Download or read book Two Way Mirror The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning written by Fiona Sampson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2022 Plutarch Award Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 “An elegant act of rehabilitation.”—New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice A "nuanced and insightful" (New Statesman) portrait of Britain’s most famous female poet, a woman who invented herself and defied her times. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." With these words, Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic heroine, a recluse controlled by a domineering father and often overshadowed by her husband, Robert Browning. But behind the melodrama lies a thoroughly modern figure whose extraordinary life is an electrifying study in self-invention. Born in 1806, Barrett Browning lived in an age when women could not attend a university, own property after marriage, or vote. And yet she seized control of her private income, defied chronic illness and disability, became an advocate for the revolutionary Italy to which she eloped, and changed the course of cultural history. Her late-in-life verse novel masterpiece, Aurora Leigh, reveals both the brilliance and originality of her mind, as well as the challenges of being a woman writer in the Victorian era. A feminist icon, high-profile activist for the abolition of slavery, and international literary superstar, Barrett Browning inspired writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, and Virginia Woolf. Two-Way Mirror is the first biography of Barrett Browning in more than three decades. With unique access to the poet’s abundant correspondence, “astute, thoughtful, and wide-ranging guide” (Times [UK]) Fiona Sampson holds up a mirror to the woman, her art, and the art of biography itself.

Download or read book Button written by Fiona Foo and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hokkien Button is no ordinary dog. She was trained as a therapy pet who understands Hokkien, winning the hearts of many. When Fiona first meets Button, something clicks. Here is a loveable dog who is being mistreated and unloved. So Fiona decides to steal her, and they soon transform each other’s lives. In fact, Fiona used to have a terrible fear of dogs—so how does she become the founder of Hope Dog Rescue, saving strays and finding them forever homes? For her part, Button learns affection and a calm confidence. She begins to understand Hokkien and is trained to become a therapy pet, visiting Hokkien hospice patients and bringing joy to many. Though Button is no longer with us, this is her inspiring story.

Download or read book Gathered written by Sarrah Knight and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Happily Ever Ninja written by Penny Reid and published by Cipher-Naught. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are three things you need to know about Fiona Archer… I would tell you what they are, but then I’d have to kill you. But I can tell you that Fiona’s husband, the always irrepressible and often cantankerous Greg Archer, is desperately in love with his wife. Yet as the years pass, Greg has begun to suspect that Fiona is a ninja. A ninja mom. A ninja wife. A ninja friend. After fourteen years of marriage, Greg is trying not to panic. Because Fiona’s talent for blending in is starting to resemble fading away. However, when unexpected events mean Fiona must take center stage to keep her family safe, her response stuns everyone—Greg most of all. It seems like Greg’s wish has come true. Except… not. Happily Ever Ninja is book #5 in the Knitting in the City series. Each book is a standalone, full length (110k words), contemporary romantic comedy novel, and follows the misadventures and exploits of seven friends in Chicago, all members of the same knitting group.

Download or read book Raised In Evil written by Neil Davies and published by Neil Davies. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Successful Science and Engineering Teaching written by Calvin S. Kalman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intent of this book is to describe how a professor can provide a learning environment that assists students in coming to grips with the nature of science and engineering, to understand science and engineering concepts, and to solve problems in science and engineering courses. The book is based upon articles published in Science Educational Research and which are grounded in educational research (both quantitative and qualitative) performed by the author over many years.

Download or read book It s Alive written by Claire O'Brien and published by Orchard Books. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day, I, Cordelia Codd, will design beautiful costumes and live in a glamorous city. But for now, I'm stuck with: Living in a MICRO-TINY cottage stuck to the side of a pub A pair of BONKERS parents who are still NQT (Not Quite Together) Two MEAN GIRLS trying to steal my best friend And a Granny who is behaving even more strangely than usual. The third and final instalment in the hilariously haphazard life of Cordelia Codd, from the author of Not Just the Blues and Frankly, Ruby, I Don't Give a Damn.

Download or read book First Earl I See Tonight written by Anna Bennett and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time three young ladies vowed to record their first London seasons...and to fill in the gaps of their finishing school educations. Thus began The Debutante Diaries—and London will never be the same... “Fans of Regency romance authors Eloisa James, Tessa Dare, and Mary Jo Putney will go wild.”—Booklist An heiress with a daring proposal. An earl who’s determined to resist her. And a love that just might be written in the stars, in First Earl I See Tonight by Anna Bennett. Recently jilted by his fiancée, David Gray, Earl of Ravenport is not in the market for a wife. Even if Gray didn’t have his hands full renovating his crumbling country house, it would take more than a bold marriage proposal from a headstrong young beauty to thaw his frozen heart. Gray is confident that spending a week at his ramshackle estate will change her mind about marriage, but every passionate moment he spends with her tempts him to change his... A talented artist, Miss Fiona Hartley desperately needs her dowry money to pay off a blackmailer set on ruining her sister. The handsome earl seems a sensible choice for a husband...if only she can convince him that romance will play no part. But marrying in name only may prove difficult for Fiona. Gray can’t help but be dazzled by her genuine warmth. Yet as their feelings deepen, Fiona’s deadline looms. Will her secrets destroy them, or is true love their final destiny?

