Download or read book Amberville written by Tim Davys and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Audacious . . . [a] giddy thrill.” — Los Angeles Times “Weird? Obviously. But oddly gripping and convincing. … Skip that evening Scotch and read this one stone-cold sober—it’s plenty trippy as is.” — Washington Post Amberville, Tim Davys’s first novel about Mollisan Town and its stuffed animal inhabitants, is both a noir novel with an unusual cast and an utterly original meditation on good and evil. In the words of Brad Meltzer (bestselling author of The Book of Lies), “When you’re tired of run-of-the-mill fiction, it’s time to read Amberville… a mystery that’s completely original.”

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Download or read book I ll Take Manhattan written by Judith Krantz and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the high-stakes world of magazine publishing, Judith Krantz weaves a dazzling tale of love and betrayal, and creates her most joyous character—sensational Maxi, an uninhibited woman who unexpectedly discovers that her talent for life is matched by a hunger to succeed. Gorgeous, flamboyant Maxi Amberville is twenty-nine and has already discarded three husbands on two continents. Life is a stream of endless pleasure in her lavish Trump Tower apartment—until her widowed mother married a man who plots to sell her father's magazine empire. And Maxi turns her incredible lust for living into a passionate quest for power. Maxi takes over the small weekly Buttons And Bows. She gathers her hot-blooded ex-husband, sassy daughter and a coterie of the powerful elite. Then, risking all, Maxi creates B&B—the glitziest, ritziest, most successful fashion magazine in the country. Here is a dramatic, sizzling story of love, family, ambition and one unforgettable woman who gives life and love everything she has.

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Download or read book I ll Take Manhattan written by Judith Krantz and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the high-stakes world of magazine publishing, Judith Krantz weaves a dazzling tale of love and betrayal, and creates her most joyous character—sensational Maxi, an uninhibited woman who unexpectedly discovers that her talent for life is matched by a hunger to succeed. Gorgeous, flamboyant Maxi Amberville is twenty-nine and has already discarded three husbands on two continents. Life is a stream of endless pleasure in her lavish Trump Tower apartment—until her widowed mother married a man who plots to sell her father's magazine empire. And Maxi turns her incredible lust for living into a passionate quest for power. Maxi takes over the small weekly Buttons And Bows. She gathers her hot-blooded ex-husband, sassy daughter and a coterie of the powerful elite. Then, risking all, Maxi creates B&B—the glitziest, ritziest, most successful fashion magazine in the country. Here is a dramatic, sizzling story of love, family, ambition and one unforgettable woman who gives life and love everything she has.

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Download or read book Genius Loci written by Clark Ashton Smith and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genius Loci, the spirit of a place… Amberville attempts to capture the genius loci of a strange and haunting place…

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Download or read book The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies written by Clark Ashton Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernatural Not just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him “unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living” or compel Fritz Lieber to employ the worthy term sui generis. Clark Ashton Smith—autodidact, prolific poet, amateur philosopher, bizarre sculptor, and unmatched storyteller—simply wrote like no one else, before or since. This new collection of his very best tales and poems is selected and introduced by supernatural literature scholar S. T. Joshi and allows readers to encounter Smith’s visionary brand of fantastical, phantasmagorical worlds, each one filled with invention, terror, and a superlative sense of metaphysical wonder. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Clark Ashton Smith Illustrated written by Clark Ashton Smith and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 2469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the West Coast Romantic poets, Clark Ashton Smith was also an accomplished master of Weird fantasy fiction. Recognised as one of the “big three of Weird Tales”, along with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft, his work is characterised for its extraordinarily ornate vocabulary, inventive and cosmic perspective and a vein of sardonic, ribald humour. This comprehensive eBook presents Smith’s complete published works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Smith’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major books * All of the short stories published during and shortly after the author’s life * Special hyperlinked contents tables for the popular Averoigne, Hyperborean, Poseidonis, Zothique, Mars and Xiccarph short stories * Features rare tales appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry and the short stories * Easily locate the poems or stories you want to read * Rare poetry collections * Includes essays – spend hours exploring the author’s varied works * Smith’s brief autobiography * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres * UPDATED with 6 themed story contents tables, 6 rare tales to 'Miscellaneous Short Stories' section and improved texts Please note: some posthumous tales and poems cannot appear due to remaining copyrights. When new works become available, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. CONTENTS: The Averoigne Series The Hyperborean Cycle The Poseidonis Stories The Zothique Tales The Mars Cycle The Xiccarph Chronicles The Short Story Collections The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies (1933) Out of Space and Time (1942) Lost Worlds (1944) Genius Loci and Other Tales (1948) The Abominations of Yondo (1960) Tales of Science and Sorcery (1964) Other Dimensions (1970) Hyperborea (1971) Poseidonis (1973) Miscellaneous Short Stories The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Poetry Collections The Star-Treader and Other Poems (1912) Odes and Sonnets (1918) Ebony and Crystal (1922) Sandalwood (1925) The Dark Chateau and Other Poems (1951) Spells and Philtres (1958) The Hill of Dionysus (1962) Poems in Prose (1965) Selected Poems (1971) The Poems List of Poems in Chronological Order List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction Miscellaneous Essays

Download or read book Laura s Wrath written by Martin & Elaine Stab and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1865, when her husband is hanged for treason and her baby dies, Laura McBride calls on Satan to grant her revenge. In 1965, when Charles Weston begins looking into his family history, that revenge is set in motion.

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