Download or read book A Mannequin s Diary written by Anna Dias and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very candid and outspoken comment on the political, economic, and social milieu. The poet has also explored various shades of thought processes. Its like a window to human insecurities, aberrations, and weaknesses. Rich with imagery and metaphors, the poems are a delight to read. The poet uses blank verse in some poems, where she takes liberties to give vent to emotions. Where in some poems, she uses frugality of words to create a unique style that impacts on the readers mind.
Download or read book The Mannequin Makers written by Craig Cliff Perry and published by Melville House UK. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning historical debut novel of gothic proportions, telling the tale of a father's obsession and the dark consequences. "The skin was smooth and bright as porcelain, but looked as if it would give to the touch. What manner of wood had he used? What tools to exact such detail? What paints, tints or stains to flush her with life?" So wonders the window dresser Colton Kemp when he sees the first mannequin of his new rival, a silent man the inhabitants of Marumaru simply call The Carpenter. Rocked by the sudden death of his wife in childbirth and left with twins to raise, Kemp hatches a dark and selfish plan to make his name and thwart his rival. What follows is a gothic tale of art and deception, strength and folly, love and transgression, which ranges fromfamily small-town New Zealand to the graving docks of the River Clyde in Scotland. Along the way we meet a Prussian strongman, a family of ship's carvers with a mysterious affliction, a septuagenarian surf lifesaver and a talking figurehead named Vengeance. Lives and stories will intertwine as fate takes its cruel trajectory, leaving you feeling as if waking from an unsettling dream.
Download or read book The Grim Reaper s Diary written by Reginald Holmes and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instead of watching a soap opera for the streets, here’s one that you can read and it’s called “The Grim Reaper’s Diary”. So let’s take a walk inside the mind of the author, where the ghettos is Satan’s playground. Young Swag is a bag chaser and keeps a clip in his pistol that’s long as a ladder, even while on parole, with hopes of dying old and rich, but money doesn’t come easy, especially for those who try to get wealthy without having to die trying. Swaggah has a little sister named Kayla, and everyday that passes is harder than the next, and not just because everybody who Kay’ knows thats dead, had all died doing what they loved to do, unless someone did something stupid to get their loved one killed. Now Kayla don’t just believe in karma, she believes in warning signs, because everyone ig given one before the self- district, so pay attention to the signs before the last chapter of your life comes to an end.
Download or read book Diaries of a Fashionista written by Sophia LaRocca and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion meets feminism in LaRocca’s Diaries Of A Fashionista! If Poppy Paxton is anything, she’s the living impediment of a fashion icon. Her closet is filled to the brim with the latest trends and her job is to quite literally inform you what to wear. Being a top fashion journalist and assistant for one of the biggest fashion magazines in the world is no easy feat, but Poppy makes it look effortless and stylish as she does it. Word on the street says there's a promotion up for fashion editor and Poppy plans on swiping it as fast as you can say “Gucci sample sale!” But... how is she going to do it? An opportunity arises when Poppy gets roped into writing an article about the fashion and lifestyle of the Pop Punk genre. Only Poppy doesn’t know the first thing about it! So she decides to recruit her new quirky neighbor, Atticus Mckeen. Atticus is a charming flamboyant, wannabe rock star with two left feet, always managing to get on Poppy’s last nerves. It’s a win win! If this article turns out the way she's planning, she’s got that promotion in the bag. And featured in one of the biggest magazines in the world, Atticus’s band must take off! It’s the perfect plan. With Poppy’s workaholic attitude and Atticus’s whimsical and flighty one, they make a delightful team, getting themselves in humorous and entertaining situations. As the article comes to an end Poppy finds herself falling into the deep rabbit hole that is Atticus’s boy next door charm. How will this article change Poppy and Atticus’s life, and better yet, their views on romance?
