Adelia

Miss Adelia Hadlee’s story continues in author Hannah G. Attridge’s latest novel, Adelia’s Sojourn! Miss Adelia Hadlee has made good use of her winter sequester in the bustling city of London, fully immersing herself in her new role as co-owner of a prosperous shipping company. Her pride and determination to succeed in the business world assists in her effort to not become distracted by Mr. Henry Ansley’s increasingly insistent attentions. Meanwhile, Adelia’s relationship with her business partner, the mysterious Mr. Edwin Castelow, has easily blossomed into a strong friendship. Edwin extends to her an invitation to travel to the dazzling destination of India, to further expand their business prospects, as well as introduce her to the beauty and legacy of his homeland. Adelia’s adventurous spirit readily accepts, and she is thrilled to be embarking on her first intercontinental voyage. The sparkling summer nights of India sweep her away into the romance of exploring a foreign country, as Edwin indicates his growing affection for her. However, Adelia’s summer sojourn threatens to become unraveled by rival suitors, miscommunications about business endeavors, and a stunning, yet pernicious young woman from Edwin’s past. While in India, Adelia will need to rely on her courage and compassion as she uncovers missing details from her father’s past, confronts the misogynistic views of the Victorian business world, and allows her heart to make its firm declaration for her future happiness.

An Indie Next Pick A masterful, "seductive" debut novel about fate, family secrets, and the stories our bodies tell (NYTBR). Magdalena has an unsettling gift. She sees the truth about people written on their skin--names, dates, details both banal and profound--and her only relief from the onslaught of information is to take off her glasses and let the world recede. Mercifully, her own skin is blank. When she meets Neil, she is intrigued to see her name on his cheek, and she is drawn into a family drama that began more than half a century before, when Neil's father, Richard, was abandoned at birth by his mother, a famous expatriate novelist. As secrets are revealed among forgotten texts in the archives of Paris, on a dusty cattle ranch in the American West, along ancient pilgrim paths, and in a run-down apartment in post-Soviet Lithuania, the novel's unforgettable characters converge--by chance, or perhaps by fate--and Magdalena's uncanny ability may be the key to their happiness.

Meet Adelia, a 19-year-old woman living in northern Illinois on the cusp of the Civil War. Her real-life diary entries record the details of daily life while war advances in the background. Her journal illustrates how central sewing and quilting were in a woman's life during the nineteenth century. Includes period photos and 14 projects featuring nineteenth-century reproduction fabrics.

The transition from girlhood to womanhood can be difficult and chaotic, especially where romance is concerned. God's guidance is invaluable to the process. Adelia demonstrates how God's love truly empowers romantic relationships.

Adelia, a grecian prisoner of ancient Rome must win her freedom in order to find existence with her Roman love Germanus. She is unaware of the greatest obstacle to face her after she acquires this hard earned liberty. This book is the WINNER of the Great Southeast Book Festival and has earned an "Honorable Mention" Award with the 2017 Florida Book Festival

The national bestselling hit hailed by the New York Times as a "vibrant medieval mystery...[it] outdoes the competition." In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female forensics expert, is summoned by King Henry II to investigate a series of gruesome murders that has wrongly implicated the Jewish population, yielding even more tragic results. As Adelia's investigation takes her behind the closed doors of the country's churches, the killer prepares to strike again.

Poetry that eloquently concentrates on the spiritual and physical lives of women. This is the first book published in English by of the work of Brazilian poet Adélia Prado. Incorporating poems published over the past fifteen years, The Alphabet in the Park is a book of passion and intelligence, wit and instinct. These are poems about human concerns, especially those of women, about living in one's body and out of it, about the physical but also the spiritual and the imaginative life. Prado also writes about ordinary matters; she insists that the human experience is both mystical and carnal. To Prado these are not contradictory: "It's the soul that's erotic," she writes. As Ellen Watson says in her introduction, "Adélia Prados poetry is a poetry of abundance. These poems overflow with the humble, grand, various stuff of daily life – necklaces, bicycles, fish; saints and prostitutes and presidents; innumerable chickens and musical instruments…And, seemingly at every turn, there is food." But also, an abundance of dark things, cancer, death, greed. These are poems of appetite, all kinds.

The book series "Ottomania" researches cultural transfers between the Ottoman Empire and Europe, with the performing arts as its focus. The fifth volume of the sub-series Ottoman Empire and European Theatre focuses on The Turkish Subject in Ballet and Dance from the seventeenth century to the time of Christoph W. Gluck (1714-1787). The Turkish theme was a popular topic on European ballet stages throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and most influential choreographers had 'Turkish' ballets in their repertoire. Taking as its departure point Ch. W. Gluck and Gasparo Angiolini (1741-1803), succesful composer and choreographer of ballets at the French theatre in Vienna, this publication discusses the topic from a historical perspective, presents new findings, and introduces the latest scholarly achievements of the research field. Contributions by Emre Aracı, Bruce Alan Brown, David Chataignier, Sibylle Dahms, Vera Grund, Bert Gstettner, Bent Holm, Michael Hüttler, Evren Kutlay, Dóra Kiss, Laura Naudeix, Strother Purdy, Katalin Rumpler, Käthe Springer-Dissmann, Dirk Van Waelderen, Hans Ernst Weidinger

Tess Garritsen calls this one "my favorite book of the year!" In 1176, King Henry II sends his daughter Joanna to Palermo to marry his cousin, the king of Sicily. Henry chooses Adelia Aguilar to travel with the princess and safeguard her health. But when people in the wedding procession are murdered, Adelia and Rowley must discover the killer's identity, and whether he is stalking the princess or Adelia herself.