Download or read book Dream Girl written by Laura Lippman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booklist Editors' Choice! Called One of the Best Mystery Books by NPR, Washington Post, Crime Reads, Library Journal, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and Dublin City Library! "With this tip of the hat to Stephen King's Misery, Dream Girl is funny and suspenseful, with a dread-worthy final twist." —People “My dream novel. I devoured this in three days. The sharpest, clearest-eyed take on our #MeToo reckoning yet. Plus: enthralling." —Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning author of Dare Me and The Fever Following up on her acclaimed and wildly successful New York Times bestseller Lady in the Lake, Laura Lippman returns with a dark, complex tale of psychological suspense with echoes of Misery involving a novelist, incapacitated by injury, who is plagued by mysterious phone calls. Aubrey, the title character of Gerry Andersen’s most successful novel, Dream Girl, is so captivating that Gerry’s readers insist she’s real. Gerry knows she exists only in his imagination. So how can Aubrey be calling Gerry, bed-bound since a freak fall? A virtual prisoner in his penthouse, Gerry is dependent on two women he barely knows: his incurious young assistant, and a dull, slow-witted night nurse. Could the cryptic caller be one of his three ex-wives playing a vindictive trick after all these years? Or is she Margot, an ex-girlfriend who keeps trying to insinuate her way back into Gerry’s life? And why does no one believe that the call even happened? Isolated from the world, drowsy from medication, Gerry slips between reality and dreamlike memories: his faithless father, his devoted mother; the women who loved him, the women he loved. Now here is Aubrey, threatening to visit him, suggesting that Gerry owes her something. Is the threat real or a sign of dementia? Which scenario would he prefer? Gerry has never been so alone, so confused – and so terrified. And then he wakes up to another nightmare—a woman’s dead body next to his bed—and the terrifying uncertainty of whether he is responsible.
Download or read book Dreamgirls written by Denene Millner and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a time of miraculous change in America, as the cry for justice and equality rang out, from the Deep South to the West Coast. And in the Motor City, a new sound was about to explode that would break down the barriers between white and black. Three close friends from the Detroit streets, Effie, Deena, and Lorrell, had the electrifying talent to bring any audience leaping to its feet—and with the help of C.C.'s groundbreaking music and Curtis's vision and ruthless ambition, they were poised on the giddy brink of greatness. But fame never comes cheap. And truth, loyalty, and love will always have to struggle to survive in the spotlight's merciless glare . . .
Download or read book Drive in Dream Girls written by Tom Lisanti and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1960s, a bushel of B–movies were produced and aimed at the predominantly teenage drive-in movie audience. At first teens couldn’t get enough of the bikini-clad beauties dancing on the beach or being wooed by Elvis Presley, but by 1966 young audiences became more interested in the mini-skirted, go-go boot wearing, independent-minded gals of spy spoofs, hot rod movies and biker flicks. Profiled herein are fifty sexy, young actresses that teenage girls envied and teenage boys desired including Quinn O’Hara, Melody Patterson, Hilarie Thompson, Donna Loren, Pat Priest, Meredith MacRae, Arlene Martel, Cynthia Pepper, and Beverly Washburn. Some like Sue Ane Langdon, Juliet Prowse, Marlyn Mason, and Carole Wells, appeared in major studio productions while others, such as Regina Carrol, Susan Hart, Angelique Pettyjohn and Suzie Kaye were relegated to drive-in movies only. Each biography contains a complete filmography. Some also include the actresses’ candid comments and anecdotes about their films, the people they worked with, and their feelings about acting. A list of web sites that provide further information is also included.
Download or read book Drum Dream Girl written by Margarita Engle and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed picture book bursting with vibrance and rhythm, a girl dreams of playing the drums in 1930s Cuba, when the music-filled island had a taboo against female drummers.
Download or read book Dreamgirls written by Bill Condon and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating, contemporary graded material that will instantly appeal to students. Dreamgirls is adapted from the 2007 movie starring Beyoncé Knowles and is the story of a group of black female singers heading for stardom in 1960s' America.
Download or read book Anything to Win written by Rosemary Joyce and published by SP Books. This book was released on 1994-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arlene is a veteran beauty queen who helps Linda in the local beauty contest, until the new hunk in town prefers Linda and encourages her to enter the contest against Arlene. But all is not as it seems. Can Linda's romance survive the mystery? Number one in an exciting new teen series. The book contains a special bonus directory of major teen beauty pageants for 1994 and 1995.
Download or read book Dream Girl written by Robert B. Parker and published by No Exit. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a mature, beautiful April Kyle - a well-established madam overseeing an upscale call girl operation in Boston's Back Bay - walks into Spenser's office, the PI barely hesitates before recognising his once and future client. Still looking for his approval, it takes her a while before she can ask, again, for his help. Her business, an all-female enterprise, is a success. And some men are trying to take it away from her. Connected men. Spenser, playing saviour, finds that April is not just not as innocent as she seems - she may be her own worst enemy.
