Download or read book The Inn at Lake Devine written by Elinor Lipman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "tale of delicious revenge" (USA Today) is also "a punchy little comedy of manners.... Think Jane Austen in the Catskills" (Chicago Tribune). It's 1962 and all across America barriers are collapsing. But when Natalie Marx's mother inquires about summer accommodations in Vermont, she gets the following reply: The Inn at Lake Devine is a family-owned resort, which has been in continuous operation since 1922. Our guests who feel most comfortable here, and return year after year, are Gentiles. For twelve-year-old Natalie, who has a stubborn sense of justice, the words are not a rebuff but an infuriating, irresistible challenge. In this beguiling novel, Elinor Lipman charts her heroine's fixation with a small bastion of genteel anti-Semitism, a fixation that will have wildly unexpected consequences on her romantic life. As Natalie tries to enter the world that has excluded her—and succeeds through the sheerest of accidents—The Inn at Lake Devine becomes a delightful and provocative romantic comedy full of sparkling social mischief.

Download or read book Of Mice and Mooshaber written by Ladislav Fuks and published by Karolinum Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ladislav Fuks is an outstanding Czech writer, whose works primarily consist of psychological fiction focusing on the themes of anxiety and life in totalitarian systems. He is well known for his short fiction treating the theme of holocaust, specifically for his works The Cremator (Spalovač mrtvol), which was filmed in 1969, and Mr. Theodore Mundstock (Pan Theodor Mundstock). Natalia Mooshabr’s Mice (Myši Natálie Mooshabrové) is his first novel, in which he abandoned the theme of the holocaust moving on to the horror genre. The story takes place in an unspecified country whose ruler was overthrown and replaced by a dictator. The main protagonist, Mrs Mooshabr, is an old widow whose husband was a coachman in a brewery. Her life spins around her work (she is a caretaker for difficult children), her own ungrateful children and her fear of "mice", which she tries to catch in traps. Through the use of mystery and insinuations, Fuks brings the story to a surprising, tragic ending, revealing the evil through the souls of some of his characters. He employs the grotesque, fantastic surrealism to affect the reader, using negative and exaggerated elements to unveil reality. This work was written before the occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968, but it was not published until 1970.

Download or read book The traveller s album and hotel guide written by Traveller and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Damn This Inn written by Al Bruce and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damn This Inn Failed inn. Perfect Vermont village. Growing business. Besieged rookie innkeepers. Panic. Deborah and Woodes are a bored fiftyish couple from Washington, D.C. who decide to buy a New England inn despite unanimous advice from dozens of inn owners: DON'T. They visit more than twenty available inns, including a farm house with a stinking barnyard. The smitten couple make an offer within an hour after viewing a failed Victorian inn in an attractive Vermont town Challenges begin immediately: a tipsy wedding guest vomits onto the parquetry floor in front of the local Congregationalist minister. A skunk holds two dozen dinner patrons hostage. The inn sewer line collapses hours before the dinner hour. Their promotional brochure repeats the first paragraph. Deborah tumbles down a mountain glen. A bat flies into the inn. A drunken New Year's eve celebrant falls head-first onto the men's toilet with predictably bloody results. A breakfast special is so riotously successful cops are called. Revenue grows but the inefficient steam heating system sucks oil and depletes the couple's savings. Deborah panics as endless business and financial pressures crush her dream.

Download or read book The Lyre Birds written by E. J. Stewart and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-02-24 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kingdom of Larkwood has just recovered from its own civil war when a terrible flood destroys the castle. Then the creatures learn that someone has kidnapped the Crimson Cardinal. Hordes of sloths threaten to invade the Cardinal Kingdom. A family of mice who live in the castle are upset when the father of the family goes to war. The mother must raise two teenage children on her own.

Download or read book A Christmas Bride written by Hope Ramsay and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming small-town Christmas romance filled with family, love, and hope from the USA Today bestselling author of the Last Chance series. Tis the season in Shenandoah Falls and the first time Willow Peterson has been home in years. But she's determined to fulfill the wishes of her recently deceased best friend and restore Eagle Hill Manor to its former glory-all in time to host the perfect holiday wedding. She just has to get the owner of the historic inn to hire her. Unfortunately, that means dealing with Scrooge himself... After the death of his wife, David Lyndon has a bah-humbug approach to Christmas. But as December counts down and the wedding planning is in full swing, it's harder and harder to stay immune to the charms of Willow, especially when he sees how much joy she brings his eight-year-old daughter. After a simple kiss under the mistletoe turns into something more, David is hoping he can turn the magic of the holiday season into the love of a lifetime.

