Download or read book The Contessa s Sister written by Gardner Callahan Teall and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sisters The Saga of the Mitford Family written by Mary S. Lovell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fascinating, the way all great family stories are fascinating."—Robert Gottlieb, New York Times Book Review This is the story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the world wars. Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy was one of the best-selling novelists of her day; beautiful Diana married the Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley; and Unity, a close friend of Hitler, shot herself in the head when England and Germany declared war. The Mitfords had style and presence and were remarkably gifted. Above all, they were funny—hilariously and mercilessly so. In this wise, evenhanded, and generous book, Mary Lovell captures the vitality and drama of a family that took the twentieth century by storm and became, in some respects, its victims.
Download or read book A Playful Approach to Restoration Therapy written by Nancy Frigaard and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible guide provides family and play therapists with an innovative method for addressing maladaptive emotional behavior in vulnerable children, helping them develop a practical understanding of how to diagnose, treat, and help children move from pain to peace. Drawing from Frigaard’s years of experience, this book presents the scientific model behind restoration play therapy and anticipates the multiple directions that healing and recovery might take. This guide combines creative and directive approaches to collaborative play with the vision to create deep-rooted change in clients. Including step-by-step session plans as well as introducing metaphorical "coping characters", Brutus the Blaming Badger, Sharla the Shameful Sheep, Contessa the Controlling Cow and Eddie the Escape Goat, the chapters encourage a therapeutic play environment that draws upon accessible techniques, empowering children to regain control of their responses to emotional pain. By moving between a framework of practical insight and its creative application, this text ensures therapists engage with clients where they are and build empathetic relationships with them. This book is invaluable reading for family and play therapists as well as other mental health professionals that work with children. The book encourages parents and educators to be part of the healing process, and they can also use the techniques with the children in their lives.
Download or read book Mademoiselle Mori written by Margaret Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of E F Benson with the Complete Mapp and Lucia Novels Illustrated written by E. F. Benson and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 11677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prolific novelist E. F. Benson is celebrated for his hilarious satires of upper-middle-class life, as depicted in the ‘Mapp and Lucia’ novels, and for being an adept narrator of ghost stories. This comprehensive eBook presents the largest collection of Benson’s works ever compiled in a single edition, with numerous illustrations, rare texts and concise introductions. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Benson’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * 49 novels, all with individual contents tables * The complete ‘Mapp and Lucia’ novels and stories - all six novels, linked in series order * Many early and late novels available here for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare short story collections, appearing here for the first time in digital print * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the ghost stories you want to read * Includes a wide selection of Benson’s non-fiction * Features an autobiography - discover Benson’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * UPDATED with 17 more novels, 2 rare Mapp and Lucia stories, 3 more short story collections and Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: Mapp and Lucia Series Queen Lucia (1920) Miss Mapp (1922) Lucia in London (1927) Desirable Residences (1929) The Male Impersonator (1929) Mapp and Lucia (1931) Lucia’s Progress (1935) Trouble for Lucia (1939) Other Novels Dodo: A Detail of the Day The Rubicon The Judgment Books Limitations The Babe, B.A. The Vintage The Capsina Mammon and Co. The Princess Sophia The Luck of the Vails Scarlet and Hyssop An Act in a Backwater The Book of Months The Relentless City The Valkyries The Challoners The Angel of Pain The House of Defence Sheaves The Blotting Book The Climber A Reaping Daisy’s Aunt The Osbornes Mrs. Ames Dodo’s Daughter Thorley Weir Arundel Mike An Autumn Sowing David Blaize The Freaks of Mayfair David Blaize and the Blue Door Up and Down Across the Stream Robin Linnet Dodo Wonders Lovers and Friends Peter Colin Colin II Paying Guests Ravens’ Brood The Short Story Collections Six Common Things; Or, a Double Overture The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories Visible and Invisible Spook Stories More Spook Stories The Countess of Lowndes Square and Other Stories The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction Daily Training The Cricket of Abel, Hirst, and Shrewsbury Winter Sports in Switzerland Crescent and Iron Cross Poland and Mittel-Europa Charlotte Brontë The Autobiography Our Family Affairs
Download or read book Liquid Desires written by Edward Sklepowich and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summer in Venice is brutal, and the heat is beginning to drive the people of this quiet city mad. A woman storms into the galleries at the Biennale art fair and slashes a painting with a knife. A young girl is found raped and murdered in her own bed. And a model named Flavia Brollo appears at the home of Urbino Macintyre’s closest friend, the Contessa da Capo-Zendrini, to declare that she is the noblewoman’s illegitimate daughter. It is an outrageous declaration, and it will mean the contessa’s doom. When Flavia is found floating in the canal, Macintyre dedicates himself to finding the person who murdered this poor, disturbed woman. His inquiries lead him back to the Biennale, where the art world’s most powerful figures congregate to buy, sell, and indulge their darkest desires. Before the fair is over, Macintyre will discover that even murder can be a work of art.
