Author: Linda S Clayton
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595453074
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
All Maggie Bloom wants to do is get married and live happily ever after in her Hilton Head Island home. Her hopes for peaceful wedded bliss fade, though, when she allows her best friend, Lucy Rotblumen, to coordinate the event. It's bad enough when Lucy hires fancy wedding planners from Raleigh and rents an island in Calibogue Sound for the ceremony. But when Honey McCloud, one of the wedding planners, turns up dead in the newly constructed pavilion, and the sheriff suspects Lucy of murder, Maggie fears her longed-for perfect day is doomed. Anxious to help exonerate her friend, Maggie delves into the wedding planner's past, but as she comes close to solving the murder, someone comes close to killing her. An unseen stalker pursues her around Hilton Head threatening all kinds of terrible things. And the worst part is, no one, including her fianc believes her. And then there's Lucy. The deeper Maggie digs, the more dirt she turns up about her chum. Could Lucy actually be involved in-gasp-murder? Maggie has to figure things out fast-before all the maddening mayhem leads to a matrimonial meltdown.
The Perfectly Proper Grand Pet Parade
Author: Coral Vass
Publisher: 'The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc'
ISBN: 1499488599
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The Perfectly Proper Grand Pet Parade includes animals of all shapes and sizes! From Great Danes to parrots, turtles to rabbits, kids from all over town bring their pets to participate in this grand event. But two scheming troublemakers threaten to ruin the whole thing, and the unshakeable Lavender Gray must save the day. Readers will love discovering all types of pets through a high-stakes storyline and colorful illustrations.
Publisher: 'The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc'
ISBN: 1499488599
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The Perfectly Proper Grand Pet Parade includes animals of all shapes and sizes! From Great Danes to parrots, turtles to rabbits, kids from all over town bring their pets to participate in this grand event. But two scheming troublemakers threaten to ruin the whole thing, and the unshakeable Lavender Gray must save the day. Readers will love discovering all types of pets through a high-stakes storyline and colorful illustrations.
Just Buried
Author: Linda S Clayton
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595453074
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
All Maggie Bloom wants to do is get married and live happily ever after in her Hilton Head Island home. Her hopes for peaceful wedded bliss fade, though, when she allows her best friend, Lucy Rotblumen, to coordinate the event. It's bad enough when Lucy hires fancy wedding planners from Raleigh and rents an island in Calibogue Sound for the ceremony. But when Honey McCloud, one of the wedding planners, turns up dead in the newly constructed pavilion, and the sheriff suspects Lucy of murder, Maggie fears her longed-for perfect day is doomed. Anxious to help exonerate her friend, Maggie delves into the wedding planner's past, but as she comes close to solving the murder, someone comes close to killing her. An unseen stalker pursues her around Hilton Head threatening all kinds of terrible things. And the worst part is, no one, including her fianc believes her. And then there's Lucy. The deeper Maggie digs, the more dirt she turns up about her chum. Could Lucy actually be involved in-gasp-murder? Maggie has to figure things out fast-before all the maddening mayhem leads to a matrimonial meltdown.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595453074
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
All Maggie Bloom wants to do is get married and live happily ever after in her Hilton Head Island home. Her hopes for peaceful wedded bliss fade, though, when she allows her best friend, Lucy Rotblumen, to coordinate the event. It's bad enough when Lucy hires fancy wedding planners from Raleigh and rents an island in Calibogue Sound for the ceremony. But when Honey McCloud, one of the wedding planners, turns up dead in the newly constructed pavilion, and the sheriff suspects Lucy of murder, Maggie fears her longed-for perfect day is doomed. Anxious to help exonerate her friend, Maggie delves into the wedding planner's past, but as she comes close to solving the murder, someone comes close to killing her. An unseen stalker pursues her around Hilton Head threatening all kinds of terrible things. And the worst part is, no one, including her fianc believes her. And then there's Lucy. The deeper Maggie digs, the more dirt she turns up about her chum. Could Lucy actually be involved in-gasp-murder? Maggie has to figure things out fast-before all the maddening mayhem leads to a matrimonial meltdown.