Download or read book Name Your Poison written by Helen Reilly and published by St. Swithin Press. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As McKee follows the trail of a very ambitious poisoner, he finds the next victim on her way from a Connecticut mansion...stuffed in a trunk. "Svelte story...The gentle Scot, McKee, gets at the truth after many consequences. [Reilly's] smooth, romantic manner always pleases."--Kirkus Reviews "The best Inspector McKee mystery yet! Highly emotional, intricately plotted, and tough to guess."--The New York Herald "Verdict: Satisfying"--The Saturday Review From the cover: - An unwelcome box of orange blossoms...a syllable uttered by a dying woman...A leopard-skin coat worn by a messenger of death...a pearl button in a tiny pool of melted snow... A nearly empty coca-cola bottle...A blue wool thread at the bottom of a flight of stairs...A series of cork-tipped Egyptian cigarettes...A snatch of music between the gusts of a snowstorm... A golden box with very deadly contents - A shabby old trunk with very dead contents...a telephone call from a murderer...A single galosh half buried in the snow...A blank sheet of paper showing some curious embossings...a spent bullet in the fold of a shirt... Wouldn't You Like To Know-- - Why Mouse was crying dreadfully in the night? - Who sent her the box of orange blossoms? - What was on the card she tore up and burned? - What caused the peculiar gathering of forces at the Biltmore? - What was behind the four mysterious and meaningless deaths by poison? - What caused the dark fear which gnawed at Julie? - Who was in the living-room when Julie listened at the door? - What Rosetta Westing was doing in Brian's garage? - Why the elegant Conroy was stopping at a shabby roadhouse in Easton? - Who tried to climb in Julie's window? - What was the significance of Julie's sinister dream? You will learn the answers to these questions in the unfolding of one of the grimmest and most perplexing manhunts in Inspector McKee's spectacular career.

Download or read book A Vineyard Wedding written by Jean Stone and published by Vineyard Novel. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Debbie Macomber and Elin Hilderbrand, Jean Stone’s “lovingly rendered” (Booklist) Vineyard novels are heartwarming beach reads set on beautiful Martha's Vineyard, featuring bestselling mystery author and Vineyard Inn proprietor Annie Sutton. Now Annie’s wedding is just around the corner—but so is trouble that may cast a shadow over her plans, and her future. Finding love on Martha’s Vineyard has been a dream come true—but for the bride-to-be, the price of happiness may be too high . . . With her long-awaited wedding to police sergeant John Lyons only weeks away, bestselling author and Vineyard Inn proprietor Annie Sutton is faced with more drama than usual. Between the hideous heirloom gown her new family expects her to wear and the challenges of bonding with John’s contentious daughter Abigail, Annie’s having serious doubts. But when the baby she once found on her doorstep goes missing, Annie has bigger concerns, including that the little girl’s pregnant, older half-sister is in no condition to hear bad news . . . Desperate for answers, Annie combs the island, questioning friends and even her family-to-be. Because suddenly it seems as if Abigail will do just about anything to stop her father from marrying Annie—even if it means putting a child at risk. But if scaring Annie half to death is the plan, it’s working. Nothing else matters now except finding the little girl. And if postponing her future with John—indefinitely—is the only way to make that happen, it’s a sacrifice Annie may have to make . . .

Download or read book My Heart Stood Still written by Lynn Kurland and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Lynn Kurland captures the haunting beauty of England—past and present—and the exquisite tenderness of timeless love in this novel in the MacLeod series... In a bleak, landlocked keep on the English moors, Iolanthe MacLeod dreams of the sea—and of a darkly handsome man to come rescue her. Centuries have passed and she feels she has waited in vain...until now. Thomas McKinnon is used to attaining impossible heights, both in business and in the mountains he loves. But when the chance to restore a twelfth century castle comes his way, he gamely takes hammer in hand and crosses the Atlantic, expecting to find nothing more interesting inside his new home than cobwebs and weeds. But in that ancient, crumbling castle, the fierce, restless spirit of a medieval Scottish woman lives on—a woman so haunting that he would do anything, go anywhere, risk everything to make her his forever...

