Taming Natasha (1990) (edit title/settings)

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• Natasha Stanislaski: The heroine of the first story. Eldest daughter and child of Yuri and Nadia Stanislaski; the child who has moved furthest from home. Natasha used to be a professional ballet dancer, but has owned her own toy shop 'The Fun House' for three years in West Virginia. Is sworn off men.
• Spencer Kimball: Hero; has just moved in town with his five-year-old daughter, Frederica. A college professor of music and world renowned composer; has not composed for four years. Known as Spence.
• Frederica Kimball: Spencer's five-year-old daughter, known as 'Freddie'. Knows how to use her feminine wiles to get what she wants; Spencer usually gives in.
• Nadia Stanislaski: Natasha's mother and mother to three other children. Lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Yuri with whom she escaped with her children from Ukraine during the time of the Soviet Union
• Yuri Stanislaski: Natasha's father and married to Nadia. In the carpentry business. Planned for years to get out of Ukraine with his wife and children to achieve freedom.
• Rachel Stanislaski: Natasha's sister and Yuri and Nadia's youngest daughter. Studying to be a lawyer
• Annie: Natasha's assistant in her shop.
• Mikhail Stanislaski: Natasha's younger brother.
• Alexi Stanislaski: Natasha's younger brother and older of the two Stanislaski boys. Loves to work with wood, whether this is simple carpentry or his more detailed sculpture work. Has made Natasha a series of fairytale figurines because she found English the hardest to learn and loved to look at the pictures in fairytale books.
• Angela Kimball: Spencer's deceased wife.
• Nina Barklay: Spencer's sister.
• Vera: Spencer's longtime housekeeper.
• Terry Maynard: one of Spence's students.
• Anthony: Natasha's ex
• Lily Stanislaski: Add a description of this character.
• Brandon Kimball
• JoBeth Riley: Girl in the neighbourhood of Freddie's age

Quotes edit see section history

• “Why is it that all the really great-looking men are married?”

  Annie

• “It's a woman's privilege - no, her obligation - to weave fantasies over men like that.”

  Annie

• “You made mistakes. You recognized them and you rectified them.”

  Nina

• “You shouldn't worry. When she comes home, she'll be full of stories about everything and everyone. The first day is much harder, I think, on the parent than on the child.”

  Natasha

• “Why do I get the feeling you'd like to boil me in oil?”

  Spencer

• “I'm sorry. I don't play an instrument. But I love to listen music and thought I'd enjoy the class. If it ever starts, that is. Apparently our esteemed professor is late.”

  Natasha

• “I can't understand how a man that could play music with such sensitivity could be such a clod.”

  Natasha

• “We will see. It as as hard for a child to resist a toy store as it is a man to resist a beautiful woman.”

  Vera

• “You've been nervous, moody and distracted since Kimball walked into the shop a couple of weeks ago. In over three years, I've never seen you give a man more than five minutes' thought. Until now”

  Annie

• “Don't be patient. No, I mean it. People always say when the time is right, when the mood is right, when the place is right. Years are wasted that way. There are some things that should be grabbed with both hands and taken. Life can be very, very short.”

  Natasha

• “I am just taking your advice, Not being patient. Taking what I want. Not wasting time”

  Spence

• “All right, one straight question before my foot is permanently lodged in my mouth. Are you interested in him?”

  Spence

• “The first time I lectured, I stood at the podium and my mind went completely blank. For one terrible moment I couldn't think of anything I'd planned to say. I'm having exactly the same problem now.”

  Spence

• “Oh, we had plenty in common. She was as spoiled and as pampered as I, as self-absorbed and as ambitious.”

  Spence

• “It was especially fortunate that I have a little girl and Natasha owns a very tempting toy store. Added to that, she signed up for one of my classes. It made it difficult for her to avoid me when she was being stubborn.”

  Spence

• “I called her Lily. She was so lovely, so tiny and soft. I had no idea it was possible to love anything, anyone, the way you love a child. I would watch her sleep for hours, so thrilled, so awed that she come from me.”

  Natasha

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Shepherdstown: the town where the action develops.

Organizations edit see section history

• The Fun House: Natasha's toy store.

First Sentence edit see section history

Table of Contents edit see section history

Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by Luring a Lady.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Nora Roberts (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Profanity. Sexual content.

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Romance › Contemporary
• Books › Romance › Series › Silhouette Special Edition
• Books › Romance › Authors, A-Z › ( R ) › Roberts, Nora

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Nora Roberts: Author's website