Blood Beauty

Author : Sarah Dunant
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748128727
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood & Beauty written by Sarah Dunant and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Toma Fuyuori
Publisher : Kodansha America LLC
ISBN 13 : 1636991041
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Honey-blood Beauty & Her Vampire 2 written by Toma Fuyuori and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!

Author : Toma Fuyuori
Publisher : Kodansha America LLC
ISBN 13 : 1636991548
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Honey-blood Beauty & Her Vampire 3 written by Toma Fuyuori and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kagari was born with a rare, sweet-tasting blood type known as "honey blood." For her protection, she is accompanied by the country's strongest and most attractive bodyguard, Ryotaro. Seeking the truth behind the recent vampire rampage at school, Kagari pays a visit to Saionji's mansion. But what will she do when she learns his secret... and its unfortunate implications for the relationship between vampires and pabulums? The sweet love story between servant and master take a serious turn in volume 3!

Author : Toma Fuyuori
Publisher : Kodansha America LLC
ISBN 13 : 1636992323
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Honey-blood Beauty & Her Vampire 4 written by Toma Fuyuori and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kagari was born with a rare, sweet-tasting blood type known as "honey blood." For her protection, she is accompanied by a vampire bodyguard, Ryotaro. After a series of recurring murders around town, caused by a vampire tree, Kagari and Ryotaro break into the Saionji Pharmaceutical Company to expose the truth. But what is the true nature of the enemy that lies there in wait for them? And what really happened to Kagari's parents that tragic day? In this climactic final volume, find out if the honey-blood beauty and her vampire will earn their happy ending!

Author : Toma Fuyuori
Publisher : Kodansha America LLC
ISBN 13 : 1636990525
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Honey-blood Beauty & Her Vampire 1 written by Toma Fuyuori and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

Author : Pamela Greene
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764338847
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood and Beauty written by Pamela Greene and published by Schiffer Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ann Lindsay
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781841585796
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeds of Blood and Beauty written by Ann Lindsay and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Terry Kroenung
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595279201
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood and Beauty written by Terry Kroenung and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-05-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476776741
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexander McQueen written by Andrew Wilson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--

Author : Sarah Dunant
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679603867
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood and Beauty written by Sarah Dunant and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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)