Download or read book The Chocolate Mouse Trap written by JoAnna Carl and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-09-06 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chocolate-shop manager Lee McKinney has had enough of party planner Julie Singletree's cutesy e-mails. Then somebody actually kills the woman, putting everyone on her mailing list on edge. As their connections to the murder emerge, so do more attacks. Lee smells a rat-and it's not made of chocolate. And if she doesn't want to be permanently deleted, it's up to her to trap it.

Download or read book HERO TALES AND LEGENDS OF THE SERBIANS over 80 Serbian tales and legends Anon E Mouse written by Anon E. Mouse and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-01-26 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indians manifest their poetry in their huge temples; the Persians in their holy books; the Egyptian in pyramids, obelisks and the like; the Hellene in their magnificent statues; the Romans in their enchanting pictures; the Germans in their beautiful music—but the Slavs have poured out their soul and their intimate thoughts in ballads and tales. Herein are 33 Serbian superstitions and national customs, 12 legends of Prince Marko, a Serbian national hero, the epic poem of the hero knight Banovitch Strahinya, 3 epic Serbian ballads, the marriages of Maximus Tzrnoyevitch, Tsar Doushan The Mighty, King Voukashin,and of Stephan Yakshitch, each filled with drama and awe, plus 20 folk tales and 7 Serbian anecdotes. All-in-all a complete volume of Serbian folklore which includes 32 colour illustrations of the stories and events contained therein. So compelling are these stories and tales that in the first half of the nineteenth century various German poets transversified some of the Serbian national ballads into German. One of these, Jacob Grimm, of Grimm's Fairy Tales, learned Serbian so that he might acquaint himself with these Serbian literary treasures. So, we invite you to get yourself a hot toddy, download this book, then sit back in front of a roaring fire and read these tales. But be prepared to be pleasantly surprised for Serbian folklore is like none other. 10% of the publisher’s profit is donated to charities.

Download or read book The Life of Alberto written by Alberto E. Baston and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the life of Alberto. He is a special man with disabilities, diagnosed with both Cerebral Palsy and Scoliosis as a toddler. An aspiring writer, who uses an augmentative alternative communication device (AAC) to speak, he enjoys music, movies and computers. He currently resides in Irvine, California. This book spans his life from the day he was born in San Pedro, California through his graduation from Santa Ana High School, in Santa Ana, California. The book takes you through the humorous and memorable moments of his life. He loves his family and friends. Enjoy reminiscing with him. Alberto dedicates this book in loving memory of his grandmother Mamama (Maria Hena Diaz). It is a wonderful book. Alberto Baston

Download or read book Silent Stars written by Jeanine Basinger and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eminent film historian illuminates the stars of silent film.

Download or read book A practical grammar of the Scottish Gaelic with notes etc written by James MUNRO (Author of the Gaelic Primer.) and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Birthdays and Bachelors written by Elle Rush and published by SBD Entertainment. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s one thing when your friends throw you a surprise party for your thirtieth birthday. It’s something else when they each bring you a bachelor as a present. The high school sweetheart, the new-in-town billionaire, the local bad boy – her friends invited them all, but it’s the doctor who shows up by accident who is the dark horse in this birthday dating race. Gloria Vargas needs a reason to stick around in Holiday Beach, and a new romance would help ease the fact that her career prospects have stalled. Dr. Daniel Wyatt is in town to open a new medical practice, keep an eye on his aging grandparents, and do some wedding venue research for his cousin, but being bachelor number four is distracting him from his duties – and Gloria is a wonderful distraction. Is it a coincidence that Gloria and Daniel run into each other everywhere they go, or are matchmaking forces at work in Holiday Beach to make a birthday wish come true?

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Download or read book One Perfect Day written by Rebecca Mead and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astutely observed and deftly witty, One Perfect Day masterfully mixes investigative journalism and social commentary to explore the workings of the wedding industry-an industry that claims to be worth $160 billion to the U.S. economy and which has every interest in ensuring that the American wedding becomes ever more lavish and complex. Taking us inside the workings of the wedding industry-including the swelling ranks of professional event planners, department stores with their online registries, the retailers and manufacturers of bridal gowns, and the Walt Disney Company and its Fairy Tale Weddings program-New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead skillfully holds the mirror up to the bride's deepest hopes and fears about her wedding day, revealing that for better or worse, the way we marry is who we are.