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Author : Sophie Kinsella
Publisher : Random House
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1409091252

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A hilarious story of love, dancing, fashion and a very unlikely friendship. If you suddenly had a friend that only you could see or hear, what would you do? You could worry that your stressful life has tipped you over the edge and you have lost the plot, big time . . . you could hide under your duvet, hoping that they would go away . . . Or You could have some fun . . . You could make a fool of yourself many times over . . . You could save your business . . . You could dance with a gorgeous man who just can't resist you . . . You could solve the mystery of the dragonfly necklace . . . And you could just discover the best friend you ever had. ___ Everybody LOVES Sophie Kinsella 'Life doesn't get much better than a new Sophie Kinsella novel.' Red magazine 'Left me giddy with laughter.' Jojo Moyes 'Laugh out loud.' Cosmopolitan 'Hilarious. . . you'll laugh and gasp on every page.' Jenny Colgan OUT NOW the joyful new standalone novel from Sophie Kinsella: LOVE YOUR LIFE

Author : Widmer, Mary Lou
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 1993-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781455609543

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It was a decade of flappers, Prohibition, and unprecedented prosperity that abruptly ended with the crash of '29. In New Orleans, steamships lined the wharves, vaudeville gave way to "talkies," and William Faulkner's Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles was the first book produced by a new publisher called Pelican Publishing Company. Mary Lou Widmer's fourth retrospect of the city reminisces about how New Orleans welcomed the economic growth of the postwar twenties in its own special way. The Crescent City celebrated this prosperity, giving birth to jazz halls in the Vieux Carrand launching the careers of musicians like Louis Armstrong. It was the most progressive era in the city's history since before the Civil War. From politics to homelife there is hardly an aspect of life in the twenties Widmer does not touch upon. A full chapter is devoted to how the city known for Bourbon Street and Mardi Gras reacted to Prohibition. Indoor plumbing and electric lights became the standard in homes throughout the city. Transportation opened up new neighborhoods as cars became status symbols and the streetcar system took riders to every neighborhood in the city. Mary Lou Widmer, a native of New Orleans, is former president of the South Louisiana Chapter of Romance Writers of America. She has written several novels set in New Orleans. A certified descendant of settlers in the area prior to the Louisiana Purchase, she is a member of the Louisiana Colonials and the Daughters of 1812. She is also the author of New Orleans in the Thirties, New Orleans in the Forties, and New Orleans in the Fifties, all published by Pelican.

Author : Ted Hopf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,23 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 019025548X

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'Making Identity Count' presents a new constructivist method for the recovery of national identity, applies the method in nine country cases, and draws conclusions from the empirical evidence for hegemonic transitions and a variety of quantitative theories of identity.

Author : Linda F.
Publisher : Hyperink Inc
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 47,12 MB
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1614641978

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ABOUT THE BOOK "I wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a career, but didn't have any expectations of becoming a full-time novelist.” - Sophie Kinsella Who Is Sophie Kinsella? Often described as the quintessential queen of “chick lit,” Sophie Kinsella is the pen name for bestselling British author Madeleine Sophie Wickham (nee Townley). Born on December 12, 1969, she has written several number one bestsellers including Remember Me?, Can You Keep a Secret?, and Twenties Girl, although she is best known her massively popular Shopaholic series. Sophie Kinsella has seen phenomenal success on both sides of the Atlantic. She boasts an impressive education, a writer of the year award, a #31 ranking in the 100 bestselling authors of the last decade and eleven bestsellers to her name. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK "Sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. You just need to know what you're going to do next!" - Sophie Kinsella (The Undomesticated Goddess) Remember Me? - 2008 Lexi wakes up after a car accident thinking she's 25 with imperfect teeth and an even worse love life. She's surprised to find out that she is actually 28, her teeth look great and she's married to a handsome millionaire. Will her life turn out to be all that it seems? "The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit." - Sophie Kinsella (Remember Me?) Twenties Girl - 2009 Lara is a twenty-something girl with an overactive imagination. When her great aunt Sadie turns up in the form of a Charleston-dancing spirit demanding that Lara finds a missing necklace, Lara wonders if her imagination has gone too far... Buy a copy to keep reading!

Author : Sophie Kinsella
Publisher : Random House
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Spirits
ISBN : 0552774367

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Lara has always had an overactive imagination. Now she wonders if she is losing her mind. Normal twenty-something girls just don't get visited by ghosts! But inexplicably, the spirit of Lara's great aunt Sadie in the form of a bold, demanding Charleston-dancing girl has appeared to make one last request.

