The Purple Shroud

Author	: Stella Duffy
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2012-07-05
ISBN 10	: 9780748129751
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (481 users)

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Download or read book The Purple Shroud written by Stella Duffy and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once, Theodora was little more than a slave, the daughter of a bear-keeper, running barefoot through the streets of Constantinople. Now she is Theoudoron, 'the Gift of God', Empress of Byzantine Rome and the most powerful woman in the world. 'Hard-nosed, cruel, imaginative, kind, frustrated, generous, ruthless: Theodora is, in Duffy's hands, a richly paradoxical character from whom the light of life shines brightly' GUARDIAN In Stella Duffy's compelling new novel, the beguiling and extraordinary Empress Theodora emerges from the shadow of history into brilliant light. Clever, courageous and ruthless when betrayed, Theodora rules alongside her husband, the Emperor Justinian - a true love match in a world of political marriages. But while wars rage on the borders of the Empire, Theodora discovers that the greatest danger to her reign - and her life - lies much closer to home. 'Highly enjoyable' SUNDAY TIMES 'A writer who never lets you down' ALI SMITH

Darkness and Dawn Or Scenes in the Days of Nero

Author	: Frederic William Farrar
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1897
ISBN 10	: HARVARD:HNPEHV
Pages	: 618 pages
Rating	: 4.A/5 ( users)

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Download or read book Darkness and Dawn Or Scenes in the Days of Nero written by Frederic William Farrar and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Murder in a Few Words

Author	: Charlotte Beyer
Publisher	: McFarland
Release Date	: 2022-02-22
ISBN 10	: 9781476641713
Pages	: 236 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (766 users)

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Download or read book Murder in a Few Words written by Charlotte Beyer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clue-puzzle, legal thriller, and classic whodunit are just a few of the subgenres within the widely popular crime fiction genre. However, despite its popularity among readers, the crime short story genre has yet to be fully explored by scholars. This book offers a deep-dive into crime short stories written by a wide range of authors, tracing the history and evolution of the crime short story. The book offers an accessible and original examination of crime short stories, focusing on compelling themes such as miscarriage of justice, feminism, environmental crime and toxic masculinity.

The Purple Lotus Diary

Author	: Jane Tremain
Publisher	: Trafford Publishing
Release Date	: 2012-08-02
ISBN 10	: 9781466946088
Pages	: 186 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (669 users)

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Download or read book The Purple Lotus Diary written by Jane Tremain and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purple Lotus Diary is a book of poetry collection written by Jane Tremain. She is originally from Carshalton Surrey, United Kingdom, a mother of three children and is hard of hearing. This book is full of inspiration and passion, love and romance and friendships. When I listen to music and songs, the words would come to my mind, and I see visions that will suddenly take me to my pen and write them from my heart. Everything l express in my writing comes from the core of my heart that l endure in my life with my personal experiences. Music and love are the complexities of love in my life, which are our universal experience to understand, which will take you to the journey, through my book, and you will find compassionate, spiritual, humorous , romance/love, and friendship writes. Which you will discover many observations on love in my book and indeed in your own spirits will be touched with my own. My poetry is like a window to my soul. You will be able to feel the experiences and the emotions and be enlightened with my words and shall certainly be touched with my own spirit. My poetry shall enrich you with passion and inspiration.

Purple Shroud

Author	: Susan J. Parry
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2011
ISBN 10	: 0956789102
Pages	: 297 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (891 users)

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Download or read book Purple Shroud written by Susan J. Parry and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century

Author	: Owen Chadwick
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 1990-09-13
ISBN 10	: 0521398290
Pages	: 298 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (982 users)

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Download or read book The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century written by Owen Chadwick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen Chadwick's acclaimed lectures on the secularisation of the European mind trace the declining hold of the Church and its doctrines on European society in the nineteenth century.

The Moving Finger Writes

Author	: Carey Parrish
Publisher	: Lulu.com
Release Date	: 2009-03-30
ISBN 10	: 9780557059089
Pages	: 209 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (57 users)

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Download or read book The Moving Finger Writes written by Carey Parrish and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running the gamut with stories of murders plotted to murders carried out, bewitched pianos and portraits, outlaw nuns on the run, a heartwarming holiday story, and a haunting retelling of the tale of Vlad Dracula, the author of "Into The Light" serves up an enthralling anthology of short stories with "The Moving Finger Writes."

