Download or read book The Emerald Necklace written by Linda Rosen and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three months after her husband's death in 1969, rosalee linoff is determined to jump back into life. For her, that means returning to her art. She deserately wants to be accepted as a talented sculptor, but that requires she dig up the courage to submit her work again - and be judged. Her paralyzing insecurity mounts when she meets her new neighbor, best-selling author Fran Barish. Fran has the recognition Rosalee craves. But Rosalee's joy with her children, especially her granddaughter, Jill, eats at Fran, a constant reminder of her childlessness. A spiral of mutual envy ensues. It constantly bubbles below the surface of their friendship and is intensified by Fran's long held secret - and her inexplicable fascination with Jill's emerald necklace. As Jill starts college, Rosalee worries about the choices her granddaughter might make. But Jill's passion for women's rights makes Grandma proud. Together with Rosalee's friends, they travel to New York City for the Women's Strike for Equality - which further escalates the tension between Rosalee and Fran. When Jill's convictions are tested, Rosalee faces a dilemma. Does she dare trust Fran to help? Will their mutual jealousy make that impossible? Or will the story behind Jill's emerald bind them together?

Download or read book Beautiful Day written by Elin Hilderbrand and published by Reagan Arthur Books. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A summer wedding stirs up trouble on both sides of the family in this beloved bestseller from "the queen of the summer novel" (People). The Carmichaels and the Grahams have gathered on Nantucket for a happy occasion: a wedding that will unite their two families. Plans are being made according to the wishes of the bride's late mother, who left behind The Notebook: specific instructions for every detail of her youngest daughter's future nuptials. Everything should be falling into place for the beautiful event -- but in reality, things are falling apart. While the couple-to-be are quite happy, their loved ones find their lives crumbling. In the days leading up to the wedding, love will be questioned, scandals will arise, and hearts will be broken and healed. Elin Hilderbrand takes readers on a touching journey in Beautiful Day -- into the heart of marriage, what it means to be faithful, and how we choose to honor our commitments.

Download or read book Selected works 15 masterpieces of Frances Hodgson Burnett written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 1286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected works of Frances Hodgson Burnett from the series "Best of the Best" is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. The authors and works for this book series were selected, as a result of numerous studies, analysis of the texts over the past 100 years and the demand for readers. It must be read in order to understand the world around us, its history, to recognize the heroes, to understand the winged expressions and jokes that come from these literary works. Reading these books will mean the discovery of a world of self-development and self-expression for each person. These books have been around for decades, and sometimes centuries, for the time they recreate, the values they teach, the point of view, or simply the beauty of words. This volume of the Best of the Best series includes famous works • THE SECRET GARDEN • LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY • A LITTLE PRINCESS • THE LOST PRINCE • EDITHA’S BURGLAR • EMILY FOX-SETON • THE SHUTTLE • SARA CREWE, OR WHAT HAPPENED AT MISS MINCHIN'S • A LADY OF QUALITY • THE LAND OF THE BLUE FLOWER • A FAIR BARBARIAN • THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE OF COOMBE • THAT LASS O' LOWRIE'S • THE RACKETTY-PACKETTY HOUSE • IN THE CLOSED ROOM • THE MAKING OF A MARCHIONESS • THE DAWN OF A TO-MORROW • T. TEMBAROM

Download or read book The Ladies Home Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book This Freedom written by A. S. M. Hutchinson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Freedom" by A. S. M. Hutchinson was published to controversy much controversy from the public. The book was seen by the women's rights movement as an anti-feminist novel. It tells the story of Rosalie who wants, above anything, freedom - freedom to live her life the way she sees fit, which is not quite the way women were supposed to be living around the turn of the century and the time of WWI. Rosalie loves to learn, and the older she gets, the more obvious her exceptionally bright, logical mind becomes. Her aspirations, however, eventually begin to crumble when she starts to dream too big.

Download or read book Forbidden Acts written by Ben Hodges and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books is proud to announce the publication of the first collected anthology of gay and lesbian plays from the entire span of the twentieth century, sure to find wide acceptance by general readers and to be studied on campuses around the world. Among the ten plays, three are completely out of print. Included are The God of Venegeance (1918) by Sholom Ash, the first play to introduce lesbian characters to an English-language audience; Lillian Hellman's classic The Children's Hour (1933), initially banned in London and passed over for the Pulitzer Prize because of its subject matter; and Oscar Wilde (1938) by Leslie and Sewell Stokes, a major award-winning success that starred Robert Morley. More recent plays include Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band (1968), the first hit “out” gay play that was the most realistic and groundbreaking portrayal of gays on stage up to that time; Martin Sherman's Bent (1978), which daringly focused on the love between two Nazi concentration camp inmates and starred Richard Gere; William Hoffman's As Is (1985), which was one of the first plays to deal with the AIDS crisis and earned three Tony Award nominations; and Terrence McNally's Love! Valour! Compassion! (1994), which starred Nathan Lane and won the Tony Award for Best Play. The other plays are Edouard Bourdet's The Captive (1926), Ruth and Augustus Goetz's The Immoralist (1954) and Frank Marcus' The Killing of Sister George (1967). Forbidden Acts includes a broad range of theatrical genres: drama, tragedy, romance, comedy and farce. They remain vibrant and relevant today as a testament of art's ability to persevere in the face of oppression.

