Download or read book Beautiful for Ever written by Helen Rappaport and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madame Rachel had everything: a Mayfair address, the title of 'purveyor to Her Majesty the Queen', a shop full of exotic, expensive creams and potions. Her clientele were aristocratic, rich - and gullible. This is the true story of a woman who began life as a poor fish fryer in a disease-ridden, grubby corner of Victorian London. She ended up with a shop in New Bond Street, where her wealthy clients came in their droves, lured by the promise of eternal beauty. What they found there was a con-woman and fraudster who made a career out of lies, treachery and the desperate hopes of women wanting to be 'beautiful for ever'. Beautiful For Ever also tells of the beginnings of the cosmetics industry, when women paid to be 'enamelled' with a paste of white lead that lasted up to a year, and of a society on the brink of change and modernity. It's a thrilling tale of love affairs, scandal, blackmail, high-profile court cases, suicide and fraud, with the extraordinary Madame Rachel right at the centre of it all. 'A remarkable story...Rappaport handles her scandalous Victorian melodrama with energy and aplomb, and produces a richly entertaining portrait of the seamy side of 19th century society' Daily Mail 'Admirable... Madame Rachel's story, which has been superbly researched by Rappaport, is intriguing in itself [and] sheds a fascinating light on the ladies of Victorian society' Daily Telegraph

Download or read book Beautiful For Ever written by Helen Rappaport and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TRUE STORY OF LIES, BEAUTY AND BLACKMAIL IN VICTORIAN LONDON _________________________ Madame Rachel had everything. A Mayfair address; the title of 'purveyor to Her Majesty the Queen'; a shop full of exotic, expensive creams and potions; and a clientele of the aristocratic, the rich - and the gullible. Little did they suspect that Madame Rachel had once been a poor fish-fryer in a disease-ridden, grubby corner of Victorian London. Her shop in New Bond Street lured her wealthy clients in their droves, enticed by the promise of eternal beauty. What they found there was a con-woman and fraudster who made a career out of lies, treachery and the desperate hopes of women wanting to be 'beautiful for ever'. Beautiful For Ever is a thrilling tale of love affairs, scandal, blackmail, high-profile court cases, suicide and fraud, with the extraordinary Madame Rachel right at the centre of it all.

Download or read book Beautiful for Ever written by Helen Rappaport and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of a woman who began life as a poor fish fryer in a disease-ridden, grubby corner of Victorian London. Madame Rachel had everything: a Mayfair address and the title of 'Purveyor to Her Majesty The Queen'. Her shop was full of exotic, expensive creams and potions. Her clientele were aristocratic, rich, gullible and came in their droves, lured by the promise of eternal beauty. What they found there was a con-woman and fraudster who made a career out of lies, treachery and the desperate hopes of women wanting to be 'beautiful for ever'.

Download or read book Filthy Beautiful Forever written by Kendall Ryan and published by Kendall Ryan. This book was released on 2015-01-11 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One seemingly innocuous promise. The one girl he could never forget.... Collins Drake exercises control over all facets of his life. From his business, to satisfying his physical needs … it all happens on his command. So when a woman shows up at his door and reminds him of a promise they made each other when they were just ten years old, it shouldn’t have the ability to rock his entire world. Yet it does. Because Mia Monroe wasn't just his childhood best friend, she wasn't just the girl he lost his virginity to and hasn't seen since, she's the one exception to his perfect control. And piece by piece, she's about to tear apart his carefully laid plans. Filthy Beautiful Forever is book 4 in the Filthy Beautiful Lies series, but can be read as a standalone.

Download or read book Beautiful Ever After written by Katie Piper and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Katie Piper has an attitude to life that can make anything bearable. She's a hero' MARIAN KEYES The heartbreaking, inspiring and uplifting story of Katie Piper's journey from recovery to new beginnings, motherhood and finding love. Since the brutal rape and acid attack that left her permanently disfigured, Katie Piper has rebuilt her life one piece at a time. In this powerful sequel to her bestselling memoir, Katie reveals what happened next, as her life changed in ways she never thought possible. Behind her brave face and public success, Katie's story is still heartbreaking at times as she faces medical procedures, terrifying flashbacks and fears for the future. But as Katie finds her Prince Charming - and becomes a mother against the odds - she experiences both the wonder and anxiety of starting a new, loving family. You will both smile and cry as you join Katie on her highs and lows. With her trademark warmth, honesty and courage, Katie Piper takes you by the hand through her story, showing that no matter how lost you feel in life, you are never alone. 'Katie is one of the most inspirational people I have ever met' SIMON COWELL

Download or read book Beautiful World Where Are You written by Sally Rooney and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends. Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

