Download or read book House of Villadiva written by Chris Andoe and published by Cahokia Press. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A St. Louis Magazine Must-Read for 2021! WELCOME TO THE “ornate but rickety” Villadiva, whose stained glass windows and uneven floors house more than a century of St. Louis’s queer culture and drama. In a city where “ambition and history and activism and machinations mix with scandal and sex and ghosts and murder,” it’s beneath Villadiva’s crystal chandeliers that secrets are revealed and stories come to life. You’ll feel you’re in the room with provocateur Andoe and his riotous, multigenerational tribe of eccentrics, socialites, drag queens, card-reading witches, psychic mediums, addicts, and promiscuous extroverts--as well as the stalkers, liars, and felonious, headline-grabbing sociopaths who are determined to destroy them. House of Villadiva reveals the heart and heartlessness of urban queer life in the 21st century—and the secret to living through it. Book Review 1: "Chris Andoe writes like he talks, which is a very good thing, because he's one of our city’s best talkers. And the object of his fascination—whether he’s three martinis into a happy hour or three thousand words into a written chapter—is the ensemble cast that is LGBTQ St. Louis, in all its pettiness and pageantry, glory, and weirdness. Sometimes he only records the drama; other times he spritzes gasoline on the flames. But all of it captivates him. Readers of this book can count on feeling the same way." -- Nicholas Phillips, St. Louis Magazine
Download or read book The Summer Villa written by Melissa Hill and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trip to a villa on Italy’s Amalfi Coast alters the course of three very different women’s lives in this #1 international bestseller about friendship. Villa Dolce Vita, a rambling stone house on the Amalfi Coast, sits high above the Gulf of Naples amid dappled lemon groves and fragrant, tumbling bougainvillea. Kim, Colette and Annie all came to the villa in need of escape and in the process forged an unlikely friendship. Now, years later, Kim has transformed the crumbling house into a luxury retreat and has invited her friends back for the summer to celebrate. But as friendships are rekindled under the Italian sun, secrets buried in the past will come to light, and not everyone is happy that the three friends are reuniting . . . Each woman will have things to face up to if they are all to find true happiness and fully embrace the sweet life. An epic summer read about food, friendship and the magic of Italy, perfect for fans of Mary Kay Andrews and Susan Mallery.
Download or read book Villa Serena written by Domenica De Rosa and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Villa written by Rosanna Ley and published by Thorndike Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophia Giambelli has never worried about competition. For three generations, the Giambelli wines have been renowned for their quality. Top PR executive Sophia loves her job -- and excels at it. But things are about to change. Tereza, the family matriarch, has announced a merger with the MacMillan family's winery. As a savvy businesswoman, Sophia knows she must be prepared for anything . . . but she isn't prepared for Tyler MacMillan.
Download or read book Villa of Second Chances written by Jennifer Bohnet and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone deserves a second chance...right? Escape to the Villa in the South of France with Top 10 international bestseller Jennifer Bohnet, for an uplifting story of family, love and second chances. Run by sisters Rebecca and Delphine, Villa Sesame is a popular venue for small intimate weddings on the sparkling French Riviera. Beautiful terraces and a horizon pool overlook the Mediterranean, a setting where dreams come true. When recently widowed Delphine unexpectedly announces her desire to retire and live a different life, Rebecca feels her own life could be slipping into free fall. How can she possibly carry on with the business without her sister at her side? Could this be the beginning of the end for Villa Sésame and Rebecca’s life as she knows it? As the guests gather for the June wedding of Freya and Marcus, Freya’s two childhood friends bring their own problems to the villa and cousin Verity has her own agenda. But it's the arrival of a certain guest who throws Rebecca’s whole world into turmoil and she finds herself asking the question, where do I go from here?
Download or read book Villa Dante written by Elizabeth Edmondson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Edmondsons neuer Roman erinnert an eine Schnitzeljagd: Die Erben von Beatrice Malaspina - die diese übrigens nicht kannten - müssen gemeinsam hinter ihre Identität kommen.
