Penny Fraser's Books

The Nature of the Beast

A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

By: Louise Penny

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Nature of the Beast

A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

By: Louise Penny

The Nature of the Beast is a New York Times bestselling Chief Inspector Gamache novel from Louise Penny. Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. Including Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache, who now live in the little Quebec village. But when the boy disappears, the villagers are faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales might have been true. And so begins a frantic search for the boy and the truth. What they uncover deep in the forest sets off a sequence of events that leads to murder, leads to an old crime, leads to an old betrayal. Leads right to the door of an old poet. And now it is now, writes Ruth Zardo. And the dark thing is here. A monster once visited Three Pines. And put down deep roots. And now, Ruth knows, it is back. Armand Gamache, the former head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec, must face the possibility that, in not believing the boy, he himself played a terrible part in what happens next.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

384

Publisher

Minotaur Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1250022096

ISBN 13

9781250022097

Hair to Dye For

A Hair Colorist's Secrets Revealed

By: Penny Baptista

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hair to Dye For

A Hair Colorist's Secrets Revealed

By: Penny Baptista

How many times have you spent $50, $100, or even $200 to have your hair colored and styled, walked out of the salon, and wanted to put a bag over your head? In Hair to Dye For: A Hair Colorists Secrets Revealed author Penny Baptista provides an easy-to-understand and concise guide to coloring your own hair. Hair coloring is a billion-dollar industry and one of the most popular salon services. As a color specialist and stylist for more than twenty years, Baptista has compiled this guide to help consumers save money and achieve the salon look at home. The guide discusses Different types of color Levels of color Developers, toners, and alternative colors Application techniques Organic color methods Hair color corrections Product knowledge An educational tool with step-by-step instructions, Hair to Dye For: A Hair Colorists Secrets Revealed provides practical and helpful information for coloring hair to produce beautiful results.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

iUniverse

Published Date

ISBN 10

0595524834

ISBN 13

9780595524839

Never Mind the Botox: Stella

By: Penny Avis,Joanna Berry

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Never Mind the Botox: Stella

By: Penny Avis,Joanna Berry

Stella Webb is a successful but bored cosmetic surgeon whose career is going in a very different direction to that of the A&E doctor she's dating.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

199

Publisher

Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published Date

ISBN 10

1838595864

ISBN 13

9781838595869

Grand County

By: Penny Rafferty Hamilton, PhD and the Grand County Historical Association

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Grand County

By: Penny Rafferty Hamilton, PhD and the Grand County Historical Association

Established in 1874, before Colorado became a state, Grand County is nestled in the north-central Rocky Mountains. Named for the Grand River (renamed the Colorado River), Grand County encompasses 1,868 square miles, which is larger than Rhode Island. For thousands of years, Indigenous, nomadic tribes enjoyed natural hot springs and summer hunting. Spanish explorers, French fur trappers, and mountain men followed. In 1858, the gold rush brought rugged prospectors, creating towns named Coulter, Gaskill, Lulu City, and Teller. Later, homesteaders, loggers, merchants, and the Moffat Railroad built Arrow, Hideaway Park, Winter Park, Fraser, Tabernash, Granby, Grand Lake, Hot Sulphur Springs, Parshall, Kremmling, and Radium. Today, tourists flock to Rocky Mountain National Park, Arapaho National Forest, and award-winning dude ranches and resorts to enjoy some of the world's most beautiful lakes, mountain ranges, and abundant wildlife. Written in an easy-to-read pictorial format with over 200 curated photographs, Grand County is for readers interested in true stories of Western grit and courage.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

128

Publisher

Arcadia Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1467108979

ISBN 13

9781467108973

The Ultimate Surrender

A Billionaire Boss Romance

By: Penny Jordan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Ultimate Surrender

A Billionaire Boss Romance

By: Penny Jordan

Polly had always been grateful that when she was in need, Marcus Frobisher had offered her a home, a job and himself as a stand-in father to her baby daughter. As the years passed, Marcus let Polly think he acted only out of a sense of family duty. However, the truth was, he'd wanted her since the first moment they'd met. Now, though, it was time to persuade her to surrender to the passion that had been denied for so long!

