Download or read book Lake Geneva written by Michael Keefe and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned for its historic mansions, posh resorts, and deep blue waters, Lake Geneva is a haven for Chicago's movers and shakers since the Great Fire of 1871. This guide talks about Lake Geneva, providing images and details from local residents. It features tours of lakeshore homes, engaging profiles, and insights into the local scene.
Download or read book The Book of Lake Geneva Wisconsin By Paul B Jenkins With Plates written by Chicago Historical Society (CHICAGO) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shoulder Season written by Christina Clancy and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of Summer by Good Morning America • CNN • Parade • EW • Travel & Leisure • PopSugar • New York Post • BuzzFeed • Brit & Co • SheReads • Women.com A dazzling portrait of a young woman coming into her own, the youthful allure of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, and what we lose—and gain—when we leave home. ONCE IN A LIFETIME, YOU CAN HAVE THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE The small town of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin is an unlikely location for a Playboy Resort, and nineteen-year old Sherri Taylor is an unlikely bunny. Growing up in neighboring East Troy, Sherri plays the organ at the local church and has never felt comfortable in her own skin. But when her parents die in quick succession, she leaves the only home she’s ever known for the chance to be part of a glamorous slice of history. In the winter of 1981, in a costume two sizes too small, her toes pinched by stilettos, Sherri joins the daughters of dairy farmers and factory workers for the defining experience of her life. Living in the “bunny hutch”—Playboy’s version of a college dorm—Sherri gets her education in the joys of sisterhood, the thrill of financial independence, the magic of first love, and the heady effects of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. But as spring gives way to summer, Sherri finds herself caught in a romantic triangle—and the tragedy that ensues will haunt her for the next forty years. From the Midwestern prairie to the California desert, from Wisconsin lakes to the Pacific Ocean, this is a story of what happens when small town life is sprinkled with stardust, and what we lose—and gain—when we leave home. With a heroine to root for and a narrative to get lost in, Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season is a sexy, evocative tale, drenched in longing and desire, that captures a fleeting moment in American history with nostalgia and heart.
Download or read book Lake Geneva in Vintage Postcards written by Carolyn Hope Smeltzer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005-05-18 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lake Geneva was originally called Kishwauketoe by the Oneota tribe, a name meaning clear or sparkling water. Carved out by a glacier, this same crystal water has attracted residents and tourists for centuries, and continues to be a retreat for many in every season. Through a collection of vivid vintage postcards, authors Carolyn Hope Smeltzer and Martha Kiefer Cucco provide an overview of Lake Geneva's rich history, rendered in views of mansions, cottages, and camps, and in images of recreation, the surrounding towns, and, of course, Lake Geneva itself.
Download or read book Love Finds You in Lake Geneva Wisconsin written by Pamela S. Meyers and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As beautiful Lake Geneva plays host to Chicago's elite in the exciting Big-Band era, aspiring reporter Meg Alden wants to work in a man's world. Will the man who steals her job also win her heart? It's 1933, and beautiful Lake Geneva is a summertime playground for Chicago's wealthy. Local girl Meg Alden works at the town newspaper, but she aspires to be a real reporter. When a job opens up, Meg spies an opportunity to break into the business -- until Jack Wallace, son of the newspaper's owner, is hired instead. How will Meg ever be able to work with the man who stole her job... and makes her pulse race?
Download or read book Mail Jumper written by Elaine Kanelos and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the age of six, author Elaine Kanelos knew one thing: she wanted to deliver the mail on Lake Genevas US mail boat. In this memoir, she recalls how she achieved her dream and explains how mail jumpers do their job. She recounts close calls on the boat and lakeside high jinks with coworkers and friends as well as a multitude of joyous adventures on the waters of one of the Midwests most beautiful lakes. In Mail Jumper!, the journey begins at Kaneloss summer home in one of the lakes beautiful historic mansions. From there, she describes a host of her escapades and mishaps growing up on the lake. She also goes inside the world of many of Lake Genevas homes and iconic places and shares the story of her twenty-seven years on the lake. Familiar, funny, and full of heart, this personal narrative provides a one-of-a-kind glimpse into the world of the mail jumpers from the girl who did it first. It draws back the curtain on the US mail boat, Lake Genevas history, and life in its inner circle, as Kanelos remembers becoming the first girl to break a sixty-year tradition by jumping the US mail.
