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Manhattan Wives and Their Mistresses

Author : Sarah Bramley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (646 download)

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Download or read book Manhattan Wives and Their Mistresses written by Sarah Bramley and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabel Rossi has a secret.Admired for her beauty, Isabel's curious masculine energy is also noted by many. Not only does Isabel feel that the only man she needs is Manhattan, but there is also a man inside of her who is increasingly difficult to contain.Meanwhile, Eva Pascal has learnt that when a marriage is fuelled by lust and greed, everyone just wants a decent figure - to have and to hold.From composed interviews to antics at the renowned Honey Girl Club where the owner tastes only bitterness, Isabel and Eva must overcome their own challenges to find happiness in the city.

The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress

Author : Ariel Lawhon
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0345805968
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress written by Ariel Lawhon and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and The Frozen River comes a “genuinely surprising whodunit” (USA Today) that tantalizingly reimagines a scandalous murder mystery that rocked the nation. One summer night in 1930, Judge Joseph Crater steps into a New York City cab and is never heard from again. Behind this great man are three women, each with her own tale to tell: Stella, his fashionable wife, the picture of propriety; Maria, their steadfast maid, indebted to the judge; and Ritzi, his showgirl mistress, willing to seize any chance to break out of the chorus line. As the twisted truth emerges, Ariel Lawhon’s wickedly entertaining debut mystery transports us into the smoky jazz clubs, the seedy backstage dressing rooms, and the shadowy streets beneath the Art Deco skyline. Don't miss Ariel Lawhon's new book, The Frozen River!

New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century

Author : Sabrina Fuchs Abrams
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271097035
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century written by Sabrina Fuchs Abrams and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seen as too smart, too sassy, too sexy, and too strident, female humorists have been resisted and overlooked. New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century corrects this tendency, focusing on the foremothers of women’s humor in modern America, who used satire, irony, and wit as indirect forms of social protest. This book focuses on the women who stood on the periphery of predominantly male New York intellectual circles in the twentieth century. Sabrina Fuchs Abrams argues that the advent of modernism, the women’s suffrage movement, the emergence of the New Woman and the New Negro Woman, and the growth of urban centers in the 1920s and ’30s gave rise to a new voice of women’s humor, one that was at once defiant and conflicted in defining female identity and the underlying assumptions about gender roles in American society. Her study gives special attention to the contributions of the satirists Edna St. Vincent Millay (pseudonym Nancy Boyd), Tess Slesinger, Dorothy Parker, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Dawn Powell, and Mary McCarthy. Grounded in theories of humor, feminist and critical race theory, and urban studies, this book will find an audience among scholars and students interested in women writers, feminist humor, modern American literature, and African American studies.

Victory at Yorktown

Author : Newt Gingrich
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466802502
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Victory at Yorktown written by Newt Gingrich and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen pen the triumphant conclusion to their George Washington series-a novel of leadership, brotherhood, loyalty, and the victory of the American Revolutionary cause. 1781. After three years in a bitter stalemate, General Washington decides to embark on one of the most audacious moves in American military history. He will take nearly his entire army out of New Jersey and New York and force march it more than three hundred miles in complete secrecy. He must pray that the French navy is successful in blockading Chesapeake Bay, so that he can fall upon British General Cornwallis at Yorktown. It is a campaign laden with "Ifs" but the deadlock must be broken, otherwise the American spirit, after six long years of war, will crumble. A tour de force narrative of one of America's most important heroes, Victory at Yorktown vividly portrays Washington's unparalleled courage, determination, and patriotism as he leads his professional army, once a "rabble in arms," to the heat of the Battle of Yorktown to execute the Revolution's most decisive contest.

Primates of Park Avenue

Author : Wednesday Martin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476762716
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Primates of Park Avenue written by Wednesday Martin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like an urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side mothers in a brilliantly original and witty memoir about her adventures assimilating into that most secretive and elite tribe. After marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighborhood, Wednesday Martin struggled to fit in. Drawing on her background in anthropology and primatology, she tried looking at her new world through that lens, and suddenly things fell into place. She understood the other mothers' snobbiness at school drop-off when she compared them to olive baboons. Her obsessional quest for a Hermes Birkin handbag made sense when she realized other females wielded them to establish dominance in their troop. And so she analyzed tribal migration patterns; display rituals; physical adornment, mutilation, and mating practices; extra-pair copulation; and more. Her conclusions are smart, thought-provoking, and hilariously unexpected. Every city has its Upper East Side, and in Wednesday's memoir, readers everywhere will recognize the strange cultural codes of powerful social hierarchies and the compelling desire to climb them. They will also see that Upper East Side mothers want the same things for their children that all mothers want--safety, happiness, and success--and not even sky-high penthouses and chauffeured SUVs can protect this ecologically released tribe from the universal experiences of anxiety and loss. When Wednesday's life turns upside down, she learns how deep the bonds of female friendship really are. Intelligent, funny, and heartfelt, Primates of Park Avenue lifts a veil on a secret, elite world within a world--the exotic, fascinating, and strangely familiar culture of privileged Manhattan motherhood"--