Download or read book The Herald Diary 2012 written by Ken Smith and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the year that saw Rangers Football Club face administration, that saw Greece struggle with teetering debt, that saw Scots wrestle with the idea of a referendum on independence, and saw the Scottish football team once again watching an international competition from the outside. And what did most Scots do? Well, what they usually do - they laughed about it. Fortunately they then sent their musings to "The Herald" newspaper's "Diary" column where their views on world affairs, plus all the stories of all the daft and amusing things that happened in Scotland's pubs, trains, streets and homes were gathered, polished and printed. This is the compilation of the best of these stories. It is where the best of Scottish humour is gathered and kept so that the stories are not lost forever, and if you are a Scot anywhere in the world, you will recognise the humour in them. And even if you are not Scottish you should still be able to smile, even though you have to ask a Scot for the occasional piece of clarification.
Download or read book The Bad Karma Diaries written by Bridget Hourican and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of an eventful term: 2nd years Anna and Denise want to make money and have adventures to write up on the blog they're creating. They set up an above-board business running children's parties and a covert vigilante business - meting out other people's revenge (e.g. hiding gymbags, spoiling homework). They defend their actions by claiming that they're fighting injustice. Both explore the other sex - Anna is practical and sets herself up with boyfriends, Denise is romantic and dreams about boys. They are self-absorbed and wrapped up in each other and don't notice the real injustice under their noses: Denise is ignoring her younger sister, Justine, who is suffering. The book relates how they finally use their undoubted ingenuity for a good cause - saving Justine - and how they lose some of their self-absorption and widen their friendship to include others.
Download or read book Christopher s Diary Secrets of Foxworth written by V.C. Andrews and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of Christopher’s diary in the ruins of Foxworth Hall brings new secrets of the Dollanganger family to light in this riveting novel from V.C. Andrews, the author of Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind, both major Lifetime TV events. Christopher Dollanganger was fourteen when he and his younger siblings—Cathy and the twins, Cory and Carrie—were locked away in the attic of Foxworth Hall, prisoners of their mother’s greedy inheritance scheme. For three long years he kept hope alive for the sake of the others. But the shocking truth about how their ordeal affected him was always kept hidden—until now. Seventeen-year-old Kristin Masterwood is thrilled when her father’s construction company is hired to inspect the Foxworth property for a prospective buyer. The once grand Southern mansion still sparks legends and half-truths about the four innocent Dollanganger children, even all these decades later. Foxworth holds a special fascination for Kristin, who was too young when her mother died to learn much about her distant blood tie to the notorious family. Accompanying her dad to the “forbidden territory,” they find a leather-bound book, its yellowed pages filled with the neat script of Christopher Dollanganger himself. Her father grows increasingly uneasy about her reading it, but as she devours the teen’s story page by page, his shattering account of temptation, heartache, courage, and betrayal overtakes Kristin’s every thought. And soon her obsession with the doomed boy crosses a dangerous line…
Download or read book The Mannequin Conspiracy written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Midnight Mannequins and Other Stories written by Michael Daly and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In each of the twelve stories in Michael Daly’s collection, he attempts to cunningly expose our human frailties and foibles with hopefully an expert mixture of humour and sadness at many of life’s challenges. Retirement plans that don’t quite work out, a husband whose wife thought she really knew him well, a pet lover who has to ask an arch-enemy to help her bury her cat, people coping with illness and the lonely lady in London whose life is completely changed by telephoning a random phone number on a used banknote! These short stories may appear perfectly calm on the surface, but readers will quickly find themselves submerged in the murky underwater of real life.
Download or read book Mannequins in Museums written by Bridget R. Cooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mannequins in Museums is a collection of historical and contemporary case studies that examine how mannequins are presented in exhibitions and shows that, as objects used for storytelling, they are not neutral objects. Demonstrating that mannequins have long histories of being used to promote colonialism, consumerism, and racism, the book shows how these histories inform their use. It also engages readers in a conversation about how historical narratives are expressed in museums through mannequins as surrogate forms. Written by a select group of curators and art historians, the volume provides insight into a variety of museum contexts, including art, history, fashion, anthropology and wax. Drawing on exhibition case studies from North America, South Africa, and Europe, each chapter discusses the pedagogical and aesthetic stakes involved in representing racial difference and cultural history through mannequins. As a whole, the book will assist readers to understand the history of mannequins and their contemporary use as culturally relevant objects. Mannequins in Museums will be compelling reading for academics and students in the fields of museum studies, art history, public history, anthropology and visual and cultural studies. It should also be essential reading for museum professionals who are interested in rethinking mannequin display techniques.