Download or read book Dream Girl written by Elmer Rice and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1950-10 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Tells of a delightful young woman who quite inefficiently runs a bookstore. She is one of those charming but dreamy, over-imaginative young women whom the slightest suggestion may send off into the most extravagant daydreams. In her own
Download or read book I m Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl written by Gretchen McNeil and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed author Gretchen McNeil comes her first realistic contemporary romance—perfect for fans of Kody Keplinger’s The Duff and Morgan Matson’s Since You've Been Gone. Beatrice Maria Estrella Giovannini has life all figured out. She's starting senior year at the top of her class, she’s a shoo-in for a scholarship to M.I.T., and she’s got a new boyfriend she’s crazy about. The only problem: All through high school Bea and her best friends Spencer and Gabe have been the targets of horrific bullying. So Bea uses her math skills to come up with The Formula, a 100% mathematically guaranteed path to social happiness in high school. Now Gabe is on his way to becoming Student Body President, and Spencer is finally getting his art noticed. But when her boyfriend Jesse dumps her for Toile, the quirky new girl at school, Bea realizes it's time to use The Formula for herself. She'll be reinvented as the eccentric and lovable Trixie—a quintessential manic pixie dream girl—in order to win Jesse back and beat new-girl Toile at her own game. Unfortunately, being a manic pixie dream girl isn't all it's cracked up to be, and “Trixie” is causing unexpected consequences for her friends. As The Formula begins to break down, can Bea find a way to reclaim her true identity and fix everything she's messed up? Or will the casualties of her manic pixie experiment go far deeper than she could possibly imagine?
Download or read book Nine written by Maury Yeston and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1983 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early-1960s Venice, film director Guido Contini is savoring his most recent (and greatest) success but, facing his fortieth birthday,a midlife crisis is blocking his creative impulses and entangling him in a web of romantic difficulties.
Download or read book Purlie written by and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1971 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An African American preacher returns to his hometown to open a church, outwitting a segregationist plantation owner to make it happen.
Download or read book Rolf Armstrong written by Ben Stevens and published by Collectors Press. This book was released on 1997-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Father of Pin-Up", Armstrong's beauties are alluring and provocative.
Download or read book Dream Girl written by Alexis Alvarez and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's sexy and intelligent, handsome and witty, and Chloe's body lights up with sparks at his touch. And when he looks into her eyes and whispers naughty sexy things into her ear, she wants to melt into him and enjoy the mind-blowing passion he promises.Too bad he's the star of the popular reality show Dream Girls, and he's also dating nineteen other women in addition to Chloe - women who are sexy and so talented that their Nobel Prizes should arrive any day now. Chloe's sure he's just amusing himself with her, and there is no way he'd pick her as his final Dream Girl - especially since she gets into so many crazy scrapes on the show.She promised herself she was only doing this for adventure, travel, and new experiences...not to make a fool of herself on national TV. But he's so sexy and persuasive! Would it be so bad to say yes to all of his dark, dirty requests? And most important of all - what will happen if she risks her heart?Dream Girl is a modern romance with steamy sex and laugh-out-loud humor.It's about 85K words and contains excerpts from other books by Alexis Alvarez, as well as a funny Q&A with Alexis and some of her trademark sample reviews. Enjoy!
Download or read book A Dream of a Woman written by Casey Plett and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casey Plett’s 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award (Canada). Her latest work, A Dream of a Woman, is her first book of short stories since her seminal 2014 collection A Safe Girl to Love. Centering transgender women seeking stable, adult lives, A Dream of a Woman finds quiet truths in prairie high-rises and New York warehouses, and in freezing Canadian winters and drizzly Oregon days. In “Hazel and Christopher,” two childhood friends reconnect as adults after one of them has transitioned. In “Perfect Places,” a woman grapples with undesirability as she navigates fetish play with a man. In “Couldn’t Hear You Talk Anymore,” the narrator reflects on past trauma and what might have been as she recalls tender moments with another trans woman. An ethereal meditation on partnership, sex, addiction, romance, groundedness, and love, the stories in A Dream of a Woman buzz with quiet intensity and the intimate complexities of being human. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.
Download or read book Dreamgirl written by Mary Wilson and published by Saint Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 1987 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The greatest girl group of all time. Their songs are part of our lives... Motown's fabulous superstars... until the dream dissolved in tragedy deeper than any outsider ever knew." - back cover.
Download or read book The Dream Girls written by Janice Hunter and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The universe works in mysterious ways. Five women of very different ages, from very different walks of life. Five women with nothing in common nothing except the universal bond of womanhood and their mutual interest in dream analysis. An unlikely group for the universe to bring together. They'd first met at a conference on dream interpretation and discovered they lived within a few minutes' drive of each other. They decided to form a group and meet on a regular basis to continue their study and discussion of dreams. Little did they know how that one weekend would change their lives. Four years and countless pots of tea later, The Dream Girls as they'd christened themselves were the closest of friends. Proof the universe knew what it was doing!"--Author's website.
Download or read book Girls Can Dream written by Jasmine Owens and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girls Can Dream takes children through the alphabet to introduce them to 26 careers that they can aspire to be. It is a celebration of African-American girls - their diversity, excellence, and limitless potential.
