Download or read book Wobbly Barstool written by Jane Lowy and published by EVERBOLD press. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good-natured Wobbly, a young man residing in a Victorian English village, loves Prunella, a London socialite whom he meets during her visit with Wobbly's cousin, Marigold. Marigold adores brilliant, articulate Tobias, Wobbly's adopted brother, discovered and befriended by Wobbly when they are boys, the orphaned Tobias having survived for two years wandering a nearby wood with a pack of dogs. As a warm and complex relationship develops among the four, Wobbly and Marigold find themselves in the painful position of imagining that their dearest friends are their rivals, a mutual fascination of sorts existing between Prunella and Tobias who, unknown to any of them, are siblings, Prunella having been forced from her parents at age two by her ruthless, manipulative aunt. Over the next four years, while Marigold waits for Tobias, Wobbly pursues Prunella with gentle persistence as she struggles between her strong sense of filial duty and her growing acceptance and love of Wobbly, whom her adoptive mother adamantly rejects. The course of their lives is, all the while, overseen and subtly influenced by the mysterious solicitor Beggintrade, for reasons of his own.

Download or read book Wiggly Barstool written by Jane Lowy and published by EVERBOLD press. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiring of his photographic portraitist profession as of his many other brief careers, an enterprising and ever-restless Edwardian Englishman, Wiggly Barstool, travels to Ireland accompanied by his self-effacing cousin Sebastian. The two there seek "The Miracle of Tipperary", a cow fabled to bear the perfect likeness of a shamrock on its flank. Their quest brings them in contact with Fiona, an ethereal animal-rights enthusiast, and Lucy, a spirited American zoologist. The four team up to advance the principals of " strict vegetarianism " (veganism) and animal liberation, cinematically employing the unusual cow as a poster child, and putting themselves at odds with Sir Patrick O'Dell, a brilliant rascal determined to thwart them.Adventure, romance, mystery, and psychological analysis await in this droll turn-of-the-century romp.

Download or read book Tippi Barstool written by Jane Lowy and published by EVERBOLD press. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spunky Prohibition-era Broadway showgirl forms complex relationship with fellow code-savant/dancer in this sweet, quirky romantic adventure

Download or read book Theatre Symposium Vol 24 written by Arnab Banerji and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when so many options exist for access to theatrical entertainments, it is no surprise that theatre practitioners and scholars are often preoccupied with the role of the audience. While space undoubtedly impacts the rehearsal and production processes, its greater significance seems to rest in the impact a specific location has on the audience. This volume delves into issues of theatre and space, traversing traditional theatre spaces such as the African Grove Theater discussed by Gregory Carr, Tony Gunn's examination of Edward Gorey's theatrical designs, and George Pate's reflections on Beckett's stage directors. Also highlighted are some decidedly innovative spaces, like those described by J. K. Curry in her examination of "Theatre for One" and modern uses of medieval sacred spaces as detailed by Carla Lahey. Whether positive or negative in scope, meanings generated within theatre spaces are impacted by the cultural context from which they emerge--the ways in which space is conceived, scrutinized, and experiences. As a result, the relationship between space, theatre, and audience is diverse, complex, and ever changing in practice.

Download or read book A Lovely Place A Fighting Place A Charmer written by Gary M. Almeter and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A part of Belt's City Anthology Series, a unique take on Charm City through the eyes of those who live there every day. To many outsiders, Baltimore--sometimes derisively called "Mobtown" or "Bodymore"--is a city famous for its poverty and violence, twin ills that have been compounded by decades of racial segregation and the loss of manufacturing jobs. But that portrait has only given us a skewed view of a truly unique and diverse American city, the place that produced Babe Ruth, Elijah Cummings, Nancy Pelosi, Edgar Allan Poe, John Waters, and Thurgood Marshall, and a city that's completely its own. In the over thirty-five essays, poems, and short stories collected here, the authors take an unfiltered look at the ins and outs of Baltimore's past and present. You'll hear about the first time an umbrella appeared in the Inner Harbor, nineteenth-century grave robbers, and the city's history with redlining and blockbusting. But you'll also get a deeper sense of what life is like in Baltimore today, including stories about urban gardening in Bolton Hill, the slow demise of local journalism, what life was like in the city during COVID, and the legacy of Freddie Gray. As Ron Kipling Williams writes in his essay about the city's magnetic appeal, "Baltimore has always been a city worth fighting for," and running through all these essays is the story of Baltimore's resilience. From Pigtown to Pimlico, this anthology captures the sights, sounds, and feel of this city that so many people have come to discover is truly a lovely place, a fighting place, a charmer. Edited by Gary M. Almeter and Rafael Alvarez, this anthology offers an unfiltered look at Baltimore that will appeal to anyone looking for a portrait of an American city that's far more nuanced than the stories that are generally told about it.

