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The Glimmer Palace

Author : Beatrice Colin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440637105
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Glimmer Palace written by Beatrice Colin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-24 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of cabaret in Berlin and the birth of cinema, set against the rise and fall of Germany between World War I and World War II As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. The illegitimate, soon orphaned daughter of a cabaret performer, she lands at a Catholic orphanage where she finds refuge and the first in a string of friendships that will change the direction of her life. When fellow orphan Hanne takes Lilly beyond their stone confines, introducing her to the seedy glamour of Berlin’s notorious nightlife, it begins for Lillly a trajectory of reinvention. From urchin to maid, teenage war bride, tingle-tangle bargirl, model, and script typist, Lilly is eventually transformed into one of Germany’s leading film stars and a partner in a remarkable love story that will span decades and continents—and be inextricable from the history unfolding around it. Gripping, seductive, and masterfully written, The Glimmer Palace is a page-turning story of glitter and splendor, drama and love, friendship and identity. The story of an extraordinary heroine living in an extraordinary time, it is vivid and surprising in its telling, intelligent and ambitious in its scope, sad and beautiful and unforgettable.

The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite

Author : Beatrice Colin
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1848542429
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite written by Beatrice Colin and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. Born to a cabaret dancer and soon orphaned in a scandalous double murder, Lilly finds refuge at a Catholic orphanage, coming under the wing of the, at times, severe Sister August, the first in a string of lost loves. There she meets Hanne Schmidt, a teen prostitute, and forms a bond that will last them through tumultuous love affairs, disastrous marriages, and destitution during the First World War and the subsequent economic collapse. As the century progresses, Lilly and Hanne move from the tawdry glamour of the tingle-tangle nightclubs to the shadow world of health films before Lilly finds success and stardom in the new medium of motion pictures and ultimately falls in love with a man whose fate could cost her everything she has worked for or help her discover her true self. Gripping and darkly seductive, The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite showcases all the glitter and splendour of the brief heyday of the Weimar Republic, and the rise of Hollywood to its golden age. As it foreshadows the horrors of the Second World War, the novel asks what price is paid when identity becomes unfixed and the social order is upended.

Glitter

Author : Aprilynne Pike
Publisher : Ember
ISBN 13 : 1101933720
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Glitter written by Aprilynne Pike and published by Ember. This book was released on 2018 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Outside the palace of Versailles, it's modern day. Inside, the people dress, eat, and act like it's the eighteenth century. The palace has every indulgence, but for one pretty young thing, it's about to become a very beautiful prison. When Danica witnesses an act of murder by the young king, her mother makes a cruel power play...blackmailing the king into making Dani his queen on her eighteenth birthday. That gives Dani six months to escape her terrifying destiny."--Page [4] of cover.

The Paper Palace

Author : Miranda Cowley Heller
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0593419073
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book The Paper Palace written by Miranda Cowley Heller and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE THE PAPER PALACE IS: “Filled with secrets, love, lies and a summer beach house. What more could you ask?”—Parade “A deeply emotional love story…the unraveling of secrets, lies and a very complex love triangle.” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club July ’21 Pick) "Nail-biting." —Town & Country “A magnificent page-turner.” —Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author “[An] irresistible placement of a complicated family in a bewitching place.” —The New York Times A story of summer, secrets, love, and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades. “This house, this place, knows all my secrets.” It is a perfect August morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at “The Paper Palace”—the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each other for the first time, all while their spouses chatted away inside. Now, over the next twenty-four hours, Elle will have to decide between the life she has made with her genuinely beloved husband, Peter, and the life she always imagined she would have had with her childhood love, Jonas, if a tragic event hadn’t forever changed the course of their lives. As Heller colors in the experiences that have led Elle to this day, we arrive at her ultimate decision with all its complexity. Tender yet devastating, The Paper Palace considers the tensions between desire and dignity, the legacies of abuse, and the crimes and misdemeanors of families.

The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite

Author : Beatrice Colin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite written by Beatrice Colin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel tells the story of the orphaned daughter of a cabaret dancer and her rise from poverty and anonymity to film stardom, all set against the rise and fall of Berlin, the background of WWI, the debauchery of the Weimar era, the run-up to WWII, and the innovations in art and industry that accompanied it all.

