Searching for Beauty

Searching for Beauty
Author: Cherie Burns
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2011-09-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1429988002

A fascinating portrait of the Standard Oil heirerss and legendary American trendsetter Millicent Rogers Nobody knew how to live the high life like Millicent Rogers. Born into luxury, she lived in a whirl of beautiful homes, European vacations, exquisite clothing and handsome men. In Searching for Beauty, Cherie Burns chronicles Rogers's glittering life from her days as a young girl afflicted with rheumatic fever to her debutante debut and her Taos finale. A rebellious icon of the age, she eloped with a penniless baron, danced tangos in European nightclubs, divorced, remarried and romanced, among others, Clark Gable. Her romantic conquests, though, paled in comparison to her triumph in the fashion world where she electrified the fashionistas by becoming the muse to designer Charles James, appearing in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and - at the end of her life - retreating to Taos, New Mexico where she popularized Southwestern style. With Searching for Beauty, Millicent Rogers enters the pantheon of great American women who, like Diana Vreeland and Babe Paley, put their distinctive stamp on American Style.

Searching

Searching
Author: Janice Ross
Publisher: WestBowPress
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2013-08-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1490800816

When Wade Franklin returns to his hometown of Taylors Crossing, Georgia, his future hangs in the balance. He is in love with his lifelong friend and college sweetheart, Pamela Palmer, but will she take him back after a two-year absence? He left without saying goodbye or giving any explanation, and now it is time to reveal his reasons for doing so. Pam is finally making a life of her own as editor of the local newspaper, the Taylor Times, and her world is shaken when Wade returns to town. An incidental meeting provides the opportunity to renew their friendship, and both are keenly aware that the bond between them is still very strong. As their relationship deepens, Wade is completely honest with Pam, and his story launches them on a path that literally changes their lives. His truthfulness about his fathers undercover assignment and unsolved murder sets the stage for a web of intrigue that reaches from Atlanta, Georgia, to New York City. Searching is a poignant story of love, faith, and the certainty of Gods provision in times of need. It presents an intricately woven tapestry of characters who struggle with the flaws of humanitybroken hearts, shattered dreams, and painful memories. From beginning to end, their lives are under the watchful eye and the guiding hand of the Lord, as he awakens their hearts to an awareness of who he is and offers love, forgiveness, and salvation to those who seek him in faith.

Searching for Sofia

Searching for Sofia
Author: John Nadler
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2011-07-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0385672195

From journalist John Nadler comes a real-life Romeo and Juliet story set in war-torn Kosovo. Nadler has stumbled upon a bitter epic romance in the ashes of inter-ethnic strife in the former Yugoslavia. The cast: a pair of star-cross’d lovers, a young Kosovar man and a Serb woman; the girl’s father, a local militiaman who is determined to crush the relationship; and a war correspondent in the role of Friar Lawrence, entrusted with the commission of reuniting the lovers. Gjorg escapes the slaughter of his village by feigning death and fleeing while Serb troops invade his town. His fiancée Sofia disappears -- whisked away to Serbia, Gjorg believes, by her father, who is later implicated in a massacre. Gjorg, languishing in nato-held Kosovo, despairs of ever seeing his Sofia again. Until Nadler agrees to help find her. Always just a step behind, Nadler follows Sofia’s trail from her village through the flashpoints and tinderboxes of the Balkans: Mitrovica, the Presovo Valley, Macedonia, and, finally, Belgrade. He witnesses the sickening decay of Yugoslavia -- once a dynamic, cosmopolitan and prosperous nation -- manifested in the endemic suspicion, the burnt and shell-pocked buildings, the ravaged communities, and the broken lives. Searching for Sofia is a Balkan odyssey, a quest through dangerous terrain for an ever-elusive goal, a campaign for justice and, ultimately, an exploration, through the eyes of its victims, of the madness of internecine war.

The Search for the Beautiful Woman

The Search for the Beautiful Woman
Author: Kyō Chō
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2012
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 1442218940

For centuries, Japanese culture, including ideals of feminine beauty, was profoundly shaped by China. In this first full comparative history on the subject, Cho Kyo explores changing standards of beauty in China and Japan, ranging from plumpness to bound feet to blackened teeth. Drawing on a rich array of sources gathered over a decade of research, he considers which Chinese representations were rejected or accepted and transformed in Japan. He then traces the introduction of Western aesthetics into Japan starting in the Meiji era, leading to slowly developing but radical changes in the repres.

Searching for the Jaguar

Searching for the Jaguar
Author: Carlota Lindsay
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2001-12-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1477172807

