Download or read book The Unsuitable written by Molly Pohlig and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molly Pohlig's The Unsuitable is a fierce blend of Gothic ghost story and Victorian novel of manners that’s also pitch perfect for our current cultural moment. Iseult Wince is a Victorian woman perilously close to spinsterhood whose distinctly unpleasant father is trying to marry her off. She is awkward, plain, and most pertinently, believes that her mother, who died in childbirth, lives in the scar on her neck. Iseult’s father parades a host of unsuitable candidates before her, the majority of whom Iseult wastes no time frightening away. When at last her father finds a suitor desperate enough to take Iseult off his hands—a man whose medical treatments have turned his skin silver—a true comedy of errors ensues. As history’s least conventional courtship progresses into talk of marriage, Iseult’s mother becomes increasingly volatile and uncontrollable, and Iseult is forced to resort to extreme, often violent, measures to keep her in check. As the day of the wedding nears, Iseult must decide whether (and how) to set the course of her life, with increasing interference from both her mother and father, tipping her ever closer to madness, and to an inevitable, devastating final act.
Download or read book Unsuitable Books written by Caren J. Town and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the attempted and successful banning of young adult fiction from media centers and classrooms, this book treats the legal and experiential history of censorship in libraries and public schools. It also looks closely at young adult novels from the early 1970s until today that have been the subject of book challenges. The authors discussed include Judy Blume, S.E. Hinton, Chris Crutcher, Jean Craighead George, M.E. Kerr, Mildred Taylor, and Sherman Alexie. This book offers parents, teachers and librarians arguments against censorship based on literary merit and societal benefit.
Download or read book Unsuitable written by Samantha Towle and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author, Samantha Towle, comes a new sexy, romantic suspense standalone novel... Daisy Smith has spent eighteen months of her life paying for a crime she didn't commit. Now out of prison, she has only one focus-to get back custody of her younger brother, Jesse, who is deep in the foster care system. Desperate to rebuild her life and show the system that she is responsible enough to care for Jesse, she takes on the only job available to her-working as a maid at the Matis Estate. On day one of her new job, Daisy meets Kastor Matis, the only son of the owners and her new boss. An enigmatic, handsome Greek god of a man, Kas is closed off, cold, and...well, kind of a bastard. The more time Daisy spends around Kas, she starts to see there might be more to him than just his cold, bastard ways. He may actually have a heart beating in that frozen chest of his. But Kas has secrets, too. Secrets that he's determined to keep. Secrets make Daisy curious. And you know what curiosity can do...
Download or read book An Unsuitable Job for a Woman written by P.D. James and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman introduces bestselling mystery author P.D. James’s courageous but vulnerable young detective, Cordelia Gray, in a “top-rated puzzle of peril that holds you all the way” (The New York Times). Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins, and the strong scent of murder.
Download or read book Unsuitable written by Matilda Martel and published by Matilda Martel. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darla Jones knows all about keeping up with the Joneses. Those are her folks, the Prince and Princess of Park Avenue. Her grandfather was the King. It’s her birthright to live a life of luxury and hobnob with Manhattan’s social elite, but this diminutive gal has dreams that don’t involve following in her mother and sister’s socialite footsteps. She wants to make her own way. Somehow. If she can find something that clicks. When she inherits her great-aunt's Brooklyn brownstone, she takes her chance to see a different side of life, sending her parents into a panic that she’ll find an unsuitable match and live an unsuitable life. Oscar Brennan’s an unsuitable man. He attended school with Darla’s brother but happily gave up his scholarship to return home and help his ailing mother. He’s never met his father. Unlike his good friend, Denver Jones, he became a lawyer to help people, not join fancy firms or run for office. He wants nothing to do with Manhattan. He’s happy in Brooklyn where people don’t pretend to be something they’re not. Until Denver’s baby sister moves next door. There’s something about those big blue eyes, giant heart and well-intentioned cluelessness that turns his head. There’s something about those kissable lips and sharp curves that make him come back for more. He shouldn’t look. He damn well shouldn’t stare. She’s Denver’s sister. But offering his assistance feels like the right thing to do. When she needs a date to her sister’s wedding, he happily obliges to keep her from taking anyone else. When she needs him to pretend to be her boyfriend to keep her mother’s high society matches at bay, he goes all in. After weeks of hijinks at her family’s expense, the two soon realize, no one’s faking a thing in this fake relationship. And Darla Jones finally finds something that clicks. Hopeless Romantics is dedicated to the glory of Romance tropes This is a SLOW BURN, Brother's Best Friend, class warfare, fake relationship, friends to lovers romance Happy Reading!
