Author: Brian C. Janes
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764339981
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"What is burlesque? Who better to ask than burlesque performers themselves? With this question in mind, the author traveled over 14,000 miles across the United States visiting today's burlesque performers, photographing them in their homes, and asking them: "What does burlesque mean to you?" Their answers and 104 accompanying portraits may surprise you. For these performers, burlesque is so many things, including fun and empowerment onstage, an escape from life's doldrums, a fantasy, a career. This book also presents a study in contrasts between the public persona of each performer and that performer's private life."--book jacket.

Author: Danielle Steel
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509878319
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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From New York to London to St Tropez, All That Glitters by the world's favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel, is the story of a young woman finding her place in the world and learning the hardest lesson of all - who to trust. Coco Martin, the adored only child of wealthy parents, has lived a charmed existence in their beautiful Manhattan home, and summers in a fabulous Hamptons house. Despite her privileged upbringing, Coco's parents instilled in their daughter their own values of hard work, honesty and kindness. But as she's just entering her twenties, Coco's world is devastated by the sudden death of her beloved parents. Now the heir to a considerable fortune, Coco must find her way in a world that no longer makes sense to her. The estate is protected by a trustee, a close friend of her mother and father. But is he the honourable man she believes him to be? Beginning a new life in London, she falls in love with a charismatic, handsome, penniless aristocrat, who introduces her to a world of fabulous parties and extravagance. Coco's oldest friend Sam fears that this whirlwind romance won't last, but Coco is sure that she has finally found happiness. In the middle of London's glamorous social scene, Coco struggles to see things as they really are . . .

Author: John Gapper
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101572752
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 599

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The definitive, classic account of the fall of the House of Baring, the oldest merchant bank in London, in 1995 and the ultimate rogue trader, Nick Leeson, who brought down the venerable institution with speculative investing. John Gapper, associate editor of the Financial Times, and his coauthor Nicholas Denton, now founder of Gawker Media, interviewed all the major players involved in the collapse of one of England's oldest banks. All That Glitters reveals the Faustian deal struck between the whizz-kid derivatives traders who seemed to be bringing in huge profits and the old guard who were happy to pocket them without asking too many questions. Gapper and Denton present a thrilling, in-depth account of Nick Leeson's motives and methods for hiding the unauthorized speculative trading as well as the final days of Barings and the last-ditch attempts by politicians and bankers to save the bank.

Author: Michael Olumide Olaogbebikan
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477246576
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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Chief Arowojobe has amassed wealth through illicit means, which involves using his family members as ritual sacrifices to his gods for continued financial prosperity. Tragedy strikes during one of his usual attempts. All That Glitters enlightens its reader on the consequences of greed and ill-gotten wealth.

Author: Les Cowan
Publisher: Lion Fiction
ISBN: 1782642544
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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"A unique combination of spiritual journey and fast-paced crime. Very mature writing; an outstanding achievement." - Ron Ferguson, author and columnist It was a trap. Her dream had been to escape Belarus for a new life in the West, but in Edinburgh the dream becomes a nightmare. Now the choice is simple. Comply or die. Meanwhile, Pastor David Hidalgo's mind is reeling with too many things that don't add up. Accounts showing millions that shouldn't be there. A trusted friend dead, with illegal files on his computer. A grieving widow convinced her husband was framed. Could there be a connection between people trafficking, a new church that isn't all it appears to be and a financial investigator who got too close? David and Tati's worlds are about to collide. Will either escape unscathed?

Author: Jill Santopolo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442473800
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Sisters Aly and Brooke Tanner are desperate for their mom to allow them to open their own nail salon in the back of hers. But when they get their wish, they discover that wishing and dreaming about their salon is much different from the reality of running it.

Author: Oliveira Taft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Ignorance isn’t a bliss We’re all bred to be good wives. Plan dinner parties and be entertaining. They all think I’m too old to be here with the young single girls. I should find a man, I should get married. I refuse but come a day when they find me a husband. They fix me a husband the same way they tried to fix my behaviour. They think I have no choice, but I still have one left. I will not behave, I will not smile. I will not be Blessed. A memorable saga packed with tension - ALL THAT GLITTERS will inspire fans of The Gender Game, VOX and Only Ever Yours.

