Author: Julia ByrnePublisher:
ISBN: 9780263144574
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Mistress of Her Fate
Author: Julia ByrnePublisher:
ISBN: 9780263144574
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
HIS CINDERELLA MISTRESS
Author: Yu SenkePublisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 4596498946
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Were all the sweet whispers and kisses just a clever trick? January works with her two sisters to protect her late parents’ farm. One day, while earning extra money working part-time as a singer, she meets a mysterious man. His name is Max, and his confident blue eyes captivate January. She swore she would never open her heart to a man again, but she’s touched by Max’s tenderness and ends up sharing a sweet kiss with him. But what will happen when she discovers that he’s a lawyer for a company that is planning to buy her ranch?
Chanel
Author: Lisa ChaneyPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141972998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
In Chanel: An Intimate Life, acclaimed biographer Lisa Chaney tells the controversial story of the fashion icon who starred in her tumultuous era Coco Chanel was many things to many people. Raised in emotional and financial poverty, she became one of the defining figures of the twentieth century. She was mistress to aristocrats, artists and spies. She broke rules of style and decorum, seducing both men and women, yet in her work expected the highest standards. She took a 'plaything' and turned it into a global industry which defined the modern woman. Filled with new insights and thrilling discoveries, Lisa Chaney's Chanel provides the most defining and provocative portrait yet. 'Chaney's research is laudable, uncovering fresh details of Chanel's well-trodden rag trade to riches story' Evening Standard 'An unflinching examination of the historically inscrutable designer' Vogue Lisa Chaney has lectured and tutored in the history of art and literature, made TV and radio broadcasts on the history of culture, and reviewed and written for journals and newspapers, including The SundayTimes, the Spectator and the Guardian. She is the author of two previous biographies: Elizabeth David and Hide-and-Seek With Angels: The Life of J.M. Barrie.
The Unwilling Mistress
Author: Carole MortimerPublisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426872909
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
March Calendar: Single and determined to stay that way…certainly while Will Davenport's around. He may be the most eligible bachelor March has ever met, but he's also the most lethal! She'll never get involved with a man who plans on destroying her family's business! Will Davenport: Single and on a mission to buy the Calendar family's farm for redevelopment. But when he meets the feisty March, he's hooked. Perhaps he can do a deal that will bring the best of both worlds—satisfaction for March and for him. But is March willing to sleep with the enemy?
Understanding Media
Author: Marshall McLuhanPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537430058
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.
Lion and Dragon in Northern China
Author: Sir Reginald Fleming JohnstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The Olivia Letters
Author: Emily Edson BriggsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Jazz Age
Author: Arnold ShawPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195060822
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
F. Scott Fitzgerald named it, Louis Armstrong launched it, Paul Whiteman and Fletcher Henderson orchestrated it, and now Arnold Shaw chronicles this fabulous era in The Jazz Age. Spicing his account with lively anecdotes and inside stories, he describes the astonishing outpouring of significant musical innovations that emerged during the "Roaring Twenties"--including blues, jazz, band music, torch ballads, operettas and musicals--and sets them against the background of the Prohibition world of the Flapper.
The Mighty Music Box
Author: Thomas A. DeLongPublisher: Sasco Associates
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema
Author: Lisa Odham StokesPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538120623
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Hong Kong cinema began attracting international attention in the 1980s. By the early 1990s, Hong Kong had become "Hollywood East" as its film industry rose to first in the world in per capita production, was ranked second to the United States in the number of films it exported, and stood third in the world in the number of films produced per year behind the United States and India. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on directors, producers, writers, actors, films, film companies, genres, and terminology. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Hong Kong cinema.