The Debutante S Code

Author : Erica Vetsch
Publisher : Kregel Publications
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780825477607

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The Debutante's Code by Erica Vetsch Pdf

Jane Austen meets Sherlock Holmes in this new Regency mystery series Newly returned from finishing school, Lady Juliette Thorndike is ready to debut in London society. Due to her years away, she hasn't spent much time with her parents, and sees them only as the flighty, dilettante couple the other nobles love.But when they disappear, she discovers she never really knew them at all. They've been living double lives as government spies--and they're only the latest in a long history of espionage that is the family's legacy. Now Lady Juliette is determined to continue their work. Mentored by her uncle, she plunges into the dangerous world of spies. From the glittering ballrooms of London to the fox hunts, regattas, and soirees of country high society, she must chase down hidden clues, solve the mysterious code her parents left behind, and stay out of danger. All the while, she has to keep her endeavors a secret from her best friend and her suitors--not to mention the nosy, irritatingly handsome Bow Street runner, who suspects her of a daring theft. Can Lady Juliette outwit her enemies and complete her parents' last mission? Best-selling author Erica Vetsch is back with a rollicking, exciting new series destined to be a hit with Regency readers who enjoy a touch of mystery in their love stories. Fans of Julie Klassen, Sarah Ladd, and Anne Perry will love the wit, action, and romance.

Author : Kristen Richardson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393608748

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The Season: A Social History of the Debutante by Kristen Richardson Pdf

A Smithsonian Best History Book of 2019 “Sparkling.” —Genevieve Valentine, NPR Kristen Richardson traces the social seasons of debutantes on both sides of the Atlantic, sharing their stories in their own words, through diaries, letters, and interviews conducted at contemporary balls. Richardson takes the reader from Georgian England to colonial Philadelphia, from the Antebellum South and Wharton’s New York to the reimagined rituals of African American communities. Originally conceived as a way to wed daughters to suitable men, debutante rituals have adapted and evolved as marriage and women’s lives have changed. An inquiry into the ritual’s enduring cultural significance, The Season also reveals the complex emotional world of the girls at its center, whose every move was scrutinized and judged, and on whose backs family fortunes rested.

Author : Cynthia Lewis
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469608402

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Secret Sharing: Debutantes Coming Out in the American South by Cynthia Lewis Pdf

'There's no choosing. It isn't choice. Are you the daughter of somebody who was somebody who was somebody? And if you are, and you're not a heroin addict, you are there.'" This article appears in the Winter 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook. Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South.

Author : Bonnier Books UK,Charlotte Browne
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781788704717

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The Little Book of Bridgerton by Bonnier Books UK,Charlotte Browne Pdf

For superfans of Netflix's hit show and Julia Quinn's bestselling books, or anyone needing a little more romance in their life... Craving more of the ton? Desperate to become the finest rake in London? Need help on how to swoon in style? Allow The Little Book of Bridgerton to act as your guide through the tumultuous life of the debutante. Which Bridgerton Character Are You? How are your Regency Life Skills? Will a game of Rakes and Ladders leave you at the top or very bottom of the social hierarchy? And, most importantly, how do you and your beau rate on the Checklist for True Love? Full of quizzes, activities and bite-sized nibbles of Regency history, the world of Bridgerton is laid fully bare...

Author : Kathy Reichs
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101608586

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Code by Kathy Reichs Pdf

Tory and the rest of the Virals are put to the ultimate test when they find a geocache containing an ornate puzzle box. Shelton decodes the cipher inside, only to find more tantalizing clues left by "The Gamemaster." A second, greater geocache is within reach—if the Virals are up to the challenge. But the hunt takes a dark turn when Tory locates the other box—it contains a fake bomb, along with a sinister proposal from The Gamemaster. Now, the real game has begun: another bomb is out there—a real one—and the clock is ticking.

Author : Jodie Archer,Matthew L. Jockers
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781250088284

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The Bestseller Code by Jodie Archer,Matthew L. Jockers Pdf

"When a story captures the imagination of millions, that's magic. Can you qualify magic? Archer and Jockers just may have done so."—Sylvia Day, New York Times bestselling author Ask most people about massive success in the world of fiction, and you’ll typically hear that it’s a game of hazy crystal balls. The sales figures of E. L. James or Dan Brown seem to be freakish—random occurrences in an unknowable market. But what if there were an algorithm that could reveal a secret DNA of bestsellers, regardless of their genre? What if it knew, just from analyzing the words alone, not just why genre writers like John Grisham and Danielle Steel belong on the lists, but also that authors such as Junot Diaz, Jodi Picoult, and Donna Tartt had telltale signs of success all over their pages? Thanks to Jodie Archer and Matthew Jockers, the algorithm exists, the code has been cracked, and the results bring fresh new insights into how fiction works and why we read. The Bestseller Code offers a new theory for why Fifty Shades of Grey sold so well. It sheds light on the current craze for dark heroines. It reveals which themes tend to sell best. And all with fascinating supporting data taken from a five-year study of twenty thousand novels. Then there is the hunt for "the one"—the paradigmatic example of bestselling writing according to a computer's analysis of thousands of points of data. The result is surprising, a bit ironic, and delightfully unorthodox. This book explains groundbreaking text-mining research in accessible terms and offers a new perspective on the New York Times bestseller list. It's a big-idea book about the relationship between creativity and technology that will be provocative to anyone interested in how analytics have already transformed the worlds of finance, medicine, and sports. But at heart it is a celebration of books for readers and writers—a compelling investigation into how successful writing works, and a fresh take on our intellectual and emotional response to stories.