Download or read book The Sailmaker s Palm written by Anna Gill and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-05-20 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside New York's Elite Society, Fiona and John Briggs are royalty. Fiona is young, beautiful and famous for her watercolors of the Chesapeake marshes. John is the Wall Street kingpin who is brilliant, distinguished and has a flair of life. He is the sole heir to the Briggs fortune and he and his mother, Lenny, New York socialite extraordinaire, have been waiting ten years for Fiona to produce the one possession they want to more than anything- a child to carry on their legacy. Fiona has endured their endless emotional assaults about a child that can never be and in her attempt to escape from John's endless love affairs and horrendous fits of rage she has met and fallen hopelessly in love with another man.

Download or read book Things You Can Do written by Kristen Palmer and published by Original Works Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis: Stevie studies the Cryosphere. Her dissertation is not going well – the ice she studies is disappearing too fast – and there is nothing she can do about it. She goes home, searching for some comfort and falls through the ice. At home, Stevie faces the fragmented unit her family has become. Her mother is pre-occupied, battling against the rampant development that has transformed their town and her teen-age sister Bella is filled with alienation and angst. She’s selling drugs to get people to talk to her and her first crush has resulted in humiliation. She’s got a mind for revenge. When Bella commits her act of vengeance it forces this family to come together and face the reality of their crumbling world and the limits - and possibilities - of their actions. Cast Size: 4 Females, 1 Male

Download or read book I Love You So Much It s Killing Us Both written by Mariah Stovall and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise meets Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity in a Black woman’s coming-of-age story, chronicling a life-changing friendship, the interplay between music fandom and identity, and the slipperiness of sanity Set in the suburbs of Los Angeles and New York City, I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both is an immersive journey into the life and mind of Khaki Oliver, who’s perennially trying to disappear into something: a codependent friendship, an ill-advised boyfriend, the punk scene, or simply, the ether. These days it’s a meaningless job and a comfortingly empty apartment. Then, after a decade of estrangement, she receives a letter from her former best friend. Fiona’s throwing a party for her newly adopted daughter and wants Khaki to join the celebration. Khaki is equal parts terrified and tempted to reconnect. Their platonic love was confusing, all-consuming, and encouraged their worst impulses. While stalling her RSVP, Khaki starts crafting the perfect mixtape—revisiting memories of formative shows, failed romances, and the ups and downs of desire and denial—while weighing the risks and rewards of saying yes to Fiona again. One song at a time, from 1980s hardcore to 2010s emo, the shared and separate contours of each woman’s mind come into focus. Will listening to the same old songs on repeat doom Khaki to a lonely life of arrested development? Or will hindsight help her regain her sense of self and pave a healthy path for the future, with or without Fiona?

Download or read book Fiona s Journey written by Agnes Alexander and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March, 1855, Fiona Webb ran from her home with her eight-year-old nephew, Joey, after her brother and sister-in-law are murdered. They are trying to escape a brutal neighbor, Luther Markin, who plans to make a slave of Joey and use Fiona for his own evil purposes. To get on a wagon train heading for Oregon they join Clint Larson and his pregnant wife, Rose as extended family. It doesn't take Fiona long to realize she's attracted to Clint despite her feelings of sisterly love for Rose. To complicate things, Luther Markin teams up with Rose's father, Wade Fillmore and his business partner, Leo Carver from Baltimore and they follow the wagon train. Fillmore wants to take Rose away from Larson and force her to go back east, but Carver has his own depraved reason for wanting to find Rose.

