Download or read book Jasmine in Paris written by Clare Flynn and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this evocative and emotional novel, a young woman bravely crosses continents on a journey of discovery to the vibrant bohemian scene in Paris, determined to make a life for herself as an artist. Paris, 1949: As the train pulls into the Gare de Lyon in a cloud of steam, young art student Jasmine Barrington alights and the rush of nerves takes her by surprise: a surge of excitement mixed with fear. Revelling in her freedom, Jasmine throws herself into her studies at the prestigious Beaux Arts school by day, inspired by her handsome and charismatic teacher, Lachlan, and discovers the smoky cafés and bars of the left bank by night. But even as she falls in love with the city of light, following in the footsteps of former students she reveres, like Renoir and Degas, is far from easy. Under the discipline of the classical training she finds her creative spirit crushed and seeks comfort in the letters she receives from her home island of Penang. Howard, the man to whom she owes her life, writes of the daily dangers of the Malayan Emergency back home and longs to hear her news, hoping that she might one day return to Penang, and to him. Torn between the world she's always known, and her chance to discover who she is as an artist, can Jasmine find the courage to follow her heart? From the starry nights of post-war Paris to the war-torn jungle of the Malayan peninsula, this heartrending story of love and loss is a must-read for fans of Fiona Valpy, Rhys Bowen and Kristin Hannah. Readers are utterly captivated by Jasmine in Paris: "Oh my goodness! Historical fiction with lots of grit! Suspense! Romance! Heart-breaking and heart-soaring!" Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Adored the entire Penang series... beautifully written." Liza Perrat, author of Lake of Echoes, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Compelling and moving... Enchanting. I couldn't put it down." Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "SO GLAD I READ THIS. The storyline is page-turning, while vivid and atmospheric descriptions of Paris made one feel actually there." Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Had me gripped from start to finish. I found myself immersed in the story and couldn't put the book down... hooked from page one. A real page-turner." Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Beautifully written. I laughed and cried and wanted it to go on and on." Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "An exceptional read... Amazing." Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Mesmerizing... Best book so far in this series." Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A vivid evocation of post-war Paris seen through the eyes of a vulnerable young art student, hungry for love and experience. An emotional coming-of-age story." Linda Gillard, author of The Memory Tree andHouse of Silence, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Brilliant... I loved this." Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Fabulous." Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Download or read book The Jasmine Project written by Meredith Ireland and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenny Han meets The Bachelorette in this “sparkling, witty, warm-hearted gem” (Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying) of a romantic comedy about a teen Korean American adoptee who unwittingly finds herself at the center of a competition for her heart, as orchestrated by her overbearing, loving family. Jasmine Yap’s life is great. Well, it’s okay. She’s about to move in with her long-time boyfriend, Paul, before starting a nursing program at community college—all of which she mostly wants. But her stable world is turned upside down when she catches Paul cheating. To her giant, overprotective family, Paul’s loss is their golden ticket to showing Jasmine that she deserves much more. The only problem is, Jasmine refuses to meet anyone new. But…what if the family set up a situation where she wouldn’t have to know? A secret Jasmine Project. The plan is simple: use Jasmine’s graduation party as an opportunity for her to meet the most eligible teen bachelors in Orlando. There’s no pressure for Jasmine to choose anyone, of course, but the family hopes their meticulously curated choices will show Jasmine how she should be treated. And maybe one will win her heart. But with the family fighting for their favorites, bachelors going rogue, and Paul wanting her back, the Jasmine Project may not end in love but total, heartbreaking disaster.

Download or read book River Flows in You Sheet Music written by Yiruma and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Sheet). Solo guitar sheet music for the popular song by composer Yiruma.

Download or read book Jasmine written by Bharati Mukherjee and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the assassination of her husband, seventeen-year-old Jasmine leaves India to live with a middle-aged banker in a small Iowa town, only to retain some of the traditions and memories of the past.