Download or read book THE BATTLE OF THE VILLA FIORITA written by RUMER GODDEN and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The villa written by Nora Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Delusions of Grandeur written by Chris Andoe and published by Cahokia Press. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Not since Charles Bukowski have I found myself so submerged into the life and times of so many colorful characters. Acclaimed writer Chris Andoe brings a modern flair to such a missing style of literature today. I felt intrigued, enlightened, dirty, amused, outraged, betrayed and in awe of all that is Delusions Of Grandeur." - Karla Templeton, Vital Voice Oklahoma native Chris Andoe has lived from San Francisco to New York, but for nearly twenty years has remained captivated by the drama, culture, and tragedy of the haunted old river city of St. Louis, a place he's likened to Sunset Boulevard's Norma Desmond, simultaneously celebrating yet mourning a glorious past. Delusions of Grandeur is a compilation of tales and snippets of many lives and characters whose stories entertain standing alone and enrapture woven together. From a deranged conman penetrating the highest reaches of state politics to shocking headlines of a 'human slaughter chamber' on the East St. Louis riverfront, Andoe has collected and craftily chronicled the whole spectrum of the St. Louis LGBT community and beyond, and the outcome is nothing short of page turning. Often mired in controversy for his unflinching style, "Emperor of St. Louis" Chris Andoe is a columnist for Vital Voice.
Download or read book The Villa in Italy written by Elizabeth Edmondson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2006 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a marvellously atmospheric tale of strangers summoned to a grand but neglected villa on the Italian coast. Each of them has been named in a will, but nobody knows their benefactress... Four very different people are named in a will: Delia, an opera singer robbed of her voice by illness; George, an idealistic scientist who cannot face what his skills have created; Marjorie, desperately poor and unable to dislodge her writer's block; and Lucius, ostensibly in control but whose personal life is in chaos. All are summoned to the Villa Dante, home of the late Beatrice Malaspina. But who was she? While they wait to find out, the villa begins to work its seductive magic. With its faded frescoes, overgrown garden and magnificent mediaeval tower, it is unlike anywhere they have been before. Slowly, four characters who have gone to great lengths to hide their troubles find that change - and even hope - is possible after all. But, the mysterious Beatrice has a devastating secret to reveal that will affect them all! A beautiful evocation of Italy in the aftermath of World War Two, the personal consequences of living through such a time, and a celebration of humankind's ability to heal and learn to love again, this most absorbing novel will win Elizabeth Edmondson a host of new fans.
Download or read book The Villa Claudia written by John Ames Mitchell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Rhodian amphora filled with wine by Horace and inscribed with lines written by the poet has the star role in john Ames Mitchell's "The Villa Claudia." Imagine Falernian 1,900 years old, and having gained mellowness and bouquet and strength with each year. If your imagination is equal to the feat, the rest of the story will be plausible enough. An Italian setting, an American hero and heroine--the latter living in a Tivoli villa with a mother who has married an Italian and is widowed, an Italian combination fianc� and villain, a room from which men come out old, senile, debauched or do not come at all, according as they drink little or much, of a wine calculated to give 1,900 years of jag in one short evening--there is matter for eventful chapters. To relieve the mind of prospective readers who may have doubts concerning the plump hero's relation to the old Falernian, it may be noted that the story ends happily with the amphora empty and the two young Americans safely wedded in Connecticut where Morris Lane holds an interest in a cotton mill. --The Book Buyer, Volume 29
Download or read book Villa Mirabella written by Peter Pezzelli and published by Center Point. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After settling into his role as caretaker of his family's Rhode Island bed and breakfast, Jason Mirabella begins to carve out a place for himself among family, old friends and a new love, until he is tested by a sudden change in circumstance.
Download or read book Villa in the Sun written by Marjorie Lewty and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Island Villa written by Lily Graham and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The perfect feel-good summer read"--Cover.
Download or read book Villa D Este written by Margaret Pemberton and published by Severn House Pub Limited. This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic suspense. Escaping the heartache of a broken engagement, Lucy flees to Europe to become a nanny, but soon finds herself the victim of several attempts on her life. But why?.
Download or read book Villa Mirabella written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
