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Book Synopsis Imelda and the Goblin King by : Briony May Smith
Download or read book Imelda and the Goblin King written by Briony May Smith and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with inventiveness and beautiful art, this is an unmissable story from a fresh new talent. Far away behind the hills a girl called Imelda lives beside a fairy forest. Every day she ventures into the forest to play with her fairy friends. But within the deepest, darkest depths of the trees lives the worst creature of all—the Goblin King! When he kidnaps the Fairy Queen, the fairies call upon Imelda to help. Soon she has a cunning plan to turn the Goblin King into a worm and rid the forest of him for good!
Download or read book Imelda written by Katherine Ellison and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imelda Marcos - famous for her 1,060 pairs of shoes - was also one of the most powerful and controversial figures in world history. She was extraordinarily beautiful, charismatic, determined - and savage. "Imelda: Steel Butterfly of the Philippines," a uniquely unauthorized biography by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Ellison, describes the Philippine first lady's rise from near-poverty to unimaginable riches, her surprisingly tenacious attempt to take over as dictator, and her fatal grudge match with her chief political rival, Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino. "The research here is superb, the writing is gripping and graceful." -The Washington Post After helping reveal Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos' multi-billion-dollar corruption in a Pulitzer-prize-winning newspaper series, Ellison returned to the Philippines, New York City, and Washington, D.C. to interview scores of Imelda's relatives, friends, bodyguards, "Blue Ladies," political rivals and allies, as well as every U.S. Ambassador to serve in Manila during the Marcos' 1965-1986 regime. Acclaimed by The Washington Post for its exceptional research and compelling writing, Ellison's book chronicles Imelda's journey from her modest upbringing on the island of Leyte to her powerful role beside her husband, who called her his "secret weapon." Fueled by fortunes in US aid, and for years extolled by US media, which compared the Marcoses to the Kennedys' "Camelot," the Philippines' "conjugal dictatorship" soon devolved into unrivaled extravagance, corruption, and harrowing human rights abuses. Delving into the intricacies of the Manila-Washington dynamics in the context of one of history's weirdest-ever binational relationships, Ellison also explores Imelda's voracious pursuit of US real estate, including the acquisition of New York's Crown Building; her meetings with Muammar Qadafy, Yuri Andropov, Fidel Castro and Madame Mao, and her attendance at such fabulous events as Iran's 2,500th-anniversary festival and the coronation of the King of Nepal. Ellison also provides startling, never-before-reported evidence of Imelda's clandestine involvement in Benigno Aquino's assassination. Imelda, now in her 90s, and at the helm of a political dynasty with her son, President Ferdinand "BongBong" Marcos Jr., appears to have triumphed over her critics, even inspiring a cheerful recent Broadway musical. Get "Imelda: Steel Butterfly of the Philippines" to learn the much more fascinating truth. "Katherine Ellison has a reporter's zeal for finding the story within the story. Her book is full of surprises."-David Haward Bain, author of Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines Katherine Ellison is a former foreign correspondent and author and co-author of a dozen books, including the family ADHD memoir, "Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention." She has reported for publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Smithsonian, and The Atlantic.
Download or read book Imelda written by John Herdman and published by Leamington Books. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Herdman's masterpiece of the modern Scottish Gothic appears in print from Leamington Books, with a new introduction from the author.Black humour and even blacker lives collide in a tale of love and murder on an old Borders family estate. In a grotesque story told from two perfectly contrasting angles we find the arrogant genius, Frank, known as 'Superbo', and his hated brother Hubert.Raw and immoral, Imelda is a puzzle, mocking the reader in its quest for answers. Murder and madness this way lie―but who if anyone is to be believed in unpicking the deadly secrets behind the birth of cousin Imelda's child?An assured masterpiece from Scotland's greatest living chronicler of the dark side, Imelda, first published in 1993 became an instant classic of Scottish letters.
