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Helen's Hotel Fiasco

Author : Katie Wyatt

Publisher : Brides of Bedford

Page : 130 pages

File Size : 39,62 MB

Release : 2019-01-29

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781795311922

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When Helen's strong, stubborn mother, Charity, nearly dies after a terrible flu sweeps New York City, it makes sense to accept a marriage proposal from her longtime best friend, Andy, living far away in much healthier Montana. Ever a wanderer, he moved away at sixteen and has kept in touch with Helen ever since. She's never stopped loving him and prays that she can build a new life with him out West, one that will include her mother. But when Helen and her mother arrive in Chapman's Forge, Montana, it's immediately clear that Charity and Andy don't get along any better than they did when he was a kid. And what is this unusually quickly developing relationship between Charity and Major Trent? Adding to the tumult of an entirely new lifestyle is the fact that Andy failed to mention a key problem with the hotel he's building. Now the whole enterprise is in question, jeopardizing his finances and his relationship with a frustrated Helen. Will they meet their bank deadline? Will Charity ever like Andy? When the dry thunderstorms arrive, will the town survive the ultimate trial by literal fire? Read all the books in Montana Mail Order Bride Brides of Bedford Series by bestselling author Katie Wyatt! Start with Lillie's Lie Montana Mail order Brides (Brides of Bedford Series) Book 1: Lillie's Lie Book 2: Clara and Ben Book 3: Florence's Faith. Book 4: Bernice and the Blacksmith Book 5: Della's Doctor Book 6: Maggie's Marshal Book 7: Annie's Apothecary Book 8: Belle's Bakery Book 9: Helen's Hotel fiasco Book 10: Saving Sadie Book 11: Matilda's Mine Book 12: Nancy's Nuptials Read all the Books by bestselling author Katie Wyatt! American Mail order brides Sweet Frontier Cowboys Complet Series (20 Book Series) Full-Novel Romance. 1. Box Set Sweet Frontier Cowboys Novels 1-3 (Sweet Frontier Cowboys Collection Book 1) 2.Box set Sweet Frontier Cowboys Novels 4-6: (Sweet Frontier Cowboys Collection Book 2) 3.Box Set Sweet Frontier Cowboys Novels 7-9 (Sweet Frontier Cowboys Collection Book 3) 4.Box Set Sweet Frontier Cowboys Novels 10-12 (Sweet Frontier Cowboys Collection Book 4) 5.Box Set Sweet Frontier Cowboys Novels 13-15 (Sweet Frontier Cowboys Collection Book 5) 6.Box Set Sweet Frontier Cowboys Novels 16-18 (Sweet Frontier Cowboys Collection Book 6) 7.Box Set Sweet Frontier Cowboys Novels 19-20 Plus Mail Order Brides of The West (Sweet Frontier Cowboys Collection Book 7) Snowy Mountain Complete Series ( 9 Book Series) 1. Box Set Snowy Mountain Series Books 1 - 5: Contemporary Western Romance 2.Box Set Snowy Mountain Series Books 6 - 9: Contemporary Western Romance California Historical Mail Order Bride Romance Complete Series 1. California Box Set Books 1 - 4: Historical Mail Order Bride Romance Series 2.California Box Set Books 5 - 8 (California Historical Mail Order Bride Romance Series) Frontier Valentine Romance Series Book 1: Valentine Eliza Book 2: Valentine Minnie Book 3: Valentine Emma Book 4: Valentine Bertha Katie Wyatt Clean and Wholesome novelette American Mail Order Bride historical Western romance series is enjoyable for all ages.



Helen Morgan

Author : Christopher S. Connelly

Publisher : University Press of Kentucky

Page : 375 pages

File Size : 11,70 MB

Release : 2024-08-06

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1985900629

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An emotive soprano voice, heartrending melodies about unrequited love, and a draped-over-the-piano persona made Helen Morgan (1902–1941) the original torch singer, but she was so much more. The versatile actress appeared on Broadway, in film, and on radio. In a number of stage revues, she danced, sang, and excelled in sketch comedy. She played Julie in Kern and Hammerstein's Broadway musical Show Boat (1927) and also starred in the duo's Sweet Adeline in 1929. That same year, Morgan appeared in Rouben Mamoulian's classic film Applause. When the Great Depression made theater roles scarce, she headed the CBS radio program Broadway Melodies and worked in the emerging medium of television. Yet Morgan's life was one of extremes. She earned a million dollars throughout her career but remained in constant debt. She was one of the most universally beloved people in her profession, but a stable romantic relationship eluded her until the very end of her life. She was a protofeminist who aided women facing unplanned pregnancies, yet she also sought respite in a man whose financial support would allow her to retire from the stage. Through it all, she battled alcoholism; brandy would eventually extinguish her flame in 1941. Helen Morgan: The Original Torch Singer and Ziegfeld's Last Star is the first biography of the gifted performer since 1974. Author Christopher Connelly utilizes interviews, newspaper articles, and family scrapbooks to present an honest and unflinching look at Morgan's life. Connelly's meticulous research addresses Morgan's troubled childhood, including her mother's six marriages, and the trauma of her stepfather's arrest and conviction for manslaughter in 1913. Also revealed are details regarding her early career in vaudeville and silent film, insights into the speakeasy and supper-club culture that served as a backdrop to Morgan's career, and accounts of her outstanding accomplishments, philanthropic actions, and enduring popularity. This gripping narrative presents the brief but brilliant life of a complex, talented, and iconic entertainer.