Download or read book Beautiful Ever After written by Georgia Cates and published by Georgia Cates Books, LLC. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything in my life has changed. This woman, my paid companion, has turned my world upside down … while making it right for the first time ever. We were brought together by need. Hers was money. Mine was companionship. And sex. Caitriona Louden gave me the girlfriend experience. All of it. And now she’s gone. I’m not supposed to miss her. I’m not supposed to love her. But I do. Both. Our contract expired, and she walked away. Now my world is falling apart without her in it. Because she is my everything. A fairy-tale romance. It’s ours to have. And this woman I’ve come to love so dearly is my beautiful ever after. ––––– About Beautiful Ever After–– Heat level: 5/5 Cheating: No Tropes and Themes: · Alpha · Arranged Relationship · Hero with an Accent (Scottish) · Billionaire · Single Dad · Widower · Age Gap (10 years) · Damaged Hero · Damaged Heroine *** While the characters from Eighty-One Nights are entirely new, their storyline is a combination of fresh material and carefully selected themes, scenes, and settings from The Beauty Series, The Sin Trilogy, Dear Agony, and Indulge. This is intentional. I chose some of my favorite elements from previous releases and interjected them into Hutch and Lou’s story. Let’s call it a “story fusion” between our old favorites and new material. ***

Download or read book Beautiful Oops written by Barney Saltzberg and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A life lesson that all parents want their children to learn: It’s OK to make a mistake. In fact, hooray for mistakes! A mistake is an adventure in creativity, a portal of discovery. A spill doesn’t ruin a drawing—not when it becomes the shape of a goofy animal. And an accidental tear in your paper? Don’t be upset about it when you can turn it into the roaring mouth of an alligator. An award winning, best-selling, one-of-a-kind interactive book, Beautiful Oops! shows young readers how every mistake is an opportunity to make something beautiful. A singular work of imagination, creativity, and paper engineering, Beautiful Oops! is filled with pop-ups, lift-the-flaps, tears, holes, overlays, bends, smudges, and even an accordion “telescope”—each demonstrating the magical transformation from blunder to wonder.

Download or read book Behind the Beautiful Forevers written by Katherine Boo and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY “Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. Just as important, she makes us care.”—People “A tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece.”—Judges, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • Newsday In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle class. With a little luck, her beautiful daughter, Annawadi’s “most-everything girl,” might become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest children, like the young thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams. But then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal. With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects people to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, based on years of uncompromising reporting, carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds—and into the hearts of families impossible to forget. WINNER OF: The PEN Nonfiction Award • The Los Angeles Times Book Prize • The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award • The New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • People • Entertainment Weekly • The Wall Street Journal • The Boston Globe • The Economist • Financial Times • Foreign Policy • The Seattle Times • The Nation • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Denver Post • Minneapolis Star Tribune • The Week • Kansas City Star • Slate • Publishers Weekly

Download or read book A More Beautiful Question written by Warren Berger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To get the best answer-in business, in life-you have to ask the best possible question. Innovation expert Warren Berger shows that ability is both an art and a science. It may be the most underappreciated tool at our disposal, one we learn to use well in infancy-and then abandon as we grow older. Critical to learning, innovation, success, even to happiness-yet often discouraged in our schools and workplaces-it can unlock new business opportunities and reinvent industries, spark creative insights at many levels, and provide a transformative new outlook on life. It is the ability to question-and to do so deeply, imaginatively, and “beautifully.” In this fascinating exploration of the surprising power of questioning, innovation expert Warren Berger reveals that powerhouse businesses like Google, Nike, and Netflix, as well as hot Silicon Valley startups like Pandora and Airbnb, are fueled by the ability to ask fundamental, game-changing questions. But Berger also shares human stories of people using questioning to solve everyday problems-from “How can I adapt my career in a time of constant change?” to “How can I step back from the daily rush and figure out what really makes me happy?” By showing how to approach questioning with an open, curious mind and a willingness to work through a series of “Why,” “What if,” and “How” queries, Berger offers an inspiring framework of how we can all arrive at better solutions, fresh possibilities, and greater success in business and life.

