Download or read book Summary of Cristina Morat s Divine Lola written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-04-15T22:59:00Z with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The king had a weakness for beautiful women, and he had been an incorrigible ladies’ man. He had kept tabs on his lover’s adventures through the years, after she had been forced to flee Bavaria and then had become an international celebrity. #2 Lola Montez was born in 1821 in the town of Grange, Ireland. She was a healthy, cheerful girl with lovely features much like her mother’s. She was taken care of by her father, an ensign in the British army, who married her mother when she was just 14. #3 When his daughter was born, Edward looked for a better-paid position that would offer greater opportunities for advancement. He traded his post in County Sligo for one in India. When the ship arrived at Diamond Harbour, Edward was informed that his unit had already left for the garrison of Dinapore, near the Nepalese border. #4 The journey was a difficult one for Edward’s unit. They were near Patna, some four hundred miles upriver on the Ganges, which they would have to travel on small, triangular-sailed boats. The heat and the stench of the pestilent wetlands would accompany them throughout the entire journey.
Download or read book Divine Lola written by Cristina Morató and published by AmazonCrossing. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling biography about one of the most intriguing women of the Victorian age: the first self-invented international social celebrity. Lola Montez was one of the most celebrated and notorious women of the nineteenth century. A raven-haired Andalusian who performed her scandalous "Spider Dance" in the greatest performance halls across Europe, she dazzled and beguiled all who met her with her astonishing beauty, sexuality, and shocking disregard for propriety. But Lola was an impostor, a self-invention. Born Eliza Gilbert, the beautiful Irish wild child escaped a stifling marriage and reimagined herself as Lola the Sevillian flamenco dancer and noblewoman, choosing a life of adventure, fame, sex, and scandal rather than submitting to the strictures of her era. Lola cast her spell on the European aristocracy and the most famous intellectuals and artists of the time, including Alexandre Dumas, Franz Liszt, and George Sand, and became the obsession of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. She then set out for the New World, arriving in San Francisco at the height of the gold rush, where she lived like a pioneer and performed for rowdy miners before making her way to New York. There, her inevitable downfall was every bit as dramatic as her rise. Yet there was one final reinvention to come for the most defiant woman of the Victorian age--a woman known as a "savage beauty" who was idolized, romanticized, vilified, truly known by no one, and a century ahead of her time.
Download or read book Lola Divine written by Lindsey Hooker and published by . This book was released on 2021-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: book of poetry
Download or read book Lola Montez written by Bruce Seymour and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the Anglo-Irish woman who recreated herself as Spanish noblewoman Lola Montez and later became the mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
Download or read book Whatever Lola Wants written by George Szanto and published by Brindle and Glass. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ��Stories of desire, chance, promise, brought from the down below. Against the rules of heaven, what hope is there?�� Ted tells stories. High on a cloud above Mount Washington, he peers down at the earth, listening to the memories of the mortal folk he watches. Lola, once a famous Hollywood bombshell, now a god, listens to his stories. Ted��s words capture her heart, just as she captured the hearts of her fans. Down on Earth, three families experience joy, tragedy, hope, and loss. Milton and Theresa are activists, conservationists, parents, lovers, fighters. Johnnie Cochan is a self-styled ecological leader, haunted by sadness and fear. And Carney is a disaster recovery specialist who can quench an oil-platform fire but finds love hard to hold onto. Through their attractions and battles, their futures become bound, as Cochan��s vision for a new utopia, a massive construction project, threatens to rupture everything. Whatever Lola Wants is story about stories��those we tell others, and those that fill us up. It is also about the stories we tell ourselves and the ways they make us who we are��admired artists, despised monsters, adored immortals.
Download or read book Grass Valley written by Claudine Chalmers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grass Valley was named for its spring-fed meadows, but its history springs from deep below the soil. An immeasurable wealth of gold lay in ancient river courses, embedded in quartz, or scattered capriciously in surface gravel. Vibrantly entrepreneurial since its inception, Grass Valley echoed with the roar of stamp mills crushing gold-bearing quartz 24 hours a day, every day, for decades. Its mines produced $350 million, and millions more are thought to be buried beneath the modern city. Grass Valley's wealth drew flamboyant stars like Lola Montez and gold-camp-urchin-turned-star Lotta Crabtree. It was here that philosopher Josiah Royce was born and Cherokee writer Yellow Bird (John Rollin Ridge) lived his final days. Grass Valley was often the subject of Alonzo Delano's tales of the gold rush, and more recently, it was the setting and inspiration for Wallace Stegner's best seller Angle of Repose.
