To All Appearances A Lady

Author : Marilyn Bowering
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735234321

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To All Appearances a Lady by Marilyn Bowering Pdf

To All Appearances a Lady is Marilyn Bowering’s haunting, evocative debut novel and one of her most loved and memorable works. As Robert Lam sets off on his voyage up the coast of Vancouver Island, the last passenger he expects is a ghost. But when the spirit of Lam Fam—the woman who raised him—suddenly and mysteriously appears, the trip they embark on initiates a quest for the truth about a past both have been avoiding for too many years. Together Robert and Lam Fam relive a harrowing story that begins in nineteenth-century China and takes them on a journey through the South China Sea, across the Pacific to the shores of British Columbia and the dangerous, secretive labyrinth of the B.C. opium trade. There follows a rich and compelling tale of love and deception, greed and drugs—all set against a background of fascinating historical detail and the clash of transplanted cultures.

Author : Marilyn Bowering
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443410922

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Visible Worlds by Marilyn Bowering Pdf

Gerhard and Albrecht Storr are twins, though they share little in common beyond an eccentric upbringing. Raised by a father devoted to the powers of “Personal Magnetism” and a German-immigrant mother unhappy with life in Winnipeg and obsessed with the ghosts of her past, the two brothers grow further and further apart, eventually fighting on opposite sides of the Second World War. Exhaustion is overwhelming Fika, a young Soviet woman crossing the Polar icecap bound for Canada. It’s midwinter 1960, and she’s lost her companions to a frosty death, can barely carry her own supplies, and must ski for another month to reach civilization. How these two gripping tales on their separate sides of the globe unfold and come together is one of the many accomplishments of this extraordinary story. With Marilyn Bowering’s superb gift for storytelling, finely realized characters, and lyrical language, Visible Worlds resonates with the mystery and mysticism of the worlds we see and those we can only imagine.

Author : Lady Penelope Fairweather
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1984162640

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Bouquet Residence, Lady of the House Speaking by Lady Penelope Fairweather Pdf

"The Bouquet Residence, Lady of the House Speaking..." Those words, spoken in the dulcet tones of one Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced BOO-KAY), are forever indelibly etched into the minds of millions of devoted fans of the smash hit Britcom Keeping Up Appearances. The ultimate class comedy, Keeping Up Appearances featured the tour de force performance of Dame Patricia Routledge as social-climber Hyacinth, a middle-class housewife who was forever trying to impress anyone and everyone with her infamous candlelight suppers and hobnobbing with the elite. Obstructing her climb up the social ladder are her put-upon yet dutiful husband Richard, her romantically-repressed sister Daisy, Daisy's bone-idle husband Onslow, man-hungry sister Rose, emotionally unstable sister Violet and senile, wandering Daddy. Adding to this cast of unforgettable characters are jittery neighbour Elizabeth, Elizabeth's divorced, musically-gifted brother Emmet, and an unfortunate young vicar and his extremely jealous wife, along with assorted postal carriers and delivery personnel, all of whom suffer as being part of Hyacinth's considerably broad orbit. Keeping Up Appearances has gone on to become a beloved classic comedy series, seen in over 60 countries around the world and with a loyal international following, particularly in the United States. So, put on the kettle and have a cup of Earl Grey tea and some biscuits, it is time to take a trip back to Hyacinth's World with this hilarious trivia book...

Author : Barry Webster
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551524795

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The Lava in My Bones by Barry Webster Pdf

A frustrated geologist studying global warming becomes obsessed with eating rocks after embarking on his first same-sex relationship in Europe. Back home, his young sister is a high-school girl who suddenly starts to ooze honey through her pores, an affliction that attracts hordes of bees as well as her male classmates but ultimately turns her into a social pariah. Meanwhile, their obsessive Pentecostal mother repeatedly calls on the Holy Spirit to rid her family of demons. The siblings are reunited on a ship bound for Europe where they hope to start a new life, but are unaware that their disguised mother is also on board and plotting to win back their souls, with the help of the Virgin Mary. Told in a lush baroque prose, this intense, extravagant magic-realist novel combines elements of fairy tales, horror movies, and romances to create a comic, hallucinatory celebration of excess and sensuality. Barry Webster's first book, The Sound of All Flesh, won the ReLit Award for story collections.