The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It
Author: Joanna Scutts
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631492748
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
From the flapper to The Feminine Mystique, a cultural history of single women in the city through the reclaimed life of glamorous guru Marjorie Hillis. You’ve met the extra woman: she’s sophisticated, she lives comfortably alone, she pursues her passions unabashedly, and—contrary to society’s suspicions—she really is happy. Despite multiple waves of feminist revolution, today’s single woman is still mired in judgment or, worse, pity. But for a brief, exclamatory period in the late 1930s, she was all the rage. A delicious cocktail of cultural history and literary biography, The Extra Woman transports us to the turbulent and transformative years between suffrage and the sixties, when, thanks to the glamorous grit of one Marjorie Hillis, single women boldly claimed and enjoyed their independence. Marjorie Hillis, pragmatic daughter of a Brooklyn preacher, was poised for reinvention when she moved to the big city to start a life of her own. Gone were the days of the flirty flapper; ladies of Depression-era New York embraced a new icon: the independent working woman. Hillis was already a success at Vogue when she published a radical self-help book in 1936: Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman. With Dorothy Parker–esque wit, she urged spinsters, divorcées, and “old maids” to shed derogatory labels and take control of their lives, and her philosophy became a phenomenon. From the importance of a peignoir to the joy of breakfast in bed (alone), Hillis’s tips made single life desirable and chic. In a style as irresistible as Hillis’s own, Joanna Scutts, a leading cultural critic, explores the revolutionary years following the Live-Alone movement, when the status of these “brazen ladies” peaked and then collapsed. Other innovative lifestyle gurus set similar trends that celebrated guiltless female independence and pleasure: Dorothy Draper’s interior design smash, Decorating Is Fun! transformed apartments; Irma Rombauer’s warm and welcoming recipe book, The Joy of Cooking, reassured the nervous home chef that she, too, was capable of decadent culinary feats. By painting the wider picture, Scutts reveals just how influential Hillis’s career was, spanning decades and numerous best sellers. As she refashioned her message with every life experience, Hillis proved that guts, grace, and perseverance would always be in vogue. With this vibrant examination of a remarkable life and profound feminist philosophy, Joanna Scutts at last reclaims Marjorie Hillis as the original queen of a maligned sisterhood. Channeling Hillis’s charm, The Extra Woman is both a brilliant exposé of women who forged their independent paths before the domestic backlash of the 1950s trapped them behind picket fences, and an illuminating excursion into the joys of fashion, mixology, decorating, and other manifestations of shameless self-love.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631492748
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
From the flapper to The Feminine Mystique, a cultural history of single women in the city through the reclaimed life of glamorous guru Marjorie Hillis. You’ve met the extra woman: she’s sophisticated, she lives comfortably alone, she pursues her passions unabashedly, and—contrary to society’s suspicions—she really is happy. Despite multiple waves of feminist revolution, today’s single woman is still mired in judgment or, worse, pity. But for a brief, exclamatory period in the late 1930s, she was all the rage. A delicious cocktail of cultural history and literary biography, The Extra Woman transports us to the turbulent and transformative years between suffrage and the sixties, when, thanks to the glamorous grit of one Marjorie Hillis, single women boldly claimed and enjoyed their independence. Marjorie Hillis, pragmatic daughter of a Brooklyn preacher, was poised for reinvention when she moved to the big city to start a life of her own. Gone were the days of the flirty flapper; ladies of Depression-era New York embraced a new icon: the independent working woman. Hillis was already a success at Vogue when she published a radical self-help book in 1936: Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman. With Dorothy Parker–esque wit, she urged spinsters, divorcées, and “old maids” to shed derogatory labels and take control of their lives, and her philosophy became a phenomenon. From the importance of a peignoir to the joy of breakfast in bed (alone), Hillis’s tips made single life desirable and chic. In a style as irresistible as Hillis’s own, Joanna Scutts, a leading cultural critic, explores the revolutionary years following the Live-Alone movement, when the status of these “brazen ladies” peaked and then collapsed. Other innovative lifestyle gurus set similar trends that celebrated guiltless female independence and pleasure: Dorothy Draper’s interior design smash, Decorating Is Fun! transformed apartments; Irma Rombauer’s warm and welcoming recipe book, The Joy of Cooking, reassured the nervous home chef that she, too, was capable of decadent culinary feats. By painting the wider picture, Scutts reveals just how influential Hillis’s career was, spanning decades and numerous best sellers. As she refashioned her message with every life experience, Hillis proved that guts, grace, and perseverance would always be in vogue. With this vibrant examination of a remarkable life and profound feminist philosophy, Joanna Scutts at last reclaims Marjorie Hillis as the original queen of a maligned sisterhood. Channeling Hillis’s charm, The Extra Woman is both a brilliant exposé of women who forged their independent paths before the domestic backlash of the 1950s trapped them behind picket fences, and an illuminating excursion into the joys of fashion, mixology, decorating, and other manifestations of shameless self-love.
