The Rise And Fall Of Rocky Love

Author : Katia Lief
Publisher : Blue Table Books
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780983499060

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The Rise and Fall of Rocky Love by Katia Lief Pdf

"IS FAME REALLY WORTH ALL THE TROUBLE?" Aspiring cartoonist Catherine "Cat" Gold earns her living as a celebrity assistant in uptown Manhattan, while navigating the cramped downtown spaces of life, love, and alternative art. Her boss is Rochelle "Rocky" Love, a celebrated 1970s feminist and has-been 80s radio and television star who is convinced she can forge a 90s comeback with an autobiography. But the ghostwriter hired to glorify her life instead reveals a battleground of treachery and hypocrisy, littered with lies and sex that cross all the boundaries. When Cat herself experiences Rockys duplicity and learns that the icon is a fraud, she is fueled by a sense of disappointment and conspires with the ghostwriter to reveal the unspeakable truth about their narcissistic boss. Praise for international bestseller Katia Liefs novels: "Wonderfully funny and terribly true."--Fay Weldon "Urban, hip, sad, funny, a tipsy walk on the wild side."--Malcolm Bosse "Taut, clean storytelling." --Publishers Weekly "Readers will want to read more of this talented writers work." --New York Journal of Books.

Author : Katia Lief
Publisher : Blue Table Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780983542070

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Names of the Dead by Katia Lief Pdf

IF HE CAN'T HAVE HER, NO ONE WILL Award-winning journalist Darcy Mayhew thinks she has faced her worst nightmare when her beloved husband dies in a car accident. But after moving to New York City with her teenage son to begin their lives anew, she discovers she has a stalker. Not only is the worst yet to come, but her husband's death may not have been an accident after all. Praise for Katia Lief's Novels: "Mesmerizing." --Lisa Gardner "Nail-biting suspense." -Richard Montanari "Brilliant." -Suspense Magazine "Exhilarating." -The Mystery Gazette "Taut, clean storytelling." -Publishers Weekly "Readers will want to read more of this talented writer's work." -New York Journal of Books

Author : Una Halberstadt
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781105635557

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The Secrets of Hartleyvale Farm by Una Halberstadt Pdf

Catherine Crawford, a young qualified school-teacher, applies for a position as house-keeper/governess to three small children living on a dairy farm in the Natal Midlands, in the Republic of South Africa. The old farmhouse is said to be haunted and to hold hidden secrets. Their father, Neil Middleton, is unpopular in the district, unapproachable and is known to have a filthy temper. Catherine goes to help him for the children's sakes and wonders what she has let herself in for!

Author : Helen Kate Rogers Furness
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030029544345

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A concordance to Shakespeare's poems: an index to every word therin contained by Helen Kate Rogers Furness Pdf

Author : Helen Kate Rogers Furness,Mrs. Horace Howard Furness
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWKC4E

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A Concordance to Shakespeare's Poems by Helen Kate Rogers Furness,Mrs. Horace Howard Furness Pdf

Author : Mrs. Helen Kate FURNESS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026209343

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A Concordance to Shakespeare's Poems: an Index to Every Word Therein Contained. By Mrs. H. H. Furness by Mrs. Helen Kate FURNESS Pdf

Author : Horace Furness
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368823696

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A Concordance to Shakespeare's Poems by Horace Furness Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author : Scott Meslow
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780063026315

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From Hollywood with Love by Scott Meslow Pdf

An in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy’s modern golden era and its role in our culture, tracking the genre from its heyday in the ’80s and the ’90s, its unfortunate decline in the 2000s, and its explosive reemergence in the age of streaming, featuring exclusive interviews with the directors, writers, and stars of the iconic films that defined the genre. No Hollywood genre has been more misunderstood—or more unfairly under-appreciated—than the romantic comedy. Funny, charming, and reliably crowd-pleasing, rom-coms were the essential backbone of the Hollywood landscape, launching the careers of many of Hollywood’s most talented actors and filmmakers, such as Julia Roberts and Matthew McConaughey, and providing many of the yet limited creative opportunities women had in Hollywood. But despite—or perhaps because of—all that, the rom-com has routinely been overlooked by the Academy Awards or snobbishly dismissed by critics. In From Hollywood with Love, culture writer and GQ contributor Scott Meslow seeks to right this wrong, celebrating and analyzing rom-coms with the appreciative, insightful critical lens they’ve always deserved. Beginning with the golden era of the romantic comedy—spanning from the late ’80s to the mid-’00s with the breakthrough of films such as When Harry Met Sally—to the rise of streaming and the long-overdue push for diversity setting the course for films such as the groundbreaking, franchise-spawning Crazy Rich Asians, Meslow examines the evolution of the genre through its many iterations, from its establishment of new tropes, the Austen and Shakespeare rewrites, the many love triangles, and even the occasional brave decision to do away with the happily ever after. Featuring original black-and-white sketches of iconic movie scenes and exclusive interviews with the actors and filmmakers behind our most beloved rom-coms, From Hollywood with Love constructs oral histories of our most celebrated romantic comedies, for an informed and entertaining look at Hollywood’s beloved yet most under-appreciated genre.

