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The Laundress

Author : Barbara Sapienza
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1631526804
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Laundress written by Barbara Sapienza and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six-year-old Lavinia Lavinia is burdened by her unknown heritage—but her uncle Sal, who raised her in San Francisco, has always kept silent, refusing to reveal the devastating secret of her origin. And now, following the death of his wife, he’s left for Italy. In the wake of her uncle’s departure, Lavinia has quit school. Now she works as a personal laundress to a diverse cast of San Francisco residents—people with stories as complicated as her own. As time progresses, through the sacred ritual of washing clothes—and with the help of a friend and her nurturing, flamenco dancing mother—Lavinia begins to recover memories of her past. Gradually, her gifts of receptivity multiply, and she communes with nature, finding messages from birds and the leaves of her garden’s fig tree. And when she recovers Raggedy, a beloved doll that accompanied her from Naples when she was four years old, she experiences a tangible connection to her own mother. Even as Lavinia makes these discoveries, she is busy building new relationships—discovering healing dance with her lover, a barista in a North Beach coffee shop; learning to understand Time and forgiveness with an elderly client; and even getting to know her father, a man who has never been a part of her life. Poetic and poignant, The Laundress is a coming-of-age story for anyone who’s ever sought to understand where they came from in order to figure out who they’re meant to become.

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Author : Colin B. Bailey
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892365641
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Jean-Baptiste Greuze written by Colin B. Bailey and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Baptiste Greuze's diminutive picture of a rosy-cheeked girl wringing out her linen was one of fourteen works that he exhibited at the Salon of 1761 in Paris. This lively and engrossing book traces the history of the Getty Museum's painting, compares the work to other laundresses painted by Greuze, and explores social mores and the role of artists model in the eighteenth century. It provides an enlightening account of Greuze's life and times and the influences on his work.

Tales the Laundress Told

Author : Winsome Smith
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1452509700
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Tales the Laundress Told written by Winsome Smith and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winsome Smith loves a good story and loves sharing one even more. The author of eleven books and countless short stories and poems, she shares some of her favorites in Tales the Laundress Told. Her tales deal with the realities and fantasies of the imagination, human and otherwise. With honesty and compassion, she writes of the strange experience of growing up. She takes the reader back to ancient Athens, to tell the story of a well-to-do young girls rebellion. We meet a garrulous ironing lady who shares her domestic wisdom. An earnest (and bossy) daughter of a minister has a few ideas of her own to share. She recounts the touching tale of a son who learns that he really does have the courage he needs. In a freefall flight of fancy, she introduces her readers to a young man with ambitions to study a distant planet known as Earth. Everyone who knows her wonders what on earth could have made a very serious mother get the giggles. A young girl boasts that she is ready for anythingbut can she handle the challenge at hand? These charactersand moreawait you in Tales the Laundress Told.

The Laundress of Silver Lake

Author : Julie Jansen
Publisher : Untreed Reads
ISBN 13 : 1611872383
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book The Laundress of Silver Lake written by Julie Jansen and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a future world of deadly solar flares and cloned dinosaurs, an investigative journalist sets out to uncover the truth about an urban myth: the Laundress of Silver Lake. As he wanders the banks of the lake he discovers some mysteries are better left unsolved. A short story from our Orbits sci-fi/fantasy line.

The French Laundry Cookbook

Author : Thomas Keller
Publisher : Artisan
ISBN 13 : 1579657567
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book The French Laundry Cookbook written by Thomas Keller and published by Artisan. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVIACP Award Winner 2019 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the acclaimed French Laundry restaurant in the Napa Valley—“the most exciting place to eat in the United States” (The New York Times). The most transformative cookbook of the century celebrates this milestone by showcasing the genius of chef/proprietor Thomas Keller himself. Keller is a wizard, a purist, a man obsessed with getting it right. And this, his first cookbook, is every bit as satisfying as a French Laundry meal itself: a series of small, impeccable, highly refined, intensely focused courses. Most dazzling is how simple Keller's methods are: squeegeeing the moisture from the skin on fish so it sautées beautifully; poaching eggs in a deep pot of water for perfect shape; the initial steeping in the shell that makes cooking raw lobster out of the shell a cinch; using vinegar as a flavor enhancer; the repeated washing of bones for stock for the cleanest, clearest tastes. From innovative soup techniques, to the proper way to cook green vegetables, to secrets of great fish cookery, to the creation of breathtaking desserts; from beurre monté to foie gras au torchon, to a wild and thoroughly unexpected take on coffee and doughnuts, The French Laundry Cookbook captures, through recipes, essays, profiles, and extraordinary photography, one of America's great restaurants, its great chef, and the food that makes both unique. One hundred and fifty superlative recipes are exact recipes from the French Laundry kitchen—no shortcuts have been taken, no critical steps ignored, all have been thoroughly tested in home kitchens. If you can't get to the French Laundry, you can now re-create at home the very experience Wine Spectator described as “as close to dining perfection as it gets.”

