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The Reluctant Entertainer

Author : Sandy Coughlin
Publisher : Bethany House
ISBN 13 : 1441212159
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Entertainer written by Sandy Coughlin and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospitality can be a blessing to both the host and her guests, but for many women today, it simply doesn't happen. Feelings of inadequacy, unrealistic expectations, fear of failure, lack of time--all conspire to steal the joy that comes from opening one's home and sharing fellowship with others. In The Reluctant Entertainer, Sandy Coughlin relates to people in real ways about real meals that mortals cook, during which real conversations draw people together. Would-be hostesses will discover that true hospitality is not about being perfect, cooking a fancy meal, or spending a lot of money. Rather, it's about an open door and an open heart.

The Case of the Hesitant Hostess

Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 9780345378712
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book The Case of the Hesitant Hostess written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1953 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perry Mason has no hesitation about defending penniless ex-salesman Albert Brogan against a charge of armed robbery. That's because nightclub hostess Inez Kaylor's testimony will guarantee that the accusations against the alleged hold-up mon won't hold up in court. But when the hostess has the bad manners to stand Mason up instead of taking the stand, Perry's defense may not have a leg to stand on. Failure to find the AWOL witness in forty-eight hours could cost an innocent mon his liberty and his life, when the prosecution serves up a shocking new charge of murder! But the high-tailing hostess has a host of her own secrets, and a cast of shady characters -- from Los Angeles to Las Vegas -- is determined to keep them (and her) hidden. It all adds up to a whirlwind working weekend for Mason: if he cant get the goods -- and the girl -- by Monday morning when the gavel falls, so will the ax...

The Reluctant Hostess

Author : Ethelind Fearon
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1784870307
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Hostess written by Ethelind Fearon and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming and very funny guide to entertaining etiquette from the 1950s. Do you dread dinner parties? Is your catering catastrophic? Ethelind Fearon is here to help. In this charming 1950's guidebook you'll find suggestions for cocktails rated by technical difficulty (GVC = good and cheap; NN = not for novices), ideas for party games (how about a cork race?), as well as some of the most unappetising recipes known to mankind -- Liver Flan with curried cheese, anyone? Hilarious yet indispensable, The Reluctant Hostess will ensure you achieve excellence in all your entertaining.

Effortless Entertaining

Author : DeeDee Dalrymple
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692808702
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Effortless Entertaining written by DeeDee Dalrymple and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Count Crowley: Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter

Author : David Dastmalchian
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506713475
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Count Crowley: Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter written by David Dastmalchian and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lock your doors and gather close . . . if you dare! Once a rising TV journalist, Jerri Bartman has returned to her small Midwest hometown station. Demoted to hosting the nightly Creature Feature, Jerri's professional humiliation is eclipsed by the discovery that her new job comes with a secret, supernatural duty. Her missing predecessor, Count Crowley, was one of the last "Appointed" hunters of monsters. Yes. Monsters. They're real and they're hell bent on controlling the news and information consumed by humans. Everything we've ever been taught about monsters is a lie and Jerri's only possible advisor is a senile male chauvinist. It's 1983 and the outlook for humanity is getting . . . gnarly and their only hope is an alcoholic, acerbic horror host from Missouri. David Dastmalchian's authorial comics debut with artist Lukas Ketner--this terrifying trade collects issues #1-#4 of the Dark Horse Comics series Count Crowley: Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter!

Reluctant Wife

Author : Lindsay Armstrong
Publisher : Harlequin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780373110711
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Reluctant Wife written by Lindsay Armstrong and published by Harlequin Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reluctant Wife by Lindsay Armstrong released on Mar 25, 1988 is available now for purchase.

The Reluctant Elf

Author : Michele Gorman
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781502736253
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Elf written by Michele Gorman and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Britain's Worst Innkeeper Single mother and extremely undomestic goddess, Lottie, has five days to become the ultimate B&B hostess to save her beloved Aunt Kate's livelihood. When Aunt Kate ends up in the hospital, Lottie and her seven-year-old daughter are called to rural Wales to stand in at the B&B. Without the faintest idea how to run a hotel (she can barely run her own life), Lottie must impress the picky hotel reviewer and his dysfunctional family who are coming to stay over Christmas. Without the rating only he can bestow, Aunt Kate will lose her livelihood. But will Danny, the local taxi driver who she hires to help her, really be Santa's little helper, or the Grinch who stole Christmas?