Author : Katia Lief
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802161413

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Invisible Woman by Katia Lief Pdf

Other people kill their husbands. Not her. “A darkly clever thriller about women’s thwarted ambitions, celebrity, the Time’s Up movement and revenge.”—People (Book of the Week) In Invisible Woman, a dangerous secret held for too long between estranged best friends rises to the surface, and a long marriage comes apart with devastating consequences. Joni Ackerman’s decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came with a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break into the all-male Hollywood club of feature film directors. But she and her husband Paul had always wanted a family, and his ascending career at a premier television network provided a safety net. Now they’ve recently transplanted to Brooklyn, so that Paul can launch a major East Coast production studio, when a scandal rocks the film industry and forces Joni to revisit a secret from long ago involving her friend Val. Joni is adamant that the time has come to tell the story, but Val and Paul are reluctant, for different reasons. As the marriage frays and the friends spar about whether to speak up, Joni’s struggles with isolation in a new city, and old resentments about the sacrifices she made on her family’s behalf start to boil over. She takes solace, of sorts, in the novels of Patricia Highsmith—particularly the masterpiece Strangers on a Train, with its duplicitous characters and their murderous impulses—until the lines between reality and fantasy become blurred. Invisible Woman is at once a literary thriller about the lies we tell each other (and ourselves), and a powerful psychological examination of the complexities of friendship, marriage, and motherhood.

Author : Katia Lief
Publisher : Blue Table Books
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780983499008

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Five Days in Summer by Katia Lief Pdf

"SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE RIGHT BACK... Before the long drive home from vacation on Cape Cod, Emily Parker made a quick run to the grocery store...and disappeared. When her car is found abandoned in the parking lot, her husband, Will, turns to a retired FBI profiler named John Geary for help. As her family scours the Cape for her, Emily's thoughts are not on her own safety. Kept helpless in a madman's lair, she watches him prepare a five-day countdown that will bring him to his real victim--her young son. USA TODAY and International Bestseller "Mesmerizing...Your heart will be pounding long after you've turned the final page." --Lisa Gardner "I put Five Days in Summer aside only once...to make sure my doors were locked." --Barbara Parker "A gripping, poignant portrait of an innocent family caught in a nightmare of evil." --Anne Frazier "Five Days has it all--an attractive female detective, a crusty FBI profiler, and the scariest killer you'll never want to meet." --Leslie Glass "Strikes terror into a lazy summer day." --Donna Anders".

Author : Katia Lief
Publisher : Blue Table Books
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780983499015

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Seven Minutes to Noon by Katia Lief Pdf

"THE DAY SEEMS PERFECTLY ORDINARY...UNTIL LAUREN DOESNT COME HOME. " Alice Halpern waits for her best friend at the playground where they always meet with their children in their comfortable Brooklyn neighborhood. But when Lauren fails to pick her son up from school, a normal day turns into a nightmare-and Alice begins to realize that nothing will ever be ordinary again. The police desperately search for Lauren, who is nearly nine months pregnant. Alice, herself pregnant, realizes she's being followed and has the creeping fear that she and her unborn twins are in danger. As the investigation intensifies, Alice is shocked as her familiar world begins to unravel. And as new life grows within her, she must fight to save her family-and herself... Praise for international bestseller Katia Liefs novels: "Mesmerizing." --Lisa Gardner "Nail-biting suspense." --Richard Montanari "Taut, clean storytelling." --Publishers Weekly "A new force to reckon with in...suspense." --Donna Anders "Suspense at a high level." --Midwest Book Review "Readers will want to read more of this talented writers work." --New York Journal of Books".

