The Scent Of Scandal

Author : Craig Pittman
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813042887
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scent of Scandal written by Craig Pittman and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2012-03-18 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After its Peruvian discovery in 2002, Phragmipedium kovachii became the rarest and most sought-after orchid in the world. Prices soared to $10,000 on the black market. Then one showed up at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, where every year more than 100,000 people visit. They come for the lush landscape on Sarasota Bay and for Selby's vast orchid collection, one of the most magnificent in the world. The collision between Selby's scientists and the smugglers of Phrag. Kovachii, a rare ladyslipper orchid hailed as the most significant and beautiful new species discovered in a century, led to search warrants, a grand jury investigation, and criminal charges. It made headlines around the country, cost the gardens hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, and led to tremendous internal turmoil. Investigative journalist Craig Pittman unravels this tangled web to shine a spotlight on flaws in the international treaties governing trade in endangered wildlife--which may protect individual plants and animals in shipping but do little to halt the destruction of whole colonies in the wild. The Scent of Scandal unspools like a riveting mystery novel, stranger than anything in Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief or the film Adaptation. Pittman shows how some people can become so obsessed--with beauty, with profit, with fame--that they will ignore everything, even the law.

Author : Emma V Leech
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781078300438
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scent of Scandal written by Emma V Leech and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penniless young lady, rescued by providence.When Miss Fredericka Wycliffe's eccentric Uncle Phin dies and leaves her all his worldly goods, she cannot believe her good fortune. A passionate missionary man, Phineas Wycliffe was not wealthy, but a little cottage in the Highlands of Scotland and a modest bequest seem like riches beyond Fredericka's wildest dreams.The catch.To meet the terms of the will, Fredericka must swear on the bible to continue her uncle's good works on his last and greatest challenge; to bring spiritual light into the dark world of her nearest neighbour, the Laird of the Moncreiffe clan who lives at the forbidding and half-ruined Tor Castle.A man with scars, both visible and hidden.Ross Moncreiffe is a hard man, and one best left alone. Raised through the ranks from lowly private to Captain of the Cameron Highlanders the war has left him scarred and angry. The last thing he wants is a priggish English miss living on his doorstep and trying to show him the error of his ways.Vanilla and cinnamon.Miss Wycliffe does not give her word lightly nor scare easily, however. Besides, tormenting this glowering, great Highlander is too delicious to resist. Something tells this intrepid miss that there's more to the big Scot than meets the eye, and ... just why does he always smell so good?Ross is indeed hiding a surprising passion and one he'd rather die than reveal.Let the battle of wills commence.

Author : Kim Barnouin
Publisher : Running Press
ISBN 13 : 0762443561
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skinny Bitch: Home, Beauty & Style written by Kim Barnouin and published by Running Press. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kim Barnouin has already told her fans how to “stop eating crap and start looking fabulous.” But there's more to being a Skinny Bitch than eating well. Turns out, there's crap everywhere—not just in food, but in cosmetics, clothing, and home furnishings. Kim blows the lid on all of the nasties in our everyday stuff (everything from lipstick to sofa upholstery), and shows how we can make both small and big changes in our home, wardrobe, and beauty regimen—for living the Ultimate Skinny Bitch lifestyle!

Author : Maureen Child
Publisher : Silhouette
ISBN 13 : 1426826001
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Park Avenue Scandals Bundle written by Maureen Child and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to 721 Park Avenue...the ultimate address for high-price secrets! This luxurious building on Manhattan's tony upper east side is up for historical landmark status, and its tenants include the movers and shakers of New York City and the cr?me de la cr?me of society. But it's the secrets hidden behind its closed doors that fill this fascinating residence with mystery, drama and romance. And it all begins with the suspicious death of a young female tenant that immerses the building in a media feeding frenzy. As the wealthy and privileged residents contend with misunderstandings, betrayal, blackmail and scandal, they also discover the thrill of undeniable passion and the fulfillment of unwavering love. Visit 721 Park and prepare to be delighted, excited and moved by these six sensational stories by some of Silhouette Desire's bestselling authors. Bundle includes: High-Society Secret Pregnancy by Maureen Child, Front Page Engagement b...

Author : Carole Matthews
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060595639
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scent of Scandal written by Carole Matthews and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Rose escapes from London and her handsome, intelligent, and charming ex-lover, she had no idea that her occupation as an aromatherapist will cause such a scandal in her new village.

Author : Sean Latham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199701784
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Scandal written by Sean Latham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Scandal advances a relatively simple claim with far-reaching consequences for modernist studies: writers and readers throughout the early twentieth century revived the long-despised codes and habits of the roman à clef as a key part of that larger assault on Victorian realism we now call modernism. In the process, this resurgent genre took on a life of its own, reconfiguring the intricate relationship between literature, celebrity, and the law. Latham uses the genre to reconfigure modernism's development as a cultural practice diffused across texts and the networks of reception and circulation in which they are embedded. Writers like James Joyce, Jean Rhys, Oscar Wilde, and D.H. Lawrence deliberately employed elements of the roman à clef, only to find that it possessed an uncanny and even dangerous agency of its own--one that resonated through a complex system of publicity and constraint. Bringing these effects fully into view requires a mixture of close reading and archival excavation that proceeds here in chapters on the anonymous case study, Oscar Wilde's trial, libel law, celebrity salons, and Parisian bohemia. The Art of Scandal thus both salvages the roman à clef and traces its weird itinerary through the early twentieth century. In the process, it elaborates an expansive concept of modernism that interweaves coterie culture with the mass media, psychology with celebrity, and literature with the law.

Author : Felicite Annick Foungbe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Scent of Scandal written by Felicite Annick Foungbe and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le prix de la haine, your powerful thriller is now available in english, under the title A scent of scandal. Obsession, love, politic, serial killers... a scent of scandal will never let you breathe...

Author : Philip Yancey
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310287723
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grace Notes written by Philip Yancey and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects 366 daily readings from the author's writings in which he discusses his understanding of the world, faith, and God.

Author : Brian McHale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134949162
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodernist Fiction written by Brian McHale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this trenchant and lively study Brian McHale undertakes to construct a version of postmodernist fiction which encompasses forms as wide-ranging as North American metafiction, Latin American magic realism, the French New New Novel, concrete prose and science fiction. Considering a variety of theoretical approaches including those of Ingarden, Eco, Dolezel, Pavel, and Hrushovski, McHale shows that the common denominator is postmodernist fiction's ability to thrust its own ontological status into the foreground and to raise questions about the world (or worlds) in which we live. Exploiting various theoretical approaches to literary ontology - those of Ingarden, Eco, Dolezel, Pavel, Hrushovski and others - and ranging widely over contemporary world literature, McHale assembles a comprehensive repertoire of postmodernist fiction's strategies of world-making and -unmaking.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Independent Counsel Amendments Act of 1987 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: