Download or read book A Gilded Walk written by Jerry McDermott and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GILDED WALK: ON AND OFF THE ROAD TO PARADISE is about a journey, your journey as well as the author’s. It’s called LIFE. And since our actions determine how the journey proceeds and how it ends, it’s worth some planning. The author explains how he handled the curves and the high-speed roads and bumps along the way. It is basically a matter of power: God’s power to help you grow in the Christian faith and to help others follow that path. As your reading progresses, you will learn about: the Lord’s guidance from childhood the many side roads that can detour life how God wants to travel with you how being saved isn’t optional how this is just the first step of the journey the depth of journeys in the kingdom the Holy Spirit as tour director Thankfully, our Lord is not only forgiving, but died that we all might live. Think of how Christ forgave Peter for his lack of trust and forgave Paul for persecuting Christians. Therefore, this is the story of a life not always on the path, but always being led back to the straight road toward Him.
Download or read book Gilded written by Deborah Davis and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-09-25 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully written history of high society in Newport, Rhode Island, from the acclaimed author of Party of the Century Newport is the legendary and beautiful home of American aristocracy and the sheltered super-rich. Many of the country's most famous blueblood families?the closest thing we have to royalty?have lived and summered in Newport since the nineteenth century. The Astors, the Vanderbilts, Edith Wharton, JFK and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Doris Duke, and Claus and Sunny von Bulow are just a few of the many names who have called the city home. Gilded takes you along as you explore the fascinating heritage of the Newport elite, from its first colonists to the newest of its new millennium millionaires, showing the evolution of a town intent on living in its own world. Through a narrative filled with engrossing characters and lively tales of untold extravagance, Davis brings the resort to life and uncovers the difference between rich and Newport rich along the way. An engrossing multigenerational saga that tells the real story of the rich and famous in Newport Vibrant, praiseworthy writing: "[Davis] brings splendidly colorful behind-the-scenes action and players up front" (the New York Times on Party of the Century) 34 evocative black-and-white photographs Written with insight and dramatic flair, Gilded gives you a rare peek into the cloistered coastal playground of America's moneyed elite.
Download or read book She Walks on Gilded Splinters written by Gene Dwyer and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Laveau is recognized as one of the most influential women of 19th Century North America. Her life and legend as an authentic voodoo queen has been clouded in mystery. This unique novel is an intricate murder mystery following retribution for the sins of past generations set against the history and consequences of the slave trade.
Download or read book Walking the Golden Path written by Gwen Mangum and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking the Golden Path is an inner-dimensional guidebook via journeys with Beloved Teacher. A creative adventure in spiritual awareness and unfoldment. Angels, inner earth visits and blessings all found with one's DNA.
Download or read book Newport Mansions written by Richard Cheek and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to ten properties held by the The Preservation Society of Newport County.
Download or read book The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century written by Warwick William Wroth and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In a Gilded Cage written by Rhys Bowen and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhys Bowen's In a Gilded Cage continues the author's award-winning historical series that breathes life into the past with its wit and charm and its complete sense of early-twentieth-century New York. It's Easter Sunday 1918, and Irish immigrant Molly Murphy has agreed to march down Fifth Avenue with the sign-wielding suffragettes from Vassar—a civil act of protest that lands her in jail. Molly's betrothed, Police Captain Daniel Sullivan, manages to spring her from the clink, though his hands are full dealing with Chinese opium gangs. But as soon as she's free, Molly marches straight into trouble again. Two of the Vassar alumni need Molly's help as a private investigator. One believes her uncle is cheating her out of an inheritance; the other suspects her husband is cheating with other women. And when one of the clients dies—presumably from influenza, which is sweeping the city—Molly takes to the streets once more. Not to win the right for women to vote, but to reveal the wrongs of some very evil men...
