Ma'am Darling
Ma'am Darling

Author: Craig Brown

Publisher: Fourth Estate

Published: 2018-06-18

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780008203634

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A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR * A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An original, memorable and substantial achievement' TLS'A masterpiece' Mail on Sunday'I honked so loudly the man sitting next to me dropped his sandwich' ObserverShe made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. John Fowles hoped to keep her as his sex-slave. Dudley Moore propositioned her. Francis Bacon heckled her. Peter Sellers was in love with her. For Pablo Picasso, she was the object of sexual fantasy. "If they knew what I had done in my dreams with your royal ladies" he confided to a friend, "they would take me to the Tower of London and chop off my head!" Princess Margaret aroused passion and indignation in equal measures. To her friends, she was witty and regal. To her enemies, she was rude and demanding. In her 1950's heyday, she was seen as one of the most glamorous and desirable women in the world. By the time of her death, she had come to personify disappointment. One friend said he had never known an unhappier woman. The tale of Princess Margaret is pantomime as tragedy, and tragedy as pantomime. It is Cinderella in reverse: hope dashed, happiness mislaid, life mishandled. Combining interviews, parodies, dreams, parallel lives, diaries, announcements, lists, catalogues and essays, Ma'am Darling is a kaleidoscopic experiment in biography, and a witty meditation on fame and art, snobbery and deference, bohemia and high society. 'Brown has been our best parodist and satirist for decades now ... Ma'am Darling is, as you would expect, very funny; also, full of quirky facts and genial footnotes. Brown has managed to ingest huge numbers of royal books and documents without losing either his judgment or his sanity. He adores the spectacle of human vanity' Julian Barnes, Guardian

Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops
Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops

Author: Allison Hong Merrill

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-09-20

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 164742190X

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Allison Hong is not your typical fifteen-year-old Taiwanese girl. Unwilling to bend to the conditioning of her Chinese culture, which demands that women submit to men’s will, she disobeys her father’s demand to stay in their faith tradition, Buddhism, and instead joins the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Then, six years later, she drops out of college to serve a mission—a decision for which her father disowns her. After serving her mission in Taiwan, twenty-two-year-old Allison marries her Chinese-speaking American boyfriend, Cameron Chastain. But sixteen months later, Allison returns home to their Texas apartment and is shocked to discover that, in her two-hour absence, Cameron has taken all the money, moved out, and filed for divorce. Desperate for love and acceptance, Allison moves to Utah and enlists in an imaginary, unforgiving dating war against the bachelorettes at Brigham Young University, where the rules don’t make sense—and winning isn’t what she thought it would be.

Ninety-Nine Names of Allah
Ninety-Nine Names of Allah

Author: Shems Friedlander

Publisher: HarperOne

Published: 1993-10-22

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780060630348

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The classic text describing the core mystical teachings and practice of Islam -- accessible to everyone -- in a beautifully designed volume with names, translations, meanings, and meditations.

Ninety-nine Gnats, Nits, and Nibblers
Ninety-nine Gnats, Nits, and Nibblers

Author: May Berenbaum

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780252060274

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Insects covered include cockroaches, fruit flies, house flies, mealworms, silverfish, carpenter ants, centipedes, clothes moths, earwigs, termites, junebugs, grasshoppers, monarch and victory butterflies, praying mantis, gypsy moths, antlions, crickets, fireflies, katydids, yellowjackets, dragonflies, damselflies, mayflies, ear mites, fleas, ticks, bedbugs, black widow spiders, lice, chiggers, mosquitoes, scabies.

God Has Ninety-Nine Names
God Has Ninety-Nine Names

Author: Judith Miller

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-07-19

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 143912941X

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A FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER IN TODAY'S MIDDLE EAST God Has Ninety-Nine Names is a gripping, authoritative account of the epic battle between modernity and militant Islam that is is reshaping the Middle East. Judith Miller, a reporter who has covered the Middle east for twenty years, takes us inside the militant Islamic movements in ten countries: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Algeria, Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Isreal and Iran. She shows that just as there is no unified Arab world, so there is no single Islam: The movements are as different as the countries in which they are rooted. Vivid and comprehensive, Miller's first-and report reveals the meaning of the tumultuous events that will continue to affect the prospects for Arab-Isreali peace and the potential for terrorism worlwide.

Ninety-Nine Names of Love
Ninety-Nine Names of Love

Author: Priya Hemenway

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780740738319

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Drawn from the universal experience of loving, the expressions of love that are found in this book lead the reader on a journey of discovery. The many subtle aspects of the heart are addressed by poets and mystics from around the world. Gathered together they evoke the image of a rainbow that spans many worlds and guides us to the treasures that lie within our soul. Ninety-Nine Names of Love are ninety-nine of the innumerable subtle aspects by which we recognize that life is divine, for it is through the experience of love that we know life is divine. It is through the expression of love that beauty is born and that life's ecstasy is felt. It is through tasting the subtle flavors of love that the heart grows richer and through journeying deeper into the longing to unite with the beloved that we find ultimate joy. Book jacket.

The Ninety and Nine
The Ninety and Nine

Author: William Brinkley

Publisher: New York : Avon Books

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13:

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Adventures of the nine officers and ninety men of 1st 1826 ferrying between Naples and Anzio in World War II.

Ninety Nine Point Nine Nine Nine to Infinity
Ninety Nine Point Nine Nine Nine to Infinity

Author: Curtis Ferren

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1412036593

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Many stories have been written and movies made of the astronauts and the Apollo flights which the world is privy to, but to my knowledge nothing has been written about the thousands of people in the back shops of manufacturing plants throughout the nations that gave their blood sweat and tears to create these spacecrafts in a short period of time. Their story needs to be told.

99 Novels
99 Novels

Author: Anthony Burgess

Publisher: New York : Summit Books

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13:

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Sing Through the Seasons
Sing Through the Seasons

Author: Marlys Swinger

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780874869996

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Swinger herself composed several of the tunes, but most are time-tested folk melodies. Gathered from dozens of countries - including Finland, Japan, Sweden, Jamaica, Poland, China, Russia, Germany, England, and Peru - they represent a broad spectrum of traditions that will suit the multi-cultural sensibilities of almost any home or school.