Download or read book Shoegasm written by Clare Anthony and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last two decades have seen an explosion of creativity in footwear design. Sexy laced-up sandals, sky-high platform heels, and outrageously decorated shoes are seen on fashionable women everywhere, from the catwalk to the street.

Download or read book Side Jobs written by Jim Butcher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With tales ranging from the deadly serious to the absurdly hilarious—including an original story for this volume—Side Jobs is a must-have collection for every devoted Harry Dresden fan. As Chicago’s only professional wizard, Harry Dresden has had cases that have pitted him against insane necromancers, power-hungry faerie queens, enigmatic dark wizards, fallen angels—pretty much a “who’s who” of hell and beyond—with the stakes in each case ranging from a lone human soul to the entire human race. But not every adventure Harry Dresden undertakes is an epic tale of life and death in a world on the edge of annihilation. Here, together for the first time in paperback, are the shorter works of #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher—a compendium of cases that Harry and his cadre of allies managed to close in record time. “One of the giants of urban fantasy…delivers some great stories in this volume…This is a great collection, featuring a hero who's proven himself over and over again, as well as delving into the odd corners of his fascinating and fantastic world. Highly recommended.”—SFRevu

Download or read book The Portrait of a Mirror written by A. Natasha Joukovsky and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning reinvention of the myth of Narcissus as a modern novel of manners, about two young, well-heeled couples whose parallel lives converge and intertwine over the course of a summer, by a sharp new voice in fiction Wes and Diana are the kind of privileged, well-educated, self-involved New Yorkers you may not want to like but can't help wanting to like you. With his boyish good looks, blue-blood pedigree, and the recent tidy valuation of his tech startup, Wes would have made any woman weak in the knees—any woman, that is, except perhaps his wife. Brilliant to the point of cunning, Diana possesses her own arsenal of charms, handily deployed against Wes in their constant wars of will and rhetorical sparring. Vivien and Dale live in Philadelphia, but with ties to the same prep schools and management consulting firms as Wes and Diana, they’re of the same ilk. With a wedding date on the horizon and carefully curated life of coupledom, Vivien and Dale make a picture-perfect pair on Instagram. But when Vivien becomes a visiting curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art just as Diana is starting a new consulting project in Philadelphia, the two couples’ lives cross and tangle. It’s the summer of 2015 and they’re all enraptured by one another and too engulfed in desire to know what they want—despite knowing just how to act. In this wickedly fun debut, A. Natasha Joukovsky crafts an absorbing portrait of modern romance, rousing real sympathy for these flawed characters even as she skewers them. Shrewdly observed, whip-smart, and shot through with wit and good humor, The Portrait of a Mirror is a piercing exploration of narcissism, desire, self-delusion, and the great mythology of love.

Download or read book Let s Go New York City 16th Edition written by Carl Hughes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with travel information, including more listings, deals, and insider tips:CANDID LISTINGS of hundreds of places to eat, sleep, drink, and danceRELIABLE MAPS to help you get around Manhattan and the other four boroughsTHE BEST NIGHTLIFE, including comedy clubs, sultry jazz joints, and the hippest barsSTRAIGHT TALK about how to save money in the city--and when to splurgeFESTIVALS, concerts, and public events throughout the yearSHOPPING tips for chic boutiques, cut-rate outlets, and knock-off look-alikes

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Download or read book New Slow City written by William Powers and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burned-out after years of doing development work around the world, William Powers spent a season in a 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin off the grid in North Carolina, as recounted in his award-winning memoir Twelve by Twelve. Could he live a similarly minimalist life in the heart of New York City? To find out, Powers and his wife jettisoned 80 percent of their stuff, left their 2,000-square-foot Queens townhouse, and moved into a 350-square-foot “micro-apartment” in Greenwich Village. Downshifting to a two-day workweek, Powers explores the viability of Slow Food and Slow Money, technology fasts and urban sanctuaries. Discovering a colorful cast of New Yorkers attempting to resist the culture of Total Work, Powers offers an inspiring exploration for anyone trying to make urban life more people- and planet-friendly.

