Cinderella Six Feet Under

Author : Maia Chance
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698140059

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Cinderella Six Feet Under by Maia Chance Pdf

This Cinderella goes from ashes to ashes in the new Victorian-era Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery by the author of Snow White Red-Handed . . . Variety hall actress Ophelia Flax’s plan to reunite her friend Prue with her estranged—and allegedly wealthy—mother, Henrietta, is met with a grim surprise. Not only is the marquise’s Paris mansion a mouse-infested ruin, but Henrietta has inexplicably vanished, leaving behind an evasive husband, two sinister stepsisters, and a bullet-riddled corpse in the pumpkin patch decked out in a ball gown and one glass slipper—a corpse that also happens to be a dead ringer for Prue. Strangely, no one at 15 rue Garenne seems concerned about who plugged this luckless Cinderella or why, so the investigation is left to Ophelia and Prue. It takes them through the labyrinthine maze of the Paris Opera, down the trail of a legendary fairy tale relic, into the confidence of a wily prince charmless, and makes them vulnerable to the secrets of a mysterious couturière with designs of her own on Prue’s ever-twisting family history.

Author : Pauline Greenhill
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814342237

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Reality, Magic, and Other Lies by Pauline Greenhill Pdf

Exploration of fairy-tale movies that blur the line between reality and magic.

Author : Maia Chance
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698140073

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Beauty, Beast, and Belladonna by Maia Chance Pdf

From the author of Cinderella Six Feet Under, a beauty must solve a beastly murder. Variety hall actress Ophelia Flax knows how to win over an audience. That’s why she’s accepted the marriage proposal of the brutish Comte de Griffe to nettle her occasional investigative partner—and romantic sparring partner—the pompous if dashing Professor Penrose. But with his boorish table manners, wild mane of hair, and habit of prowling away the wee hours, the comte has shredded Ophelia’s last nerve. She intends to disengage from her feral fiancé at his winter hunting party—until Penrose, his lovely new fiancée, and a stagecoach of stranded travelers arrive at the comte’s sprawling château. Soon she can’t tell the boars from the bores. When one of the guests is found clawed and bloody in the orangerie, Ophelia is determined to solve the murder before everyone starts believing the local version of Beauty and the Beast. But until the snows melt, she can’t trust her eyes—or her heart—since even the most civilized people hold beastly secrets...

Author : Maia Chance
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781683315421

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Bad Neighbors by Maia Chance Pdf

Agnes Blythe and her glamorous Aunt Effie must take a break from restoring their inn to rake in the clues when a local mechanic is murdered in national bestselling author Maia Chance’s charming second Agnes and Effie mystery. It’s leaf-peeping season in Naneda, New York, and Agnes Blythe has settled into helping her eccentric Great Aunt Effie restore the Stagecoach Inn. It seems nothing can shatter the golden idyll—or the ka-ching of cash registers—until a mechanic at Hatch Automotive is found bludgeoned to death with a wrench. Sweeping into action, Agnes and Aunt Effie are on the scene, when a tourist-laden motor coach breaks down outside of town. The Stagecoach Inn isn’t exactly ready for guests, but Agnes and Effie agree to take in a group of seniors while they wait for repairs. But then, Agnes finds herself pulled into the investigation when she learns her new boyfriend, gorgeous Otis Hatch, is the Naneda Police Department’s prime suspect. With bodies falling faster than the foliage, Agnes must leaf through the more viable suspects and clear Otis’s name of murder in Bad Neighbors, the charming second Agnes and Effie mystery from national bestselling author Maia Chance.

Author : Cara Colter
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488043888

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Cinderella's Prince Under the Mistletoe by Cara Colter Pdf

From his housekeeper… ...to Her Royal Highness? In this A Crown by Christmas story, reeling from the revelation that he’s not the rightful heir to his country’s throne, Crown Prince Luca Valenti heads to the mountains to find his long-lost sister before scandal erupts. Snowbound with enchanting, down-to-earth housekeeper Imogen Albright, Luca’s learning there’s more to life than royal duty. As the snow melts, Christmas at the palace beckons…but will Luca make this Cinderella his royal bride? A Crown by Christmas trilogy Book 1 — Cinderella’s Prince Under the Mistletoe Look out for the next book, coming soon: Book 2 — Soldier Prince’s Secret Baby Gift “…the scenes are so amazing…Ms. Colter’s writing style is one you will want to continue to read. This is a story that…leaves you wanting more.” — Harlequin Junkie on His Convenient Royal Bride “I loved this heart warming…read. I was able to devour this all in one day, I didn’t get much else done.” — Goodreads on Snowbound with the Single Dad