Download or read book The Bohemians written by Jasmin Darznik and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling novel of one of America’s most celebrated photographers, Dorothea Lange, exploring the wild years in San Francisco that awakened her career-defining grit, compassion, and daring. “Jasmin Darznik expertly delivers an intriguing glimpse into the woman behind those unforgettable photographs of the Great Depression, and their impact on humanity.”—Susan Meissner, bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things In this novel of the glittering and gritty Jazz Age, a young aspiring photographer named Dorothea Lange arrives in San Francisco in 1918. As a newcomer—and naïve one at that—Dorothea is grateful for the fast friendship of Caroline Lee, a vivacious, straight-talking Chinese American with a complicated past, who introduces Dorothea to Monkey Block, an artists’ colony and the bohemian heart of the city. Dazzled by Caroline and her friends, Dorothea is catapulted into a heady new world of freedom, art, and politics. She also finds herself falling in love with the brilliant but troubled painter Maynard Dixon. As Dorothea sheds her innocence, her purpose is awakened and she grows into the artist whose iconic Depression-era “Migrant Mother” photograph broke the hearts and opened the eyes of a nation. A vivid and absorbing portrait of the past, The Bohemians captures a cast of unforgettable characters, including Frida Kahlo, Ansel Adams, and D. H. Lawrence. But moreover, it shows how the gift of friendship and the possibility of self-invention persist against the ferocious pull of history.

Download or read book A Wish Upon Jasmine written by Laura Florand and published by Laura Florand. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Reviewers’ Choice Book of the Year nominee and bestselling author Laura Florand: Ruthless. That was what they said about Damien Rosier. Handsome. Wealthy. Powerful. Merciless. No one messed with his family, because to do so they would have to get through him. No one thought he had a heart. Not even the woman he gave his to. Cynical. That was what they said about Jasmin Bianchi. A top perfumer of her generation, Jess had achieved commercial success by growing a protective shell over a tender heart. The one time she cracked it open to let Damien in, he crushed it—after a night of unbelievable passion. Lovers. That one magical night couldn’t survive the harsh light of dawn. When Jess woke up to discover the man in bed beside her had stolen her company, she fled. Enemies. Now she’s come to the south of France with something of his. If he wants to reclaim both his family heritage and the woman who walked away from him, he’s going to have to fight as dirty as only Damien can. But Jess knows how to fight dirty, too. And these days, she has nothing left to lose. Certainly not her heart. Come explore the south of France, a world of heat and fragrance and tales as old as time, through the stories of the five powerful Rosier cousins and the women who win their hearts. A Wish Upon Jasmine, book two in Florand’s addictive new series, La Vie en Roses. “Explosive, sensual, and utterly sweet” (Eloisa James).

Download or read book City of Jasmine written by Olga Grjasnowa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant story of three young adults trying to make a future for themselves in war-torn Damascus Syria - a country at war. Amal, Hammoudi and Youssef are young and ambitious, the face of modern Syria. But when civil war tears through their homeland, they are left with a horrifying choice: risk death by staying in the country they love, or flee in search of a new life elsewhere? From one of Germany's most talented literary voices comes this intricately woven story of brutality, loss, and how hope can shine through when darkness feels overwhelming.

Download or read book The Queen of Paris written by Pamela Binnings Ewen and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style—the iconic little black dress—and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The Queen of Paris, the new novel from award-winning author Pamela Binnings Ewen, is fiction based on facts, some uncovered only within the past few years, and vividly imagines the hidden life of Chanel during the four years of Nazi occupation in Paris in the midst of WWII. Coco Chanel could be cheerful, lighthearted, and generous; she also could be ruthless, manipulative, even cruel. Against the winds of war, with the Wehrmacht marching down the Champs-Élysées, Chanel finds herself residing alongside the Reich’s High Command in the Hotel Ritz. Surrounded by the enemy, Chanel wages a private war of her own to wrestle full control of her perfume company from the hands of her Jewish business partner, Pierre Wertheimer. With anti-Semitism on the rise, he has escaped to the United States with the confidential formula for Chanel No. 5. Distrustful of his intentions to set up production on the outskirts of New York City, Chanel fights to seize ownership. The House of Chanel shall not fall. While Chanel struggles to keep her livelihood intact, Paris sinks under the iron fist of German rule. Chanel—a woman made of sparkling granite—will do anything to survive. She will even agree to collaborate with the Nazis in order to protect her darkest secrets. When she is covertly recruited by Germany to spy for the Reich, she becomes Agent F-7124, code name: Westminster. But why? And to what lengths will she go to keep her stormy past from haunting her future?