The Thieves of Manhattan

Author : Adam Langer
Publisher : Spiegel & Grau
ISBN 13 : 1400068916
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thieves of Manhattan written by Adam Langer and published by Spiegel & Grau. This book was released on 2010 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enraged about the literary successes of his ex-girlfriend and her new lover, Ian, an aspiring writer and coffee shop employee, becomes involved in a scheme to pen a bogus memoir and discovers unsettling industry hypocrisies.

Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850

Author : Elizabeth Blackmar
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801499739
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850 written by Elizabeth Blackmar and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the social forces behind the formation of the city's housing market and its relations to the development of a capitalist economy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Witch of New York

Author : Alex Hortis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639363920
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book The Witch of New York written by Alex Hortis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation’s debut media circus. On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old mother Emeline Houseman and her infant daughter, Ann Eliza. In a perverse nativity, someone bludgeoned to death a mother and child in their home—and then covered up the crime with hellfire. When an ambitious district attorney charges Polly Bodine (Emelin’s sister-in-law) with a double homicide, the new “penny press” explodes. Polly is a perfect media villain: she’s a separated wife who drinks gin, commits adultery, and has had multiple abortions. Between June 1844 and April 1846, the nation was enthralled by her three trials—in Staten Island, Manhattan, and Newburgh—for the “Christmas murders.” After Polly’s legal dream team entered the fray, the press and the public debated not only her guilt, but her character and fate as a fallen woman in society. Public opinion split into different camps over her case. Edgar Allen Poe and Walt Whitman covered her case as young newsmen. P. T. Barnum made a circus out of it. James Fenimore Cooper’s last novel was inspired by her trials. The Witch of New York is the first narrative history about the dueling trial lawyers, ruthless newsmen, and shameless hucksters who turned the Polly Bodine case into America’s formative tabloid trial. An origin story of how America became addicted to sensationalized reporting of criminal trials, The Witch of New York vividly reconstructs an epic mystery from Old New York—and uses the Bodine case to challenge our system of tabloid justice of today.

Who's who in the Theatre

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Who's who in the Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Scarlet Sisters

Author : Myra MacPherson
Publisher : Twelve
ISBN 13 : 1455547700
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Scarlet Sisters written by Myra MacPherson and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business threatened the white male power structure of the nineteenth century and shocked the world. Here award-winning author Myra MacPherson deconstructs and lays bare the manners and mores of Victorian America, remarkably illuminating the struggle for equality that women are still fighting today. Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee "Tennie" Claflin-the most fascinating and scandalous sisters in American history-were unequaled for their vastly avant-garde crusade for women's fiscal, political, and sexual independence. They escaped a tawdry childhood to become rich and famous, achieving a stunning list of firsts. In 1870 they became the first women to open a brokerage firm, not to be repeated for nearly a century. Amid high gossip that he was Tennie's lover, the richest man in America, fabled tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, bankrolled the sisters. As beautiful as they were audacious, the sisters drew a crowd of more than two thousand Wall Street bankers on opening day. A half century before women could vote, Victoria used her Wall Street fame to become the first woman to run for president, choosing former slave Frederick Douglass as her running mate. She was also the first woman to address a United States congressional committee. Tennie ran for Congress and shocked the world by becoming the honorary colonel of a black regiment. They were the first female publishers of a radical weekly, and the first to print Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto in America. As free lovers they railed against Victorian hypocrisy and exposed the alleged adultery of Henry Ward Beecher, the most famous preacher in America, igniting the "Trial of the Century" that rivaled the Civil War for media coverage. Eventually banished from the women's movement while imprisoned for allegedly sending "obscenity" through the mail, the sisters sashayed to London and married two of the richest men in England, dining with royalty while pushing for women's rights well into the twentieth century. Vividly telling their story, Myra MacPherson brings these inspiring and outrageous sisters brilliantly to life.

Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution

Author : Jerome Charyn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393333957
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution written by Jerome Charyn and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-02-23 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A rollicking tale." --Stacy Schiff, New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice Johnny One-Eye is bringing about the rediscovery of one of the most "singular and remarkable [careers] in American literature" (Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World). In this picaresque tour de force that reanimates Revolutionary Manhattan through the story of double agent John Stocking, the bastard son of a whorehouse madam and possibly George Washington, Jerome Charyn has given us one of the most memorable historical novels in years. As Johnny seeks to unlock the mystery of his birth and grapples with his allegiances, he falls in love with Clara, a gorgeous, green-eyed octoroon, the most coveted harlot of Gertrude's house. The wild parade of characters he encounters includes Benedict Arnold, the Howe brothers, "Sir Billy" and "Black Dick," and a manipulative Alexander Hamilton. Not since John Barth's The Sotweed Factor and Gore Vidal's Burr has a novel so dramatically re-created America's historical beginnings. Reading group guide included.

Men & Masculinities [2 volumes]

Author : Michael S. Kimmel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576077756
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Men & Masculinities [2 volumes] written by Michael S. Kimmel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-11 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first encyclopedia to analyze, summarize, and explain the complexities of men's lives and the idea of modern manhood. The process of "making masculinity visible" has been going on for over two decades and has produced a prodigious and interesting body of work. But until now the subject has had no authoritative reference source. Men & Masculinities, a pioneering two-volume work, corrects the oversight by summarizing the latest historical, biological, cross-cultural, psychological, and sociological research on the subject. It also looks at literature, art, and music from a gender perspective. The contributors are experts in their specialties and their work is directed, organized, and coedited by one of the premier scholars in the field, Michael Kimmel. The coverage brings together for the first time considerable knowledge of men and manhood, focusing on such areas as sexual violence, intimacy, pornography, homophobia, sports, profeminist men, rituals, sexism, and many other important subjects. Clearly, this unique reference is a valuable guide to students, teachers, writers, policymakers, journalists, and others who seek a fuller understanding of gender in the United States.

New York Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1981-09-14 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

The Millionaire's Wife

Author : Cathy Scott
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250010977
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Millionaire's Wife written by Cathy Scott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Millionaire's Wife Cathy Scott The beloved son of Holocaust survivors, forty-nine-year-old George Kogan grew up in Puerto Rico before making his way to New York City, where he enjoyed great success as an antiques and art dealer. Until one morning in 1990, when George was approached on the street by an unidentified gunman—and was killed in cold blood. Before the shooting, George had been on the way to his girlfriends's apartment. Mary-Louise Hawkins was twenty-eight years old and had once worked as George's publicist. But ever since they became lovers, George's estranged wife, Barbara, was consumed with bitterness. As she and George hashed out a divorce, Barbara fueled her anger into greed—especially after a judge turned down her request for $5,000 a week in alimony. Barbara, who stood to collect $4.3 million in life insurance, was immediately suspected in George's death. But it would take authorities almost twenty years to uncover a link between her lawyer, Manuel Martinez, and the hitman who killed George. In 2010, Martinez agreed to testify against his client...and Barbara eventually pled guilty to charges of grand larceny, conspiracy to commit murder, and murder in the first degree. This is the shocking true story of THE MILLIONAIRE'S WIFE.

New York Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1968-04-29 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

The Sheikh's Rebellious Mistress

Author : Sandra Marton
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1426825099
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Sheikh's Rebellious Mistress written by Sandra Marton and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2008-11-22 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A royal sheikh is out for revenge against the woman who stole his heart—and his fortune—in the USA Today–bestselling author’s sexy international romance. Sheikh Salim al Taj, crown prince of Senahdar, never mixes business and pleasure—until a night of unbridled passion with employee Grace Hunter makes him rethink all the rules he lives by. Afraid that his desire for her could compromise his judgment, he conjures every ounce of self-control to keep her at arm’s length. But when Grace suddenly disappears—along with ten million dollars of Salim’s money—the sheikh’s desire turns to a lust for revenge. He resolves to bring his runaway rebellious mistress to heel—slowly, pleasurably and mercilessly. . . .

Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women and religion: methods of study and reflection

Author : Rosemary Skinner Keller
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253346865
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women and religion: methods of study and reflection written by Rosemary Skinner Keller and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fundamental and well-illustrated reference collection for anyone interested in the role of women in North American religious life.