Download or read book The Butler Wore Guccis written by Thomas Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this work The Butler Wore Guccis is to share with you the unique events that I, a middle-class young American male experienced over a ten-year period. It began with my choice of an unusual summer job when at nineteen, I entered the world of 'service.' From Newport to Westchester to Palm Beach I worked for several of the richest and most idiosyncratic people in America. For better or worse, the stories of my employers and my fellow staff members weave a fascinating and unique insight as to what it meant and means to be rich in America, then and now. Magnificent homes like Marjorie Merriweather Post's Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach and Mrs. Robert R. Young's homes in Newport and Palm Beach (where the duke and duchess of Windsor were frequent guests) add to the flow and texture of my story. Thank you for sharing my journey.

Download or read book The Groom Wore Guccis written by Taylor Manning and published by Uncial Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Librarian Livvy Swenson lives by her notebook planner, organizing her life to the nth degree. When she decides her biological clock requires that she now get marrried, Livvy sets about the task with a list of what she requires in a husband. But she's forgotten one requirement--what the Ladies' Prayer Circle of Ophelia, Texas, calls "zing." Miss Daisy Hemphill and her friends pray for the right man for Livvy, but their prayers are answered by bartender Tex Braun.Livvy is attracted to Tex but is positive he can't possibly meet her intellectual requirements.Multi-millionaire Tex Braun is in hiding incognito as a roadhouse bartender to escape a high society gold-digger who wants to hook him. Tex doesn't realize it, but moving in the social circle of the roadhouse opens his eyes to the kind of woman he really wants to spend his life with--one exactly like Livvy Swenson. He's making progress convincing Livvy that he can be all she needs in a man when his ex-finacee tracks him down and announces to everyone in the bar -- including Livvy--that she's pregnant.Tex is caught in the middle of a mess he had never imagined in his wildest dreams. And caught with him is the woman he loves. Winning Livvy back will be one heck of a lot harder than fixin' drinks behind the bar in his Gucci loafers.

Download or read book Though They Come from the Ends of the Earth written by Carl Douglass and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in the trilogy, The Trojan Horse in the Belly of the Beast, by Carl Douglass. The two young mental giants who dominate this trilogy could not have come from more different backgrounds if they had been born on separate planets. Though they come from the ends of the earth, the similarities between the two geniuses—math prodigies—are striking and of serious import to the deputy director of the defense intelligence agency of the United States. His task is to undermine and to interdict the secret Iranian project to build nuclear weapons of mass destruction--Project Jahannam Adur [Hell's Fire]. The effort to subvert the planned Iranian holocaust will eventually take more than a decade and a terrible amount of sacrifice, but it could avert a war with the potential to wreak more havoc and loss that WW I and II combined.

Download or read book The House of Gucci written by Sara G. Forden and published by . This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE from director Ridley Scott, starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver. The sensational true story of murder, madness, glamour, and greed that shook the Gucci dynasty, now fully updated with a new afterword. On March 27, 1995, Maurizio Gucci, heir to the fabulous fashion dynasty, was slain by an unknown gunman as he approached his Milan office. In 1998, his ex-wife Patrizia Reggiani Martinelli--nicknamed "The Black Widow" by the press--was sentenced to 29 years in prison, for arranging his murder. Did Patrizia murder her ex-husband because his spending was wildly out of control? Did she do it because her glamorous ex was preparing to marry his mistress, Paola Franchi? Or is there a possibility she didn't do it at all? The Gucci story is one of glitz, glamour, intrigue, the rise, near fall and subsequent resurgence of a fashion dynasty. Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and widely acclaimed, The House of Gucci will captivate readers with its page-turning account of high fashion, high finance, and heart-rending personal tragedy. PRAISE FOR THE HOUSE OF GUCCI: "This gripping book about the empire and murder of Maurizio Gucci ... reveals the ugly truth behind fashion's most fabulous family." -Glamour "A business book you will zip through like a novel. ... Forden has whipped up a mixture of family drama and high finance into a tasty and complex narrative." -The Economist, 'A Best Book of the Year' "Racy, fast-paced. ... Reads like a movie script. ... Hard to put down. ... Forden gets that famous Gucci bar-and-bit between her teeth -and gallops along." -International Herald Tribune "A penetrating chronicle of the rise and fall of a family business. ... Even by the Borgia-like standards of the fashion industry, the operatic Guccis were special. Not content with the usual familial stew of love, jealousy and greed, they added tax evasion, bigamy and, yes, murder to the mix." -Wall Street Journal "Riveting reading." -Cosmopolitan "A riveting account of the talent and creative chaos that built one of the world's great luxury-goods empires--and the egotism, bitter family conflict, and incompetence that nearly destroyed it." -Bloomberg "Fashion has never been so dramatic-and dangerous. The saga of three generations of the Gucci family opens with an execution-style murder in Milan and penetrates the world of one of the hottest fashion labels of our time. Fashion insider Sara Forden spins the tale of how a bunch of greedy, bickering Guccis lost control of the empire that made GG synonymous with loafers." -Teri Agins, author of The End of Fashion "Glamour, greed, sex, style, and very, very good leather goods -- what more can you ask for (besides a 30 percent discount)?" -Michael Gross, bestselling author of Model and 740 Park

