Author: Cathy Bramley
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409186946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A sparkling summer story full of secrets and surprises! The city has not been kind to Lottie Allbright, it's time to cut and run. But when she packs up to move back home, she finds her family in disarray. In desperate need of a new place to stay, Lottie takes a live-in job managing a local vineyard. There's a lot to learn, especially as Butterworth Wines, which has always been run on love and passion, has been rocked by a tragic death. Widowed Betsy is trying to keep the place afloat while hiding a debilitating secret. Meanwhile her handsome, but interfering grandson, Jensen, is trying to convince her to sell up and move into a home. Lottie's determined to save Butterworth Wines and Betsy, but with an unpredictable summer to deal with, it'll be a challenge. And that's before she discovers something that will turn her summer - and her world - upside down . . . The perfect heartwarming romance to curl up with this winter, for fans of Debbie Macomber and Kristan Higgins. Readers are falling in love with A VINTAGE SUMMER 'A fun summer story' 'I loved everything about it' 'I loved it and could not put it down.' 'This book made me smile lots and taught me a lot about wine making too! It's a great summer read for sure!'
A Vintage Summer
Author: Cathy Bramley
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409186946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A sparkling summer story full of secrets and surprises! The city has not been kind to Lottie Allbright, it's time to cut and run. But when she packs up to move back home, she finds her family in disarray. In desperate need of a new place to stay, Lottie takes a live-in job managing a local vineyard. There's a lot to learn, especially as Butterworth Wines, which has always been run on love and passion, has been rocked by a tragic death. Widowed Betsy is trying to keep the place afloat while hiding a debilitating secret. Meanwhile her handsome, but interfering grandson, Jensen, is trying to convince her to sell up and move into a home. Lottie's determined to save Butterworth Wines and Betsy, but with an unpredictable summer to deal with, it'll be a challenge. And that's before she discovers something that will turn her summer - and her world - upside down . . . The perfect heartwarming romance to curl up with this winter, for fans of Debbie Macomber and Kristan Higgins. Readers are falling in love with A VINTAGE SUMMER 'A fun summer story' 'I loved everything about it' 'I loved it and could not put it down.' 'This book made me smile lots and taught me a lot about wine making too! It's a great summer read for sure!'
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409186946
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A sparkling summer story full of secrets and surprises! The city has not been kind to Lottie Allbright, it's time to cut and run. But when she packs up to move back home, she finds her family in disarray. In desperate need of a new place to stay, Lottie takes a live-in job managing a local vineyard. There's a lot to learn, especially as Butterworth Wines, which has always been run on love and passion, has been rocked by a tragic death. Widowed Betsy is trying to keep the place afloat while hiding a debilitating secret. Meanwhile her handsome, but interfering grandson, Jensen, is trying to convince her to sell up and move into a home. Lottie's determined to save Butterworth Wines and Betsy, but with an unpredictable summer to deal with, it'll be a challenge. And that's before she discovers something that will turn her summer - and her world - upside down . . . The perfect heartwarming romance to curl up with this winter, for fans of Debbie Macomber and Kristan Higgins. Readers are falling in love with A VINTAGE SUMMER 'A fun summer story' 'I loved everything about it' 'I loved it and could not put it down.' 'This book made me smile lots and taught me a lot about wine making too! It's a great summer read for sure!'
Summer Wine and Vintage Years
Author: B. Owen
Publisher: Robson Books Limited
ISBN: 9780860519850
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: Robson Books Limited
ISBN: 9780860519850
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Going Vintage
Author: Lindsey Leavitt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1619631954
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Live like it's 1962 in this fun, contemporary YA read from the never-out-of-date Lindsey Leavitt.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1619631954
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Live like it's 1962 in this fun, contemporary YA read from the never-out-of-date Lindsey Leavitt.
The Summer Before the Dark
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307777677
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
As the summer begins, Kate Brown -- attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily enough married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children -- has no reason to expect anything will change. But when the summer ends, the woman she was -- living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring -- no longer exists. This novel. Doris Lessing's brilliant excursion into the terrifying stretch of time between youth and old age, is her journey: from London to Turkey to Spain, from husband to lover to madness: on the road to a frightening new independence and a confrontation with self that lets her, finally, come truly of age.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307777677
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
As the summer begins, Kate Brown -- attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily enough married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children -- has no reason to expect anything will change. But when the summer ends, the woman she was -- living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring -- no longer exists. This novel. Doris Lessing's brilliant excursion into the terrifying stretch of time between youth and old age, is her journey: from London to Turkey to Spain, from husband to lover to madness: on the road to a frightening new independence and a confrontation with self that lets her, finally, come truly of age.
