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Shirley Streshinksy

    Shirley Streshinsky is a novelist and journalist whose work delves into historical settings and compelling human experiences. Her fiction often explores past eras with a keen sense of detail and character psychology. In her non-fiction, she crafts insightful biographies and chronicles extraordinary survival stories, frequently highlighting themes of the natural world. Her writing is celebrated for its depth and engaging narrative, establishing her as a distinctive voice across various literary genres.

    Hers the Kingdom
    • Hers the Kingdom

      • 371 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      MISTRESS OF THE MALIBU When beautiful young Willa Reade first saw the wild California coast called the Malibu, she knew she had come home. It was here, with her handsome aristocratic husband, Owen, and her crippled sister Lena, that Willa would build her empire. The Malibu, where the mountains meet the sea. A sprawling ranch pounded by the raging Pacific, it would grow to shelter the generations of a might California dynasty. Willa's dynasty. Through the boom days of the railroads, from the dance halls of San Francisco, to the revolutionary fires of China, through the bitter losses of war and the terrible secrets of a forbidden love, Willa would fight. For price, for passion, for her children and her men...for the vast cherished acres of the Malibu, her kingdom, her home, her destiny. Like GONE WITH THE WIND and THE THORN BIRDS, a once-in-adecade story that will sweep you away into another woman's life.

      Hers the Kingdom