Annus Sanctus

Author	: Orby Shipley
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1884
ISBN 10	: PRNC:32101065102665
Pages	: 490 pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (321 users)

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Download or read book Annus Sanctus written by Orby Shipley and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shroud for a Nightingale

Author	: P.D. James
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 2012-04-17
ISBN 10	: 9781451697797
Pages	: 368 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (516 users)

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Download or read book Shroud for a Nightingale written by P.D. James and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as “mystery at its best” by The New York Times, Shroud for a Nightingale is the fourth book in bestselling author P.D. James’s Adam Dalgliesh mystery series. The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously, and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills.

Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from the Ancient World

Author	: Filippo Carlà-Uhink
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2020-02-06
ISBN 10	: 9781350050129
Pages	: 336 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (5 users)

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Download or read book Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from the Ancient World written by Filippo Carlà-Uhink and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is Cleopatra, a descendent of Alexander the Great, a Ptolemy from a Greek–Macedonian family, in popular imagination an Oriental woman? True, she assumed some aspects of pharaonic imagery in order to rule Egypt, but her Orientalism mostly derives from ancient (Roman) and modern stereotypes: both the Orient and the idea of a woman in power are signs, in the Western tradition, of 'otherness' – and in this sense they can easily overlap and interchange. This volume investigates how ancient women, and particularly powerful women, such as queens and empresses, have been re-imagined in Western (and not only Western) arts; highlights how this re-imagination and re-visualization is, more often than not, the product of Orientalist stereotypes – even when dealing with women who had nothing to do with Eastern regions; and compares these images with examples of Eastern gaze on the same women. Through the chapters in this volume, readers will discover the similarities and differences in the ways in which women in power were and still are described and decried by their opponents.

Red Leaves and the Living Token Book 1 Part 3

Author	:
Publisher	: Red Earth Press
Release Date	: 2012
ISBN 10	: 9781476295152
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (762 users)

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Download or read book Red Leaves and the Living Token Book 1 Part 3 written by and published by Red Earth Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctors tell Raj that his son Emret won't survive his illness. As Raj struggles to prepare himself and Emret for the inevitable, he's confronted by Moslin, his son's nurse, who’s been filling Emret’s head with fairytales about heroic quests and powerful disease curing miracles. Emret now thinks that all he has to do is find the mythical Red Tree from the nurse's stories, and he'll live. In an attempt to protect his son from further emotional damage, Raj asks Moslin to stay away from Emret. He returns hours later to find them both missing. He searches the fairytales for clues to where they may have gone and stumbles upon stories that, strangely, he already knows. He saw them in a vision just before his son disappeared.

The Purple Shroud A Novel of the Late Roman Empire

Author	: Q V Hunter
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2020-05-28
ISBN 10	: 2970108429
Pages	: 368 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (84 users)

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Download or read book The Purple Shroud A Novel of the Late Roman Empire written by Q V Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a desperate bid to revive his spy service, Marcus Gregorianus Numidianus vows to thwart a coup staged by diehard Constantine loyalists against the Valentinian brothers' new regime. But Marcus has underestimated the rebels' clever planning. He arrives in Constantinople too late to save Emperor Valens' throne. Now trapped in the East as a double agent with only a deaf brigand and an escaped slave woman for allies, can the wounded freedman survive to become Magister Agentium in Rebus, spymaster to the new dynasty? Packed with action and intrigue, the Embers of Empire series now takes the reader into the Valentinian Dynasty of the 4th century Late Roman Empire to delight fans of Bernard Cornwell, Steven Saylor, and Robert Harris.

The Three Leaps of Wang Lun

Author	: Alfred Döblin
Publisher	: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Release Date	: 2015-01-15
ISBN 10	: 9789629965648
Pages	: 528 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (299 users)

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Download or read book The Three Leaps of Wang Lun written by Alfred Döblin and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1915, fourteen years before Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Doblin published his first novel, an extensively researched Chinese historical extravaganza: The Three Leaps of Wang Lun. Even more remarkably, given its subject matter, the book was written in Expressionist style and is now considered the first modern German novel, as well as the first Western novel to depict a China untouched by the West. It is virtually unknown in English. Based on actual accounts of a doomed rebellion during the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the late 18th century, the novel tells the story of Wang Lun, a historical martial arts master and charismatic leader of the White Lotus sect, who leads a futile revolt of the "Truly Powerless." Densely packed cities and Tibetan wastes, political intrigue and religious yearning, imperial court life and the fate of wandering outcasts are depicted in a language of enormous vigor and matchless imagination, unfolding the theme of timidity against force, and a mystical sense of the world against the realities of power.