Download or read book Lily and the Duke Regency Spinsters Alliance 1 written by Carole Mortimer and published by Carole Mortimer. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily and the Duke is the first book in the new Regency romance series, Regency Spinsters Alliance, by USA Today and International #1 Bestselling Author, Carole Mortimer. Lily, and five of her friends all suffered through the previous London Season together. One thing they are now all agreed upon, as they are forced to attend a second Season, is that the gentlemen of the ton are invariably arrogant, conceited, and far too full of themselves and their own comfort to be in the least attentive to even the basic needs of a wife. As such, these six young ladies have formed an alliance, one in which they have agreed none of them will ever marry. Accepting a dare from the arrogantly superior Gabriel Lord, the Duke of St Albans, in which he challenges Lily’s decision by questioning her ability to resist his seduction, is the very last thing Lily should do. Most especially when the duke also declares that the victor shall choose their prize, when the time comes. Because Gabriel Lord has never lost a wager or a dare in his life. Gabriel knows, the moment he sets eyes on Lady Lily Tremayne, that she is meant to be his. But not only is she eighteen years his junior, but he also learns Lily is determined she will never succumb to feeling love or desire for any gentleman in Society. A battle of wills is about to commence!
Download or read book Death in a Serene City written by Edward Sklepowich and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American writer searches for a kidnapped Venetian saint In a remote Venice church, a dead woman named Santa Teodora lies before the altar. She has been there for centuries, ever since the Crusaders carried her mummified body away from the Holy Land, and she is as much a part of this mysterious city as the Grand Canal itself. Urbino Macintyre, an American expatriate who makes a living writing biographies of legendary Venetians, believes he knows every detail of Teodora’s legend, but another chapter is about to be added to her myth. Twenty years after a flood ravaged the city, Santa Teodora has vanished from the church. Macintyre’s nose for history leads him to investigate the case, which he suspects might be related to the demises of two local women. Death can no longer touch the saint, but it may be waiting for Urbino Macintyre.
Download or read book The United States Catholic Magazine and Monthly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Charterhouse of Parma written by Marie-Henri Beyle Stendhal and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the young Italian nobleman Fabrice del Dongo and his adventures from his birth in 1798 to his death, including his service in the Napoleonic Army.
Download or read book Miracle For A Madonna written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is almost impossible to believe, but it appears that the handsome young Italian Prince Antonio di Sogino has stolen an exquisite Florentine antique necklace from Jennie, the Marchioness of Kirkham, with whom he has enjoyed a brief dalliance on a visit to London. Distraught and terrified that her ageing husband will discover the loss of the necklace, she seeks help from her brother, Lord Mere, a military hero and a close confidant of Queen Victoria. Determined to help his sister Lord Mere travels to Florence and uncovers a sinister blackmail plot by the ugly and depraved Prince Vincente Gorizia, trapping a young beauty named Florencia into an unholy marriage. Lord Mere is struck hard by this appalling injustice and smitten in a trice by Florencia’s ethereal Raphaelite beauty, as he has always admired and been enchanted by Raphael’s paintings of other worldly Madonnas. Heroically he proposes to challenge her persecutor and meticulously plans his campaign to rescue Florencia from a dreadful fate worse than death. And, as he finds his sister’s precious necklace, he realises that he has lost his heart. But can he and Florencia ever be free of the evil Prince, free to marry and be together forever?
Download or read book Knapworth at War written by Timothy Finn and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Leicestershire village of Knapworth numbering just sixty souls faced World War II with the same phlegmatic gaze that had seen off most other national crises in its thousand years of history. These affectionate memoirs evoke a timeless world seen through the eyes of a small boy.
Download or read book Mapp and Lucia The Complete Series written by E. F. Benson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. F. Benson's 'Mapp and Lucia - The Complete Series' is a delightful exploration of small-town social dynamics in the early 20th century. The novel is written in a light and comedic style, offering a satirical look at the intricacies of relationships and power struggles among the residents of Tilling. Benson's keen observations of human behavior and witty dialogue make this series a charming and engaging read that offers insight into the society of the time. The interactions between the two central characters, Mapp and Lucia, are particularly entertaining as they navigate through the competitive world of social status and influence. The vivid descriptions and vivid characterizations add depth to the narrative, immersing the reader in the world of Tilling. E. F. Benson, a prolific writer and social commentator, drew inspiration from his own experiences and observations of the upper-middle-class society in Britain. His keen eye for detail and sharp wit shine through in 'Mapp and Lucia,' showcasing his talent for crafting engaging and entertaining stories that continue to captivate readers today. Benson's ability to create memorable characters and witty dialogue sets him apart as a master of social satire. I highly recommend 'Mapp and Lucia - The Complete Series' to readers who enjoy light-hearted humor, social commentary, and well-developed characters. Benson's insight into human nature and his engaging storytelling make this series a must-read for anyone interested in exploring the complexities of society and interpersonal relationships in a humorous and entertaining manner.