Download or read book The WASP Nest Murders written by Pamela Youngblood and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story takes place in the magnificent Cape Cod town of Osterville Massachusetts. The whole town is affected after a body washes up on the shore-more so, when they discover it is the teenage daughter of a respectable, hardworking black family. The murder investigation that follows, led by diligent Lilly McCoy, shakes the community to its foundations as the social and political differences between the affluent Curtain family and the family of the victim bubble to the surface. As the story unfolds, the secrets and lies inherent in the nature of the character are starkly revealed. Can detective McCoy find the truth, and if so, can she bring the murder to justice? A story of life, and loss-all bound together like the stitches on a quilt

Download or read book Sara Mason Mysteries Collection written by Mary Deal and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All three books in 'Sara Mason Mysteries', a series by Mary Deal, now available in one volume! River Bones: Sara Mason returns to her hometown to start anew, but is soon caught up in the terror of a serial killer who is stalking its residents. Battling her own traumatic past and haunted by memories, Sara becomes entangled in the investigation after skeletal remains are discovered on her property. As she volunteers to be a decoy for the sheriff's department, she must face her fears and confront the killer, putting her own life in danger. The Howling Cliffs: Sara Mason is on a mission to solve a missing person case in the Vietnam jungle. Searching for Huxley's brother's remains, she is joined by her friend Esmeralda. But when she learns of a cold case involving a missing six-year-old girl, Sara discovers that someone wants the case to remain unsolved. Despite facing danger and attempts on her life, Sara continues to pursue the leads that take her on a perilous journey to uncover the mystery of the Howling Cliffs. Dead To Life: In the third book in the series, Sara Mason and Huxley Keane embark on a dangerous journey to uncover the truth about a bullet-scarred key found in Vietnam that could reveal the fate of Huxley's brother. The search for the matching key leads them to Emma Ellis, Rocky's fiancée, who is determined to keep her secrets buried. As Sara and Huxley's lives are threatened, they uncover shocking truths about Emma that challenge their beliefs and threaten to shatter their very existence.

Download or read book Bad Girls of the Bible written by Liz Curtis Higgs and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2004-01-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten of the Bible’s best-known femmes fatales parade across the pages of this popular and unforgettable study with situations that sound oh-so-familiar. Women everywhere marvel at those “good girls” in Scripture–Sarah, Mary, Esther–but on most days, that’s not who they see when they look in the mirror. Most women (if they’re honest) see the selfishness of Sapphira or the deception of Delilah. They catch of glimpse of Jezebel’s take-charge pride or Eve’s disastrous disobedience. Like Bathsheba, Herodias, and the rest, today’s modern woman is surrounded by temptations, exhausted by the demands of daily living, and burdened by her own desires. So what’s a good girl to do? Learn from their lives, says beloved Bible study teacher and speaker Liz Curtis Higgs, and choose a better path. Whether they were “Bad to the Bone,” “Bad for a Season, but Not Forever” or only “Bad for a Moment,” these infamous sisters show women how not to handle the challenges of life. With her trademark humor and encouragement, Higgs combines a contemporary retelling of the stories of these “other women” in Scripture with a solid, verse-by-verse study to teach us how to avoid their tragic mistakes and joyfully embrace grace. Let these Bad Girls show you why studying the Bible has never been more fun! Includes Discussion Questions and Study Guide