To Capture What We Cannot Keep

Author : Beatrice Colin
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250071461
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book To Capture What We Cannot Keep written by Beatrice Colin and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, this novel charts the relationship between a young Scottish widow and a French engineer who, despite constraints of class and wealth, fall in love. In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Émile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris, France--a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground, their vastly different social strata become clear. Cait is a widow who because of her precarious financial situation is forced to chaperone two wealthy Scottish charges. Émile is expected to take on the bourgeois stability of his family's business and choose a suitable wife. As the Eiffel Tower rises, a marvel of steel and air and light, the subject of extreme controversy and a symbol of the future, Cait and Émile must decide what their love is worth. Seamlessly weaving historical detail and vivid invention, Beatrice Colin evokes the revolutionary time in which Cait and Émile live--one of corsets and secret trysts, duels and Bohemian independence, strict tradition and Impressionist experimentation. To Capture What We Cannot Keep, stylish, provocative, and shimmering, raises probing questions about a woman's place in that world, the overarching reach of class distinctions, and the sacrifices love requires of us all.

The Glass House

Author : Beatrice Colin
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250152496
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Glass House written by Beatrice Colin and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beatrice Colin's The Glass House is a gorgeously transporting novel filled with turn-of-the-century detail and lush blooms, about two women from vastly different worlds Scotland, 1912. Antonia McCulloch’s life hasn’t gone the way she planned. She and her husband, Malcolm, have drifted apart; her burgeoning art career came to nothing; and when she looks in the mirror, she sees disappointment. But at least she will always have Balmarra, her family’s grand Scottish estate, and its exquisite glass house, filled with exotic plants that can take her far away. When her estranged brother’s wife, Cicely Pick, arrives unannounced, with her young daughter and enough trunks to last the summer, Antonia is instantly suspicious. What besides an inheritance dispute could have brought her glamorous sister-in-law all the way from India? Still, Cicely introduces excitement and intrigue into Antonia’s life, and, as they get to know one another, Antonia realizes that Cicely has her own burdens to bear. Slowly, a fragile friendship grows between them. But when the secrets each are keeping become too explosive to conceal, the truth threatens their uneasy balance and the course of their entire lives.

The Time of the City

Author : Michael Shapiro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136977864
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The Time of the City written by Michael Shapiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Time of the City is a trans-disciplinary work with a focus on genre-city relationships as they articulate the micropolitics of urban life in diverse cities. Shifting the territorial emphasis of political studies from the mosaic of states to the global network of cities, the book draws on urban theory rather than traditional forms of official city politics. Deriving their methodological approaches from aspects of urban theory and philosophies of aesthetics, the chapters deploy concepts from philosophy, political theory, literary studies, cinema studies, poetics and aesthetic theory on diverse cities, among which are Berlin, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, DC. Investigating a wide variety of urban formations, and developing a geophilosophy appropriate to urban space, this multi genre approach to urban life provides stunning insights into the micropolitics of ethnicity, identity, security, subjectivity and sovereignty.

The Summer Palace and Other Stories

Author : C. S. Pacat
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
ISBN 13 : 9780987622334
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Summer Palace and Other Stories written by C. S. Pacat and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2018-10-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow Damen, Laurent and the supporting characters of Captive Prince on a series of adventures set in and around the events of the novels - and beyond, to learn what happens after the final page in the trilogy is turned.

Epistolophilia

Author : Julija Sukys
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803240309
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Epistolophilia written by Julija Sukys and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The librarian walks the streets of her beloved Paris. An old lady with a limp and an accent, she is invisible to most. Certainly no one recognizes her as the warrior and revolutionary she was, when again and again she slipped into the Jewish ghetto of German-occupied Vilnius to carry food, clothes, medicine, money, and counterfeit documents to its prisoners. Often she left with letters to deliver, manuscripts to hide, and even sedated children swathed in sacks. In 1944 she was captured by the Gestapo, tortured for twelve days, and deported to Dachau. Through Epistolophilia, Julija Šukys follows the letters and journals—the “life-writing”—of this woman, Ona Šimaitė (1894–1970). A treasurer of words, Šimaitė carefully collected, preserved, and archived the written record of her life, including thousands of letters, scores of diaries, articles, and press clippings. Journeying through these words, Šukys negotiates with the ghost of Šimaitė, beckoning back to life this quiet and worldly heroine—a giant of Holocaust history (one of Yad Vashem’s honored “Righteous Among the Nations”) and yet so little known. The result is at once a mediated self-portrait and a measured perspective on a remarkable life. It reveals the meaning of life-writing, how women write their lives publicly and privately, and how their words attach them—and us—to life.

