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Book Synopsis Behind a Velvet Trap by : Anthony Buckley
Download or read book Behind a Velvet Trap written by Anthony Buckley and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sumptuous collection of recipes, photographs and travelogue, Justin visits a blood orange orchard in the Riverina, a squab pigeon farm in Victoria, a fishing village on the east coast of Tasmania and many places in between.
Book Synopsis The Velvet Trap by : Paul D. DA Silva
Download or read book The Velvet Trap written by Paul D. DA Silva and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from the female perspective this is the story of a womans revenge on her sisters former boyfriend on an exotic island. Having tracked him down she joins Mark in Switzerland in Lugano, at a beautiful lakeside location, and entices her prey, despite his disconnected watchfulness and unease. Maria looks to carry out her mission on a visit to the Brissago islands but the unexpected happens, convincing herself that no matter what she will succeed where all others have failed. Mysterious circumstances and a dead body confuse matters, while an electrical storm further changes events beyond her wildest dreams. Her plans slowly begin to disintegrate before her eyes. In a sea of decisions darkness closes in and she senses its all over. But is it? Find out in this intriguing thriller. The narrative is strong, the characters well developed. A thrilling denouement awaits its readers.
Book Synopsis The Incredibly Strange Features of Ray Dennis Steckler by : Christopher Wayne Curry
Download or read book The Incredibly Strange Features of Ray Dennis Steckler written by Christopher Wayne Curry and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American filmmaker Ray Dennis Steckler may forever be remembered for his cult classic The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? but his career path is even more fascinating than his strange signature film. Between 1962 and 1986, Steckler wrote, directed, edited and occasionally acted in nine more underground feature films. After his live oddities roadshows helped propel the director to even greater cult infamy, Steckler turned his camera towards the adult film world. Between 1970 and 1984, Steckler directed no fewer than three dozen of these explicit genre pieces. This book covers Steckler's nearly 50 movies, including several lost, incomplete or experimental films. Each entry includes a full list of cast and crew credits, along with a plot synopsis, plenty of images and behind-the-scenes anecdotes. Transcriptions of the author's interviews with Steckler's ex-wife Carolyn Brandt, his daughter Laura H. Steckler, actor Ron Jason and stuntman and actor Gary Kent are included along with an homage chapter and an overview of the director's collectable memorabilia.
Book Synopsis Photographic Optics and Colour Photography by : George Lindsay Johnson
Download or read book Photographic Optics and Colour Photography written by George Lindsay Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Inspired Journey by : Alexis Mason
Download or read book The Inspired Journey written by Alexis Mason and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-05-27 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman begins her spiritual journey through her heart. It is this heart connection that allows women to reach out for guidance as they move deeper within for spiritual discovery. In The Inspired Journey, authors Brown and Mason provide women with a nurturing, yet challenging, guide to lead them through their essential journey to God. The journey is an experiential one. Women will be inspired through the myths and stories within each chapter, as well as through the revelations of the authors own life lessons. Journaling and meditation exercises serve as useful tools to help women uncover the blocks that keep them from tapping into their God-given greatness. Whether studied alone or as part of a womens study group, The Inspired Journey empowers women to choose more consciously, to listen more deeply, to surrender more willingly and to awaken more joyfully. Deep within each womans heart, the soft voice of Eternal Spirit longs to be acknowledged. The Inspired Journey offers women the opening to hear the voice and respond to its urgings by creating a passionate, spirit-filled life.
Book Synopsis Behind the Screen by : William J. Mann
Download or read book Behind the Screen written by William J. Mann and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2001 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mann looks at the influence of gay actors, directors, and set and costume designers on the development of the motion pictures.
Download or read book Straight Jacket written by Matthew Todd and published by Black Swan. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Matthew Todd, editor of Attitude, the UK's best-selling gay magazine, Straight Jacket is a revolutionary clarion call for gay men, the wider LGBT community, their friends and family. Part memoir, part ground-breaking polemic, it looks beneath the shiny facade of contemporary gay culture and asks if gay people are as happy as they could be - and if not, why not? In an attempt to find the answers to this and many other difficult questions, Matthew Todd explores why statistics show a disproportionate number of gay people suffer from mental health problems, including anxiety, depression, addiction, suicidal thoughts and behaviour, and why significant numbers experience difficulty in sustaining meaningful relationships.