Author : Maia Chance
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425271629

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Snow White Red-Handed by Maia Chance Pdf

Miss Ophelia Flax is a Victorian actress who knows all about making quick changes and even quicker exits. But to solve a fairy-tale crime in the haunted Black Forest, she’ll need more than a bit of charm… 1867: After being fired from her latest variety hall engagement, Ophelia acts her way into a lady’s maid position for a crass American millionaire. But when her new job whisks her off to a foreboding castle straight out of a Grimm tale, she begins to wonder if her fast-talking ways might have been too hasty. The vast grounds contain the suspected remains of Snow White’s cottage, along with a disturbing dwarf skeleton. And when her millionaire boss turns up dead—poisoned by an apple—the fantastic setting turns into a once upon a crime scene. To keep from rising to the top of the suspect list, Ophelia fights through a bramble of elegant lies, sinister folklore, and priceless treasure, with only a dashing but mysterious scholar as her ally. And as the clock ticks towards midnight, she’ll have to break a cunning killer’s spell before her own time runs out…

Author : Maia Chance
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425271643

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Beauty, Beast, and Belladonna by Maia Chance Pdf

From the author of Cinderella Six Feet Under, a beauty must solve a beastly murder. Variety hall actress Ophelia Flax knows how to win over an audience. That’s why she’s accepted the marriage proposal of the brutish Comte de Griffe to nettle her occasional investigative partner—and romantic sparring partner—the pompous if dashing Professor Penrose. But with his boorish table manners, wild mane of hair, and habit of prowling away the wee hours, the comte has shredded Ophelia’s last nerve. She intends to disengage from her feral fiancé at his winter hunting party—until Penrose, his lovely new fiancée, and a stagecoach of stranded travelers arrive at the comte’s sprawling château. Soon she can’t tell the boars from the bores. When one of the guests is found clawed and bloody in the orangerie, Ophelia is determined to solve the murder before everyone starts believing the local version of Beauty and the Beast. But until the snows melt, she can’t trust her eyes—or her heart—since even the most civilized people hold beastly secrets...

Author : Hunter Hargraves
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781478024194

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Uncomfortable Television by Hunter Hargraves Pdf

From The Wire to Intervention to Girls, postmillennial American television has dazzled audiences with novelistic seriality and cinematic aesthetics. Yet this television is also more perverse: it bombards audiences with misogynistic and racialized violence, graphic sex, substance abuse, unlikeable protagonists, and the extraordinary exploitation of ordinary people. In Uncomfortable Television, Hunter Hargraves examines how television makes its audiences find pleasure through feeling disturbed. He shows that this turn to discomfort realigns collective definitions of family and pleasure with the values of neoliberal culture. In viscerally violent dramas, cringeworthy ironic comedies, and trashy reality programs alike, televisual unease trains audiences to survive under late capitalism, which demands that individuals accept a certain amount of discomfort, dread, and irritation into their everyday lives. By highlighting how discomfort has been central to the reorganization and legitimization of television as an art form, Hargraves demonstrates television’s role in assimilating viewers into worlds marked by precarity, perversity, and crisis.

Author : I. G. Martin
Publisher : Author House
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496919472

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Neither Confirmed Nor Denied by I. G. Martin Pdf

"Neither Confirmed Nor Denied" tells the story of a woman who endures the hardships brought on by her unfortunate childhood, marriage and motherhood. Adversity and distress are the strongest factors that affect Cinderella's life, and her family has everything to do with her misery. She flees to America to build a life for herself and her children and to pursue the American dream. In the process she encounters more failed relationships and ingratitude and bitterness from the very same children for whom she has sacrificed just about everything. Her family is totally dysfunctional and her American dream turns into a nightmare. of necessity she descends into survival mode, compromising her values and resorting to unthinkable lows. Her story is a very compelling one which continues, but without the promise of a happy ending.

Author : Charles Perrault
Publisher : World Classics
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781925186116

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Cinderella by Charles Perrault Pdf

Although mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, Cinderella meets her prince with the help of her fairy godmother.

