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An Appetite for Violets

Author : Martine Bailey
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466860715
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book An Appetite for Violets written by Martine Bailey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "That's how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly you're invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a conversation here, and add a little gossip there. Then you find something, something you should not have found." Irrepressible Biddy Leigh, under-cook at forbidding Mawton Hall, only wants to marry her childhood sweetheart and set up her own tavern. But when her elderly master marries young Lady Carinna, Biddy is unwittingly swept up in a world of scheming, secrets, and lies. Forced to accompany her new mistress to Italy, she documents her adventures and culinary discoveries in an old household book of recipes, The Cook's Jewel. Biddy grows intrigued by her fellow travelers, but her secretive and unconventional mistress is the most intriguing of all. In London, Biddy finds herself attracted to her mistress's younger brother. In France, she discovers her mistress's dark secret. At last in Italy, Biddy becomes embroiled in a murderous conspiracy, knowing the secrets she holds could be a key to a better life, or her downfall. Inspired by eighteenth-century household books of recipes and set at the time of the invention of the first restaurants, An Appetite for Violets is a literary feast for lovers of historical fiction. Martine Bailey's novel opens a window into the fascinating lives of servants, while also delivering a suspenseful tale of obsession and betrayal.

An Appetite for Violets

Author : Martine Bailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781444824148
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book An Appetite for Violets written by Martine Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Violet Bakery Cookbook

Author : Claire Ptak
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 1607746727
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Violet Bakery Cookbook written by Claire Ptak and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A design-forward cookbook for sweet and savory baked goods from London's popular Violet Bakery that focuses on quality ingredients, seasonality, and taste (as opposed to science) as the keys to creating satisfying, delightful homemade pastries, tarts, sweets, and more. Violet is a jewel box of a cake shop and café in Hackney, east London. The baking is done with simple ingredients including whole grain flours, less refined sugars, and the natural sweetness and nuanced hues of seasonal fruits. Everything is made in an open kitchen for people to see. Famed for its exquisite baked goods, Violet has become a destination. Owner Claire Ptak uses her Californian sensibility to create recipes that are both nourishing and indulgent. With a careful eye to taste and using the purest ingredients, she has created the most flavorful iterations of classic cakes, as well as new treats for modern palates. Over 100 recipes include nourishing breakfasts, midday snacks, desserts to share, fruit preserves, and stylish celebration cakes. This book is about making baking worth it: simple to cook and satisfying to eat.

Violets and Other Tales

Author : Alice Dunbar Nelson
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513287915
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Violets and Other Tales written by Alice Dunbar Nelson and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violets and Other Tales (1895) is a collection of stories and poems by Alice Dunbar Nelson. While working as a teacher in New Orleans, Dunbar Nelson published Violets and Other Tales through The Monthly Review, embarking on a career as a leading black writer of the early twentieth century. “If perchance this collection of idle thoughts may serve to while away an hour or two, or lift for a brief space the load of care from someone's mind, their purpose has been served—the author is satisfied.” With this entreaty, Alice Dunbar Nelson introduces her first published work with a humility and caution rather unfitting an author of such immense talent. In this collection of reflections, vignettes, short stories, and poems, Dunbar Nelson proves herself as a writer immersed in the classics, yet capable of illuminating the events and concerns of her own generation. In “A Carnival Jangle,” she provides a vibrant description of New Orleans during its legendary season of celebration. “The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ” presents itself as a newly discovered manuscript revealing Jesus’ travels in India. Dunbar Nelson’s brilliant prose style is nicely juxtaposed with her expertise in poetic form as she moves fluidly from love poems to religious verses, narrative poems to heartbreaking elegies. Only twenty years old when this collection was published, Dunbar Nelson executes a brilliant debut to a long and distinguished career in literature. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Alice Dunbar Nelson’s Violets and Other Tales is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Violet to Vita

Author : Violet Trefusis
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Violet to Vita written by Violet Trefusis and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1990 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Journal of Dora Damage