Download or read book BOOK OF LAKE GENEVA written by PAUL B. JENKINS and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Byron in Geneva written by David Ellis and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1816, following the scandalous collapse of his marriage, Lord Byron left England forever. His first destination was the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva where he stayed together with Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin, Claire Clairmont and John Polidori. Byron in Geneva focuses sharply on the poet’s life in the summer of that year, a famous time for meteorologists (for whom 1816 is the year without a summer), but also that crucial moment in the development of his writing when, urged on by Shelley, Byron tried to transform himself into a Romantic poet of the Wordsworthian variety. The book gives a vivid impression of what Byron thought and felt in these few months after the breakdown of his marriage, but also explores the different aspects of his nature that emerge in contact with a remarkable cast of supporting characters, which also included Madame de Staël, who presided over a famous salon in Coppet, across the lake from Geneva, and Matthew Lewis, author of the splendidly erotic `Gothic’ best-seller, The Monk. David Ellis sets out to challenge recent damning studies of Byron and through his meticulous exploration of the private and public life of the poet at this pivotal moment, he reasserts the value of Byron’s wit, warm-heartedness, and hatred of cant.
Download or read book The Book of Lake Geneva written by Paul Burrill Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sam s Letters to Jennifer written by James Patterson and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2004-06-28 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover two extraordinary romantic stories about the power of a life-changing love letter. Have you ever gotten a letter that changed your life completely? Sam's Letters to Jennifer is a novel about that kind of drama. In it, a woman is summoned back to the town where she grew up. And in the house where she spent her most magical years she finds a series of letters addressed to her. Each of those letters is a piece of a story that will upend completely the world she thought she knew - and throw her into a love more powerful than she ever imagined could be possible. Two extraordinary love stories are entwined here, full of hope and pain and emotions that never die down.
Download or read book The Book of Lake Geneva written by Paul Burrill Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The GR5 Trail written by Paddy Dillon and published by Cicerone Press Limited. This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guidebook to trekking the southern section of the GR5 trail between Lac Leman (Lake Geneva) and either Nice or Menton. Covering 674km (420 miles), this long-distance trek through the French Alps can be walked in 1 month and is suitable for moderately experienced hikers. The route is described from north to south in 32 stages, each between 11 and 31km (7–19 miles) in length. Variant routes such as the GR55 through the Vanoise National Park and the GR52 through the Mercantour National Park finishing at Menton are also detailed. 1:100,000 maps included for each stage Detailed information about accommodation, facilities and public transport along the route A south–north route summary table is also provided for those wanting to walk in the opposite direction Part of a 3-volume set, accompanying Cicerone guidebooks The GR5 Trail - Vosges and Jura and The GR5 Trail - Benelux and Lorraine are also available
Download or read book Distinctive Homes of America written by Glenn Hettinger and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book celebrates a special community and the creativity of the architects, homeowners and builders who appreciate excellent design. It features fifty-six distinctive homes all located on the shores of Geneva Lake, WI. It is lavishly illustrated with over 700 colored pictures of distinctive home exteriors and interiors in a wide diversity of architectural styles and periods. It is bountiful with remodeling, designing or purchasing ideas."--Cover p.4.
Download or read book Black Point written by Jerome T. Burke and published by Hollycourt Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a spring day in 1895, Lora Lockerby, fresh from Eugene Debs' Pullman Strike trial and troubled over her relationship with Clarence Darrow, arrives in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Thrust backward in time by a bicycle accident, present-day lawyer Jeremy Sloan lands in Lake Geneva on the same day. Jeremy must contend with being marooned in time and must find a way to rescue Lora from lake Geneva's worst boating disaster of which he has foreknowledge. All this while dealing with his own feelings of love for a woman from a hundred years in the past]
Download or read book Hotel Du Lac written by Anita Brookner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • When romance writer Edith Hope’s life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, she flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to restore her to her senses. "Brookner's most absorbing novel ... wryly realistic ... graceful and attractive." —Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love's casualties and exiles. She also attracts the attention of a worldly man determined to release her unused capacity for mischief and pleasure. Beautifully observed, witheringly funny, Hotel du Lac is Brookner at her most stylish and potently subversive. In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?"
Download or read book A Grand Tale written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Grand Tale: The History of Grand Geneva Resort & Spa features historic and new photography that illustrates the colorful past of this Lake Geneva resort property. From its humble beginnings as picturesque farmland, to the famed Playboy Club-Hotel, a period of decline and its eccentric recording studio days to today's Grand Geneva Resort & Spa, this land has a story to tell.
Download or read book Mailboat Book One written by Danielle Lincoln Hanna and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bailey Johnson landed the coolest summer job ever: mail jumper on the historic Lake Geneva Mailboat. Falling into the lake is pretty much a hazard of the job. Finding a dead body underwater is pretty much not. One mistimed jump restarts a manhunt, unsolved since before she was born, and reopens old wounds that were only half healed. As if that weren't bad enough, she's stuck in the most epically abysmal foster home ever, since she first entered "the system" eleven years ago. Abuse at home, bullets flying in the street ... and she thought prom was bad. All she wants is a family of her own. Is that so much to ask for? A forever family--provided she survives the summer.