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

186

Publisher

Harlequin

Published Date

ISBN 10

1426847424

ISBN 13

9781426847424

Equity in Higher Education

Time for Social Justice Praxis

By: Penny Jane Burke,Matt Lumb

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Equity in Higher Education

Time for Social Justice Praxis

By: Penny Jane Burke,Matt Lumb

In a global context of growing inequality and socio-environmental crises, Equity in Higher Education considers the issues and challenges for progressing an equity agenda. It advances a unique multidimensional framework based on theoretical and conceptual threads, including critical, feminist, decolonial, post-structural, and sociological discourses. It also provides readers with the sophisticated insights and tools urgently needed to challenge long-standing, entrenched, and insidious inequalities at play in and through higher education. Written as a form of a pedagogical interaction, and addressing nuanced temporal and spatial inequalities, this key resource will be of value to policymakers, practitioners, educators, and scholars committed to progressive and groundbreaking approaches that can engage the ongoing challenges of transforming higher education towards more just realities.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

208

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1040125808

ISBN 13

9781040125809

Wicked Pleasures

By: Penny Vincenzi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Wicked Pleasures

By: Penny Vincenzi

“Set in the glamorous worlds of an American banking dynasty and the British aristocracy . . . this is Dynasty meets Downton Abbey.” —Booklist None of them are the children of Alexander, Earl of Caterham, who was married to their mother for almost twenty years. A family saga that takes the reader right from the 1950s to the end of the twentieth century, and set between the Hamptons summer homes of New York’s elite and the English countryside familiar to any fan of British period drama, Wicked Pleasures is a tale of the power and greed of the mega-rich, as the great banking business upon which the family’s fortunes are won and lost comes to the brink of ruin. Intense relationships, both old and new, are tested to the utmost in this grand and unputdownable summer read. Praise for Penny Vincenzi “The doyenne of the modern blockbuster.” —Glamour “Soap opera? You bet—but with her well-drawn characters and engaging style, Vincenzi keeps things humming.” —People “Nobody writes smart, page-turning commercial women’s fiction like Vincenzi.” —USA Today “Vincenzi does it again with another captivating and entertaining family saga that combines power, riches, lies, and greed . . . For fans of Barbara Taylor Bradford and Danielle Steel.” —Library Journal

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

757

Publisher

Abrams

Published Date

ISBN 10

1468301977

ISBN 13

9781468301977

Bodily Subjects

Essays on Gender and Health, 1800-2000

By: Tracy Penny Light,Barbara Brookes,Wendy Mitchinson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Bodily Subjects

Essays on Gender and Health, 1800-2000

By: Tracy Penny Light,Barbara Brookes,Wendy Mitchinson

From the nineteenth-century British Poor Laws, to an early twentieth-century Aboriginal reserve in Queensland Australia, to AIDS activists on the streets of Toronto in the 1990s, Bodily Subjects explores the historical entanglement between gender and health to expose how ideas of health - a concept whose meanings we too often assume to understand - are embedded in assumptions about femininity and masculinity. These essays expand the conversation on health and gender by examining their intersection in different geo-political contexts and times. Constantly measured through ideals and judged by those in authority, healthy development has been construed differently for teenage girls, adult men and women, postpartum mothers, and those seeking cosmetic surgery. Over time, meanings of health have expanded from an able body signifying health in the nineteenth century to concepts of "well-being," a psychological and moral interpretation, which has dominated health discourse in Western countries since the late twentieth century. Through examinations of particular times and places, across two centuries and three continents, Bodily Subjects highlights the ways in which the body is both subjectively experienced and becomes a subject of inquiry. Contributors include Barbara Brookes (University of Otago), Brigitte Fuchs (University of Vienna), Catherine Gidney (St Thomas University), Mona Gleason (University of British Columbia), Natalie Gravelle (York University), Rebecca Godderis (Wilfrid Laurier University), Antje Kampf (Humboldt University of Berlin), Marjorie Levine-Clark (University Colorado Denver), Wendy Mitchinson (University of Waterloo), Meg Parsons (University of Auckland), Tracy Penny Light (University of Waterloo), Patricia A. Reeve (Suffolk University), Anika Stafford (Simon Fraser University), and Thomas Wendelboe (University of Waterloo).