90 Day Geisha

Author : Chelsea Haywood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 163936000X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book 90 Day Geisha written by Chelsea Haywood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introspective journey into the glamorous world—and temptations—of Japanese nightlife, by former model Chelsea Haywood. The hard-drinking, drug-taking, all-night culture that dominates Tokyo’s Roppongi district can be a surreal place. Overworked Japanese business men will pay handsomely for the services of a hostess—someone to talk to, someone to provide hot towels and drinks, and sometimes just a companion with whom to sing karaoke with all night. Intrigued by rumors of this strange subculture and armed with her 90-day work visa and new husband, Matt, Chelsea throws herself into the lion’s den. Yet what she discovers about herself and about the inhabitants of this nocturnal life far exceeds her expectations. Hostessing, she comes to find, has “very little to do with sex, quite a lot to do with psychology, and nothing to do with prostitution.” Her personality and conversation skills are her top commodity, and Chelsea quickly finds herself charmed by these billionaire men, many of whom are funny, intelligent, even kind, and often, very lonely. But as she becomes more and more attached to her clients, Chelsea soon finds herself getting burned at her own game, as the endless presents, compliments, and destructive atmosphere of alcohol and drugs threaten to take both her marriage, and her sanity, to the edge.

The Host

Author : Stephenie Meyer
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316128651
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Host written by Stephenie Meyer and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2010-04-26 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves -- Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body's desires, Wanderer yearns for a man she's never met. As outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off to search for the man they both love. Featuring what may be the first love triangle involving only two bodies, The Host is a riveting and unforgettable novel that will bring a vast new readership to one of the most compelling writers of our time.

Happy & You Know It

Author : Laura Hankin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984806238
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Happy & You Know It written by Laura Hankin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “For fans of Sex and the City and The Nanny Diaries comes this juicy story…that would make even the most meticulously Drybar-ed hair curl.”—Good Housekeeping As seen in The Washington Post • Good Housekeeping • theSkimm • Good Morning America • ABC News • Book of the Month • Belletrist • OK! Magazine • Betches • Newsweek • Parade • New York Post Best Book of the Week A dark, witty page-turner about a struggling young musician who takes a job singing for a playgroup of overprivileged babies and their effortlessly cool moms, only to find herself pulled into their glamorous lives and dangerous secrets.... After her former band shot to superstardom without her, Claire reluctantly agrees to a gig as a playgroup musician for wealthy infants on New York's Park Avenue. Claire is surprised to discover that she is smitten with her new employers, a welcoming clique of wellness addicts with impossibly shiny hair, who whirl from juice cleanse to overpriced miracle vitamins to spin class with limitless energy. There is perfect hostess Whitney who is on the brink of social-media stardom and just needs to find a way to keep her flawless life from falling apart. Caustically funny, recent stay-at-home mom Amara who is struggling to embrace her new identity. And old money, veteran mom Gwen who never misses an opportunity to dole out parenting advice. But as Claire grows closer to the stylish women who pay her bills, she uncovers secrets and betrayals that no amount of activated charcoal can fix. Filled with humor and shocking twists, Happy and You Know It is a brilliant take on motherhood – exposing it as yet another way for society to pass judgment on women – while also exploring the baffling magnetism of curated social-media lives that are designed to make us feel unworthy. But, ultimately, this dazzling novel celebrates the unlikely bonds that form, and the power that can be unlocked, when a group of very different women is thrown together when each is at her most vulnerable.

The Hostess with the Ghostess

Author : E. J. Copperman
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
ISBN 13 : 1683314514
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The Hostess with the Ghostess written by E. J. Copperman and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raise your spirits with the latest paranormal cozy mystery in the “laugh-out-loud, fast-paced, and charming” A Haunted Guesthouse series (Kate Carlisle, New York Times–bestselling author). Solving a murder way too close to home, Alison Kerby can’t catch a break. If Alison Kerby really wanted peace and quiet, she never should have opened the Haunted Guesthouse. The Jersey Shore lodge’s latest polter-guest is Richard Harrison, the recently murdered brother of long-time resident ghost PI Paul Harrison. Alas, a beyond-the-grave brotherly reunion is nowhere in the foreseeable future—phantasmal Paul left the guesthouse months ago for parts unknown, and for all her ghost-whispering prowess, Alison has no idea how to find him. And she’s going to need Paul, because Richard’s isn’t the only murder still unsolved. Richard, a lawyer in life, tells Alison that he had been working the case of a woman accused of murdering her stepfather. When Richard got too close to the truth, he was permanently silenced. Now, as Alison searches for Paul, she gets a creeping sensation that the murderer doesn’t appreciate her snooping around. If she doesn’t succeed in her hunt, she has the feeling that she’ll be the next to haunt the house.

