Background
Krantz, Judith Tarcher was born on January 9, 1928 in New York City. Daughter of Jack David and Mary (Brager) Tarcher.
(Scruples is the novel that created publishing history, t...)
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 was translated into twenty languages and made Rodeo Drive famous around the world. The New York Post said that "Scruples was born to be a smash bestseller. . . 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 is the leader of her #1 best-selling novels.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553284657/?tag=2022091-20
(Scruples, Judith Krantz's electrifying, world wide bests...)
Scruples, Judith Krantz's electrifying, world wide bestseller appeared fifteen years ago and made book publishing history. Now that unforgettable story, a story that marks an era, a story that millions of readers wish had never ended . . . 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. 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. To those who only know her from afar, she seems to lead a dream existence, wrapped in all the power of glamout, riches, and success. Then a stranger arrives in Billy's life--Gigi Orsini, Vito's sixteen-year-old daughter by an early marriage. Independent, deeply interesting, street-smart, and enchantingly humorous, Gigi captures Billy's heart and sets in motion a train of utterly unexpected events. Life with Gigi hold both joy and pain for Spider Elliot and Valentine O'Neill, Billy's partners in Scruples. The many new freinds Gigi makes during the next five years will grow important to Billy in ways she could never have forseen. Scruples Two moves swiflty and unexpectadly, filled with breathtaking change, from California to New York to Paris, following two of the most fascinating and touching females in modern fiction, Billy Ikehorn and Gigi Orsini.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553561111/?tag=2022091-20
(She was born Princess Marguerite Alexandrovna Valensky. ...)
She was born Princess Marguerite Alexandrovna Valensky. But everyone called her Daisy. She was a blonde beauty living in a world of aristocrats and countless wealthy. Her father was a prince, a Russian nobleman. Her mother was an American movie goddess. Men desired her. Women envied her. Daisy's life was a fairy tale filled with parties and balls, priceless jewels, money and love. Then, suddenly, the fairy tale ended. And Princess Daisy had to start again, with nothing--except the secret she guarded from the day she was born.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553256092/?tag=2022091-20
(Eve dared. . . Eve, with passion that overruled her total...)
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. 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, exquisite, gifted, 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.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553280147/?tag=2022091-20
(Scruples, Judith Krantz's electrifying, world wide bests...)
Scruples, Judith Krantz's electrifying, world wide bestseller appeared fifteen years ago and made book publishing history. Now that unforgettable story, a story that marks an era, a story that millions of readers wish had never ended . . . 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. 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. To those who only know her from afar, she seems to lead a dream existence, wrapped in all the power of glamout, riches, and success. Then a stranger arrives in Billy's life--Gigi Orsini, Vito's sixteen-year-old daughter by an early marriage. Independent, deeply interesting, street-smart, and enchantingly humorous, Gigi captures Billy's heart and sets in motion a train of utterly unexpected events. Life with Gigi hold both joy and pain for Spider Elliot and Valentine O'Neill, Billy's partners in Scruples. The many new freinds Gigi makes during the next five years will grow important to Billy in ways she could never have forseen. Scruples Two moves swiflty and unexpectadly, filled with breathtaking change, from California to New York to Paris, following two of the most fascinating and touching females in modern fiction, Billy Ikehorn and Gigi Orsini.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553561111/?tag=2022091-20
(From the woman who brought us Scruples, Dazzle, and Sprin...)
From the woman who brought us Scruples, Dazzle, and Spring Collection comes a provocative new novel, a deeply moving mother-daughter tale set amid the elegance of a famed New York auction house and the glamour of Hollywood. A mother's secret... Tessa Kent, exquisite and precocious, gave birth to an illegitimate daughter when she was only fourteen. Her parents raised the infant, Maggie, as their own child, as Tessa went on to become an international movie star. Maggie lives for her glamorous "sister's" infrequent whirlwind visits. But when she accidentally learns the truth, eighteen-year-old Maggie breaks all ties with Tessa and starts to work at the famed Manhattan auction house of Scott & Scott. A daughter's fury... Five years later, a life-altering crisis makes Tessa passionately determined to end this estrangement. There's only one way Tessa can reach out to her daughter: a high-stakes auction of the immensely valuable collection of famed jewels lavished on her by her late husband. Tessa promises Scott & Scott the auction on the condition that Maggie and she work closely together on the sale. Tessa's whole future hangs in the balance--for she knows her happiness depends on what may be an impossible reconciliation....
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553561375/?tag=2022091-20
(Publication Date: January 1, 1998 For the first time J...)
Publication Date: January 1, 1998 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. The story unfolds on a classic Krantz background, a magic carpet of gorgeous entertainment and sumptuous events. Yet, at its core, The Jewels of Tessa Kent is an engrossing, deeply moving, and ultimately inspiring tale of two women bound by blood yet torn apart by their deepest emotions. Tessa Kent, an exquisite and precocious fourteen, gives birth to an illegitimate daughter. Her parents, devout Catholics, raise the infant, Maggie, as their own child. At sixteen Tessa is discovered by Hollywood; by nineteen she's an international movie star. Maggie lives for her glorious "sister's" infrequent whirlwind visits. 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. 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. 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.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002AT4M62/?tag=2022091-20
(I admit it, I 'judge a book by it's cover'. That is the r...)
