Savage Beauty

Savage Beauty

Author: Nancy Milford

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published: 2002-09-10

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13: 0375760814

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Thirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she tormented herself. ONE OF ESQUIRE’S 50 BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. The first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself. Her voice was likened to an instrument of seduction and her impact on crowds, and on men, was legendary. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well. Milford calls her book "a family romance"—for the love between the three Millay sisters and their mother was so deep as to be dangerous. As a family, they were like real-life Little Women, with a touch of Mommie Dearest. Nancy Milford was given exclusive access to Millay's papers, and what she found was an extraordinary treasure. Boxes and boxes of letter flew back and forth among the three sisters and their mother—and Millay kept the most intimate diary, one whose ruthless honesty brings to mind Sylvia Plath. Written with passion and flair, Savage Beauty is an iconic portrait of a woman's life.


Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen

Author: Andrew Bolton

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1588394123

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Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 4-July 31, 2011.


Savage Beauty

Savage Beauty

Author: Casey Bond

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-11-29

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9781981268382

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Once upon a time, a beautiful queen was cursed by a dark faery. That curse, inherited by twin princesses, Aura and Luna, binds their lives in the strangest of ways. At an early age, the girls were more than sisters. They were the strongest of allies until a combination of jealousy, anger and dark magic tore their relationship to shreds. Aura took everything from Luna: her home, her family, and her love by murdering the prince who'd chosen her instead of Aura. Luna wants revenge, but she's running out of time. She must sever the magical bond tying her life to Aura's before their eighteenth birthday or be bound to her forever. In desperation, she seeks help from a dark fae prince, but the price is steep - a piece of her soul. Fate is a real witch. Luna was willing to give up anything to stop her sister, until Prince Phillip of Grithim, the brother of the only man she's ever loved, falls into her life. Neither of them can fight their attraction, despite their guilt. With Aura hell-bent on destroying everything she holds dear, Luna must decide whether she wants revenge or Phillip. She can't have both, and in the end, this may be a battle both sisters lose.


Savage Pageant

Savage Pageant

Author: Jessica Stark

Publisher: Birds

Published: 2020-03-10

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780982617731

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Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. California Studies. Film. SAVAGE PAGEANT recounts the history of the defunct zoo, Jungleland, which housed Hollywood's show animals up until its closure in 1969. In it, Stark explores the concept of US American spectacle and its historic ties to celebrity culture, the maternal body, racist taxonomies, the mistreatment of animals, and ecological violence. With a hybrid, documentary poetics, SAVAGE PAGEANT reveals how we attempt to narrate and control geographical space and how ghosts (remainders, the sketch, unfinished stories) collapse the tidy corners of our collective, accumulative histories.


Zelda

Zelda

Author: Nancy Milford

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0060910690

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Recounts the life of the capricious southern belle who was F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife.


The Book of Bera

The Book of Bera

Author: Suzie Wilde

Publisher: Unbound Publishing

Published: 2017-03-23

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1783522798

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Born and raised in a stark, coastal village on the shore of the Ice-Rimmed Sea, Bera is the daughter of a Valla, the Vikings’ most powerful seers. But her mother died when she was young, leaving Bera alone with her gift, unable to control her feckless twin spirit or understand her visions of the future. When this inability leads to the death of her childhood friend at the hands of a rival clan, Bera vows revenge. And learning that her father has sold her into marriage with the murderous enemy’s chieftain, she is presented with an opportunity even sooner than she had hoped... As her powers grow stronger, her visions of looming disaster become more and more ominous until she is faced with the ultimate choice: will she exact vengeance? Or can she lead her people to safety before it’s too late?


Savage Night

Savage Night

Author: Jim Thompson

Publisher: Hachette+ORM

Published: 2012-05-01

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 031619610X

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Jake Winroy had no looks, no education, and little else before he'd worked his way to the top of a million-dollar-a-month horse-betting ring. But when the state's latched onto his game, the feds take a bite and the lawyer fees eat away at the rest, all Jake's got left is the bottle and a beautiful wife whose every word is ugly. Jake's to be the top witness in a major case against organized crime -- if he hasn't already kicked the bucket before the trial has its day in court. But an enigmatic mafioso known only as The Man has a plan to make dead certain Jake never gets the chance to testify. The Man's hired Charlie "Little" Bigger, a hit man barely five feet tall, to infiltrate the Winroy residence as a tenant and murder Winroy in cold blood. To Little, it seems like the easiest job on Earth. Until he lays eyes on the beautiful and dangerous Fay and the Winroy's young housemaid Ruth, a woman as sensual as she is vulnerable. Savage Night is Jim Thompson at his most unpredictable and deeply suspenseful, in a claustrophobic thriller of one man's fractured mind.


The Beauty and the Savage

The Beauty and the Savage

Author: Yasmine Davis

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-12-07

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781981146734

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Like a butterfly to a sky. He captures her with his bad-boy style and she captures him with her smile. The gritty, hood love standalone, 'The Beauty and The Savage' takes the readers on a journey where love is a two-way street. Sex, cruelty, corruption, heartbreak, disloyalty, and most of all, love, are the factors when it comes to the latest standalone by Yasmine Davis. The four women: Casha, Tara, Shanell, and Abrina are all close friends at a historically black college, Northside University. All are working hard to leave the projects in the past but is it all that it seems? From crushes to dangerous hood love affairs, a tangled web of lies and corruption are making these women lose focus on their game. The beautiful, twenty-three-year-old Casha Monet Bryant is in her last year at Northside and studying for her communications degree. She tries to avoid love at all costs until it hits her hard when she's introduced to the man of life, Decatur King Reyes. The two starts off with a rocky friendship until they catch feelings for one another. But, can she try to love and finish school or will the pressure of finishing her education with high grades get to her? The intelligent, twenty-three-year-old, Tara Washington is in her last year at Northside University and studying to become a psychologist. She is hiding a secret from her friends, afraid to tell them the truth of her family background. Will she be able to be honest without their friendship becoming strained? Also, she is blessed to find her soul mate, Antonio Garcia, who is in the military. The two are always there for one another, loving one another but what if Tara wants him to permanently commit to her at a young age? Twenty-three-year-old, Abrina Davidson is in her last year at the university with no inspiration to finish. She is known to be a hoe on campus but is she a good friend to her girls? One night on the town led her to meet the handsome, Mike Henderson, a street pharmacist from the south side of town. He introduces her to a proposition that she can't refuse. But will it change her life for the better? The fiery twenty-three-year-old, Shanell Cornell also in last year at Northside and is studying to become a lawyer. She has been hiding a secret from her friends for a few months that she's afraid to keep under wraps. Four best friends and four relationships. Can the women graduate or will they lose everything in the battlefield called love?


Chicks in Chainmail

Chicks in Chainmail

Author: Esther Friesner

Publisher: Baen

Published: 1995-08-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780671876821

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A collection of stories follows the conquests of a band of warrior women, and includes the writings of Esther Friesner, Elizabeth Moon, Jody Lynn Nye, Harry Turtledove, and Margaret Ball.