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Vera

Carol Edgarian
Vera Book PDF

Author : Carol Edgarian
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501157530

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"Meet Vera Johnson, fifteen-year-old illegitimate daughter of Rose, notorious proprietor of San Francisco's most legendary bordello. Vera has grown up straddling two worlds-the madam's alluring sphere, replete with tickets to the opera, surly henchmen, and scant morality, and the quiet domestic life of the family paid to raise her. On the morning of the great quake, Vera's worlds collide. As the city burns and looters vie with the injured, orphaned, and starving, Vera and her guileless sister, Pie, are cast adrift. Disregarding societal norms and prejudices, Vera begins to imagine a new kind of life. She collaborates with Tan, her former rival, and forges an unlikely family of survivors, navigating through the disaster together. In Vera, Carol Edgarian creates a cinematic, deeply entertaining world, in which honor and fates are tested; notions of sex, class, and justice are turned upside down; and love is hard-won. A ravishing, heartbreaking, and profound affirmation of youth and tenacity, Vera's story brings to life legendary characters-tenor Enrico Caruso, indicted mayor Eugene Schmitz and boss Abe Ruef, tabloid celebrity Alma Spreckels. This richly imagined, timely tale of improbable outcomes and alliances takes hold from the first page, with remarkable scenes of devastation, renewal, and joy. Vera celebrates the audacious fortitude of its young heroine, who discovers an unexpected strength in unprecedented times"--

The Crow Trap

Ann Cleeves
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Author : Ann Cleeves
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780330540476

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The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves Pdf

Introducing Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope. The Crow Trap is the first book in Ann Cleeves’ Vera Stanhope series – which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn, Vera. Everyone has something to hide . . . Three very different women come together at an isolated cottage on the North Pennines to complete an environmental survey. Three women who each know the meaning of betrayal . . . Rachael, the team leader, is still reeling after a double betrayal by her lover and boss. Anne, a botanist, sees the survey as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. And then there is Grace, a strange, uncommunicative young woman, hiding plenty of her own secrets. Rachael is the first to arrive at the cottage, but when she gets there she is shocked to discover an apparent suicide. But then another death occurs, and a fourth woman enters the picture – the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope, who must piece together the truth from these women’s tangled lives . . . Enjoy more of Vera Stanhope’s investigations with Telling Tales, Hidden Depths, and Silent Voices.

Aloe Vera

Alasdair Barcroft,Audun Myskja
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Author : Alasdair Barcroft,Audun Myskja
Publisher : AlasdairAloeVera
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Aloe vera
ISBN : 095450710X

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Aloe Vera by Alasdair Barcroft,Audun Myskja Pdf

This is Alasdair Barcroft's third book on the subject of aloe vera and he believes the aloe vera topic will run and run as more and more people, both lay people and professional healthcare specialists and therapists alike, begin fully to understand the powerful healing and health-giving properties of this amazing plant. He believes that 'we are still scratching the surface' in terms of aloe vera's vast potential. Aloe vera has been around for over 4,000 years - it has stood the test of time - and it still continues to confound and very often baffle the medical profession and scientific researchers with its complex, silent actions, potent properties and powerful healing benefits. Aloe vera truly is nature's silent healer. Aloe vera has been known for its wide-ranging healing properties for over 4,000 years, but it is only in the last few decades that scientists have really begun both to realise and understand the enormous scope of this amazing plant's actions and benefits. Medical practitioners, vets, dentists, therapists, nutritionists and many others involved in healthcare throughout the world are finally realising that the anecdotal evidence of the powers of this ancient plant th

Vera Wang

Katherine E. Krohn
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Author : Katherine E. Krohn
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781580135726

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Vera Wang by Katherine E. Krohn Pdf

Biography of well-known designer Vera Wang.

