Leila Meacham: 21 books

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Gone with the Wind meets The Help in the stunning prequel to Leila Meacham's bestselling family epic Roses.** "From birth, Jessica had eschewed the role to which she'd been born. Was it because she sensed that her father's indulgence was compensation...

Howbutker, Texas, 1916. À la mort de son père, la jeune Mary Toliver hérite de la plantation de coton des Toliver, l’une des familles fondatrices de Howbutker. La jeune femme devra-t-elle sacrifier son amour pour Percy Warwick, magnat de l’exploitation forestière, pour faire vivre le sol de...

`Somerset , de heerlijke nieuwe roman van Leila Meacham, is de voorloper van haar bestseller `Rozen . `Somerset vertelt hoe de band tussen de families Toliver en Warwick ontstond. Voor `Rozen was er `Somerset Het is 1835, en de planterszonen Silas Toliver en Jeremy Warwick weten dat...

`Meachams tweede roman is net zo goed als haar eerste, en zal door haar lezers op handen worden gedragen. Kirkus Reviews Texas, 1979. Cathy Benson is elf als haar ouders omkomen bij een ongeluk. Ze wordt in huis genomen door haar grootmoeder, die in een klein dorpje op het Texaanse platteland woont....

Leila Meacham neemt je in 'Het zwarte goud' mee naar het zinderende zuiden van de VS. In het Texas van 1900 hebben de koeien en grote veehouders het nog voor het zeggen, maar de eerste olie stroomt al uit de grond en de hele samenleving staat op het punt van een grote verandering. In deze tumultueuze...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Roses comes "epic storytelling that plunges the reader headfirst" into the fate of heiress Samantha Gordon and ranch hand Nathan Holloway as their lives collide in early 1900s Texas. (Jackie K Cooper, The Huffington Post) Texas in the...

Two East Texas families must deal with the aftermath of a marriage that never happened leading to deceit, secrets, and tragedies in a sweeping multigenerational Southern saga "with echoes of Gone with the Wind." (Publishers Weekly) Spanning the 20th century, the story of Roses takes...

« Autant en emporte le vent et La Couleur des sentiments se rejoignent pour créer une grande saga romantique à l’américaine. » - Booklist Caroline du Sud, avant la guerre de Sécession. Privé de son héritage, Silas Toliver s’associe à son meilleur ami, Jeremy Warwick, pour monter...

The bestselling, epic storytelling of Roses meets the moving drama of Friday Night Lights in this heartrending story of three friends who forge a lifelong bond against the backdrop of a Texas town's passion for football. Recently orphaned, eleven-year-old Cathy Benson feels she has been dropped...

A tender, classic love story about the secrets that linger in our hearts and the choices that set us free... Some people aren't meant for happily-ever-after. And Deborah Standridge is one of them. When she called off her wedding to the perfect man to pursue her passion as an architect, she...

Printemps 1900. Séparés à leur naissance, des jumeaux, Nathan et Samantha, fêtent leur vingtième anniversaire dans des comtés éloignés de l'État du Texas, sans se connaître ni soupçonner l'existence de l'autre... À la ferme de Barrows, Nathan reçoit une visite inattendue qui va...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Roses comes a gripping new novel about five young spies embedded among the highest Nazi ranks in occupied Paris At the height of World War II, a handful of idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the government, asking them if...

Elswyth Thane is best known for her Williamsburg series, seven novels published between 1943 and 1957 that follow several generations of two families from the American Revolution to World War II. Dawn's Early Light is the first novel in the series. In it, Colonial Williamsburg comes alive. Thane centers...

A sweeping, classic romance about the ties that bind us together-and the promises that can break us apart ... Some friends are more like family...and that's exactly how Cara Martin feels about Ryan Langston. He stood by her side through the most difficult time of her life and there's nothing...