The Reluctant Politician

Author : Kee Beng Ooi
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9812304258
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Politician written by Kee Beng Ooi and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2006 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Malaysia's powerful Home Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman. Includes facts about Malaysian and Singaporean history, as well as insights into the processes of decolonization and nation building.

Cat among the pigeons

Author : David Muirhead
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1775845141
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Cat among the pigeons written by David Muirhead and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here’s another batch of David Muirhead’s unrespectable creatures, following his successful earlier volume of hilarious animal accounts (The Bedside Ark). It offers a wealth of accurate information on each of the profi led creatures, while revealing their softer sides and the near-human frailties from which they suffer – and temptations for which they fall. Delightful, humorous pen-and-ink sketches accompany many of the stories. Muirhead’s mix of humour, mythology, anecdotal tales and folklore builds quirky and captivating portraits of each animal, and makes for a lighthearted, funny – as well as illuminating – read. This new anthology, offering something different from the standard collection of animal CVs, will appeal to anyone interested in humorous writing and the natural world, no matter their age (from teen to adult) or level of knowledge.

Little Brackens Island

Author : GORDON DICKIE
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463435312
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Little Brackens Island written by GORDON DICKIE and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of fond and treasured remembrances over the past nearly forty years, while spending the summers on my cherished Little Brackens Island on the Muskoka Lakes. As we get older, our recollections grow a bit dimmer. The descriptions blossom and become more delusional. The memories are augmented and laced with incongruities, misconceptions, errata, inaccuracies, inconsistencies and some questionable apparitions. All of them are sworn as the sacred truth by a beguiling, impetuous and fanaticizing imagination.

What She Ate

Author : Laura Shapiro
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698178947
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book What She Ate written by Laura Shapiro and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2017 One of NPR Fresh Air's "Books to Close Out a Chaotic 2017" NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2017’s Great Reads “How lucky for us readers that Shapiro has been listening so perceptively for decades to the language of food.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air Six “mouthwatering” (Eater.com) short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking, probing how their attitudes toward food can offer surprising new insights into their lives, and our own. Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives—social and cultural, personal and political. Yet most biographers pay little attention to people’s attitudes toward food, as if the great and notable never bothered to think about what was on the plate in front of them. Once we ask how somebody relates to food, we find a whole world of different and provocative ways to understand her. Food stories can be as intimate and revealing as stories of love, work, or coming-of-age. Each of the six women in this entertaining group portrait was famous in her time, and most are still famous in ours; but until now, nobody has told their lives from the point of view of the kitchen and the table. What She Ate is a lively and unpredictable array of women; what they have in common with one another (and us) is a powerful relationship with food. They include Dorothy Wordsworth, whose food story transforms our picture of the life she shared with her famous poet brother; Rosa Lewis, the Edwardian-era Cockney caterer who cooked her way up the social ladder; Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady and rigorous protector of the worst cook in White House history; Eva Braun, Hitler’s mistress, who challenges our warm associations of food, family, and table; Barbara Pym, whose witty books upend a host of stereotypes about postwar British cuisine; and Helen Gurley Brown, the editor of Cosmopolitan, whose commitment to “having it all” meant having almost nothing on the plate except a supersized portion of diet gelatin.

Audrey. A Novel

Author : Laura Valentine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Audrey. A Novel written by Laura Valentine and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Your Hospitality Personality

Author : Morgan Tyree
Publisher : Revell
ISBN 13 : 1493423258
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Your Hospitality Personality written by Morgan Tyree and published by Revell. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the thought of hosting a dinner send you into spasms of delight or spirals of dismay? Do you love opening your home to others? Or do you dread even the planning it takes to get a group of friends to arrive at the same restaurant at the same time? We each have our own unique hospitality personality. And when you tap into yours, you'll find a lot more blessing with a lot less stressing. With personal assessments, encouraging stories, and plenty of practical ideas, Morgan Tyree shows you how to identify and embrace your hospitality personality so you can stop worrying and start enjoying yourself and your guests. She helps you understand your hospitality habits, hurdles, and hang-ups, then offers real-life solutions that fit you.