Read what happens when a Saint becomes fascinated with a Sinner! Meet Brandy Abbott - as potent as the liquor that echoes her name. And when she gets branded a tramp...why what else can she do but go above and beyond to make the man who did the branding pay! Meet Griffen St. Clair - he thought he could handle Brandy and not get burned. But he quickly found out that Brandy was a force to be recknoned with and he wasn't giving up on the idea that he could reform her. Brandy decided to teach St. Clair a lesson when he assumed to know so much about her and pronounced her queen of seducers. What she didn't count on was the fact he was soon to be her boss and her lover - And a man who needed to be taught a lesson about women!

The epitome of grace, independence, and wit, Lauren Bacall continues to project an audacious spirit and pursue on-screen excellence. The product of an extraordinary mother and a loving extended family, she produced, with Humphrey Bogart, some of the most electric and memorable scenes in movie history. After tragically losing Bogart, she returned to New York and a brilliant career in the theatre. A two-time Tony winner, she married and later divorced her second love, Jason Robards, and never lost sight of the strength that made her a star. Now, thirty years after the publication of her original National Book Award–winning memoir, Bacall has added new material to her inspiring history. In her own frank and beautiful words, one of our most enduring actresses reveals the remarkable true story of a lifetime so rich with incident and achievement that Hollywood itself would be unable to adequately reproduce it.

Grand, sensational, and exotic, Art Deco design was above all modern, exemplifying the majesty and boundless potential of a newly industrialized world. From department store window dressings to the illustrations in the Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalogs to the glamorous pages of Vogue and Harper's Bazar, Lucy Fischer documents the ubiquity of Art Deco in mainstream consumerism and its connection to the emergence of the "New Woman" in American society. Fischer argues that Art Deco functioned as a trademark for popular notions of femininity during a time when women were widely considered to be the primary consumers in the average household, and as the tactics of advertisers as well as the content of new magazines such as Good Housekeeping and the Woman's Home Companion increasingly catered to female buyers. While reflecting the growing prestige of the modern woman, Art Deco-inspired consumerism helped shape the image of femininity that would dominate the American imagination for decades to come. In films of the middle and late 1920s, the Art Deco aesthetic was at its most radical. Female stars such as Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, and Myrna Loy donned sumptuous Art Deco fashions, while the directors Cecil B. DeMille, Busby Berkeley, Jacques Feyder, and Fritz Lang created cinematic worlds that were veritable Deco extravaganzas. But the style soon fell into decline, and Fischer examines the attendant taming of the female role throughout the 1930s as a growing conservatism challenged the feminist advances of an earlier generation. Progressively muted in films, the Art Deco woman—once an object of intense desire—gradually regressed toward demeaning caricatures and pantomimes of unbridled sexuality. Exploring the vision of American womanhood as it was portrayed in a large body of films and a variety of genres, from the fashionable musicals of Josephine Baker, and Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers to the fantastic settings of Metropolis, The Wizard of Oz, and Lost Horizon, Fischer reveals America's long standing fascination with Art Deco, the movement's iconic influence on cinematic expression, and how its familiar style left an indelible mark on American culture.

Aaliyah and David have a wonderful and loving marriage. Their high school son, Archie, prepares for college. Although Ali worries about getting older and losing her appeal, they seem to have all they need. Then a chance encounter with a bad man sets Ali's heart racing. She begins to wonder if by living her perfect life, she's missed out on some excitement. She begins to explore and quickly discovers that once you open that door, all manner of things rush in. She finds her quaint life filled with unexpected twists which only lead to greater complications, the sex growing hotter with every step forward. She knows where all this will lead. It's inevitable. David loves this new Aaliyah. Not every choice she makes but certainly most. As their sex life improves, he encourages her to go farther, stunned when she makes the most unexpected choice of all. Now he finds himself holding on as they careen through life, the twists and turns crazier than ever.

"Drawing on extensive archival research, Chico argues that the dressing room embodies contradictory connotations, linked to the eroticism and theatricality of the playhouse tiring-room as well as to the learning and privilege of the gentleman's closet.

The most comprehensive, fully illustrated book on women designers ever published - a celebration of more than 200 women product designers from the early twentieth century to the present day