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

407

Publisher

McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published Date

ISBN 10

0773596429

ISBN 13

9780773596429

The Right to Higher Education

Beyond widening participation

By: Penny Jane Burke

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Right to Higher Education

Beyond widening participation

By: Penny Jane Burke

The landscape of higher education has undergone change and transformation in recent years, partly as a result of diversification and massification. However, persistent patterns of under-representation continue to perplex policy-makers and practitioners, raising questions about current strategies, policies and approaches to widening participation. Presenting a comprehensive review and critique of contemporary widening participation policy and practice, Penny Jane Burke interrogates the underpinning assumptions, values and perspectives shaping current concepts and understandings of widening participation. She draws on a range of perspectives within the field of the sociology of education – including feminist post-structuralism, critical pedagogy and policy sociology – to examine the ways in which wider societal inequalities and misrecognitions, which are related to difference and diversity, present particular challenges for the project to widen participation in higher education. In particular, the book: focuses on the themes of difference and diversity to shed light on the operations of inequalities and the politics of access and participation both in terms of national and institutional policy and at the level of student and practitioner experience. draws on the insights of the sociology of education to consider not only the patterns of under-representation in higher education but also the politics of mis-representation, critiquing key discourses of widening participation. interrogates assumptions behind WP policy and practice, including assumptions about education being an unassailable good provides an analysis of the accounts and perspectives of students, practitioners and policy-makers through in-depth interviews, observations and reflective journal entries. offers insights for future developments in the policy, practice and strategies for widening participation The book will be of great use to all those working in and researching Higher Education.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

241

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1136450963

ISBN 13

9781136450969

Around Granby

By: Penny Rafferty Hamilton, Ph.D.

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Around Granby

By: Penny Rafferty Hamilton, Ph.D.

The area around Granby was developed in the late 1800s and today remains true to the "Spirit of the West." It once was the Utes' summer hunting ground and was shared by fur trappers and mountain men in the winters. Later, prospectors came to Lulu City and mined for gold while loggers and homesteaders built schools and churches, forming the towns of Monarch, Selak, and Coulter. In 1905, the Moffat Railroad created a new town, putting Granby on the map. Dependable railroad access allowed ranches and businesses to thrive. The Victory Highway offered motorcars a route through the Arapaho National Forest and Rocky Mountain National Park, bringing tourism to dude ranches, where guests wanted to be cowboys. After World War II, the completion of the massive Colorado-Big Thompson Water Project changed the landscape when Lake Granby buried ranches and the Lindbergh airstrip. Soon, locals discovered "white gold" when skiing and winter sports expanded the four-season, mountain-resort community.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

128

Publisher

Arcadia Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1467130451

ISBN 13

9781467130455

Changing Pedagogical Spaces in Higher Education

Diversity, inequalities and misrecognition

By: Penny Jane Burke,Gill Crozier,Lauren Ila Misiaszek

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Changing Pedagogical Spaces in Higher Education

Diversity, inequalities and misrecognition

By: Penny Jane Burke,Gill Crozier,Lauren Ila Misiaszek

Higher education is in a current state of flux and uncertainty, with profound changes being shaped largely by the imperatives of global neoliberalism. Changing Pedagogical Spaces in Higher Education forms a unique addition to the literature and includes significant practical pointers in developing pedagogical strategies, interventions and practices that seek to address the complexities of identity formations, difference, inequality and misrecognition. Drawing on research studies based across California, England, Italy, Portugal and Spain, this book analyses complex pedagogical re/formations across competing discourses of gender, diversity, equity, global neoliberalism and transformation, and aims: to critique and reconceptualise widening participation practices in higher education to consider the complex intersections between difference, equity, global neoliberalism and transformation to analyse the intersections of identity formations, social inequalities and pedagogical practices to contribute to broader widening participation policy agendas to develop an analysis of gendered experiences, intersected by race and class, of higher education practices and relations. Changing Pedagogical Spaces in Higher Education will speak to those concerned with how theory relates to everyday practices and development of teaching in higher education and those who are interested in theorising about pedagogies, identities and inequalities in higher education. Engaging readers in a dialogue of the relationship between theory and practice, this thought-provoking and challenging text will be of particular interest to researchers, academic developers and policy-makers in the field of higher education studies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

