Author: Jeanette Winterson Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 9780747563471 Category : Children's stories Languages : en Pages : 32
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The greedy and self-centered king of Capri has a reversal of fortune when the wind blows all of his precious things into the backyard of a kind and generous Naples washerwoman, Mrs. Jewel.
Author: Robert I. C. Fisher Publisher: Frances Lincoln ISBN: 9780711230385 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 208
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This book showcases twenty-one of the most celebrated gardens in Italy's most glamorous seaside getaway. They include La Reggia, Caserta, the 'Italian Versailles' laid out for the Bourbon King Charles III in the mid-eighteenth century, the gardens of the Villa San Michele on Capri and Lord Grimthorpe's Villa Cimbrone in Ravello, with its breathtaking panoramas. The text also traces the horticultural history of Campania, from Roman emperors to Edwardian millionaires, encompassing a parade of glamorous characters that includes Lord Byron, Wagner, Chanel, Jacqueline Kennedy, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and Graham Greene.
Author: NeNe Capri Publisher: NeNe Capri ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 279
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Who can Kiam trust when friends behave as ruthlessly as enemies and the person that he is most loyal to is the very one that has a gun aimed at his back? Reeling in a bloodthirsty rage, he takes to the streets with only one mission on his mind—vengeance. Blood stained hands and deceitful hearts have destroyed an undying allegiance. As Kiam unleashes his vicious murder game on known adversaries, he overlooks the true enemy which is nearest, however, spilled blood will lead him to the truth. These jaunt of revelations will untangle a cleverly spun web of deception. Ride with the authors through the cruddy streets of Cleveland, Ohio as they reveal that sometimes the bitch you can’t trust is the one closest to you. Trust No Bitch III: Deadly Alliance. The saga concludes.
Author: Jeanette Winterson Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1408825384 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 305
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But Time is big business, and whoever gets control of Time controls life as we know it! In a house called Tanglewreck lives a girl called Silver and her guardian Mrs Rokabye. Unbeknown to Silver there is a family treasure in the form of a seventeenth-century watch called the Timekeeper, and this treasure holds the key to the mysterious and frightening changes in time. When Silver goes on the run to try and protect herself and the Timekeeper, a remarkable and compelling adventure unfolds, full of brilliance and wit, as is befitting an author with the imagination and style of Jeanette Winterson.
Author: Cinzia Recca Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319319876 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 422
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This work offers a new portrayal of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples as a woman of power with weaknesses and ambitions, and analyzes the Queen's actions, from her political choices to her alliance and betrayals. A careful examination of the period (1781-1785) covered by the diary shows that the daily life of the Queen and offers key evidence of her political acumen and her personal relationships. Recca cross-analyses unpublished personal documents, which include the integral diary and private correspondence. The book focuses on the political influence that Queen Maria Carolina wielded beside her husband, King Ferdinand IV, and the criticism that has been made by contemporary historians and intellectuals who have often tended to discredit the sovereign for personal rather than political reasons.
Author: James Money Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571297838 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 391
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The air of Capri has had an extraordinary effect on many remarkable people down the centuries - as if the island had come to the collective decision that it was made for pleasure, a commodity that foreign visitors have always found there in spades. It was on Capri that the Emperor Tiberius built a palace where he 'gave vent to all the vices' that he hadn't been able to indulge in Rome. In the nervous days following the trial of Oscar Wilde, English homosexuals found Capri a perfect haven. And in 1919 one Capri resident even remarked on the necessity of swathing her two dogs in chastity belts...James Money's Capri, first published in 1986, is the first full social history of the island: a rambunctious tale that boasts a vivid cast of characters, usually found in various states of congress.
Author: Jeanette Winterson Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307763617 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 193
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Winterson enfolds her seventh novel within the world of computers, and transforms the signal development of our time into a wholly human medium. The story is simple: an e-mail writer called Ali will compose anything you like, on order, provided you're prepared to enter the story as yourself and risk leaving it as someone else. You can be the hero of your own life. You can have freedom just for one night. But there is a price, and Ali discovers that she, too, will have to pay it. The PowerBook reinvents itself as it travels from London to Paris, Capri, and Cyberspace, using fairy tales, contemporary myths, and popular culture to weave a story of failed but requited love.
Author: NeNe Capri Publisher: NeNe Capri ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 247
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When the identity of the traitor in Kiam's clique is revealed justice is served swiftly and with no mercy, sending a message to the others that betrayal will be met with death. But has Kiam really uncovered the treacherous one in his midst or is the true culprit of disloyalty and larceny still hidden behind her beauty and guile, sacrificing her sister to save herself? With so many secrets untold and many new and dangerous alliances being formed what will happen when things heat up in the streets and jealousy and hidden agendas begin to rear their ugly heads? When beauty can no longer hide the evil within who will feel the wrath of deadly silence?
Author: Kristen Howe Publisher: Kristen Howe ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 255
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( Aoni) book 1 A beautiful golden she-elf warrior, begins her adventure to her father and her kingdom from the blood sucking Cimmerian tribe. Only Aoni gets captured and only Aoni can save herself. Aoni becomes queen and mother to a new line of she-elve warriors.. Golden skin and magical and brave each queen down the line has their own adventure. Aoni starts off as the first queen of the Enchantians. Amazon/kristenhowe
Author: Nora Roberts Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0698190742 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 353
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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The second novel in the Guardians Trilogy from the bestselling author of Stars of Fortune. Mermaid Annika is from the sea, and it is there she must return after her quest to find the stars. New to this world, her purity and beauty are nothing less than breathtaking, along with her graceful athleticism, as her five new friends discovered when they retrieved the fire star. Now, through space and time, traveler Sawyer King has brought the guardians to the island of Capri, where the water star is hidden. And as he watches Annika in her element, he finds himself drawn to her joyful spirit. But Sawyer knows that if he allows her into his heart, no compass could ever guide him back to solid ground... And in the darkness, their enemy broods. She lost one star to the guardians, but there is still time for blood to be spilled—the mermaid’s in the water and the traveler’s on the land. For she has forged a dangerous new weapon. Something deadly and unpredictable. Something human. Don't miss the other books in the Guardians Trilogy Stars of Fortune Island of Glass
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