Author: Louise Regina Baker
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Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Author: Louise Regina Baker
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ISBN: 9781332934485
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Excerpt from Bettie Porter Boardwalk Committee Across the road from the long, lean house there was an undeniably modern house. It was built of red brick, possessed a bay window, ih side Shutters of oak and a slate roof. A wind mill showed its gorgeous fan above the slate roof and Off to itself in the yard a United States ag waved on its high stafi. In the centre of the circle before the house was a large plaster fountain which seldom played. The road about the circle was heavily graveled and there were no trees. The summer visitors who worried Mrs. Porter kept rigorously away from the home of Stephen Caulk. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Author: Mary Isabel Martin
Publisher:
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Category : Sidewalks
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2468

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Author: Courtney Allison
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 1423653602
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Entertaining starts with setting a fabulous table. In Courtney Allison’s signature French Country Cottage style, she showcases a myriad of romantic table settings for every occasion. Courtney provides the styling expertise to host your own French Country Cottage–inspired gathering, whether in the backyard, at the beach, under an old oak tree, or in a country barn. A simple picnic; coffee by the lake; a cheese board for friends outdoors; a bistro table for two; a long table for a formal meal—each setting exhibiting Allison’s dreamy style for you to emulate. The pièce de résistance in every venue, any setting, is the gorgeous arrangements of seasonal flowers; Courtney’s bouquets will take your breath away from spring to fall, for outdoors and inside.

Author: Charles Musser
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520060807
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Author: Sharrie Williams
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1936332175
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 421

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In 1915, when a kitchen stove fire singed his sister Mabel's lashes and brows, Tom Lyle Williams watched in fascination as she performed a 'secret of the harem'-mixing petroleum jelly with coal dust and ash from a burnt cork and apply it to her lashes and brows. Mabel's simple beauty trick ignited Tom Lyle's imagination and he started what would become a billion-dollar business, one that remains a viable American icon after nearly a century. He named it Maybelline in her honor.Throughout the 20th century, the Maybelline Company inflated, collapsed, endured, and thrived in tandem with the nation's upheavals-as did the family that nurtured it. Setting up shop first in Chicago, Williams later, to avoid unwanted scrutiny of his private life, cloistered himself behind the gates of his Rudolph Valentino Villa and ran his empire from a distance.Now after nearly a century of silence, this true story celebrates the life of an American entrepreneur, a man whose vision rocketed him to success along with the woman held in his orbit, Evelyn Boecher-who became his lifelong fascination and muse. Captivated by her 'roaring charisma,' he affectionately called her the 'real Miss Maybelline' and based many of his advertising campaigns on the woman she represented: commandingly beautiful, hard-boiled and daring. Evelyn masterminded a life of vanity, but would fall prey to fortune hunters and a mysterious murder that even today remains unsolved.A fascinating and inspiring story of ambition, luck, secrecy-and surprisingly, above all, love and forgiveness, a tale both epic and intimate, alive with the clash, the hustle, the music, and dance of American enterprise.

Author: Cory Doctorow
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765310453
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Now in softcover, the second novel from one of the hottest writers in modern SF

Author: John B. Branson
Publisher: Department of Interior National Park Service Lake Clark National Park & Preserve
ISBN: 9780979643217
Category : Bristol Bay (Alaska)
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Lois A. Glewwe
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625854137
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Incorporated in 1887, South St. Paul grew rapidly as the blue-collar counterpart to the bright lights and sophistication of its cosmopolitan neighbors Minneapolis and St. Paul. Its prosperous stockyards and slaughterhouses ranked the city among America's largest meatpacking centers. The proud city fell on hard economic times in the second half of the twentieth century. Broad swaths of empty buildings were razed as an enticement to promised redevelopment programs that never happened. In 1990, South St. Paul began to chart out its own successful path to renewal with a pristine riverfront park, a trail system and a business park where the stockyards once stood. Author and historian Lois A. Glewwe brings the story of the city's revival to life in this history of a remarkable community.