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Christa Weil, Barbara Vine

Secondhand Chic: Finding Fabulous Fashion at Consignment, Vintage, and Thrift Stores

Editura: Pocket Books

Anul aparitiei: 1999

Fun, funky, and fabulous, this is the first personal buying guide to help you get in on the resale craze that is sweeping America. Would you like to find a mint-condition Yves Saint Laurent jacket for $25...a brand-new, pleated wool skirt still bearing the original $40 price tag, for $7...a genuine Dior suit for $75? Now you can In Secondhand Chic you'll discover where to look, what to look for, and how to buy quality. In fact, you'll get all the secrets of spotting a valuable bargain so you can shop brilliantly whether you're in a consignment, thrift, or vintage store. Expert shopper Christa Weil shares the insider information that will help you buy the best clothes you've ever owned...at a fraction of the retail cost. Learn about: Spotting quality -- which you will know immediately from buttons, pockets, seams, and fabric Labels...big names, department store brands, exquisite foreign lines -- and fakes Finding your size when there are no labels or tags Flaws you can fix and the ones you can't -- from wrong lengths and wrinkles to stains and shininess Unearthing handmade shoes, silk scarves, name jewelry, and other elegant accessories Buying what you really need -- and ...

Barbara Vine (Author)

The Blood Doctor

Editura: VINTAGE BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2003

Sometimes it's best to leave the past alone. For when biographer Martin Nanther looks into the life of his famous great-grandfather Henry, Queen Victoria's favorite physician, he discovers some rather unsettling coincidences, like the fact that the doctor married the sister of his recently murdered fiancee. The more Martin researches his distant relative, the more fascinated--and horrified--he becomes. Why did people have a habit of dying around his great grandfather? And what did his late daughter mean when she wrote that he's done "monstrous, quite appalling things"? Barbara Vine (a.k.a. Ruth Rendell) deftly weaves this story of an eminent Victorian with a modern yarn about the embattled biographer, who is watching the House of Lords prepare to annul membership for hereditary peers and thus strip him of his position. Themes of fate and family snake throughout this teasing psychological suspense, a typically chilling tale from a master of the genre.

Barbara Vine (Author)

The Chimney Sweeper's Boy

Editura: WASHINGTON SQUARE

Anul aparitiei: 2006

Writing as Barbara Vine, Britain's preeminent mystery novelist Ruth Rendell crafts literary suspense of the highest order. With this richly textured and utterly absorbing page-tumer, Vine adds to her growing reputation as one of the great writers of our time. Bestselling and critically acclaimed novelist Gerald Candless dies suddenly, and leaves behind a wife and two doting daughters. To sort through her grief, his daughter Sarah puts aside her university studies and agrees to write a biography of her famous father. But as she begins her research and pulls back the veil of his past, her life is slowly torn apart: a terrible logic begins to unfold that explains her mother's remoteness, her father's need to continually reinvent himself -- and sheds shocking light on a long-forgotten London murder.

Barbara Vine (Author)

A Dark-Adapted Eye

Editura: PALGRAVE

Anul aparitiei: 2014

"A rich, complex and beautifully crafted novel." P. D. James "Compulsively readable a carefully devised plot unfolded with the most cunning art. Wilkie Collins and Dickens would have admired it." "Sunday Times" Like most families they had their secrets and they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the fifties was not kind to women who erred, so they had to use every means necessary to keep the truth hidden behind closed doors even murder. "Brilliantly plotted. Vine is not afraid to walk down the mean streets of the mind and can build up an almost tangible atmosphere of menace and unease." "Daily Telegraph" "Will linger in your memory long after you have closed the book. A first-rate novel." "Washington Post" "

Vine Barbara

The House of Stairs

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 1989

Lizzie hasn't seen her old friend, Bell, for some fourteen years, but when she spots her from a taxi in a London street she jumps out and pursues her despite 'all the terrible things' that passed between them. As Lizzie reveals those events, little by little, the women rekindle their friendship, with terrifying results... Page dim. 179 x 112 x 19 Weight: 164 grams

Vine Barbara

Gallowglass

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 1990

When Sandor snatched little Joe from the path of a London Tube train, he was quick to make clear the terms of the rescue. 'I saved your life,' he told the homeless youngster, 'so your life belongs to me now'. Sandor began to tell him a fairy-tale: an ageing prince, a kidnapped princess chained by one ankle, a missed rendezvous. Page dim. 179 x 112 x 20 Weight: 170 grams

Vine Barbara

The Brimstone Wedding

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 1997

Jenny's marriage is loveless, and she is having an affair. She works at an old people's home, where she is especially fond of Stella, a gracious, dignified woman dying of cancer - whose own secrets parallel Jenny's - with the difference that she may have been involved in murdering her lover's husband... Page dim. 180 x 111 x 21 Weight: 178 grams

Vine Barbara

The Blood Doctor

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2003

This novel is about ambition and obsession, but primarily about blood - both in its metaphysical and its physical sense. Lord Nanther is writing a biography of his great-grandfather, physician to Queen Victoria and expert in blood diseases, when he uncovers a horrifying secret. Page dim. 179 x 110 x 32 Weight: 254 grams

Vine Barbara

Level 4: The House of Stairs

Editura: Pearson Education Limited

Anul aparitiei: 2008

Contemporary / British English Twenty years ago a group of people lived in a house in London. One of them was murdered, but who was it? We slowly find out the truth, as the past, the present and the future join together in a frightening story. Page dim. 203 x 153 x 5 Series: Pearson English Graded Readers Weight: 78 grams

Vine Barbara

The Child's Child

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2014

When Grace and her brother Andrew inherit their grandmother's house in Hampstead, they decide to move in together. They've always got on well, the house is large enough to split down the middle, and neither of them likes partying or loud music. There's one thing they've forgotten though: what if one of them wants to bring a lover into the house? Page dim. 198 x 129 x 22 Weight: 208 grams

Vine Barbara

A Dark-adapted Eye

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2016

Faith Severn's life has long been overshadowed by the scandal of her aunt's execution for murder. For nearly 25 years she has tried to forget the woman she once spent her holidays with, who seemed such a perfect mother and caring sister. Now the time has come to piece together the mystery. Page dim. 199 x 140 x 20 Weight: 220 grams

Vine Barbara

Level 4: The House of Stairs Book and MP3 Pack

Editura: Pearson Education Limited

Anul aparitiei: 2008

Contemporary / British English Twenty years ago a group of people lived in a house in London. One of them was murdered, but who was it? We slowly find out the truth, as the past, the present and the future join together in a frightening story. Page dim. 199 x 144 x 6 Series: Pearson English Graded Readers Weight: 100 grams

Vine Barbara

Grasshopper

Editura: Bolinda Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2017

Page dim. 137 x 127 x 13 Weight: 80 grams

Vine Barbara

A Fatal Inversion

Editura: Bolinda Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2016

Page dim. Weight: 236 grams

Vine Barbara

A Dark-Adapted Eye

Editura: Bolinda Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2016

Page dim. Weight: 170 grams

Vine Barbara

No Night Is Too Long

Editura: Bolinda Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2016

Page dim. Weight: 104 grams

Vine Barbara

Asta's Book

Editura: Bolinda Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2017

Page dim. Weight: 188 grams

Vine Barbara

Gallowglass

Editura: Bolinda Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2017

Page dim. Weight: 70 grams

Vine Barbara

Grasshopper

Editura: Bolinda Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2017

Page dim. Weight: 306 grams

Vine Barbara

King Solomon's Carpet

Editura: Bolinda Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2017

Page dim. Weight: 70 grams