![]() While her novel went onto the back burner, her web sites drew the attention of a London publisher, Rocket 88. Gainer put her fiction work aside to focus on these real-life stories.Įventually, Gainer started a Tumblr and Facebook fan page, both called Vintage Black Glamour, full of gorgeous images that rarely make it into the public consciousness. Looking for newspaper articles on her aunt, she discovered a whole world of history that hardly ever bubbles to the surface: stunning, well-dressed African American stars celebrated in the black community, and sometimes even in the mainstream. But there’s so much more to these women.” “If people know about Josephine Baker, they think of her in the banana skirt. ![]() ![]() ![]() But her true passion is fiction, so she decided to write a novel about black beauty pageants in the 1950s, partially inspired by one of her two glamorous aunts, who was a model in the 1950s-the other was an opera singer who rubbed shoulders with the biggest celebrities of her day. ![]() Nichelle Gainer knows a thing or two about glamour: She spent most of her career working for magazines like “Woman’s Day,” “GQ,” “Us Weekly,” and “InStyle,” with a focus on celebrity, fashion, and grooming. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() ![]() Angels sent to Earth to help Lucy and her family. Will Lucy ever be reunited with her son Alex? Will Raymond redeem himself with the help of Heavenly angels, Turner and Sara. Raymond's dark side would make the devil run for cover. After Lucy weds Raymond against her parents' wishes, Lucy endures brutal beatings and the kidnapping of her only living child, her son Alex. ![]() Faith, Lucy's best friend didn't know when she fixed Lucy up with the charming Raymond Matters, that she is sending Lucy on a date with the Devil. ![]() ![]() ![]() Except Max has been public enemy number one ever since he encouraged his brother to jilt the bride, and Lina’s ready to dish out a little payback of her own. ![]() If they can nail their presentation without killing each other, they’ll both come out ahead. Then he learns he’ll be working with his brother’s whip-smart, stunning-absolutely off-limits-ex-fiancée. Marketing expert Max Hartley is determined to make his mark with a coveted hotel client looking to expand its brand. There’s just one hitch… she has to collaborate with the best (make that worst) man from her own failed nuptials. But despite that embarrassing blip from her past, Lina’s offered an opportunity that could change her life. Mia Sosa delivers a sassy, steamy #ownvoices enemies-to-lovers novel, perfect for fans of Jasmine Guillory, Helen Hoang, and Sally Thorne!Ī wedding planner left at the altar? Yeah, the irony isn’t lost on Carolina Santos, either. Named one of the Best Romances of 2020 by EW, Cosmo, OprahMag, Buzzfeed, Insider, and NPR! “A romantic comedy that's fun and flirty, young and fresh.” – PopSugar ![]() ![]() ![]() Grieving and wounded, Annie retreats to her old family home in Switchback, Vermont, a maple farm generations old. And when Annie awakes from a yearlong coma, she discovers that time isn't the only thing she's lost. But in an instant, her life is shattered. And now, she's pregnant with their first child. The producer of a popular television cooking show, she loves her handsome husband and the beautiful Los Angeles home they share. Sometimes the greatest dream starts with the smallest element. ![]() ![]() From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a powerful, emotionally complex story of love, loss, the pain of the past-and the promise of the future. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Chiara Bardelli Nonino is the photo editor of Vogue Italia and L'Uomo Vogue. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions worldwide, including at Pace MacGill Gallery in New York, James Gallery in Moscow, and Comme des Garçons in Tokyo, among others. Paolo Roversi is a contemporary Italian fashion photographer. By using what have always been his raw materials-time, light, space-Roversi leads us on a photographic journey to the middle of the Poliform universe, helping us to relive the company's story and capture the mysterious, unmistakable soul that makes the surfaces and volumes of its objects vibrate. That is what Paolo Roversi has tried to do with his camera in these pages, which are devoted to Poliform, the Italian company that has successfully transformed ancient Italian artisanal traditions into contemporary furniture. ![]() While there have been attempts to create a philosophy of interior design, there has rarely been an effort to discover the soul of furniture and objects. This is the story in pictures of a dimension of living that differs from every other. This book presents the design and history of Poliform from a unique perspective-that of fashion photographer Paolo Roversi. Poliform: Time, Light, Space Photographs by Paolo Roversi, Text by Chiara Bardelli Nonino ![]() ![]() ![]() He was the spawn of nightmares, after all and he had been toughened by a life of terror.