Author : Katia Lief
Publisher : Blue Table Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780983499039

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Here She Lies by Katia Lief Pdf

"WHEN ANNIE'S IDENTITY IS STOLEN...SHE RUNS BUT CANNOT HIDE." After discovering an email revealing her husbands infidelity, Annie Milliken is shattered. Dismissing his pleas of innocence, Annie takes their baby daughter and goes to the one person she has always trusted: her twin sister, Julie. Annie and Julie soon become as close as they were growing up, spending their days together, dressing the same, sharing the baby. But when Annie applies for a job, everything comes undone. Her credit cards are stolen just a she's arrested for grand larceny. The police realize she is the victim of identity theft, but she has yet to understand the true scale of the crime. And when Annie turns to Julie for help, she finds that her twin sister has disappeared...along with her baby. Now with her daughter--and her own life--on the line, Annie is going to fight for what is hers. Praise for international bestseller Katia Liefs novels: "Mesmerizing." --Lisa Gardner "Nail-biting suspense." --Richard Montanari "Taut, clean storytelling." --Publishers Weekly "A new force to reckon with in...suspense." --Donna Anders "Suspense at a high level." --Midwest Book Review "Readers will want to read more of this talented writers work." --New York Journal of Books.

Author : Katia Lief
Publisher : Blue Table Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780983499022

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One Cold Night by Katia Lief Pdf

"ONE COLD NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED...." New York Police detective Dave Strauss is haunted by the one case he couldn't solve. A schoolgirl vanished off the streets of Brooklyn, with only a trail of blood and a series of untraceable phone calls from "the Groom" hinting at her fate. Now the cold dark night has engulfed another young girl--but this time she is part of Daves family. He and his wife, Susan, know fourteen-year-old Lisa has not run away, and they know her disappearance is not just a tragic coincidence. And once the first phone call comes, they know she's not alone. Praise for international bestseller Katia Liefs novels: "Mesmerizing." --Lisa Gardner "Nail-biting suspense." --Richard Montanari "Taut, clean storytelling." --Publishers Weekly "A new force to reckon with in...suspense." --Donna Anders "Suspense at a high level." --Midwest Book Review "Readers will want to read more of this talented writers work." --New York Journal of Books".

Author : Kathleen M. Adams,Kathleen Gillogly
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253223210

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Everyday Life in Southeast Asia by Kathleen M. Adams,Kathleen Gillogly Pdf

This lively survey of the peoples, cultures, and societies of Southeast Asia introduces a region of tremendous geographic, linguistic, historical, and religious diversity. Encompassing both mainland and island countries, these engaging essays describe personhood and identity, family and household organization, nation-states, religion, popular culture and the arts, the legacies of war and recovery, globalization, and the environment. Throughout, the focus is on the daily lives and experiences of ordinary people. Most of the essays are original to this volume, while a few are widely taught classics. All were chosen for their timeliness and interest, and are ideally suited for the classroom.

Author : Katia Lief
Publisher : Blue Table Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780983499053

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Love, Sex & the Wrong Bride by Katia Lief Pdf

"DAWN CAN STILL SEE THE TAN LINE WHERE HER ENGAGEMENT RING USED TO BE." "Laugh-aloud funny." --Publishers Weekly Dawn is still in love with Hank, who dumped her for Christine--and they're living together now. But when Dawn realizes how much Hank misses her, and might even regret their breakup, the game is on. Dating in 1980s Manhattan is confusing enough. Then Mike Blitsky--a.k.a. Mike Mauvais of "Misled Mikes Marvelous Men," a transvestite escort service--bursts into Dawns life when she becomes the editor of a tell-all memoir hes writing to pay for his legal defense. Unbeknownst to Dawn, Hank is Mikes lawyer, defending him against charges of running a male prostitution ring. Dawns friend Katherine, a doctoral student in eighteenth century literature, is hired to do research for Mikes book. With everyone working at cross purposes, the result is a modern day comedy of errors that doesn't wind up until the wedding bouquet goes flying in the final scene. "Wonderfully funny and terribly true."--Fay Weldon "Urban, hip, sad, funny, a tipsy walk on the wild side."--Malcolm Bosse".