Download or read book The Waltzing Widow written by Joan Smith and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heiress Lucy Percy’s family fends off a fortune-hunter, and Lucy decides to rusticate. She and her aunt rent a cottage, but change their identities in order to avoid further problems. The Earl of Avedon’s ramshackle nephew owns their cottage and exhibits every sign of falling for Lucy’s charms. But Avedon suspects Lucy is out to capture his nephew and does everything in his power to prevent that! Regency Romance by Joan Smith; originally published by Fawcett Crest

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Download or read book Bound by Mystery written by Diane D. DiBiase and published by Poisoned Pen Press Inc. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 1177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In celebration of our 20th anniversary, Poisoned Pen Press has commissioned original short stories from thirty-five of its authors, past and present. Some names will be immediately recognizable to mystery aficionados-Kerry Greenwood with her Phryne Fisher mysteries, now also a popular television program, or Laurie R. King who has charmed Sherlockians worldwide with her beloved Mary Russell series. Some have gone on to big deals with the big leagues-Carolyn Wall, whose debut novel, Sweeping Up Glass, was purchased by Penguin Random House, or James Sallis, whose novella, Drive, was critically acclaimed and made into major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling. Several have been translated into other languages with foreign publishers. Some authors have been on hiatus, and are writing something new for the first time in years. Most have remained comfortably ensconced with us here at the Press, enjoying a modicum of fame and a steadily growing base of loyal readers who eagerly anticipate their next-in-series. This anthology celebrates our authors, their talent, and their diversity. Some have chosen to feature characters well-established within their own series-protagonists, supporting cast, and even one villain-turned-hero. Others have gone in totally different directions, inventing new characters and going dark or cozy for the first time, with chilling and delightful results. Yet as different as these authors and their stories are, they all share a common passion for finely crafted tales of crime and murder. From Greece to Italy, India to Australia, Great Britain to Canada; from the East Coast to the Pacific Northwest and New Mexico to the Savannah low country, they are a community Bound by Mystery, and we are proud to present their short fiction to you for the first time ever.

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Download or read book Hitchcock s Romantic Irony written by Richard Allen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Hitchcock a superficial, though brilliant, entertainer or a moralist? Do his films celebrate the ideal of romantic love or subvert it? In a new interpretation of the director's work, Richard Allen argues that Hitchcock orchestrates the narrative and stylistic idioms of popular cinema to at once celebrate and subvert the ideal of romance and to forge a distinctive worldview-the amoral outlook of the romantic ironist or aesthete. He describes in detail how Hitchcock's characteristic tone is achieved through a titillating combination of suspense and black humor that subverts the moral framework of the romantic thriller, and a meticulous approach to visual style that articulates the lure of human perversity even as the ideal of romance is being deliriously affirmed. Discussing more than thirty films from the director's English and American periods, Allen explores the filmmaker's adoption of the idioms of late romanticism, his orchestration of narrative point of view and suspense, and his distinctive visual strategies of aestheticism and expressionism and surrealism.

Download or read book Murder at the Manor written by Laura Northup and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between cases, Emma Slayville remains prepared, keeping up with the latest methods of crime detection. Her major source of research: My Hundred Most Baffling Cases, by Chief Inspector Christopher Croy of the New Scotland Yard. In Murder at the Manor, Emma is faced with more than the capture of an ordinary killer. Now surfaces the age-old problem of the Undead! A busy week for Emma after encountering a corpse who sings and a butler whose skills are severely lacking. This is the first in a series entitled The Lighter Side of Murder.

Download or read book Music and Cosmopolitanism written by Cristina Magaldi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Music and Cosmopolitanism, Cristina Magaldi examines music making in a past globalized world. This volume focuses on one city, Rio de Janeiro, and how it became part of a larger world through music and performance. Magaldi describes a process of creating connections beyond national borders, one that is familiar to contemporary city residents, but which was already dominant at the turn of the 20th century, as new technological developments led to alternative ways of making and experiencing music.

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Download or read book Three Pretty Widows written by Barbara Else and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delicately layered, humorous novel, deliciously written, ranging over time and place. In the aftermath of Barnaby Rivers' death, complictions arise for three beautiful women: Bella, Ruth and wicked old Jocasta. Now nothing can go on in the old way. Crisis looms. In her funniest novel yet, Barbara Else contrasts attitudes to beauty, motherhood . . . and men. Looking down on it all is Barnaby himself, not sure if he's an angel or ghost.