Download or read book Artifacts from American Fashion written by Heather Vaughan Lee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clothing and fashion accessories can serve as valuable primary sources for learning about our history. This unique book examines daily life in 20th-century America through the lens of fashion and clothing. This collection explores fashion artifacts from daily life to shed light on key aspects of the social life and culture of Americans in the 20th century. Artifacts from American Fashion covers forty-five essential articles of fashion or accessories, chosen to illuminate significant areas of daily life and history, including Politics, World Events, and War; Transportation and Technology; Home and Work Life; Art and Entertainment; Health, Sport, and Leisure; and Alternative Cultures, Youth, Ethnic, Queer, and Counter Culture. Through these artifacts, readers can follow the major events, social movements, cultural shifts, and technological developments that shaped our daily life in the U.S. A World War I soldier's helmet opens a vista onto the horrors of trench warfare during World War I, while the dress of a typical 1920's "flapper" speaks volumes about America women's changing role during Prohibition and the Jazz Age. Similarly, a homemade feedsack dress illuminates the world of the Great Depression, while the bikini ushers us into the Atomic Age. Here, such artificacts tell the story of twentieth-century daily life in America.

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Download or read book Clearsands written by JD and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A botched Tuxedo Park robbery attempt with Clearsands cronies Peter Cooper, Frank Baldwin, and Gilbert Glough posing as early morning DPW workers, initiated by Clearsands CEO Daniel Crosswell, to fund cocaine into the states has awake and wandering, sleep apnea, one hundred fifty million in cash and bond asset Richard Anthony Southwick accidentally murdered during the home invasion. When greed clouds the cronies judgement they steal the garbage truck compacted cash and bond assets with the Clearsands helicopter crashing into the Reeves Meadow Remo house killing Craig Remo and his young son Jason. This one act of defiance and greed resonates throughout the Clearsands hierarchy tipping the very axis which Clearsands has operated as unscathed for so many years shredding the very fabric of its existence.

Download or read book Many Bloody Returns written by Charlaine Harris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of vampire tales includes Charlaine Harris's heroine Sookie Stackhouse in "Dracula's Night," Jim Butcher's wizard hero Harry Dresden in "It's My Birthday Too," and other stories by Tanya Huff, P.N. Elrod, Christopher Golden, and Bill Crider.

Download or read book The Girl Who Sees Sasha Urban Series Book 1 written by Dima Zales and published by Mozaika LLC. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm an illusionist, not a psychic. Going on TV is supposed to advance my career, but things go wrong. Like vampires and zombies kind of wrong. My name is Sasha Urban, and this is how I learned what I am.

Download or read book Shaker written by Scott Frank and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping, darkly funny debut thriller from acclaimed screenwriter Scott Frank is "an L.A. story with a little bit of [Elmore] Leonard, a little bit of Day of the Locust, and a whole lot of earthquakes” (Interview). "[R]eally good . . . hit me like a bolt of lightning. If you like Don Winslow or Lou Berney, READ THIS BOOK!"--Stephen King via Twitter Roy Cooper, a stoic, unassuming “errand runner” for New York criminals, is finishing up a job in Los Angeles a week after a powerful earthquake has wreaked havoc on the city. Wandering the streets of North Hollywood while looking for his car, Roy runs into four teenage gangbangers and finds himself in the last place he wants to be: the middle of another killing. A mugging goes awry, and a passing jogger—who turns out to be a prominent mayoral candidate—dies. Roy himself is shot twice and hospitalized in critical condition. A local resident catches the whole thing on camera in a video that goes viral. And Roy, by some twist of fate, comes out looking like the hero, losing the hit man’s greatest weapon: anonymity. Roy’s newfound fame draws unlikely characters into his orbit: Kelly Maguire, a disgraced LAPD detective with an anger management problem; Science, a young gang leader who needs Roy to keep quiet about what he’s seen; Mayor Miguel Santiago, who faces accusations that he’s just had his opponent whacked; and, most chillingly, Albert Budin, a dangerous man from Roy’s past who’s just learned that his old acquaintance is still alive.

