Summer Pleasures, Winter Pleasures
Title | Summer Pleasures, Winter Pleasures PDF eBook |
Author | Peter G. Rose |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 2009-09-10 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 1438429886 |
A light-hearted cookbook that reflects the historical and culinary heritage of the Hudson Valley.
Summer Pleasures
Title | Summer Pleasures PDF eBook |
Author | Nora Roberts |
Publisher | Harlequin Books |
Pages | 506 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780373218394 |
Journalist Lee Radcliffe goes on a camping trip with reclusive author Hunter Brown to obtain an interview with him, and photographer Bryan Mitchell spends her summer on assignment with arrogant photojournalist Shade Colby.
Pleasures of Summer
Title | Pleasures of Summer PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Townsend |
Publisher | Sunset Publishing Corporation |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Coffee |
ISBN | 9780376026149 |
Small Pleasures
Title | Small Pleasures PDF eBook |
Author | Clare Chambers |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 403 |
Release | 2021-10-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0063091003 |
In the best tradition of Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ann Patchett—an astonishing, keenly observed period piece about an ordinary British woman in the 1950s whose dutiful life takes a sudden turn into a pitched battle between propriety and unexpected passion. "With wit and dry humor...quietly affecting in unexpected ways. Chambers' language is beautiful, achieving what only the most skilled writers can: big pleasure wrought from small details."--The New York Times LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 1957: Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper in the southeast suburbs of London. Clever but with limited career opportunities and on the brink of forty, Jean lives a dreary existence that includes caring for her demanding widowed mother, who rarely leaves the house. It’s a small life with little joy and no likelihood of escape. That all changes when a young woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth. Jean seizes onto the bizarre story and sets out to discover whether Gretchen is a miracle or a fraud. But the more Jean investigates, the more her life becomes strangely (and not unpleasantly) intertwined with that of the Tilburys, including Gretchen’s gentle and thoughtful husband Howard, who mostly believes his wife, and their quirky and charming daughter Margaret, who becomes a sort of surrogate child for Jean. Gretchen, too, becomes a much-needed friend in an otherwise empty social life. Jean cannot bring herself to discard what seems like her one chance at happiness, even as the story that she is researching starts to send dark ripples across all their lives…with unimaginable consequences. Both a mystery and a love story, Small Pleasures is a literary tour-de-force in the style of The Remains of the Day, about conflict between personal fulfillment and duty; a novel that celebrates the beauty and potential for joy in all things plain and unfashionable.
The Devil All the Time
Title | The Devil All the Time PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Ray Pollock |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2011-07-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0385535058 |
Now a Netflix film starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson A dark and riveting vision of 1960s America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree. In The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock has written a novel that marries the twisted intensity of Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers with the religious and Gothic overtones of Flannery O’Connor at her most haunting. Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There’s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his “prayer log.” There’s Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, who troll America’s highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There’s the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte’s orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right. Donald Ray Pollock braids his plotlines into a taut narrative that will leave readers astonished and deeply moved. With his first novel, he proves himself a master storyteller in the grittiest and most uncompromising American grain.
Midnight Pleasures
Title | Midnight Pleasures PDF eBook |
Author | Eloisa James |
Publisher | Dell Publishing Company |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0440245648 |
Now available in these specially priced editions, these two classic romances by "New York Times"-bestselling author James are sure to delight her legions of devoted fans. Reissue.
The Pleasures of Summer
Title | The Pleasures of Summer PDF eBook |
Author | Evie Hunter |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2013-05-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0241966655 |
The Pleasures of Summer is a steamy erotic story of romantic obsession and explosive sexual chemistry for fans of Fifty Shades of Grey, The Pleasures of Winter and Sylvia Day's stories. Summer O'Sullivan is rich, beautiful and in mortal danger. Her father has made powerful enemies who are targeting his precious daughter. Until the threat passes, Summer needs a bodyguard - someone to protect her and, she expects, to treat her with the reverence she's used to. Into Summer's gilded cage comes former ranger, Flynn Grant. As far as Flynn is concerned, this is the assignment from hell, minding the spoilt daughter of a multi-millionaire. Summer and Flynn are poised to hate each other on sight. Even his devastating looks do not make up for how Flynn's rules cramp Summer's style. Unsurprisingly, the sparks fly between them. But when Summer breaks the rules one time too often, Flynn teaches her a lesson that leaves them shattered - and bound together in a way that astonishes them both. In their remote hideout, the two start a battle over who is the tamer, and who is the tamed. It's a duel that stretches their minds and bodies beyond every limit. And in time their hearts begin to surrender too. But when the dark forces that have been stalking Summer finally track them down, the battle is no longer a game, but a matter of life and death ... The Pleasures of Summer is a breath-taking, steamy and romantic summer read for fans of Evie Hunter's fantastic debut, The Pleasures of Winter, and all lovers of hot erotic fiction.