In A Summer Season
Author: Elizabeth Taylor
Publisher: Virago
ISBN: 0748131019
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
In a Summer Season is one of Elizabeth Taylor's finest novels in which, in a moving and powerful climax, she reveals love to be the thing it is: beautiful, often funny, and sometimes tragic. 'You taste of rain', he said, kissing her. 'People say I married her for her money', he thought contentedly, and for the moment was full of the self-respect that loving her had given him. Kate Heron is a wealthy, charming widow who marries, much to the disapproval of friends and neighbours, a man ten years her junior: the attractive, feckless Dermot. Then comes the return of Kate's old friend Charles - intelligent, kind and now widowed, with his beautiful young daughter. Kate watches happily as their two families are drawn together, finding his presence reassuringly familiar, but slowly she becomes aware of subtle undercurrents that begin to disturb the calm surface of their friendship. Before long, even she cannot ignore the gathering storm . . .
Publisher: Virago
ISBN: 0748131019
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
In a Summer Season is one of Elizabeth Taylor's finest novels in which, in a moving and powerful climax, she reveals love to be the thing it is: beautiful, often funny, and sometimes tragic. 'You taste of rain', he said, kissing her. 'People say I married her for her money', he thought contentedly, and for the moment was full of the self-respect that loving her had given him. Kate Heron is a wealthy, charming widow who marries, much to the disapproval of friends and neighbours, a man ten years her junior: the attractive, feckless Dermot. Then comes the return of Kate's old friend Charles - intelligent, kind and now widowed, with his beautiful young daughter. Kate watches happily as their two families are drawn together, finding his presence reassuringly familiar, but slowly she becomes aware of subtle undercurrents that begin to disturb the calm surface of their friendship. Before long, even she cannot ignore the gathering storm . . .
The Summer Wives
Author: Beatriz Williams
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062660365
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
“The Summer Wives is an exquisitely rendered novel that tackles two of my favorite topics: love and money. The glorious setting and drama are enriched by Williams’s signature vintage touch. It’s at the top of my picks for the beach this summer.” —Elin Hilderbrand, author of The Perfect Couple New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams brings us the blockbuster novel of the season—an electrifying postwar fable of love, class, power, and redemption set among the inhabitants of an island off the New England coast . . . In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda’s catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails, status and swimming pools. Isobel Fisher, Miranda’s new stepsister—all long legs and world-weary bravado, engaged to a wealthy Island scion—is eager to draw Miranda into the arcane customs of Winthrop society. But beneath the island’s patrician surface, there are really two clans: the summer families with their steadfast ways and quiet obsessions, and the working class of Portuguese fishermen and domestic workers who earn their living on the water and in the laundries of the summer houses. Uneasy among Isobel’s privileged friends, Miranda finds herself drawn to Joseph Vargas, whose father keeps the lighthouse with his mysterious wife. In summer, Joseph helps his father in the lobster boats, but in the autumn he returns to Brown University, where he’s determined to make something of himself. Since childhood, Joseph’s enjoyed an intense, complex friendship with Isobel Fisher, and as the summer winds to its end, Miranda’s caught in a catastrophe that will shatter Winthrop’s hard-won tranquility and banish Miranda from the island for nearly two decades. Now, in the landmark summer of 1969, Miranda returns at last, as a renowned Shakespearean actress hiding a terrible heartbreak. On its surface, the Island remains the same—determined to keep the outside world from its shores, fiercely loyal to those who belong. But the formerly powerful Fisher family is a shadow of itself, and Joseph Vargas has recently escaped the prison where he was incarcerated for the murder of Miranda’s stepfather eighteen years earlier. What’s more, Miranda herself is no longer a naïve teenager, and she begins a fierce, inexorable quest for justice for the man she once loved . . . even if it means uncovering every last one of the secrets that bind together the families of Winthrop Island.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062660365
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
“The Summer Wives is an exquisitely rendered novel that tackles two of my favorite topics: love and money. The glorious setting and drama are enriched by Williams’s signature vintage touch. It’s at the top of my picks for the beach this summer.” —Elin Hilderbrand, author of The Perfect Couple New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams brings us the blockbuster novel of the season—an electrifying postwar fable of love, class, power, and redemption set among the inhabitants of an island off the New England coast . . . In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda’s catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails, status and swimming pools. Isobel Fisher, Miranda’s new stepsister—all long legs and world-weary bravado, engaged to a wealthy Island scion—is eager to draw Miranda into the arcane customs of Winthrop society. But beneath the island’s patrician surface, there are really two clans: the summer families with their steadfast ways and quiet obsessions, and the working class of Portuguese fishermen and domestic workers who earn their living on the water and in the laundries of the summer houses. Uneasy among Isobel’s privileged friends, Miranda finds herself drawn to Joseph Vargas, whose father keeps the lighthouse with his mysterious wife. In summer, Joseph helps his father in the lobster boats, but in the autumn he returns to Brown University, where he’s determined to make something of himself. Since childhood, Joseph’s enjoyed an intense, complex friendship with Isobel Fisher, and as the summer winds to its end, Miranda’s caught in a catastrophe that will shatter Winthrop’s hard-won tranquility and banish Miranda from the island for nearly two decades. Now, in the landmark summer of 1969, Miranda returns at last, as a renowned Shakespearean actress hiding a terrible heartbreak. On its surface, the Island remains the same—determined to keep the outside world from its shores, fiercely loyal to those who belong. But the formerly powerful Fisher family is a shadow of itself, and Joseph Vargas has recently escaped the prison where he was incarcerated for the murder of Miranda’s stepfather eighteen years earlier. What’s more, Miranda herself is no longer a naïve teenager, and she begins a fierce, inexorable quest for justice for the man she once loved . . . even if it means uncovering every last one of the secrets that bind together the families of Winthrop Island.