Download or read book Let s Go New York City 17th Edition written by Let's Go Inc. and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-11-25 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtitle on cover of 19th ed.: The student travel guide.

Download or read book A Death in the Rainforest written by Don Kulick and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Kulick went to Papua New Guinea to understand why a language was dying. But that was just the beginning of what he learned. Renowned linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick first went to study the tiny jungle village of Gapun in New Guinea over thirty years ago to document how it was that their native language, Tayap, was dying. But you can’t study a language without settling in among the people, understanding how they speak every day, and even more, how they live. This book takes us inside the village as Kulick came to know it, revealing what it is like to live in a difficult-to-get-to village of two hundred people, carved out like a cleft in the middle of a swamp, in the middle of a tropical rainforest. These are fascinating, readable stories of what the people who live in that village eat for breakfast and how they sleep; about how villagers discipline their children, how they joke with one another, and how they swear at one another. Kulick tells us how villagers worship, how they argue, how they die. Finally, though, this is an illuminating look at the impact of white culture on the farthest reaches of the globe—and the story of why this anthropologist realized that he had to leave and give up his study of this language. Smart, engaging, and perceptive, A Death in the Rainforest takes readers into a world that will soon disappear forever.

Download or read book NYC Shopping Bargain Style written by Katie O'Connor and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love finding amazing clothes at incredibly discounted prices? Do you enjoy saving money and finding bargains? Do you appreciate beautiful clothing and the importance of having a fashionable wardrobe, but hate to pay retail? Then this is the book for you. NYC Shopping- Bargain Style is an essential guide to shopping in New York City. Whether it is your first visit to New York City, or you are a seasoned New Yorker, this book will help you maximize your savings and provide you with insight, information and an optimal shopping experience that you will want to share with all of your friends and families. If you are new to the bargain shopping experience, this book is just what you need to introduce you to the world of bargain shopping and guide you on your journey into the world of buying fashionable clothing at affordable prices. Regardless of your shopping prowess, this guide will enable you to fine tune your shopping skills and find incredible bargains, without waiting for sales, with helpful tips and advice, including an extremely useful bathroom guide. Shopping in New York City can be overwhelming, but with this guide you will be able to easily navigate the City and access many different stores because all of the leg work has been done for you. You can begin finding stylish clothes and accessories at discounted prices immediately. It is shopping made easy If you have ever admired a stylish woman walking down the street in NYC and wondered where she purchased her outfit, with the help of this guide, you will be that woman People will look at you and wonder how you manage to dress so stylishly And, the best part is only you will know that you paid a fraction of the cost all because of this useful book. Purchase this guide today for an informative and exciting shopping experience Happy shopping Katie O'Connor is a native of upstate New York and this is her first book. She is a practicing attorney in New York City where she lives with her husband.

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Download or read book Nightshift NYC written by Russell Leigh Sharman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-11-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York is the city that never sleeps. This luminous book peels back the cover of darkness over the city as it hums along in the night, revealing a hidden world populated by the thousands of women and men who work and live the nightshift. Written with beauty and grace, Nightshift NYC weaves together cultural critique, vivid reportage, and arresting photographs to trace the inverted logic of the city at night. Russell Leigh Sharman and Cheryl Harris Sharman spent a year interviewing and shadowing fry cooks and coffee jockeys, train conductors, cab hacks, and dozens of others who keep the city running when the sun goes down. Investigating familiar places such diners and delis, they explore some less familiar ones as well—taking us on a walking tour of homelessness in Manhattan, onto a fishing boat out of Brooklyn, and into other little-known corners of the night. Traveling past the threshold of voyeurism into the lives of real people, they depict a social space entirely apart—one that is highly structured and inherently subversive. Together, these stories open a compelling view on contemporary urban life and, along the way, reveal the soul of the city itself.