Download or read book Stella Descending written by Linn Ullmann and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stella descends, over and over, in the course of this haunting novel. She falls from the womb, since her mother gives birth standing up; she falls for Martin, who delivers her new green sofa and refuses to leave; she falls ill and eventually recovers; but her biggest fall, the descent that suffuses her story, is a plunge to her death off a nine-story building. Memories and observations related by Stella’s adolescent daughter, her curmudgeonly octogenarian friend, three old ladies who witness her final moments, and finally Stella herself combine in cryptic and beguiling ways to unravel the mystery: Playing a lover’s game on that rooftop, did she fall out of her husband’s arms, or was she pushed?
Download or read book The Death Fetch Or the Fatal Warning written by Henry M. Milner and published by . This book was released on 182? with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book GLAMOUR PUSS written by R.J. Kaiser and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glamour Puss Was Buried Under a Pool in Hollywood…. Mac McGowan knew exactly where Aubrey St. George was buried, because he'd put the famous film star—known to all of Hollywood as Glamour Puss—there himself. It had all been a terrible accident, but Mac was sleeping with Aubrey's wife, Stella, and both he and Stella had panicked. So they'd covered up their deed, buried Aubrey under the pool Mac was building for the star and come up with a story the police would buy. But He Was About to Walk Right Back Into Mac McGowan's Life. Twenty years later, Mac is a different man—but a man haunted by the one act that shaped his life. Now divorced from Stella, he is nonetheless tied to the failed actress by the secret they share and the crime they got away with. His life is not his own. Then the carefully constructed veneer of the past starts to crack. Someone else knows his and Stella's secret, and they are intent on blackmailing Mac to keep the truth hidden. When it's clear that Mac's life—and that of the sexy female P.I. he's hired to help him—is in danger, Mac begins to wonder if they only way to survive is to expose the past he's tried so hard to keep hidden.
Download or read book Harlequin Romance August 2020 Box Set written by Sophie Pembroke and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin® Romance brings you a collection of four new titles, available now! Experience the rush of falling in love! This Harlequin® Romance box set includes: #4723 ITALIAN ESCAPE WITH HER FAKE FIANCƒ A Fairytale Summer! by Sophie Pembroke Daisy thought the Italian cottage she was gifted would be the perfect place to focus on her music with rock star Jay. Until their peaceful retreat is hijacked by a media storm claiming their working relationship has been sealed with a diamond ring! #4724 HIRED BY THE UNEXPECTED BILLIONAIRE The Missing Manhattan Heirs by Susan Meier Danny Manelli needs a nanny fast! And Marnie Olsen is perfect. She soothes his newly discovered son, Jax, and calms Danny’s soul. The more they share, the closer they get—until a secret from Marnie’s past threatens to destroy everything… #4725 A YEAR WITH THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR by Barbara Wallace Neighbors Stella Russo and Linus Collier have their own reasons why they’re on a self-imposed hiatus from the opposite sex. Only while their mutual temptation might begin from a distance, soon they can’t resist acting on it…up close and personal! #4726 SPANISH TYCOON’S CONVENIENT BRIDE by Nina Singh When Julian Santigo offers Cassie Wells a job at his luxury Mallorcan resort, she can hardly refuse. She’s alone, unemployed and pregnant. When he offers her marriage, she needs a little more convincing…even though they’ve been fighting their desire far too long.
Download or read book Grace written by Linn Ullmann and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johan has sometimes been fortunate but never particularly successful: he lost his job for a breach of professional integrity, and he and his son haven’t spoken in eight years. His greatest happiness–his grace–is his competent, confident wife Mai, who loves him unreservedly. Now, with six months to live, and with Mai’s help, he intends to die well. But as he broods on the pleasures and regrets of his life, and death slowly envelops him, Johan’s resolution begins to waver. Morally intricate and full of sly humor, Grace is a touching and unexpectedly dramatic exploration of the territory between life and death.
Download or read book Alex North s A Streetcar Named Desire written by Annette Davison and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex North's A Streetcar Named Desire: A Film Score Guide examines the acclaimed score for Elia Kazan's much-celebrated adaptation of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). Situating the score within the context of Alex North's life and career, the book begins with an overview of North's musical training and his works up to his first scores for Hollywood in 1950, demonstrating how his experience in writing music for stage, concert hall, dance, and documentaries each contributed to the skills necessary for film composition. Annette Davison uses examples from North's film career to identify and describe his scoring techniques. Using manuscript and archival research, Davison explores both the play's debut stage production and the film's production process, with a particular emphasis on the genesis and development of the music heard in the film. Considering the influence and changes imposed by the film's studio (Warner Bros.), the Production Code Administration, and the Catholic Legion of Decency on the film, Davison explores the impact of these changes on the interpretation of this finely balanced drama, comparing the different versions of the film and its scores. The book concludes with a full and detailed analysis of the jazz-inflected score, taking a holistic approach and using both musicology and film studies to investigate the ways it gives a dynamic shape to the film as a whole.