Download or read book Somethin to Think About written by Damon R. Green and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somethin to Think About by Damon R Green is a bold novel that separates itself from the rest by its intoxicating allure. This prolific writer, whose street credibility speaks volumes, has created a novel that has it all: fame, fortune and power. These things make life magnificent, but they come with a price. Too often, the actual costs exceeds the worth and sacrifice needed to get them. You have to confront the faces of betrayal, death and the stark reality that you could spend the rest of your life in prison. Realizing this can be devastating. Its a game where there is plenty to lose and few win. Its a game where todays gangstas become tomorrows rats and yesterdays love of your life becomes tomorrows betrayal. Your right hand man that you unconsciously treated better than your own blood transforms into your archenemy! In this tale, Damon R. Green take the reader on a journey of twist and turns, which will leave readers, men, women and children alike, with Somethin to Think About. Youll fine every element of the streets, both past and current; exist in the depths of these pages. After experiencing this novel, if you find yourself thinking that Momma never said that life would be so rough, you wont be able to say that Damon R. Green didnt tell you.

Download or read book In Paris with You written by Clémentine Beauvais and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Eleanor & Park and Emergency Contact, Clementine Beauvais' In Paris with You is a sweeping romance about the love that got away that #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon calls "pure delight." Eugene and Tatiana could have fallen in love, if things had gone differently. If they had tried to really know each other, if it had just been them, and not the others. But that was years ago and time has found them far apart, leading separate lives. Until they meet again in Paris. What really happened back then? And now? Could they ever be together again after everything?

Download or read book Jasmine Toguchi Mochi Queen written by Debbi Michiko Florence and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eager to do something her big sister has not done first, Jasmine Toguchi, eight, decides to pound mochi with the men and boys when her family gets together for New Year's.

Download or read book Pancakes in Paris written by Craig Carlson and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Paris was practically perfect... Craig Carlson was the last person anyone would expect to open an American diner in Paris. He came from humble beginnings in a working-class town in Connecticut, had never worked in a restaurant, and didn't know anything about starting a brand-new business. But from his first visit to Paris, Craig knew he had found the city of his dreams, although one thing was still missing—the good ol' American breakfast he loved so much. Pancakes in Paris is the story of Craig tackling the impossible—from raising the money to fund his dream to tracking down international suppliers for "exotic" American ingredients... and even finding love along the way. His diner, Breakfast In America, is now a renowned tourist destination, and the story of how it came to be is just as delicious and satisfying as the classic breakfast that tops its menu.

Download or read book Party of Two written by Jasmine Guillory and published by Berkley Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into an affair to remember as New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory brings together two people who should never have met but who are perfect together in this new contemporary romantic comedy.

Download or read book The Chalky Sea written by Clare Flynn and published by Cranbrook Press . This book was released on 2019-08-10 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel in this sweeping epic series set during and after World War 2 Two troubled people in a turbulent world In July 1940, Gwen Collingwood says goodbye to her husband at the railway station, knowing she may never see him again as he leaves for a destination unknown. Two days later, her humdrum world is torn apart when the sleepy English seaside town where she lives is hit by the first of many heavy German bombing raids. In Ontario, Canada, Jim Armstrong is debating whether to volunteer for the army. His decision becomes obvious when he uncovers the secret his fiancée and his brother have been hiding. Rocked by this terrible betrayal, a few weeks later he is in uniform on a ship bound for England. Gwen is forced to confront the truth she has concealed about her past and her own feelings. Jim battles with a bewildering and hostile world far removed from the cosy life of his Canadian farm. War brings horror and loss to each of them – can it also bring change and salvation? From the author of The Pearl of Penang and A Greater World, the first volume of this epic and moving series. Topics: World War 2, British war on the home front, Canadians at war, The Candians, Canada, Aldershot, British army, Canadian army, Eastbourne, seaside towns, England in WW2, life on the home front in WW2, Sussex, wartime England, bombings, Canadians in WW2, marriage, love story, romantic fiction, historical fiction, historical romance, historical novel, twentieth century love story, 20th century romance, WVS, womens Voluntary Service, women in second world war, love, strong heroine, family strife, female friendship, saga, romantic family saga, romantic suspense, romance books, historical books, historical novel, wartime fiction, war, air raids, Nazi Germany, Hitler, Beachy Head, life in the Blitz, family life, marital tensions, illegitimate child, unexpected pregnancy, falling in love, coping with bereavement, life in England, book set in Eastbourne, Perfect for fans of Tracy Chevalier, Fiona Valpy, Deborah Swift, Jenny Ashcroft, Petra Durst-Benning, Nicola Cornick, Janet MacLeod Trotter, Jean Grainger, Marion Kummerow, Kate Furnivall, Kristin Hannah. Sharon Maas, Anna Jacobs, Helen Carey, Catherine Hokin, Sarah Lark, Tania Crosse, Rhys Bowen, Angela Petch, Hazel Gaynor, Jean Fullerton, Katie Flynn, Maureen Lee, Helen Forrester, Nadine Dorries, Elizabeth Murphy, Pam Howes, Lyn Andrews, Ann Baker, Ruth Hamilton, Annie Groves, Ann Bennett, Molly Green,