Author: Diana Palmer
Publisher: HQN Books
ISBN: 1488029210
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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From a New York Times–bestselling author, a classic tale of opposites attract when a wealthy mogul falls for his beautiful, secretive employee. When Ivory Keene landed a job at a prestigious fashion house in New York, she could never have anticipated the challenges and excitement her new position would provide. Chief among them is her exasperatingly sexy boss, Curry Kells. The older, experienced executive can’t help but be drawn to Ivory by a desire neither can resist. He sees only a talented young woman whose fresh, exciting designs might just make them both millions. But he soon discovers that Ivory is keeping secrets. Now, just as Ivory’s wildest dreams are within her grasp, she’s tempted by the intimacies of a forbidden affair. But is achieving fame and wealth worth sacrificing Curry’s love? “Palmer knows how to make the sparks fly.” —Publishers Weekly

Author: James Minick
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1401096212
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Ellie Perro harbored an unattained goal to travel to places she had dreamed to see since childhood. Now in the twilight of her life she has encouraged her husband, Rick, to retire from his accounting business in Pennsylvania and move to their condominium in Tropico, Florida. Rick is a workaholic and declines retirement until he experiences heart irregularity, and because of his doctor's advice, agrees to move to Florida. Ellie has suspected infidelity on the part of her handsome husband ever since he had an affair with Julie Cordell during Ellie's second pregnancy. Overall the marriage of forty years has been essentially stable but has lost most of the luster once enjoyed by the couple. Ellie being ten years younger than Rick has found this frustrating and seeks the challenge of becoming a tour guide after they become settled in Florida. The move during early February is marked at the onset by a near tragedy when they have an accident with a deer on the morning of departure in a snowstorm. Then they have a second misadventure during a monstrous storm in Charlotte, North Carolina. Arriving in Tropico, Florida, they find devastation from the same storm system and cannot occupy the condominium due to wind and water damage. They are forced to stay in the hospitality suite at El Tropico Condominiums for two weeks while damages are repaired. The first day in Tropico they enjoy lunch at Barney's Place, their favorite eatery. Barney O'Toole, the restaurateur, has assembled a valuable collection of baseball memorabilia. A young man who seems unusually interested in the baseball items on the wall arouses Ellie's curiosity. Following lunch, the Perros rest in their rooms in the office building when Corey Parker, the manager, has a strange, nearly fatal, accident. The next day the Perros learn that Barney's Place has been burglarized at great loss to Barney. A few days later, Ellie and Rick, with time on their hands, attend a flea market at Webster, Florida and the seemingly lackluster day becomes exciting when Ellie spots the young man she had seen in Barney's. The interest intensifies when she and Rick see some of Barney's stolen items on a flea market table. Other episodes include: an inflammatory dinner in the condo of Ellie's friend Kit Carmichael, an early foggy morning at the pool when Perry Williams dives into the pool just as Ellie notices a large alligator dive in at the far end of the pool, a motorcycle club tours El Tropico at dawn, Ellie has a disastrous meeting with Charlie Lambert to pursue her goal to become a tour guide. Rick is forced to return to Pennsylvania when the replacement in his business has a serious automobile accident, Rick returns briefly to El Tropico for the Saint Patrick's Day Party involving a tragic death, and Ellie becomes engaged as a tour guide in Florida and later to Alaska. Woven through this story are casualties of clandestine affairs, several humorous situations, a tragic fishing boat incident, and through it all the wavering love between Ellie and Rick. In the final analysis, Ellie is imbued with the realization that retiring is not necessarily the fulfillment of her dreams of the Golden Years.

Author: Paul Sullivan
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462823777
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Don Carpenter is a talented writer, and a successful and rising talent at a San Francisco public relations firm. But Don finds that PR does not fulfill him. He feels an emptiness, a sense of uncertainty. When he is offered a position on the faculty of a university in Utah where he can not only teach in a solid creative writing workshop environment, but also concentrate on his own creative works, he finds himself at an impasse not uncommon to talented people. What to do? Money, commercial success, creative fulfillment? Don finds some startling answers in an even more startling way. Ducking into an odd shop, the Chateau Occult, during a downpour in downtown San Francisco, Don meets a mysterious woman who inexplicably appears to know more about him than conditions warrant. When she gives Don a small vial of strange blue powder, his journey begins.... and what a journey! Don travels in time back to the days before what we call San Francisco existed. He joins Sam Brannan, leader of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons) who travel from New York by sailing vessel to the little hamlet of Yerba Buena, a sleepy place situated between the Presidio and the Mission Dolores on the shores of San Francisco Bay. Brannan and Brigham Young had agreed that Sam's people would join up with Brigham's trekkers at some point. Until gold is discovered, that is! Don Carpenter travels back and forth to the Gold Rush days of San Francisco and sees the City actually take shape, both physically and, more importantly, spiritually and in its incipient character. The blue powder brings him back again to the heyday of Vigilante rule in the City by the Bay, and Sam Brannan's problems begin to reflect some of the difficulties facing Don Carpenter. When Don's friend, a history professor at Berkeley, assures Don that all he recounts really happened, Don wonders about the meaning of it all. When his alter ego in nineteenth century San Francisco meets a wonderful woman, the situation becomes even more unusual. Don Carpenter is groping towards a solution to his dilemma, and hoping for an answer to his prayers, when circumstances dictate a return to the Chateau Occult, the weird shop where some answers might be had, or maybe not. This time, Don finds a shop that may not be there, but a destiny that surely is. San Francisco has its own magic spell that it casts effortlessly over people. For Don Carpenter, the spell is especially potent, and ultimately life changing.