by Beatriz Williams
The Secret Life of Violet Grant, Beatriz Williams, author; Kathleen McInerny, narrator Vivian Schuyler, a young Manhattan socialite, is a working girl, albeit against the wishes of her family. Although she wants to be more than a gopher at the magazine where she works, she will have to work her way ...
The Jump Artist, Austin Ratner This is the story of Phillip Halsmann, a Latvian Jew who, in 1929, was condemned falsely for the murder of his father while on a hiking trip in the Tyrolean Alps, in Western Austria. Convicted by a Kangaroo Court of liars and anti-Semites, not once, but twice, when the...
This book was everything I didn't realise I was looking for, and more! Totally blew me away. The style, the plot, the end, everything. I know I'm gushing a bit but I really loved how Vivian's story was told and how Violet's played out beside hers. Can't recommend this enough.
The book goes back and forth between two young women:Vivian Schuyler is now in possession of a suitcase that once belonged to her aunt Violet. Vivian didn't even know she had an aunt Violet. With a quick phone call to her aunt Julie she learns that Violet was a scientist who murdered her husband in ...
They say time is supposed to lengthen when you're in shock, that your body shuts itself down, but I felt the opposite. I felt as if the seconds were racing by, sharp with unnecessary detail, the molecules of air pinging separately and rapidly against me. After reading A Hundred Summers and absolute...
A suitcase full of secrets? A suitcase that opens up the proverbial can of worms which leads Vivian Schuyler to find out about her aunt who supposedly murdered her husband.Once Vivian found out some juicy details about her aunt, she couldn't stop researching her life. This could be her big break a...
Written by: Beatriz WilliamsNarrated by: Kathleen McInerneyLength: 14 hrs and 42 mins Format: UnabridgedRelease Date: 05-27-14Publisher: Penguin AudioProgram Type: Audiobook My Rating: 4 Stars THE SECRET LIFE OF VIOLET GRANT by Beatriz Williams combines an air of mystery, intrigue, love, romance,...
Both Violet’s and Vivian’s stories follow familiar well-trod paths of relationship debacles and temptations. The girls both leave lives of luxury and garner the disdain of their families to make their own fortune in the world. Violet falls in love with the first man she meets outside of her sheltere...
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