Vera Wang

Anne M. Todd
Vera Wang Book PDF

Author : Anne M. Todd
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438100388

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Vera Wang by Anne M. Todd Pdf

Vera Wang is a top fashion designer whose name is known around the world. Working first at Vogue magazine and then for Ralph Lauren, Wang opened her own business in 1990. Bridal gowns, put Vera Wang on the map, but her collection has since grown t

The Amazing Ancient to Modern Useful Plant Aloe Vera

Anonim
The Amazing Ancient to Modern Useful Plant Aloe Vera Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Health Research Books
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0787303976

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The Amazing Ancient to Modern Useful Plant Aloe Vera by Anonim Pdf

1980 for more than 3,000 years, Aloe Vera has been used to treat human ills. its miraculous properties have been re-discovered time after time, but it was not until the advent of the electron microscope that science recognized Aloe Vera as on of the mos.

Vera Röhm

Vera Röhm,Eugen Gomringer,Stephen Bann
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Author : Vera Röhm,Eugen Gomringer,Stephen Bann
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 1861892640

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Vera Röhm by Vera Röhm,Eugen Gomringer,Stephen Bann Pdf

Both a sculptor and a photographer, German-born Vera Röhm is best known for her unorthodox approach to visual art. Using a repertoire of only elementary geometrical shapes, Röhm's incisions, mutilations, and cross-sections of various materials evoke the very real challenges of restoration and reconstruction. Vera Röhm is the first comprehensive collection of this contemporary artist's work to be presented to an English-speaking public. It explores the changing shape of Röhm's art in such installations as Integrations and Shadow Objects, as her photographs of the Jaipur Observatory, and works such as the cube series bearing the inscription "Night is the Earth's Shadow," which form part of a significant corpus of work connected with language. Accompanied by essays from renowned poet and critic Eugen Gomringer and the art historian Stephen Bann, Vera Röhm is lavishly illustrated with images from her exhibitions.

Vera and the Ambassador

Vera Blinken,Donald Blinken
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Author : Vera Blinken,Donald Blinken
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438426884

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Vera and the Ambassador by Vera Blinken,Donald Blinken Pdf

Vera and the Ambassador is a book to be savored and enjoyed on many levels. Both a behind-the-scenes peek at the operations of a U.S. embassy in a post–Cold War former Soviet satellite and a personal story of a refugee's escape and triumphant return, Vera and Donald Blinken's dual memoir openly details their challenges, setbacks, and victories as they worked in tandem to advance America's interests in Eastern Europe and to restore a former Soviet satellite state to a pre-communist level of prosperity. Hungary in all its cultural glory and historical anguish lies at the heart of this dramatic and deeply personal story. Born in Budapest just prior to World War II, Vera was only five years old when the Germans invaded in 1944. In a harrowing account, she describes how she and her mother managed to survive the atrocities of the war and, in 1950, narrowly escape Soviet-occupied Hungary for the freedom and opportunity of America. Making their way to New York, Vera settled into her adopted country with an indomitable spirit, a vow to become the best American she could be, and a hope of finding some way to give back as a show of gratitude for her good fortune in surviving the destruction of the war. That opportunity came in 1994 when her husband was appointed ambassador to Hungary by President Clinton, just five years into the country's tentative transformation from a command economy and totalitarian government into a market economy and fledgling republic based upon democratic ideals. A former investment banker, Donald might have lacked foreign service experience, but his skills as an administrator and his willingness to try innovative ideas, combined with Vera's knowledge of Hungarian language and culture and her outreach to the Hungarian community, helped them deal head-on with a variety of challenges, including a collapsing economy and the threat of a slide back toward the old ways of communism, and a brutal civil war that raged across the country's southern border in the former Yugoslavia. Replete with colorful characters from the streets of Budapest, humorous scenes at the ambassadorial residence, and accounts of tense high-level diplomatic negotiations in the run-up to Hungary's vote to join NATO, Vera and the Ambassador shows how the Blinkens helped chart a new course for American diplomacy in the mid-1990s. Ultimately, it is also the story of how Hungarians came to see them personally, and memorably, as their Vera and their ambassador.

Vera Wang

Richard Worth
Vera Wang Book PDF

Author : Richard Worth
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766079038

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Vera Wang by Richard Worth Pdf

Born to wealthy and accomplished Chinese immigrants, Vera Wang was given nearly every opportunity in life. But when the budding skater failed to realize her dream of making the US Olympic team, she turned to a career in fashion. Wang has since become one of the world’s most accomplished fashion designers, creating wedding gowns for celebrities and figure skating costumes for gold medal winners. Riveting text, full-color photos, and inspirational direct quotations will make it clear to readers exactly why Vera Wang is an influential Asian.