261

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317407865

ISBN 13

9781317407867

Home

the most moving and heartfelt novel you'll read this year

By: Penny Parkes

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Home

the most moving and heartfelt novel you'll read this year

By: Penny Parkes

***Penny Parkes' brilliant new novel MAYBE TOMORROW is out now!*** 'Moving, hopeful and heartfelt... an ideal book group read' AJ Pearce, author of Dear Mrs Bird A gripping and heartfelt story about overcoming the past and finding where you belong. Anna Wilson travels the world as a professional housesitter – stepping into other people’s lives - caring for their homes, pets and sometimes even neighbours. Living vicariously. But all Anna has ever really wanted is a home of her own – a proper one, filled with family and love and happy memories. If only she knew where to start. Growing up in foster care, she always envied her friends their secure and carefree lives, their certainty and confidence. And, while those same friends may have become her family of choice, Anna is still stuck in that nomadic cycle, looking for answers, trying to find the courage to put down roots and find a place to call home. Compelling, rich and evocative, Home is Anna’s journey to discovering that it isn’t where you settle down that matters, but the people you have around you when you do. ‘I loved this warm and touching story about home, belonging, and finding your way in the world. Vivid, evocative and beautifully written, with a message of hope at its heart’ Holly Miller, author of The Sight of You 'Friends are where the heart is… I very much enjoyed this thoughtful and absorbing novel' Kate Eberlen, author of Only You 'A gorgeous, thoughtful read' Catherine Isaac, author of The World at My Feet 'Clever, warm and funny, Penny writes with a big heart, a light touch and supreme confidence. Home will be on all the best bookshelves! The ultimate comfort read' Veronica Henry, author of A Wedding at the Beach Hut 'As heartbreaking as it is uplifting, this book wouldn’t leave me. I loved it’ Katie Fforde, author of A Wedding in the Country ** WHY READERS LOVE HOME ** 'Sometimes you read a book that genuinely touches your heart. Home by Penny Parkes did that to me... I will be buying this book for friends and for my 18 year old daughter and her friends. I also really hope my book club read it, as there is so much I want to discuss' 5-star reader review 'I felt as though this book touched my heart. I now want to read more of Penny's books as I feel as though I have missed out on her awesome writing' 5-star reader review 'This was without a doubt one of the the most captivating books I have read in quite some time, and I would certainly recommend it to others!' 5-star reader review 'I love this book… I found myself in tears on more than one occasion, smiling and laughing at others… This is a fantastic book and will be recommending it to all of my friends' 5-star reader review 'Goodness me I loved this book. It was so heartfelt and thoughtful… So brilliantly done and the best Penny Parkes to date (they are all brilliant though)' 5-star reader review

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

382

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1471180174

ISBN 13

9781471180170

One-Click Buy: May 2009 Harlequin Presents

By: Penny Jordan,Lucy Monroe,Robyn Donald,Susan Stephens,Catherine Spencer,India Grey,Kelly Hunter,Anna Cleary

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

One-Click Buy: May 2009 Harlequin Presents

By: Penny Jordan,Lucy Monroe,Robyn Donald,Susan Stephens,Catherine Spencer,India Grey,Kelly Hunter,Anna Cleary

One convenient download. One bargain price. Get all May 2009 Harlequin Presents with one click! Alphas heroes, exotic locales, heart-wrenching drama--these romance from Harlequin Presents have it all! Treat yourself with all eight new books in this bundle: The Sicilian Boss's Mistress by Penny Jordan, Valentino's Love-Child by Lucy Monroe, Virgin Bought and Paid For by Robyn Donald, The Ruthless Billionaire's Virgin by Susan Stephens, The Greek Millionaire's Secret Child by Catherine Spencer, Taken for Revenge, Bedded for Pleasure by India Grey, The Maverick's Greek Island Mistress by Kelly Hunter, and Untamed Billionaire, Undressed Virgin by Anna Cleary.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1463

