In Velvet

Author : Temple West
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250063618

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Velvet by Temple West Pdf

Equal parts steamy and funny, with a few genuinely creepy moments, this paranormal romance has everything -- compelling characters, plenty of witty banter, and a romance that just might be to die for. After losing both her parents before age 17, aspiring designer Caitlin Holte feels like her whole world has been turned upside down, and that was before she accidentally attracted the attention of a demon. Then, she learns that her hot, bad-boy neighbor, Adrian -- who might have just saved her life -- is actually a half-demon vampire. Suddenly, Caitlin is stuck with a vampire bodyguard who feels that the best way to protect her is to become her pretend boyfriend. Trouble is, Caitlin is starting to fall in love for real, while Adrian can never love a human. Caitlin trusts Adrian to keep her safe from his demon father, but will he be able to protect her heart? Temple West’s debut novel Velvet is a sexy, delightful romance chosen by readers like you for Macmillan's young adult imprint Swoon Reads. Praise for Velvet: “This romantic Twilight readalike shines with credible dialogue and fully developed characters. Paranormal fans who haven't reached their vampire saturation point will cheer and eagerly await the cliff-hanger's resolution in the sequel.” —School Library Journal "Dude. So this is what Twilight should have been. Velvet is fun and very entertaining with snappy dialogue, awesome characters and some solid teen angst.” —The Windy Pages "It’s humorous yet dark, cute yet sexy, lighthearted yet heart-stopping. This one is definitely worth the read, if only to get your swoon on!” —The Eater of Books! "This is just straight up good and steamy! The author has a great voice—fresh, fun and clearly talented. An excellent mix of hip and quirky with the right dash of romance!" –T. S. Reeds, reader on SwoonReads.com

Author : Burt Weissbourd
Publisher : Vireo Book, A
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 194020710X

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In Velvet by Burt Weissbourd Pdf

Working in the closed-off northwest corner of Yellowstone Park, bear biologist Rachel begins to notice strange behavior and disturbing birth defects in the animals, and becomes determined to find the cause.

Author : Mary Hooper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781599909295

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Velvet by Mary Hooper Pdf

Velvet is a laundress in a Victorian steam laundry. With both her mother and father dead, she has to rely upon her own wits to make a living. The laundry is scalding, back-breaking work and Velvet is desperate to create a better life for herself. Then Velvet is noticed by Madame Savoya, a famed medium, who asks Velvet to come work for her. Velvet is dazzled at first by the young yet beautifully dressed and bejewelled Madame. But Velvet soon realizes that Madame Savoya is not all that she says she is, and Velvet's very life is in danger . . . A romantic and thrillingly exciting new novel from an acclaimed and much loved historical writer for teens

Author : Loretta Chase
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062098269

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Vixen in Velvet by Loretta Chase Pdf

From the Diary of Leonie Noirot: The perfect corset should invite its undoing . . . Lethally charming Simon Blair, Marquess of Lisburne, has reluctantly returned to London for one reason only: a family obligation. Still, he might make time for the seduction of a certain redheaded dressmaker—but Leonie Noirot hasn't time for him. She's obsessed with transforming his cousin, the dowdy Lady Gladys, into a swan. Leonie's skills can coax curves—and profits—from thin air, but his criminally handsome lordship is too busy trying to seduce her to appreciate her genius. He badly needs to learn a lesson, and the wager she provokes ought to teach him, once and for all. A great plan, in theory—but Lisburne's become a serious distraction and Leonie's usual logic is in danger of slipping away as easily as a silk chemise. Could the Season's greatest transformation be her own?

Author : Enid Bagnold
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486782126

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National Velvet by Enid Bagnold Pdf

The timeless tale of 14-year-old Velvet Brown's participation in the Grand National Steeplechase has thrilled generations of readers. The story provides a positive role model for girls and remains ever popular with young horse lovers.

Author : Sarah Waters
Publisher : Virago
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748129324

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Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters Pdf

From the oyster huts of Whitstable to the music halls of Victorian London, Tipping the Velvet is the glorious first novel from this much-loved author 'Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen.' A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King - oyster girl turned music-hall star turned rent boy turned East End 'tom'. 'Erotic and absorbing... Written with startling power' New York Times Book Review 'An unstoppable read, a sexy and picaresque romp through the lesbian and queer demi-monde of the roaries Nineties' Independent on Sunday 'Waters is an extremely confident writer, combining precise, sensuous descriptions with irony and wit' Observer

Author : Rob Bell
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-29
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 9780310273080

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Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell Pdf

In order to find an authentic understanding of the Christian faith, Bell frees readers to consider God beyond the picture someone else painted.

Author : Brooke Giannetti,Steve Giannetti
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-24
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781423640479

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Patina Farm by Brooke Giannetti,Steve Giannetti Pdf

The husband and wife team behind Giannetti Home welcome readers into their gorgeous farm residence blending modern style with French antiques. When Brooke and Steve Giannetti decided to leave their suburban Santa Monica home to build a new life on a farm, they traveled to Belgium and France for design inspiration. In Patina Farm they share their collaborative process, as well as the enviable result of their team effort and creativity: an idyllic farm in California’s Ojai Valley. With two hundred gorgeous photographs and Steve’s architectural drawings, Brooke takes readers through their inspirations, thought process, and materials selections. Readers are given a full tour of the family home, guesthouse, lush gardens, and delightful animal quarters.

