A Mug Up With Elisabeth

Author : Melissa Hayes,Marilyn Westervelt
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781461744672

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A Mug Up with Elisabeth by Melissa Hayes,Marilyn Westervelt Pdf

Anyone who has come under the spell of Elisabeth Ogilvie's novels to bound to wonder about this writer who, for more than fifty years, has crafted one memorable book after another: historical fiction, mysteries, young adult stories, even a gothic novel. Most are set in Maine or the Scottish Highlands, and for many readers it is Ogilvie's beautifully realized settings that make them pick up her novels again and again. Equally fascinating are her characters: vivid, individual, appealingly imperfect, deeply rooted in their families and home ground. Now, at last, we have a book about this prolific yet unassuming author who would rather live quietly on her Maine island than seek the limelight. A Mug-Up with Elisabeth is the definitive resource on her life, her work, her characters, and her settings--including Criehaven, the inspiration for Bennett's Island, which is arguably one of the most evocative locales in American fiction. On Bennett's Island, many a tale is told and many a crisis resolved around the kitchen table while the islanders pause for a "mug-up" of coffee. In these pages, readers can enjoy a mug-up with Elisabeth Ogilvie herself.

Author : Colin Slater and The Hollywood Photo Archive
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781493033461

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Portraits from Hollywood's Golden Age of Glamour by Colin Slater and The Hollywood Photo Archive Pdf

In photographs only seen briefly as part of studio press kits distributed upon release of a new film, these long-lost stills of Hollywood’s leading ladies have been reverently rendered into color portraits that not only evoke a treasured past of beauty and glamour, but also seem comfortably familiar to the contemporary eye. These posed photos have been chosen not only for their bespoke sensuality, but also for how the discrete addition of color has elevated a black and white still to a kind of artistic grace, prompting rediscovery of classic Hollywood’s most beautiful women. Actresses portrayed here include Julie Andrews, Anna Mae Wong, Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, Carole Lombard, Carroll Baker, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, Angie Dickinson, Eva Marie Saint, and many others.

Author : Dorthe Nors
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782274353

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Minna Needs Rehearsal Space by Dorthe Nors Pdf

A moving novella unlike any other by the Man Booker International Prize shortlisted author Minna is feeling desperate. Lars has just dumped her by text message. Her friends are constantly flaunting their lovers, children and dogs on Facebook. And her neurotic sister is everywhere she turns. Minna wants a place in Copenhagen to practise her music. Minna wants a child. But what Minna really needs is to get away from it all. So, with only Ingmar Bergman for company, she decides to take a trip to the coast. And there is more on the horizon than she might imagine. Dorthe Nors was born in 1970 and studied literature at the University of Aarhus. She is one of the most original voices in contemporary Danish literature. Her short stories have appeared in numerous international periodicals including The Boston Review and Harpers, and she is the first Danish writer ever to have a story published in the New Yorker. Nors has published four novels so far, including Mirror, Shoulder, Signal - shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize - and a collection of stories Karate Chop, also published by Pushkin Press. Karate Chop won the prestigious P. O. Enquist Literary Prize in 2014. She lives in rural Jutland, Denmark.

Author : Caroline Wallace
Publisher : Random House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473526037

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The Finding of Martha Lost by Caroline Wallace Pdf

Liverpool, 1976: Martha is lost. She’s been lost since she was a baby, abandoned in a suitcase on the train from Paris. Ever since, she’s waited in lost property for someone to claim her. It’s been sixteen years, but she’s still hopeful. Meanwhile, there are lost property mysteries to solve: a suitcase that may have belonged to the Beatles, a stuffed monkey that keeps appearing. But there is one mystery Martha has never been able to solve – and now time is running out. If Martha can’t discover who she really is, she will lose everything...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Maine
ISBN : WISC:89077922821

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Down East by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lauren Dane
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780369736512

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Bad Blood by Lauren Dane Pdf

Trouble never takes a vacation in Bad Blood, the seventh installment in the epic Goddess with a Blade series by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Dane. After spending the last two years locked in one deadly struggle after the next, Rowan Summerwaite deserves delicious meals, excellent sex and uninterrupted sleep on high-quality linens. But when two separate investigations converge in unexpected ways and a new threat to the Treaty blows into town, there’s no rest for the wicked. And she’ll need help. Genevieve Aubert, a seven-hundred-year-old witch from a powerful familial line, has become more than a formidable ally. To Rowan, she’s become a friend. To Darius, a Dust Devil from the Trick, where she’s now a priestess, she’s the key to unlocking his magic. The pretty flower to his motorcycles and bruised knuckles. Soon, the dangerous reality becomes clear. It isn’t just wayward witches. It isn’t just egotistical Vampires. What’s brewing in the desert will take a witch, a Dust Devil and a human vessel to a goddess to save those they’ve sworn to protect. Goddess with a Blade Book 1: Goddess with a Blade Book 2: Blade To the Keep Book 3: Blade on the Hunt Book 4: At Blade's Edge Book 5: Wrath of the Goddess Book 6: Blood and Blade Book 7: Bad Blood

