Download or read book Escape to the Swiss Chalet written by Carrie Walker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buy Carrie Walker's latest rom-com, Escape to the Tuscan Vineyard, NOW! *** Chalet Girl meets Bridget Jones! *** When your life goes off-piste how do you climb back up the mountain? Holly Roberts is well-known among family and friends for despising the cold, so no one is more surprised than her when she agrees to pack her bags and move to the Swiss Alps. But after getting her heart broken, spending the winter season working as a sous-chef for wealthy twins Genevieve and gorgeous Luca, is exactly what the doctor ordered. Verbier is home to millionaires and Holly has never felt more out of place in the snow-capped wooden chalet. Thankfully new friends, chalet girl Liv and chef Xavier are there to be her guide in this new world of après-ski and fondue, and to teach her how to get off chair lifts! And then there is Luca... rich, handsome, kind but what is the catch? She just wanted to escape her problems but could she get her Happily Ever After? A SWEET and FUNNY romantic comedy for readers of Lindsey Kelk and Mandy Baggot. *** Readers love Escape to the Swiss Chalet! 'Carrie Walker will whisk you away with this fabulous destination romcom... A sparkling debut – I couldn't put it down.' Sandy Barker 'Fabulously heart-warming and witty... what a debut! It made me yearn to fly off to breathe in the mountain air and, for any foodie who also enjoys the odd glass of wine, you will wish you could make a reservation. Utterly delightful!' Lucy Coleman 'Oh wow!! this book blew me away!! it has it all! laughs and tears and excitement and sadness and fun!! what a great time! thank you so much to netgalley for letting me read this one early!!' lindsey.readsbooks, 5 stars 'What a treat! An exciting new voice you won't want to miss. Cosy, festive and hilarious!' Kate Forster 'The COZIEST story setting at a dreamy ski chalet! makes me reallyyy want snow and a hot cocoa!' @niks.bookshelf, 4 stars 'Super fun, light-hearted, and delightful read to get into a winter-y mood.' NetGalley Reviewer, 4 stars 'Glistening, festive romance. The story is a magical blend of wine, goodwill and opportunity. I loved reading this book.' Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars 'Got me hooked!... kept me guessing... loved basically everything about this book, I suggest reading with a good glass of wine and a range of cheeses!!!!!' Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars

Download or read book The Little Swiss Ski Chalet Romantic Escapes Book 7 written by Julie Caplin and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Buy this heartwarming and feel good cosy novel for a slice of escapism at the turn of a page!*

Download or read book The Gilded Chalet written by Padraig Rooney and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part detective work, part treasure chest, full of history and scandal, The Gilded Chalet takes you on a grand tour of two centuries of great writing by both Swiss and foreign authors and shows how Switzerland has always been at the center of literary Europe. Two centuries after the Romantics went there to invent Gothic horror, the lure of Switzerland hasn't left us. Writers from the Fitzgeralds to Fleming, Highsmith to Hemingway, Conan Doyle to le Carré, came to escape world wars, political persecution, tuberculosis. They came for sanctuary (from oppression or the tax man), for fresh air and nude sunbathing, for scenery resembling, as Rooney puts it, 'Mother Nature on steroids.' Patricia Highsmith spent her last years in a granite home in Ticino with a fridge containing little but peanut butter and vodka. Hermann Hesse had himself buried to the neck as a cure for alcoholism. Nabokov chased butterflies and played tennis on the hotel courts. When it comes to literature, it seems all roads lead to Switzerland. Padraig Rooney peers through the chalet windows and discovers how Switzerland has influenced some of the greatest authors and characters of literature.

Download or read book The Prism Unequally Yoked Life in a Swiss Chalet written by Mary Louisa Whately and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The prism Unequally yoked Life in a Swiss chalet From darkness to light by M L Whately and 2 members of her family signing themselves H W and E M Ed with a preface by E J Whately written by Mary Louisa Whately and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Death Rays Jet Packs Stunts and Supercars written by Barry Parker and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-11-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Bond would have died a thousand deaths if not for Q, the genius behind the pen grenades and weaponized sports cars. The author demonstrates how science and technology have been as important to 007 as good looks, shaken martinis, and beautiful women.

Download or read book The Memory Chalet written by Tony Judt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year “[A] tremendously moving memorial to a first-class historian and essayist . . . humane, fearless, unsparingly honest.” —The Financial Times “[A] memorable collection from a memorable man.” —BookPage "It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head." —Tony Judt The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any you have ever read before. Each essay charts some experience or remembrance of the past through the sieve of Tony Judt's prodigious mind. His youthful love of a particular London bus route evolves into a reflection on public civility and interwar urban planning. Memories of the 1968 student riots of Paris meander through the divergent sex politics of Europe, before concluding that his generation "was a revolutionary generation, but missed the revolution." A series of road trips across America lead not just to an appreciation of American history, but to an eventual acquisition of citizenship. Foods and trains and long-lost smells all compete for Judt's attention; but for us, he has forged his reflections into an elegant arc of analysis. All as simply and beautifully arranged as a Swiss chalet-a reassuring refuge deep in the mountains of memory.

