A Lady Awakened

A Lady Awakened

Author: Cecilia Grant

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2011-12-27

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0553593838

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In Cecilia Grant’s emotionally rich and deeply passionate Regency romance debut, a deal with a rumored rogue turns a proper young woman into . . . A Lady Awakened. Newly widowed and desperate to protect her estate and beloved servants from her malevolent brother-in-law, Martha Russell conceives a daring plan. Or rather, a daring plan to conceive. After all, if she has an heir on the way, her future will be secured. Forsaking all she knows of propriety, Martha approaches her neighbor, a London exile with a wicked reputation, and offers a strictly business proposition: a month of illicit interludes . . . for a fee. Theophilus Mirkwood ought to be insulted. Should be appalled. But how can he resist this siren in widow’s weeds, whose offer is simply too outrageously tempting to decline? Determined she’ll get her money’s worth, Theo endeavors to awaken this shamefully neglected beauty to the pleasures of the flesh—only to find her dead set against taking any enjoyment in the scandalous bargain. Surely she can’t resist him forever. But could a lady’s sweet surrender open their hearts to the most unexpected arrival of all . . . love?


Flying Free

Flying Free

Author: Cecilia Aragon

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 2020-09-22

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1982642483

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The daughter of a Chilean father and a Filipina mother, Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon grew up as a shy, timid child in a small midwestern town during the 1960s. Targeted by school bullies and dismissed by many of her teachers, she worried that people would find out the truth: that she was INTF. Incompetent. Nerd. Terrified. Failure. This feeling stayed with her well into her twenties when she was told that “girls can’t do science” or “women just don’t know how to handle machines.” Yet in the span of just six years, Cecilia became the first Latina pilot to secure a place on the United States Unlimited Aerobatic Team and earn the right to represent her country at the Olympics of aviation, the World Aerobatic Championships. How did she do it? Using mathematical techniques to overcome her fear, Cecilia performed at air shows in front of millions of people. She jumped out of airplanes and taught others how to fly. She learned how to fund-raise and earn money to compete at the world level. She worked as a test pilot and contributed to the design of experimental airplanes, crafting curves of metal and fabric that shaped air to lift inanimate objects high above the earth. And best of all, she surprised everyone by overcoming the prejudices people held about her because of her race and her gender. Flying Free is the story of how Cecilia Aragon broke free from expectations and rose above her own limits by combining her passion for flying with math and logic in unexpected ways. You don’t have to be a math whiz or a science geek to learn from her story. You just have to want to soar.


A Song for Cecilia

A Song for Cecilia

Author: Jo Fredell Higgins

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1617398969

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Orphaned as a baby, Cecilia Rose Delaney is sent west on an Orphan Train to a new family and a new life. Though her adoptive mother treats her unkindly, joy blooms in Cecilia's life through the love of her new father and friends. Merging the details of a rich historical background with the nuances of the story, Jo Fredell Higgins brings the early 1900s to life, illuminating the daily experiences this generation shared. A Song for Cecilia resonates with the music of the age and portrays the song that is found in emerging love and strengthened family bonds. Discover the heartwarming relationship that Cecilia finds in Christopher. Through it all, life has A Song for Cecilia. But will she find a joyful song after enduring the hardships of war?


Frances Burney's Cecilia

Frances Burney's Cecilia

Author: Catherine M. Parisian

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 1409418200

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In her exhaustive publishing history of Frances Burney's Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress, Parisian mines an extensive archival record that includes portions of the original manuscript, annotated page proofs, legal records relative to its copyright, and an abundance of letters, to chronicle the composition, printing, and publication of Frances Burney's Cecilia from its first edition in 1782 to the present-day Oxford World's Classics paperback. Her timely history demonstrates the importance of Cecilia to the art of the novel and the history of the book.


The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolomé

The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolomé

Author: Sally Faulkner

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2024-09-24

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1526169703

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Were it not for authoritarian state censorship, Cecilia Bartolomé’s name would figure alongside those of her contemporaries Agnès Varda and Claire Denis as a pioneering feminist filmmaker of the twentieth century. With this bold claim, this book seeks both to write the history of Bartolomé’s extant filmography, and speculate about censored and un-filmed work, thereby fashioning a new way of writing a feminist creative life in film. The first volume on this director to be written in English, The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolomé is also the first volume on the director published in any language for over twenty years. By focusing on Spanish-language cinema of the 1960s-90s, the period when feminism, like democracy, was re-born and seemingly consolidated in Spain, the study brings historical depth and transnational reach to current debates in the wake of #MeToo.


Cecilia's House & The Foraging Class (American Chapters)

Cecilia's House & The Foraging Class (American Chapters)

Author: Greta Gorsuch

Publisher: Wayzgoose Press

Published: 2019-06-17

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13:

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American Chapters presents short stories in vivid and easy-to-read, 500-word chapters, perfect for English language learners internationally and adult literacy learners in countries where English is commonly used. All stories are also offered as audio books for learners who want to hear the sounds of American English. "Cecilia’s House" Cecilia lives in tiny Sunflower, Texas. There aren’t many jobs in a country where the towns are small and far apart. But Cecilia has built a good house-cleaning business with her business partner Franny. But one day, Cecelia drives over to visit Franny, who has been sick. When she gets to Franny’s house, a police car is waiting with flashing lights. What Cecilia learns next will change her life. "The Foraging Class" High school student Shana can’t believe she has to spend her Spring Break on a camping trip at a Texas state park, attending something awful called a “Foraging Class.” The class will teach them about eating things that look like grasses and weeds! But she has no choice. So Shana, her mother Alice, and best friend Kristen drive off on their adventure into the green pine forests of East Texas. Then everything changes one night, deep in the park. And none of them will ever see the world the same way again. Keywords: ESL, EFL, graded reader, leveled reader, short stories, extensive reading


Cecilia and Bay

Cecilia and Bay

Author: Noemi Camacho

Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.

Published: 2022-04-05

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 1638854505

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Cecilia Luna and her guardian angel, Bay, are sealed together at her birth. She lives her one hundred years with Bay at her side. The story of her life is told by the two witnesses of every joy and every pain.


Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Author: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-03-21

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780521483902

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Scientific and personal autobiography of the greatest woman astronomer of all time. The most famous graduate from Newnham College.


Cecilia of the Pink Roses

Cecilia of the Pink Roses

Author: Katharine Haviland-Taylor

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-11-20

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13:

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As described in a film magazine, Cecilia's parents live very humbly in a tenement. The father is an inventive bricklayer but can scarcely pay the expenses incident for the illness of the dying mother Mary. After her death, all the cares fall on "Celie," who tries to mother the brother and care for her father. Father McGowan, the priest of the parish, is interested in the family and helps the father to sell an invention to his advantage. Excerpt: "The Madden flat was hot and the smell of frying potatoes filled it. Two or three flies buzzed tirelessly here and there, now and again landing with sticky clingings on a small boy of four who screamed with their advent."