford,
became an unexpected link between her old world and her new. On December
7, Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese. Within hours, war is declared
and suddenly Hiroko has become an enemy in a foreign land... |
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