Download or read book LOLA s Forever written by Lola's Bakery and published by Ryland Peters & Small. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LOLA's is a unique bakery dedicated to achieving one simple goal. Every day, they handcraft the most delicious cupcakes, slices and celebration cakes you have ever tasted. Using only the finest ingredients, LOLA's bakers mix, bake and decorate every single cake by hand, giving their customers a fresh, fun, delicious and truly wholesome experience. And now you can try their wonderful handcrafted bakes at home. There are more than 70 mouth-watering recipes for everything from the LOLA classic flavours to deliciously original ideas like Cosmopolitan, Chocolate Chilli, Maple Syrup and Rose Pistachio. Also included are recipes for scrumptious bars and slices – try a Salted Caramel Brownie or an Apricot and Pistachio Flapjack – or delicious larger bakes, such as the sophisticated Chocolate and Mandarin Cake, Earl Grey Tea Fruit Loaf and Chocolate Fudge Cake.
Download or read book Consuming Identities written by Amy K. DeFalco Lippert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consuming Identities restores the California gold rush to its rightful place as the first pivotal chapter in the American history of photography, and uncovers nineteenth-century San Francisco's position in the vanguard of modern visual culture.
Download or read book Lola written by Daniel Odier and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scheming to make money by stealing it, Gorodish and his Botticelli angel, Alba, make their way through the Parisian punk underground of rock 'n' roll.
Download or read book Things Are Going Great In My Absence How To Let Go And Let The Divine Do The Heavy Lifting 12th Anniversary Edition written by Lola Jones and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things Are Going Great In My Absence is not an ordinary book. It's an astonishing, mind-blowing, life-changing experience, due to the vortex of Energy, Light, and Divine Intelligence it guides you into, step by enjoyable step. Divine Openings realigns you with that organized field of resonance that carries you along in the Flow Of Life. It helps you let in more of the Grace that's been raining on you all along. When you're not able to let in that Grace, you can feel like you're dying of thirst in a rainstorm. Things Are Going Great In My Absence is so powerful and effective, it spread to over 150 countries by word of mouth, before even being in bookstores. We know it might sound too good to be true--but it does work in your life if you simply read it, let it in, and stick to it.
Download or read book God s Pocket written by Sven Axelrad and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quarry. A crazy plan to run away and write a novel.From the author of the exciting debut Buried Treasure comes this coming-of-age story with a twist:On the outskirts of Vivo, there is a cabin at the bottom of an abandoned quarry, barely visible from the roadside. With the help of his four best friends, Filo moves into this secluded place to write his first novel. He’s convinced doing so will change his life and save him from a soul-destroying career as an accountant.The quarry, however, might not be as abandoned as it seems... What or who will Filo discover there? And what price will he pay for his art?Philosophical, erudite, and sexy, God’s Pocket is a thought-provoking read that will haunt you long after you’ve finished the last page.
Download or read book Kingdom of Children written by Mitchell Stevens and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than one million American children are schooled by their parents. As their ranks grow, home schoolers are making headlines by winning national spelling bees and excelling at elite universities. The few studies conducted suggest that homeschooled children are academically successful and remarkably well socialized. Yet we still know little about this alternative to one of society's most fundamental institutions. Beyond a vague notion of children reading around the kitchen table, we don't know what home schooling looks like from the inside. Sociologist Mitchell Stevens goes behind the scenes of the homeschool movement and into the homes and meetings of home schoolers. What he finds are two very different kinds of home education--one rooted in the liberal alternative school movement of the 1960s and 1970s and one stemming from the Christian day school movement of the same era. Stevens explains how this dual history shapes the meaning and practice of home schooling today. In the process, he introduces us to an unlikely mix of parents (including fundamentalist Protestants, pagans, naturalists, and educational radicals) and notes the core values on which they agree: the sanctity of childhood and the primacy of family in the face of a highly competitive, bureaucratized society. Kingdom of Children aptly places home schoolers within longer traditions of American social activism. It reveals that home schooling is not a random collection of individuals but an elaborate social movement with its own celebrities, networks, and characteristic lifeways. Stevens shows how home schoolers have built their philosophical and religious convictions into the practical structure of the cause, and documents the political consequences of their success at doing so. Ultimately, the history of home schooling serves as a parable about the organizational strategies of the progressive left and the religious right since the 1960s.Kingdom of Children shows what happens when progressive ideals meet conventional politics, demonstrates the extraordinary political capacity of conservative Protestantism, and explains the subtle ways in which cultural sensibility shapes social movement outcomes more generally.