Fraud

Author : Anita Brookner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307826260
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Fraud written by Anita Brookner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of Anita Brookner's new novel lies a double mystery: What has happened to Anna Durrant, a solitary woman of a certain age who has disappeared from her London flat? And why has it taken four months for anyone to notice? As Brookner reconstructs Anna's life and character through the eyes of her acquaintances, she gives us a witty yet ultimately devastating study of self-annihilating virtue while exposing the social, fiscal, and moral frauds that are the underpinnings of terrifying rectitude.

The Vices

Author : Lawrence Douglas
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590514165
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Vices written by Lawrence Douglas and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Vice, forty-one, prominent philosopher, scholar, and art collector, is missing and presumed dead, over the side of Queen Mary 2.Troubled by his friend’s possible suicide, the unnamed narrator of Lawrence Douglas’ new novel launches an all-consuming investigation into Vice’s life history. Douglas, moving backward through time, tells a mordantly humorous story of fascination turned obsession, as his narrator peels back the layers of the Vice family’s rich and bizarre history. At the heart of the family are Francizka, Oliver’s handsome, overbearing, vaguely anti-Semitic Hungarian mother, and his fraternal twin brother, Bartholomew, a gigantic and troubled young man with a morbid interest in Europe’s great tyrants. As the narrator finds himself drawn into a battle over the family’s money and art, he comes to sense that someone—or perhaps the entire family—is hiding an unsavory past. Pursuing the truth from New York to London, from Budapest to Portugal, he remains oblivious to the irony of the search: that in his need to understand Vice’s life, he is really grappling with ambivalence about his own.

The Tennessee Theatre

Author : Jack Neely
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692320013
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Tennessee Theatre written by Jack Neely and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most exuberant move palaces of the South, the Tennesse Theatre is a Jazz Age spectacle, a glimmer of a brifely extravagant era, a bold architectural celebration of an astonishing and suddenly popular new form of art. The motion picture changed the way Americans experienced their world,within its broad region, the Tennesseee became the superlative venue for that experiences. Despite its reputation as the finest, the most expensive, the theater with chandeliers and original art and antiques in its lobby, the Tennessee was also the largest, the busiest, and the most popular...Exclusiveness is one of the Tennessee's most effective illusions. After almost a century, the Tennessee is still obligatory on any trip to Knoxville, one of these sights you have to witness at least at once. Designed with dozens of shapes and countless colors to awe, it is distinct in appearance from every other theater in the world. It's a complex and fascinating artifact. But the Tennessee is also a practical edifice, a modern venue for classical music, opera, rock, jazz, bluegrass, and dozens of other genres that benefit from the old theater's excellent acoutiscs, praised in the national media for the quaility of its sound.

Glimmer of Steel

Author : K. E. Blaski
Publisher : Mollusc Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 9780996332583
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Glimmer of Steel written by K. E. Blaski and published by Mollusc Bay Books. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damen has a plan to save the life of his childhood friend before she's forced to marry the evil Noble Tortare: switch her soul with some other girl and let the other girl die in her place. Only he didn't count on the other girl's determination to live, he certainly didn't count on her soul coming from a different planet--Earth, and falling in love? No, he never planned on that. Told from alternating viewpoints: Damen, a truthsayer from Astrune, and Jennica, the soul snatched from Earth.

Critic and Good Literature

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Critic and Good Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Critic

Author : Jeannette Leonard Gilder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book The Critic written by Jeannette Leonard Gilder and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Critic and Literary World

Author : Jeannette Leonard Gilder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critic and Literary World written by Jeannette Leonard Gilder and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: