A Hundred Summers
Title | A Hundred Summers PDF eBook |
Author | Beatriz Williams |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 391 |
Release | 2013-05-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101596511 |
As the 1938 hurricane approaches Rhode Island, another storm brews in this New York Times bestselling beach read from the author of Her Last Flight and The Golden Hour. Lily Dane has returned to Seaview, Rhode Island, where her family has summered for generations. It’s an escape not only from New York’s social scene but from a heartbreak that still haunts her. Here, among the seaside community that has embraced her since childhood, she finds comfort in the familiar rituals of summer. But this summer is different. Budgie and Nick Greenwald—Lily’s former best friend and former fiancé—have arrived, too, and Seaview’s elite are abuzz. Under Budgie’s glamorous influence, Lily is seduced into a complicated web of renewed friendship and dangerous longing. As a cataclysmic hurricane churns north through the Atlantic, and uneasy secrets slowly reveal themselves, Lily and Nick must confront an emotional storm that will change their worlds forever... READERS GUIDE INCLUDED
A Hundred Summers
Title | A Hundred Summers PDF eBook |
Author | Beatriz Williams |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | 319 |
Release | 2015-04-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 000813491X |
The New York Times bestselling novel. Rhode Island, 1938. A sweltering summer of secrets, passion and betrayal...
A Hundred Summers
Title | A Hundred Summers PDF eBook |
Author | Beatriz Williams |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 432 |
Release | 2015-07-16 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780008134921 |
As the 1938 hurricane approaches Rhode Island, another storm brews in this novel from the author of "The Secret Life of Violet Grant." "Blends history, romance, and social commentary into...much more than a summer guilty pleasure" (Connecticut Post) Memorial Day, 1938 Lily Dane has returned to Seaview, Rhode Island, where her family has summered for generations. It's an escape not only from New York's social scene but from a heartbreak that still haunts her. Here, among the seaside community that has embraced her since childhood, she finds comfort in the familiar rituals of summer. But this summer is different. Budgie and Nick Greenwald--Lily's former best friend and former fiance--have arrived, too, and Seaview's elite are abuzz. Under Budgie's glamorous influence, Lily is seduced into a complicated web of renewed friendship and dangerous longing. As a cataclysmic hurricane churns north through the Atlantic, and uneasy secrets slowly reveal themselves, Lily and Nick must confront an emotional storm that will change their worlds forever... A PEOPLE STYLEWATCH MUST-READ Includes a Reader's Guide
One Hundred Summers
Title | One Hundred Summers PDF eBook |
Author | Vanessa Branson |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 319 |
Release | 2020-05-21 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1912914158 |
Taking the reader on a journey from the dying embers of Edwardian England, through the trauma of two world wars, the hedonism of London in the 1980s and 'Cool Britannia' in the 1990s right up to the present day, One Hundred Summers is a portrait of a century as it was experienced by one extraordinary family. Along the way, Vanessa Branson recalls the rough and tumble of her chaotic but happy post-war childhood; growing up alongside her older brother Richard, who was entrepreneurial even as a teenager, she would have a front-row seat at the birth of Virgin, one of the most remarkable success stories in British business. She goes on to share her many adventures in a fascinating life, from opening an art gallery on London's Portobello Road and founding an arts festival in Morocco, to turning an ancient palace into a world-famous hotel and finding a real-life Neverland in the Scottish island of Eilean Shona, where J. M. Barrie once wrote a screenplay for Peter Pan. Touching, humane and at times heartbreakingly honest, Branson's family memoir is a vivid and charming tapestry of English eccentricity, fortune, fate and passion.
One Hundred Summers
Title | One Hundred Summers PDF eBook |
Author | Candace S. Greene |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 287 |
Release | 2009-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0803219407 |
"Weaving together information from archival sources, community memories, and a close reading of the pictures themselves, the author frames and clarifies this uniquely Native American perspective on Southern Plains history during an era of great political, economic, and cultural pressures. A rare window on a century of Kiowa life, One Hundred Summers is also an invaluable contribution to the indigenous history of North America. The volume includes appendices featuring a wealth of unpublished primary source material on other Kiowa calendars and a glossary by a native Kiowa speaker."--BOOK JACKET.
A Hundred Summers, a Hundred Winters
Title | A Hundred Summers, a Hundred Winters PDF eBook |
Author | Bertien van Manen |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 90 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Russia (Federation) |
ISBN |
The Secret Life of Violet Grant
Title | The Secret Life of Violet Grant PDF eBook |
Author | Beatriz Williams |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 448 |
Release | 2014-05-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101596562 |
A story of love and intrigue that travels from Kennedy-era Manhattan to World War I Europe from the New York Times bestselling author of Her Last Flight and The Golden Hour. Fresh from college, irrepressible Vivian Schuyler defies her wealthy Fifth Avenue family to work at cutthroat Metropolitan magazine. But this is 1964, and the editor dismisses her…until a parcel lands on Vivian’s Greenwich Village doorstep that starts a journey into the life of an aunt she never knew, who might give her just the story she’s been waiting for. In 1912, Violet Schuyler Grant moved to Europe to study physics, and made a disastrous marriage to a philandering fellow scientist. As the continent edges closer to the brink of war, a charismatic British army captain enters her life, drawing her into an audacious gamble that could lead to happiness…or disaster. Fifty years later, Violet’s ultimate fate remains shrouded in mystery. But the more obsessively Vivian investigates her disappearing aunt, the more she realizes all they have in common—and that Violet’s secret life is about to collide with hers. A People StyleWatch “Must Read Book” One of Reader’s Digest’s Top Summer Thrillers of the Year