Author : Will Brooker
Publisher : Random House
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1529156629

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*For those aspiring authors who are interested in the path to success* 'I read this yesterday in one glorious sitting! What an absolute treat of a book!' Lesley Kara 'Illuminating, revealing and absolutely fascinating, Will Brooker offers us the keys to the Jewell kingdom.' Vanessa Fox O'Loughlin aka Sam Blake __________ Have you ever thought about what it takes to become a bestselling writer? If so, The Truth About Lisa Jewell is the book for you. It is the story of how a novel is written, from before the start to after the finish; it's an in-depth analysis of how that novel fits into a bestselling author like Lisa Jewell's career and her previous work, and what her style shares with authors from James Joyce to Martin Amis. But this is more than just a study of an author at the top of her game. Like Lisa Jewell's much-loved novels, it's also the story of a relationship - between the bestselling author and the professor of cultural studies who has made her his muse - evolving slowly as the world comes gradually out of Covid. It's the story of two very different writers getting to know each other gradually through words; two complete strangers becoming something more like friends. A must-have for fans of Lisa Jewell, for aspiring authors who are interested in the path to success - and a testament to the way books can bring us together. . . __________ Readers LOVE The Truth About Lisa Jewell . . . ***** 'This book is perfect for fans and aspiring writers alike ... It's faultless to the point that I'd say it's a must read for anyone interested in Lisa Jewell or her work.' ***** 'An insightful and well written book.' ***** 'Brooker ... succeeds in being a great guide to [Lisa Jewell's] progression.'

Author : John Lucas
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 1999
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9780813526829

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Studies writers from the 1920s with regard to their political radicalism. Draws on the works of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Patrick Hamilton, among others, to identify the decade as a time of both political activism and of deliberately transgressive behavior, particularly among women. Meets head-on the argument of earlier commentators who take for granted the post-war decade as defined by cynicism and hedonism, and looks at the work and lifestyles of those determined to find ways out of despair. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Gill Hedley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1838602828

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Arthur Jeffress was an art dealer and collector from a Virginian family who bequeathed his “subversive little collection” (Derek Hill) to Tate and Southampton City Art Gallery on his suicide in 1961. That suicide, a result of his expulsion from Venice, has been the subject of speculation in many memoirs. Gill Hedley's biography of Jeffress has benefited from access to many hundreds of unpublished letters written between Jeffress and Robert Melville, who ran Jeffress' own gallery from 1955-1961. The letters were written largely while Jeffress was in Venice and reveal a vivid picture of the London gallery world as well as frank details of artists, collectors and the definitive story of his suicide. Previously unpublished research reveals new information about the lives of Jeffress' lover John Deakin, his business partner Erica Brausen, the French photographer André Ostier and Henry Clifford, and the way in which all of them influenced Jeffress' first steps as a collector from the 1930s onwards.

Author : Ann Louise Wagner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Dance
ISBN : 9780252065903

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Whether in the private parlor, public hall, commercial "dance palace," or sleazy dive, dance has long been opposed by those who viewed it as immoral--more precisely as being a danger to the purity of those who practiced it, particularly women. In Adversaries of Dance, Ann Wagner presents a major study of opposition to dance over a period of four centuries in what is now the United States. Wagner bases her work on the thesis that the tradition of opposition to dance "derived from white, male, Protestant clergy and evangelists who argued from a narrow and selective interpretation of biblical passages," and that the opposition thrived when denominational dogma held greater power over people's lives and when women's social roles were strictly limited. Central to Wagner's work, which will be welcomed by scholars of both religion and dance, are issues of gender, race, and socioeconomic status. "There are no other works that even begin to approach this definitive accomplishment." --Amanda Porterfield, author of Female Piety in Puritan New England

Author : Ron Rossi
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 28,1 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 145678224X

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Born into an Italian immigrant family in the early 1930s Renaldo Rossi gives, at times, a humorous insight into life as it was for him then. At the onset of World War II his young life was thrown into turmoil when, aged nine, he witnessed his father, now an enemy alien, being taken away in hand cuffs and he, his mother and younger brother being forced out of their home and taken to the west coast of Scotland and placed in the poorhouse, with tragic consequences. His later life took him in many directions, leaving the family business to work in the illegal world of gambling and to smuggling religious books and images into Communist Russia where he mingled with the people.