Author : Lalita Tademy
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759522428

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Cane River by Lalita Tademy Pdf

A New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick-the unique and deeply moving saga of four generations of African-American women whose journey from slavery to freedom begins on a Creole plantation in Louisiana. Beginning with her great-great-great-great grandmother, a slave owned by a Creole family, Lalita Tademy chronicles four generations of strong, determined black women as they battle injustice to unite their family and forge success on their own terms. They are women whose lives begin in slavery, who weather the Civil War, and who grapple with contradictions of emancipation, Jim Crow, and the pre-Civil Rights South. As she peels back layers of racial and cultural attitudes, Tademy paints a remarkable picture of rural Louisiana and the resilient spirit of one unforgettable family. There is Elisabeth, who bears both a proud legacy and the yoke of bondage... her youngest daughter, Suzette, who is the first to discover the promise-and heartbreak-of freedom... Suzette's strong-willed daughter Philomene, who uses a determination born of tragedy to reunite her family and gain unheard-of economic independence... and Emily, Philomene's spirited daughter, who fights to secure her children's just due and preserve their dignity and future. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Cane River presents a slice of American history never before seen in such piercing and personal detail.

Author : Lulah Ellender
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783783847

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Elisabeth’s Lists by Lulah Ellender Pdf

Many years after the death of her grandmother, Lulah Ellender inherited a curious object - a book of handwritten lists. On the face of it, Elisabeth's lists seemed rather ordinary - shopping lists, items to be packed for a foreign trip, a tally of the eggs laid by her hens. But from these everyday fragments, Lulah began to weave together the extraordinary life of the grandmother she never knew - a life lived in the most rarefied and glamorous of circles, from Elisabeth's early years as an ambassador's daughter in 1930s China, to her marriage to a British diplomat and postings in Madrid under Franco's regime, post-war Beirut, Rio de Janeiro and Paris. But it was also a life of stark contrasts - between the opulent excess of embassy banquets and the deprivations of wartime rationing in England, between the unfailing charm she displayed in public and the dark depressions that blanketed her in private, between her great appetite for life and her sudden, early death. Throughout Elisabeth's adult life, the lists were a source of structure and comfort. And now, as Lulah learns that she is losing her own mother, she finds herself turning to her grandmother's life, and to her much-travelled book of lists, in search of meaning and solace. Elisabeth's Lists is both a vivid memoir and a moving study of the familial threads that binds us, even beyond death.

Author : Linda Lael Miller
Publisher : HQN Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488030079

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There and Now by Linda Lael Miller Pdf

Go back in time with this reader favorite from #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller Pine River residents have always said the giant Victorian house was haunted, but for Elisabeth McCartney, it was a home to run to after divorce. She should have the place to herself… except she keeps hearing a child’s voice. It’s coming from behind a locked door that once led to a different room, one that had burned to ash over a century ago. Except that one night it opens… and she walks through. To her shock, she’s gone back in time, to the same year that the house burned down. But it’s still standing, and the handsome widower Jonathan Fortner and his young child Trista are still alive. Elisabeth’s the only one who knows of the tragedy that awaits them, and the only person who can stop it. As the clock ticks down she falls hard for the man of her dreams and his sweet daughter—but even if she can save their lives, how can she build a future with someone who lives in the past? First published in 1992

Author : Joanne Shattock,Angus Easson,Josie Billington,Deirdre d'Albertis,Linda K Hughes,Elisabeth Jay,Charlotte Mitchell,Linda H Peterson,Marion Shaw,Alan Shelston,Joanne Wilkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351220415

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The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I by Joanne Shattock,Angus Easson,Josie Billington,Deirdre d'Albertis,Linda K Hughes,Elisabeth Jay,Charlotte Mitchell,Linda H Peterson,Marion Shaw,Alan Shelston,Joanne Wilkes Pdf

A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.

Author : Joanne Shattock,Angus Easson,Josie Billington,Deirdre d'Albertis,Linda K Hughes,Elisabeth Jay,Charlotte Mitchell,Linda H Peterson,Marion Shaw,Alan Shelston,Joanne Wilkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351220361

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The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 2 by Joanne Shattock,Angus Easson,Josie Billington,Deirdre d'Albertis,Linda K Hughes,Elisabeth Jay,Charlotte Mitchell,Linda H Peterson,Marion Shaw,Alan Shelston,Joanne Wilkes Pdf

A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.

