Download or read book I Am a Red Dress written by Anna Camilleri and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In I Am a Red Dress, acclaimed writer and performer Anna Camilleri confronts the ghosts of her past as she seeks to find her rightful place in the world. Part memoir, part storytelling, Anna writes with passion and conviction about family and identity, and how the wounds of personal history can be healed through the imagination. These eloquent stories and narratives speak to the heart of three generations of women--Anna, her mother, and her grandmother--as they dealt with a cycle of family abuse; in them, the red dress appears as a symbol of defiance and empowerment. Throughout the book, Anna unravels memory that is inextricably tied to culture, class, and tradition, in a strong and beautiful voice that bravely asserts its right to be heard.
Download or read book Danger in a Red Dress written by Christina Dodd and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home care nurse Hannah Grey is dedicated to her patient, an aging widow still tainted by the financial scandal her late husband perpetrated. She makes Hannah promise that upon her death, she?ll right the family?s wrongs, and gives Hannah her offshore account?s access codes. But Carrick Manly will do anything to discover where his family?s fortunes lie? including kill his own mother. Fearing for her life, and desperate not to betray the widow, Hannah flees. And when Carrick?s half-brother, Gabriel, tracks her down in Houston, Hannah must trust her own instincts?and her heart?to survive.
Download or read book A Red Dress written by G.L. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Red Dress" is the haunting biographical fiction about a brutal attack on two twelve-year-old girls in a quaint town in Rural Vermont. Police officer Ben Fields and his team undertake the desolate journey to solve the crime. A must-read for Vermonters and all true crime buffs, this story reveal the fight to rid the state of Vermont of their shocked grief and deliver them the perpetrator. This book is based on real places and events. Names have been altered to preserve anonymity. It must be read as a work of historical fiction about a deeply troubling time, and the fight for justice.
Download or read book Mary Wore Her Red Dress and Henry Wore His Green Sneakers written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1985 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this adaptation of a Texas folk song, the illustrations show the story of Katy Bear's birthday party, while the repetitive verses are a catalog of what the guests wore. . . . The pictures pick up color as the guests arrive and the activities get livelier. To further focus attention on color, the words are printed in boxed insets of the appropriate hue. . . . The music-a simple, singable tune-is printed at the end. The subject and the highly predictable pattern of text have appeal for just-beginning readers as well as for preschool listeners and singers."-Language Arts
Download or read book Red Dress written by Bridget Finklaire and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Engaging, light-hearted and deeply touching, this book deals with universal themes: alienation, exploration and the quest for reconciliation - with who you were, where you are and what you want to be.'Jane Bailey Bain, Author, Lifeworks Katy is a career mum in her 40s who's stressed out, time-starved, and disenchanted with her successful life. She has a handsome husband, a house in London, and two teenage children. Her therapy practice in Harley Street is thriving, but she feels empty and lost. She's forgotten who she is and what makes her tick. An impulsive decision sets in motion a domino effect that changes her life. A series of events, a meeting with someone from the past, and a sequence of numbers, send her on a rollercoaster ride to finding herself. With some trepidation, Katy embarks on a path of spiritual awakening and embraces a new way of thinking.
Download or read book The Girl in the Red Dress written by Elaine Chong and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lenora Oakley wakes up in a hospital bed, she remembers falling down the stairs. She remembers the fleeting glance of a red dress. But did she trip or was she pushed? Only Lenora knows and she won't tell because she's frightened that no one will believe her. 'The Girl in the Red Dress' is a contemporary ghost story with a chilling twist.
Download or read book Red Dress in Black and White written by Elliot Ackerman and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2020 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.
