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"In one false step while wearing stillettos, sixty-five-year-old socialite, Margot Manning's world is sent crashing, and she is forced to recuperate at Shady Palms, a life-care center near Laguna Beach, California, that would never appear on her social calendar. Meanwhile, her greedy relatives are hovering to get their hands on her riches. And jealousy rocks her already tempestuous relationship with her handsome continental boyfriend"--Back cover.
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"In one false step while wearing stillettos, sixty-five-year-old socialite, Margot Manning's world is sent crashing, and she is forced to recuperate at Shady Palms, a life-care center near Laguna Beach, California, that would never appear on her social calendar. Meanwhile, her greedy relatives are hovering to get their hands on her riches. And jealousy rocks her already tempestuous relationship with her handsome continental boyfriend"--Back cover.
Author: Helene Tursten Publisher: Soho Press ISBN: 1641290110 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 185
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Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg rent-free, thanks to a minor clause in a hastily negotiated contract. That was how Maud learned that good things can come from tragedy. Now in her late eighties, Maud contents herself with traveling the world and surfing the net from the comfort of her father's ancient armchair. It's a solitary existence, and she likes it that way. Over the course of her adventures—or misadventures—this little bold lady will handle a crisis with a local celebrity who has her eyes on Maud's apartment, foil the engagement of her long-ago lover, and dispose of some pesky neighbors. But when the local authorities are called to investigate a dead body found in Maud's apartment, will Maud finally become a suspect?
Author: Autumn Stephens Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1573446041 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 224
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First ladies are supposed to be dignified background figures, quietly supportive of their husbands' agendas. Above all, they're not supposed to act out or cause even a whiff of scandal. Of course, reality often overrides conventional wisdom, and this book shows how far from the prim ideal many of the Presidents' wives have strayed. Part irreverent portrait gallery, part exuberant expose, Feisty First Ladies and Other Unforgettable White House Women introduces a remarkable array of wild women, from Martha Washington, who opposed her own husband's presidential election; to Abraham Lincoln's eccentric wife, Mary; to rebellious daughters like Patti Davis who were the tabloid fodder of their day. Laugh-out-loud funny and filled with amazing stranger-than-fiction facts from our American history, Feisty First Ladies journeys into the realm of the eclectic sisterhood whose outrageous words and deeds have rocked the fusty old foundations of the White House — and the nation!
Author: Nancy Huddleston Packer Publisher: SCB Distributors ISBN: 1564747611 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 139
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The stories in Nancy Huddleston Packer’s new collection center on women of a certain age. They are widows, divorcees, the happily married, an artist, a cleaning woman, a professor, the leisurely rich, and the working poor. Whatever their life condition, all the protagonists are decidedly individual. Some are feisty, some shy, some gentle, some ornery, some who know exactly who they are, and some who are seeking to find out. And almost all discover something a little unsettling that changes their sense of themselves, for better or worse. Praise for the stories of Nancy Huddleston Packer “Packer offers nine plainspoken, warmhearted and wryly observed stories. The individual entries are so closely connected we might be reading a novel....They sparkle with wit and irony.” -Publishers Weekly, reviewing Jealous-Hearted Me “The stories examine the quiet violence of everyday life, tracing the emotional tightropes we all learn to walk, and the nets we dive into as we fall....The characters in Packer’s stories go about the quiet heroism of simply being human.” -The New York Times, reviewing The Women Who Walk “In My Father’s House is a real find....Packer’s work is full of sympathy and perceptiveness about the way people behave.” -San Jose Mercury News, reviewing In My Father’s House “The language of these stories is superb in its precision, conveying a restless eye for people and their telling gestures....Each character etched by the author...is so devastatingly recognizable.” -The Birmingham News, reviewing Small Moments
Author: Ruth O. Saxton Publisher: She Writes Press ISBN: 1631527983 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 283
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This is a book that champions older women’s stories and challenges the limiting outcomes we seem to hold for them. The Book of Old Ladies introduces readers to thirty stories featuring fictional “women of a certain age” who increasingly become their truest selves. Their stories will entertain and provide insight into the stories we tell ourselves about the limits and opportunities of aging. A celebration of women who push back against the limiting stereotypes regarding older women’s possibility, The Book of Old Ladies is a book lover’s guide to approaching old age and dealing with its losses while still embracing beauty, creativity, connection, and wonder.