Download or read book The Secret of the Swiss Chalet written by Carolyn Keene and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While vacationing in Europe, the Dana sisters agree to help a former Austrian prince locate his family's long lost heirlooms, a search that takes them into the dangerous snow-covered Swiss Alps.

Download or read book The River and the Train written by Edwin Brock and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1979 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The River and the Train, Edwin Brock's sixth collection to be published by New Directions, this British author shifts his focus from the brutality and desperate compromise of urban existence to the more pastoral though no less complex irony of life in a converted East Anglian granary. The bitter anger of such earlier books as The Blocked Heart (1976) and the prose and verse "Fragments of a Childhood" Here. Now. Always. (1977) has not disappeared but has been dispersed and mellowed by the poet's life with his second wife, artist Elizabeth Brock, and their daughter "Fred." Wistful, sardonic, Brock now fantasizes "not reincarnation/so much as sometime-loop/which returns me to/where I started to go wrong."

Download or read book Lonely Planet Switzerland written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cosy Cottage in Ireland Romantic Escapes Book 8 written by Julie Caplin and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest book in the international bestselling series that has hit the charts in Germany, Italy and the Czech Republic!

Download or read book Chalet Monet written by Richard Bonynge and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated in a dress circle position on the slopes of the village of Les Avants, overlooking Lake Geneva in Switzerland, Chalet Monet is the magnificent home of Dame Joan Sutherland OM AC DBE and her husband, Maestro Richard Bonynge AC CBE. In his charming, eloquent, conversational style, Richard Bonynge takes us inside the home and life he has shared with Dame Joan, and in so doing provides rare insight into two of the greatest international cultural icons in opera of all time. The Chalet was introduced to Dame Joan and Richard by their close friend Noel Coward who resided in the neighbouring property. The opulence of each of the distinctive rooms over the four floors and vistas from the Chalet is artfully captured in stunning photography. Paintings and objets d'art line the walls and fill the cabinets, each with their own provenance; presented by royalty or celebrities, embroided by Dame Joan or collected by Richard. Through the stories of these artefacts, told by Richard in eloquent conversational style, we learn about the life and times of two of the most formidable figures associated with opera in the 20th Century. For those fortunate enough to have discovered and experienced the thrill of opera and all the larger than life characters associated with it, to enter Chalet Monet is somewhat of a fairy tale experience that could be taken right out of a Cinderella story ... Chalet Monet is a house with a thousand stories. It is living history, theatrical, a beautiful home with enormous spirit like its owners. It radiates grandeur yet intimacy with places to sit and contemplate, views to linger over, books to be read, paintings to admire and music to listen to. It is a treasure trove for the senses where many a story has been told or begun. Only its walls and its owners remember the decades of music making here and possibly the odd neighbour and the cows on the grassy slopes ... Thank you, Richard for allowing us to enter your private and colourful world. From the Preface by Fiona Janes Artistic Director | General Manager Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Foundation

Download or read book The Northern Lights Lodge Romantic Escapes Book 4 written by Julie Caplin and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape to the cosiest little lodge in Iceland for love, log fires and the Northern Lights...

Download or read book A Study Guide for Noel Coward s Private Lives written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Noel Coward's "Private Lives," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Download or read book Christmas at the Chalet written by Anita Hughes and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas at the Chalet is a delicious love story about a bridal designer showing her new collection in the Alps during the magical week of Christmas where hijinx of the heart ensue. It's the day after Christmas, and Felicity Grant is at a gorgeous ski chalet in St. Moritz for the biggest fashion show of her career. Felicity is a rising star on the bridal design scene, and this is her best collection yet. But when her boyfriend gives her a spa day instead of a diamond ring for Christmas, she has to face the possibility that she may never walk down the aisle in one of her own stunning designs. And then there's Nell, the top model headlining Felicity's show. Nell is planning her dream wedding to her wonderful fiancé with one catch: her divorced parents can't stand each other and threaten to no-show if the other is there. Add to that Felicity's race against the clock to create a special gown for a prestigious bridal salon, and what both girls need is a Christmas miracle. What better place to find one than in the Swiss Alps with its dark forests and sparkling vistas? But for Felicity it's hard to recognize a miracle even when it's right in front of her, and for Nell one miracle might not be enough to fix the past. Can dreams really come true or is that the stuff of Swiss fairytales? Anita Hughes's Christmas at the Chalet is full of romance, gorgeous gowns, and the stunning scenery of the Swiss Alps. It's about love and forgiveness, and creating one's own miracles during the most festive time of year.

Download or read book And Both Were Young written by Madeleine L'Engle and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When 15-year-old Flip is sent to boarding school in Switzerland, she struggles to fit in and make friends. But a chance encounter with a mysterious boy named Paul gives her hope. As their secret friendship grows, Paul confides in Flip about his fragmented memories of his childhood during WWII. When a sinister man appears claiming to be Paul's father, Flip bravely takes matters into her own hands to protect her friend. Her act of courage will change her life forever in this poignant coming-of-age story set amidst the majestic Swiss Alps.

Download or read book The Little Teashop in Tokyo Romantic Escapes Book 6 written by Julie Caplin and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Up there with the best of them...A big, fat five stars from me’ Sue Moorcroft ‘An irresistible slice of escapism’ Phillipa Ashley