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Author: Fred Perry
Publisher: Antarctic Press
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Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile exploring the Astral Rifts for routes to bypass Dreadwing's security measures, Madrid and Dao run afoul of a sexy sorceress who's out to claim Dao as her latest conquest! She steals him away for some sinister snu-snu, but luckily, Madrid's brought along Princess D'bra, newly appointed Brood Queen of the Dragons of Jade (and a good friend)!
Author: Fred Perry
Publisher: Antarctic Press
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Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ancestral city of Earth's Elven settlers has been located, and Montgomery needs Brianna's help to explore the birthplace of his phantom comrade, Senadra. However, the territory may be too dangerous for her -- unless she exchanges her prime material form for Senadra's!
Author: Fred Perry
Publisher: Antarctic Press
Published: 2015-01-15
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe UFF Tag Team competition's got a really big pair busting their way up the ladder, a dastardly distaff duo calling themselves the "High Heels." After a disastrous round against Ayane and Ryan, the Heels return, now impossibly strong and fast... and the secret to their prowess may rest with a science project!
Author: Fred Perry
Publisher: Antarctic Press
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Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe final chapter in Penny and Ace's honeymoon saga, and the final showdown between Ace and Dark Bird! It's an underground volcanic dogfight to the death over the remains of the ancient buried city of gigantic, autonomous, transforming iron golems! One shall stand and one shall fall!
Author: Edward Jenks (historien).)
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Published: 1896
Total Pages: 382
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ruby Lal
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2018-07-03
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0393635406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinalist for the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History "A luminous biography." —Rafia Zakaria, Guardian Four centuries ago, a Muslim woman ruled an empire. Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and most cherished wife of the Emperor Jahangir. Nur ruled the vast Mughal Empire alongside her husband, leading troops into battle, signing imperial orders, and astutely handling matters of the state. Acclaimed historian Ruby Lal uncovers the rich life and world of Nur Jahan, rescuing this dazzling figure from patriarchal and Orientalist clichés of romance and intrigue, and giving new insight into the lives of women and girls in the Mughal Empire. In Empress, Nur Jahan finally receives her due in a deeply researched and evocative biography that awakens us to a fascinating history.
Author: Mark Bego
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Published: 2002-11-08
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 1461635276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis biography of the Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated redhead covers Bette's life and career from her childhood on Hawaii, her New York nightclub years, and her current career in Hollywood.
Author: Maya Cantu
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2024-01-16
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 0472056573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreasepaint Puritan details the life and work of Bradford Ropes, author of the bawdy 1932 novel 42nd Street, on which the classic film and its stage adaptation are based. Each of Ropes's long-forgotten novels was inspired by his own experiences as a performer, and focused on the lives of gay men in show business, offering rare glimpses into backstage Broadway. But why did Ropes's body of work, and consequently his biographical footsteps, disappear into such obscurity? Greasepaint Puritan aims to find out and reclaim his story. Descended from Mayflower Pilgrims, Ropes rebelled against the "Proper Bostonian" life, in a career that touched upon the Jazz Age, American vaudeville, and theater censorship. We follow Ropes's successful career as both a performer and the author of the trilogy of backstage novels: 42nd Street, Stage Mother, and Go Into Your Dance. Populated by scheming stage mothers, precocious stage children, grandiose bit players, and tart-tongued chorines, these novels centered on the lives and relationships of gay men on Broadway during the Jazz Age and Prohibition era. Rigorously researched, Greasepaint Puritan chronicles Ropes's career as a successful screenwriter in 1930s and '40s Hollywood, where he continued to be a part of a dynamic gay subculture within the movie industry before returning to obscurity in the 1950s. His legacy lives on in the Hollywood and Broadway incarnations of 42nd Street--but Greasepaint Puritan restores the "forgotten melody" of the man who first envisioned its colorful characters.
Author: Susan A. Glenn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0674037669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen the French actress Sarah Bernhardt made her first American tour in 1880, the term feminism had not yet entered our national vocabulary. But over the course of the next half-century, a rising generation of daring actresses and comics brought a new kind of woman to center stage. Exploring and exploiting modern fantasies and fears about female roles and gender identity, these performers eschewed theatrical convention and traditional notions of womanly modesty. They created powerful images of themselves as ambitious, independent, and sexually expressive New Women. Female Spectacle reveals the theater to have been a powerful new source of cultural authority and visibility for women. Ironically, theater also provided an arena in which producers and audiences projected the uncertainties and hostilities that accompanied changing gender relations. From Bernhardt's modern methods of self-promotion to Emma Goldman's political theatrics, from the female mimics and Salome dancers to the upwardly striving chorus girl, Glenn shows us how and why theater mattered to women and argues for its pivotal role in the emergence of modern feminism.
Author: Juan Antonio Ramírez
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2012-04-11
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0786469307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost of us have never found ourselves trapped inside a burning skyscraper or entombed within an Egyptian pyramid--but we probably have some idea of what it would be like because of their portrayal on screen. The movies have overcome the constraints of time and place by bringing us images of diverse and otherwise unfamiliar settings. This work covers the many applications of art and architecture appearing in the movies produced in Hollywood from the very beginning until the fifties. The first chapters deal with the process of design, construction, physical characteristics and immediate functions of a wide variety of architectural sets. The remaining chapters examine the great number of styles shown in those movies and take the reader up to the final triumph of modernist architecture in the aftermath of the Second World War.
