Over the course of her cinematic career, Elizabeth Taylor slowly assembled a massive collection of jewelry. This book provides a tour through that collection, accompanied by anecdotal tales surrounding many of the pieces.
On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are magnificently eccentric and endlessly curious, living off crumbs of affection and snippets of gossip. Together, upper lips stiffened, they fight off their twin enemies: boredom and the Grim ...
For more than two decades, Mayor Richard J. Daley ruled Chicago with an iron fist. The last of the big city bosses, Daley ran an unbeatable political machine that controlled over one million votes. From 1955 until his death in 1976, every decision went through his office and he was a major player in national politics too: Kennedy and Johnson owed ...
This book spent over seven months on "The New York Times" best-seller list and has sold over half a million copies to dog lovers all over the world. By following one of her dogs, Misha, and by observing a wolf pack, Thomas concludes that dog behavior is organized around an overriding principle: all that dogs want is a settled social order. She ...
During those summer games of hide-and-seek Harriet falls in love with Vesey and his elusive, teasing ways. When he goes to Oxford she cherishes his photograph and waits for the letter which doesn't come. Then Charles enters her life, a solid and reliable solicitor, and Harriet stifles her imaginings. With Charles and their daughter, she excels at ...
'"You taste of rain," he said, kissing her. "People say I married her for her money," he thought contentedly, and for the moment was full of the self-respect that loving her had given him.' Kate Heron is a wealthy, charming widow who marries, much to the disapproval of friends and neighbours, a man ten years her junior: the attractive, feckless ...
Appropriate for courses addressing issues and trends, spirituality and health, or psychosocial approaches to care. This text provides practical guidance on many aspects of spiritual caregiving. It addresses many relevant topics including spiritual assessment, planning care, documentation, ethical concerns of sharing personal spiritual beliefs, ...
When Elizabeth Taylor was just 13--already a star from the movie "National Velvet "and in the process of filming "The Courage of Lassie"--she wrote and illustrated this book, an account of the mischief her pet chipmunk, Nibbles, causes on and off the movie set. Illustrations.
In the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy exterior, passions run high. Beautiful divorcee Tory is painfully involved with her neighbour, Robert, while his wife Beth, Tory's best friend, is consumed by the worlds she creates in her novels, oblivious to the relationship ...
Mrs Lippincote's house, with its mahogany furniture and yellowing photographs, stands as a reminder of all the certainties that have vanished with the advent of war. Temporarily, this is home for Julia, who has joined her husband Roddy at the behest of the RAF. Although she can accept the pomposities of service life, Julia's honesty and sense of ...
Broken by S.L. Carpenter Jesse Andersen's life is shattering around him, and Kari Hawkins has her own wounds to heal. One rainy night fate brings them together, and like the pieces of a puzzle, Kari and Jesse come together for temporary solace and hot, sensual passion. But when the future confronts them head-on, they realise that the real world ...
Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of romance, escaping the drabness of provincial life. She knows she is different, that she is destined to become a feted authoress, owner of great riches and of Paradise House ...After reading The Lady Irania, publishers Brace and Gilchrist are certain ...
When Amy's husband dies on holiday in Istanbul, she is supported by the kindly but rather slovenly Martha, a young American novelist who lives in London. Upon their return to England, Amy is ungratefully reluctant to maintain their friendship, but the skeins of their existence seem inextricably linked as grief gives way to resilience and again to ...
Health care professionals, clergy, chaplains, social workers and others who counsel people in medical crisis often find themselves faced with deeply painful questions Why is this happening to me? Am I dying? Why should I live? Im just a burden to others. The author, an internationally recognized expert in spiritual care giving, points out that ...
This is the collected travel essays of Elizabeth Taylor, a Victorian adventuress who specialized in traveling to, and writing about, the coldest lands on earth. Throughout her wildly exciting life she collected many 'firsts', including being one of the first recognized explorers of the American Arctic region. The challenge of rugged, cold places ...
Lolly Willowes is a twenty-eight-year-old spinster when her adored father dies, leaving her dependent upon her brothers and their wives. After twenty years of self-effacement as a maiden aunt, she decides to break free and moves to a small Bedfordshire village. Here, happy and unfettered, she enjoys her new existence nagged only by the sense of a ...
A collection of stories, of which the title story The Devastating Boys depicts two black waifs from London, guests of a settled country couple. They cause upheaval, but bring unexpected joy and renewal.
The number one bestseller in hardcover is now available in a glossy, durable, flexi-bind package. "This book is not just to set the record straight as to why I gained weight and how I lost it. It's more than a specific program for weight loss; it's a chance for you to throw away old self-destructive habits and embrace a more positive way of life". ...
The book is the catalogue for an exhibition of Edvard Munch's prints at the Art Gallery of Ontario in the spring of 1997 and at the Cincinnati Art Museum in the summer of 1997.
Celia Sloan, private eye Maggie Elliott's wealthy step-sister, is killed in a bizarre cable car "accident". To solve the mystery, Maggie joins forces with an ex-cop, Richard O'Reagan, who happens to witness the accident. Together they uncover a list of fairly unexpected suspects.
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