Download or read book The Wedding Game written by Jane Feather and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this captivating romance about the inimitable Duncan sisters and their clandestine matchmaking service, a handsome new client throws youngest sister Chastity into an unexpected quandary. Chastity listens to Dr. Douglas Farrell’s distressingly unromantic requirements for a wife: wealth and social status. Her instinct is to refuse service to the tall, muscular, dark-eyed physician, but she can’t turn away a paying client. Yet the doctor conceals a secret. He’s prepared to sacrifice his bachelorhood for his true passion: caring for the poorest of London’s poor. Of course, his dream requires capital. For that, he is convinced he needs a well-to-do, well-connected wife. Little does Chastity know that if she ever learned the selfless truth, the handsome doctor just might steal her heart. And if Douglas ever lifted the veil that covers this mysterious woman, he might discover his perfect match.
Download or read book Curses Boiled Again written by Shari Randall and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Delightful! A fun whodunit full of New England coastal charm and characters who feel like friends. Warm humor, a delectable plot, and clever sleuthing will keep you turning the pages." —Krista Davis, New York Times bestselling author of the Domestic Diva Mysteries Winner of the Agatha Award for Best First Novel! Welcome to the seaside hamlet of Mystic Bay, where the fish is always fresh, the folks are ever-friendly, and murder is on a roll. . . Allie Larkin was living her dream as a ballet dancer when a bad fall put her out of business. Now she’s back home in Mystic Bay to heal a broken ankle while also helping her dear Aunt Gully get her Lazy Mermaid Lobster Shack off the ground. Nothing would help Gully more than winning the local food festival’s Best Lobster Roll contest. The competition is sure to be killer—especially after one of the contest judges dies after eating a roll from one of Gully’s biggest rivals. Soon, all eyes fall on Gully as the prime suspect. Allie may only have one good leg to stand on, but she’s not going to let her aunt go down for a crime she never could have cooked up. Can Allie, along with her devoted crew of friends, family, and customers, find a way to trap the killer and claw herself out of this hard-boiled murder case?
Download or read book The Lost Daughter of Venice written by Charlotte Betts and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come to Venice. Please, Phoebe, do not fail me. 'Lingers in the heart long after the final page is turned . . . a must read for anyone who wants to be absorbed as well as utterly enchanted' Carol McGrath Venice, 1919 Seventeen years ago, the grand Venetian Palazzo degli Angeli was Phoebe Wyndham's home; now, the neglected walls of the palazzo are just a haunting reminder of all she has lost. Arriving back in Italy after a plea from her estranged relative, the Contessa di Sebastiano, the recently widowed Phoebe is shocked to discover her aunt is dead and the palazzo now belongs to her. All she wants to do is sell the property and return home. However, when a dark family secret is exposed, the shocking deception rocks Phoebe to her very core, and she vows not to leave the City of Water without first unravelling the truth from the lies. As Phoebe searches for answers, she finds herself growing closer to two very different men. But, when her camera catches something more sinister than the faded grandeur of Venice, Phoebe begins to question who she can really trust and whether her aunt's death was truly an accident after all . . . Why do readers love Charlotte Betts? 'Lush, romantic and full of intrigue' Tracy Rees, Richard & Judy bestselling author 'A deeply romantic novel whose vivid characters will linger in your mind' Margaret Kaine 'Romantic, poignant and gripping . . . a fabulous holiday read' Deborah Swift 'A stunning and captivating read . . . full of drama, love, loss and life' Book Literati 'Romantic, engaging and hugely satisfying' Katie Fford 'A compelling story, beautifully written and brought alive with rich historical detail' Liz Harris
Download or read book Delphi Works of Stendhal Illustrated written by Stendhal and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 2908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now regarded as one of the pioneers of realist fiction, the early nineteenth century author Stendhal is celebrated for his acute analysis of character psychology. This attractive eBook presents the works of Stendhal, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Stendhal's life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL of the finished novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Includes Stendhal's seminal treatise ‘On Love’ – available in no other digital collection * Also features the author’s detailed biography on the composer Rossini, appearing here for the first time in digital publishing * Features a brief biography on Stendhal * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles Please note: no translations of Stendhal’s two unfinished novels are available in the public domain and so they are unable to appear in this collection. When new texts become available, they will be added as a free update. CONTENTS: The Novels ARMANCE THE RED AND THE BLACK THE CHARTERHOUSE OF PARMA The Shorter Fiction VITTORIA ACCORAMBONI VANINA VANINI THE ABBESS OF CASTRO THE CENCI THE DUCHESS OF PALLIANO The Non-Fiction ON LOVE A LIFE OF ROSSINI The Biography BRIEF LIFE OF STENDHAL by Philip Sidney Woolf Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles
