Chanel

Chanel
Author: Axel Madsen
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 438
Release: 1991-09-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780805016390

A biography of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, who revolutionized fashion and was a force and legend in her time.

Now or Never

Now or Never
Author: Elizabeth Adler
Publisher: Island Books
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2010-07-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307574962

She can keep the doors locked. The lights on. Her fingers crossed. But she can't stop the memories of a terrifying crime. Or keep it from happening again. The murderer took his time choosing his pretty victims. Then he took his time killing them. What was left when he finished made even veteran Boston cop Harry Jordan feel sick. But this time the killer made a mistake. His victim was found alive. Armed with a police sketch of the man, Harry wanted national publicity, the kind he could get from Mallory Malone, the "TV detective." Her top-rated show reenacted heinous crimes and often jogged witnesses' memories enough to shake loose the clue that could break the case. But not this time. This case was different for self-made career woman Mallory Malone. This cop was different. The case scared her; the cop was falling in love with her. Her instincts told her to run. But the killer already knew her name. Her address. And a secret that could destroy them both. Elizabeth Adler was born in Yorkshire, England. She is married to an American lawyer and has one daughter. They have lived in Brazil, England, France, and Ireland and currently live in California. She is the internationally acclaimed author of Léonie, Peach, The Rich Shall Inherit, The Property of a Lady, Fortune Is a Woman, and The Secret of the Villa Mimosa.

Dearest Lizzy... a World War II Story

Dearest Lizzy... a World War II Story
Author: Kat Sharpe
Publisher: Booktango
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2013-04-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1468928791

An historical fiction set in Berlin, Germany in the early 1930's before the outbreak of War World II. Levi Bunch and Lizzy Dowdy fall passionately in love and while their differences should have separated them, they instead forged a passionate bond that would change their lives forever. While religious and social differences weigh heavily on their families in an increasingly tense Germany, the lovers remain unadulterated in spite of the prejudices. After overcoming family issues and social pressures, the two must sustain under a growing violent governmental regime. When the Nazi party heightens in popularity and the party's ideas influence law, they must face the harsh reality of life and death.

Now or Never

Now or Never
Author: Hazel Ro
Publisher: Urban Renaissance
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2024-05-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1645565998

Two women are simply trying to make their way to the altar, sooner rather than later. So, will the best woman win the prize in the end? Or can their friendship outweigh their man troubles so that both end up finding love? Find out in Now or Never! Thirty-seven-year-old Mya has been enjoying her single-but-dating life for the past five years. In fact, she’s practically created the perfect man for herself—through multiple partners. She has her young thug in Tyrone, her money-making corporate man in Charles, her understanding church boy in Will, and her sexually satisfying lover in Kevin. Mya’s had her fun over the years, but now she is ready to find true love and all those same qualities wrapped up in one man. Meanwhile, her administrative assistant, Alize, has a whole different type of dilemma. She and her boyfriend-slash-baby-daddy Anthony have been together for the past seven years with four children and no house, white picket fence, or wedding ring in sight. Although Alize loves him with all her heart, she is getting restless and beginning to feel like she can do better. The women's lives get turned upside down the day Carson Avery Reed fumbles his way onto their floor in their office building. He is everything that Mya could ever dream of in one man. However, Alize has her own plans for Carson. She can see herself finally dropping her dead-beat boyfriend and starting anew with the handsome beau.

Now or Never

Now or Never
Author: Victoria Denault
Publisher: Forever Yours
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1538763168

Get ready for all the feels in this sexy, "emotionally charged" (Library Journal)romance about a bad boy hockey player who wants a second chance to win the heart of his high school crush. All Winnie Braddock wants is a quiet place to be alone and time to heal her battered heart. But the refuge she'd hoped for in her family's summer cottage is destroyed when she gets there to find Holden Hendricks literally camped out in the driveway. He made her life hell when they were kids, and despite what he says, it doesn't look like much has changed. She doesn't care if her brother hired Holden to renovate the house this winter; she wants him gone. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. Holden knows that hockey saying all too well. After all, he could have gone pro if he hadn't messed up so much as a kid. But now he's desperate to prove he's changed for the better, especially to Winnie Braddock. As the two work together to fix up the cottage piece by piece, they realize that perhaps they can give each other the new beginning they've both been waiting for -- if they're just willing to take the shot. "A sexy and entertaining enemies-to-lovers romance with real emotional depth...truly moving and deeply romantic." --Frolic "The characters are so genuine, their relationship so realistic, that I felt like I was living it along with them...It's the type of story that will get you hooked on the genre and begging for more...I loved this couple so much!" --Lady with a Quill, "A Favorite Book of 2019" "Victoria Denault has a real talent in writing romance that will touch your heart, as well as make you laugh out loud...Now or Never is a total 5-star read that will have you completely hooked from start to finish!" --Steph and Chris Book Review "The character-driven premise is engaging and spirited; the characters are broken, flirty and real; the romance is moving and emotional." --The Reading Café What readers are saying about Now or Never... "A beautiful story of healing, redemption, and the power of believing in each other." "Fantastic and enjoyable." "This book will give you all the feels."

Gloria Swanson

Gloria Swanson
Author: Stephen Michael Shearer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2024-11-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1493077058

Gloria Swanson is most remembered today for her role as “Norma Desmond” in Billy Wilder’s noir sound classic Sunset Boulevard (1950), but Swanson during her heyday was heralded as filmdom’s leading fashion queen, as proclaimed by director Cecil B. DeMille in such silent motion pictures as Male and Female (1919), Why Change Your Husband (1921), and The Affairs of Anatol (1922). Throughout that decade and well into the 1930s, Swanson set fashion standards on and off the screen in creations designed by such illustrious couturieres as Mitchell Leisen, Paul Iribe, Norman Norell, Sonia Delaunay, Max Ree, Capt. Edward H. Molyneux, Coco Chanel, Rene Hubert, and later Edith Head. In the 1950s, she designed and managed her own line of ready to wear fashion patterns called Forever Young for women of a discernible age. Gloria Swanson: Hollywood’s First Glamour Queen is a photographic tribute to this extraordinary woman. Focusing on sense of style and fashion, the book contains hundreds of personal and professional photographs, many never before published, and running biographical commentary by biographer Stephen Michael Shearer, author of the definitive book of the star, Gloria Swanson: The Ultimate Star (St. Martin’s Press-Macmillan).

Preacher Hallock

Preacher Hallock
Author: E. F. Hallock
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2006-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725216957

E. F. Hallock 'All the Promises' There are those who liken Edgar F. Preacher Hallock to David Brainerd or George Mueller of Bristol. With genuine humility, Preacher would be the very last to make such comparisons. History will ultimately judge his greatness and his saintliness. But in his vibrantly simple life lived out in the red dust of Oklahoma, there is the outline, dimly seen, of a vast heritage of faith, stemming from a unique person, living a life of unique obedience. For most of his adult life, E.F. Hallock served as pastor of First Baptist Church, Norman, Oklahoma. After forty-six years of service to that congregation, he retired in 1969 and became Pastor Emeritus. He lived quietly with his life Vera in a friendly white house on South Ponca in Norman, Oklahoma. But Preacher Hallock's ministry goes on even after his death in 1978. His theme of life direction through Bible promises is sung throughout the world by many different voices. Other books by E. F. Hallock include 'Always in Prayer' and 'Prayer and Meditation'.

Accustomed to Her Face

Accustomed to Her Face
Author: Axel Nissen
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2016-08-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476626065

Drawing on historical documents and newspaper reports, this book provides a fascinating portrait of a diverse group of character actresses who left their stamp on Hollywood from the early sound era through the 1960s. The lives of 35 actresses are explored in detail. Some are familiar: Margaret Hamilton starred in dozens of films before and after her signature role as the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz; Una Merkel nearly died when her mother committed suicide in 1945. Others are nearly forgotten: Maude Eburne owed her career to a spectacular fall on the Broadway stage in 1914; Greta Meyer, who played the quintessential German maid, came to Hollywood after years in New York's Yiddish theater--though she wasn't Jewish.

Gilda

Gilda
Author: Melvyn Stokes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1838715932

Melvyn Stokes's study of the 1946 classic Gilda describes the film's production and reception history, as well as addressing Rita Hayworth's complex star persona and ethnicity identity; Gilda's status as a 'noir' film; and what the film had to say about relations between men and women in a world transformed by war.

Gloria Swanson

Gloria Swanson
Author: Tricia Welsch
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2013-08-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1628468904

Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up shows how a talented, self-confident actress negotiated a creative path through seven decades of celebrity. It also illuminates a little-known chapter in American media history: how the powerful women of early Hollywood transformed their remarkable careers after their stars dimmed. This book brings Swanson (1899–1983) back into the spotlight, revealing her as a complex, creative, entrepreneurial, and thoroughly modern woman. Swanson cavorted in slapstick short films with Charlie Chaplin and Mack Sennett in the 1910s. The popularity of her films with Cecil B. DeMille helped create the star system. A glamour icon, Swanson became the most talked-about star in Hollywood, earning three Academy Award nominations, receiving 10,000 fan letters every week, and living up to a reputation as Queen of Hollywood. She bought mansions and penthouses, dressed in fur and feathers, and flitted through Paris, London, and New York engaging in passionate love affairs that made headlines and caused scandals. Frustrated with the studio system, Swanson turned down a million-dollar-a-year contract. After a wild ride making unforgettable movies with some of Hollywood’s most colorful characters—including her lover Joseph Kennedy and maverick director Erich von Stroheim—she was a million dollars in debt. Without hesitation she went looking for her next challenge, beginning her long second act. Swanson became a talented businesswoman who patented inventions and won fashion awards for her clothing designs; a natural foods activist decades before it was fashionable; an exhibited sculptor; and a designer employed by the United Nations. All the while she continued to act in films, theater, and television at home and abroad. Though she had one of Hollywood’s most famous exit lines—"All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up!”—the real Gloria Swanson never looked back.