Percy Whitlock
Author: Malcolm Riley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Set on You
Author: Amy Lea
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593336577
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
One of... Amazon's Best Romances of 2022 Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of May Goodreads' Most Anticipated May Romances SheReads' Best Romance Books Coming in 2022 A gym nemesis pushes a fitness influencer to the max in Amy Lea’s steamy debut romantic comedy. Curvy fitness influencer Crystal Chen built her career shattering gym stereotypes and mostly ignoring the trolls. After her recent breakup, she has little stamina left for men, instead finding solace in the gym – her place of power and positivity. Enter firefighter Scott Ritchie, the smug new gym patron who routinely steals her favorite squat rack. Sparks fly as these ultra-competitive foes battle for gym domination. But after a series of escalating jabs, the last thing they expect is to run into each other at their grandparents' engagement party. In the lead up to their grandparents' wedding, Crystal discovers there’s a soft heart under Scott’s muscled exterior. Bonding over family, fitness, and cheesy pick-up lines, they just might have found her swolemate. But when a photo of them goes viral, savage internet trolls put their budding relationship to the ultimate test of strength.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593336577
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
One of... Amazon's Best Romances of 2022 Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of May Goodreads' Most Anticipated May Romances SheReads' Best Romance Books Coming in 2022 A gym nemesis pushes a fitness influencer to the max in Amy Lea’s steamy debut romantic comedy. Curvy fitness influencer Crystal Chen built her career shattering gym stereotypes and mostly ignoring the trolls. After her recent breakup, she has little stamina left for men, instead finding solace in the gym – her place of power and positivity. Enter firefighter Scott Ritchie, the smug new gym patron who routinely steals her favorite squat rack. Sparks fly as these ultra-competitive foes battle for gym domination. But after a series of escalating jabs, the last thing they expect is to run into each other at their grandparents' engagement party. In the lead up to their grandparents' wedding, Crystal discovers there’s a soft heart under Scott’s muscled exterior. Bonding over family, fitness, and cheesy pick-up lines, they just might have found her swolemate. But when a photo of them goes viral, savage internet trolls put their budding relationship to the ultimate test of strength.
My Invisible Boyfriend
Author: Susie Day
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407133624
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Geeky fangirl Heidi, 15, has a great fantasy life thanks to her TV and her laptop - and no wonder, when she's stuck at the boarding school for crazy drop-outs where her parents teach, with only a cake-shop Saturday job to escape to. At least she's got her best mates - but when they all start coupling up, Heidi needs a boyfriend - and fast. Enter Gingerbread Ed, a sexy lovemuppet with a motorbike. He'd be perfect - if he actually existed. Heidi's mad online life collides hysterically with her real one in a laugh-out-loud, über-cool teen novel.
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407133624
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Geeky fangirl Heidi, 15, has a great fantasy life thanks to her TV and her laptop - and no wonder, when she's stuck at the boarding school for crazy drop-outs where her parents teach, with only a cake-shop Saturday job to escape to. At least she's got her best mates - but when they all start coupling up, Heidi needs a boyfriend - and fast. Enter Gingerbread Ed, a sexy lovemuppet with a motorbike. He'd be perfect - if he actually existed. Heidi's mad online life collides hysterically with her real one in a laugh-out-loud, über-cool teen novel.
Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing and Horror Cinema
Author: Mark A. Miller
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147663842X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
From their first pairing in Hamlet (1948) to House of the Long Shadows (1983), British film stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing forged perhaps the most successful collaboration in horror film history. In its revised and expanded second edition, this volume examines their 22 movie team-ups, with critical commentary, complete cast and credits, production information, details on cinematography and make-up, exhibition history and box-office figures. A wealth of background about Hammer, Amicus and other production companies is provided, along with more than 100 illustrations. Lee and Cushing describe particulars of their partnership in original interviews. Exclusive interviews with Robert Bloch, Hazel Court and nearly fifty other actors, directors and others who worked on the Lee-Cushing films are included.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147663842X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 563
Book Description
From their first pairing in Hamlet (1948) to House of the Long Shadows (1983), British film stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing forged perhaps the most successful collaboration in horror film history. In its revised and expanded second edition, this volume examines their 22 movie team-ups, with critical commentary, complete cast and credits, production information, details on cinematography and make-up, exhibition history and box-office figures. A wealth of background about Hammer, Amicus and other production companies is provided, along with more than 100 illustrations. Lee and Cushing describe particulars of their partnership in original interviews. Exclusive interviews with Robert Bloch, Hazel Court and nearly fifty other actors, directors and others who worked on the Lee-Cushing films are included.