ĭuring the afternoon, napping in his simple cell, he dreamed that a surgeon opened his abdomen to insert a mysterious, squirming mass. Author Biographyĭeucalion seldom slept, but when he did, he dreamed. For their quarry isn't merely a homicidal maniacbut his deranged maker. Soon it will be clear that as crazy as she sounds, the truth is even more ominous. For the no-nonsense O'Connor is suddenly talking about an ages-old conspiracy, a near immortal race of beings, and killers that are moreand lessthan human. Her partner Michael Maddison would back her up all the way to Hell itselfand that just may be where this case ends up. Detective Carson O'Connor is cool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks. ![]() He arrives as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. ![]() His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who's traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. Dean Koontz's Prodigal Son Every city has secrets. Get ready for the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of. If you think you know the story, you know only half the truth. From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. ![]() ![]() The handsome and prickly librarian of Nowhere House would do anything to protect the children, and as far as he's concerned, a stranger like Mika is a threat. It breaks all of the rules, but Mika goes anyway, and is immediately tangled up in the lives and secrets of not only her three charges, but also an absent archaeologist, a retired actor, two long-suffering caretakers, and.Jamie. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. She thinks no one will take it seriously.īut someone does. ![]() ![]() And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she's used to being alone and she follows the rules.with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos pretending to be a witch. ![]() ![]() Grab a paperback copy of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna as featured in our Sweet Halloween 2022 box! Book also includes a custom bookmark, quote print, letter from the author, book club kit, and signed bookplate!Ī warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family-and a new love-changes the course of her life.Īs one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don't mingle and draw attention. ![]() ![]() His plan is simple: to infiltrate the politically and economically omnipotent Medusan group and use himself as bait to lure the cunning Jackal into a deadly trap-a trap from which only one of them will escape. Now David Webb, professor of Oriental studies, husband, and father, must do what he hoped never to do again-assume the terrible identity of Jason Bourne. And furthermore, they know what the Jackal wants: a final confrontation with Bourne. Only they know Bournes true identity and understand that the telegrams are really a message from Bournes mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the worlds deadliest and most elusive terrorist. ![]() Book Synopsis #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER At a small-town carnival, two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. About the Book A mild-mannered professor is forced to assume again the deadly alter ego he created in Vietnam years ago as part of the Medusa Brigade. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. ![]() ![]() With so much attention on the flames,' she wrote, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.' National Book Critics Circle Award winner, Criticism, 2016.Īs Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014 and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as 'black rage', historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 'white rage at work. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Moreno-Garcia’s gothic plot is as sharp as a razor and twice as dangerous’ – A. Harrow, author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January ‘The subversive, seductive, satisfying haunted house story I didn’t know I needed’ – Alix E. Shy and gentle, he seems to want to help, but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family’s past, their once colossal wealth and a faded mining empire.Īs Noemí digs deeper, she unearths stories of violence and madness, and she may soon find it impossible to leave this enigmatic house behind. Her only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family’s youngest son. Tough and smart, Noemí possesses an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí and not of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemi’s dreams with visions of blood and doom. Catalina has always had a flair for the dramatic, but her claims that her husband is poisoning her and her visions of restless ghosts seem remarkable, even for her. ![]() When socialite Noemí Taboada receives a frantic letter from her newlywed cousin begging to be rescued from a mysterious doom, she immediately heads to High Place, a remote mansion in the Mexican countryside, determined to discover what is so affecting her cousin. ![]() |