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Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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The Woman in the Mirror
Author: Rebecca James
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250230063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Rebecca James unveils a chilling modern gothic novel of a family consumed by the shadows and secrets of its past in The Woman in the Mirror. For more than two centuries, Winterbourne Hall has stood atop a bluff overseeing the English countryside of Cornwall and the sea beyond. Enshrouded by fog and enveloped by howling winds, the imposing edifice casts a darkness over the town. In 1947, Londoner Alice Miller accepts a post as governess at Winterbourne, looking after twin children Constance and Edmund for their widower father, Captain Jonathan de Grey. Falling under the de Greys’ spell, Alice believes the family will heal her own past sorrows. But then the twins’ adoration becomes deceitful and taunting. Their father, ever distant, turns spiteful and cruel. The manor itself seems to lash out. Alice finds her surroundings subtly altered, her air slightly chilled. Something malicious resents her presence, something clouding her senses and threatening her very sanity. In present day New York, art gallery curator Rachel Wright has learned she is a descendant of the de Greys and heir to Winterbourne. Adopted as an infant, she never knew her birth parents or her lineage. At long last, Rachel will find answers to questions about her identity that have haunted her entire life. But what she finds in Cornwall is a devastating tragic legacy that has afflicted generations of de Greys. A legacy borne from greed and deceit, twisted by madness, and suffused with unrequited love and unequivocal rage. There is only one true mistress of Winterbourne. She will not tolerate any woman who dares to cross its threshold and call it home. Those who do will only find a reflection of their own wicked sins and an inherited vengeance.
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250230063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Rebecca James unveils a chilling modern gothic novel of a family consumed by the shadows and secrets of its past in The Woman in the Mirror. For more than two centuries, Winterbourne Hall has stood atop a bluff overseeing the English countryside of Cornwall and the sea beyond. Enshrouded by fog and enveloped by howling winds, the imposing edifice casts a darkness over the town. In 1947, Londoner Alice Miller accepts a post as governess at Winterbourne, looking after twin children Constance and Edmund for their widower father, Captain Jonathan de Grey. Falling under the de Greys’ spell, Alice believes the family will heal her own past sorrows. But then the twins’ adoration becomes deceitful and taunting. Their father, ever distant, turns spiteful and cruel. The manor itself seems to lash out. Alice finds her surroundings subtly altered, her air slightly chilled. Something malicious resents her presence, something clouding her senses and threatening her very sanity. In present day New York, art gallery curator Rachel Wright has learned she is a descendant of the de Greys and heir to Winterbourne. Adopted as an infant, she never knew her birth parents or her lineage. At long last, Rachel will find answers to questions about her identity that have haunted her entire life. But what she finds in Cornwall is a devastating tragic legacy that has afflicted generations of de Greys. A legacy borne from greed and deceit, twisted by madness, and suffused with unrequited love and unequivocal rage. There is only one true mistress of Winterbourne. She will not tolerate any woman who dares to cross its threshold and call it home. Those who do will only find a reflection of their own wicked sins and an inherited vengeance.
The Woman in the Mirror
Author: Cynthia M. Bulik
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802719996
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The eating disorders authority and author of Crave identifies social factors that cause women to confuse body esteem with self-esteem, sharing in-depth psychological insights into the causes of body image problems to counsel readers on how to overcome self-sabotaging behaviors. Original.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802719996
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The eating disorders authority and author of Crave identifies social factors that cause women to confuse body esteem with self-esteem, sharing in-depth psychological insights into the causes of body image problems to counsel readers on how to overcome self-sabotaging behaviors. Original.
The Girl in the Mirror
Author: Rose Carlyle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781761065033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
An edge-of-your-seat debut thriller with identical twins, a crazy inheritance and a boat full of secrets. Who can you trust? Absolutely nobody!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781761065033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
An edge-of-your-seat debut thriller with identical twins, a crazy inheritance and a boat full of secrets. Who can you trust? Absolutely nobody!
