Her mother was an American movie goddess. Then, suddenly, the fairy tale ended. Men desired her. Princess daisy has the same storytelling assets as Scruples, only more of them. A glamorous, extremely adult Cinderella story to delight millions of readers who relish nonstop entertainment. It is delicious. Jill gerson, philadelphia Inquirer“In true saga style, this blockbuster weaves its spell across an international landscape.
Princess Daisy: A Novel #ad - . But everyone called her Daisy. And princess daisy had to start again, with nothing—except the secret she guarded from the day she was born. Praise for princess Daisy“This page-turner is a champion. People“judith krantz has written the glamour novel of the year if not of the decade.
Mistral's Daughter: A Novel
Bantam #ad - Maggy: flamboyant mistress of Mistral’s youth, the toast of Paris in the‘20s. Her luminous flesh was immortalized in the paintings that made Mistral legendary. They were three generations of magnificent red-haired beauties born to scandal, the painter, the genius, bound to a single extraordinary man—Julien Mistral, bred to success, the lover whose passions had seared them all.. Teddy: maggy’s daughter, the incomparable cover girl who lived fast and left as her legacy Mistral’s dazzling love child. From the ‘20s paris of chanel, picasso and matisse to new york’s sizzling new modeling agencies of the ‘50s, to the model ward of the‘70s, Colette, Mistral's Daughter captures the explosive glamour of life at the top of the worlds of art and high fashion.
Mistral's Daughter: A Novel #ad - Judith krantz has given us a glittering international tale as spellbinding as her other celebrated bestsellers, Scruples Two, Princess Daisy, I'll Take Manhattan, Scruples, Till We Meet Again, Dazzle, and Lovers. Fauve: mistral's daughter, the headstrong, fearless glory girl whose one dark secret drove her to rule the world of high fashion and to risk everything in a feverish search for love.
Scruples
Bantam #ad - . The new york post said that "Scruples was born to be a smash bestseller. Scruples is the leader of her #1 best-selling novels. Scruples is the novel that created publishing history, the first-and widely acknowledged to be the very best-novel ever written about the staggeringly luxurious life of a Beverly Hills boutique and the people who work in it.Scruples #ad - Scruples was translated into twenty languages and made Rodeo Drive famous around the world. It has more inside information about the worlds of high fashion and Hollywood than you'd find in a dozen manuals. With scruples, judith Krantz earned her reputation as a blazingly talented and original storyteller.
She takes her readers behind the scenes of wealthy and fame to show them the real people and the real emotions that exist at the core of even the most high-powered lives.
Scruples Two
Bantam #ad - Now that unforgettable story, a story that marks an era, a story that millions of readers wish had never ended. A self-made beauty and the exquisite owner of a fabled Beverley Hills boutique called Scruples and married to the Oscar-winning producer Vito Orsini. Scruples two moves swiflty and unexpectadly, following two of the most fascinating and touching females in modern fiction, from California to New York to Paris, filled with breathtaking change, Billy Ikehorn and Gigi Orsini.To those who only know her from afar, riches, she seems to lead a dream existence, wrapped in all the power of glamout, and success. Then a stranger arrives in billy's life--Gigi Orsini, Vito's sixteen-year-old daughter by an early marriage. Scruples, judith krantz's electrifying, world wide bestseller appeared fifteen years ago and made book publishing history.
Scruples Two #ad - Continues. Only a single night's sleep seperates the lives of the characters in Scruples from this mesmerizing sequel. Billy ikehorn is a contemporary woman living on a grand scale. The many new freinds gigi makes during the next five years will grow important to Billy in ways she could never have forseen.
Independent, street-smart, deeply interesting, and enchantingly humorous, Gigi captures Billy's heart and sets in motion a train of utterly unexpected events.
