Download or read book The Goldfish in the Chandelier written by Casie Kesterson and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early nineteenth-century Paris, young Louis Alexandre helps his dramatic great-uncle Henri design a spectacular chandelier for Madame Marie's salon. Includes author's note about a chandelier in the J. Paul Getty Museum collection.

Download or read book Spaghetti from the Chandelier written by Ruth Truman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were young and in love and called to serve the Lord. And perhaps if Ruth and Lee Truman had even suspected what lay ahead, they might have turned and fled, but thank goodness they didn't. Or we would have missed this warm and often hilarious look at life within the goldfish bowl of the ministry. From their very first church appointment, it became obvious what the Trumans would attract humorous and bizarre situations throughout their lives. How else can they explain the Bali dancer at the church social? Or the frozen chickens that spilled across the highway and nearly caused hypothermia? Or the church that looked like a half-buried septic tank? Or the parishioner who served coffee from her hot-water bottle?

Download or read book Every Girl s Secret Fantasy written by Robyn Grady and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mechanic Pace Brodrick has stepped straight out of prim Phoebe's wildest fantasy—oil slicked and dangerously sexy, he's her perfect Mr. Right Now! Phoebe's long overdue on some excitement—and Pace's wicked smile guarantees she'll have the thrill of her life! Then Pace discovers the temptress behind Phoebe's good-girl facade! She drives him wild—but will she want their fling to last forever when she discovers Pace has been lying to her all along? For this bad boy is actually a secret millionaire….

Download or read book Better off Dead Book Three written by Odette C. Bell and published by Odette C. Bell. This book was released on with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are only so many times you can die before it gets to you. And it’s sure getting to Eve. Now she knows what Hilliker wants her for, she’ll have to fight tooth and nail to escape him. But as his powers increase, there’ll be nowhere to hide. Even Sonos’s arms can’t offer her protection anymore. Eve’s destiny will catch up to her. And it’ll wrap its hands around her throat and squeeze …. Better off Dead follows a woman cursed never to die and a demon who’ll rip the world apart to save her as they fight Armageddon and each other. If you love your urban fantasies with fast-paced action, punch, and a splash of romance, grab Better off Dead Book Three today and soar free with an Odette C. Bell series.

Download or read book Life A User s Manual written by Georges Perec and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over twenty years ago, Godine published the first English translation of Georges Perec's masterpiece, Life A User's Manual, hailed by the Times Literary Supplement, Boston Globe, and others as "one of the great novels of the century." We are now proud to announce a newly revised twentieth anniversary edition of Life. Carefully prepared, with many corrections, this edition of Life A User's Manual will be the preferred reference edition for the future. Life is an unclassified masterpiece, a sprawling compendium as encyclopedic as Dante's Commedia and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and, in its break with tradition, as inspiring as Joyce's Ulysses. Structured around a single moment in time — 8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975 — Perec's spellbinding puzzle begins in an apartment block in the XVIIth arrondissement of Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room, like an onion being peeled, an extraordinary rich cast of characters is revealed in a series of tales that are bizarre, unlikely, moving, funny, or (sometimes) quite ordinary. From the confessions of a racing cyclist to the plans of an avenging murderer, from a young ethnographer obsessed with a Sumatran tribe to the death of a trapeze artist, from the fears of an ex-croupier to the dreams of a sex-change pop star to an eccentric English millionaire who has devised the ultimate pastime, Life is a manual of human irony, portraying the mixed marriages of fortunes, passions and despairs, betrayals and bereavements, of hundreds of lives in Paris and around the world. But the novel is more than an extraordinary range of fictions; it is a closely observed account of life and experience. The apartment block's one hundred rooms are arranged in a magic square, and the book as a whole is peppered with a staggering range of literary puzzles and allusions, acrostics, problems of chess and logic, crosswords, and mathematical formula. All are there for the reader to solve in the best tradition of the detective novel.

Download or read book Readings in Contemporary Poetry written by Vincent Katz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -Culled from Dia Art Foundation's -Readings in Contemporary Poetry- series, this anthology includes ninety-four poets who have participated in the reading series from 2010 to 2016. Edited by poet and author Vincent Katz, the book stresses the experimental aspects of contemporary poetic practice, highlighting commonalities among poets and placing their diverse voices in conversation with one another---

Download or read book The Goldfish Bowl written by Tom Reilly and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The World s Best Party Games written by Sheila Anne Barry and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 1987 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents instructions for more than 100 easy-to-play party games for all ages.

Download or read book Downsiders written by Neal Shusterman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath the sewer grates and manholes of the city lies a strange and secret world called the Downside. Every Downsider knows that it's forbidden to go Topside, and most fear a collision of the two worlds. But fourteen-year-old Talon is curious about what goes on above ground, and one day he ventures out in search of medicine for his ailing sister. There he meets Lindsay, who is as curious about Talon's world as he is about hers. When Lindsay visits the Downside for the first time, she marvels at the spirit of the Downsiders, and the way they create works of art from topside "trash," like old subway tokens and forgotten earrings. As awed as she is by the Downside, however, she also questions its origins, and when she finds out that this fantastic world is not all it appears to be, she is determined to tell Talon the truth. Then a construction accident threatens to crush Talon's world, and his loyalty is put to the test. Can the truth save the Downside, or will it destroy an entire civilization? Neal Shusterman takes readers on an amazing journey into a place that's only a few steps away, yet beyond their wildest dreams.

Download or read book The J Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections written by J. Paul Getty Museum and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1980s hundreds of important new works of art have been acquired in the areas of the Museum's three traditional interests, antiquities, French furniture and decorative arts, and European paintings, and thousands more have been acquired to form four new collections - drawings, illuminated manuscripts, European sculpture, and photographs.".

