The Window Dresser and Other Stories


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A window dresser who sees the world as a creative playground. A Jewish grandmother's try as Chaucer's saucy Wife of Bath. The perils of online dating. A struggling artist examines her life. Bestselling author Meredith Allard (The Loving Husband Trilogy, When It Rained at Hembry Castle) presents her first short story collection.




The Window Dresser and Other Stories


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From Meredith Allard, author of the best selling Loving Husband Trilogy and That You Are Here, comes a collection of tales ranging from the heartbreaking to the hilarious and everything in between. From "Bubbie's Tale," a Jewish grandmother's try as Chaucer's Wife of Bath, to "Looking(at)You(dot)Com," a present day look at the perils of online dating, here is some of Allard's finest short fiction together for the first time.




Confessions of a Window Dresser


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The buzz created by the hardcover of this engaging, tart, saucy, and very frank memoir (Liz Smith) ran from a first serial in W to an Absolut Doonan ad to Hollywood film rights. For twenty years Simon Doonan, the creator of the hottest window displays in the world at Barney's New York, has collaborated with the biggest names in fashion and the most notorious names in art. Whether he's making fun of blondes, sending up Sigmund Freud, or creating caricatures of celebrities, his work has been fearless and entertaining kitsch. Confessions of a Window Dresser illustrates his work in glorious full-color photographs and wickedly witty commentary on the trends and people of the fashion and entertainment world. Here's a dazzling gift of glamour, laughter, and fashion history.




The Window Dresser and Other Stories


Book Description

A window dresser who sees the world as a creative playground. A Jewish grandmother's try as Chaucer's Wife of Bath. A look at the perils of online dating. A struggling artist examining her life. Bestselling author Meredith Allard (The Loving Husband Series, When It Rained at Hembry Castle) presents her first short story collection.




The Succubus and Other Stories


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Short stories of varying lengths. Over 600 pages. SF, fantasy, horror, aberration and weirdness. Time travel, virtual reality, cloning. Murder in various modes of brutality. Sex, rape, necrophilia. SANTA CLAUS SEX CRIMINAL: a look at the pedophile. Torture. Vomit. The transcosmic environment of the moid. Life after death. Complications involving a demon. A story including a serial killer. Murdered by a ghost. High quality literary fiction to mainline to your mind.




Window Dressing


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Sometimes Reality Bites… Lauren Campbell thought she knew where she was going. After dropping her son off at college, she’d have four years to live out her dreams and plan the future. But she’d been so living in denial, spending her days baking cookies, cleaning the house and going to PTA meetings, that she missed the fine print on her divorce. Now she’s about to go from empty nest to no nest because her ex’s support has ended! From dressing as a milkmaid at the local grocery to working on window displays, Lauren struggles to make lemonade out of lemons. But a strange thing happens along the way. This “temporary” life starts looking more appealing than the life she’s built in her fantasies….




On the Rez and Other Stories


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Fifteen stories of quiet longing and desire, of second chances, and no chance at all. In On the Rez, when youre broken down and abandoned in Indian territory, on the dusty back roads of Kansas, there are certain to be monsters and fiends. In Ask for Anything, a family escaped into the Blue Ridge Mountains learns you do not always get what you think you want. In Florida Blues, a former lover on a prison visit must face regret, heartache, and frustration. While in California Quarter, a lady friend has not agreed to starving on the trip home.




Gas Age


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Includes summaries of proceedings and addresses of annual meetings of various gas associations. L.C. set includes an index to these proceedings, 1884-1902, issued as a supplement to Progressive age, Feb. 15, 1910.




The Duchess of Idaho


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Grace Wentworth knows two things about her parents, James and Sarah—one, they are deeply in love, and two, they have a secret they will share with no one. Grace senses that she is a part of that secret, but she is not sure how and James and Sarah are less than forthcoming. While visiting her grandmother in Idaho, Grace is propelled back through time to Independence, Missouri in 1850. Unsure what to do or where to go, she follows a wagon train bound on a treacherous 2000-mile journey to Oregon. She finds something oddly familiar about Matthew Cooper, a handsome, friendly pioneer, and she is deeply drawn to him. Torn between remaining with Matthew while facing constant dangers or returning to her family, Grace will need the help of Olivia Phillips, a dear family friend and the most powerful of witches, to save her. The Duchess of Idaho is the stand-alone sequel to the beloved bestselling Loving Husband Trilogy.




Window Dressing on the Set


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