Essie's Way

Essie's Way

Author: Pamela Cook

Publisher: Hachette Australia

Published: 2013-11-26

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0733632238

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A captivating story of family, love and following your heart, from the author of Blackwattle Lake. Miranda McIntyre thinks she has it all sorted. She?s a successful lawyer, she?s planning her wedding and ticking off all the right boxes. When searching for something old to go with her wedding dress she remembers an antique necklace from her childhood, but her mother denies any knowledge of it. Miranda is sure it exists. Trying to find the necklace, she discovers evidence that perhaps the grandmother she thought was dead is still alive. Ignoring the creeping uncertainty about her impending marriage, and the worry that she is not living the life she really wants, Miranda takes off on a road trip in search of answers to the family mystery but also in search of herself. Ultimately, she will find that looking back can lead you home.


The Book of Essie

The Book of Essie

Author: Meghan MacLean Weir

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0525436073

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ALEX AWARD WINNER FINALIST FOR THE 2018 NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD "Both timelessly beautiful and unbelievably timely." —Chris Bohjalian, New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant Esther Ann Hicks—Essie—is the youngest child on Six for Hicks, a reality television phenomenon. She's grown up in the spotlight, idolized and despised for her family's fire-and-brimstone brand of faith. So when Essie’s mother, Celia, discovers that Essie is pregnant, she immediately arranges an emergency meeting with the show’s producers. Do they sneak Essie out of the country for an abortion? Pass the child off as Celia’s? Or do they try to arrange a marriage—and a ratings-blockbuster wedding? Meanwhile, Essie is quietly pairing herself up with Roarke Richards, a senior at her school with a secret of his own. As the newly formed couple attempt to sell their love story to the media through exclusive interviews with the infamously conservative reporter Liberty Bell, Essie finds she has questions of her own: What was the real reason for her older sister leaving home? Who can she trust with the truth about her family? And how much is she willing to sacrifice to win her own freedom?


Three Plays for Puritans

Three Plays for Puritans

Author: George Bernard Shaw

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9780140437928

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Shaw believed that theatre audiences of the 1890s deserved more than the hollow spectacle and sham he saw displayed on the London stage. But he also recognized that people wanted to be entertained while educated, and to see purpose mixed with pleasure. In these three plays of ideas, Shaw employed traditional dramatic forms - Victorian melodrama, the history play and the adventure story - to turn received wisdom upside down. Set during the American War of Independence, The Devil�s Disciple exposes fake Puritanism and piety, while Caesar and Cleopatra, a cheeky riposte to Shakespeare, redefines heroism in the character of the ageing Roman leader. And in Captain Brassbound�s Conversion, an expedition in Morocco is saved from disaster by a lady explorer�s skilful manipulation of the truth.


The Devil's Disciple

The Devil's Disciple

Author: Bernard Shaw

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-16

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Devil's Disciple" by Bernard Shaw. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.


Works

Works

Author: George Bernard Shaw

Publisher:

Published: 1919

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13:

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The Devil's Disciple

The Devil's Disciple

Author: George Bernard Shaw

Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.

Published: 2006-11-01

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1596054514

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George Bernard Shaw's only play set in America, The Devil's Disciple is a cutting examination of honor and honesty, rebellion and irreverence. Written in 1897 and first published in the 1901 collection Three Plays for Puritans, it is the story of Revolutionary War hero Richard Dudgeon, wrongly arrested by British soldiers in a case of mistaken identity who keeps the secret, fully aware he will be hanged for another man's crimes. Like Dicken's A Tale of Two Cities, this is an historically incisive drama, highlighting the best men can achieve at the worst of times. Irish playwright GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 and an Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay in 1938, the only person to achieve both honors. Among his many renowned plays are Arms and the Man (1894), Candida (1894), Man and Superman (1903), Major Barbara (1905), and Pygmalion (1913).


Essie's Story

Essie's Story

Author: Esther Burnett Horne

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780803273245

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"First Bison Books printing: 1999"--T.p. verso.