Download or read book It s ELVIRA Thing You Wouldn t Understand written by Bouts Design and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cute journal is the perfect gift for ELVIRA Size: 6 x 9 inch Pages: 120 High-quality pages High-quality cover with a soft matte professional finish Best gift For your friends

Download or read book The Seven Rules of Elvira Carr written by Frances Maynard and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The inevitable comparisons to Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project (2013) and Julia Claiborne Johnson's Be Frank with Me (2016) are natural, but Ellie's authentic voice offers a fresh perspective on being different."—Booklist Feel-good women's fiction that takes one very particular woman out of her comfort zone to learn the truth about her family and her place in the world. Elvira Carr believes in rules. She also strongly believes in crisp schedules, clear guidelines, and taking people at face value. Not that the twenty-seven-year-old sees many people. After several unfortunate incidents, her overbearing mother keeps her at home. But when her mother has a stroke and lands in a nursing home, Elvira is suddenly on her own, and the story she's always heard about her father starts to show some obvious holes. To help her navigate the puzzles of her changing world, she draws up seven ironclad rules and sets out to take charge of her life, her way. An uplifting story full of courage, perseverance and curious charm, The Seven Rules of Elvira Carr, is fresh novel about finding your place for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion, and The Cactus by Sarah Haywood.

Download or read book Brigitte Jacques and Louis Jouvet s Elvira and Moliere s Don Juan written by Brigitte Jaques and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Banned after its creation in 1665 because of the threat that it posed to conventional beliefs and ways, Don Juan was not appreciated until the middle of the twentieth century. Since then, its extraordinary theatricality and its daring, and very modern, discussion of philosophical and social matters has made it Moliere's most performed and most studied work in France and in continental Europe generally. In English-speaking countries, however, it is still relatively unknown.".

Download or read book Yours Cruelly Elvira written by Cassandra Peterson and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story filled with intimate bombshells—told by the bombshell herself. On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water. Third-degree burns covered 35% of her body, and the prognosis wasn't good. But she survived. Burned and scarred, the impact stayed with her and became an obstacle she was determined to overcome. Feeling like a misfit led to her love of horror. While her sisters played with Barbie dolls, Cassandra built model kits of Frankenstein and Dracula, and idolized Vincent Price. Due to a complicated relationship with her mother, Cassandra left home at 14, and by age 17 she was performing at the famed Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas. Run-ins with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Tom Jones helped her grow up fast. Then a chance encounter with her idol Elvis Presley, changed the course of her life forever, and led her to Europe where she worked in film and traveled Italy as lead singer of an Italian pop band. She eventually made her way to Los Angeles, where she joined the famed comedy improv group, The Groundlings, and worked alongside Phil Hartman and Paul "Pee-wee" Reubens, honing her comedic skills. Nearing age 30, a struggling actress considered past her prime, she auditioned at local LA channel KHJ as hostess for the late night vintage horror movies. Cassandra improvised, made the role her own, and got the job on the spot. Yours Cruelly, Elvira is an unforgettably wild memoir. Cassandra doesn't shy away from revealing exactly who she is and how she overcame seemingly insurmountable odds. Always original and sometimes outrageous, her story is loaded with twists, travails, revelry, and downright shocking experiences. It is the candid, often funny, and sometimes heart-breaking tale of a Midwest farm girl's long strange trip to become the world's sexiest, sassiest Halloween icon. Instant New York Times Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, Publishers Weekly Bestseller A New York Times Best Books to Give This Season selection

Download or read book It s ELVIRA Thing You Wouldn t Understand written by Iss Design and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cute journal is the perfect gift for ELVIRA Size: 6 x 9 inch Pages: 120 High-quality pages High-quality cover with a soft matte professional finish Best gift For your friends

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Download or read book The House In Front written by Esteban Navarro Soriano and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The small coastal town of Roquesas is shocked by the disappearance of one of its neighbors: the young Sandra López, 16 years old. When they find the horribly mutilated body of the teenager in the back of the house of one of the most distinguished residents of the town, everyone suspects that Álvaro Alsina is the perpetrator of the crime. The well-thought-out local society begins a witch hunt, blaming Álvaro for the crime, while a dense web of deceit is woven around him, with the sole purpose of incriminating him. Álvaro sees how the whole world is collapsing around him without him, nor his family, being able to do anything to stop it. His friends, his wife, his children, his lover, and even the police chief, consider him the perpetrator of the crime.