Author : Kate Quinn
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062943484

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The Rose Code by Kate Quinn Pdf

“The reigning queen of historical fiction” -- Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over. 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything—beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses—but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart. 1947. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter--the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. A mysterious traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and now Osla, Mab, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger--and their true enemy--closer...

Author : Anna Fields
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101186831

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Confessions of a Rebel Debutante by Anna Fields Pdf

A fond, funny Southern-fried memoir about growing up a proper young lady...or not. How does a North Carolina native go from being a tomboy with catfish guts on her overalls to becoming the next Scarlett O'Hara? Turns out, it's not so easy. Too smart, too tall, too fat, too different...Anna Fields was a dud at debbing. From tea parties to teased hair to where to hide mini bottles of liquor inside poufy crinoline ballgowns, Anna reveals all-in a hilarious, behindthe-scenes glimpse into Deb Culture, where for a Southern belle, "the proof is in the pouf." Unless, of course, she rebels...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Postal service
ISBN : UOM:39015046800473

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National Five Digit Zip Code and Post Office Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : David J. Leonard
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438442051

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After Artest by David J. Leonard Pdf

Explores how the NBA moved to govern black players and the expression of blackness after the “Palace Brawl” of 2004.

Author : Laura Claridge
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812967418

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Emily Post by Laura Claridge Pdf

In an engaging book that sweeps from the Gilded Age to the 1960s, award-winning author Laura Claridge presents the first authoritative biography of Emily Post, who changed the mindset of millions of Americans with Etiquette, a perennial bestseller and touchstone of proper behavior. A daughter of high society and one of Manhattan’s most sought-after debutantes, Emily Price married financier Edwin Post. It was a hopeful union that ended in scandalous divorce. But the trauma forced Emily Post to become her own person. After writing novels for fifteen years, Emily took on a different sort of project. When it debuted in 1922, Etiquette represented a fifty-year-old woman at her wisest–and a country at its wildest. Claridge addresses the secret of Etiquette’s tremendous success and gives us a panoramic view of the culture from which it took its shape, as its author meticulously updated her book twice a decade to keep it consistent with America’s constantly changing social landscape. Now, nearly fifty years after Emily Post’s death, we still feel her enormous influence on how we think Best Society should behave.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
ISBN : NYPL:33433088489459

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San Francisco Daily Times by Anonim Pdf

Author : Uluğ Kuzuoğlu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231557917

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Codes of Modernity by Uluğ Kuzuoğlu Pdf

In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing system. The Chinese characters, they argued, were too cumbersome to learn, blocking the channels of communication, obstructing mass literacy, and impeding scientific progress. What had sustained a civilization for more than two millennia was suddenly recast as the root cause of an ongoing cultural suicide. China needed a new script to survive in the modern world. Codes of Modernity explores the global history of Chinese script reforms—efforts to alphabetize or simplify the writing system—from the 1890s to the 1980s. Examining the material conditions and political economy underlying attempts to modernize scripts, Uluğ Kuzuoğlu argues that these reforms were at the forefront of an emergent information age. Faced with new communications technologies and infrastructures as well as industrial, educational, and bureaucratic pressures for information management, reformers engineered scripts as tools to increase labor efficiency and create alternate political futures. Kuzuoğlu considers dozens of proposed scripts, including phonetic alphabets, syllabaries, character simplification schemes, latinization, and pinyin. Situating them in a transnational framework, he stretches the geographical boundaries of Chinese script reforms to include American behavioral psychologists, Soviet revolutionaries, and Central Asian typographers, who were all devising new scripts in pursuit of informational efficiency. Codes of Modernity brings these experiments together to offer new ways to understand scripts and rethink the shared experiences of a global information age.

Author : Ennie Smith
Publisher : Ennie Smith
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9789631287707

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School of Ladies - The Debutantes by Ennie Smith Pdf

Six girls and a ball where they can sparkle and shine like princesses. A story of a seventeen-year-old girl named Emma Derkin and five other girls, who just like every young girl back then, wanted to find the best possible husband at the debutante ball. The events unfold during the Victorian era in a girls' school dormitory. We are privy to follow the girls as they painstakingly prepare for the ball, as well as to watch the relationships that are formed between the girls. And, of course, the main event, the coming out ball, for which everyone has been getting ready. But love is unpredictable, and fate never fashions things the way we imagine it. This book is not just meant primarily for young girls and fans of Jane Austen novels, but the topic is equally enjoyable for every adult woman.

Author : Julia London
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982189952

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The Perils of Pursuing a Prince by Julia London Pdf

Includes an excerpt from The dangers of deceiving a viscount.