Author :Carmen Navarro Pedrosa Publisher :Flipside Digital Content Company Inc. ISBN 13 :6210100880 Total Pages :297 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (11 download)
Book Synopsis Imelda Marcos by : Carmen Navarro Pedrosa
Download or read book Imelda Marcos written by Carmen Navarro Pedrosa and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1966, Imelda Marcos was "e;rich, young, and beautiful, an Asian Jacqueline Kennedy."e; Years later, Benigno Aquino would call her "e;another Evita Peron,"e; referring to her ruthless ambition and seemingly insatiable desire for wealth and power. By 1986, she was in exile in Hawaii, having been driven from the country she and her husband had led for over twenty years.In Imelda Marcos, Filipino journalist Carmen Navarro Pedrosa tells the full story of Imelda's life: her tragically poor childhood and her subsequent drive to succeed socially, financially, and politically.A naive young woman from the provinces, Imelda garnered attention in 1953 as the winner of the Miss Manila contest and caught the eye of a rising young congressman, Ferdinand E. Marcos. After a courtship of eleven days, they were married. Under Ferdinand's stern tutelage, Imelda would emerge as his most important political asset and, later, as one of the wealthiest, most powerful women in the world.Based on years of research and in-depth interviews with both friends and foes of the Marcoses, this biography traces Imelda's life from her poverty-stricken origins to her present state of exile, providing insight not only into her character but also into the demise of the Marcos regime and the current turbulent political situation in the Philippines.
Author :Carmen Navarro Pedrosa Publisher :Flipside Digital Content Company Inc. ISBN 13 :6210100899 Total Pages :295 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (11 download)
Book Synopsis Untold Story of Imelda Marcos by : Carmen Navarro Pedrosa
Download or read book Untold Story of Imelda Marcos written by Carmen Navarro Pedrosa and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First released in 1969, during a time of great uncertainty for the Philippines, this unauthorized biography of one of the most intriguing women in the world was banned in her own country. For writing it, Carmen Pedrosa, with her family, was exiled to London for 20 years.Despite that, The Untold Story of Imelda Marcos became a local and international hit, selling out all of its print runs.Now, decades after the end of Martial Law, the book returns to tell the story of Imelda Romualdez-Marcos to a new generation.A modern Cinderella tale, The Untold Story of Imelda Marcos tells of how she rose from being a destitute child to becoming the most powerful woman of the country. Starry-eyed, penniless, and provincial, Imelda was in search of good fortune in Manila. Then came Ferdinand E. Marcos, a knight in shining armor, rescuing her from poverty and misery. "e;I will make you the First Lady of the land,"e; he promised her.Complete, detailed, and replete with facts and documents that have been painstakingly hidden from the public by the administration's image-makers, her life story unfolds, one truth at a time. It explains Imelda's much vaunted charisma that, in President Marcos' own words, garnered one million votes in the 1965 elections. She is a person who is difficult to be indifferent to. This book tells us why.
Book Synopsis Forgiving Imelda Marcos by : Nathan Go
Download or read book Forgiving Imelda Marcos written by Nathan Go and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathan Go’s taut meditation on forgiveness and regret is told in the indelible voice of a Filipino chauffeur nearing the end of his life. After suffering a serious heart injury, Lito Macaraeg reaches out to his estranged son—a journalist who lives in the United States, far from his father’s Manila nursing home—to promise him a scoop: the story of a secret meeting between Imelda Marcos and Corazon Aquino. Imelda, best known for her excessive shoe collection, was the flamboyant wife of the late Philippine dictator; Corazon was the wife of the opposition politician who was allegedly killed by the Marcoses. An unassuming housewife, Corazon rose up after her husband’s death to lead the massive rallies that eventually toppled the Marcos dictatorship. Lito was Corazon’s personal driver for many years, and her only companion on the journey from Manila to Baguio City to meet Imelda. Throughout the long drive, Lito’s loyalty to his employer is pitted against his own moral uncertainty about her desire to forgive Imelda. But as Lito unspools his tale about two women whose choices shaped their country’s history, his own story, and failings, slowly come to light. He delves into his past: his neglectful father, who joined a Communist guerrilla movement; their life in a mountain encampment headed by a charismatic priest; and Lito’s struggles with poverty and ambition. In the end, it is Lito himself who must contemplate the meaning and possibility of forgiveness. In Forgiving Imelda Marcos, Nathan Go weaves a deeply intimate novel of alternative history that explores power and powerlessness, the nature of guilt, and what we owe to those we love.
Author :Carmen Navarro Pedrosa Publisher :Flipside Digital Content Company Inc. ISBN 13 :6210100902 Total Pages :241 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (11 download)
Book Synopsis Imelda Romualdez Marcos by : Carmen Navarro Pedrosa
Download or read book Imelda Romualdez Marcos written by Carmen Navarro Pedrosa and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the story of the trial and acquittal of Imelda Romualdez Marcos in a New York court in 1990. Her media image of being "e;one of the richest women in the world"e; and coming from one of the poorest countries was the scandal. This book discusses some facts and events that lead to Imelda's fall. The author also addresses the scandalous affair of Ferdinand Marcos with Dovie Beams and how it destroyed Imelda. Slowly, the partner in marriage had become a rival in politics.