Download or read book Annie's Song written by Cate Dean and published by Pentam Press. This book was released on 2018-10-21 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an eventful few months, Annie Sullivan wants some quiet time, and some face time with her fiancé, Eric. She finds both in a small town in England. Until a life-changing discovery throws her into a sideways spin. Just as she begins to wrap her head around it, the trouble she thought she left behind follows her. Now she has to find the courage to use her power against an impossible enemy, and believe in herself enough to save the people who have become her family. urban fantasy, paranormal, witch, elementals, demon, jinn, magic, England, English countryside, standing stones, fallen angel, guardian angel
Book Synopsis The Velvet Rope Economy by : Nelson D. Schwartz
Download or read book The Velvet Rope Economy written by Nelson D. Schwartz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times business reporter Nelson D. Schwartz comes a gripping investigation of how a virtual velvet rope divides Americans in every arena of life, creating a friction-free existence for those with money on one side and a Darwinian struggle for the middle class on the other side. In nearly every realm of daily life--from health care to education, highways to home security--there is an invisible velvet rope that divides how Americans live. On one side of the rope, for a price, red tape is cut, lines are jumped, appointments are secured, and doors are opened. On the other side, middle- and working-class Americans fight to find an empty seat on the plane, a place in line with their kids at the amusement park, a college acceptance, or a hospital bed. We are all aware of the gap between the rich and everyone else, but when we weren't looking, business innovators stepped in to exploit it, shifting services away from the masses and finding new ways to profit by serving the privileged. And as decision-makers and corporate leaders increasingly live on the friction-free side of the velvet rope, they are less inclined to change--or even notice--the obstacles everyone else must contend with. Schwartz's "must read" book takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of this new reality and shows the toll the velvet rope divide takes on society.
Book Synopsis The Collected Prose Works of Stephen Vincent Benét by : Stephen Vincent Benét
Download or read book The Collected Prose Works of Stephen Vincent Benét written by Stephen Vincent Benét and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Collected Prose Works of Stephen Vincent Benét" by Stephen Vincent Benét. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis The Gentrification Plot by : Thomas Heise
Download or read book The Gentrification Plot written by Thomas Heise and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, crime novelists have set their stories in New York City, a place long famed for decay, danger, and intrigue. What happens when the mean streets of the city are no longer quite so mean? In the wake of an unprecedented drop in crime in the 1990s and the real-estate development boom in the early 2000s, a new suspect is on the scene: gentrification. Thomas Heise identifies and investigates the emerging “gentrification plot” in contemporary crime fiction. He considers recent novels that depict the sweeping transformations of five iconic neighborhoods—the Lower East Side, Chinatown, Red Hook, Harlem, and Bedford-Stuyvesant—that have been central to African American, Latinx, immigrant, and blue-collar life in the city. Heise reads works by Richard Price, Henry Chang, Gabriel Cohen, Reggie Nadelson, Ivy Pochoda, Grace Edwards, Ernesto Quiñonez, Wil Medearis, and Brian Platzer, tracking their representations of “broken-windows” policing, cultural erasure, racial conflict, class grievance, and displacement. Placing their novels in conversation with oral histories, urban planning, and policing theory, he explores crime fiction’s contradictory and ambivalent portrayals of the postindustrial city’s dizzying metamorphoses while underscoring the material conditions of the genre. A timely and powerful book, The Gentrification Plot reveals how today’s crime writers narrate the death—or murder—of a place and a way of life.
