hen gutsy Irish redhead Millie McClancey defies her humble beginnings to pursue a life on the stage, she becomes the first of four generations of unforgettable women to taste success in the exciting yet precarious world of show business. Taking readers on a breathtaking journey from the music halls of World War I London to the glitz of Broadway and from Hollywood in its heyday right up to the present, Star Quality is a gripping tale of ambition, betrayal, sex, and survival. Joan Collins is a legendary woman with stardom in her genes, and with Star Quality she'll enchant readers nationwide with this engrossing and thrilling page-turner.
Distilled from a lifetime in the limelight and enhanced by anecdotes and personal revalations, this text brings together Joan Collins' inside knowledge of Holywood glamour together with her common sense guidelines on diet, exercise and well-being.
Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt is now a major motion picture (Carol) starring Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska, directed by Todd Hayes A 2010 New York Times Notable Book A 2010 Lambda Literary Award Winner A 2009 Edgar Award Nominee A 2009 Agatha Award Nominee A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week Patricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of twentieth-century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favorite "hero-criminal," the talented Tom Ripley. Joan Schenkar maps out this richly bizarre life from her birth in Texas to Hitchcock's filming of her first novel, Strangers on a Train, to her long, strange self-exile in Europe. We see her as a secret writer for the comics, a brilliant creator of disturbing fictions, and an erotic predator with dozens of women (and a few good men) on her love list. The Talented Miss Highsmith is the first literary biography with access to Highsmith's whole story: her closest friends, her oeuvre, her archives. It's a compulsive page-turner unlike any other, a book worthy of Highsmith herself.
For over a thousand years the Dukes of Gantley have struggled to hold and maintain their ancestral domain, Gramercy Park, the most splendid and imposing edifice on the South Coast of England. But when Paul, the ninth Duke of Gantley, inherits the estates, events bode ill for the family manse, for Paul is a rake, a spendthrift and a thoroughly bad lot. Soon he is selling off large tracts of lands in order to settle his gambling debts and his escapades with women. He is also a suspect in the mysterious deaths of several young women. Then one night in a drunken rage, he banishes his younger brother David and his sister Julia from their home. But a strange set of circumstances finds his life in the hands of David; and even though he begs for mercy from his younger brother, David refuses and takes the life of Paul, just as Cain slew Abel, and lives to regret it the rest of his life. In the meantime, with his brother s death, David becomes the tenth Duke of Gantley. Barely a hundred miles from Gramercy Park, across the English Channel, lies the coast of France. In its glittering capitol the Dukes of Gantley find their favorite playground amid the splendors and excitements of that dazzling city. More than one Duke of Gantley chose his Duchesse from among the most beautiful women of Paris; David was no exception. He chose the exquisitely beautiful Alicia Dumont, whose mother had been a ballerina and a well-known courtesan in her day. But the events of history have a way of changing people s lives and bringing tragedy when it is least expected. While Alicia and their two children are in Paris visiting Alicia s mother, the Franco-Prussian War breaks out and they find themselves virtual prisoners during the Siege of Paris. David is desperate to bring them back to the safety of English soil and risks his life to do so. But when he returns to Gramercy Park he is a broken man, for history has exacted its price. Figuring in the story is a magnificent diamond necklace said to be made from stones that were once a part of the notorious necklace of Marie Antoinette; said necklace was instrumental in bringing down the French Monarchy and perpetrating the French Revolution. The necklace is stolen three times, and David risks his life to recover it each time. When David s son is born he names him Paul, after his brother, in a vain attempt to ease his own conscience for the role he played in his brother s death, but it turns out to be a curse instead. Young Paul is arrested in a male brothel in London and brings disgrace to the family s name. David is furious and disinherits the boy. Paul dies tragically of syphilis in Paris and David struggles with his remorse. David s youngest brother, Tim, carries on the line and becomes the eleventh Duke of Gantley and brings the family and Gramercy Park into the Twentieth Century. (Although the name DeKingsley figures in the family tree of the author, the De Kingsley family in this narrative is strictly fictional.)
A feast for any lover of English children's books. -Christian Herald Over sixty years ago, Joan Bodger, her husband, and their two children traveled to the UK for the adventure of a lifetime. There, they sought to discover the lands they knew from their beloved children’s books. Come along and see for yourself the people and places behind the stories we love. In Edinburgh, they stand outside the childhood home of Robert Louis Stevenson. They discover the countryside that inspired Caldecott's illustrations in Whitworth. In the Lake District, the farm where Jemima Puddle-duck laid her eggs. And in Winnie the Pooh Country Mrs. Milne herself shows the way to “that enchanted place on the top of the Forest [where] a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.” Join their adventures, from sleeping in a wagon to “messing about” in boats on the Thames. While not all their quests end in victory, like any marvelous story, how they get there is what matters. While we can’t all make the journey ourselves, we can let Joan Bodger take us along. As Emily Dickinson says, even if we “have never seen a moor”, we can still imagine “how the heather looks.” How the Heather Looks has been called ‘the book most often stolen by retiring children’s librarians”. This new edition features the stunning art by Mark Lang, and the authors’ afterword, written thirty years after the book was first released.
Effective communication skills are crucial in all aspects of nursing and midwifery practice - this book will enable readers to communicate effectively and with confidence in their professional practice. It focuses on the communication skills needed for the development of effective professional and therapeutic relationships. It is a 'how to do it' book that relates the theory of effective and ethical communication to the practice of nursing and midwifery and provides a framework for developing communication skills to meet a variety of situations. Approx.256 pages All the chapters have been revised in line with up-to-date literature, professional practice guidelines and research
Her neighbor Lord Montaigne had asked Cecily Caldwell to pose as the anonymous author of the popular Chaos Is Come Again, written, supposedly, by his aunt. Cecily agreed because she had a novel of her own to introduce to a London publisher, and she wanted to do research on London society (including Lord Montaigne and his sister) for her next novel. Regency Romance by Joan Smith; originally published by Fawcett Crest
From the end of Reconstruction and into the New South era, more than one thousand white southern women attended one of the Seven Sister colleges: Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe, and Barnard. Joan Marie Johnson looks at how such educations—in the North, at some of the country’s best schools—influenced southern women to challenge their traditional gender roles and become active in woman suffrage and other social reforms of the Progressive Era South. Attending one of the Seven Sister colleges, Johnson argues, could transform a southern woman indoctrinated in notions of domesticity and dependence into someone with newfound confidence and leadership skills. Many southern students at northern schools imported the values they imbibed at college, returning home to found schools of their own, women’s clubs, and woman suffrage associations. At the same time, during college and after graduation, southern women maintained a complicated relationship to home, nurturing their regional identity and remaining loyal to the ideals of the Confederacy. Johnson explores why students sought a classical liberal arts education, how they prepared for entrance examinations, and how they felt as southerners on northern campuses. She draws on personal writings, information gleaned from college publications and records, and data on the women’s decisions about marriage, work, children, and other life-altering concerns. In their time, the women studied in this book would eventually make up a disproportionately high percentage of the elite southern female leadership. This collective biography highlights the important part they played in forging new roles for women, especially in social reform, education, and suffrage.
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