Fairytale

Fairytales can come true . . . Camille Lammenais had a perfect childhood growing up in California’s beautiful Napa Valley, surrounded by acres of her family’s vineyards. Her beloved parents have built a renowned winery inspired by her father's native Bordeaux, and after graduating, Camille returns to fulfil her lifetime ambition – helping to run Chateau Joy. But the fairytale ends with her mother's sudden, tragic death. Six months after losing his wife, Camille's father is easy prey for a mysterious, charming French countess visiting the valley. Camille, still grieving, is shocked that he can't see past the alluring looks, designer clothes and elegant manners. With Camille’s perfect world falling apart, it will take all of her strength to fight for her family’s legacy. And as her own love story begins to take shape, she must protect her happily ever after with everything she has . . . Fairytale is a glamorous modern day Cinderella story set in Napa Valley, from the billion-copy bestseller Danielle Steel.

Fairytales can come true . . . Camille Lammenais had a perfect childhood growing up in California’s beautiful Napa Valley, surrounded by acres of her family’s vineyards. Her beloved parents have built a renowned winery inspired by her father's native Bordeaux, and after graduating, Camille returns to fulfil her lifetime ambition – helping to run Chateau Joy. But the fairytale ends with her mother's sudden, tragic death. Six months after losing his wife, Camille's father is easy prey for a mysterious, charming French countess visiting the valley. Camille, still grieving, is shocked that he can't see past the alluring looks, designer clothes and elegant manners. With Camille’s perfect world falling apart, it will take all of her strength to fight for her family’s legacy. And as her own love story begins to take shape, she must protect her happily ever after with everything she has . . . Fairytale is a glamorous modern day Cinderella story set in Napa Valley, from the billion-copy bestseller Danielle Steel.

FAIRYTALE is the first and only book to provide inside portraits of The Pointer Sisters’ formative and professional life—June, Bonnie, Anita and Ruth come of age as “mold-breaking” artists during the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960s. See how paths chosen and challenges faced—individually and collectively—strengthened and honed their forty-eight year musical career. This is a story of love and rivalry between sisters—for lead vocals, and for men. It is also an intimate story of family love—of a sagacious, strong and caring father, and a mother’s love. In recorded and transcribed interviews over several years, and family heirloom photographs and private personal letters, Anita and Fritz Pointer (sister and brother) bring to life the exciting story of: migration during the 1940s Great Migration of Black Americans; fifteen family members living in one house; the deeply troubling dismissal of their father from the church he helped to build; Bonnie and Anita’s founding membership in the Northern California Black Panther Party; the Sisters serendipitous discovery. Fritz Pointer, one of the older brothers of June, Bonnie, Anita and Ruth, brings insight, veracity and passion to this story. No one else knows the family, community, political or social history out of which The Pointer Sisters came as thoroughly and deeply as he does. Fritz has a BA in English, Creighton University, 1966; MA, African Studies, UCLA, 1971; MA, African Languages and Literature, U. Wisconsin, Madison, 1979. He has thirty years experience teaching Composition, African and African American Humanities, and History in higher education. Fritz has authored two books and several scholarly articles in his area of African Literature. Anita Pointer shares a passion with Fritz for telling the story of The Pointer Sisters—which has been their unshakeable commitment for nearly a decade. In FAIRYTALE, Anita takes us inside the relationship of the sisters, in one of America’s most dynamic families, making contributions as: professional athletes, a college professor and world-renown entertainers singing, writing, and recording skillfully, passionately, beautifully across genres—Jazz (scat, bebop), Blues, Rock and Roll, Country & Western, Rhythm & Blues—uniquely unequaled and unparalleled in music history.

FAIRYTALE is the first and only book to provide inside portraits of The Pointer Sisters’ formative and professional life—June, Bonnie, Anita and Ruth come of age as “mold-breaking” artists during the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960s. See how paths chosen and challenges faced—individually and collectively—strengthened and honed their forty-eight year musical career. This is a story of love and rivalry between sisters—for lead vocals, and for men. It is also an intimate story of family love—of a sagacious, strong and caring father, and a mother’s love. In recorded and transcribed interviews over several years, and family heirloom photographs and private personal letters, Anita and Fritz Pointer (sister and brother) bring to life the exciting story of: migration during the 1940s Great Migration of Black Americans; fifteen family members living in one house; the deeply troubling dismissal of their father from the church he helped to build; Bonnie and Anita’s founding membership in the Northern California Black Panther Party; the Sisters serendipitous discovery. Fritz Pointer, one of the older brothers of June, Bonnie, Anita and Ruth, brings insight, veracity and passion to this story. No one else knows the family, community, political or social history out of which The Pointer Sisters came as thoroughly and deeply as he does. Fritz has a BA in English, Creighton University, 1966; MA, African Studies, UCLA, 1971; MA, African Languages and Literature, U. Wisconsin, Madison, 1979. He has thirty years experience teaching Composition, African and African American Humanities, and History in higher education. Fritz has authored two books and several scholarly articles in his area of African Literature. Anita Pointer shares a passion with Fritz for telling the story of The Pointer Sisters—which has been their unshakeable commitment for nearly a decade. In FAIRYTALE, Anita takes us inside the relationship of the sisters, in one of America’s most dynamic families, making contributions as: professional athletes, a college professor and world-renown entertainers singing, writing, and recording skillfully, passionately, beautifully across genres—Jazz (scat, bebop), Blues, Rock and Roll, Country & Western, Rhythm & Blues—uniquely unequaled and unparalleled in music history.