Download or read book Her Noble Owl written by Kestra Pingree and published by Kestra Pingree. This book was released on 2017-12-16 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She wants freedom. Stella Hayes has been a prisoner for almost half of her life. All she has in this world is her son. For him, she is determined to escape the Berserker wolf shifter abusing them and holding them captive as soon as the time is right. Freedom is finally within reach when they run into Cedric Snow, the sexy billionaire snowy-owl shifter who has been all over the news since he went missing. Will he be the one to save Stella and her son? He wants to fix what he broke. Cedric Snow is coming home after surviving a dangerous ordeal involving Black Witches and a shifter collector. The world thinks he chickened out and ran away with a beautiful woman when his parents announced they were putting him in charge of their fortune. The world isn’t exactly wrong, but Cedric doesn’t want to be that undependable guy anymore. He wants to patch up his relationship with his wife and daughter most of all, but things don’t go the way he planned. A roughed-up mama wolf shifter and her pup need his help. Will they steal his heart too? Fated Mates. Forever Love.
Download or read book A Year with the Millionaire Next Door written by Barbara Wallace and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One year in England… A lifetime in love? Stella Russo fled across the Atlantic for a distraction-free escape from her high-pressure finance job. Mission accomplished. But it’s somewhat complicated when she spies the dreamboat next door… Wealthy scientist Linus Collier’s also on a self-imposed hiatus from the opposite sex, so Stella’s his own unwelcome but oh-so-delightful distraction… Their mutual temptation might begin from a distance, but soon they can’t resist acting on it…up close and personal!
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Supervising Inspector General Steamboat Inspection Service to the Secretary of Commerce written by United States. Steamboat-Inspection Service and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Random Acts of Lust written by Primula Bond and published by Headline Accent. This book was released on 2010-03-24 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Behind the Curtain, Club Crème and Country Pleasures takes a wicked delight in teasing the erotic out of the everyday ... all over again. Poppy wants to bring sex back into her marriage by letting her old friend Stella remind her husband how it's done. Suzanne loves her fiancé, but fancies his father more. Florence can't resist her hunky stepson and his skills in the kitchen. Two girls seeking the perfect man on a singles holiday find each other instead. Chloe's first photography commission not only introduces her into high society but into her first threesome. And as for Sister Benedicta and her novices . . . It's a jungle out there. Cougars and their sisters stalk in their stilettos through galleries, hotels, convents and shadowy palazzi; or entice and seduce their prey in the scented privacy of their own homes. Their natural habitat can be anywhere from New York, Venice or Amsterdam to Luxor and London. These women are photographers, landladies, travel guides, nuns - even the naughty chair of the PTA. But they're so subtle, sophisticated and sexy that the boys, men and girls, barely know what's hit them.
Download or read book The Myth of Sisyphus written by Elliott M. Simon and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The myth of Sisyphus symbolizes the archetypal process of becoming without the consolation of absolute achievement. It is both a poignant reflection of the human condition and a prominent framing text for classical, medieval, and renaissance theories of human perfectibility. In this unique reading of the myth through classical philosophies, pagan and Christian religious doctrines, and medieval and renaissance literature, we see Sisyphus, "the most cunning of human beings," attempting to transcend his imperfections empowered by his imagination to renew his faith in the infinite potentialities of human excellence."--BOOK JACKET
Download or read book A Passion in Tatters written by Annie Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Passion in Tatters A Novel written by Annie Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Wolves Descend written by Quinn Loftis and published by Quinn Loftis Books, LLC. This book was released on 2021-12-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fight for dominance begins. The period of mourning for the great alphas, Vasile and Alina, is over. But some refuse to move on. The high fae, Perizada, vows never to experience the loss of her friends--her family--again. She knows the only way to do this is to take on the Order of the Burning Claw herself. But her mate would never allow it. So, she does the only thing she can, severing all ties with her allies. Peri’s decision could destroy her enemies, the Order, but it could also destroy everything she holds dear. The end of mourning also marks the beginning of challenges to the new alpha of alphas, Fane Lupei. Rogue wolves who desire to rule in his stead attempt to stake their claims. Though Fane abides by pack law when facing his opponents, others aren’t so honorable. Fane soon realizes the threats he faces aren’t just against him, but against his entire pack. Skender and the fae, Tenia, fight against the mate bond drawing them closer. They both know they cannot be together, but the bond is more powerful than either expected. Meanwhile, Skender has promised to keep Tenia’s son, Torion, safe--a promise he’s willing to die to keep. Skender soon finds out that there’s more to the boy than meets the eye, and Skender’s ability to keep the boy safe could be the key to saving them all.
Download or read book The Cold Song written by Linn Ullmann and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2014! Ullmann’s characters are complex and paradoxical: neither fully guilty nor fully innocent Siri Brodal, a chef and restaurant owner, is married to Jon Dreyer, a famous novelist plagued by writer’s block. Siri and Jon have two daughters, and together they spend their summers on the coast of Norway, in a mansion belonging to Jenny Brodal, Siri’s stylish and unforgiving mother. Siri and Jon’s marriage is loving but difficult, and troubled by painful secrets. They have a strained relationship with their elder daughter, Alma, who struggles to find her place in the family constellation. When Milla is hired as a nanny to allow Siri to work her long hours at the restaurant and Jon to supposedly meet the deadline on his book, life in the idyllic summer community takes a dire turn. One rainy July night, Milla disappears without a trace. After her remains are discovered and a suspect is identified, everyone who had any connection with her feels implicated in her tragedy and haunted by what they could have done to prevent it. The Cold Song is a story about telling stories and about how life is continually invented and reinvented.