Download or read book The Boy in the Red Dress written by Kristin Lambert and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue meets Miss Fisher's Murder Mystery in this rollicking romp of truth, lies, and troubled pasts. New Year's Eve, 1929. Millie is running the show at the Cloak & Dagger, a swinging speakeasy in the French Quarter, while her aunt is out of town. The new year is just around the corner, and all of New Orleans is out to celebrate, but even wealthy partiers' diamond earrings can't outshine the real star of the night: the boy in the red dress. Marion is the club's star performer and his fans are legion--if mostly underground. When a young socialite wielding a photograph of Marion starts asking questions, Millie wonders if she's just another fan. But then her body is found crumpled in the courtyard, dead from an apparent fall off the club's balcony, and all signs point to Marion as the murderer. Millie knows he's innocent, but local detectives aren't so easily convinced. As she chases clues that lead to cemeteries and dead ends, Millie's attention is divided between the wry and beautiful Olive, a waitress at the Cloak & Dagger, and Bennie, the charming bootlegger who's offered to help her solve the case. The clock is ticking for the fugitive Marion, but the truth of who the killer is might be closer than Millie thinks.
Download or read book Angel In a Red Dress written by Judith Ivory and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starlit Surrender throbs with excitement when a spirited nymph is totally captivated by an arrogant, lusty womanizer whose touch alone can melt her heart.
Download or read book Red Mandarin Dress written by Qiu Xiaolong and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department finds himself caught up in a dangerous case when the bodies of two young women dressed in identical red mandarin dresses turn up, igniting fears of the city's first sexual serial killer.
Download or read book Red at the Bone written by Jacqueline Woodson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "A spectacular novel that only this legend can pull off." -Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST, in The Atlantic "An exquisite tale of family legacy….The power and poetry of Woodson’s writing conjures up Toni Morrison." – People "In less than 200 sparsely filled pages, this book manages to encompass issues of class, education, ambition, racial prejudice, sexual desire and orientation, identity, mother-daughter relationships, parenthood and loss….With Red at the Bone, Jacqueline Woodson has indeed risen — even further into the ranks of great literature." – NPR "This poignant tale of choices and their aftermath, history and legacy, will resonate with mothers and daughters." –Tayari Jones, bestselling author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE, in O Magazine An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes and explores their histories – reaching back to the Tulsa race massacre of 1921 -- and exposes the private hopes, disappointments, and longings that can bind or divide us from each other, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming. Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier, that very dress was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melody's mother, for her own ceremony-- a celebration that ultimately never took place. Unfurling the history of Melody's family – reaching back to the Tulsa race massacre in 1921 -- to show how they all arrived at this moment, Woodson considers not just their ambitions and successes but also the costs, the tolls they've paid for striving to overcome expectations and escape the pull of history. As it explores sexual desire and identity, ambition, gentrification, education, class and status, and the life-altering facts of parenthood, Red at the Bone most strikingly looks at the ways in which young people must so often make long-lasting decisions about their lives--even before they have begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be.
Download or read book The Hundred Dresses written by Eleanor Estes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleanor Estes's The Hundred Dresses won a Newbery Honor in 1945 and has never been out of print since. At the heart of the story is Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl in a Connecticut school who is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. Wanda claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn't and bullies her mercilessly. The class feels terrible when Wanda is pulled out of the school, but by that time it's too late for apologies. Maddie, one of Wanda's classmates, ultimately decides that she is "never going to stand by and say nothing again." This powerful, timeless story has been reissued with a new letter from the author's daughter Helena Estes, and with the Caldecott artist Louis Slobodkin's original artwork in beautifully restored color.
Download or read book The Red Dress written by Rose Staveley-Wadham and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I m So Not Wearing a Dress written by Julie Merberg and published by Downtown Bookworks. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun (inexpensive!) picture book for the un-fancy Nancy’s. Shelby likes to play sports in her favorite red sneakers. She likes to dig for worms with her best friend, Nate. She does not want to have tea parties with her next door neighbor, Sophie. And when she is asked to be a flower girl in her aunt’s wedding, she knows one thing for sure: SHE IS SO NOT WEARING A DRESS! A spunky heroine, adorable illos, and a totally charming story will appeal to the many, many girls who prefer baseball caps to tiaras.
Download or read book In Her I Am written by Chrystos and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the geography of sexual desire, these poems are full of wry and original insights into passion. "What Chrystos has done is to open a new dialogue by taking sex seriously enough to speak bluntly of her own desire." -Dorothy Allison
Download or read book Oxana and the Red Dress written by LaWayne Leno and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxana and the Red Dress is a richly layered,multi-generational story of love, passion, and war set against the background of rural Ukraine in the 1930s, the ensuing Bolshevik political repression, and the early days of World War II. Oxana Nikolaevna Stepaniaka is a beautiful and talented musician who dreams of escaping her Ukrainian village to become a concert pianist. Finally able to attend the Odesa Academy of Music, she finds her hopes of continuing her education destroyed by political forces and is forced to return home. Pregnant and married to a brutal man she doesn't love, Oxana is eventually caught up in the Soviet Union's repressive collectivization of agriculture. With everyone in her world succumbing to starvation during the man-made Holodomor (Death by Hunger), Oxana and her son make a frightening journey—first to Odesa, and ultimately to Leningrad during the early days of the Nazi siege. Readers will easily fall under the spell of this deeply drawn saga at whose heart lies the beauty of taboo love and the strength that arises out of shattered dreams. Oxana will linger in the memory of all who meet her. From Oxana and the Red Dress— “Oxana sat on her mother’s front doorstep one late April afternoon, basking in the warmth of the sun-drenched air. Stretching her legs and leaning her head back, Oxana closed her eyes. Within moments, she was standing in a large room somewhere—she couldn’t tell where—but it was dark, completely dark. She was wearing a red satin floor-length dress, and a matching ribbon held her hair. In the distance, a black grand piano was encircled in a halo of bright light. Oxana stepped toward the piano, and suddenly people—hundreds, maybe thousands of people—were clapping and cheering. The audience fell silent as she sat at the keyboard. She touched her fingers to the keys and the hall was filled with beautiful music—” *** “As soon as Fedor was asleep, Oxana slipped out of the bed and grabbed her dress off the floor. She pulled it across her and sat on the sofa, gazing out the window. The full moon’s soft light illuminated the trees. The room was chilly and she shivered, clutching her arms around herself. In her home, she had at least felt Irina and Jakob’s spirits, but in this foreign house she had no sense of them. It was as though when Fedor carried her across the threshold, he had carried her into another world. An unbridgeable chasm had opened, and she could never again cross back.” LaWayne Leno is the author of two previous works, The Untold Story of Adele aus der Ohe and Roses of the Prairie.
Download or read book The Truth About Little Red Dresses written by Conrad Riker and published by Conrad Riker. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you tired of political correctness dictating what you can wear or say? Do you feel frustrated when your preferences and instincts are dismissed as irrelevant or wrong? Discover the hidden power and influence of the little red dress, from an evolutionary perspective, and learn how societal perceptions, marketing, and your own psychology play a role in attraction and behavior. In "The Truth About Little Red Dresses", you'll find answers to questions like: How do little red dresses impact male attraction and decision-making? How does the female ovulatory cycle influence sexual behavior and attraction? What role does advertising play in promoting sexual ornaments like little red dresses? This book is for redpilled, rational men who want to understand the role of the little red dress in evolution, biology, and psychology. It examines: 1. The evolutionary biology of female sexual ornaments. 2. The psychological effects of red on male attraction and arousal. 3. The marketing of sexual ornaments, such as the little red dress. 4. The cultural significance of little red dresses across societies. 5. The impact of the ovulatory shift on attraction and sexual behavior. 6. The role of red in courtship displays and human behavior. 7. The representation and impact of red dresses in popular culture. 8. The red pill community's view on the little red dress and its implications. Are you ready to challenge mainstream ideas and learn the truth about little red dresses? If you want to understand the real power behind these iconic garments and the science behind attraction, buy "The Truth About Little Red Dresses" today.
