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Alison and Veronica meet amid the nocturnal glamour of 1980s New York: one is a former modelling sensation, stumbling away from the wreck of her career, the other an eccentric middle-aged proofreader with a meticulous eye. Over the next twenty years their friendship will encompass narcissism and tenderness, exploitation and self-sacrifice, love and mortality. Moving seamlessly between the glamorous and gritty '80s, when beauty and style gave licence to excess, and the broken world of the decade's survivors twenty years later, Gaitskill casts a fierce yet compassionate eye on the two eras and their fixations. Veronica masterfully evokes the fragility and mystery of human relationships in a world where love is rife with frightening artificiality. Evocative, raw and entirely unique, Veronica was shortlisted for the prestigious 2005 National Book Award in the USA.
The fifth book and final instalment in Bella Christian’s compelling new series, This is Where it Ends… On the surface, fourteen-year-old Veronica Blackwood has it all. She’s the only child of Wheeler’s glamor couple. Her mother comes from old money. Her father is a hotshot lawyer. He’s also the mayor of Wheeler. Smart, slim and beautiful, Veronica is the most popular girl at Wheeler High. All the other girls wish they could be her. The boys look at her with longing. She loves every second of the attention. In fact, she craves it. Somehow it helps to replace the lack of attention she receives at home… And so what if she amuses herself at the expense of others? The occasional mean ...
When she is sent to Alba (ancient Scotland) to fulfill a marriage agreement made in her youth, Trelagh Mahon discovers her new husband, Colain, is a brutal man who despises her and has agreed to marry her only to please his father. Cold and merciless, he demands her absolute obedience and schemes to cripple her independent spirit. Trelagh is despairing, but unsurprised. In her experience, the gods have never smiled upon her – not, at least, until the moment she first laid eyes on her new husband's half-brother, Gabhan, gifted harper and son of a Pictish slave. Trelagh finds favor with Colain's father, the powerful Chief Kintire, but she knows even his affection will not protect her if Cola...
This is a story about a woman who works in an aquarium. She has an accident, then she meets Tess and her life has changed.
The jet-setting darling of all debutantes has glammed her way to stardom with her romantic and often perilous tales around the globe! Now, for the first time, Archie Comics is proud to bring to their loyal readers the stories of Veronica's travels as she meets alluring men, fights crime, and experiences the diversity of world culture from Africa to Asia, South America to Europe, and everywhere in-between!
After her mother's abrupt passing, Veronica ends up the sole owner of a small library in the middle of nowhere. Within the dusty shelves of her inheritance, she discovers a collection of unconventional erotica. Her days are consumed learning of all the different kinks and fetishes. Eventually, stumbling on something even less conventional to fantasize about. Veronica's inhibitions come to an abrupt end when an attempt to explore her fantasies goes wrong. Only to find herself immediately thrust into another situation involving a mysterious stranger she has been infatuated with. Will her decisions haunt her or lead to her ultimate release? Book one in the Vixen Tails series Veronica's Awakening is a fast-paced erotic fantasy with heavy supernatural elements. Experience the uncontrollable desires of a girl turned lust-driven shifter. “Warning: This book contains alarming situations, scary roleplay situations, strong language, and graphic sexual depictions, including humanoid shifted sex. It is only recommended for mature audiences.”
Alberta Scaglione thinks her cooking is better than anyone’s in Tranquility, New Jersey—but she doesn’t mind an occasional visit to Veronica’s Diner. Too bad today’s special is murder . . . During the breakfast rush, waitress Teri Jo seems stressed out. Not surprising on a busy morning, though Alberta, her sister Helen, and her granddaughter Jinx find it odd when Teri Jo asks them to deliver a package for her “just in case.” Minutes later, Teri Jo rushes back to their table—not with a check in her hand but with a knife in her back. Veronica is upset but says she knows virtually nothing about her employee’s past, and the ladies aren’t sure whether to view her with sympathy...
The prophet Ezekiel (told in first person) went through many struggles like those of the world were living in today. The parables of Jesus (in poetry) teach us how to love all Gods children in this world, and Veronicas Veil shows how the compassion of God can lead us to greater compassion for others.
This book is an up-to-date checklist of the current valid taxonomyfor all vascular plants, bryophytes, and lichens in British Columbia,including synonyms, species codes, and other information. A convenient,geographically restricted, comprehensive checklist like this one willaid greatly in avoiding the present confusion concerning the names ofmany species in the ecological and systematic literature, as well as inapplied fields. The book is organized into three sections. Part 1 organizes speciesalphabetically according to taxonomic order by families of vascularplants, bryophytes, and lichens. Within each family, the genera arelisted alphabetically, along with any synonomies (former names) andc...
The Atlas of Seeds and Fruits of Central and East-European Flora presents nearly 4,800 seed illustrations, supplemented with detailed seed descriptions, brief plant descriptions, and information on the locality and the native source of plants. The Carpathian flora covered here occurs not only in the Carpathian Mountains, but also in large lowlands extending towards the south, north and east and involves introduced and invading flora of more than 7,500 species. This publication is unique on two counts. Its scope extends to an unprecedented number of different plant seeds from a wide-ranging region. Moreover, it presents descriptions in unusual detail.