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Blood And Beauty
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Author : Sarah Dunant
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-07-16
Blood And Beauty written by Sarah Dunant and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-16 with Fiction categories.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Italian Renaissance novels—The Birth of Venus, In the Company of the Courtesan, and Sacred Hearts—has an exceptional talent for breathing life into history. Now Sarah Dunant turns her discerning eye to one of the world’s most intriguing and infamous families—the Borgias—in an engrossing work of literary fiction. By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and inside the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, he is defined not just by his wealth or his passionate love for his illegitimate children, but by his blood: He is a Spanish Pope in a city run by Italians. If the Borgias are to triumph, this charismatic, consummate politician with a huge appetite for life, women, and power must use papacy and family—in particular, his eldest son, Cesare, and his daughter Lucrezia—in order to succeed. Cesare, with a dazzlingly cold intelligence and an even colder soul, is his greatest—though increasingly unstable—weapon. Later immortalized in Machiavelli’s The Prince, he provides the energy and the muscle. Lucrezia, beloved by both men, is the prime dynastic tool. Twelve years old when the novel opens, hers is a journey through three marriages, and from childish innocence to painful experience, from pawn to political player. Stripping away the myths around the Borgias, Blood & Beauty is a majestic novel that breathes life into this astonishing family and celebrates the raw power of history itself: compelling, complex and relentless. Praise for Blood and Beauty “Dunant transforms the blackhearted Borgias and the conniving courtiers and cardinals of Renaissance Europe into fully rounded characters, brimming with life and lust.”—The New York Times Book Review “Like Hilary Mantel with her Cromwell trilogy, [Sarah] Dunant has scaled new heights by refashioning mythic figures according to contemporary literary taste. This intellectually satisfying historical saga, which offers blood and beauty certainly, but brains too, is surely the best thing she has done to date.”—The Miami Herald “Compelling female players have been a characteristic of Dunant’s earlier novels, and this new offering is no exception. . . . The members of this close-knit family emerge as dynamic characters, flawed but sympathetic, filled with fear and longing.”—The Seattle Times “The Machiavellian atmosphere—hedonism, lust, political intrigue—is magnetic. . . . Readers won’t want the era of Borgia rule to end.”—People (four stars)
Blood Beauty
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Author : Sarah Dunant
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-05-02
Blood Beauty written by Sarah Dunant and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with Fiction categories.
By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched only by its brutality and corruption. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy, he is defined not just by his wealth, charisma and power, but by his blood: a Spanish Pope in a city run by Italians. If he is to succeed, he must use his Machiavellian son and innocent daughter. Stripping away the myths around the Borgias, Blood & Beauty breathes life into the astonishing family of Alexander VI and celebrates the raw power of history itself: compelling, complex, and relentless.
Blood Of Beauty
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Author : Scarlett DragonStar
language : en
Publisher: BookRix
Release Date : 2019-06-26
Blood Of Beauty written by Scarlett DragonStar and has been published by BookRix this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-26 with Performing Arts categories.
This is a Script. A young man name Todd wants to go to a prestige college, his mother refuses him. She cant stand the thought of him leaving her for some reason. His best friends all have their own problems. Darren is about to get sent to the Marines. Asia is deciding if she wants to be married at age 18. Todd falls into an old secret about his family and friends. Todd and his friends decide to follow an old photo, and a bottle of Eternity back to their families birth town. They will find out way more than they bargined for. Some of them would die for the secrets to be revealed.
Blood Beauty
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Author : Sarah Dunant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Blood Beauty written by Sarah Dunant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Biographical fiction categories.
By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome. Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, but if the Borgias are to triumph, he must use papacy and family to succeed. His eldest son Cesare is his greatest weapon, and his daughter Lucrezia is the prime dynastic tool. Stripping away the myths around the Borgias, Blood & Beauty is a majestic novel that breathes life into this astonishing family.
Blood And Beauty
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Author : Sarah Dunant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-11-04
Blood And Beauty written by Sarah Dunant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-04 with categories.
Is there a family in history more dazzling, dangerous and notorious than the Borgias? Rooted in the brutal and corrupt world of 15th-century Italy, Blood & Beauty opens with Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, clever and charismatic, buying his way to the papal crown. In this he is not unusual. Neither is the fact that he has illegitimate children. What does mark him is his blood; he is a Spaniard in a country run by established Italian families. To thrive, he must create his own dynasty using the papacy and his family as the building blocks of power. His son Cesare, fearless and calculating (later immortalized in Machiavelli's The Prince), provides the driving energy and the muscle. His daughter Lucrezia is their marriage tool. Aged twelve when the novel opens, she finds herself a bride to no fewer than three husbands-all before the age of twenty. Hers is a journey from pawn to political player. With the high-wire tension of a political thriller, this portrait of power and its personal costs is the most thrilling family saga to come out of Italy since The Godfather. In Dunant's skillful hands, the Borgias emerge not as the poisoning sexual monsters of popular myth, but in all their ruthless determination and complex humanity.
