Download or read book Dodie Goes Shopping written by Dodie Kazanjian and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you dream about having? The most beautiful ball gown? Gorgeous thighs? A breathtaking haircut? Clothes in colors that flatter you? A sublime lipstick? The perfect hurt coat? Come shopping with Dodie Kazanjian. These essays will take you on a journey of the senses as she describes in exquisite-and frequently hilarious-detail how to find the best things in life. With wit, style, and flair, Dodie will become your personal shopper and bring you into the stores, boutiques, salons, and hotels that may be on your wish list. But Dodie Goes Shopping is also a commentary on why we love the things we do and what our own taste and style say about us. This delightful collection will fascinate anyone who is a fashion connoisseur, a style watcher, or someone for whom taste matters.
Download or read book Dodie Goes Shopping written by Dodie Kazanjian and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you dream about having? The most beautiful ball gown? Gorgeous thighs? A breathtaking haircut? Clothes in colors that flatter you? A sublime lipstick? The perfect hurt coat? Come shopping with Dodie Kazanjian. These essays will take you on a journey of the senses as she describes in exquisite-and frequently hilarious-detail how to find the best things in life. With wit, style, and flair, Dodie will become your personal shopper and bring you into the stores, boutiques, salons, and hotels that may be on your wish list. But Dodie Goes Shopping is also a commentary on why we love the things we do and what our own taste and style say about us. This delightful collection will fascinate anyone who is a fashion connoisseur, a style watcher, or someone for whom taste matters.
Download or read book Murder on the Beach written by Marina Oliver and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2019-08-25 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dodie Fanshaw, escaping from London in January to stay with old Hollywood friends in Barbados, soon becomes involved with the local English and American ex-pat community. Enjoying the weather, the friendships, and learning to sail, she doesn't expect murder. But tensions are high, old quarrels are renewed, and several have motives but no one has an alibi. Dodie sets out to solve the mystery in the 9th book in the Dodie Fanshaw mystery series.
Download or read book ICONS written by Dodie Kazanjian and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Icons, Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue's irreverent art and fashion writer, takes us on a whirlwind tour of the ever-changing, always-glamorous world of style. Along the way, she uncovers how to get through life with "all the right stuff." Dodie discovers Victoria's Secret, follows Manolo Blahnik in search of the perfect shoe, questions whether diamonds are still a girl's best friend, guides us through hemline madness, and captivates us with foibles, fantasies, follies, and fervor of the world of style and high fashion.
Download or read book Winter Solstice written by Rosamunde Pilcher and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Winter Solstice Rosamunde Pilcher brings her readers into the lives of five very different people.... Elfrida Phipps, once of London's stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in hopes of making a new life for herself. Gradually she settled into the comfortable familiarity of village life -- shopkeepers knowing her tastes, neighbors calling her by name -- still she finds herself lonely. Oscar Blundell gave up his life as a musician in order to marry Gloria. They have a beautiful daughter, Francesca, and it is only because of their little girl that Oscar views his sacrificed career as worthwhile. Carrie returns from Austria at the end of an ill-fated affair with a married man to find her mother and aunt sharing a home and squabbling endlessly. With Christmas approaching, Carrie agrees to look after her aunt's awkward and quiet teenage daughter, Lucy, so that her mother might enjoy a romantic fling in America. Sam Howard is trying to pull his life back together after his wife has left him for another. He is without home and without roots, all he has is his job. Business takes him to northern Scotland, where he falls in love with the lush, craggy landscape and set his sights on a house. It is the strange rippling effects of a tragedy that will bring these five characters together in a large, neglected estate house near the Scottish fishing town of Creagan. It is in this house, on the shortest day of the year, that the lives of five people will come together and be forever changed. Rosamunde Pilcher's long-awaited return to the page will warm the hearts of readers both old and new. Winter Solstice is a novel of love, loyalty and rebirth.
Download or read book Riding for a Fall written by Marina Oliver and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Dodie Fanshaw goes to stay with her old friend Christine, she soon realises there are tensions, both in the family living at the Manor and the one where Elena is organising daughter Rebecca's wedding. John, the young brother of Robert, who owns the Manor, hates his Uncle Michael, Robert's Trustee, and because he wants to be a detective, gains a reputation as a snooper. Then there is a tragic death, but was it the right victim? Plenty of people have both motive and opportunity, and Dodie is determined to discover the truth.
Download or read book Vogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strangled in the Sauna written by Marina Oliver and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do the owners of fabulous jewels refuse to have the police called in when they are stolen? How could a thief open a bedroom safe? Dodie has an aversion to exercise – and even more to massage. But she is persuaded to go to the Yorkshire health spa by Elena, whose boyfriend is a cousin to the owners. Suspicion obviously falls on the maids, but other staff have legitimate reasons to visit guest rooms. But how they dispose of such well-known jewels? Then a murder happens and the plot thickens.
Download or read book Welcome to My Family written by Roz Denny Fox and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FLINTRIDGE, MICHIGAN. It's Kathleen O'Halloran's hometown. It's also Slater Kowalski's. And it's a town divided. Kat and her exuberant family live in the part of Flintridge known as the Hill; Slater is from the Ridge. Slater is the president of Flintridge Motors; Kat's family works for his rival. Ridge and Hill have always functioned as almost separate communities, but the boundaries start to blur when Kat goes to work for Slater's company—and even more when she falls in love with him. Still, the course of love is far from smooth. Slater's exciting new project is being sabotaged. From within or without? He needs to know, and so does Kat. Then there's the strange behavior of Kat's father and Slater's dad, who have unexpectedly become allies. And what about Kat's brothers, who are determined not to welcome Slater to the family? Sabotage and secrets, old rivalries and new hopes. Can two people in love create one town…and one family?