The Late-summer Passion of a Woman of Mind
Author: Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The liberation of Eva Mueller, a middle-aged German-American professor of philosophy, does not come easy. Having lived in the self-protected world of the intellect all her life, she must first submerge herself in the unhappy reality of her past--recalling that her father, a German musicologist, was a Nazi accomplice. Eva's acceptance of her past and of the validity of her emotions is sparked by her unlikely relationship with Michael, an enthusiastic if callow young student.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The liberation of Eva Mueller, a middle-aged German-American professor of philosophy, does not come easy. Having lived in the self-protected world of the intellect all her life, she must first submerge herself in the unhappy reality of her past--recalling that her father, a German musicologist, was a Nazi accomplice. Eva's acceptance of her past and of the validity of her emotions is sparked by her unlikely relationship with Michael, an enthusiastic if callow young student.
It was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown
Author: Charles Monroe Schulz
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : Scholastic Book Services
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Linus describes the summer camp activities that made vacation seem too short.
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : Scholastic Book Services
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Linus describes the summer camp activities that made vacation seem too short.
Vintage Design Workshop
Author: Geraldine Warner
Publisher: Interweave
ISBN: 9781596688391
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discover knitting techniques that allow you to adapt vintage patterns into the perfect fit for modern-day style! Vintage Design Workshop is the guide that retro-loving knitters have been waiting for-a welcome relief for those who have been frustrated by vintage patterns that come in one size only. Divided into two sections, this essential book first teaches you how to update any vintage pattern to accommodate modern sizes and gives advice on choosing substitutes for yarns that are out of production. The second section demonstrates how to adapt modern patterns to create a vintage silhouette, teaching how to mix and match sleeves, necklines, or collars to the pattern of your choice to achieve a vintage look. The author uses one vintage pattern throughout as the basis for separate tutorials on yarn substitution, sizing and gauge, deciding on alterations, adjusting shaping and length, and adding or altering details. Vintage Design Workshop is a key resource for any knitter who is keen on learning how very simple it is to update or customize patterns yourself.
Publisher: Interweave
ISBN: 9781596688391
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discover knitting techniques that allow you to adapt vintage patterns into the perfect fit for modern-day style! Vintage Design Workshop is the guide that retro-loving knitters have been waiting for-a welcome relief for those who have been frustrated by vintage patterns that come in one size only. Divided into two sections, this essential book first teaches you how to update any vintage pattern to accommodate modern sizes and gives advice on choosing substitutes for yarns that are out of production. The second section demonstrates how to adapt modern patterns to create a vintage silhouette, teaching how to mix and match sleeves, necklines, or collars to the pattern of your choice to achieve a vintage look. The author uses one vintage pattern throughout as the basis for separate tutorials on yarn substitution, sizing and gauge, deciding on alterations, adjusting shaping and length, and adding or altering details. Vintage Design Workshop is a key resource for any knitter who is keen on learning how very simple it is to update or customize patterns yourself.
Summer's Last Will and Testament
Author: Thomas Nashe
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473365457
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
This early work by Thomas Nashe was originally published in 1600 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Summer's Last Will and Testament' is an Elizabethan era stage play that broke new ground in the development of English Renaissance drama. Thomas Nashe was born in November 1567. He was an English Elizabethan Pamphleteer, playwright, poet and satirist, but little is known with certainty about his life. Much of the information we have has been inferred from his writings. Nashe's first appearance in print was his preface to Robert Greene's Menaphon (1589), in which he offers a brief definition of art and an overview of contemporary literature. His early exercise in euphuism The Anatomy of Absurdity was published in the same year. From then on Nashe became involved in numerous political and religious causes, including the Martin Marprelate controversy where he sided with the bishops. Nashe offers an important insight into the workings of 16th century English life and his writings will continue to be studied for both their literary content and historical relevance.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473365457
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
This early work by Thomas Nashe was originally published in 1600 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Summer's Last Will and Testament' is an Elizabethan era stage play that broke new ground in the development of English Renaissance drama. Thomas Nashe was born in November 1567. He was an English Elizabethan Pamphleteer, playwright, poet and satirist, but little is known with certainty about his life. Much of the information we have has been inferred from his writings. Nashe's first appearance in print was his preface to Robert Greene's Menaphon (1589), in which he offers a brief definition of art and an overview of contemporary literature. His early exercise in euphuism The Anatomy of Absurdity was published in the same year. From then on Nashe became involved in numerous political and religious causes, including the Martin Marprelate controversy where he sided with the bishops. Nashe offers an important insight into the workings of 16th century English life and his writings will continue to be studied for both their literary content and historical relevance.