Download or read book Vanessa written by Wensley Clarkson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling and disturbing true story of Vanessa George and the evil abuse she doled out upon the children of more than 300 families. As a nursery worker, wife and mother, she was a figure to place trust in. Yet her adulterous relationship and sick love triangle with Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen drew her into a dark world of violence and sexual abuse. To compete for Blanchard's attention she would do everything in her power to impress him, even if this meant committing unspeakable acts of sexual violence on children as young as two years old. What could have driven a mother to betray not only her daughters and loving husband, but the very families who entrusted her with their children? How could a seemingly caring women become engaged in a sordid and vile love triangle with a man and woman she had never met? Were there events in her own childhood that pushed her to commit these acts? True crime expert Wensley Clarkson pieces together the events surrounding the case as well as new investigative research to compile a fascinating yet disturbing account of a case which shocked a nation. We may never know the full extent of Vanessa George's cruelty, but the horror of her story will remain as a chilling memory for generations.

Download or read book Vanessa Bell written by Frances Spalding and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive and authorised biography of the artist Vanessa Bell. Even through the lens of the twenty-first century, the story of Vanessa Bell's life is unorthodox. A powerful magnetic figure, Bell lived at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group and was often the core figure around which the disparate individuals of the movement revolved. Her art and designs – so often overshadowed by her sister Virginia Woolf's writings and fame and by the interest in her own unconventional life – made a significant contribution to the history of the Bloomsbury Group. Yet, until this authorised biography was written, she has remained a largely silent and enigmatic figure. In this captivating account, acclaimed art historian and biographer Frances Spalding restores Bell to the heart of the Bloomsbury Group, illuminating an exceptional life and the free-spirited circle among which she lived.

Download or read book Vanessa written by Dan Callahan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who isn’t in awe of Vanessa Redgrave? Her career on stage and screen remains vital and her extreme-left political stands are still quite controversial. This is the moment, and this is the biography, to take stock of Vanessa Redgrave both as actress and as political activist with a critical, objective study of her life and career. It is also time to account for her unparalleled achievements as an empathetic actress of considerable genius.Anyone who has seen Redgrave in her numerous stage and film roles will know why she is the very best we have. The radiant, fearless, daring, perverse and always unpredictable Redgrave is the brightest light in the forest of her famous family.

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Download or read book Vanessa s Valentine written by CB Samet and published by Novels by CB Samet. This book was released on with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An undercover DEA agent on the run. A sinister drug smuggler with a vengeance. And Vanessa is caught between them. Rural physician, Vanessa Watson, escaped the bustling urban ER for a slower pace and more personalized patient care. But when a mysterious stranger climbs into Vanessa's car, bullets start flying. Vanessa saves Seth from imminent danger, but the act of saving a life puts her own in danger. Five years of undercover work are blown in an instant, and Seth Dellosa loses his partner, Rico, and his identity. On the run for his life, he seeks shelter from his enemies in Vanessa's home. With the help of his deceased partner’s ghost, Seth is under pressure to bring down the drug cartel before they find him and the innocent woman aiding him. But the Mexican drug smuggler Seth deceived is out for blood and determined to find the traitor who infiltrated his organization. From award-winning author CB Samet comes a delightful series of stand-alone novellas rich with romantic suspense, a touch of the supernatural, and a heart-warming happily-ever-afters. The Romancing the Spirit Series are clean romance tales that can be enjoyed in any order. *** “AMAZING! A fantastic, well written read. An intense storyline that holds your attention as you get caught up in the fierce twists and hot chemistry. Plenty of excitement and emotionally heartfelt. A thrilling must read.” —Bookbub Reviewer "The writing draws you in and keeps you involved throughout the whole story, I found myself in love with not only the characters but also the world that was created." -- Booksprout Reviewer

Download or read book The Diary of Vanessa Rocoso written by Z.D. Boxall and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: December 2017. The horrifying event has been haunting and intriguing us as a nation ever since the story broke. Even though many of us now know what happened, there are still so many unanswered questions. What really happened over those two weeks? The Diary of Vanessa Rocoso grants an insight to the awful events by those who experienced them. It tells of the trials, tragedy, and trauma that they faced and inevitably had to overcome if they wanted to make it out with their lives. It involves piracy, slavery, and starvation. Most people wouldn’t survive, so how did they?

Download or read book Vanessa s Niece written by H Horace Broomes and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The psyche of Jacob Brougham, insofar as it concerns women, has been deeply affected by a certain type of characteristics seemingly possessed by each of his three grandmothers and his own mother (all of whom he loves and respects and mistrusts) and the wife of his favorite primary school teacher. He and Shirley Wilson, growing up in one of Tobago's numerous tiny littoral villages, at a relatively tender age, become lovers. Shirley is younger than he is, and he is at once delighted and alarmed at the skill and experience she displays. He asks her about it and discovers that it is a gift of her primary school teacher (a man who would, in time, rise to the heights of headmaster and senior member of the church board). She is open and honest about her sexual grooming, and even accepts it as a wrong done to her, but she is strangely forgiving of the man. This latter response troubles Jacob deeply. Still, he bears in mind that in the village – where sex and religion are the vital forces, but sex is never spoken of – he, too, has been groomed. More, Shirley must certainly know he has been groomed – and by whom! As hard as that would be, he must try not to be squeamish. As their relationship grows, Jacob finds that, whatever shortcomings Shirley may have, she is not devious–a characteristic with which his mind has come, willy–nilly, liberally to endow all women. To make matters worse for his head, she has proved to be loyal, trustworthy, loving, and industrious. Yet it is Shirley's pregnancy that settles matters. In its infancy, the marriage is, however, ruined before it can get time to find its feet. Even she, while professing her undying love for him, stoically agrees that the divorce is inevitable. Still, in a vow there and then whispered to herself, she determines that their next marriage will be a proper and well–planned one and will happen in a church. And Shirley keeps her vow.