Author: Samantha Geimer Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1476716846 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 272
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In this searing memoir, the author, "the girl" at the center of the infamous Roman Polanski sexual assault case, breaks a virtual thirty-five year silence to tell her story and reflect on the events of that day and their lifelong repercussions. March 1977, Southern California. Roman Polanski drives a rented Mercedes along Mulholland Drive to Jack Nicholson's house. Sitting next to him is an aspiring actress, Samantha Geimer, recently arrived from York, Pennsylvania. She is thirteen years old. The undisputed facts of what happened in the following hours appear in the court record: Polanski spent hours taking pictures of Samantha on a deck overlooking the Hollywood Hills, on a kitchen counter, topless in a Jacuzzi. Wine and Quaaludes were consumed, balance and innocence were lost, and a young girl's life was altered forever, eternally cast as a background player in her own story. For months on end, the Polanski case dominated the media in the U.S. and abroad. But even with the extensive coverage, much about that day and the girl at the center of it all remains a mystery. Just about everyone had an opinion about the renowned director and the girl he was accused of drugging and raping. Who was the predator? Who was the prey? Was the girl an innocent victim or a cunning Lolita artfully directed by her ambitious stage mother? How could the criminal justice system have failed all the parties concerned in such a spectacular fashion? Once Polanski fled the country, what became of Samantha, the young girl forever associated with one of Hollywood's most notorious episodes? Samantha, as much as Polanski, has been a fugitive since the events of that night more than thirty years ago. Taking us far beyond the headlines, this memoir reveals a thirteen-year-old who was simultaneously wise beyond her years and yet terribly vulnerable. By telling her story in full for the first time, Samantha reclaims her identity, and indelibly proves that it is possible to move forward from victim to survivor, from confusion to certainty, from shame to strength.
Author: Velma Wallis Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0060723521 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 164
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Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness and wisdom" (Ursula K. Le Guin).
Author: Penny Young Nance Publisher: Zondervan ISBN: 0310344891 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 224
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Tired of inauthentic prattle, CEO and president of Concerned Women for America Penny Young Nance is ready to change the way women today engage the culture. In her debut title, Feisty & Feminine, she takes an honest and transparent look at what it means to be a conservative Christian woman with thoughtful commentary on the real issues confronting American women. “Conservative women have never fit neatly into stereotypes, especially conservative Christian women,” says Penny Young Nance. “We’re not the humorless, dim-witted ‘church ladies’ Saturday Night Live has made us out to be. Today’s conservative women are intelligent, well-educated, compassionate, accomplished, funny, and fearless—and it’s time for us to stand up and be heard. In fact, we have an opportunity like never before to offer words of redemption to a world gone mad.” From Miley Cyrus to campus feminists, it’s clear that women are still searching for their voice in culture today. With Hillary Clinton running for president in 2016, there is even more of a need for a compelling, conservative, and credible female influence in the mix. Penny Nance is that woman. She is direct without being disrespectful, winsome but not shallow, and relevant while still holding to faith and conservative values. Accepting the baton of leadership from their foremothers, today’s conservatives have emerged as intelligent, hard-working women of faith who not only deal with issues like life and marriage, but are also advocates for the free market, for rights of conscience, and for female victims of radical Islam. Passionate about their role in society, they refuse to turn a blind eye to the sexual exploitation of women or the hypocrisy surrounding women’s issues. The time is right for this book—and for conservative women everywhere to be part of the conversation.
Author: Cynthia Weitz
Author: Cynthia Weitz
Author: Helene Tursten
Author: Autumn Stephens
Author: Nancy Huddleston Packer
Author: Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
Author: Ruth O. Saxton
Author: Samantha Geimer
Author: Velma Wallis
Author: Virginia King
Author: Penny Young Nance