Download or read book Animalium Activity Book written by Big Picture Press and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A book of creative coloring and drawing activities for animal lovers, from the best-selling illustrator of Animalium. Set out on a drawing adventure through the animal kingdom. Find a way through the jellyfish maze, add tropical fish to a coral reef, color a desert scene, and label a crocodile skeleton. ... Immerse yourself in the world of Animalium. Featuring thirty-seven activities"----

Download or read book All the Ugly and Wonderful Things written by Bryn Greenwood and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Struggling to raise her little brother Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star-gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold. By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery"--

Download or read book Forever Beautiful written by Natalia Rose and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her private practice, leading nutritionist Natalia Rose has discovered that given the continual onslaught of toxicity and stress typical of the modern lifestyle, the average person today is actually mutating her cells and accelerating the aging process. The problem is that one cannot undo decades of toxic living with even more toxic "anti-aging" remedies. The good news: Each of us carries our own fountain of youth--a body that will continually renew itself on the cellular level, if only we give it a chance. Written to inspire and instruct, Forever Beautiful offers a deeply compelling alternative to conventional anti-aging methods, including: -- Five core principles of youth regeneration -- Illustrated facial exercises and deep stretches -- A 3-week rejuvenation plan -- A recipe section and shopping guide

Download or read book Beautiful Bastard written by Christina Lauren and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious intern. A perfectionist executive. And a whole lot of name calling. Discover the story that garnered more than two million reads online. Whip-smart, hardworking, and on her way to an MBA, Chloe Mills has only one problem: her boss, Bennett Ryan. He’s exacting, blunt, inconsiderate—and completely irresistible. A Beautiful Bastard. Bennett has returned to Chicago from France to take a vital role in his family’s massive media business. He never expected that the assistant who’d been helping him from abroad was the gorgeous, innocently provocative—completely infuriating—creature he now has to see every day. Despite the rumors, he’s never been one for a workplace hookup. But Chloe’s so tempting he’s willing to bend the rules—or outright smash them—if it means he can have her. All over the office. As their appetites for one another increase to a breaking point, Bennett and Chloe must decide exactly what they’re willing to lose in order to win each other. Originally only available online as The Office by tby789—and garnering over 2 million reads on fanfiction sites—Beautiful Bastard has been extensively updated for re-release.

Download or read book Sew Beautiful written by Kennis Wong and published by Page Street Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 8 Patterns, 18 Variations, 1 Stunning New Wardrobe Stitch your way to a stylish new wardrobe with this collection of beautiful, modern patterns. Whether you are a seasoned seamstress looking for fresh projects or just beginning your sewing journey, you’ll learn something new from prolific designer Kennis Wong’s expert advice and accessible pearls of sewing wisdom. In Sew Beautiful, elegance and simplicity go hand in hand as Kennis guides you through 8 different patterns, each a closet staple you’ll be proud to wear. Well known for helping her readers find their most flattering fit, Kennis carefully designed each pattern for sizes 00 through 20, guaranteeing a finished garment that suits your taste, style and body type. And with 18 variations spread across these designs, there are so many options to mix and match! Slip into the luxurious Castlepoint Faux-Wrap Skirt on a breezy summer day, or bundle up in the cozy Taktsang Dolman Sleeve Wrap for a cool autumn night. Going to a fancy event but can’t find anything to wear? Wow everyone when you tell them your Palermo Tiered Dress is 100 percent handmade. With Sew Beautiful in your crafting corner, a vibrant custom wardrobe is at your fingertips. If you are experiencing issues accessing or downloading the Sew Beautiful ebook pattern files, please contact [email protected] with proof of purchase for assistance.

Download or read book Why a Daughter Needs a Mom written by Gregory E. Lang and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Gregory Lang's New York Times bestselling original series! The perfect Mother's Day gift of love to show why Mom is so special! This new picture book for kids ages 3-7 and beyond is a touching story to show a girl all the ways her mother will help her grow and to remind her of the special bond only she can have with Mom. Featuring charming illustrations and heartwarming rhymes about the moments mothers and daughters share, Why a Daughter Needs a Mom is the perfect story to connect mother and daughter together and wonderful keepsake for a daughter at any age. From the first time I held you, so perfect and new, I promised to do everything that I could do To help you become your most wonderful YOU, My darling, my daughter, my girl. For new moms, mothers-to-be, or for that perfect mother-daughter moment at birthdays and other special occasions all year, this sweet storybook celebrates how a mother is always there for her little girl, reminding her how important she is.

Download or read book How To Look Beautiful Forever written by Emily-Rose Braithwaite and published by How To Books. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from the bestselling How to Look Pretty Not Plastered for teenagers, How to Look Beautiful Forever is for women of all ages who love makeup. From 17 to 70 and beyond, learn how you can create new looks for yourself and look beautiful forever. Experienced make-up artist Emily-Rose will guide you step-by-step through: The basics of looking after your skin whatever your age. Identifying which colours suit you best. Applying flawless foundation while minimising dark or tired under-eyes and concealing blemishes and spots. Shaping your eyebrows to frame your face perfectly. Achieving beautiful eye make-up quickly and effortlessly. Keeping your lips looking gorgeous and kissable. The art of contouring, including how to achieve super-model cheekbones in one minute flat. How to Look Beautiful Forever includes express makeovers for every age and practical tips for make-up in minutes - even how to apply your make-up on the way to work!