Book Synopsis A Lick and a Promise by : Imelda May
Download or read book A Lick and a Promise written by Imelda May and published by Faber Music Ltd. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The full eBook version of A Lick and a Promise in fixed-layout format. A Lick and a Promise is the debut poetry collection of one of Ireland's most famed female musicians, Imelda May. Following the release of her first poetry EP Slip Of The Tongue in 2020, this collection contains 100 poems, including two each from both her father and young daughter. Using the themes of Breast, Below, Blood, Eyes, Tongue and Temple, the poems are written in May's absorbing, visceral style and encapsulate heartbreak, sex, nature and womanhood. Included in the collection is 'You Don't Get to be Racist and Irish', the powerful poem which was written in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and was recently used by Rethink Ireland campaign. Pen and ink drawings by Imelda accompany selected poems.
Download or read book Imelda's Secret written by Liza Gino and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on real-life accounts, Imelda's Secret delves into the story of two cousins who are grappling with the emotional scars of being forced to serve as 'comfort women' during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II. Forced into sexual slavery, 'comfort women' were stolen from their families and stripped of their dignity. The stories of these women have been swept under the rug for far too long. Imelda's Secret is a story of story of hope, redemption, and strength. It exposes the experiences of 'comfort women' in the hopes of sparking awareness and advocacy in all who read it.
Book Synopsis Patron Saint of First Communicants by : Mary Fabyan Windeatt
Download or read book Patron Saint of First Communicants written by Mary Fabyan Windeatt and published by TAN Books. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gifts were piled high for 5-year-old Imelda's birthday. Imelda was delighted, but still she asked, "I was wondering if I could have just one more present." "Greedy girl!" laughed her father. Unfortunately, her parents could not give her this one present--Our Lord in Holy Communion. But Imelda decided to ask Our Lord Himself. What would He reply? This book gives the answer and tells how little Imelda came to be the Patroness of First Communicants.
Book Synopsis Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos, and Me by : Lorina Mapa
Download or read book Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos, and Me written by Lorina Mapa and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A graphic memoir about growing up in the Philippines in the 1980s with Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos and the EDSA Revolution.When she learns of her beloved father's fatal car accident, Mapa flies to Manila to attend his funeral. His sudden death sparks childhood memories. Weaving the past with the present, Mapa entertains with stories about religion, pop culture, adolescence, social class and politics, including her experiences of the 1986 People Power Revolution which made headlines around the world. It is a love letter to her parents, family, friends, country of birth, and in the end, perhaps even to herself.
Book Synopsis The Nature of Beauty by : Imelda Burke
Download or read book The Nature of Beauty written by Imelda Burke and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to a new generation of natural beauty, skincare and makeup. 'Emma Watson's Natural Beauty Guru' Racked.com This honest, expert book will teach you how to recognise what your skin needs and how to buy the best products for you. It offers both time-honoured and modern techniques, tips and guidance for all ages, and showcases the powerful natural ingredients and brands that all beauty lovers should know about. '[Imelda's book] is amazing' Emma Watson, IntoTheGloss.com 'Imelda and her team have been teaching their customers, including me, about the best botanical brands out there for years. Now all their experience is bound together in this wonderful beauty guide.' Melissa Hemsley 'Imelda is the go-to person for natural beauty in London, I’ve learnt so much from her and her team' Ella Mills, Delicious Ella 'I can't put this book down #bestbeautytips' Tata Harper
Book Synopsis Imelda Romualdez Marcos by : Isabelo T. Crisostomo
Download or read book Imelda Romualdez Marcos written by Isabelo T. Crisostomo and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Acquittal, Homecoming, and Inevitable Rise to the Presidency of Imelda R. Marcos by : Reynaldo T. Fajardo
Download or read book The Acquittal, Homecoming, and Inevitable Rise to the Presidency of Imelda R. Marcos written by Reynaldo T. Fajardo and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Intimate Portrait of Sidney Foster by : Imelda Delgado
Download or read book An Intimate Portrait of Sidney Foster written by Imelda Delgado and published by Hamilton Books. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great American pianist Sidney Foster—distinguished professor of piano at Indiana University, and the first Leventritt Award winner—is remembered here by a former student for his outstanding ability and generous character. This book includes commentary by numerous students, professionals in their own right; Mr. Foster’s own words; and his own cadenza to the Third Beethoven Concerto for piano. (Other compositions, including a song dedicated to Foster’s wife, a piano duet with narration, and a twenty-minute CD of his playing, excerpted from unedited live performances, are available for purchase separately from the author.)