Author : Belinda Starling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608196046
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Dora Damage written by Belinda Starling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1860: On the brink of destitution, Dora Damage illicitly takes over her ailing husband's bookbinding business, only to find herself lured into binding expensive volumes of pornography commissioned by aristocratic roués. Dora's charm and indefatigable spirit carry her through this rude awakening as she contends with violent debt collectors, an epileptic daughter, evil doctors, a rheumatic husband, errant workmen, nosy neighbors, and a constant stream of wealthy dilettantes. When she suddenly finds herself forced to offer an internship to a mysterious, fugitive American slave, Dora realizes she has been pulled into in an illegal trade of sex, money, and deceit. The Journal of Dora Damage conjures a vision of London when it was the largest city in the world, grappling with the filth produced by a swollen population. Against a backdrop of power and politics, work and idleness, conservatism and abolitionism, Belinda Starling explores the restrictions of gender, class, and race, the ties of family and love, and the price of freedom in this wholly engrossing debut novel. REVIEWS: "Unfortunately, Starling's debut novel will be her last; she died prematurely last year at the age of 34. Although the plot is a bit too crowded and overworked-a common novice mistake-this historical melodrama artfully evokes the contradictions inherent in Victorian society. When Dora Damage is forced by circumstances-an invalid husband and an epileptic daughter-to take over the family bookbinding business, she is inexorably drawn into a London netherworld she barely knew existed. As if binding pornographic books for a circle of aristocratic clients isn't bad enough, she is also compelled to harbor Din Nelson, a fugitive American slave. Unable to suppress her emotional and physical attraction for Din, she gives into desire and her real education begins."- Booklist

Violet the Pilot

Author : Steve Breen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425288196
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Violet the Pilot written by Steve Breen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violet is a science-loving girl inventor with a flair for the air! Fans of Ada Twist, Scientist and Rosie Revere, Engineer will love this classic underdog story by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Steve Breen. By the time she's two years old, Violet Van Winkle can engineer nearly any appliance in the house. And by eight she's building elaborate flying machines from scratch—mind-boggling contraptions such as the Tubbubbler, the Bicycopter, and the Wing-a-ma-jig. The kids at school tease her, but they have no idea what she's capable of. Maybe she could earn their respect by winning the blue ribbon in the upcoming Air Show. Or maybe something even better will happen—something involving her best-ever invention, a Boy Scout troop in peril, and even the mayor himself! "An engaging story of a spunky girl who follows her dreams . . . Violet is a terrific role model."--School Library Journal

Gone are the Leaves

Author : Anne Donovan
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1782112642
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Gone are the Leaves written by Anne Donovan and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feilamort can remember very little of his childhood before he became a choir boy in the home of the Laird and his French wife. Feilamort has one of the finest voices in the land. It is a gift he believes will protect him . . . Deirdre has lived in the castle all her short life. Apprentice to her mother, she embroiders the robes for one of Scotland's finest families. She can capture, with just a few delicate stitches, the ripeness of a bramble or the glint of bronze on a fallen leaf. But with her mother pushing her to choose between a man she does not love and a closed world of prayer and solitude, Deirdre must decide for herself what her life will become. When the time comes for Feilamort to make an awful decision, his choice catapults himself and Deirdre head-first into adulthood. As the two friends learn more about Feilamort's forgotten childhood, it becomes clear that someone close is intent on keeping it hidden. Full of wonder and intrigue, and told with the grace and charm for which Anne Donovan is so beloved, Gone Are the Leaves is the enchanting story of one boy's lost past and his uncertain future.

The Third Violet

Author : Stephen Crane
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775453855
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book The Third Violet written by Stephen Crane and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before he succumbed to a fatal case of tuberculosis at the age of 28, author Stephen Crane penned five remarkably accomplished novels, not to mention dozens of short stories, essays, and sketches. The novel The Third Violet delves deeply into the complexities of love, viewed through the lens of the unlikely romance that blossoms between an up-and-coming artist and an aristocratic socialite.

Bleeding Violet

Author : Dia Reeves
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416998667
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Bleeding Violet written by Dia Reeves and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hanna is what you'd call mentally ill. She'd call it being totally crazy. After running away to Portero, Texas to find her estranged mother, Hanna thinks this new town can't be any crazier than she is. She's wrong. Portero is haunted with doors to dimensions of the dead, and protected by demon hunters called Mortmaine. Hanna soon falls for a young Mortmaine named Wyatt, but when her mother is possessed by a murdering ghost, Hanna decides to do whatever it takes to save her, even if it means betraying the boy she loves. In the end no one will be left unscarred.