Download or read book Locker Room Diaries written by Leslie Goldman and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2007-09-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wish my thighs were smaller. "If only I could lose ten pounds." A wake-up call for any woman who has engaged in the "if only" wishing game, Locker Room Diaries uses the unique lens of the locker room to reveal what, exactly, goes into "shaping" not just a woman's body but her body image. The locker room can be a wondrous retreat, a place to toss aside the worries of the day, but it is also where our flaws become most apparent-and where most of us can't help but wonder how we "measure up." Often dressed in no more than a towel, Leslie Goldman spent five years talking with women of all shapes and sizes about their body image, from taut twenty-somethings to heavyset seniors. Why is it, she asks, that almost no one seems satisfied with her physique? From compulsive workouts to daily dates with the scale, from bikini waxes to body fat measurements, American women are swept up in a constant quest for the "perfect" body. Thankfully, more than one woman reveals how she halted her cycle of self-loathing and learned to like her body as is. Blending expert opinion with wonderfully intimate, often laugh-outloud, confidences, Locker Room Diaries will inspire anyone who knows the highs of exercise to leave the lows of self-esteem behind-and, most especially, once and for all, to step off that scale!
Download or read book Eldon House Diaries written by Robin S. Harris and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1994-12-15 with total page 971 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eldon House is a distinctive element in the historical townscape of London, Ontario. By the mid-nineteenth century, its original owners, John and Amelia Harris, were prominent members of society in that dynamic community. Their children grew up in the affluent and cultured setting of a family whose increasing prosperity advanced with that of London and western Ontario. If London had an elite, the Harris family was part of it, and Eldon House was an important focal point of the social regimen of the day. A considerable corpus of family papers within the Eldon House and prominent among these papers is a collection of diaries that are excerpted in this volume, encapsulating the personalities, activities, and voices of the Harrises of London. These diaries are valuable because of the details of the warp and woof of daily life in the nineteenth century. But, more importantly, they are women's diaries. As such, they speak to us of the verities of personal, domestic, and societal life in the neglected voice of women. Together, they provide a fascinating perspective of these women's lives in, around, and beyond Eldon House.
Download or read book Diaries and Correspondence written by James Harris and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris First Earl of Malmesbury written by James Harris Earl of Malmesbury and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Devil and the Dairy Princess written by Pedro Ponce and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when the stories we've been told fail us?In ten provocative and unsettling tales, Pedro Ponce grapples with the human instinct to create a narrative out of disparate experiences. The Devil and the Dairy Princess interrogates the power of stories to impact us for good or ill. We are all taught that love is destined to happen with our soul mate and that hard work eventually leads to success. But when faced with circumstances that no longer fit the chosen narrative, some protagonists cling to their outmoded stories with greater fervor, while others realize the old stories no longer suffice, so they choose to inhabit a new reality in stories yet to be told. Perfect for any reader who enjoys literary realism or speculative fiction, The Devil and the Dairy Princess reveals the episodic history of humanity's romance with narrative, from first love to breakup to hopeful reconciliation.
Download or read book Diary of a Wimpy Kid Box of Books 12 14 written by Jeff Kinney and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2024-11-19 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the hilarious and heartwarming world of Greg Heffley with this ebook collection, featuring books 12 through 14 of the beloved bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney Perfect for both new readers and longtime fans, this collection includes: * The Getaway: The Heffley family's tropical vacation turns into a series of comical disasters, making Greg wish they had stayed home for the holidays * The Meltdown: A massive snowstorm leads to an epic neighborhood snowball fight, putting Greg and Rowley in the middle of a frosty battle for survival. * Wrecking Ball: An unexpected inheritance allows the Heffley family to renovate their home, but the project quickly turns into a hilarious series of mishaps and disasters. Each book is packed with laugh-out-loud moments, relatable situations, and engaging illustrations that bring Greg's adventures to life. Join Greg Heffley on his unforgettable journey through middle school with this incredible collection.
Download or read book Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris First Earl of Malmesbury Containing an Account of His Missions at the Court of Madrid and of His Special Missions to Berlin written by Earl of Malmesbury and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