Book Synopsis The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos by : Primitivo Mijares
Download or read book The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos written by Primitivo Mijares and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-17 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's Foreword This book is unfinished. The Filipino people shall finish it for me. I wrote this volume very, very slowly. 1 could have done with it In three months after my defection from the conjugal dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos on February 20.1975. Instead, I found myself availing of every excuse to slow it down. A close associate, Marcelino P. Sarmiento, even warned me, "Baka mapanis 'yan." (Your book could become stale.)While I availed of almost any excuse not to finish the manuscript of this volume, I felt the tangible voices of a muted people back home in the Philippines beckoning to me from across the vast Pacific Ocean. In whichever way I turned, I was confronted by the distraught images of the Filipino multitudes cryingout to me to finish this work, lest the frailty of human memory -- or any incident a la Nalundasan - consign to oblivion the matters I had in mind to form the vital parts of this book. It was as if the Filipino multitudes and history itself were surging in an endless wave presenting a compelling demand on me toSan Francisco, California perpetuate the personal knowledge I have gained on the infamous machinations of Ferdinand E. Marcos and his overly ambitious wife, Imelda, that led to a day of infamy in my country, that Black Friday on September 22, 1972, when martial law was declared as a means to establish history's first conjugal dictatorship. The sense of urgency in finishing this work was also goaded by the thought that Marcos does not have eternal life and that the Filipino people are of unimaginable forgiving posture. I thought that, if I did not perpetuate this work for posterity, Marcos might unduly benefit from a Laurelian statement that, when a man dies, the virtues of his past are magnified and his faults are reduced to molehills. This is a book for which so much has been offered and done by Marcos and his minions so that it would never see the light of print. Now that it is off the press. I entertain greater fear that so much more will be done to prevent its circulation, not only in the Philippines but also in the United States.But this work now belongs to history. Let it speak for itself in the context of developments within the coming months or years. Although it finds great relevance in the present life of the present life of the Filipinos and of Americans interested in the study of subversion of democratic governments by apparently legal means, this work seeks to find its proper niche in history which mustinevitably render its judgment on the seizure of government power from the people by a lame duck Philippine President.If I had finished this work immediately after my defection from the totalitarian regime of Ferdinand and Imelda, or after the vicious campaign of the dictatorship to vilify me in July-August. 1975, then I could have done so only in anger. Anger did influence my production of certain portions of the manu-script. However, as I put the finishing touches to my work, I found myself expurgating it of the personal venom, the virulence and intemperate language of my original draft.Some of the materials that went into this work had been of public knowledge in the Philippines. If I had used them, it was with the intention of utilizing them as links to heretofore unrevealed facets of the various ruses that Marcos employed to establish his dictatorship.Now, I have kept faith with the Filipino people. I have kept my rendezvous with history. I have, with this work, discharged my obligation to myself, my profession of journalism, my family and my country.I had one other compelling reason for coming out with this work at the great risks of being uprooted from my beloved country, of forced separation from my wife and children and losing their affection, and of losing everything I have in my name in the Philippines - or losing life itself. It is that I wanted to makea public expiation for the little influence that I had . . . .(more inside)
Book Synopsis Giovanna Silva. Imeldific by : Giovanna Silva
Download or read book Giovanna Silva. Imeldific written by Giovanna Silva and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imelda Romualdez Marcos is a Filipino politician who was first lady of the Philippines for twenty-one years, during which time she and her husband are widely believed to have illegally amassed a multibillion dollar fortune, the bulk of which still remains unrecovered. Her personal wealth was estimated at $24 billion in 1979, and today it is thought to be at least $30 billion. She married Ferdinand Marcos in 1954 and became first lady in 1965, when he was elected president of the Philippines. During her tenure as first lady, Marcos owned three thousand pairs of shoes. She imported giraffes?just because she could. Her habit of initiating ostentatious architectural projects using public funds came to be described in common parlance as ?Imeldific.? In 1966, Ferdinand Marcos issued Executive Order no. 60, establishing the Cultural Center of the Philippines and appointing its board of directors. The board would elect Imelda Marcos as chair, giving her legal mandate to negotiate and manage funds for the center. The CCP is considered the central symbol of Imelda Marcos?s ?edifice complex.? Its enormous modernist concrete structures were designed by Filipino architect Leandro Locsin. Imelda Marcos declared the center the ?sanctuary of the Filipino soul.? In these pages, Giovanna Silva inspects the heritage of the country, illustrating the robust relationship between architecture and history.