Author : Thomas Towne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1811
Category : Velvet painting
ISBN : BL:A0020684990

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The Art of Painting on Velvet Without the Use of Spirit Colours - Divested of Difficulty and Obscurity,... by Thomas Towne Pdf

Author : Jude Deveraux
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743459297

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Highland Velvet by Jude Deveraux Pdf

Jude Deveraux steps back to a time and place where revenge and rivalry rule men's hearts—and love conquers all—in this wonderful Montgomery novel. Bronwyn MacArran was a proud Scot. Stephen Montgomery was one of the hated English. He came to Scotland as a conqueror, saw her beauty and was vanquished. But still she would abhor him. She owned a temper hot enough to forge the armors of battle or inflame a valiant soldier's passion. Yet still she would resist him. She became his reason to live, his reason to love. And still she would deny him. But while clan fought clan, while brother took up sword against brother, and the highlands ran with blood—their destiny was made...and this mighty warrior pledged himself to his woman's pride, her honor and her name—and made of their love a torch to burn through the ages!

Author : Annie Boochever,Roy Peratrovich, Jr.
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781602233706

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Fighter in Velvet Gloves by Annie Boochever,Roy Peratrovich, Jr. Pdf

“No Natives or Dogs Allowed,” blared the storefront sign at Elizabeth Peratrovich, then a young Alaska Native Tlingit. The sting of those words would stay with her all her life. Years later, after becoming a seasoned fighter for equality, she would deliver her own powerful message: one that helped change Alaska and the nation forever. In 1945, Peratrovich stood before the Alaska Territorial Legislative Session and gave a powerful speech about her childhood and her experiences being treated as a second-class citizen. Her heartfelt testimony led to the passing of the landmark Alaska Anti-Discrimination Act, America’s first civil rights legislation. Today, Alaska celebrates Elizabeth Peratrovich Day every February 16, and she will be honored on the gold one-dollar coin in 2020. Annie Boochever worked with Elizabeth’s eldest son, Roy Peratrovich Jr., to bring Elizabeth’s story to life in the first book written for young teens on this remarkable Alaska Native woman.

Author : Simon Baatz
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0316396664

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The Girl on the Velvet Swing by Simon Baatz Pdf

From New York Times bestselling author Simon Baatz, the first comprehensive account of the murder that shocked the world. In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl in the musical Florodora, dined alone with the architect Stanford White in his townhouse on 24th Street in New York. Nesbit, just sixteen years old, had recently moved to the city. White was forty-seven and a principal in the prominent architectural firm McKim, Mead & White. As the foremost architect of his day, he was a celebrity, responsible for designing countless landmark buildings in Manhattan. That evening, after drinking champagne, Nesbit lost consciousness and awoke to find herself naked in bed with White. Telltale spots of blood on the bed sheets told her that White had raped her. She told no one about the rape until, several years later, she confided in Harry Thaw, the millionaire playboy who would later become her husband. Thaw, thirsting for revenge, shot and killed White in 1906 before hundreds of theatergoers during a performance in Madison Square Garden, a building that White had designed. The trial was a sensation that gripped the nation. Most Americans agreed with Thaw that he had been justified in killing White, but the district attorney expected to send him to the electric chair. Evelyn Nesbit's testimony was so explicit and shocking that Theodore Roosevelt himself called on the newspapers not to print it verbatim. The murder of White cast a long shadow: Harry Thaw later attempted suicide, and Evelyn Nesbit struggled for many years to escape an addiction to cocaine. The Girl on the Velvet Swing, a tale of glamour, excess, and danger, is an immersive, fascinating look at an America dominated by men of outsize fortunes and by the women who were their victims.

Author : Jenny Johnson
Publisher : Sarabande Books
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781941411384

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In Full Velvet by Jenny Johnson Pdf

These poems, likened to Elizabeth Bishop's, are about desire, love, seeing, gender, difference, ecology, queerness in the "natural" world, loss, LGBTQ lineage, and its community. They contain a sinuous, shape-shifting quality that makes her explorations of sex and selfhood all the more resonant. Jenny Johnson won a 2015 Whiting Fellowship. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Author : Thaisa Frank
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1574230433

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Sleeping in Velvet by Thaisa Frank Pdf

The blurred lines between enchantment and illusion takes on new magic-realist resonances in this collection of twenty-three stories and a novella. Ms. Frank creates subtle calibrations of the inner spaces and silences separating people, and the haunting undercurrents of feeling that hold them together. In the concluding novella, The Map Maker, those undercurrents exert an especially powerful tow, washing up a lost cargo of familial misunderstandings.

Author : Brooke Giannetti,Steve Giannetti
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781423650935

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Patina Living by Brooke Giannetti,Steve Giannetti Pdf

The husband and wife design team takes readers on a guided tour of their elegant farm residence in Ojai, CA—a home full of Patina Style inspiration. Brooke and Steve Gianetti offer an intimate look at their life on Patina Farm, the home they designed with an interplay of rustic and modern European charm. Beyond the gorgeously appointed farmhouse, the Giannettis readers through the sheds, outbuildings and gardens where they entertain and enjoy their miniature goats, sheep and donkeys, the chickens and ducks, and dogs. The entire residence is brimming with inspiration for a beautiful life in the popular Patina Style. “We decided to write this book to share why we decided to create this life and what we have learned along the way. We share how we decided where to live, how to design and lay out our property and how to think about the individual spaces. One of the main nuggets of wisdom that we have learned is that there is not only one way to live this life. The idea of this book is to give you some options.”