Beautiful Illusion

Beautiful Illusion
Author: Christie Nelson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1631523996

As the march of boots echoes from overseas, all nations that border the Pacific and beyond are invited to build pavilions on Treasure Island at the Golden Gate International Exposition, an event dedicated to the pursuit of world peace and brotherhood. Meanwhile, Lily Nordby, smart, strong-willed, and feisty, lands a job at the Examiner and is given a once-in-a-lifetime assignment covering the Exposition. There she meets Tokido Okamura, the host of the Japanese Pavilion—and despite being highly suspicious of his true purpose on the island, she’s swept up in a whirlwind of powerful emotions that lead her into unknown territory. Brilliant and enigmatic Woodrow Packard, a Mayan art scholar at the Expo, prefers remaining aloof and alone. But his infatuation and deepening relationship with Lily thrusts him into the limelight. He asks himself, could someone as smart and beautiful as she return the love of a man who is a dwarf? In an attempt to prevent Lily from spiraling into danger, Woodrow intercedes to help her uncover her family’s past—but when fate intervenes, they are both pulled into a destiny they could never have imagined. Mixing fact and fiction with a dash of noir, Beautiful Illusion is a story of love and deception that explores what happens when human hearts collide as the world is plotting war.

THE BEAUTIFUL ILLUSION OF BEING IN LOVE

THE BEAUTIFUL ILLUSION OF BEING IN LOVE
Author: Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
Publisher: Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
Total Pages:
Release:
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

The book “The beautiful illusion of being in love” is a collection of writings with what is love about. Starting from the philosophical idea that everything we see in life is just an illusion, the book is defining the concept of love in the same way. But the illusion itself is also named “beautiful”. Falling in love is an experience, that any human being must see, with it’s own soul. It can be a beautiful experience, an illusion or a beautiful illusion. The book is more like a collection of poems, but the writer is not knowing to write poetry, but only essays. Trying to define love in many ways, the essays speak about the beautiful illusion as part of the life ... maybe the most important part. Defining is done in a micro and macro way, but the love is always seen as something very beautiful. The book could be a very nice reading for the ones that are in the dreaming period of a love story, or the ones that wants to understand love from a philosophical point of view. Enjoy it!

Beautiful Illusion

Beautiful Illusion
Author: Christie Nelson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781631523342

When a brash and beautiful American newspaper reporter, Lily Nordby, falls into a forbidden love affair with Tokido Okamura, a sophisticated Japanese diplomat whom she suspects is a spy, at the Golden Gate International Exposition, a brilliant Mayan art scholar, Woodrow Packard, tries to save her.

Virtue and the Veil of Illusion

Virtue and the Veil of Illusion
Author: Dorothea E. von Mücke
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1991
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780804718653

A Stanford University Press classic.

Beautiful Illusions

Beautiful Illusions
Author: Annie Jocoby
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2013-06-23
Genre: Suspense fiction
ISBN: 9781490501543

Attorney Iris Snowe drinks too much, eats too much, and spends too much. Her love life has been as spectacularly unsuccessful as her law practice, so she spends her evenings in her tiny apartment watching bad TV and talking to her cat.A one-night stand with a gorgeous stranger changes the trajectory of her life. Ryan Gallagher not only looks like a Ralph Lauren model, but is extraordinarily wealthy. In other words, stratospheres out of Iris' league. What happens next is that Iris embarks upon the Cinderella affair of her life, with a man who truly loves her. But the fairy tale is fractured, as the affair is marred by obsession, jealousy, and dark secrets that Ryan has desperately sought to conceal and repress.And one of those secrets just might be deadly...

ILLUSION IF LIFE

ILLUSION IF LIFE
Author: Preethi Ayyar
Publisher: JEC PUBLICATION
Total Pages: 154
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9357496076

Illusions of Life speaks of the semblances that make life magical. Not everything you see is real. Reality at times play hide and seek. It hides that which shouldn't be hidden, making one seek the phantom. Illusion is an anthology which throws light on the paranormal aspects of life. For the readers, it's going to be an emotional voyage which will take you through the various hues of the mirage.

Bobbi Brown Beauty Evolution

Bobbi Brown Beauty Evolution
Author: Bobbi Brown
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2002-10-15
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0060088818

Bobbi Brown, renowned beauty authority and author of two New York Times bestsellers, follows up with her most important book to date, Bobbi Brown Beauty Evolution. A celebration of beauty across the generations, this positive-outlook guide for women of all ages reflects, as Bobbi says, "What happens to us as we make our way through life, and how we can continue making ourselves better." In Bobbi Brown Beauty Evolution, Bobbi shares her candid views of her own beauty odyssey, as well as her formidable makeup expertise, to help women feel good about themselves at every age. Readers from their twenties to their seventies and beyond will experience a new appreciation of themselves through Bobbi's enriching book, and ultimately, even embrace -- yes, embrace -- the aging process. In the engaging, down-to-earth style that's pure Bobbi, she addresses the need-to-know issues we all face at one time or another -- from how to deal with changes in skin to what adjustments in makeup application are really necessary (and appropriate) as we age and everything in between. With more than 300 photographs specially commissioned for this book, Bobbi Brown Beauty Evolution includes the personal, heartfelt thoughts of real women from all walks of life -- all ages (from 20 to 101!), shapes, sizes, and ethnicities -- reflecting on what beauty means to them. Their words serve to underscore Bobbi's message that true beauty isn't something you're blessed with -- "it comes from having confidence and feeling good about who you are."