The Picture House Girls
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Author |
: Patricia McBride |
Publisher |
: Boldwood Books Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 271 |
Release |
: 2024-02-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781835339299 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1835339298 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Picture House Girls by : Patricia McBride
Her fresh start is just beginning. But the world is on the brink of war. England, 1939. Lily Baker wants more from life. Working at the local cinema, she saves her pennies so she can have a chance to get ahead. After she’s attacked one night while locking up the cinema, she loses her heart to her dashing rescuer... But this lovely man is as different from her as can be. When the town is divided, pitting the wealthy elite against the poor working class folk like Lily, she finds her allegiance is torn. And worse: the looming threat of war threatens to separate them forever. Will the dangerous times rob a young woman of her only chance at love? The heartwarming first book in The Lily Baker Series, perfect for fans of Elaine Everest, Vicki Beeby and Daisy Styles.
Author |
: Rosie Archer |
Publisher |
: Quercus |
Total Pages |
: 237 |
Release |
: 2021-02-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781529405286 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1529405289 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Picture House Girls by : Rosie Archer
A warm and heartfelt WW2 saga of hope, love, and female friendship and how women pull together through good times and bad. Perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Pam Howes. In 1940s Hampshire the war is settling into its stride bringing dark days for many. Connie Baxter has just moved in with her Aunt Gertie after the death of her mother. Gertie works as a cleaner at the Criterion Picture House in Gosport and she helps Connie to get a job there as an usherette. For Connie, it's the perfect place to work because she adores the movies with their glamorous, romantic stars. The only fly in the ointment is the Criterion's creepy manager with his wandering hands. But soon Connie is firm friends with Queenie, who sells ice creams and soon tells her how to warn him off. Charming Tommo Smith is a 'taxi-dancer'. For a fee he steers ladies of a certain age around the dance floor - and sometimes more besides which pays for his smart clothes. Connie's friend Queenie says he's a chancer, but his gorgeous blue eyes tell Connie something different. When suddenly he disappears, Connie accepts that Queenie may be right - he was too good to be true. As the war rages on and Connie struggles with the harsh realities of life and the turbulence of romance, she comes to realize that life isn't always like it is in the pictures.
Author |
: Rosie Archer |
Publisher |
: Quercus Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2021-11-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1529405386 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781529405385 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis I'll Be Seeing You by : Rosie Archer
A World War 2 saga to warm the heart. Three women become friends when working in their local picture house. When life is so tough for everyone, a trip to the pictures is the perfect way to escape, to dream of romance and hope for the good things peace will bring. It is 1943 on England's war-weary south coast where the conflict seems never-ending. After the heartache of the previous year, Connie Baxter now appears to have everything a girl could want. There is Ace, a man who loves her. She enjoys an enviable lifestyle despite the deprivations of war. She has friends and a job she adores as an usherette at the Criterion cinema. But appearances can be deceptive and Connie is struggling in more ways than one. Then, to compound Connie's problem, her nemesis, Cousin Marlene, returns home. Secrets come to light, revealing jealousies that could shatter Connie's world once more, and Connie realizes that Ace isn't the man she thought he was. In the darkest days of war, the glamour of movies and their stars can lift the bleakest of moods, while friends make the good times better and the bad times bearable.
Author |
: Fiona Veitch Smith |
Publisher |
: Embla Books |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2023-08-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781471414473 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1471414477 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Picture House Murders by : Fiona Veitch Smith
'You know a book is good when you get up, realize you finished it last night and are really disappointed that you can't read it with your breakfast. This book reminds me of the best golden age of mystery writers, especially Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers... Can't wait for the next one!' Reader review 5 stars Murder is no occupation for a lady... or is it? 1929: Miss Clara Vale is a woman ahead of her time. Rather than attending Oxford to bag an eligible Duke (as her mother, Lady Vale, so desperately hoped), she threw herself into a degree in chemistry, with aspirations to become a scientist in her own right. But the world isn't ready for Clara. Unable to land a job in science because she's a woman, she is stuck behind the desk at a dingy London library. Until her estranged Uncle dies suddenly, leaving her his private detective agency, and laboratory, in his will. Clara couldn't become a detective, could she? The decision is made for her when one of her uncle's old clients comes to her for help with a case surrounding the local picture house and invites Clara to see the latest show, before they discuss the details. But during the film, a fire suddenly engulfs the picture house, with tragic consequences. It seems at first an accident, but Clara soon begins to question if it was in fact a carefully orchestrated murder. She's suddenly in the middle of a deadly mystery and will discover her scientific skills make her a sleuth to be reckoned with... Can she catch the killer before they strike again? The first in a brand-new, glittering Golden Age cozy mystery series. Fans of Verity Bright, Helena Dixon and TE Kinsey will be hooked from the very first page to the final breathtaking finale.
Author |
: Patricia Ann McBride |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2020-05-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1916122612 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781916122611 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Picture House Girls by : Patricia Ann McBride
Courage and romance on the eve of World War Two. World War Two is about to start. What if you had to leave everything you knew behind? It's 1938 and hard-working Lily Baker's life turns upside down when she and her family move to a new town. Two jobs leave little free time, yet she becomes involved in a struggle to improve her area. Pushed by the group leader she undertakes tasks she previously thought impossible and meets the man of her dreams. Amidst homesickness, looming war, and an aggressive father can she find the strength to win through? If you love warm-hearted stories, filled with nostalgia, period details, engaging characters, and a riveting plot, this book is ideal for you. It is the first in the Lily Baker series. Pick up the Picturehouse Girls to start the exciting Lily Baker series today.
Author |
: Hazel Grant Ormsbee |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 158 |
Release |
: 1927 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015022205192 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Young Employed Girl by : Hazel Grant Ormsbee
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 972 |
Release |
: 1912 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:319510007402840 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Author |
: Diana W. Anselmo |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 279 |
Release |
: 2023-02-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520971295 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520971299 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Queer Way of Feeling by : Diana W. Anselmo
A Queer Way of Feeling gathers an unexplored archive of fan-made scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs to explore how girls coming of age in the United States in the 1910s used cinema to forge a foundational language of female nonconformity, intimacy, and kinship. Pasting cross-dressed photos into personal scrapbooks and making love to movie actresses in epistolary writing, girl fans from all walks of life stitched together established homoerotic conventions with an emergent syntax of film stardom to make sense of feeling "queer" or "different from the norm." These material testimonies show how a forgotten audience engendered terminologies, communities, and creative practices that became cornerstones of media fan reception and queer belonging.
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: |
Total Pages |
: 452 |
Release |
: 1915 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951002803104E |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (4E Downloads) |
Synopsis Woman's Home Companion by :
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Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 972 |
Release |
: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433014372134 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
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