Download or read book Telling Our Stories of Home written by Kathy A. Perkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is home? The answer seems obvious. But Telling Our Stories of Home, an international collection of eleven plays by and about women from Lebanon, Haiti, Venezuela, Uganda, Palestine, Brazil, India, UK, and the US, complicates the answer. The "answer" includes stories as far-ranging as: enslaved women trying to create a home, one by any means necessary, and one in the ocean; siblings wrestling with their differing devotion to home after their mother's death; a family wrestling with the government's refusal to allow the burial of their soldier-son in their hometown; a young scholar attempting to feel at home after studying abroad; a young man fleeing home due to his sexual orientation only to discover the difficulty of creating home elsewhere, and Siddis (Indians of African descent) continuing to struggle for acceptance despite having lived in India for over 600 years. These are voices seldom represented to a larger audience. The plays and performance pieces range from 20 to 90-minute pieces and include a mix of monologue, duologue, and ensemble plays. Short yet powerful, they allow fantastic performance opportunities particularly in an age of social-distancing with flexible casts that together invite the theme of home to be performed and studied on the page. The plays include: The House by Arzé Khodr (Lebanon), Happy by Kia Corthron (US), The Blue of the Island by Évelyne Trouillot (Haiti), Nine Lives by Zodwa Nyoni (UK), Leaving, but Can't Let Go by Lupe Gehrenbeck (Venezuela), Questions of Home by Doreen Baingana (Uganda), On the Last Day of Spring by Fidaa Zidan (Palestine) Letting Go and Moving On by Louella Dizon San Juan (US), Antimemories of an Interrupted Trip by Aldri Anunciação (Brazil), So Goes We by Jacqueline E. Lawton (US), and Those Who Live Here, Those Who Live There by Geeta P. Siddi and Girija P. Siddi (India)

Download or read book Disobedience written by Jane Hamilton and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2002-03-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel, this exquisite book confronts real-life issues of alienation and violence from which the author creates a stunning testament to the human capacity for mercy, compassion and love.

Download or read book Behind the Curtains written by Carmen Martín Gaite and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Apple House written by Gillian Campbell and published by Brindle and Glass. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglophone Imogene Jackson grew up in an English suburb on the uneasy edge of a francophone world. At the age of nineteen she quit college to marry a shoemaker from the close-knit French village of Saint-Ange-du-Lac. For ten years she has lived with her husband, Thomas, above his family's historic shoe shop, immersed in village life. When Thomas dies in a car accident, she is shattered and her hard-won mastery of the French language deserts her. Isolated and grief-stricken, she retreats to her childhood home. There she discovers that a petty drug dealer she knows from the village has rented a ramshackle farmhouse, nicknamed the "Apple House," at the corner of her parents' street and befriended her easily influenced brother Petey. Her childhood obsession with the old house resurfaces and she finds herself confronting events from both her recent and more distant past as her two worlds collide. Set in 1970s Quebec and written with a gentle humour, The Apple House is an intimate portrait of life during a time of great change.