The Mirror and the Palette
Author: Jennifer Higgie
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643138049
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A dazzlingly original and ambitious book on the history of female self-portraiture by one of today's most well-respected art critics. Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula Modersohn-Becker in Worpswede. She's haunting museums in her paint-stained dress, scrutinising how El Greco or Titian or Van Dyck or Cézanne solved the problems that she too is facing. She's railing against her corsets, her chaperones, her husband and her brothers; she's hammering on doors, dreaming in her bedroom, working day and night in her studio. Despite the immense hurdles that have been placed in her way, she sits at her easel, picks up a mirror and paints a self-portrait because, as a subject, she is always available. Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws and religion to the pressures of family and public disapproval. In The Mirror and the Palette, Jennifer Higgie introduces us to a cross-section of women artists who embody the fact that there is more than one way to understand our planet, more than one way to live in it and more than one way to make art about it. Spanning 500 years, biography and cultural history intertwine in a narrative packed with tales of rebellion, adventure, revolution, travel and tragedy enacted by women who turned their back on convention and lived lives of great resilience, creativity and bravery.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643138049
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A dazzlingly original and ambitious book on the history of female self-portraiture by one of today's most well-respected art critics. Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula Modersohn-Becker in Worpswede. She's haunting museums in her paint-stained dress, scrutinising how El Greco or Titian or Van Dyck or Cézanne solved the problems that she too is facing. She's railing against her corsets, her chaperones, her husband and her brothers; she's hammering on doors, dreaming in her bedroom, working day and night in her studio. Despite the immense hurdles that have been placed in her way, she sits at her easel, picks up a mirror and paints a self-portrait because, as a subject, she is always available. Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws and religion to the pressures of family and public disapproval. In The Mirror and the Palette, Jennifer Higgie introduces us to a cross-section of women artists who embody the fact that there is more than one way to understand our planet, more than one way to live in it and more than one way to make art about it. Spanning 500 years, biography and cultural history intertwine in a narrative packed with tales of rebellion, adventure, revolution, travel and tragedy enacted by women who turned their back on convention and lived lives of great resilience, creativity and bravery.
The Girl in the Mirror
Author: Michelle Grover
Publisher: BJU Press
ISBN: 9781591665076
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Bad girls are getting a lot of good press these days. And the definition of
Publisher: BJU Press
ISBN: 9781591665076
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Bad girls are getting a lot of good press these days. And the definition of
Lady in the Mirror
Author: Tynna G Dixon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
This incredible true story is sure to tug each one of your heartstrings. Abuse in its most destructive form. Betrayal beyond belief. Violence and death. These horrors are this young girl's reality. There seems to be no possible way out of the hell hole. Then, this young girl becomes a woman and realizes her only source of comfort and protection is God. Tynna Dixon recounts in detail her childhood, teenage years, and married life-the pain and violence-explaining how she not only survived the abuse but thrived. Lady in the Mirror provides an empowering, enriching message to individuals who are desperately searching for a way out. It's a story that will stay with you long after the pages have been turned.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
This incredible true story is sure to tug each one of your heartstrings. Abuse in its most destructive form. Betrayal beyond belief. Violence and death. These horrors are this young girl's reality. There seems to be no possible way out of the hell hole. Then, this young girl becomes a woman and realizes her only source of comfort and protection is God. Tynna Dixon recounts in detail her childhood, teenage years, and married life-the pain and violence-explaining how she not only survived the abuse but thrived. Lady in the Mirror provides an empowering, enriching message to individuals who are desperately searching for a way out. It's a story that will stay with you long after the pages have been turned.
The Girl in the Mirror
Author: Cecelia Ahern
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007425031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
A gorgeous new Cecelia mini-book which contains two powerful and unforgettable short stories.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007425031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
A gorgeous new Cecelia mini-book which contains two powerful and unforgettable short stories.
The Woman's Book
Author:
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Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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The Woman's World
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher:
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Category : History of women
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History of women
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Harper's Monthly Magazine
Author: Henry Mills Alden
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
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