Download or read book Paris Echo written by Sebastian Faulks and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Cunningly crafted. . . . France’s unquiet histories are brought to life by a master storyteller.” —Financial Times (UK) A story of resistance, complicity, and an unlikely, transformative friendship, set in Paris, from internationally bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks. American historian Hannah intends to immerse herself in World War II research in Paris, wary of paying much attention to the city where a youthful misadventure once left her dejected. But a chance encounter with Tariq, a Moroccan teenager whose visions of the City of Lights as a world of opportunity and rebirth starkly contrast with her own, disrupts her plan. Hannah agrees to take Tariq in as a lodger, forming an unexpected connection with the young man. Yet as Tariq begins to assimilate into the country he risked his life to enter, he realizes that its dark past and current ills are far more complicated than he’d anticipated. And Hannah, diving deeper into her work on women’s lives in Nazi-occupied Paris, uncovers a shocking piece of history that threatens to dismantle her core beliefs. Soon they each must question which sacrifices are worth their happiness and what, if anything, the tumultuous past century can teach them about the future. From the sweltering streets of Tangier to deep beneath Paris via the Metro, from the affecting recorded accounts of women in German-occupied France and into the future through our hopes for these characters, Paris Echo offers a tough and poignant story of injustices and dreams.

Download or read book Oxford Practice Grammar Basic with answers written by Norman Coe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refreshed with a new design, Oxford Practice Grammar is a three-level English grammar practice series for the classroom or self-study. Its tried and trusted methodology provides clear explanations and lots of extra practice. Oxford Practice Grammar knows that students need different types of explanation and practice at each stage of their study. Basic provides lots of practice and short explanations; Intermediate gives you more detail with extended practice; Advanced gives challenging practice activities and in-depth explanations. Great for classroom or self-study.

Download or read book The Other Side of Goodness written by Vanessa Davis Griggs and published by Dafina Books. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far will faith and love go when an ambitious man finds himself in the fight of his life--with a woman who knows the other side of goodness all too well. . . Fifty-year-old Alabama congressman Lawrence Rudolph Simmons will do whatever it takes to get re-elected--even switch parties from Democrat to Republican. With the political tide turning, Lawrence feels it's his best shot--along with his charisma, solid twenty-nine year marriage, and three great kids. But a buried secret from his past is about to be resurrected.. . . It's been eight years since Gabrielle Mercedes gave up her baby for adoption. But when she learns the child desperately needs a bone marrow transplant, she doesn't hesitate to contact the congressman. Like Lawrence, Gabrielle will fight for what she wants, even if it means the truth could ruin someone else's life and career. . .. "There are enough tears, hugs, and lessons learned before summer's over to appease readers, young and adult, who like a good dose of faith with their fiction." --Publishers Weekly on Ray of Hope "Griggs address[es] the challenges of living by Biblical rules with homespun humor. Fans will be pleased." --Publishers Weekly on The Truth Is the Light "A smart novel that addresses an issue that many in the church shy away from--divorce--with frank realism."--Library Journal on Practicing What You Preach "I absolutely love Vanessa's unique writing style. She is one of a kind." --Mary Monroe, New York Times bestselling author