Lovers Scruples Book 3
Bantam #ad - Ben winthrop, although his fierce contenders for the same prize include both David Melville and the dominating film director, attempts to capture Gigi's quicksilver affections, a proper Bostonian and an enormously successful mall builder, Zach Nevsky. Chief among them is irresistible gigi Orsini, merry, the high-spirited, adventurous creature who grew up into enchanting womanhood in Scruples Two.Now gigi is working as a copywriter in a new los angeles advertising agency, with her creative "teammate, " David Melville, a brilliant young art director who joins her in seeking new accounts. Lovers completes all the stories set in motion in the first two novels, yet it stands entirely on its own as a slice of life in the exciting years of 1983 and 1984.
Lovers Scruples Book 3 #ad - Lovers is pure krantz, and found among women and men who lure each other with potent combinations of money, talent, stolen, ambition, an intoxicating dance of love lost, and passion. Meanwhile, and her new husband, canny film producer vito orsini, spider elliott, the unforgettably impulsive heroine of Scruples, as are Gigi's father, the great charmer, the ravishing Sasha Nevsky, and her best friend, are busy with their own fascinating lives, Billy Winthrop Ikehorn Orsini Elliott, none of whom can be forgotten from Scruples and Scruples Two.
The agency is headed by dashing archie rourke, victoria frost, humorous Byron Bernheim and the severely difficult beauty, with her husband Angus Caldwell, daughter of the famed Millicent Frost Caldwell who, owns one of New York's largest advertising agencies.
I'll Take Manhattan
Bantam #ad - And maxi turns her incredible lust for living into a passionate quest for power. Maxi takes over the small weekly Buttons And Bows. Then, ritziest, maxi creates B&B—the glitziest, risking all, most successful fashion magazine in the country. Here is a dramatic, sizzling story of love, family, ambition and one unforgettable woman who gives life and love everything she has.I'll Take Manhattan #ad - In the high-stakes world of magazine publishing, and creates her most joyous character—sensational Maxi, Judith Krantz weaves a dazzling tale of love and betrayal, an uninhibited woman who unexpectedly discovers that her talent for life is matched by a hunger to succeed. Gorgeous, flamboyant Maxi Amberville is twenty-nine and has already discarded three husbands on two continents.
She gathers her hot-blooded ex-husband, sassy daughter and a coterie of the powerful elite. Life is a stream of endless pleasure in her lavish Trump Tower apartment—until her widowed mother married a man who plots to sell her father's magazine empire.
Dazzle: A Novel
Bantam #ad - Captivating. And jazz will do anything to protect. But her charmed career and her dashing private life, which includes three fascinating-and fascinated-men, are rocked when an unexpected tragedy leaves jazz to battle her father’s vengeful ex-wife and the machinations of her half-sisters. Absolutely anything.Praise for Dazzle “Enjoyable. Krantz’s latest tome. Is her most erotic yet. Dazzle sizzles. Los angeles daily news now, mistral’s daughter, judith krantz, monied world of Jazz Kilkullen, best-selling author of Scruples, and Till We Meet Again, invites you into the luscious, provocative, her most daring, impetuous heroine yet.
Dazzle: A Novel #ad - Inside the fun-filled photographers’ studio in California known as Dazzle, Jazz Kilkullen reigns supreme. At stake is the kilkullen family ranch, a three-billion-dollar paradise of unspoiled California land that developers all over the world would do anything to possess. Bubbling with sex, intrigue, and-most of all-money.
Jazz is one of the most likable free souls to emerge from the novel industry. The pittsburgh Press “Deliciously sexy.
Till We Meet Again: A Novel
Bantam #ad - . Eve dared. Eve, with passion that overruled her total innocence, ran away from home to live in unrepentant sin; won stardom singing on the stage of the Parisian music halls before Worlds War I; married into the world of international diplomacy; and become the greatest lady Champagne. Eve's younger daughter, Freddy, inherited all of her mother's recklessness.Till We Meet Again: A Novel #ad - Growing up in california, she became a pilot by sixteen; throughout World War II she ferried war planes in Britain--a glorious redhead who captured men with one humorous, challenging glance. Eve's elder daughter, delphine, gifted, exquisite, and wild, romped through the nightlife of Hollywood of the thirties.