Princeton Alumni Weekly

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Publisher : princeton alumni weekly

Page : 1112 pages

File Size : 40,87 MB

Release : 1925

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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial

Author : Deborah Cohen

Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks

Page : 625 pages

File Size : 11,83 MB

Release : 2023-03-14

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0525511210

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WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE • A prize-winning historian’s “effervescent” (The New Yorker) account of a close-knit band of wildly famous American reporters who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism “High-speed, four-lane storytelling . . . Cohen’s all-action narrative bursts with colour and incident.”—Financial Times NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE PROSE AWARD ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, NPR, BookPage, Booklist They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed across a war-ravaged world, sometimes perched atop mules on wooden saddles, sometimes gliding through countries in the splendor of a first-class sleeper car. While empires collapsed and fledgling democracies faltered, they chased deposed empresses, international financiers, and Balkan gun-runners, and then knocked back doubles late into the night. Last Call at the Hotel Imperial is the extraordinary story of John Gunther, H. R. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson. In those tumultuous years, they landed exclusive interviews with Hitler and Mussolini, Nehru and Gandhi, and helped shape what Americans knew about the world. Alongside these backstage glimpses into the halls of power, they left another equally incredible set of records. Living in the heady afterglow of Freud, they subjected themselves to frank, critical scrutiny and argued about love, war, sex, death, and everything in between. Plunged into successive global crises, Gunther, Knickerbocker, Sheean, and Thompson could no longer separate themselves from the turmoil that surrounded them. To tell that story, they broke long-standing taboos. From their circle came not just the first modern account of illness in Gunther’s Death Be Not Proud—a memoir about his son’s death from cancer—but the first no-holds-barred chronicle of a marriage: Sheean’s Dorothy and Red, about Thompson’s fractious relationship with Sinclair Lewis. Told with the immediacy of a conversation overheard, this revelatory book captures how the global upheavals of the twentieth century felt up close.



Howards End

Author : Alistair M. Duckworth

Publisher : Twayne Publishers

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 11,82 MB

Release : 1992

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN :

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In Howards End, E. M. Forster describes Edwardian England not as a golden afternoon of Empire, but as a time of conflict between nations, parties, classes, and the sexes. Forster's England is one in which a peaceful rural past encounters a frenzied urban present, the countryside is threatened by urban encroachment and pollution, intellectuals quarrel with businessmen, art vies with sport as a recreational activity, cultural tastes collide with popular tastes, entrenched male power ignores or suppresses emerging female aspirations, and laissez-faire economic attitudes are harmful to the poor and underprivileged. Such conflicts, as Alistair Duckworth demonstrates, pervade the novel's episodes, settings, conversations, and commentaries. On the publication of Howards End in 1910 Forster was recognized as a major Edwardian novelist. Forster's subtle characterizations, narrative ironies, perfectly pitched dialogues, and evocative treatment of place established him in the great tradition of the English novel of manners. Living in a fragmented society, Forster brought new depth to that tradition; he engaged the divisive issues of his time by presenting them as human encounters in domestic contexts. His perspective was that of a liberal humanist--in Howards End he obviously favors the progressive attitudes of the Schlegel women to the Social Darwinist behavior of the Wilcox men. As a realist, however, he reveals not only the relative powerlessness of benevolent intellectuals to bring about social improvement, but also their financial complicity in the system they oppose. In its critique of "commerce" and "culture" in a swiftly changing world, and in its searching exploration of sexual roles, Howards End has remarkable relevance to the present. Rather than arguing that Forster brings the novel's oppositions together to form an aesthetic whole and provide a satisfying political solution to the problems of his time, Duckworth values Howards End for its formal diversity, multiple discourses, intertextual echoes and allusions, and range of topics and themes. He combines a close reading of Forster's text with relevant biographical considerations and comparisons of Forster's techniques with those of significant predecessors such as Jane Austen and contemporaries such as Joseph Conrad and D. H. Lawrence. He also devotes a chapter to the critical reception of Howards End from 1910 to the present. In showing how Howards End is open-ended and dialogical in nature, Duckworth explains the novel's continuing interest for different sorts and generations of readers and makes a valuable and distinctive contribution to Forster studies.



The Devil I Know

Author : Claire Kilroy

Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Page : 386 pages

File Size : 41,19 MB

Release : 2014-01-28

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 080212237X

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In exile after being ousted from the family castle, recovering alcoholic Tristram St. Lawrence finds himself back in Dublin when an old acquaintance pitches a development project that his sponsor, a mysterious businessman, supports.



The Guardian Index

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Publisher :

Page : 1952 pages

File Size : 44,72 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Guardian (Manchester, England)

ISBN :

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Mergers & Matrimony

Author : Allison Leigh

Publisher : Silhouette

Page : 239 pages

File Size : 44,50 MB

Release : 2011-10-17

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1459218299

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TO: HELEN HANSON FROM: RICHARD WARREN RE: ALMOST THROUGH! It’s been an exhausting battle, but we’re almost done with the merger between Hanson Media and the Japanese powerhouse TAKA Corporation. And we couldn’t have done it without your business savvy, Helen. Your late husband, George, would be proud of all you’ve done to salvage the business for his kids. I hear that you and the fierce head negotiator, Morito Taka, are getting on famously. I’m surprised that he’d even talk to someone from the other side of the negotiating table, but your all-American beauty and sparkling blue eyes seem to have captivated him! Just be careful, Helen: mixing work with pleasure can be a very riskybusiness….



Motion Picture Herald

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Page : 796 pages

File Size : 50,2 MB

Release : 1927

Category : Motion pictures

ISBN :

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