Download or read book A Cut Above the Rest written by Marina Oliver and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which characters dared to write the author out of the script? When Dodie Fanshaw went to stay with her daughter, Elena, in Markenlea, she had been expecting a peaceful, sedate village on the banks of the River Thames. But then a mermaid clambers out of the river and into Elena's garden. Well, not a mermaid exactly – a mysterious, sopping-wet girl. Bizarre and intriguing though she is, it's only when Dodie and Elena call on Elena's neighbor, best-selling novelist Rick Wilbraham, that the real story unfolds. There they find Anna, Rick's girlfriend, hysterically clinging on to Rick's lifeless body. Soon Rick's pleasant riverside garden fills up with his neighbours, ex-lovers, his publisher and agent, and Dodie can't help herself getting involved in this close-knit village. A literary puzzle, but what genre is the motive? It could be Romance, might be Financial Thriller. And the mermaid? Well, that's just pure Fantasy . . .
Download or read book Presentation to a Dying written by Marina Oliver and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-26 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In two previous Dodie Fanshaw mysteries, the deaths could have been accidents, but she was sure they were murders and determined to unmask the villains. This death is clearly murder, and the police investigate the many people who had grudges against the new Rector, from his family and his new parishioners. The trouble is, most of them have no alibis, and not all of them tell the truth. Dodie, visiting Sir William and Lady Talbot at the Manor, is able to discover the vital clue.
Download or read book Murder at Comfree Abbey written by Marina Oliver and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who shot farmer Harris during a pheasant shoot? He has built cow sheds and pig pens near the entrance to Comfree Abbey, and Sir Hugo and his new wife Deborah fear the smell will put off their prospective guests when they open the Abbey as a superior private hotel. Dodie Fanshaw investigates all those at the shoot. The police, however, seem to suspect Sir Hugo. But almost anyone could have done it, and a few villagers had their own quarrels with Farmer Harris.
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Download or read book The Lady of the Lakewood Diner written by Anne R. Allen and published by Anne R. Allen. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who shot Morgan Le Fay? Someone has shot the aging bad-girl rocker and threatens to finish the job. Is it fans of her legendary dead rock-god husband, Merlin? Or is the secret buried in her childhood hometown of Avalon, Maine? Morgan's childhood best friend Dodie, the no-nonsense owner of a dilapidated diner, may be the only one who knows the dark secret that can save Morgan's life. And both women may find that love really is better the second time around. Smart, funny women's fiction for the Woodstock Generation.
Download or read book A Vineyard Killing written by Philip R. Craig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-05-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's March on Martha’s Vineyard. Too early for bluefish, but not too early for trouble. The winds are brisk and there’s still a chill coming in off the ocean. The mood is gloomy, and for good reason. Former Olympic fencing champion turned millionaire real estate developer Donald Fox has targeted the island for his newest moneymaking scheme. With land values huge and many longtime residents in possession of fuzzy deeds of sometimes dubious legal value, Fox and his team plan to force people to sell cheap. Give up now or we’ll fight you in court...or worse.
Download or read book America s Cosmetic Doctors and Dentists written by Castle Connolly and published by Castle Connolly Medical. This book was released on 2003-04-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are over thirteen million cosmetic surgical and non-surgical procedures performed in the U.S. each year. There are also hundreds of cases where a patient is disfigured as a result of a non-physician, or a physician not properly trained, performing these procedures. The Castle Connolly Guide, America's Cosmetic Doctors and Dentist, will guide consumers in selecting only qualified physicians and dentists for cosmetic care. The narrative portion of the book will describe the various cosmetic procedures and, most importantly, who is qualified to perform them. Included in the book will be a CD-ROM containing the professional biographies of more than 6,000 physicians and dentists who are qualified by virtue of their training to perform cosmetic procedures. The bios will include medical school residency, training, fellowships, hospital privileges and more. The CD-ROM will provide access to a restricted web-site containing the bios. In addition, for many of the physicians and dentists, the CD-ROM will provide a link to their web-sites where the prospective patient can learn more about the practice of the physician or dentist and can see actual patient results. America's Cosmetic Doctors and Dentists is a consumer guide, not a "who's who," and is researched and published by experienced medical and healthcare professionals. Castle Connolly Guides are designed to help consumers find the best healthcare and are a trusted source of information for thousands of book buyers and web-users each year. The company's founders were the chairman and the president of one of the nation's leading private medical colleges.
Download or read book America s Cosmetic Doctors and Dentists written by Wendy Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are over thirteen million cosmetic surgical and non-surgical procedures performed in the U.S. each year. There are also hundreds of cases where a patient is disfigured as a result of a non-physician, or a physician not properly trained, performing these procedures. The Castle Connolly Guide, America's Cosmetic Doctors and Dentist, will guide consumers in selecting only qualified physicians and dentists for cosmetic care. The narrative portion of the book will describe the various cosmetic procedures and, most importantly, who is qualified to perform them. Included in the book will be a CD-ROM containing the professional biographies of more than 6,000 physicians and dentists who are qualified by virtue of their training to perform cosmetic procedures. The bios will include medical school residency, training, fellowships, hospital privileges and more. The CD-ROM will provide access to a restricted web-site containing the bios. In addition, for many of the physicians and dentists, the CD-ROM will provide a link to their web-sites where the prospective patient can learn more about the practice of the physician or dentist and can see actual patient results. America's Cosmetic Doctors and Dentists is a consumer guide, not a "who's who," and is researched and published by experienced medical and healthcare professionals. Castle Connolly Guides are designed to help consumers find the best healthcare and are a trusted source of information for thousands of book buyers and web-users each year. The company's founders were the chairman and the president of one of the nation's leading private medical colleges.