Publisher

Harlequin

Published Date

ISBN 10

1426833261

ISBN 13

9781426833267

Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks

The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory

By: Penny W. Lewis

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks

The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory

By: Penny W. Lewis

In the popular imagination, opposition to the Vietnam War was driven largely by college students and elite intellectuals, while supposedly reactionary blue-collar workers largely supported the war effort. In Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks, Penny Lewis challenges this collective memory of class polarization. Through close readings of archival documents, popular culture, and media accounts at the time, she offers a more accurate "counter-memory" of a diverse, cross-class opposition to the war in Southeast Asia that included the labor movement, working-class students, soldiers and veterans, and Black Power, civil rights, and Chicano activists. Lewis investigates why the image of antiwar class division gained such traction at the time and has maintained such a hold on popular memory since. Identifying the primarily middle-class culture of the early antiwar movement, she traces how the class interests of its first organizers were reflected in its subsequent forms. The founding narratives of class-based political behavior, Lewis shows, were amplified in the late 1960s and early 1970s because the working class, in particular, lacked a voice in the public sphere, a problem that only increased in the subsequent period, even as working-class opposition to the war grew. By exposing as false the popular image of conservative workers and liberal elites separated by an unbridgeable gulf, Lewis suggests that shared political attitudes and actions are, in fact, possible between these two groups.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

271

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0801467810

ISBN 13

9780801467813

Whatever Remains

A true story of secret lives and hidden families

By: Penny F. Graham

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Whatever Remains

A true story of secret lives and hidden families

By: Penny F. Graham

Whatever Remains is a true story. The fall of Singapore is considered one of Britain’s worst defeats of the Second World War. For Penny Graham’s father, however, it became a life-changing opportunity to shed once and for all, all of the shackles of a family he no longer wanted. From 1942 onwards her parents would carry passports that gave them backgrounds that had nothing to do with reality. In 2010, a recognised Australian author claimed that her father and mother were involved in espionage for the British Government before, during and after World War 2. Although he worked in Australian naval intelligence during the war, there is no evidence whatsoever that he was an MI6 spy. He clearly had his own motives for the change of identity but they had nothing to do with espionage. Penny Graham spent most of her adult life unravelling the truth about her family history. Her journey took her around the world twice, on many twists and turns, false leads and dead ends as she discovers hew her father managed to hoodwink so many people in his long and complex life. Whatever Remains is a beautifully written story about solving mysteries, conquering adversity and ultimately finding where you belong in the world. It’s a slice of history worth telling.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

408

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1925275043

ISBN 13

9781925275049

Marriage of Convenience

By: Penny Jordan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Marriage of Convenience

By: Penny Jordan

The six-month marriage: Sapphire had divorced Blake when she found he had married her only to acquire her father's Cotswolds farm. Could she even consider remarrying him, even temporarily, to ease her dying father's mind?

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

612

Publisher

Harlequin Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0373201818

ISBN 13

9780373201815

The Best of Times

A Novel

By: Penny Vincenzi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Best of Times

A Novel

By: Penny Vincenzi

From the internationally bestselling author of Into Temptation comes "the perfect beach read" (Parade) about how everything can change in the blink of an eye.... On an ordinary London afternoon, a truck swerves across five lanes of traffic and creates a tangle of chaos and confusion. As loved ones wait to hear news and the hospital prepares to receive the injured, a dozen lives hang in the balance. A doctor is torn between helping the injured and hiding his young mistress; a bridegroom hopes to get to the church on time; a widow waiting to reunite with a lost love ponders whether she’ll ever see him again; and the mysterious hitchhiker, the only person who knows what really happened, is nowhere to be found. Filled with suspense, romance, and more twists than a country highway, The Best of Times proves once again why Penny Vincenzi is the queen of happy endings.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

610

Publisher

Anchor

Published Date

ISBN 10

0385530455

ISBN 13

9780385530453

Our Australian Girl: Ruby of Kettle Farm (Book 4)

Ruby of Kettle Farm (Book 4)

By: Penny Matthews

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Our Australian Girl: Ruby of Kettle Farm (Book 4)

Ruby of Kettle Farm (Book 4)

By: Penny Matthews

It's 1931 . . . and Kettle Farm is starting to feel like home, but Ruby is still desperately worried about her dad. He hasn't written for weeks, and nobody knows where he is. Will Dad ever come back to them? When nobody will give Ruby any answers, she sets out to find him herself . . . Follow Ruby on her adventure in the final of four exciting stories about a happy-go-lucky girl in a time of great change.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

128

Publisher

Penguin Group Australia

Published Date

ISBN 10

1742536891

ISBN 13

9781742536897

Book's by Penny Fraser

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email