Searching for the Jaguar. This romantic thriller is set against the background of the lush Amazonian jungle and the violent streets of a North American city. A young American couple seek adventure and fulfillment in Brazils exotic mixture of peoples and religions. The characters are protagonists in a mural of interrelated events that cross social, economic, and national boundaries. The reality within which the events occur overwhelms the individual characters and takes away their ability to comprehend their destinies. Five lives intertwine in a game of life and death: Hank, the idealist caught in a web of intrigue, power and cocaine trafficking; Deb, the dedicated nurse who discovers real love in a foreboding setting; Steve, the serious lawyer struggling with his emotional conflict between duty and passion; Darryl, the ex-con misfit prone to explode in a blasphemous rage of jealousy and resentment; Scott, the young invalid who suddenly comes of age when murder and violence shatters the security of his life. Each one of them, driven by inner passions, brings mystery and depth to a story that connects the reader to a world of rich lyrical and philosophical implications. The story-related by Scott-sets out to reconstruct the lives of the protagonists with whatever information he can collect from diaries, letters, interviews, personal observation, and even his own imagination. He senses only dimly the multiple forces at play which are presented with an underlying surrealistic humor that gives the narrative shape and depth. He fits together the many puzzling pieces-which he can neither explain nor justify-and in the process begins to set his own life in order. Like the phoenix that rises from its ashes, Scott transcends his suffering and creates a new dimension of living as he recreates the old. A surreal humor underlies this compelling story about love, transformation, death, and survival. Superbly crafted, lyrically written. LETTER TO THE READER OF SEARCHING FOR THE JAGUAR BY CARLOTA LINDSAY You may have noticed that part of my dedication is addressed to you, the reader, and to your imagination and sense of humor. This is because a novel is fiction and becomes real only through the active participation of your creative self. It is in this way that you are as much the author of Searching for the Jaguar as I am. This is where a novel differs from a movie. In the latter the viewer receives lots of information visually without much participatory effort. In the modern novel the reader has to reconstitute the whole from information about its parts. This activity is closer to the one we perform in real life in order to understand ourselves and what our true role is. I want to mention also that a novel takes place in a time and space that for a few hours becomes your own and where the characters reveal themselves and unveil their unique function in the dimension of the novel that you help create. How much you learn about them or understand them is up to you. What about the characters? They are not presented but rather present themselves by what they say, what they do, and how they regard, and are regarded by, each other; that is, they are discovered existentially. The reader learns about them gradually: much as it is in real life the original perception is constantly evolving. By observing the characters actions and hearing their words, the reader ends up with more insight into their situation than the characters themselves do. The characters are searching not only within the dimension of the novel but beyond it in the imagination of the reader. In a sense, they escape the novel and walk into the readers consciousness, where they help him probe his own self. They have already escaped into mine, where they are searching for a continuity I did not know was there. In that sense they are searching, like Pirandellos characters, for an author. From the beginning the

Searching for Lydia

Searching for Lydia
Author: B.H. Arias
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 87
Release: 2013-03-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1481714848

Lightly based on a true story, a trip through one man's descent into insanity as he attempts to come to grips with the gorgeous ghost who has invaded his mind and will not let him go. A tale told in a loosely connected poetic, and romantic style during several deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan in diary-like vignettes as the author struggles to define this Love, wrapped within the folds of a paranormal romance.

Searching for Angels

Searching for Angels
Author: Marianne Bailey-Wickham
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1491898739

The story is told of Laura-Louise. She is just six years old when she and her brother are taken to a foster family. The book tells of her struggles and dreams and nightmares as she grows through adolescence to maturity. It is her search for happiness and love.

Searching for Pemberley

Searching for Pemberley
Author: Mary Simonsen
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2009-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1402228449

"History, romance, and even a little mystery all combined in one wonderful book." -Best Sellers World, Five Star Review Maggie went in search of a love story, but she never expected to find her own... Desperate to escape her life in a small Pennsylvania mining town, Maggie Joyce accepts a job in post-World War II London, hoping to find adventure. While touring Derbyshire, she stumbles upon the stately Montclair, rumored by locals to be the inspiration for Pemberley, the centerpiece of Jane Austen's beloved Pride and Prejudice. Determined to discover the truth behind the rumors, Maggie embarks on a journey through the letters and journals of Montclair's former owners, the Lacey family, searching for signs of Darcy and Elizabeth. But when the search introduces her to both a dashing American pilot and a handsome descendant of the "Darcy" line, Maggie must decide how her own love story will end. Perfect for fans of Death Comes to Pemberley. Praise for Searching for Pemberley: "A shining addition to the world of historical fiction."- Curled Up With A Good Book "A resounding success on all levels."- Roundtable Reviews "A precious jewel of a novel with a strong love story and page-turning mystery. Absorbing, amusing, and very cleverly written."- The Searcher

“Sri Saibaba’s Charters and Sayings” -As I Understand

“Sri Saibaba’s Charters and Sayings” -As I Understand
Author: Rajaram Pagadala
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2013-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1483629678

ye yathâ mâṁ prapadyantetâṁs tathaiva bhajâmy aham, mama vartmânuvartantemanuṣyâḥ pârtha sarvaúaḥ "As all surrender unto Me, I reward them accordingly. Everyone follows Mypath in all respects, O son of Pṛthâ." (Lord Krishna) "None knows the real inwardness of my Baba; some said he was a Yogi, a sensualist, a wise man, some a hypocrite, some called him Brahman or God. (But) Baba's state is- Siddha Avasta. Each finds in him what he thinks him to be". Poojya Narasimha Swamiji continues: "Let us pray at the feet of Sai Baba, the incarnation of all gods and protector of all, to show mercy on us, and increase our devotion towards him". (Source: Sai Leela June 1993)

Dangerous Affections

Dangerous Affections
Author: Lena Blake
Publisher: Lena Blake
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2024-09-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Dangerous Affections When you're the consigliere of the Italian mafia, love is the last thing on your mind. Luigi, the ruthless enforcer of the Cosa Nostra, is feared for his cold precision and deadly methods. Trained in medicine to prolong his enemies' suffering, Luigi hides a dark and traumatic past beneath his controlled exterior. He thrives on order and lives by the rules—until Bella crashes into his world. Bella is the opposite of Luigi in every way. She's clumsy, compassionate, and working three jobs just to survive. Behind her warm smile, however, she hides a secret that could shatter her life. When fate forces these two unlikely souls into a fake relationship, their worlds collide in an explosive mix of danger, passion, and forbidden desire. As tension rises and sparks fly, Luigi and Bella must navigate a perilous game of deception where trust is fragile, and their hearts are on the line. Can love truly blossom in the shadow of vengeance, or will their dangerous affections lead to destruction? Dangerous Affections is a gripping enemies-to-lovers mafia romance filled with suspense, steamy chemistry, and unforgettable characters. Perfect for readers who crave high-stakes drama, intense emotions, and a love story that defies the odds.