Author : Paddy Richardson
Publisher : Brio Books Pty Ltd
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781761280368

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Hunting Blind by Paddy Richardson Pdf

The best of NZ Noir. Minna picks up the rug and shakes it out. ‘Where’s Gemma?’ she says. A perfect Wanaka day. The lake, the mountains, the sun. Yet amidst all the fun and frolic of school picnic day, a little girl goes missing. The community and local police search as the night draws in. Could she have slipped into the lake? A child could be lost in there forever. Years later, her sister Stephanie, now a psychiatrist, listens as a young woman discloses a devastating memory. Devastating, because of the loss which haunts her but, devastating also because it mirrors Stephanie’s own loss. Stephanie can no longer deny her own hurt, her own questions. What happened to her little sister?

Author : Tricia Wastvedt
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780670919475

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The German Boy by Tricia Wastvedt Pdf

A moving, inter-war family saga The German Boy from Patricia Wastvedt, the Orange Prize Longlisted author of The River. In 1947, Elisabeth Mander's German nephew comes to stay: Stefan Landau, her dead sister's teenage son, whom she hates and loves before she's even set eyes on him. Orphaned by the war and traumatised by the last, vicious battles of the Hitler Youth, Stefan brings with him to England only a few meagre possessions. Among them a portrait of a girl with long copper hair by a young painter called Michael Ross - and with it the memory, both painful and precious, of her life and that time between the wars. Spanning decades and generations, The German Boy tells the moving story of two families entangled by love and friendship, divided by prejudice and war, and of a brief encounter between a woman and a man that touched each of their lives forever. 'An absorbing literary saga ... a sophisticated and subtly woven story' Daily Mail 'Hypnotic, atmospheric and exquisitely written. A novel I won't forget' Lucinda Riley, author of Hothouse Flower 'A love story at its centre which will make your heart ache' Julia Green, author of Blue Moon 'A heart-rending story of epic proportions, thrilling and utterly captivating. I am haunted by it still' Suzannah Dunn, author of The Confession of Katherine Howard Born in 1954, Patricia Wastvedt grew up in Blackheath, south London, and spent her summers in Kent. She has a degree in Creative Arts and an MA in Creative Writing, and her first novel, The River, written in her late forties, was long-listed for the Orange Prize. She teaches at Bath Spa University, and is also a manuscript editor. She lives and writes in a cottage in Somerset.

Author : Mary Feliz
Publisher : Lyrical Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781516105281

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Snowed Under by Mary Feliz Pdf

A Suspense Magazine BEST BOOK of 2020! When professional organizer Maggie McDonald finds a body in a snowdrift outside her friend's ski cabin, she must plow through the clues to find a cold-blooded killer . . . Lake Tahoe in February is beautiful, but Maggie can't see a thing as she drives through a blinding blizzard with her friend Tess Olmos and their dogs, golden retriever Belle and German shepherd Mozart.Maggie has offered her professional decluttering skills to help Tess tidy up her late husband's cabin in preparation to sell. She also plans to get in some skiing when her husband Max and their boys join them later in the week. What she doesn't plan on is finding a boot in a snowdrift attached to a corpse. The frozen stiff turns out to be Tess's neighbor, Dev Bailey, who disappeared two months ago. His widow Leslie expresses grief, but Maggie can't help but wonder if it's a snow job. As more suspects start to pile up, things go downhill fast, and Maggie must keep her cool to solve the murder before the killer takes a powder . . . “A skillful amateur detective with an impressive to-do list.” —Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW, Address to Die For

Author : Bastian Zach,Matthias Bauer
Publisher : Haymon Verlag
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783709936320

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Morbus Dei: Inferno by Bastian Zach,Matthias Bauer Pdf

INFERNO: VOLUME 2 OF THE MORBUS DEI-TRILOGY Tyrol in 1704: Johann and Elisabeth flee from the eerie mountain village and beat their way to Vienna. Due to snow, icy cold and dangerous bandits their journey is a risky undertaking. When they finally reach their designation, their shared future seems to be within their grasp - until enemies from Johann's past emerge. To make matters worse, a mysterious disease is suddenly spreading and covers the city like a shroud. The old imperial city becomes a death trap from which there seems to be no escape ... An exciting journey through time: Matthias Bauer and Bastian Zach take you into a world shaped by death and darkness, but also by courage and hope. Surrounded by the gloomy backdrop of the wintry Alps you accompany Johann and Elisabeth on their dangerous journey. Experience the historical Vienna during the 18th century and the church's dark deeds. ********************************************************************************** THE MORBUS DEI-TRILOGY Vol. 1: Morbus Dei: The Arrival Vol. 2: Morbus Dei: Inferno Vol. 3: Morbus Dei: The Sign of Aries