Tuscan Daughter
Tuscan Daughter

Author: Lisa Rochon

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2021-07-13

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1443463523

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER In Renaissance Florence, a young artist searching for her missing mother is discovered by arch-rivals Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci In Tuscany during the early 1500s, Beatrice, a peasant girl, finds herself alone in the countryside after her father is killed and her mother disappears into the walled city of Florence. Barefoot and defiant, Beatrice enters the city to sell her family’s olive oil to the artists who toil to create masterworks that will elevate the status of the republic. While selling her wares, Beatrice befriends Michelangelo as he struggles to sculpt David and helps heal a melancholic woman who is having her portrait painted by the brilliant but aging Leonardo. Bonds deepen even while Michelangelo and Leonardo are pitted against each other in a competition organized by Machiavelli. Set during five epic years, Tuscan Daughter reveals the humanity and struggles of a young woman who longs to find the only family she has left while seeking to be an artist in her own right. In her own way, Beatrice influences the artistic masters of the time to find peace with their inner demons as they stake everything on the power of beauty to transform and inspire.

Papal Genealogy
Papal Genealogy

Author: George L. Williams

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2024-10-14

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1476632278

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The papacy has often resembled a secular European monarchy more than a divinely inspired institution. Roman pontiffs bestowed great wealth on their families and forged strategic alliances with other powerful families to increase their power. Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), for example, forced his daughter Lucrezia into a series of marriages for political reasons. When her marital alliance was no longer advantageous, as was the case in her second marriage, her husband was brutally murdered. Many papal families also intermarried in hopes of forming a hereditary papacy; at least two members of the Fieschi, Piccolomini, Della Rovere, and Medici families served as pope. Papal families since the early history of the church are fully covered in this comprehensive work. Genealogical charts graphically show the descendants of the popes, presenting in many cases the interrelationships between the papal families and their relationships with many of the leading families of Europe. Detailed histories examine the impact of the papacy on each pope's family and how each influenced the history of the church.

Street Games Complete Boxed Set
Street Games Complete Boxed Set

Author: L.K. Hill

Publisher: Liesel Hill

Published: 2021-04-21

Total Pages: 1565

ISBN-13:

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Would you face down a serial killer to save your brother? Kyra is already undercover in the murder-capital of the country, and she prefers to go it alone. When she stumbles on a plot to kill most of the city’s cops, she has a decision to make. After shouting her warning at a handsome random detective, she's sure that will be the end of it. Until the same detective shows up at her employer’s estate…where there happens to be a dead body in the pool. But that's not the only corpse in this city. Prostitutes keep turning up dead, and Kyra suspects everything is connected. If she can’t figure out how, more than one person might disappear into these shadowy alleys, and never be seen again… If you love, dark, gritty urban reality, complete with clandestine serial killers and brooding detectives, you’ll want to join Kyra and Gabe on this pulse-pounding sprint through Abstreuse City. Because darkness lurks in us all. “On the edge of my seat the whole time! Chilling view of darker side of the city. Kyra is tough and intelligent. I highly recommend it!”

O'Neill
O'Neill

Author: Louis Scheaffer

Publisher: Cooper Square Press

Published: 2002-08-19

Total Pages: 770

ISBN-13: 1461732182

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The most lauded playwright in American history, Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) won four Pulitzer Prizes and a Nobel Prize for a body of work that includes The Iceman Cometh, Mourning Becomes Electra, Desire Under the Elms, and Long Day's Journey into Night. His life, the direct source for so much of his art, was one of personal tumult from the very beginning. The son of a famous actor and a quiet, morphine-addicted mother, O'Neill had experienced alcoholism, a collapse of his health, and bouts of mania while still a young man. Based on years of extensive research and access to previously untapped sources, Sheaffer's authoritative biography examines how the pain of O'Neill's childhood fed his desire to write dramas and affected his artistically successful and emotionally disastrous life.

Maternal & Child Health Nursing
Maternal & Child Health Nursing

Author: Adele Pillitteri

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 1806

ISBN-13: 1582559996

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Growing research shows that many children from immigrant and refugee families are not doing well in school, due in part to linguistic and cultural disadvantages. Teaching dual-language learners requires cultural sensitivity, an understanding of language acquisition, and intentional teaching strategies. Combining research and techniques, this resource helps early childhood educators support dual-language learners as they develop the skills necessary for school readiness and success.

Far Memory
Far Memory

Author: Sannie Patch

Publisher: America Star Books

Published: 2003-06-23

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1633828654

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She is an archaeologist. While digging in the ruins of Pompeii, Italy, she dreams...? imagines...? remembers...? a 29-year period in ancient Rome where they were husband and wife and were killed in the horrendous eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. He is a photographer. While taking pictures of Tibetan monasteries, he remembers a twelfth century life in Tibet where they were young lovers whose relationship ended tragically when she died in an Alpine landslide. They were fourteenth century Anasazi Indian cliff dwellers who were separated when famine and drought forced the people to leave their sacred land. They are back again as lovers in twenty-first century Los Angeles, but there are monumental problems to be overcome before they can be together. As this thriller unfolds, readers learn that sexual peccadilloes, lies, corruption, and financial extravagance by leaders of church and state were much the same in yesteryear as they are today.

P.T. Mudd in the Land of Lies
P.T. Mudd in the Land of Lies

Author: David Charnee

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2007-10

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 059546307X

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P.T. Mudd is a boy with an active imagination who loves to tell tall tales. But his wildest stories become reality when he discovers a magical stone that transports him to Muddlia, a land where he becomes the crown prince. There's only one problem: everyone in Muddlia believes everything they're told. So, they naturally believe P.T. when he tells them that he is the greatest hero in the world, and they also trust him when he says that the Ultimate Evil of the Universe, Blotto Ratspaw, is putting together an army on the edge of their fair land. Although the people of Muddlia have never known war, they follow P.T.'s advice to create their own army to save Muddlia from Ratspaw. Joined by new friends Chicki-Baby, a big blue talking chicken, and Belinda Bosh, a girl his own age who dreams of being a great champion, P.T. leads the trusting Muddlians off to war. As P.T. boldly leads his loyal subjects, things begin to go terribly wrong. Unexpectedly, P.T. and his army are fighting against a very real, very nasty enemy. Now, P.T. must make an awful choice. Will he save the innocent Muddlians, or think only of himself and escape back to home and safety?

If Not Now ...
If Not Now ...

Author: Denyse Devlin

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2008-04-24

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 0141917210

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Just when she has resigned herself to being alone long-term, Marina Ffench, a widow in her forties, meets a man and falls in love all over again. A mid-life relationship, she thinks, will be straightforward - kids reared, careers established, mortgages almost paid off . . . However, mid-life passion carries excess baggage. Luke, her man, may have a gorgeous villa on the Italian Lakes, but he also has a pious and eccentric Irish mammy, an Italian ex-lover who is as invasive as dry rot, and a son embroiled in a suspect engagement. And Marina has to admit that her own life is just as complicated - and getting more so by the day, given the number of stray souls and ghosts from the past that are turning up in her Cork home. Gradually, she and Luke come to see that love second time around is hard work. But in their efforts to find a happy ending for everyone, unwittingly they are creating a disaster that may destroy their shared future and the happiness of both families . . .