Blood & Beauty
Title | Blood & Beauty PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Dunant |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Pages | 565 |
Release | 2013-05-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0748128727 |
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.
The Honey-blood Beauty & Her Vampire 1
Title | The Honey-blood Beauty & Her Vampire 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Toma Fuyuori |
Publisher | Kodansha America LLC |
Pages | 163 |
Release | 2021-04-20 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1636990525 |
Kagari Tojyo is smart and beautiful...but what really draws a crowd is her rare "honey blood"—a crowd of vampires, that is! Enter Ryotaro, her bodyguard and a vampire himself...with quite the perverted, sadistic streak! What's Kagari got to do to have a "normal" life?
Blood and Beauty
Title | Blood and Beauty PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Kroenung |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2003-05-15 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0595279201 |
From Holocaust knife fights to clowns hurling pies, Blood and Beauty offers a dozen opportunities for actresses to display their stage combat expertise. Filling a need in the theatrical canon, these short plays not only provide women with stage fights to perform, but also present severe acting challenges.
The Honey-blood Beauty & Her Vampire 2
Title | The Honey-blood Beauty & Her Vampire 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Toma Fuyuori |
Publisher | Kodansha America LLC |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2021-05-18 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1636991041 |
Kagari was born with a rare, sweet-tasting blood type known as "honey blood." To protect her from the vampires she attracts, she is accompanied by the country's strongest and most attractive bodyguard, Ryotaro. As payment, he always takes just one sip of her blood. But one day, stirred on by the student council vice president, Saionji, he drank much more than just a sip… bringing Kagari to the brink of death. In volume 2 of this sweet love story, things grow ever more dangerous… and a new character is introduced!
Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood
Title | Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Elsie |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 2006-07-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0810123371 |
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 Beauty
Title | Blood and Beauty PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela Greene |
Publisher | Schiffer Publishing Limited |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 9780764338847 |
New York City's Meatpacking District is known today for glitz and glamour, but it used to be famed for blood, muscle, and sweat. When photographer Pamela Greene first visited this area, she found a 24-hour neighborhood that changed daily, from a gritty industrial site to a sophisticated play ground, and back again, by dawn. She photographed it all, capturing the electric energy of the streets, and a nightly frenzy underground of strippers, singers, gays, straights, and on occasion, prostitutes. In 120 raw images, Greene gives us a portrait of change, an ode to urban transformation, and an elegy for workers who have disappeared into New York City history.
Alexander McQueen
Title | Alexander McQueen PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Wilson |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1476776741 |
"The first definitive biography of the iconic, notoriously private British fashion designer Alexander McQueen explores the connections between his dark work and even darker life. When forty-year-old Alexander McQueen committed suicide in February 2010, a shocked world mourned the loss. McQueen had risen from humble beginnings as the son of an East London taxi driver to scale the heights of fame, fortune, and glamour. He designed clothes for the world's most beautiful women and royalty, most famously the Duchess of Cambridge, who wore a McQueen dress on her wedding day. He created a multimillion-dollar luxury brand that became a favorite with celebrities including Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. But behind the confident facade and bad-boy image, lay a sensitive soul who struggled to survive in the ruthless world of fashion. As the pressures of work intensified, McQueen became increasingly dependent on the drugs that contributed to his tragic end. Meanwhile, in his private life, his failure to find lasting love in a string of boyfriends only added to his despair. And then there were the dark secrets that haunted his sleep... A modern-day fairy tale infused with the darkness of a Greek tragedy, Alexander McQueen tells the complete sensational story, and includes never-before-seen photos. Those closest to the designer--his family, friends, and lovers--have spoken for the first time about the man they knew, a fragmented individual, a lost boy who battled to gain entry into a world that ultimately destroyed him. "There's blood beneath every layer of skin," McQueen once said. Andrew Wilson's biography, filled with groundbreaking material, dispels myths, corrects inaccuracies, and offers new insights into McQueen's private life and the source of his creative genius"--