Download or read book The Divine Eccentric written by Doris Foley and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Divine and eccentric' were two words most often used by newspapermen of the 1850s to describe 'Divine Lola,' the European danseuse. Favorite of the King of Bavaria, admired by politically and financially important men of Europe, acclaimed for her beauty and fantastic grace as a danseuse, not to mention her many 'eccentricities,' she gained top billings and made dramatic headline news in the United States... Her marriages, her lovers, her wild tantrums, her talent, and her strange efforts to settle for keeps in a gold rush town, has tied her inseparably to California history"--from front jacket flap.
Download or read book Miss del R o written by Bárbara Mujica and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dolores del Río bursts to life in this vivid, well-researched portrayal. Her iconic feline elegance and brash spirit dominates every page, but it’s her defiance to live life on her own terms that sets her apart—and what an extraordinary life she led.”—C.W. Gortner, bestselling author of Marlene 1910, Mexico. As the country’s revolution spreads, Dolores, the daughter of a wealthy banker, must flee her comfortable life in Durango or risk death. Her family settles in Mexico City, where, at sixteen, she marries the worldly Jaime del Río. But in a twist of fate, at a party she meets an influential American director who recognizes in her a natural performer. He invites her to Hollywood, and practically overnight, the famous Miss del Río is born. Dolores’s star quickly rises, and her days become a whirlwind of moviemaking and glamorous events. Swept up in L.A.'s glitzy inner circle, she takes her place among film royalty such as Marlene Dietrich and Orson Welles. But as her career soars, her personal life becomes increasingly complicated, with family tragedy, divorce, and real heartache. And when she’s labeled box office poison amid growing prejudice before WWII, Dolores must decide what price she’s willing to pay to achieve her dreams and if her heart and future instead lie where it all began…in Mexico. Spanning half a century and narrated by Dolores’s fictional hairdresser and longtime friend, Miss del Río traces the life of a trailblazing woman whose legacy in Hollywood and in Mexico still shines bright today. “Bárbara Mujica dazzles us.... She takes us on a journey through an era of wars and movies, and unforgettable characters that made Hollywood what it is today.” —María Amparo Escandón, New York Times bestselling author of L.A. Weather
Download or read book Faith Film and Philosophy written by R. Douglas Geivett and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-09-20 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Those who tell stories rule society." Plato So who today are our principal storytellers? Not philosophers, but filmmakers. For those who know both the enormous entertainment potential and the culture-shaping power of film, this book will stir mind and imagination. For great stories freight world-sized ideas, ideas worthy of contemplation and conversation. Great cinema inspires wonder. But another philosopher, Aristotle, reminds us that wonder is the true source of philosophy. So perhaps Plato or Aristotle might have a shot at ruling society, even today--if they took an interest in film. These fourteen essays consider classic and current films together with several major philosophical themes, all within the context of Christian faith: (1) the human condition, (2) the human mind and the nature of knowing, (3) the moral life, and (4) faith and religion. Citizen Kane, Big Fish and Pretty Woman contribute to an in-depth consideration of the human condition. The Truman Show, The Matrix, Being John Malkovich and It's a Wonderful Life, among others, illuminate reflection on the human mind and the nature of knowing. Looking at the moral life, contributors interact with such notable films as Pleasantville, Bowling for Columbine, Mystic River and The Silence of the Lambs. The final section pursues the theme of faith and religion traced through a number of Hong Kong martial arts films, Contact, 2001: A Space Odyssey and U2's music documentary Rattle and Hum. A veritable film festival for all those who want to nurture the wonder of philosophical inquiry and the love of Christian theology through an engagement with the big ideas on the big screen.
Download or read book Mama Lola written by Karen McCarthy Brown and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vodou is among the most misunderstood and maligned of the world's religions. "Mama Lola" shatters the stereotypes by offering an intimate portrait of Vodou in everyday life. Drawing on a decade-long friendship with Mama Lola, a Vodou priestess, Brown tells tales spanning five generations of Vodou healers in Mama Lola's family. 46 illustrations.
Download or read book My Divine Assignment written by Barbara Hendry and published by Barbara Hendry. This book was released on 2023-08-26 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From unwanted to carrying out God’s plan, one woman’s spiritual awakening will move you. Barbara bears the painful truths life forced her to face with an incredible grace – after all God told her to focus on the positive. In this book, she shows us how anyone can rise above adversity and overcome while learning to communicate two-way with God, angels, and spirit guides. She discusses God’s plan for her to write a book on her spiritual awakening, and the conversations she has with Him. The book isn’t intended to convey messages from God, but to show the trajectory of her awakening under the guidance of Him and other spirit guides. With records she’s carefully kept in an Angel Journal, she offers a unique read that explains her existence on the planet and the interesting guides she’s met along the way. She hopes that by the end of this book, you’ll understand how to ask for and receive help from the spirit realm.