Author : Josephine Miles
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015019798266

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To All Appearances by Josephine Miles Pdf

Author : Heather Marshall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781668013694

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Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall Pdf

This “clever and satisfying” (Associated Press) #1 international bestseller for fans of Kristin Hannah and Jennifer Chiaverini follows three women who are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, and a secret network of women fighting for the right to choose—inspired by true stories. 2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion network in Toronto known only by its whispered code name: Jane. 1971: As a teenager, Dr. Evelyn Taylor was sent to a home for “fallen” women where she was forced to give up her baby for adoption—a trauma she has never recovered from. Despite the constant threat of arrest, she joins the Jane Network as an abortion provider, determined to give other women the choice she never had. 1980: After discovering a shocking secret about her family, twenty-year-old Nancy Mitchell begins to question everything she has ever known. When she unexpectedly becomes pregnant, she feels like she has no one to turn to for help. Grappling with her decision, she locates “Jane” and finds a place of her own alongside Dr. Taylor within the network’s ranks, but she can never escape the lies that haunt her. Looking for Jane is “a searing, important, beautifully written novel about the choices we all make and where they lead us—as well as a wise and timely reminder of the difficult road women had to walk not so long ago” (Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author).

Author : Steve Harvey
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780061964497

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Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey Pdf

“Harvey offers surprising insights into the male mentality and gives women strategies for taming that unruly beast.” —Philadelphia Inquirer “Women should listen to Steve Harvey when it comes to what a good man is about. Steve Harvey dispenses a lot of fabulous information about men.” —Aretha Franklin The #1 New York Times bestseller from the new guru of relationship advice, Steve Harvey’s Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is an invaluable self-help book that can empower women everywhere to take control of their relationships. The host of a top-rated radio show listened to by millions daily—and of cable TV’s The Steve Harvey Project—Harvey knows what men really think about love, intimacy, and commitment. In Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, the author, media personality, and stand-up comedian gets serious, sharing his wealth of knowledge, insight, and no-nonsense advice for every good woman who wants to find a good man or make her current love last.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015034639651

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Godey's Lady's Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Louis Antoine Godey,Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Costume
ISBN : PSU:000020202385

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Godey's Lady's Book by Louis Antoine Godey,Sarah Josepha Buell Hale Pdf

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Author : Mona Awad
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735235892

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Bunny by Mona Awad Pdf

“The Secret History meets Jennifer’s Body. This brilliant, sharp, weird book skewers the heightened rhetoric of obsessive female friendship in a way I don’t think I've ever seen before. I loved it and I couldn’t put it down.” - Kristen Roupenian, author of You Know You Want This: "Cat Person" and Other Stories The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel about a lonely graduate student drawn into a clique of rich girls who seem to move and speak as one. "We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?" Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more different from the other members of her master's program at New England's elite Warren University. A self-conscious scholarship student who prefers the company of her imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight it seems their bodies might become permanently fused. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' exclusive monthly "Smut Salon," and finds herself drawn as if by magic to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, an audacious art school dropout, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into Bunny world, and starts to take part in the off-campus "Workshop" where they devise their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur, and her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies are brought into deadly collision. A spellbinding, down-the-rabbit-hole tale about loneliness and belonging, creativity and agency, and female friendship and desire, Bunny is the dazzlingly original second book from an author with tremendous "insight into the often-baffling complexities of being a woman" (The Atlantic).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044105216006

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Catholic World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Fielding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EHC:148100440027V

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The Writings by Henry Fielding Pdf

Author : Henry Fielding,David Herbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000576722

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The Writings of Henry Fielding by Henry Fielding,David Herbert Pdf

Author : Henry Fielding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600055654

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The writings of Henry Fielding, comprising his celebrated works of fiction, with a memoir by D. Herbert by Henry Fielding Pdf

Author : Henry Fielding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z255835405

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The Writings of Henry Fielding Comprising His Celebrated Works of Fiction, Carefully Revised and Collated with the Best Authorities ; with a Memoir by David Herbert by Henry Fielding Pdf