Author : Qianlong Wuyong
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 843 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
Release : 2019-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1647813700
The fortune-teller went down the hill. All sorts of beautiful ladies came forward together to change their fate, borrowing heaven-defying luck to come rolling over. Beautiful women, please wait a moment, I see that you don't look too good, there's a big barrier of evil, I'll help you find a bone to help you, there's definitely a way to save you.
Author : Brenda Serotte
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,43 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080324326X
This is the memoir of a Sephardic Jewish girl living among Ashkenazi neighbors in the Bronx. She comes down with polio just before her eighth birthday. She begins a fight against immobility set within a cultural realm where Catholic and Jew and Turkish Moslem once met. Where a beautiful aunt could be abducted into a Turkish harem and another aunt could still keep the 400-year-old iron key to the family house in the Cordoba of the Spanish Inquisition.
Author : Wo BenWangShao
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 935 pages
File Size : 19,97 MB
Release : 2020-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1649481713
My girlfriend of two years actually ran away with someone else! He wanted to be a security guard in a bar, but the first time, he was cheated for 2 million! You even said you were going to kill me? Alright! If you don't kill me, one day, I, Ye Feng, will definitely kill you! Never would I have thought that from then on, I would sink deeper and deeper into the abyss!
Author : Gu Hengzhi
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1648970591
After the strong woman had transmigrated, she discovered that she had become the young widow whose love had been lost. Facing her in-laws who were determined to falsely accuse her, Jiao Jiao used her intelligence to start her valiant life. What right did a man have to have three wives and four concubines? A woman had to have three ways and four morals. She had a cute and beautiful appearance and a delicate figure, so how could a man love her every night? You said she was born weak? Sorry, she can talk and have brains, so she earns as much as a man. Since she was able to live again, she used her identity as a servant girl to gain fame, earn a lot of money, and gamble with a loyal dog that pampered her to protect her.
Author : Angela Blondeau
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,21 MB
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1543463266
Why was six-year-old Otto Rigan alone on a ship to America in 1927? Ottos father, Mathias, was left on the dock in Austria by his parents when they sailed to America. Why was he left? Though he was young, Mathias adopted a monkey and earned a living as a fortune-teller in Vienna. Marriage produced a son, but within two years, his wife departed for Americaleaving Mathias with little Otto and Mucki to raise alone. Life was sparse, but the bond of love and devotion between the three was deep. When Mathias received a demand to send Otto to America, he faced an emotional dilemma. Left by his parents and then by his wife, could Mathias endure another partingthis time his boy? Could Otto adapt to a new culture, language, and life without the only things he knew and cherishedhis devoted father and his monkey? Whats to become of Otto, the monkey, and Mathias? Could Mathias go to America to find his wife? The heart-wrenching and emotional turmoil that each character faced in this true story of the Rigan family lies within the pages that begin in a village in Austria in 1880 to life in old Vienna to Chicago to the Worlds Fair to World War II to a military career and to places beyond in search of a father.
Author : Susan Wilson
Publisher : Center Point
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781585472789
After years of moving from place to place with her fortune-teller mother, Sabine Heartwood finally has a home in Moose River Junction, a quiet New England town. But her peaceful life has suddenly turned itself upside-down. Sabine has fallen in love with Dan Smith who has returned to his hometown to deal with family affairs -- and plans to leave as soon as his business is concluded. Then Sabine’s mother appears, ready to discuss the family’s mysterious past. The last straw comes when the psychic gift Sabine has so vehemently rejected, revisits her in a vision she has about a painful family secret from which Dan is unable to free himself. Abounding in generosity and insight, The Fortune Teller’s Daughter is a powerful and moving exploration of the complexities of love.
Author : Kate DiCamillo
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763652989
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
Author : Erin Kenny
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 39,96 MB
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Taking the concept of beauty seriously, this encyclopedia examines how humanity has sought and continues to seek what is "beautiful" in a variety of cultural contexts, giving readers an understanding of how to look at beauty both intellectually and critically. Is beauty ever more than "skin deep"? Arguably yes, considering that the concept of beauty—and the pursuit of it—has shaped cultures worldwide, across every time period, and has even served to change the course of history. Studying beauty practices yields insight into social status, wealth, political ideology, religious doctrine, and gender expectations, including gender nonconformity. A truly interdisciplinary text, Beauty around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia presents an insightful perspective on beauty that draws from philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and feminist studies, giving readers a unique view of world beauty practices. This volume offers information about beauty practices from the past to the present in alphabetical entries that address terms and topics such as "beards," "dreadlocks," "Geisha," "moko tattoos," and "progressive muscularity." Readers will better comprehend how beauty shapes many social interactions in profound ways worldwide, and that the unspoken social agreements that shape ideals of attractiveness and desirability within any given culture can matter very much. The encyclopedia's entries challenge readers to consider the questions "What is beauty?" and "Why does it matter?" A comprehensive bibliography is a valuable resource for further research.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 42,51 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Music
ISBN :
Author : Kari Lee Townsend
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 30,74 MB
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 110161949X
For psychic Sunshine Meadows, sometimes fortunes can be deceiving . . . Lately Sunny has been experiencing a period of big opportunity: her business in Divinity, New York, is thriving, and Detective Mitch Stone has finally agreed to take Sunny on a date. But thanks to her clairvoyant abilities, Sunny knows better than anyone that life deals out bad cards along with the good. When Sunny agrees to read tarot cards at the annual Summer Solstice Carnival, she meets her Granny Gert‘s “arch nemesis” Fiona Atwater, and is overcome by a vision of Fiona in a violent argument. Sunny knows trouble is brewing when Granny and Fiona start having squabbles all over town. But the fighting comes to a head when a local baker gets run over by a big white Cadillac—and Granny and Fiona are found at the crime scene. Sunny knows she should step aside and let Mitch handle the investigating, but she’s not about to ignore her visions and leave her granny’s life in fate’s hands . . .