Download or read book Walks in the City of Canton written by John Henry Gray and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Guide to Newport s Cliff Walk written by Ed Morris and published by . This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old New York Four Book Collection written by Edith Wharton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-12-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old New York (1924) is a collection of four novellas by Edith Wharton, revolving around upper-class New York City society in the 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s. The novellas reveal the tribal codes and customs that ruled society, portrayed with the keen style that is uniquely Edith Wharton's. Originally published in 1924 and long out of print, these tales are vintage Wharton, dealing boldly with such themes as infidelity, illegitimacy, jealousy, the class system, and the condition of women in society Included in this remarkable quartet are False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark, and New Year's Day. The decades indicated in the subtitles to the stories make them prequels, after a fashion, to The Age of Innocence. All five might as well be cut from the same bolt of cloth, sharing settings, characters, social insight, a similar knowing eye for a telling detail. Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She became known for her psychological examination of characters faced with changes in the moral and social values of middle-class and upper-class society. Her novels and short stories provide numerous expert characterizations of complex men and women.
Download or read book Walks in Rome written by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who Killed Jane Stanford A Gilded Age Tale of Murder Deceit Spirits and the Birth of a University written by Richard White and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named One of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 by the Los Angeles Times A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish who did it, how, and why. In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy for more than a decade. In 1905 she was murdered in Hawaii, a victim, according to the Honolulu coroner’s jury, of strychnine poisoning. With her vast fortune the university’s lifeline, the Stanford president and his allies quickly sought to foreclose challenges to her bequests by constructing a story of death by natural causes. The cover-up gained traction in the murky labyrinths of power, wealth, and corruption of Gilded Age San Francisco. The murderer walked. Deftly sifting the scattered evidence and conflicting stories of suspects and witnesses, Richard White gives us the first full account of Jane Stanford’s murder and its cover-up. Against a backdrop of the city’s machine politics, rogue policing, tong wars, and heated newspaper rivalries, White’s search for the murderer draws us into Jane Stanford’s imperious household and the academic enmities of the university. Although Stanford officials claimed that no one could have wanted to murder Jane, we meet several people who had the motives and the opportunity to do so. One of these, we discover, also had the means.
Download or read book Walks in Rome including Tivoli Frascati and Albano written by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walks in London written by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Gilded Christmas written by J. Curtis Smith and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look into the past at Christmas, this book includes wonderful illustrations from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s. It shows how Santa's look has changed through even that brief timeframe to the character we are familiar with today. Also included is the classic "'Twas the Night before Christmas" poem and a great short story from author J. Curtis Smith.
Download or read book A Guide to Newport s Cliff Walk Tales of Seaside Mansions the Gilded Age Elite written by Ed Morris and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the grand majesty of the Breakers to the beautiful proportions of Rosecliff, these houses are enduring reminders of the architectural flowering of the Gilded Age. Where the salty air mingles with the far-off laughter of women in ball gowns, the houses of the Newport Cliff Walk preside in grandeur over the crashing waves below. Walking along the paved trail, it s easy to imagine the faintest hint of a waltz coming from the windows of Beechwood, or to envision the Duchess of Windsor s carriage arriving for a visit at Fairholme. Ed Morris takes you on a tour of twenty-four historic mansions and landmarks, entertaining along the way with tales of splendor and style, social maneuvering and matchmaking."
Download or read book A Gilded Grave written by Shelley Freydont and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step back into the past in the first Newport Gilded Age mystery—from the author of the Celebration Bay mysteries. In 1895, the height of the Gilded Age, the social elite spend their summers in Newport, Rhode Island. Within the walls of their fabulous “cottages,” competition for superiority is ruthless...and so are the players. During her first Newport season, Deanna Randolph attends a ball given in honor of Lord David Manchester, a Barbadian sugar magnate, and his sister, Madeline. The Manchesters are an immediate success—along with their exotic manservant and his fortune-telling talents. But on the nearby cliffs, a young maid lies dead—and suspicion falls on Joseph Ballard, a member of one of the town’s most prestigious families. Joe humiliated Deanna when he rebuffed an engagement to her, but while he may be a cad, she knows he isn’t a killer. Now the reluctant allies must navigate a world of parties, tennis matches, and séances to find the real murderer. But a misstep among the glittering upper classes could leave them exposed to something far more dangerous than malicious gossip...
