Evita's Revenge
Title | Evita's Revenge PDF eBook |
Author | Richard J. Walter |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2016-02-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1491790121 |
In this thrilling sequel to the author's Twisted Tango, former OSS officer Pete Benton finds himself in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1951, working for a Department of Justice task force investigating organized crime. When a member of the task force is found near dead from a brutal beating, Pete and his wife Mara are confronted with the possibility that they might be next to suffer from an attack. But a greater danger lurks when the Bentons unknowingly become the targets of revenge from the powerful first lady of Argentina, Evita Pern, still bitter over Pete's efforts to spy on her and Juan Pern six years earlier. David Friedman, the man who recruited Benton in Buenos Aires, is now working for the Central Intelligence Agency, continuing his relentless pursuit of Nazi war criminals. In that effort, Friedman himself is recruited by a beautiful Israeli intelligence officer to provide information on Nazi war criminals relocated by the CIA to the United States. Reunited in the nation's capital, the Bentons and Friedman find themselves caught up in a tangled web of intrigue, deceit, betrayal, and revenge that puts them all in peril.
Eva Perón
Title | Eva Perón PDF eBook |
Author | María Belén Rabadán Vega |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2021-08-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1538139138 |
No Latin American woman has ever elicited such extreme feelings of love and hate as Eva Perón. She was an actress of humble origins who fell in love with and married the soon-to-be president of Argentina, Juan Domingo Perón. Evita, as she was fondly known, became the most powerful woman in Argentine history. Adored by the masses and loathed by the bourgeoisie, Evita polarized Argentine society. Not even her death could put an end to the mixed feelings she aroused during her lifetime, and Evita remains till this day a controversial figure. Eva Perón: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works captures Evita’s eventful life, her works, and her legacy. The volume features a chronology that includes her childhood, her acting career, her trip to Europe, her political activity, her illness, and her death, as well as more recent events that have memorialized her. While an introduction offers a brief account of her life, a dictionary section lists entries on people, places, and events related to her. A comprehensive bibliography offers a list of works by and about Evita. Finally, a filmography includes the movies in which Evita appeared and the TV series and films that have been made about her.
Evita, First Lady
Title | Evita, First Lady PDF eBook |
Author | John Barnes |
Publisher | Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2007-12-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0802196527 |
The story of one of the most fascinating women of all time—Maria Eva Duarte, who rose from poverty to become one of the richest, most powerful women in the world. Eva Perón was a star and a legend during her lifetime, one of the most alluring women of the twentieth century. Through the hit Broadway musical Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber, her story became famous, and with the release of the film starring Madonna as Eva Perón, her life became a media obsession once again. Evita, as she preferred to style herself, was the beautiful and legendary woman who rose up from poverty to become the hypnotically powerful first lady of Argentina. To millions of poor people, she was a savior; to her enemies, she was a monstrous dictator. In this riveting biography, John Barnes explores the astonishing paradox of this champion of the poor who attacked the rich and, in the process, made herself the wealthiest woman in the world.
The Perilous Sea
Title | The Perilous Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Emma L. Adams |
Publisher | Emma L. Adams |
Pages | 387 |
Release | |
Genre | Fiction |
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Zelle Carnelian has claimed the allegiance of the nameless Shaper, the enigmatic ancient deity whose name was forgotten by mortals and gods alike. Together with Arien Astera, who has claimed a new Relic of his own, and Evita Govind, would-be assassin, they defeated Orzen and prevented him from unleashing havoc on the human world. But Orzen is not the only deity with his sights set on escaping from the realm of the gods. When her sister is captured by a cult of devotees to an unknown deity, Zelle's quest to find her leads across the perilous sea to the Isles of Itzar. Teeming with dangerous beasts and strange magic, the Isles are not a destination for the faint of heart, and Zelle and the others are well aware that they might be sailing straight into a trap. Soon her sister's plight becomes only one of Zelle's concerns, between mysterious Relics appearing on Itzar's beaches, a struggle between two rival factions and a rogue deity with an unknown agenda. It'll push Zelle and the others to their limits to navigate these dangerous waters and escape alive…
Evita
Title | Evita PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Fraser |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780393315752 |
In the colorful, tumultuous setting of postwar Argentina, Eva Peron wielded a power--spiritual and practical--that has few parallels outside of hereditary monarchy. In this "fascinating, frightening, straightforward" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) biography, Fraser and Navarro have produced "a work of great political sophistication. . . . Factual, nuanced, and absorbing" (Kirkus Reviews). Photos.
Evita
Title | Evita PDF eBook |
Author | Jill Hedges |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2016-10-21 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1786730235 |
Eva Peron remains Argentina's best-known and most iconic personality, surpassing even sporting superstars such as Diego Maradona or Lionel Messi, and far outlasting her own husband, President Juan Domingo Peron himself a remarkable and charismatic political leader without whom she, as an uneducated woman in an elitist and male-dominated society, could not have existed as a political figure. In this book, Jill Hedges tells the story of a remarkable woman whose glamour, charisma, political influence and controversial nature continue to generate huge amounts interest 60 years after her death. From her poverty-stricken upbringing as an illegitimate child in rural Argentina, Peron made her way to the highest echelons of Argentinean society, via a brief acting career and her relationship with Juan. After their political breakthrough, her charitable work and magnetic personality earned her wide public acclaim and there was national mourning following her death from cancer at the age of just 33.Based on new sources and first-hand interviews, the book will seek to explore the personality and experiences of 'Evita' and the contemporary events that influenced her and were in turn influenced by her. As the first substantive biography of Eva Peron in English, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern Argentinean history and the cult of 'Evita'."
Santa Evita
Title | Santa Evita PDF eBook |
Author | Tomas Eloy Martinez |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 1997-07-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0679768149 |
From one of Latin America's finest writers comes a mesmerizing novel about life of the legendary Eva Peron, the famed wife of an Argentine dictator, told backwards from death to childhood. • Now a 7-part Limited Series on Hulu. Bigger than fiction, Eva Peron was the poor-trash girl who reinvented herself as a beauty, snared Argentina's dictator, reigned as uncrowned queen of the masses, and was struck down by cancer. When her desperate but foxy husband brings Europe's leading embalmer to Eva's deathbed to make her immortal, the fantastical comedy begins. "Finally, this is the novel I always wanted to read." —Gabriel Garcia Marquez