Download or read book The House of Gucci written by Sara Gay Forden and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the business fortunes of Italy's Gucci family from its first leather shop in Florence in 1921 to the loss of the fashion conglomerate in the 1990s. It investigates events suggesting that personal and legal squabbles of the dysfunctional second and third generations culminated in the 1995 murder of Maurizio Gucci.

Download or read book Little Book of Gucci written by Karen Homer and published by Welbeck Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the oldest Italian fashion brands in existence today, Gucci was founded in Florence in 1921. Guccio Gucci established his company with the goal of creating opulent luggage for Italy's wealthy and fashionable upper-classes. With the signature Gucci print of dark brown diamonds on a tan background, interlocking G logo and red and green stripe, the brand has gone on to become the last word in Italian luxury. Gucci's signature items - the belt, the bag, the loafer - transcend fleeting fashion trends, and have remained central to the house's identity into the twenty-first century. Under the stewardship of Tom Ford, Gucci epitomized the louche and mischievous 1990s aesthetic. Today, under Alessandro Michele, the brand's combination of romance and toughness is in hot demand. The Little Book of Guccitells the story of this historic yet flourishing house, and the visionary looks that have cemented its place in fashion history.

Download or read book Guilty Gucci written by Ashley Antoinette and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Red Bottom Bandits may be the world's most fashion-forward gang of masked outlaws. They're the talk of D.C. for their daring robberies and fly gear. And their latest caper is penned by Ashley Antoinette (of Ashley & JaQuavis) at her sultry, streetwise best. When the innocent, naïve Gucci recognizes ringleader Sunny Raegan during a holdup, that's her "in" with the Bandits. Knowing she's got a lot more beauty than brains, Gucci sees the gang as her meal ticket. More likely, they'll be her ticket to the morgue! The Bandits may be lawless, but they play by a few simple rules: Get in and get out. . .shoot first and ask questions later. . .never leave without the money. . .and innocent people don't get hurt. But it's only a matter of time before all these rules get broken—and that's when Gucci gets caught! If there's one thing a girl needs, it's a little help from her friends. But her "friends" have skipped town without giving her a second thought. And Sunny is distracted by her new baby and her violent ex-lover. So Gucci's on her own. She's on trial for her life, and she must decide whether to snitch on the girls—or take the fall all by herself. Whichever she chooses, it may be her death sentence.

Download or read book Gucci by Gucci written by Sarah Mower and published by Vendome Press. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gucci by Gucci' opens the fabled house's archives for the first time, bringing together the history of the Florentine family-owned saddler that has imprinted its name on the fashion consciousness.

Download or read book Pastoral Misconduct written by Anson Shupe and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past, clergy malfeasance was mentioned only in passing by group members or adherents. The subject was invisible and those who studied it were often stigmatized as hostile to religion itself. Today clergy misconduct is acknowledged as a social problem with growing conceptual and theoretical implications. In Pastoral Misconduct, Anson Shupe and Janelle M. Eliasson-Nannini argue that the history and traditions of black pastoral leadership, coupled with the close identity of many black congregants with their pastor, congregation, and racial subculture, creates opportunity structures that facilitate predatory behavior. Familiarity and mutual identity frequently leads victims to drop their normal levels of wariness. Major denominations and minor sects have been studied, but this unique study by Shupe and Eliasson-Nannini pursues nuances of pastoral bad behavior in a new context. This book is not a tabloid treatment of the American black church. In fact, the black church becomes the vehicle for a major new sociological development: a theory of clergy misconduct in any minority religion.