Download or read book Vanessa written by Hugh Walpole and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Vanessa" by Hugh Walpole. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book Vanessa and Her Sister written by Priya Parmar and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book • An Entertainment Weekly “Must List” Pick • “Prepare to be dazzled.”—Paula McLain • “Quite simply astonishing.”—Sarah Blake What if Virginia Woolf’s sister had kept a diary? For fans of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank comes a spellbinding new story of the inseparable bond between Virginia and her sister, the gifted painter Vanessa Bell, and the real-life betrayal that threatened to destroy their family. Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “an uncanny success” and based on meticulous research, this stunning novel illuminates a little-known episode in the celebrated sisters’ glittering bohemian youth among the legendary Bloomsbury Group. Find your next book club pick, read special features, and more. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle. London, 1905: The city is alight with change, and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront. Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby, and Adrian are leaving behind their childhood home and taking a house in the leafy heart of avant-garde Bloomsbury. There they bring together a glittering circle of bright, outrageous artistic friends who will grow into legend and come to be known as the Bloomsbury Group. And at the center of this charmed circle are the devoted, gifted sisters: Vanessa, the painter, and Virginia, the writer. Each member of the group will go on to earn fame and success, but so far Vanessa Bell has never sold a painting. Virginia Woolf’s book review has just been turned down by The Times. Lytton Strachey has not published anything. E. M. Forster has finished his first novel but does not like the title. Leonard Woolf is still a civil servant in Ceylon, and John Maynard Keynes is looking for a job. Together, this sparkling coterie of artists and intellectuals throw away convention and embrace the wild freedom of being young, single bohemians in London. But the landscape shifts when Vanessa unexpectedly falls in love and her sister feels dangerously abandoned. Eerily possessive, charismatic, manipulative, and brilliant, Virginia has always lived in the shelter of Vanessa’s constant attention and encouragement. Without it, she careens toward self-destruction and madness. As tragedy and betrayal threaten to destroy the family, Vanessa must decide if it is finally time to protect her own happiness above all else. The work of exciting young newcomer Priya Parmar, Vanessa and Her Sister exquisitely captures the champagne-heady days of prewar London and the extraordinary lives of sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. Praise for Vanessa and Her Sister “Fiction and history merge seamlessly in this dazzling novel.”—Entertainment Weekly “Being related to Virginia Woolf can’t have been easy. In this delightful novel, Parmar re-imagines the brilliant, fragile writer and her turn-of-the-century bohemian friends. . . . You’ll be spellbound.”—People “Rarely do you encounter a woman who commands as much admiration as does the painter Vanessa Bell in Priya Parmar’s multilayered, subtly shaded novel.”—The New York Times Book Review “[A] gossipy, entertaining historical novel . . . Parmar conjures a devastating fictional portrait.”—USA Today “Captivating . . . echoes of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility emerge in Parmar’s portrayal.”—Newsday “An elegant, entertaining novel that brings new life to the Bloomsbury Group’s intrigues.”—The Dallas Morning News

Download or read book Margaret Laurence written by Donez Xiques and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2005-09-24 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer is an engaging narrative that contains new and important findings about Laurence's life and career. This biography reveals the challenges, successes, and failures of the long apprenticeship that preceded the publication of the The Stone Angel, Laurence's first commercially successful novel. Donez Xiques demonstrates the importance of Margaret Laurence's early work as a journalist in her development as a writer and covers her return to Canada from Africa in the late 1950s. She details the significance of Laurence's "Vancouver years" as well as the challenges of her year in London prior to settling at Elm Cottage in Buckinghamshire, when Laurence stood on the verge of success. The Margaret Laurence known to most people is a public figure of the 1960s and 1970s; matriarchal, matronly, and accomplished. The story of her early years in the harsh setting of the Canadian Prairies during the 1930s - years of drought and the Great Depression - and of her African years has never before been chronicled with the thoroughness and vividness that Xiques provides for the reader. Appended to this powerful new biography is a short story by Margaret Laurence that has never before been published and two other stories that have not been widely available. They indicate the range of her concerns and show a marked departure from her fiction in The Tomorrow-Tamer and Other Stories and A Bird in the House. Readers will benefit from the extensive research in this full and vibrant portrait of one of the most revered writers of twentieth-century Canadian literature.

Download or read book The Dead and the Living in Paris and London 1500 1670 written by Vanessa Harding and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

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Download or read book Vanessa and Other Short Stories written by Anthony G Morris and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vanessa Jared s Got a Man written by LaQuette and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LaQuette's debut sexy romantic comedy Vanessa Jared's Got a Man tells the story of a woman getting her groove back and getting a second chance at love. Vanessa Jared, a 40-something divorcee, decided that the best way to pull herself out of their post-divorce slump was to form The Savvy, Sexy, Singles Club and start the "Do Me" portion of her and her friends' lives. But on the two year anniversary, a sexy sheriff shows up on Vanessa's doorstep wanting her to help him keep his little sister from marrying her no-good ex. Vanessa is not down for this at all. She wants nothing to do with her ex...until she spots a photo of her ex's new fiancee wearing her grandmother's ring--which he clearly stole from her. So now it's on. Vanessa is ready to take this trifling (fill-in-the-blank) down. What she does not expect is to fall in love along the way.

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Download or read book The Life Of Margaret Laurence written by James King and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magnificent and long-awaited biography of the beloved writer who gave us the Manawaka novels, including The Diviners and The Stone Angel.