Download or read book Don t Stop Me written by Lorhainne Eckhart and published by Lorhainne Eckhart. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book GALLAGHER JUSTICE written by Amanda Stevens and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justice is in her blood… Fiona Gallagher hails from a long line of Chicago lawmen, and has fulfilled her heritage as a prosecutor, driven to put away the slime of the streets. But now she's going head-to-head with the police force, on the trail of a cop gone bad… Detective Ray Doggett is hell-bent on preventing Fiona from getting in too deep. The determined prosecutor has gotten too close to exposing the truth about the crime ring…and about him. Forcibly attracted to Fiona, he'd been sent undercover to investigate corruption—not fall in love. That is far too dangerous…for both of them. Previously published

Download or read book When I Am Weak Then I Am Strong written by Dr. Vincent M. M. Galici Sr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary figure has somewhat similar characteristics to his father, grandfather, and great grandfather; a soul-searching thinker, all the same, departing from the ruinous while conserving the beneficial side of the culture, customs and manners in which he was raised and the larger generational dimensions embedded in it. A virtual page-turner, highly intense and graphically detailed, the saga continues to unfold. Characters readily identifiable in your own life, cheek by jowl with the hero and foe, stir and percolate the gamut of your emotions. Rooting for the one while despising the other, you’re propelled into the bowels of the narrative. Some personalities appear to be born evil and feed on the environs; others tend to virtue and progress upon it. Protagonists and antagonists are mixed and varied: some eternal optimists finding happiness even in dark periods; some risk takers in the will for clarity putting reputation on the line; some perpetually abstruse, their sad comfort zone; and the many up and down others. The Stanoli patriarch was fond of saying, “There is nothing greater than loving God and loving your neighbor,” and “I am a learner and willing to be corrected and criticized in order to become what I ought to become no matter where it comes from,” and “I make it my moral ambition to be happy around others.”

Download or read book The Devil You Know written by Glen Inglis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite starting out as a humble, Mexican immigrant - Esteban Reyes has forged a gaming empire in the city of Las Vegas. Against all odds, he created an extravagant lifestyle for himself and his family. One that he is willing to protect at all costs. He has become ruthless and unforgiving as a result of his ascent to the finer things in life. He is the self-proclaimed 'King' of the neon chessboard known as Sin City and all others his pawns. Michael Palmer is a limo driver who works for the most powerful man in Las Vegas. With no real aspirations in life, he is content with the status quo. He is all but invisible to those around him, and he likes it that way. He is a pawn; an insignificant piece of the puzzle that is The Strip. The pawn will clash with the 'King'.

Download or read book Fantasy Tales of Anglost written by Chris Whyatt and published by Chris Whyatt. This book was released on with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quadruple of riotous comic fantasy! Ta, I'm 'ere all week... don't try the halibut. Landos - a bustling, developing (slowly) city of chancers, lunatics, thieves and utter stupidity... and that's just the coppers! Book One - SVELT: Are you ready to join an unlikely hero on an unexpected quest? While in the city taking a break from work on the farm, Svelt 'inherits' a strange map from a dying wizard and, with the vague clues as his only guide, begins the seemingly impossible task of searching for the mysterious artefact. Although he is oblivious to the 'help' from a mischievous, ancient time-traveller, some believe it should not be found. Finding himself was the original objective, but Svelt soon learns that being the centre of attention in Landos is not conducive to growing old... especially for a dwarf troll. Book Two - EVENTFUL TIMES: An astronomical anomaly causes widespread panic! With a strong possibility of impending doom for humanity, Death looms grimly over the entire planet - he doesn't know how to loom any other way. The non-tangible believers turn to (insert here). The citizens of Landos turn to the authorities. The authorities turn to the scientists. The scientists turn to the wizards. The wizards turn to brandy... and eventually, when the threat becomes impossible to ignore (even by wizard thresholds), someone has the good sense to ask for practical help. But is perennial tinkerer Albert Sonny ready for such a challenge? Book Three - THE Nth HORSEMAN: Landos is under attack again! This time, a long-forgotten winged menace terrorises the citizens. With rewards on offer, the ever-resourceful opportunists offer their dubious services, yet, even a professional slayer meets his match with this beast - unprecedented in the entire history of dragon lore... not to mention mathematics. A specialist horseman of the twilight is summoned to guide victims in the unorthodox aftermath - his steed not being particularly fond of sugar lumps, and noticeably lacking in the limb department. Book Four - LAWFUL TIMES: With no heir to the throne of Merewood, the elves are divided in their choice of successor. Merith, a loyal friend of the late king, believes his son, Thaldyr, has more right to rule than most, but others remember a different bloodline. The great forest of Merewood has not seen a queen - a jewel - rule for centuries, but does the lost jewel of Merewood even exist? Both parties believe that she does, and with a vague idea of where she resides, both intend to find her first... for very different reasons. Meanwhile, in the bustling city of Landos, a travelling con man returns, fresh from escaping the merciless grasp of King Louis de-Cap - Garlician monarch and lover of all things painful to those that aren't... him. The prodigal son soon formulates a plan to turn the city's archaic law system on its head. On the outskirts, in their strange little blithering bohemia, the wizards... are being wizards... Oh, to live in truly Lawful Times.