Fire Blood And Beauty
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Author : Zara Zenia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-04-07
Fire Blood And Beauty written by Zara Zenia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-07 with categories.
Two alien dragon shifters. Two vampires. A whole new world.And I'm in the middle of it all. One minute I'm a nineteen year-old woman trying to get through life and the next second I'm in space, charged with saving the human race on an alien planet.Four men show up vowing to love and protect me ... except they aren't men at all, they're alien dragon shifters and vampires.They say we're mates. I say they're crazy.I'm charged with a mission: have their baby.Um, how about no.They say it's destiny. I say I'm a long way from home!Fire, Blood, and Beauty is a full length, reverse harem romance with passion and suspense, including elements from paranormal, sci-fi, and fantasy. There is no cliffhanger and a guaranteed happy ending!
Seeds Of Blood And Beauty
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Author : Ann Lindsay
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn Publishers
Release Date : 2008
Seeds Of Blood And Beauty written by Ann Lindsay and has been published by Birlinn Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Plant collecting categories.
Seeds of Blood and Beauty follows the exploits of the great Scottish plant collectors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; men who left their native shores in search of exotic specimens, often risking life and limb for the sake of botany in some of the world’s most remote and dangerous places. Ann Lindsay introduces a large and varied cast of explorers, featuring men such as William Wright (1735–1810), who left the quiet Fife town of Crieff for Jamaica, and Aberdonian Francis Masson (1741–1805), who metamorphosed from an introspective under-gardener at Kew Gardens to an intrepid pioneer who faced gangs of bandits and poisonous snakes in Africa in pursuit of new botanical discoveries. As well as providing insights into the purposes and practicalities of scientific exploration over three centuries and examining the astonishing contribution these pioneers made in their field, Seeds of Blood and Beauty also shows how social change in Britain and abroad influenced botanical research and how this was reflected in Scotland's gardens. The result is a fascinating and informative book combining biography, history and horticulture.
Blood Water Paint
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Author : Joy McCullough
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-03-06
Blood Water Paint written by Joy McCullough and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-06 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
"Haunting ... teems with raw emotion, and McCullough deftly captures the experience of learning to behave in a male-driven society and then breaking outside of it."—The New Yorker "I will be haunted and empowered by Artemisia Gentileschi's story for the rest of my life."—Amanda Lovelace, bestselling author of the princess saves herself in this one A William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist 2018 National Book Award Longlist Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint. She chose paint. By the time she was seventeen, Artemisia did more than grind pigment. She was one of Rome's most talented painters, even if no one knew her name. But Rome in 1610 was a city where men took what they wanted from women, and in the aftermath of rape Artemisia faced another terrible choice: a life of silence or a life of truth, no matter the cost. He will not consume my every thought. I am a painter. I will paint. Joy McCullough's bold novel in verse is a portrait of an artist as a young woman, filled with the soaring highs of creative inspiration and the devastating setbacks of a system built to break her. McCullough weaves Artemisia's heartbreaking story with the stories of the ancient heroines, Susanna and Judith, who become not only the subjects of two of Artemisia's most famous paintings but sources of strength as she battles to paint a woman's timeless truth in the face of unspeakable and all-too-familiar violence. I will show you what a woman can do. ★"A captivating and impressive."—Booklist, starred review ★"Belongs on every YA shelf."—SLJ, starred review ★"Haunting."—Publishers Weekly, starred review ★"Luminous."—Shelf Awareness, starred review
Balkan Beauty Balkan Blood
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Author : Robert Elsie
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2006-07-07
Balkan Beauty Balkan Blood written by Robert Elsie and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-07 with Fiction categories.
In these stories representing the last three decades of Albanian writing--especially the burst of creativity in the newfound freedom of the 1990s--readers will encounter work that reflects the literary paradox of Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century: the startling originality of the new uneasily coupled with the strains of history; the sophistication and self-consciousness of late (or post-) modernity married to the simplicity of a literature first finding its voice; a refusal of political influence and pressure expressed through frankly political subject matter.
Blood And Moonlight
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Author : Erin Beaty
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2023-10-05
Blood And Moonlight written by Erin Beaty and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-05 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
In Erin Beaty's fantasy mystery-thriller, Blood and Moonlight, an orphan with a secret, magical sight gets caught between a mysterious, genius detective and the serial killer she’s hunting. Rising about the city of Collis is the Holy Sanctum. Catrin, an orphan girl, watches over its many spires with a unique skill that serves the Sanctum’s master architect. Then Catrin witnesses a murder and she is pulled into a dangerous chain of events where the only certainty is that the killer will strike again. The detective on the case is the brilliant and enigmatic Simon, whose insights into the mind of a predator are frighteningly accurate. As the grisly crimes continue, Catrin finds herself caught between killer and detective. But she’s hiding her own secret — and it might be the only thing that saves her and those she loves from becoming the next victims. . . Continue the magic with Silence and Shadow.