Download or read book My Hollywood and Other Poems written by Boris Dralyuk and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The wit and daring of his rhymes and phrasing remind me of that old master, Donald Justice, who dazzled us with the elegance of his forms. Dralyuk carries this high style into the 21st century, and I, for one, am thrilled to be in the presence of his marvelous verbal art. Pay attention, readers: a new maestro is in our midst."—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa "These [poems] are the souvenirs of an almost-vanished glamour, an ethnic, gritty, free-wheeling city, little fantasias encased in rhyme and meter."—Jesse Nathan, McSweeney's My Hollywood and Other Poems is a collection of lyric meditations on the experience of émigrés in Los Angeles. In forms ranging from ballades to villanelles to Onegin sonnets, the poems pursue the sublime in a tarnished landscape, seek continuity and mourn its loss in a town where change is the only constant. My Hollywood draws on the poet’s own life as a Jewish immigrant from the Soviet Union, honors the vanishing traces of the city’s past, and, in crisp and poignant translations, summons the voices of five Russian poets who spent their final years in LA, including the composer Vernon Duke. “Dralyuk embraces rhyme with a rare and admirable enthusiasm for sound and syllable, for musical variety and plays on words . . . [An] air of upbeat sorrow permeates My Hollywood. It’s an émigré mood, defined by the conviction that things could always be worse.”—New York Review of Books "Sophisticated, musical, and often humorous."—Booklist "Byronic rhymes are poetry’s answer to special effects, and Dralyuk’s skill at slipping them in—so that the art seems artless—is worthy of Industrial Light & Magic . . . What’s true of my favorite films is true of this book: the lines are first-rate, but it’s the images that linger.”— Austin Allen, The Hopkins Review "My Hollywood is a first-rate collection of precise, delightfully graceful poems, the poet as Fred Astaire tap-dancing up and down the lines."—Russian Life

Download or read book Girl Walks Out of a Bar written by Lisa F. Smith and published by SelectBooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisa Smith was a bright, young lawyer at a prestigious firm in NYC in the early nineties when alcoholism started to take over her life. What was once a way of escaping her insecurity and negativity became a means of coping with the anxiety and stress of an impossible workload. Girl Walks Out of a Bar is Smith's darkly comic and wrenchingly honest story of her formative years, the decade of alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and her road to recovery. Smith describes how her spiraling circumstances conspired with her predisposition to depression and self-medication, nurturing an environment ripe for addiction to flourish. Girl Walks Out of a Bar is a candid portrait of alcoholism through the lens of gritty New York realism. Beneath the façade of success lies the reality of addiction.

Download or read book Want You to Want Me written by Lorelei James and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new sexy contemporary romance in New York Times bestselling author Lorelei James’s Want You series, set in Minneapolis–St. Paul. Hockey player Gabriella “Gabi” Welk spent her life in pursuit of championships, but she has little to show for it besides dusty trophies and second-place medals. Now her career consists of several part-time jobs to make ends meet. When Gabi gets a chance at her dream job, she swallows her pride and asks her nemesis—smart, sexy and savvy Nolan Lund—for help. Since being named future CEO of Lund Industries, Nolan has tried hard to overcome his reputation as a fun-loving playboy and ladies’ man. For the first time ever, he’s more focused on the company than his personal life. He spends his free time at the ice rink his brother owns, cheering on his niece at her hockey games…and watching Gabriella Welk, the superstar athlete and assistant coach who gets under his skin in a way he can’t ignore. He’s shocked when Gabi agrees to trade a favor for a favor. They have little in common besides their mutual mistrust, but between family crises and sibling rivalries, Nolan and Gabi realize they want to be more than just friends—much more.

Download or read book Savages Under Glass written by Jeremy Michelson and published by Jeremy Michelson. This book was released on with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perfect world. A perfect deception. Hadley’s life in the city under the dome could be perfect. If it wasn’t so perfect. An argument with his wife sends him storming out of his plastic apartment. Off to the only place in the domed city he feels is real. The old park at the edge of the city. He encounters a stranger. Who offers him something unique in a world of plastic perfection. It starts a journey that will show him the terrible secrets of his world. A journey that could change not only his life, but everyone’s in the dome. If the master of the dome doesn’t kill them all first. A twisting, turning, adventure in the Star Ascension saga.

Download or read book Noxious written by Cori Nevruz and published by 5310 Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally free of her mother’s controlling ways, Natalia, a quirky misfit, heads to New York City after learning her family’s darkest secret—Daniel, a stepbrother previously unknown to her. With her desire to be loved and accepted by someone for the first time, Natalia pretends to be the person her half-brother expects. However, behind his back, Natalia is someone completely different. Natalia works for Stuart, a powerful and eccentric corporate executive, eliminating costly retired pension recipients one by one. Not completely without emotion or a moral compass, Natalia tries to find annoying habits or irritating personality traits to justify her doings. Getting better at what she does, with good reason and even better pay in hand, she makes each hit look like natural causes. But after spending more time with Stuart, his wife, and a new love interest, the innocent facade she presents to Daniel begins to crack and her true colors start to slip through. With Daniel’s suspicion growing, Natalia finds herself at a crossroads: either conform to Daniel's expectations or embrace her true identity.