Little Vera

Frank Beardow
Little Vera Book PDF

Author : Frank Beardow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857714428

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Little Vera by Frank Beardow Pdf

Directed by Vasisli Pichul and released in 1988 "Little Vera" received the European Film Award for best screenplay as well as the special jury prize at Montreal. Looking at the wider context of the film, this text observes its use of space and representations of complex family relationships, placing "Little Vera" within the context of youth cinema and overturning its reputation in the West as the "first ever Soviet sex film".

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

Lynn Nottage
By the Way Meet Vera Stark Book PDF

Author : Lynn Nottage
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Actresses
ISBN : 9780822226468

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By the Way, Meet Vera Stark by Lynn Nottage Pdf

A new comedy by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Ruined."

Serrana de la Vera

Luis Vélez de Guevara,Harley Erdman
Serrana de la Vera Book PDF

Author : Luis Vélez de Guevara,Harley Erdman
Publisher : Aris and Phillips Hispanic Cla
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781786941916

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Serrana de la Vera by Luis Vélez de Guevara,Harley Erdman Pdf

This edition presents The Mountain Girl from La Vera (1613) for the first time in English. The extraordinary protagonist, Gila, calls herself a man, takes pride in doing things men do, and falls in love with a queen. Her betrayal by an army captain who she has humiliated leads to tragedy. Gila has been described as feminist, lesbian, queer, and transgender. It is a vibrant, relevant play and a great piece of theatre.

The Enigma of Father Vera Daniel

Michael Gryboski
The Enigma of Father Vera Daniel Book PDF

Author : Michael Gryboski
Publisher : Ambassador International
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649603609

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The Enigma of Father Vera Daniel by Michael Gryboski Pdf

Father Vera Daniel was a man of mystery. He served as a parish priest in the rural regions of the Kingdom of Parvion, one of the great powers of its day. Although welcoming of gentry and commoner alike, Father Vera kept his past hidden from his congregation—and would later keep his location hidden from a trio of inspectors. While Father Vera was raised to be a loyal citizen of Parvion, he found himself increasingly at odds with the very monarchy that he had sworn to obey as a child. All the while, many met in secret, plotting against Father Vera due to his allegiance to the Church. As Parvion’s chronic warfare, economic woes, and increasing intolerance of dissent feed the calls for Revolution, the charitable clergyman would find himself in the greatest danger of his life.

Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel

A.B. Emrys
Wilkie Collins Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel Book PDF

Author : A.B. Emrys
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786485031

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Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel by A.B. Emrys Pdf

Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular novelists during England’s Victorian era. While Collins scholarship has often focused on social issues, this critical study explores his formal ingenuity, particularly the novel of testimony constructed from epistolary fiction, trial reports and prose monologue. His innovations in form were later mirrored by Vera Caspary, who adapted The Woman in White three times into contemporary fiction. This text explores how the formal dialogue between Collins and Caspary has linked sensation fiction with noir thrillers and film noir.

Who Is Vera Kelly? (A Vera Kelly Story)

Rosalie Knecht
Who Is Vera Kelly A Vera Kelly Story Book PDF

Author : Rosalie Knecht
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781947793026

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Who Is Vera Kelly? (A Vera Kelly Story) by Rosalie Knecht Pdf

Winner of the 2021 Edgar Award – G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards An NPR Best Book of the Year "Gripping, subtle, magnificently written." —The New York Times Book Review "A delectable page-turner . . . Vera Kelly introduces a fascinating new spy to literature’s mystery canon—one we hope sticks around long beyond this snappy, intimate debut." —Entertainment Weekly New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. As Vera becomes more and more enmeshed with the young radicals, the fragile local government begins to split at the seams. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows, and she's forced to take extreme measures to save herself. An exhilarating page-turner and perceptive coming-of-age story, Who Is Vera Kelly? introduces an original, wry, and whip-smart female spy for the twenty-first century.