Download or read book Unsuitable written by Kathryn Wright and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother's compromise. A daughter's price to pay. Rose Kendall's childhood has been one long attempt to pull her mother, Marcy, out of depression. But even Rose is unprepared for Marcy's sudden interest in Jack Bradford, owner of the elite menswear shop The Suitable. Marcy allows her fianc to move into their beautiful old home, and Rose becomes his next victim. A top student with a promising future, Rose is devastated to discover she's pregnant. With Jack manipulating her mother, Rose shelters Marcy from the truth, even as she follows clues that Jack and a local diver are involved in something illegal. When Jack discovers Rose eavesdropping, Rose is placed in double danger, first from Jack and then from the diver who's determined to take back what is his. Emotionally abandoned, Rose flees her hometown, finding both a Christian friend willing to take her in and an intimate God willing to speak to her. Will Rose be safe from the violent man who seeks her? Can she be certain she's doing what's best for her baby? And can she learn to trust the love of her mother, who suddenly seems so changed? Both poignant and dramatic, Unsuitable will refresh your faith as it reveals the power of hope in dark places.
Download or read book Unsuitable written by Eleanor Medhurst and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clothes are central to lesbian history, and lesbians are central to fashion history. The way we dress can help us show who we are, or hide ourselves; make us into a community, or make us stand out from the crowd. Yet "lesbian fashion" is often strangely overlooked. Without this story of self-expression, what are we missing about the culture and status of queer women? The lesbian past is slippery: it has often been deliberately hidden, edited or left unrecorded. Unsuitable restores to style history and queer history the fascinating, ever-changing tale of modern lesbian dress, from top hats to violet tiaras. This story spans centuries and countries, from "Gentleman Jack" in nineteenth-century Yorkshire and Queen Christina of seventeenth-century Sweden, to Paris modernism, genderqueer Berlin, butch/femme bar culture and 1980s activists, via drag kings, the Suffragettes, the Harlem Renaissance and the power of slogan tees. This book is a kaleidoscope of the margins and the mainstream, celebrating trans lesbian histories, Black lesbian histories, and histories of gender-nonconformity. You don't have to be queer or fashionable to be enthralled by this hidden history of minority identity. In Unsuitable, Eleanor Medhurst lights it up for the world to see, in all its finery.
Download or read book Unsuitable Boy written by Karan Johar and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karan Johar is synonymous with success, panache, quick wit, and outspokenness, which sometimes inadvertently creates controversy and makes headlines. KJo, as he is popularly called, has been a much-loved Bollywood film director, producer, actor, and discoverer of new talent. With his flagship Dharma Production, he has constantly challenged the norms, written and rewritten rules, and set trends. But who is the man behind the icon that we all know? Baring all for the first time in his autobiography, An Unsuitable Boy, KJo reminisces about his childhood, the influence of his Sindhi mother and Punjabi father, obsession with Bollywood, foray into films, friendships with Aditya Chopra, SRK and Kajol, his love life, the AIB Roast, and much more. In his trademark frank style, he talks about the ever-changing face of Indian cinema, challenges and learnings, as well as friendships and rivalries in the industry. Honest, heart-warming and insightful, An Unsuitable Boy is both the story of the life of an exceptional film-maker at the peak of his powers and of an equally extraordinary human being who shows you how to survive and succeed in life.
Download or read book An Unsuitable Attachment written by Barbara Pym and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' Richard Osman ‘Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure.' Jilly Cooper ‘The day comes in the life of every single man living alone when he must give a dinner party.’ The parish of St Basil, on the fringes of North Kensington, is all of a flutter due to the arrival of Rupert Stonebird, a most eligible bachelor, in the neighbourhood. The local matchmakers are sure he will make a suitable husband for the vicar’s wife’s sister, Penny, or perhaps for local librarian Ianthe Broome? But Ianthe is in danger of forming a most unsuitable attachment for her new library assistant, John, a man of questionable background with not a penny to his name... Owing a debt to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Barbara Pym's An Unsuitable Attachment is an elegant and witty comedy of manners from an acclaimed author who Philip Larkin called: 'the most underrated novelist of the century'.
Download or read book In Praise of Unsuitable Lovers written by Ann Sullivan McDougal and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic, humorous and satirical, In Praise of Unsuitable Lovers follows the amatory adventures of a New England Preachers kid from her first sexual liaison as a twenty year old College Senior through an arc of sexual evolution revealed within the tapestry of social and political change Stand alone chapters include life with a Paranoid Physicist, acting in Hollywood , exotic dancing in San Francisco and LA, and a traumatic abortion in Mexico City before relocation to New York City and further adventures. In Manhattan, a role in an Off-Broadway interracial play is followed by a brief marriage to a Seminole C&W singer, attendance at the Woodstock Festival, a march on Washington, an LSD experience, sex on an oil tanker with a Welsh ships Officer, and involvement with the Womens Movement before a gradual return to academic pursuits. Chapters include memories of such well known individuals as physicist Eugene Wigner of the Manhattan Project, actors Jeff Corey and Leonard Nimoy, LSD entrepreneur Owsley Stanley III, stripper Jennie Lee, Black actor/director DUrville Martin, and Psychedelic artist Peter Max.
Download or read book An Unsuitable Girl written by SAANJH and published by DeepMisti Publication. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reason behind choosing this title of an UN suitable girl is to explore the gender inequality which is still prevailing in the society. Why is it that women can't over power a man?why a female can't be the dominant fighter?are the unsolved questions.The stigma that 'the women who has attained the higher post or position still lacks the strength' will take time for its removal from the hearts of the so called stronger male. Its high time to bring changes in our outlook of praising women for her accomplishments and not the post or position.Every women is suitable for the task meant for her. Never under estimate her strength. A loud voice of a man may threaten a woman but the silence of a woman can shake the consciousness of a man. This book is a collection of stories poem and articles.Girl power is a slogan that encourages and celebrates women's empowerment, independence, confidence and strength girls strength helps visitors realize their value, love others, achieve their dreams, defy stereotypes, and work together to change the world. Through girl power, girls—and the adults they grow into— reimagine girlhood and define their own identity as individuals and a united group. Women who openly display their power, knowledge, and skill, receiving public recognition and honor. But also females who manage to wield power in societies that try to limit it or decree female submission; where their leadership is stigmatized and their creativity disdained. And women who resist and overthrow oppressive traditions and regimes. Who break the rules in defiance of unjust legal and religious "authorities." Who pursue their vision in spite of the personal cost. The idea for the story originated from my own experiences and observations while working in my day to day life.. This book will make the readers happy and encourage the women to empowerment
Download or read book The Case of the Unsuitable Suitor written by Cathy Ace and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Women of the WISE Enquiries Agency are back. When the village's prodigal son, Huw Hughes, returns and sets his cap at Annie Parker, village publican Tudor begs Annie's colleagues at the WISE Enquiries Agency to unearth the truth behind Huw having been widowed three times. With Christine enjoying a break at her family's Irish estate - where she and the brooding Alexander face a surprisingly dangerous case of theft ? Mavis and Carol have to work with dowager duchess Althea Twyst to ensure their unsuspecting friend Annie's safety, and possibly the lives of more villagers.
Download or read book Finding love in a unsuitable time written by Julia Miles and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1924 and London is having a crime wave the London Police Department just lost their Head Detective in a car wreck so they are having to look for a replacement. A firey brown head lady named Officer Anna Webb is determind to become just that however Captain Royal has decied to bring in a experienced Head Detective David Anderson From New York City who jumped at the chance to go to London to escape his lonely life. When he arrives to London he meets the firey brown head then something unexpectly happens to the both of them will they turn aganist one another or will they become close on a case that just might save them.
Download or read book A Most Unsuitable Match written by Stephanie Grace Whitson and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories and folks songs are the tales of life told briefly. Yet, in some mysterious fashion, they find the wherewithal to strike deeply into our minds and hearts.Enclosed are the observations of a person who has traveled some of the roads you might walk along, and perhaps some you may not have traveled. As we share the road, so let us share the songs we might sing, and the stories we might tell.Here are seven stories of mine. I hope you enjoy them, and find some meaning in them for yourself.Illegitimi Non Carborundum!
Download or read book Princess Laura and the Unsuitable Dragon Suitors written by Zsolt Kerekes and published by Zsolt Kerekes. This book was released on with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the young Princess Laura secretly rescues a baby dragon from her father's hunt the dragon predicts that - one day in the future she will be the cause of his death. When Laura reaches marriageable age her father presents her with a choice of suitors - one from each of the surrounding kingdoms. Laura's chosen suitor must kill a dragon to prove his worthiness to the King. What can she do to make sure that doesn't happen?
Download or read book Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder written by Catriona McPherson and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cosy Dandy Gilver mystery set in 1920s Scotland. For fans of PG Wodehouse, Alexander McCall Smith and Agatha Christie. 'Dan Brown meets Barbara Pym . . . Dandy is brisk, baffled, heroic, kindly, scandalised and - above all - very funny.' Guardian 'One of several authors recreating the Golden Age of the British crime novel and a legion of fans adore the tongue-in-cheek cases that come the way of Dandy Gilver, a very Scottish middle class sleuth.' Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph Friday 3rd June, 1927 Dear Alec, 'Careful what you wish for, lest it come true' is my new motto, and here is why. I was summoned to Dunfermline, that old grey town, in the matter of a missing heiress. She had flounced off in a sulk over forbidden love and I, suspecting elopement, was loath to take the job of scouring guesthouses to find the little madam and her paramour. Before I could wriggle out of it, though, there was a murder in the mix - or was it suicide? I had hardly begun to decide when it happened again. Then I was sacked. Actually sacked! By two separate people, and both dismissals in writing. And that's not even the worst of it, darling: matters here are careering downwards much in the style of a runaway train. Please hurry - or who knows where it might end, Dandy xx Catriona McPherson's latest novel in the series, Dandy Gilver and a Spot of Toil and Trouble is now available for pre-order.
Download or read book This Sight Unsuitable for Dragons written by and published by Baker's Plays. This book was released on with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