Download or read book Colossal written by Alexandra Norton and published by Alexandra Norton. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The predatory alien blood in Orion Halen’s veins makes him dangerous. Volatile. Addictive. But desire burns brightest in the depths of darkness... And the fall can feel so good. Kaia never imagined her lifelong mission would lead to this: a sacrificial lamb on a colony ship, chosen to bear an heir for the ship’s ruthless soon-to-be commander. To Orion Halen, she’s a means to an end—a piece to play in his twisted game. Yet Kaia is no ordinary pawn. Even as their machinations intertwine and secrets grow deep, an insatiable attraction takes root. A dance of power and seduction ensues, blurring the lines between pleasure and pain. There’s a cruel lure in Orion's glacial eyes, a mere touch threatening to expose a hunger Kaia can’t afford to let herself indulge because she’s hunting for something far more precious than her own survival. But desire burns brightest in the depths of darkness, and giving in has never been so tempting. Colossal: Dark Romance in Deep Space is a steamy science fiction romance novel where morally gray protagonists navigate treacherous desires in a slow burn that satisfies the senses and leaves the reader aching for more.

Download or read book Is It Safe written by Jerol Anderson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: May Johnson seeks excitement as she leaves behind small town Minnesota for San Francisco. But big city life brings along with it blood and terror as she witnesses a gang murder. Under The Witness Protection Program US Marshall Durst leads June through four identities only one step ahead of the deadly gang. She mutates from country girl to chic city model and back to country girl again. Along the way she meets a lover and as they create a home and serenity together in a cabin in Wisconsin, Durst is revealed as a fraud and is murdered. Now embracing small town living June and her lover must escape, using all they have learned to create new identities and a life together.

Download or read book Stolen Beauty written by Isabel Jolie and published by Noctivity, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He made a promise…and someone out there is about to discover what that means. The front door hinges creaked, the faint sound traveling through the still night. Two more steps and I would’ve been inside the bathroom with the door closed because I’m an odd bird and even when home alone, I close the bathroom door. Seconds later, and everything would’ve happened differently. Seconds later, and I’d be dead. My brother trained me. Told me what to do if I was ever in danger. I’d thought he was paranoid, a side effect of his life in the military. Before the explosion, he left instructions. I followed those instructions carefully, straight to his best friend’s door. A man I haven’t seen in ages. A man who didn’t show up to my brother’s funeral. An ex-SEAL I knew before his Navy days. A boy I crushed on back then, but now…it’s a different era. My sister is missing, and I need his help to find her. There’s a chance the man who broke into my home succeeded in getting her. All my focus needs to be on finding her, but yet I’m growing closer to him. Who am I kidding? I’m crushing all over again. When two killers find me, he’s there to protect me. I don’t know why they’re coming for me, but it doesn’t seem like they’ll stop. How much can I let him risk? And how much can I? Someone out there wants to take everything. But some things can’t be taken. Stolen Beauty is the first standalone romance in the Beauty trilogy and the fourth romantic suspense novel within the Arrow Tactical Series. This steamy, suspenseful standalone romance is full of heat and mystery and can be read and enjoyed on its own. Topics: contemporary romance, military romance, series, romantic suspense series, mystery, modern romance, California, Santa Barbara, San Diego, California romance, international mystery, wealthy, city romance, smart romance, mystery, dogs in romance, romance, hot romance, proposal, proposal romance, engagement, engagement romance, sexy, heartwarming, heart-warming, family, love, love books, kissing books, emotional journey, contemporary, contemporary romance, romance series, long series, long romance series, former military, strong heroine, captivating romance, hot, hot romance, forbidden love, sparks, loyalty, swoon, contemporary, rescue, shelter, claiming, defending, protect, damsel in distress, hospital, drama, action and adventure, action romance, veteran, former soldier, soldier, romantic, Emotional, HEA, virgin romance, protector romance

Download or read book The Cat Who Went into the Closet written by Lilian Jackson Braun and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this charming Cat Who mystery, a misused mansion sets the stage for a strange caper for Jim Qwilleran and his cats Koko and Yum Yum. Qwill’s moved into the old Gage mansion—and the cats are on a treasure hunt. The house’s fifty closets are crammed with several generations of junk, and while Qwill investigates two recent deaths—those of the mansion’s former occupant and a local potato farmer—Koko investigates the contents of the closets. Qwill and the cats wind up unearthing some surprising skeletons—and bringing long-buried secrets to light...