Simple Directions for the Laundress

Author : Caroline Reed Wadhams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simple Directions for the Laundress written by Caroline Reed Wadhams and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Laundry

Author : Cheryl Mendelson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439188564
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Laundry written by Cheryl Mendelson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Cheryl Mendelson, laundering is the best part of housekeeping. It’s full of physical pleasures—the look of favorite clothes restored to freshness and beauty, the tactile satisfaction of crisp linens in beautifully folded stacks. Good laundering preserves things you love and protects your pocketbook. It doesn’t take much time or effort. What it takes is knowledge, and Laundry is the comprehensive, entertaining, and inspiring book on the art of laundering. Culled from the bestselling Home Comforts, with revised and updated information and a new introduction, Laundry is an indispensable guide to caring for all the cloth in one’s home: from kitchen rags to bedding, hand-washables, and baby clothes to vintage linens. Mendelson offers detailed guidance on when to disregard labels, removing stains, making environmentally informed choices, sewing, and storing clothing and fabrics. A much-needed antidote to the standard-issue how-to manual, Laundry celebrates the satisfactions of ironing, folding, and caring for clothes and linens. Both pragmatic and eloquent, Mendelson provides beginning and veteran homemakers with a seamless combination of reliable instruction, time-tested advice, and fascinating personal narrative. As a farm girl in Pennsylvania, Mendelson—who is a philosopher, lawyer, and professor, as well as a homemaker, wife, and mother—received a classic domestic education from her grandmothers, aunts, and mother. Laundry combines the best of the traditional lore they taught her with the latest in technical and scientific information. Writing with infectious love and respect for her subject, Mendelson is sure to instill in readers a newfound affection and appreciation for the art of laundering.

Winifred Bertram and the World She Lived in

Author : Elizabeth Rundle Charles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Winifred Bertram and the World She Lived in written by Elizabeth Rundle Charles and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What to Do?

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book What to Do? written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy: What shall we do then? On the Moscow census. Introduction to the collected articles, what is the truth in art? To the dear youth. What a Christian may do, and what not. Letter to N. N. (To Engelhard). Introduction to T. M. Bondarev's teaching. Letter to a Frenchman. The holiday of enlightenment of the 12th of January. Popular legends. Three sons. Labourer Emelyán and the empty drum

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Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy: What shall we do then? On the Moscow census. Introduction to the collected articles, what is the truth in art? To the dear youth. What a Christian may do, and what not. Letter to N. N. (To Engelhard). Introduction to T. M. Bondarev's teaching. Letter to a Frenchman. The holiday of enlightenment of the 12th of January. Popular legends. Three sons. Labourer Emelyán and the empty drum written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Works

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What Shall We Do Then?

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book What Shall We Do Then? written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Works

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Works written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Jewish Refugee in New York

Author : Kadya Molodovsky
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253040779
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book A Jewish Refugee in New York written by Kadya Molodovsky and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This novel invites the reader inside the mind of a Polish Jewish woman who has recently arrived in New York just after WWII began in Europe.” —Jeffrey Shandler, author of Anne Frank Unbound Rivke Zilberg, a twenty-year-old Jewish woman, arrives in New York shortly after the Nazi invasion of Poland, her home country. Struggling to learn a new language and cope with a different way of life in the United States, Rivke finds herself keeping a journal about the challenges and opportunities of this new land. In her attempt to find a new life as a Jewish immigrant in the United States, Rivke shares the stories of losing her mother to a bombing in Lublin, jilting a fiancé who has made his way to Palestine, and a flirtatious relationship with an American “allrightnik.” In this fictionalized journal originally published in Yiddish, author Kadya Molodovsky provides keen insight into the day-to-day activities of the large immigrant Jewish community of New York. By depicting one woman’s struggles as a Jewish refugee in the United States during WWII, Molodovsky points readers to the social, political, and cultural tensions of that time and place.

Hand Wash Cold

Author : Karen Maezen Miller
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1577319044
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Hand Wash Cold written by Karen Maezen Miller and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2010 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miller (Momma Zen) uses daily household chores?laundry, kitchen, yard?to demonstrate timeless Buddhist principles. The skillful weaving of personal anecdotes, a few Zen terms, and acute insights?sometimes addressing the reader directly?distinguish this book from others in the genre. Miller, a Zen priest and student of the late Maezumi Roshi, argues for?the faultless wisdom of following instructions? when going about the mundane activities that form the substance of everyday life. --publisher.

The Painted Girls

Author : Cathy Marie Buchanan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101603798
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Painted Girls written by Cathy Marie Buchanan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartrending, gripping novel about two sisters in Belle Époque Paris and the young woman forever immortalized as muse for Edgar Degas’ Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. 1878 Paris. Following their father’s sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction from their lodgings seems imminent. With few options for work, Marie is dispatched to the Paris Opéra, where for a scant seventeen francs a week, she will be trained to enter the famous ballet. Her older sister, Antoinette, finds work as an extra in a stage adaptation of Émile Zola’s naturalist masterpiece L’Assommoir. Marie throws herself into dance and is soon modeling in the studio of Edgar Degas, where her image will forever be immortalized as Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. There she meets a wealthy male patron of the ballet, but might the assistance he offers come with strings attached? Meanwhile Antoinette, derailed by her love for the dangerous Émile Abadie, must choose between honest labor and the more profitable avenues open to a young woman of the Parisian demimonde. Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change, The Painted Girls is a tale of two remarkable sisters rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulses of “civilized society.” In the end, each will come to realize that her salvation, if not survival, lies with the other.