Bold As Brass

Author : Hilary Devey
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230765955
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bold As Brass written by Hilary Devey and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilary Devey is one of our most remarkable entrepreneurs and was an instant sensation when she appeared on Dragon's Den. Now, in this powerful memoir, she reveals the full story of her turbulent life. She describes how her father's bankruptcy sparked a fierce determination in her not to end up the same way. When her father started working in the pub trade, Hilary did too - at the age of seven - and has been grafting hard ever since. She built her own company, Pall-Ex, which today has an annual turnover of £100 million, never giving up even when she was so broke she couldn't afford to give her son a Christmas dinner. Admitting to terrible taste in men, Hilary opens up about her marriages and the destructive relationship she thought would break her. She tells how she faced a mother's worst nightmare, her son's heroin addiction, and fought back from a stroke that almost killed her. Bold as Brass is candid, brave and laced with the warmth and humour that have made Hilary so popular. Ultimately, it's as inspirational as the woman herself.

Author : Bettejane Synott Wesson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483635899
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book BOLD AS BRASS written by Bettejane Synott Wesson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bold as Brass is a collection of twenty-four stories set in Waterbury, Connecticut, once Brass Capital of the World. All the stories are works of fiction. They are the author's look into long-ago lives, both of her Irish Catholic family and of imagined characters who might have joined them in their daily goings on, in a period of time that stretches from the thirties through the fifties. Whether the characters are swimming at Scovill's Dam on a hot summer day and wondering what is beneath that water or telling stories around the kitchen table on a rainy afternoon, making a pilgrimage to Saint Anne de Beaupre in Canada to request a baby or bearing gifts to a birthday celebration with mixed results, their stories are presented in a way that shows how insightful commonplace occurrences can prove to be. Bold as Brass is the author's second book, deliciously anecdotal, and a true companion to her first book, The View from Cracker Hill, a memoir of 1950s Waterbury. These are stories of working-class people, of whom Betty notes in "Saturday Night Swells," the idea that "ordinary people can have extraordinary moments is a wonderful discovery." The author says, "I echo Betty's sentiment, and I am delighted to share these stories."

Author : Isabel Rogers
Publisher : Prelude Books
ISBN 13 : 178842140X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bold as Brass written by Isabel Rogers and published by Prelude Books. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community music projects always spread harmony... don’t they? When players in Stockwell Park Orchestra fear they may be getting out of touch with the community, they invite children from two nearby schools to join them for a season. Supercilious, rich Oakdean College pupils have never mixed with the rough Sunbridge Academy kids, and when things go missing and rumours spread, the situation threatens to turn ugly. DCI Noel Osmar has to tread carefully: after all, he’s off duty. Step forward, Carl the trombonist. Can music heal social rifts? Who has been stealing and why? And will the orchestra’s newly-composed fanfare turn out to be fantastic... or farcical? Praise for The Stockwell Park Orchestra Series: “I was charmed... a very enjoyable read.” Marian Keyes “Friendly insults between musicians, sacrosanct coffee-and-biscuit breaks, tedious committee meetings: welcome to the world of the amateur orchestra.” BBC Music Magazine “...a witty and irreverent musical romp, full of characters I’d love to go for a pint with. I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know the Stockwell Park Orchestra and can't wait for the next book in the series.” Claire King, author of The Night Rainbow “Sharp, witty and richly entertaining.” Lev Parikian, author of Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? “With its retro humour bordering on farce, this novel offers an escape into the turbulent (and bonkers) world of the orchestra.” Isabel Costello, author of Paris Mon Amour “...a very funny tale of musical shenanigans set in the febrile atmosphere of the Stockwell Park Orchestra” Ian Critchley

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Author : Richmond Sarah (author)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781005072759
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Author : George Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life's Painter of Variegated Characters in Public and Private Life written by George Parker and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hilary Devey
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781447214915
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bold As Brass written by Hilary Devey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilary Devey is one of Britain's most remarkable entrepreneurs and was an instant sensation when she appeared on 'Dragon's Den'. Now she reveals the full story of her turbulent life.

Author : Xhenet Aliu
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0399590250
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brass written by Xhenet Aliu and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fierce, big-hearted, unflinching debut”* novel about mothers and daughters, haves and have-nots, and the stark realities behind the American Dream *Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere WINNER OF THE GEORGIA AUTHOR OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR FIRST NOVEL • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND REAL SIMPLE A waitress at the Betsy Ross Diner, Elsie hopes her nickel-and-dime tips will add up to a new life. Then she meets Bashkim, who is at once both worldly and naïve, a married man who left Albania to chase his dreams—and wound up working as a line cook in Waterbury, Connecticut. Back when the brass mills were still open, this bustling factory town drew one wave of immigrants after another. Now it’s the place they can’t seem to leave. Elsie, herself the granddaughter of Lithuanian immigrants, falls in love quickly, but when she learns that she’s pregnant, Elsie can’t help wondering where Bashkim’s heart really lies, and what he’ll do about the wife he left behind. Seventeen years later, headstrong and independent Luljeta receives a rejection letter from NYU and her first-ever suspension from school on the same day. Instead of striking out on her own in Manhattan, she’s stuck in Connecticut with her mother, Elsie—a fate she refuses to accept. Wondering if the key to her future is unlocking the secrets of the past, Lulu decides to find out what exactly her mother has been hiding about the father she never knew. As she soon discovers, the truth is closer than she ever imagined. Told in equally gripping parallel narratives with biting wit and grace, Brass announces a fearless new voice with a timely, tender, and quintessentially American story. Praise for Brass “Lustrous . . . a tale alive with humor and gumption, of the knotty, needy bond between a mother and daughter . . . [Brass] marks the arrival of a writer whose work will stand the test of time.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “An exceptional debut novel, one that plumbs the notion of the American Dream while escaping the clichés that pursuit almost always brings with it . . . [Xhenet] Aliu delivers a living, breathing portrait of places left behind.”—The Boston Globe “The writing blazes on the page. . . . So much about the book is also extraordinarily timely, especially when it focuses on class and culture, and what they really mean.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Aliu is witty and unsparing in her depiction of the town and its inhabitants, illustrating the granular realities of the struggle for class mobility.”—The New Yorker

Author : Bettejane Synott Wesson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483635910
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bold as Brass written by Bettejane Synott Wesson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bold as Brass is a collection of twenty-four stories set in Waterbury, Connecticut, once Brass Capital of the World. All the stories are works of fiction. They are the author's look into long-ago lives, both of her Irish Catholic family and of imagined characters who might have joined them in their daily goings on, in a period of time that stretches from the thirties through the fifties. Whether the characters are swimming at Scovill's Dam on a hot summer day and wondering what is beneath that water or telling stories around the kitchen table on a rainy afternoon, making a pilgrimage to Saint Anne de Beaupre in Canada to request a baby or bearing gifts to a birthday celebration with mixed results, their stories are presented in a way that shows how insightful commonplace occurrences can prove to be. Bold as Brass is the authors second book, deliciously anecdotal, and a true companion to her first book, The View from Cracker Hill, a memoir of 1950s Waterbury. These are stories of working-class people, of whom Betty notes in "Saturday Night Swells," the idea that "ordinary people can have extraordinary moments is a wonderful discovery." The author says, "I echo Betty's sentiment, and I am delighted to share these stories."

Author : Peter H. Diamandis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476709580
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bold written by Peter H. Diamandis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bold is a radical how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth while also positively impacting the lives of billions. A follow-up to the authors' Abundance (2012).