Download or read book The Zeta Factor written by Jack Broccoli and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over lunch, Dr Jack Broccoli learns from Dr Larry Faber, a friend from medical school, about an amazing drug he has developed called Ambrotine. It seems that it reverses aging and cures almost any disease. Larry needs experimental subjects, so Jack volunteers some of his own nursing home patients and the results are positive beyond all expectations. There are however, a few unexpected side effects. Jack finds himself in trouble with his licensing authority and on the run from Pharmex, a ruthless drug company interested in the enormous financial promise of the drug. He also has problems caused by his generous desire to be of service to womankind. He falls in love with Karen but has to flee with her to an undisclosed location as a craze for Ambrotine sweeps the world…

Download or read book Elvira s Pot of Water written by Betty Barbiere-Champlin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story is about my mother's 101 year's of life experiences, as well as other related stories. How does a woman live such a long life of abuse and bitter trials? I do not advocate that anyone must tolerate the abuse she experienced, but her faith and dedication, to both God and family, kept her going, and must be admired. The title is a reflection of her main daily activity. Each day she turned a pot of water into a delicious Italian style meal for her large family, and anyone else who happened to visit. In the back of my book are some of her tasty, simple, and nutritious recipes. In addition to the above, some history of New York City during the century she lived, and how it impacted our family, is also included. Humor also appears throughout the book as comic relief from the sadness and stress of the story.

Download or read book Ex Rating written by Natalie Standiford and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-12-21 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dating Game has gotten too hot to handle--at least for the school principal and parents. When a controversy erupts after exes begin rating each other, the Dating Game is banned from the school's computers. But Mads, Lina, and Holly aren't giving up without a fight.

Download or read book Alias The Cattle King s Son written by Franklin D. Lincoln and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nowhere man takes on the identity of a cattle baron's son and finds himself in deep trouble with the law, other ranchers and troublesome women in an exciting western adventure.

Download or read book The Theatre of Don Juan written by Oscar Mandel and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many good things are provided for our instruction and delight in this handsome volume. Chief among them perhaps, and most keenly wanted in a collection of this sort . . . are sanity and wit."?The Romanic Review "A most interesting literary history of the Don Juan theme with the plays or works themselves serving as illustrations. Professor Mandel's general introduction and his shorter introductions and commentaries throughout the book are solid, wise, and engaging."?Robert E. Taylor, Renaissance News "This anthology is exhaustive and informative, expertly translated, and, by virtue of its subject, damned exciting."?Quarterly Journal of Speech "[The translations] are lively and . . . quite faithful to the originals. . . . The long introduction could well stand alone: fruitful in original observations on the nature of Don Juan, spirited, argu-mentative, and quite personal."?Armand F. Singer, Hispania The eternal Don Juan, the creation more than 350 years ago of a monk and dramatist known as Tirso de Molina, has appeared on the boards as a thinker and fool, hero and villain, but never as anything less than a great lover. Oscar Mandel's Theatre of Don Juan presents different aspects of the Don's spectacular progress through a half-dozen countries, epochs, and intellectual climates. Here are full-length plays by Molina, Moli_re, Shadwell, Da Ponte, Grabbe, Moncrieff, Zorrilla, and Rostand; excerpts from plays by Shaw, Montherlant, and Frisch; plus a dozen critical and interpretative essays. In his introduction, Mandel examines the legend of Don Juan.

Download or read book Watercolors and Tears written by José Orlando Castañeda and published by EBL Books. This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manuel, a young Ecuadorian, sells medicinal herbs in the market and paints watercolors in his spare time. In search of a better life, he emigrates to Port Chester (New York). Elvira, his wife, intends to join him by sea, but she is shipwrecked. Her plans change after her rescue, and she ends up in Madrid, where she is employed as a nanny. Antonio, the father of the children in her care, discovers her secretly reading a novel from his antique books collection. He slyly labels a passage with a strip of paper, intending for her to read it. Intrigued, Elvira responds by indicating her own phrases in the book. That’s the beginning of an innocent exchange of literary quotes through which love quietly slips in. While Manuel takes refuge in his paintings and herbal remedies on the other side of the world, Elvira finds herself falling for Antonio. When her hopes are dashed through a casual blunder, she seeks to regain her marital home and travels to Port Chester to be with her husband. Confronted by an unexpected tragedy, she discovers the watercolors that Manuel has painted in his solitude. His brushstrokes cut deep into her heart.