Pop Goes the Weasel

Author : James Patterson
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759527784
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Pop Goes the Weasel written by James Patterson and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this heart-stopping thriller, Detective Alex Cross and his beloved fiancé find themselves tangled in a complex murder investigation, threatening not only public safety, but their chance at happiness together. Alex Cross is happy, but his happiness is threatened by a series of chilling murders—murders with a pattern so twisted, it leaves investigators reeling. Cross's ingenious pursuit of the killer produces a suspect: a British diplomat named Geoffrey Shafer. But proving that Shafer is the murderer becomes a potentially deadly task. As the diplomat engages in a brilliant series of surprising countermoves, in and out of the courtroom, Alex and his fiancée become hopelessly entangled with the most memorable nemesis Alex Cross has ever faced. Pop Goes the Weasel reveals James Patterson at the peak of his power. Here is a chilling villain no reader will forget, a love story of great tenderness, and a plot of relentless suspense and heart-pounding pace. To read Pop Goes the Weasel is to discover why James Patterson is one of the world's greatest suspense writers.

Madeleine Kamman's Savoie

Author : Madeleine Kamman
Publisher : Atheneum Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Madeleine Kamman's Savoie written by Madeleine Kamman and published by Atheneum Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the people and the cuisine of the mountainous southeastern region of France, discussing history and geography, as well as providing a full collection of recipes.

Feed

Author : M. T. Anderson
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763651559
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Feed written by M. T. Anderson and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize. For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play around with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who knows something about what it’s like to live without the feed-and about resisting its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., M. T. Anderson has created a brave new world - and a hilarious new lingo - sure to appeal to anyone who appreciates smart satire, futuristic fiction laced with humor, or any story featuring skin lesions as a fashion statement.

Fair Exchange

Author : Michèle Roberts
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1466854987
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Fair Exchange written by Michèle Roberts and published by Picador. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1800s in a small village in rural France, a peasant woman named Louise summons her priest. Fearing she is about to die, Louise begins her final confession to the bored cleric and reveals a lifelong secret involving a famous woman writer, a young English poet, and a wicked and unusual crime. Inspired by the lives and loves of the eighteenth-century pioneer of women's rights, Mary Wollstonecraft, and her contemporary, William Wordsworth, Fair Exchange is a spellbinding and sensual novel of passion and guilt.

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Author : Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565126068
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating written by Elisabeth Tova Bailey and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bedridden and suffering from a neurological disorder, the author recounts the profound effect on her life caused by a gift of a snail in a potted plant and shares the lessons learned from her new companion about her the meaning of her life and the life of the small creature.

The Belly of Paris

Author : Émile Zola
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Belly of Paris written by Émile Zola and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-27 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Belly of Paris (Le Ventre de Paris) is the third novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart, first published in 1873. It is a novel of the teeming life which surrounds the great central markets of Paris. The book was originally translated into English by Henry Vizetelly and published in 1888 under the title Fat and Thin. After Vizetelly's imprisonment for obscene libel the novel was one of those revised and expurgated by his son, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly. The heroine is Lisa Quenu, a daughter of Antoine Macquart. She has become prosperous, and with prosperity her selfishness has increased. Her brother-in-law Florent had escaped from penal servitude in Cayenne and lived for a short time in her house, but she became tired of his presence and ultimately denounced him to the police. Émile Zola (1840 – 1902) was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France.

Fraulein Frankenstein

Author : Stephen Woodworth
Publisher : Shadowridge Press
ISBN 13 : 9781946808196
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Fraulein Frankenstein written by Stephen Woodworth and published by Shadowridge Press. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her fate has become lost in legends. Some say her creator destroyed her; others believe fearful villagers burned her alive. Now, the mate that Victor Frankenstein created for his monster reveals her true story, from her awakening on the slab in the scientist's laboratory, through her tortured initiation into human society, to her desperate quest for a love of her own...even if she has to manufacture the lover she wants.