Download or read book Gucci written by Vanessa Blondel and published by Rizzoli International publication. This book was released on 2011 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Loving The Beast written by Rabia Sajal Niazi and published by Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd. This book was released on with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferris Kingston is a ruthless mafia leader but when Hazel Lincoln is forced to marry him, she hopes to find mercy behind his cold eyes and strong hands. Hazel Lincoln was a nobody without her aunt. Feisty, hot-headed, dreamy, and naive was how she is described often. But to Ferris Kingston, she is a seductress who has intentionally made his nights restless... When a series of incidents force them arranged into marriage none of them ever had an idea what they were getting into. It was like thunder against a volcano... She hated his controlling manners and dominating nature. He was hell-bent on taming her feistiness. To the world, they are the most perfect couple but nobody knows whats happens behind the closed doors of Kingston Manor.....

Download or read book FRENCH CONNECTION 2 written by ROBIN MOORE AND MILT MACHLIN and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book French Connection II written by Robin Moore and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1975 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Talented Mr Ripley Ripley Under Ground Ripley s Game written by Patricia Highsmith and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1999-10-12 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre appear here together in hardcover for the first time. Suave, agreeable, and completely amoral, Patricia Highsmith's hero, the inimitable Tom Ripley, stops at nothing--not even murder--to accomplish his goals. In achieving for himself the opulent life that he was denied as a child, Ripley shows himself to be a master of illusion and manipulation and a disturbingly sympathetic combination of genius and psychopath. As Highsmith navigates the mesmerizing tangle of Ripley's deadly and sinister games, she turns the mystery genre inside out and takes us into the mind of a man utterly indifferent to evil. The Talented Mr. Ripley In a chilling literary hall of mirrors, Patricia Highsmith introduces Tom Ripley. Like a hero in a latter-day Henry James novel, Ripley is sent to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself very fond of Dickie Greenleaf. He wants to be like him--exactly like him. Suave, agreeable, and utterly amoral, Ripley stops at nothing--certainly not only one murder--to accomplish his goal. Turning the mystery form inside out, Highsmith shows the terrifying abilities afforded to a man unhindered by the concept of evil. Ripley Under Ground In this harrowing illumination of the psychotic mind, the enviable Tom Ripley has a lovely house in the French countryside, a beautiful and very rich wife, and an art collection worthy of a connoisseur. But such a gracious life has not come easily. One inopportune inquiry, one inconvenient friend, and Ripley's world will come tumbling down--unless he takes decisive steps. In a mesmerizing novel that coolly subverts all traditional notions of literary justice, Ripley enthralls us even as we watch him perform acts of pure and unspeakable evil. Ripley's Game Connoisseur of art, harpsichord aficionado, gardener extraordinaire, and genius of improvisational murder, the inimitable Tom Ripley finds his complacency shaken when he is scorned at a posh gala. While an ordinary psychopath might repay the insult with some mild act of retribution, what Ripley has in mind is far more subtle, and infinitely more sinister. A social slight doesn't warrant murder of course--just a chain of events that may lead to it.

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Download or read book Stressed written by DJ Martin and published by The Herby Lady, LLC. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ogres, vampires, dwarves, witches, wizards. Just a normal day for this human administrative assistant. My boss is a malodorous, temper-tantrum-throwing ogre who wears Armani suits. Like most ogres, he’s not the most logical of thinkers, which is where I come in. I keep his business running smoothly while he schmoozes with high-profile people, some of whom are paranormals. Like one of his best friends, an agent to the stars who happens to be a centuries-old vampire. I’m pretty good at maintaining an even keel, until I fall for a handsome man who isn’t what he seems. At the same time, a young vampire declares his love. Then there’s the demon who threatens to blackmail me. Life has become a disaster. Even my BFF, who’s a witch, is at a loss. What’s a poor human to do?

Download or read book Gage Butler s Reckoning written by Justine Davis and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRINITY STREET WEST HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO… Undercover detective Gage Butler lived and breathed justice. He was a legend at the precinct, and nothing stood in his way—until Laurey Templeton stormed back into his life. She'd been an innocent victim of his dedication to the job and had the broken heart to prove it. But she couldn't help falling for him all over again. Only this time she was determined to crack his resolve, help him make peace with the past—and create a future for them both. TRINITY STREET WEST Where danger lies around every corner—and the biggest danger of all is falling in love.