Book Synopsis The Claire Wiche Chronicles Volumes 4-5 by : Cate Dean
Download or read book The Claire Wiche Chronicles Volumes 4-5 written by Cate Dean and published by Pentam Press. This book was released on 2018-10-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exciting conclusion to The Claire Wiche Chronicles. Follow Claire as she meets new threats, finds friendships she never expected to have, and comes face to face with her own demon. The set includes: Annie's Song What Doesn't Kill You urban fantasy, paranormal, box set, witches, demons, fallen angels, guardian angels, elementals, standing stones, England, English countryside, crystals, possessed objects, tattoos
Download or read book Remarkable Women written by Charles Hays and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-25 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a chronological characterization about my remarkable women from my grandmother and mother to my final girlfriend, Betty. One widower taught me patience and helped me to survive the Great Depression. Another nice lady trained me about caretaking. A third one educated me on the importance of a loving first kiss and what young love was all about. A fourth one showed me the meaning of an artful dance and how lovely a dance could be. A fifth one demonstrated to me the power and pleasantries of intercourse. A sixth one stole my heart and led me happily to my marriage. A seventh one edified me about how monetary wealth can interfere with a new relationship. An eighth one tutored me on pain and how to ignore it during a meaningful assignation. This book offers a little something for every reader, either male or female.
Book Synopsis The Heroes of Albany by : Rufus Wheelwright Clark
Download or read book The Heroes of Albany written by Rufus Wheelwright Clark and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blood and Beauty written by Sarah Dunant and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Italian Renaissance novels—The Birth of Venus, In the Company of the Courtesan, and Sacred Hearts—has an exceptional talent for breathing life into history. Now Sarah Dunant turns her discerning eye to one of the world’s most intriguing and infamous families—the Borgias—in an engrossing work of literary fiction. By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and inside the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, he is defined not just by his wealth or his passionate love for his illegitimate children, but by his blood: He is a Spanish Pope in a city run by Italians. If the Borgias are to triumph, this charismatic, consummate politician with a huge appetite for life, women, and power must use papacy and family—in particular, his eldest son, Cesare, and his daughter Lucrezia—in order to succeed. Cesare, with a dazzlingly cold intelligence and an even colder soul, is his greatest—though increasingly unstable—weapon. Later immortalized in Machiavelli’s The Prince, he provides the energy and the muscle. Lucrezia, beloved by both men, is the prime dynastic tool. Twelve years old when the novel opens, hers is a journey through three marriages, and from childish innocence to painful experience, from pawn to political player. Stripping away the myths around the Borgias, Blood & Beauty is a majestic novel that breathes life into this astonishing family and celebrates the raw power of history itself: compelling, complex and relentless. Praise for Blood and Beauty “Dunant transforms the blackhearted Borgias and the conniving courtiers and cardinals of Renaissance Europe into fully rounded characters, brimming with life and lust.”—The New York Times Book Review “Like Hilary Mantel with her Cromwell trilogy, [Sarah] Dunant has scaled new heights by refashioning mythic figures according to contemporary literary taste. This intellectually satisfying historical saga, which offers blood and beauty certainly, but brains too, is surely the best thing she has done to date.”—The Miami Herald “Compelling female players have been a characteristic of Dunant’s earlier novels, and this new offering is no exception. . . . The members of this close-knit family emerge as dynamic characters, flawed but sympathetic, filled with fear and longing.”—The Seattle Times “The Machiavellian atmosphere—hedonism, lust, political intrigue—is magnetic. . . . Readers won’t want the era of Borgia rule to end.”—People (four stars)
Download or read book Hip Hop America written by Nelson George and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-04-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down, Hip Hop America is the definitive account of the society-altering collision between black youth culture and the mass media.
Download or read book Embers of Eden written by and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zai Winston is a budding young artist whose life has been consumed by a terminal illness that seems to be determined to break him. Ironically it is only because of his illness that he is able to explore his passion as a successful painter. Resigned to his fate Zai’s world is violently upended as it is revealed that the truth of his existence may not be quite what it seems. Time and circumstance places him in the direct path of a past he’s never known . . . On a collision course with an entity his soul could never forget, and as the curtain rises and the truth is revealed the reality Zai has always known becomes a place of uncertainty; a place where the past is present, his life is a chess piece and the only thing that stands between him and oblivion is a love that will transcend the sands of time and a war that could shatter the world.
