Granny Dan (Danielle Steel)

By age seventeen, Danina Petroskova had become a great ballerina, a favorite of the Czar and Czarina, who welcomed her into the heart of the Imperial family. She had had another life before she came to us, long before she came to me. And when revolution shattered Russia, Danina Petroskova was forced to make a heartbreaking choice--as the world around her was about to change forever.Granny Dan is about the magic of history. Inside, an old pair of satin toe shoes, a gold locket, and a stack of letters tied with ri

As if a romance set in the twilight years of czarist Russia doesn't have enough intrinsic pathos, Danielle Steel takes great care to give her hero and heroine the bittersweet combination of incomparable virtue and external duties. O'Brien. When the young prima ballerina and the married doctor meet, they are drawn to the corresponding sense of integrity and duty in each other. However, when love and duty conflict, the struggle is never easy. For over a decade, young Danina Petroskova has known no life but that of the ballet and her mentor Madame Markova. Nikolai Obrajensky for treatment. Convalescing with the Romanovs at the Tsarskoe Selo palace, Danina lea

"Wonderful Book about a Horrendous Crime" according to rkrystofolski. This is a true crime book about the murders of Deborah, Samantha and Joshua Evans and the kidnapping of Elijah Evans by a deranged so-called friend of Deborah, Jacqueline Annette Williams, her boyfriend Fedell Caffey and her cousin, Laverne Ward, who was also the biological father of Deborah Evans. "Special Delivery by Danielle Steel" according to jellybeanmau. I loved it, the story and the characters. I've read most of her stories as a young adult and thought that's who her books were written for, your adults. But reading them again now, as an adult, a seasoned adult at that I realize that I was wrong. Her books were written for all, young and well seas. Kindle Customer said Why did I read this?. Why? I was looking for a light summer book, sometimes I do like her books for that reason. I don't think she's a good writer, but they are fun at times. This was terrible! I really don't know why I kept going.Besides the depressing death issues, we never actually got in the heads of any of the mai