Download or read book The Widow s Secret written by Sara Mitchell and published by Steeple Hill. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jocelyn Tremayne saved her husband's reputation, she lost everything—including her faith in God. The idealistic bride once had a future all New York society envied. Now the young widow is suspected of an unthinkable crime. And to clear her name, she must uncover a conspiracy…and endanger her disillusioned heart. Although Secret Service agent Micah MacKenzie needs Jocelyn's aid to infiltrate the city's most privileged circles, he's determined to keep her at arm's length. But the more she risks to help him find the truth, the more he sees the wrongly judged woman she truly is. Now he will do whatever it takes to win her trust, rekindle her belief—and prove his love.

Download or read book Elinor Fry written by Paul N. Herbert and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Richmond, no other name is more synonymous with dance than Elinor Fry. Helen Keller, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and author Tom Wolfe were just some of the people with whom Fry connected in five decades of dance. From 1920 to 1970, Fry was involved, often accompanied by her beloved students, in nearly every major public event in the River City. Performing in an array of venues and photographed twice by "National Geographic," Fry was a blend of creativity and business savvy and a wonderful role model for thousands of children who learned dance in her studio. Join author and historian Paul Herbert as he celebrates Elinor Fry's spirit and exceptional achievements in the world of dance in Richmond.

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Download or read book Post Theory written by David Bordwell and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s, the academic study of film has been dominated by Structuralist Marxism, varieties of cultural theory, and the psychoanalytic ideas of Freud and Lacan. With Post-Theory, David Bordwell and Noel Carroll have opened the floor to other voices challenging the prevailing practices of film scholarship. Addressing topics as diverse as film scores, national film industries, and audience response. Post-Theory offers fresh directions for understanding film.

Download or read book Hitchcock s People Places and Things written by John Bruns and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hitchcock’s People, Places, and Things argues that Alfred Hitchcock was as much a filmmaker of things and places as he was of people. Drawing on the thought of Bruno Latour, John Bruns traces the complex relations of human and nonhuman agents in Hitchcock’s films with the aim of mapping the Hitchcock landscape cognitively, affectively, and politically. Yet this book does not promise that such a map can or will cohere, for Hitchcock was just as adept at misdirection as he was at direction. Bearing this in mind and true to the Hitchcock spirit, Hitchcock’s People, Places, and Things anticipates that people will stumble into the wrong places at the wrong time, places will be made uncanny by things, and things exchanged between people will act as (not-so) secret agents that make up the perilous landscape of Hitchcock’s work. This book offers new readings of well-known Hitchcock films, including The Lodger, Shadow of a Doubt, Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie, as well as insights into lesser-discussed films such as I Confess and Family Plot. Additional close readings of the original theatrical trailer for Psycho and a Hitchcock-directed episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents expand the Hitchcock landscape beyond conventional critical borders. In tracing the network of relations in Hitchcock’s work, Bruns brings new Hitchcockian tropes to light. For students, scholars, and serious fans, the author promises a thrilling critical navigation of the Hitchcock landscape, with frequent “mental shake-ups” that Hitchcock promised his audience.

Download or read book The New Mirror written by George Pope Morris and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hollywood Diva written by Edward Baron Turk and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based in large part on the author's exclusive access to MacDonald's private papers, including her unpublished memoir, this vivid, often touching biography details the actress's fearless efforts to break down the distinctions between high art and mass-consumed entertainment. 60 illustrations.

Download or read book The Voyageur Classic Canadian Fiction 7 Book Bundle written by Peregrine Acland and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 1782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voyageur Classics is a series of special new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions by noted experts. This bundle contains some of the greatest Canadian fiction, including influential literature from Quebec (Maria Chapdelaine, The Town Below), a collection of the best of the legendary Pauline Johnson, Peregrine Acland’s gripping Great War novel All Else is Folly, a classic tale of Irish immigration (The Yellow Briar), and great novels from the renowned Hugh Garner (The Storm Below) and Wyndham Lewis (Self Condemned). Any reader with an interest not only in Canadian literature, but in great fiction in general, will find this collection of great works an essential addition to their collection. Includes All Else Is Folly Pauline Johnson The Town Below Self Condemned Storm Below The Yellow Briar Maria Chapdelaine