Download or read book Hearts and the Diamond written by Gerald Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rogues to Riches Volume One written by Erica Ridley and published by Erica Ridley. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cat Sitter s Cradle written by John Clement and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blaize Clement won fans all over the world with the charm and wit of her pet-sitting mysteries. Now, with the help of her son, author John Clement, Blaize's beloved heroine Dixie Hemingway is back for yet another thrilling adventure in this critically-acclaimed series. Dixie has built a nice, quiet life for herself in the sleepy town of Siesta Key, a sandy resort island off the coast of Florida. In fact, her pet-sitting business is going so well she's even taken on part-time help: Kenny, a handsome young surfer who lives alone in a rickety old houseboat. But things get a little messy when, on an early morning walk in the park with a client's schnauzer, Dixie makes a shocking discovery. Hidden among the leafy brambles is a homeless girl, alone and afraid, cradling a newborn baby in her arms. Dixie takes the young girl under her wing, even though she's just been hired by Roy Harwick, the snarky executive of a multi-national oil company, to care for his equally snarky Siamese cat, Charlotte, along with his wife's priceless collection of rare, tropical fish. It's not long before Dixie stumbles upon a dead body in the unlikeliest of places, and soon she's set adrift in a murky and dangerous world in which no one is who they appear to be. Smart, fast-paced and entertaining, The Cat Sitter's Cradle is a perfect illustration of why Dixie's loyal fans have come to know and love her and eagerly await the next installment of her adventures.

Download or read book The Doings of Hamish and Dougal written by Barry Cryer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hello there! You'll have had your tea? Dougal here. Well, here we go, with our wee book. It's a collection or pot pourri (I've no idea what Hamish means by that - it sounds like something to do with the Pope) of our activities or 'doings' in the village we call home, because that's exactly what it is. Together with our housekeeper, Mrs Naughtie, and of course, the Laird who lives up at the big hoose and shoots grouse and other bottles of whisky, these are the actual scripts of our wee show which we performed on the wireless, when most of you were probably in bed! Hamish and I have known each other all our lives - well, not yet, obviously! We have a very close relationship and also with each other. Mrs Naughtie been with us since we first met her at the Krankie Arms, where she was working as part-time barmaid and bouncer. In addition to the scripts you'll find all kinds of other things tucked away under its kilt. There's a hectic social life in the village. You'll visit the 'bide a wee' café, proud possessor of three Michelin tyres. You'll have a conducted tour of the big hoose by Big Tam, our local guide (not during opening hours). You'll marvel at the site of the Battle of Auchtermuchty, now allotments. You'll peek into the Laird's social diary in 'oot and aboot' (40p at the post office). And a great deal more. Well, I hope this wee note will make you hurry to the till and spend the terrible amount of money these wee books cost these days. But then again this particular wee book is Scotland's answer to Richard and Judy! Hurrah! Away now ...

Download or read book Bloom written by Lisa Eldred Steinkopf and published by Cool Springs Press. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bloom, The Houseplant Guru Lisa Eldred Steinkopf unleashes all the secrets on how to grow dozens of indoor plants that produce colorful, intricate, and sometimes fragrant blooms. If you’ve ever struggled to get an orchid or African violet to rebloom, or if you’ve hesitated to add plants like hoya, anthurium, Madagascar jasmine, or clivia to your windowsill for fear you may never see their gorgeous flowers, Lisa reveals the insider strategies you need to encourage these plants to strut their stuff. In her signature warm and beginner-friendly tone, she introduces simple techniques you can use to encourage bloom alongside all the ins and outs of caring for these beautiful plants. Lush, full-color photography accompanies each in-depth plant profile. Upping your houseplant game doesn’t have to involve spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars on the next trendy leafy-green foliage plant. If you want to expand both your growing skills and the number of specimens in your houseplant family, dive into the world of flowering houseplants instead. New cultivars of old favorites are taking the houseplant world by storm, and other, more unusual, species are now making their way into the limelight, thanks to the interest of millions of new houseplant parents around the world. Inside the pages of Bloom, you’ll meet: The best flowering houseplants to cascade from window ledges, hanging pots, and plant shelves A collection of small blooming houseplants perfect for tabletops, desks, and windowsills Houseplants with colorful blooms for the living room, dining room, and bedroom Fill your home with foliage and flowers, and enjoy all the color and calm they’ll add to your living space.

Download or read book The J Paul Getty Museum Journal written by The J. Paul Getty Museum and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 6/7 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, paintings, sculpture, and works of art. This volume includes an editorial statement by the journal’s editors: Burton B. Fredericksen, curator of Paintings, Jiří Frel, curator of Antiquities, and Gillian Wilson, curator of Decorative Arts. Conservation problems are discussed along with articles written by K. Christiansen, B. B. Fredericksen, S. Holo, G. Wilson, B. L. Shifman, M. Shapiro, J. Frel, D. M. Brinkerhoff, C. C. Vermeule, G. Koch, S. Downey, l. Kilian-Dirlmeier, C. Cardon, F. Brommer, M. A. Del Chiaro, P. Visonà, J. Cody, R. Mellor, D. L. Thompson, E. Langlotz, P. Zazoff, S. Knudsen Morgan, M. Jentoft-Nilsen, and A. Manzoni.

Download or read book The Cold Kiss of Death written by Suzanne McLeod and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: View our feature on Suzanne McLeod's The Cold Kiss of Death. When sidhe-blooded Genny Taylor's friend is murdered and all evidence points to her, she goes on the run. But she's being pursued by some of the most powerful supernaturals in town-and one of them is most certainly the killer.