On a whim, she made a screen test in Paris and soon found herself a great star of French films. She chose to risk her life in occupied France because of a love that transformed her frivolity into courage.
Spring Collection: A Novel I'll Take Manhattan Book 2
Bantam #ad - Passion. In a tale as timely as scruples, as compelling as Dazzle, as intriguing as Mistral's Daughter, Judith Krantz launches three innocentbeauties on the city of fashion and love. Scandal. It's the hottest thing that's ever happened to Loring Model Management. Three of its unknown models have been chosen to star in the debut spring collection of bad-boy designer Marco Lombardi--and one of them will win an exclusive, multimillion-dollar contract.Spring Collection: A Novel I'll Take Manhattan Book 2 #ad - But the agency's owner, Justine Loring, is furious. Only she knows that lombardi's billionaire backer, hoping to manipulate her into chaperoning her models to Paris, has set her up, Jacques Necker, and meeting him face-to-face. Glamour. But justine isn't about to play his game. She dispatches these three sensational girls--the classic Minnesota blond, fiery, and the moody Tennessee redhead--in care of her second-in-command, the African-American goddess, droll Francesca Severino.
Little does justine know how their two weeks of discoveryand love affairs will be matched by an explosive encounter in Manhattan that will change her own life. Some things are always in style.
The Jewels of Tessa Kent: A Novel
Bantam #ad - For the first time judith krantz has chosen to tell a story rooted in the shattering emotions of a mother-daughter relationship gone desperately wrong. An auction is the only way she can find to reach her daughter, an auction of the immensely valuable collection of famed jewels that represent all the love lavished on her by her late husband.Her parents, devout Catholics, raise the infant, Maggie, as their own child. Maggie lives for her glorious "sister's" infrequent whirlwind visits. Tessa promises scott & scott the auction on the condition that Maggie and she work closely together on the sale. For tessa, her entire future now hangs on the hope of an almost impossible reconciliation.
The jewels of tessa kent deals with the fascinating workings of an auction house; it's a revealing look at the inside of Hollywood stardom; but more than anything else, it's a story of feelings and family, of loss, mistakes, joy and redemption. Yet, deeply moving, at its core, the jewels of Tessa Kent is an engrossing, and ultimately inspiring tale of two women bound by blood yet torn apart by their deepest emotions.
The Jewels of Tessa Kent: A Novel #ad - Tessa kent, an exquisite and precocious fourteen, gives birth to an illegitimate daughter. Maggie is a captivating, independent eighteen when she accidentally learns the truth. Mortally wounded, she breaks all ties with Tessa and starts to work at the famed Manhattan auction house of Scott & Scott. Five years later, a life-altering crisis makes Tessa passionately determined to end this estrangement.
Shopaholic & Sister: A Novel
The Dial Press #ad - Only now becky and luke have returned home to London, where two truckloads of those souvenirs have cluttered up their loft. The bills are outrageous, luke is furious, and Becky’s feeling rather blue—until her parents deliver some incredible news. They’ll go shopping together, drink cappuccinos together, get manicures together.Kinsella’s heroine is blessed with the resilience of ten women, and her damage-limitation brain waves are always good for a giggle. Glamour U. K. What’s a round-the-world honeymoon if you can’t buy the odd souvenir to ship back home? Like the twenty silk dressing gowns Becky Brandon née Bloomwood finds in Hong Kong, um, or the, or the hand-carved dining table from Sri Lanka, huge wooden giraffes from Malawi that her husband expressly forbade her to buy.
Shopaholic & Sister: A Novel #ad - . You won’t have to shop around to find a more winning protagonist. People “faster than a swiping visa, more powerful than a two-for-one coupon, able to buy complete wardrobes in a single sprint through the mall—it’s Shopaholic!”—The Washington Post. Then becky meets Jessica and receives the shock of her life.
She has a long-lost sister! Becky is convinced her sister will be a true soulmate. Surely the shopaholic’s own sister can’t hate shopping? Praise for Sophie Kinsella “Kinsella has a genuine gift for comic writing. The boston globe “Kinsella’s Bloomwood is plucky and funny.