Author : Maia Chance
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698140011

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Snow White Red-Handed by Maia Chance Pdf

Miss Ophelia Flax is a Victorian actress who knows all about making quick changes and even quicker exits. But to solve a fairy-tale crime in the haunted Black Forest, she’ll need more than a bit of charm… 1867: After being fired from her latest variety hall engagement, Ophelia acts her way into a lady’s maid position for a crass American millionaire. But when her new job whisks her off to a foreboding castle straight out of a Grimm tale, she begins to wonder if her fast-talking ways might have been too hasty. The vast grounds contain the suspected remains of Snow White’s cottage, along with a disturbing dwarf skeleton. And when her millionaire boss turns up dead—poisoned by an apple—the fantastic setting turns into a once upon a crime scene. To keep from rising to the top of the suspect list, Ophelia fights through a bramble of elegant lies, sinister folklore, and priceless treasure, with only a dashing but mysterious scholar as her ally. And as the clock ticks towards midnight, she’ll have to break a cunning killer’s spell before her own time runs out…

Author : Maia Chance
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466883598

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Teetotaled by Maia Chance Pdf

After her philandering husband died and left her penniless in Prohibition-era New York, Lola Woodby escaped with her Swedish cook to the only place she could—her deceased husband’s secret love nest in the middle of Manhattan. Her only comforts were chocolate cake, dime store detective novels, and the occasional highball (okay, maybe not so occasional). But rent came due and Lola and Berta were forced to accept the first job that came their way, leading them to set up shop as private detectives operating out of Alfie’s cramped love nest. Now Lola and Berta are in danger of losing the business they’ve barely gotten off the ground—work is sparse and money is running out. So when a society matron offers them a job, they take it—even if it means sneaking into a slimming and exercise facility and consuming only water and health food until they can steal a diary from Grace Whiddle, a resident at the “health farm.” But barely a day in, Grace and her diary escape from the facility—and Grace’s future mother-in-law is found murdered on the premises. Lola and Berta are promptly fired. But before they can climb into Lola’s brown and white Duesenberg Model A and whiz off the health farm property, they find themselves with a new client and a new charge: to solve the murder of Grace’s future mother-in-law. Teetotaled, Maia Chance's sparkling new installment in the Discreet Retrieval Agency Mysteries will delight readers with its clever plotting, larger-than-life characters, and rich 1920s atmosphere.

Author : Maia Chance
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466876545

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Come Hell or Highball by Maia Chance Pdf

31-year-old society matron Lola Woodby has survived her loveless marriage with an unholy mixture of highballs, detective novels, and chocolate layer cake, until, her husband dies suddenly, leaving her his fortune...or so Lola thought. As it turns out, all she inherits from Alfie is a big pile of debt. Pretty soon, Lola and her stalwart Swedish cook, Berta, are reduced to hiding out in the secret love nest Alfie kept in New York City. But when rent comes due, Lola and Berta have no choice but to accept an offer made by one of Alfie's girls-on-the-side: in exchange for a handsome sum of money, the girl wants Lola to retrieve a mysterious reel of film for her. It sounds like an easy enough way to earn the rent money. But Lola and Berta realize they're in way over their heads when, before they can retrieve it, the man currently in possession of the film reel is murdered, and the reel disappears. On a quest to retrieve the reel and solve the murder before the killer comes after them next, Lola and Berta find themselves navigating one wacky situation after another in high style and low company. Charming, witty, often laugh-out-loud funny, Maia Chance's Come Hell or Highball is the first in the Discreet Retrieval Agency Mysteries and introduces a sparkling new voice in crime fiction.

Author : Bill Murray,George Peper
Publisher : Crown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-16
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780767905220

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Cinderella Story by Bill Murray,George Peper Pdf

One of the funniest, most beloved, and most often quoted entertainers in the world tells his tale of Life and Golf--and of somehow surviving both. With his brilliant creation, groundskeeper Carl Spackler, and the outrageous success of the film Caddyshack firmly etched into the American consciousness, Bill Murray and golf have become synonymous. Filled with Murray's trademark deadpan and dead-on humor, Cinderella Story chronicles his love affair with golf from the life lessons he learned as a caddy--"how to smoke, curse, play cards. But more important, when to"--to his escapades on the Pro-Am golf circuit at the Augusta National and as a fan at the Masters, the U.S. Open, and the Western Open. An up-by-the-bootstraps tale of a man, his muse, and our society's fascination with a little white ball, Cinderella Story is one pilgrim's bemused path through the doglegs.

Author : Jill Davis
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : English drama
ISBN : UOM:39015017744452

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Lesbian Plays II by Jill Davis Pdf