Basileus

Author	: Weston Barnes
Publisher	: AuthorHouse
Release Date	: 2019-02-25
ISBN 10	: 9781546259183
Pages	: 912 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (462 users)

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Download or read book Basileus written by Weston Barnes and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book on emperors of Byzantine Empire in Christian Greek dominion that ruled Late Antique and Medieval East Europe from 330 to 1453 CE as the inherited Roman state that fell in Western Rome in 476 CE. From the golden, renowned Queen of Cities, Constantinople, city of Constantine, holy men, travelers, pilgrims, merchants, ambassadors, and many other people from all walks of life filled its streets. Finally, there was the emperor, the master of this city, and an empire once stretching from the Black Sea to Spain until its fall to the powerful Turks in the fifteenth century. In a line of Basilioi, triumph, tragedy, trust, and betrayal were lifelong dramas for the men and women in the purple sitting on the palace throne.

The Paganini Curse

Author	: Giselle M. Stancic
Publisher	: iUniverse
Release Date	: 2013
ISBN 10	: 9781475961591
Pages	: 169 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (759 users)

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Download or read book The Paganini Curse written by Giselle M. Stancic and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suddenly, Aurora Lewis's dreams of performing in Carnegie Hall are shattered. It is 1911, and fifteen-year-old Aurora arrives for her violin lesson on a blustery winter morning in New York City. But she discovers her professor is missing and his music studio window is open. Aurora then sees the body of her beloved professor lying in the alley below--just as hooligans in the street accuse her of giving him the fatal push. Whisked from the scene of the crime by her friend Theo Eckstein--who claims she's his fiancée in order to get her away--Aurora arrives home in time to prepare her parents for the inevitable visit by the suspicious Detective O'Shea. But the young violinist is already on a mission to solve the murder and clear her name--with the help of her friends Theo, Bill, and Eddie. As the four slowly begin to unravel the mystery, one strange clue after the other begins to surface. But can Aurora crack the case in time to escape the dreaded Paganini Curse? In this chilling tale woven with musical intrigue, a teenager must use her ingenuity and determination to find a murderer--before she becomes the next victim.

I Wonder U

Author	: Adilifu Nama
Publisher	: Rutgers University Press
Release Date	: 2019-11-15
ISBN 10	: 9781978805187
Pages	: 130 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (788 users)

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Download or read book I Wonder U written by Adilifu Nama and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured in the 2020 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show In 1993, Prince infamously changed his name to a unique, unpronounceable symbol. Yet this was only one of a long string of self-reinventions orchestrated by Prince as he refused to be typecast by the music industry’s limiting definitions of masculinity and femininity, of straightness and queerness, of authenticity and artifice, or of black music and white music. Revealing how he continually subverted cultural expectations, I Wonder U examines the entirety of Prince’s diverse career as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, record label mogul, movie star, and director. It shows how, by blending elements of R&B, rock, and new wave into an extremely videogenic package, Prince was able to overcome the color barrier that kept black artists off of MTV. Yet even at his greatest crossover success, he still worked hard to retain his credibility among black music fans. In this way, Adilifu Nama suggests, Prince was able to assert a distinctly black political sensibility while still being perceived as a unique musical genius whose appeal transcended racial boundaries.

Mixology and Murder

Author	: Kierra Sondereker
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 2021-10-19
ISBN 10	: 9781646042401
Pages	: 192 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (46 users)

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Download or read book Mixology and Murder written by Kierra Sondereker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pour yourself a drink and discover your latest true crime obsession with this guidebook that pairs 75 deliciously chilling cocktails with the infamous true crime stories that inspired them. From terrifying serial killers to baffling cold cases and secretive cults, murderinos can’t get enough of true crime. Now, you can have yet another way to dive into these horrifyingly true stories with a first-of-its-kind cocktail book that gives a new meaning to the phrase “bad and boozy.” Inside Mixology and Murder, you’ll find 75 step-by-step drink recipes alongside the terrifying stories that inspired them, from must-know cases like JonBenét Ramsey and Ted Bundy to lesser-known stories like the Ant Hill Kids cult and the Circleville Letter Writer. This cocktail book is your go-to resource for true crime info and delightfully boozy drinks, including: Fugitive Fizz Sazer-Ax Murderer The Perfect Lime (Mojito) Amityville Amaretto Colada Confessions In Cold Blood Orange And More! Mixology and Murder is the perfect gift for any true crime junkie who knows that, sometimes, the best way to deal with the excitement of a serial killer finally getting caught or the frustration of finding out that case is still unsolved is a good, strong drink.