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Download or read book Uncharacteristic Behaviour written by Fran Caldwell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance writer Joanna Boden has just published her first novel and the book's moderate success has given her the confidence to leave her 9-5 job to write full-time. With her advance, she has bought her first home - a 1970s city town house, one of twenty-four in the row house development on her street. Not long after moving in, she discovers that her home, along with the rest of the row-houses, was only possible because of the demolition of a dozen or more fine Edwardian houses which had stood on their own large lots. She is intrigued to learn from the elderly owner of the one surviving original house on the block, Rosalie Campbell, that the project had been passionately protested by many, including Rosalie's own activist daughter, Terry, who disappeared before the development was finished. Obsessed with Terry's story, Jo's own comfortable life (and her writing) changes dramatically. And what's going on with Jo's garden and why won't anything grow there?

Download or read book Keeping Secrets written by Sarah Shankman and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2014-01-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What’s a nice Southern Jewish girl like Emma Fine doing married to an angry but beautiful and incredibly sexy black artist like Jesse Tree? Emma Tree’s marriage is falling apart. Jesse’s obsession with Skytop, the old inn he’s renovating, pulls him further away from her, and the distance forces Emma into some uneasy questions about their relationship and about herself. She packs her bags and travels home to Louisiana, to a family she loves but barely knows. And the answers she finds along the way help solve the puzzles that have haunted her all her life. Before Emma’s mother Helen died, she made her husband Jake Fine promise to look after the baby should anything happen to Helen. After her death, Jake left his Baltimore home to travel to West Cypress, Louisiana, where a new wife was waiting. For Rosalie Norris, Emma was a dream come true. Emma is a right and precocious child, but by the time she’s a teenager, she has outgrown the old-fashioned provincialism of West Cypress and Rosalie’s stiflingly overprotective and obsessive love. While teaching in California, Emma meets and eventually marries Jesse Tree. Theirs is a passionate and loving relationship despite the vast differences between them. It’s a secret Emma must keep from her family, but it’s nothing compared to the secrets they’ve kept hidden from Emma all these years. Sarah Shankman has written a hauntingly touching and darkly funny novel about the long-time coming of age of a 30-year-old woman in search of the truth about who she is, where she comes from, and where she’s going. It’s a story about the secrets of the past and how they determine the future, and a love story about two people from completely different worlds who meet, fall in love, collide, and crash—sending off sparks that neither of them, nor the readers who come to love them, will ever forget. QUOTES “In Keeping Secrets Sarah Shankman has created a character as wise and wonderfully funny as Fear of Flying’s Isadora Wing. This is a brilliant book, beautifully written, which reinforces with a spellbinding story what I’ve always known about Southern women: Keep your eye on them. They’ll blindside you with their bravery and slamdunk your heart.” Pat Conroy The Prince of Tides “Holly Golightly, turn in your jersey. Here comes Emma Tree. Keeping Secrets is a wonderment, a subtle earthy, joyous, darkling journey through a bright country, in which a fragmented and most appealing Southern girl sets out to discover herself and finds a woman of enormous richness, complexity, and wholeness. In Impersonal Attractions, Sarah Shankman showed us she has a near-perfect ear and eye for the contemporary dilemma. In Keeping Secrets, she proves—magnificently—that she also has the heart for it.” Anne Rivers Siddons Heartbreak Hotel

Download or read book The Motive on Record written by Dell Shannon and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death is everywhere. A child in a playground. A playboy in a cheap hotel. A John Doe in a freight yard. A nanny and her two charges in a church pew. After twenty-six years in homicide, Lieutenant Luis Mendoza knows death is all in a day's work. But in the heat of a Los Angeles summer, even the predictable becomes bizarre. And for a hard-boiled cop with a decidedly soft centre, nothing is more implausible than human nature - especially when it comes to murder . . . 'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles Times

Download or read book The Secrets of Rosa Lee written by Jodi Thomas and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas comes a reader-favorite story of a life, a legacy and a love that has the power to change a community. Originally published in 2005. Everyone assumes that Rosa Lee Altman lived a life without passion. Her once-beautiful home now sits silent and empty, its gardens overgrown and its windows boarded up, surrounded by what passes for progress in Clifton Creek, Texas. And if some of the townsfolk have their way, this idyllic reminder of times past will be sold off to the highest bidder, despite its rich history. When a group of community members with little in common is chosen to decide the fate of the old Altman place, they soon learn that this home is more than bricks and mortar. No one is prepared for what they discover beneath Rosa Lee’s overgrown roses—or how her legacy will change not only their town, but their very lives.

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Download or read book The Thirteenth Chair written by Bayard Veiller and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Thirteenth Chair' is a three-act play written by Bayard Veiller. The story unfolds at a dinner party, where the wealthy Crosby family is on the brink of revealing their son's engagement to Mrs. Crosby's secretary, a beautiful young woman with a mysterious past. However, tragedy struck as one of the dinner party guests, Edward Wales, a man consumed with finding his best friend's murderer, was suddenly found dead in the same manner as his best friend. Who could be the culprit in this twisted tale of murder and mystery?

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Download or read book Sauvigone for Good written by J.C. Eaton and published by Lyrical Underground. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Norrie stop a murderer’s reign of terror? The descent of winter on the Finger Lakes means it’s time for the Wine Trail Association’s Chocolate and Wine Extravaganza. Unfortunately, for screenwriter-turned-reluctant vintner, Norrie Ellington, her Two Witches Winery is co-hosting the festivities. Norrie’s duties include wrangling the three international chocolatiers featured at the event—bitter rivals and industry influencers who can make or break Two Witches. But the heated competition among the celebrity confectioners soon spills out of the professional arena, and before the Extravaganza is over, one of the cocoa pros is dead, last seen sipping a Two Witches’ Cabernet Sauvignon. With spirits souring at the Extravaganza and her winery on the line, Norrie must hustle to find the uncorked killer before Two Witches’ reputation is crushed once and for all.

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