I admit it, I 'judge a book by it's cover'. That is the reason i first picked up "Princess Daisy", the cover was beautiful. The story turned out to be equally compelling. The key to a good book is making you feel like you are in the story, and making the characters and their situations seem real. Krantz does this wonderfully. I was captured by the story of Daisy, her life, her struggles, and her triumphs. When I reached the last chapter, I was extremely disappointed. I didn't want the story to end! I read this last chapter over and over, and I hoped for a sequel. I highly recommend reading this novel to anyone who enjoys reading about romance, adventure, and mystery; this book has it all, and pulls it off well.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002PK37GW/?tag=2022091-20
(Scruples is a temple of high fashion where the rich and t...)
Scruples is a temple of high fashion where the rich and the super-chic can sip champagne, browse, gossip - and buy the most beautiful and expensive clothes in the world. Its owner Billy Ikehorn is stylish, beautiful and rich and her ruthless search for fulfilment leads her from lover to lover. Then she meets the one man who can match her ambition and her passion ...From the romance of Paris and the streets of New York to the staggering luxury and wealth of Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive, Scruples is the cult classic that everyone remembers: the original sexy read is back.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0751551260/?tag=2022091-20
( No city but Florence contains such an intense concentra...)
No city but Florence contains such an intense concentration of art produced in such a short span of time. The sheer number and proximity of works of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Florence can be so overwhelming that Florentine hospitals treat hundreds of visitors each year for symptoms brought on by trying to see them all, an illness famously identified with the French author Stendhal. While most guidebooks offer only brief descriptions of a large number of works, with little discussion of the historical background, Judith Testa gives a fresh perspective on the rich and brilliant art of the Florentine Renaissance in An Art Lover’s Guide to Florence. Concentrating on a number of the greatest works, by such masters as Botticelli and Michelangelo, Testa explains each piece in terms of what it meant to the people who produced it and for whom they made it, deftly treating the complex interplay of politics, sex, and religion that were involved in the creation of those works. With Testa as a guide, armchair travelers and tourists alike will delight in the fascinating world of Florentine art and history.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0875806805/?tag=2022091-20
(A nostalgic look at springtimes past, and the joy of love...)
A nostalgic look at springtimes past, and the joy of love discovered. 'SpringÆs Memory' is the latest collection of historical inspirational novellas from Barbour Publishing. Includes the stories 'A Valentine for Prudence' by Darlene Mindrup, 'Set Sail My Heart' by Colleen Coble, 'The Wonder of Spring' by Carol Cox, 'The Blessings Basket' by Judith McCoy Miller. Retreat to romances of Springs gone by and experience the season of love all over again.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1577485025/?tag=2022091-20
Krantz, Judith Tarcher was born on January 9, 1928 in New York City. Daughter of Jack David and Mary (Brager) Tarcher.
Bachelor, Wellesley College, 1948.
Fashion publicist, Paris, 1948-1949. Fashion editor Good Housekeeping magazine, New York City, 1949-1956. Contributing writer McCalls, 1956-1959, Ladies Home Journal, 1959-1971.
Contributing west coast editor Cosmopolitan magazine, 1971-1979.
(Scruples is the novel that created publishing history, t...)
(From the woman who brought us Scruples, Dazzle, and Sprin...)
(Publication Date: January 1, 1998 For the first time J...)
(Scruples is a temple of high fashion where the rich and t...)
(In the 1920s, an intriguingly beautiful, complex, vibrant...)
(Scruples, Judith Krantz's electrifying, world wide bests...)
(Scruples, Judith Krantz's electrifying, world wide bests...)
(A sensational tale of three fiery and famous generations ...)
( No city but Florence contains such an intense concentra...)
(A nostalgic look at springtimes past, and the joy of love...)
(She was born Princess Marguerite Alexandrovna Valensky. ...)
(Cosmopolitan magazine with rare Cindy Crawford cover.)
(I admit it, I 'judge a book by it's cover'. That is the r...)
(May Have Some Cover Shelf Wear / Box 9000)
(May Have Some Cover Shelf Wear / Box 9000)
(May Have Some Cover Shelf Wear / Box 9000)
(THREE NOVELS IN ONE BOOK)
(Quick delivery!)
(Russian text.)
(Russian text.)
(Eve dared. . . Eve, with passion that overruled her total...)
(Fiction)
(romanzo)
(1998)
(book)
Author: Scruples, 1978, Princess Daisy, 1980, Mistral's Daughter, 1982, I'll Take Manhattan, 1986, Till We Meet Again, 1988, Dazzle, 1990, Scruples Two, 1992, Lovers, 1994, Spring Collection, 1996, The Jewels of Tessa Kent, 1998, Sex & Shopping: Confessions of a Nice Jewish Girl, 2000.
Married Stephen Falk Krantz, February 19, 1954 (deceased January 4, 2007). Children: Nicholas, Anthony.