A Clear Blue Sky
Author: N.R. Narayana Murthy
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184752148
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
26/11, 9/11, 7/7—dates that have changed the way we see ourselves and those around us. Dates that have changed the world, and not for the better. Why is the world getting increasingly fragmented? Is there a way for us to understand different viewpoints better? In this collection, writers from India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan—Gulzar, Elmo Jayawardena, Manjula Padmanabhan, Poile Sengupta, Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, Subhadra Sen Gupta and others—write about various kinds of conflict in our society and history. Some stories are dark, others full of light and hope, and some outright funny as they portray mindless bigots for what they are. When a church burns in Bangalore, the altar cloth ends up in the hands of Mubina, whose grandmother can clean and repair it like no one else; years after the Partition tore a friendship apart, two people try to find the happiness that was once within their reach; and while chasing away courting couples from the Delhi Ridge, a young thug learns a lesson about what really makes Indian ‘culture’. Interspersed with poems that articulate pleas for peace and understanding, this collection is sure to start a conversation on religion, race, caste, and mindsets that divide us.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184752148
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
26/11, 9/11, 7/7—dates that have changed the way we see ourselves and those around us. Dates that have changed the world, and not for the better. Why is the world getting increasingly fragmented? Is there a way for us to understand different viewpoints better? In this collection, writers from India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan—Gulzar, Elmo Jayawardena, Manjula Padmanabhan, Poile Sengupta, Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, Subhadra Sen Gupta and others—write about various kinds of conflict in our society and history. Some stories are dark, others full of light and hope, and some outright funny as they portray mindless bigots for what they are. When a church burns in Bangalore, the altar cloth ends up in the hands of Mubina, whose grandmother can clean and repair it like no one else; years after the Partition tore a friendship apart, two people try to find the happiness that was once within their reach; and while chasing away courting couples from the Delhi Ridge, a young thug learns a lesson about what really makes Indian ‘culture’. Interspersed with poems that articulate pleas for peace and understanding, this collection is sure to start a conversation on religion, race, caste, and mindsets that divide us.
Creating the Artful Home
Author: Karen Zukowski
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781586857660
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Creating the Artful Home: the Aesthetic Movement and Its Influence on Home Decor covers the history of a movement that emphasized "art for art's sake"-and the influence it had on home decor. The Aesthetic Movement in America lasted just a few decades (1870-1900), and served mainly as a bridge between the high Victorian sensibility and the radical shift to the Arts & Crafts style. The movement germinated among artists who used opulent color, decorative patterning, and lavish materials simply for the aesthetic effects they could evoke. It was commonly held that a home that expressed an artful, harmonious soul would instill high aesthetic and moral merit in its inhabitants. The Aesthetic Movement in America helped to popularize the idea that everyone should be able to enjoy beautiful, well-made homes and furnishings-not just the very wealthy. Artful homes could be composed from brilliant antique store finds, discriminating department store purchases, and gems hand-made by the ladies of the house. It was the moment when people embraced the idea that only a beautiful home could be a happy home. Karen Zukowski delves into the movement's establishment, evolution, and main characters, and shows how today's homes can incorporate Aesthetic principles: Through suggestion rather than statement, sensuality, massive use of symbols, and synaesthetic effects-that is, correspondence between words, colors and music. How influential designers such as Clarence Cook and Charles Eastlake popularized the idea that beautiful homes with tasteful furnishings could be available to practically everyone How today's designers, manufacturers, and retailers deploy the very same stylistic markers of the Aesthetic Movement: rich color, layered pattern and texture, mixtures of historical motifs
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781586857660
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Creating the Artful Home: the Aesthetic Movement and Its Influence on Home Decor covers the history of a movement that emphasized "art for art's sake"-and the influence it had on home decor. The Aesthetic Movement in America lasted just a few decades (1870-1900), and served mainly as a bridge between the high Victorian sensibility and the radical shift to the Arts & Crafts style. The movement germinated among artists who used opulent color, decorative patterning, and lavish materials simply for the aesthetic effects they could evoke. It was commonly held that a home that expressed an artful, harmonious soul would instill high aesthetic and moral merit in its inhabitants. The Aesthetic Movement in America helped to popularize the idea that everyone should be able to enjoy beautiful, well-made homes and furnishings-not just the very wealthy. Artful homes could be composed from brilliant antique store finds, discriminating department store purchases, and gems hand-made by the ladies of the house. It was the moment when people embraced the idea that only a beautiful home could be a happy home. Karen Zukowski delves into the movement's establishment, evolution, and main characters, and shows how today's homes can incorporate Aesthetic principles: Through suggestion rather than statement, sensuality, massive use of symbols, and synaesthetic effects-that is, correspondence between words, colors and music. How influential designers such as Clarence Cook and Charles Eastlake popularized the idea that beautiful homes with tasteful furnishings could be available to practically everyone How today's designers, manufacturers, and retailers deploy the very same stylistic markers of the Aesthetic Movement: rich color, layered pattern and texture, mixtures of historical motifs
New York Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.