E-audiobook
H.R.H [electronic resource] / Danielle Steel.
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- ISBN: 073934692X (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 9780739346921 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : Books on Tape, 2006.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 9:51:48. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Jay O'Sanders. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 141756 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Princesses > Europe > Fiction. AIDS (Disease) > Africa > Fiction. Europe > Social conditions > 21st century > Fiction. |
| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Love stories. Audiobooks. |
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- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2006 September #2
Lonely European princess finds purpose and romance when she volunteers for a humanitarian organization in East Africa.With the weight of an entire kingdom-Liechtenstein, to be exact-on her slender shoulders, her Serene Highness Christianna knows that her life will never be her own. Even though women are forbidden to rule the tiny principality, her profligate older brother and royal heir Freddy shows so little interest in his responsibilities that her widower father, Prince Hans Josef, looks to her to fulfill obligations. Resigned to a life of endless state dinners and hospital tours, the 23-year-old Berkeley grad's life takes an unexpected turn after she watches children die on TV in a bloody Russian terrorist standoff. Galvanized into action, and with two strapping bodyguards in tow, she meets up with the Red Cross in Russia and does what she can to ease suffering, finding the experience far more meaningful than anything else she has done. Back at her Vaduz palace, her father agrees to let her again join the organization to assist with a hospital project in Eritrea, with the understanding that once the year is up she will devote all her time to her royal duties. In Africa, she hides her identity and passionately throws herself into the work, bonding with her multicultural colleagues who know her only as "Cricky." She also meets a handsome, young American doctor, Parker Williams, who is himself quickly smitten by the compassionate young woman in braids and boots. Their love blossoms in spite of Christianna's constant awareness that she could never marry a commoner, dooming their relationship. The heartbroken lovers part when Parker has to return to his AIDS research work at Harvard. The princess leaves soon after when the camp comes under threat during a local war. But it will take more than an ocean-and generations of tradition-to keep these two crazy kids from their happy ending. Steele (Coming Out, June 2006, etc.) should get her due for the political hot-spots angle, but saintlier-than-thou sweethearts Parker and Christianna make for a particularly insipid duo.Often silly and hastily concluded tale of love vs. duty.Agent: Mort Janklow/Janklow & Nesbit Associates Copyright Kirkus 2006 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2006 August #1
(See Prepub Alert, LJ 7/06) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2007 May #2
Steel's new novel follows the destiny of the attractive young princess of the small European nation of Liechtenstein. Returning to her kingdom after four years of college in America, Christianna is apprehensive about the expectations and demands of the world in which she lives. Conscientious and hard-working, the only daughter of the reigning Prince of Liechtenstein takes her royal responsibilities seriously. Life in the palace, however, cannot sidetrack Christianna from her passion for helping suffering children overcome the devastation of violence and disease. Determined to make a difference, she convinces her father to let her volunteer for the Red Cross in East Africa. There, she meets Parker Williams, a good-looking, Harvard-educated physician working for Doctors Without Borders, and falls in love. Violence and brutality invade the Red Cross camp, and Christianna is pressured to return home and end her relationship with Parker. Though these characters are one-dimensional and the plot simplistic and predictable, H.R.H , read by Jay O'Sanders, is a light and entertaining contemporary romance, with a touch of suspense and some surprises. Recommended for libraries where Steel has fans.âCarol Stern, Glen Cove P.L., NY
[Page 130]. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
