The French Sultana (The Veil and the Crown, Book 2)

The French Sultana (The Veil and the Crown, Book 2)

Author: Zia Wesley

Publisher: ePublishing Works!

Published: 2014-07-30

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 194783343X

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The Sultan found her irresistible. The Chief Eunuch wanted to use her to his own ends. Jealous rivals plotted her demise. Can an innocent former convent girl survive in such a strange and dangerous world? In a tale deeply enmeshed in the histories of two of the world’s greatest empires, The French Sultana continues the true story of Aimée Dubucq de Rivery and her cousin Rose who were both destined to be queens...one beside the Emperor Napoleon and the other from behind the thrones of three consecutive sultans of the Ottoman Empire. The saga spans two continents from the decadent aristocratic courts of pre-revolutionary France, to the unimaginable opulence and deadly intrigues inside forbidden Turkish harem walls. Publisher's Note: This is an extraordinarily well-researched novel that is true to the period. As such, there is explicit sexual and violent content that, while typical to the era, is most appropriate for adult readers. The Veil and the Crown, in series order: The Stolen Girl The French Sultana “I felt as if the book had been written originally in French during the 18th century...as if the author had remembered and translated it into English, keeping the exact tone of the original account, with detailed description of the places, manners, clothing, tastes and smells transporting me into the actual moment and location of each scene, making me feel like I was immersed in a film instead of a book.” Fredric Lehrman, author of The Sacred Landscape


The Stolen Girl (The Veil and the Crown, Book 1)

The Stolen Girl (The Veil and the Crown, Book 1)

Author: Zia Wesley

Publisher: ePublishing Works!

Published: 2014-05-23

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1947833421

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The Incredible True Story of Two Girls in the Seventeen-Hundreds Who Become the Powers Behind the Thrones of the World's Greatest Empires The fulfillment of an outrageous prediction seals the fates of two cousins in this true story that begins on a Caribbean sugar plantation and careens wildly towards the thrones of two empires. Innocent Aimée refuses to believe she might ever have to face the intrigue and evil that lurks beneath the exotic beauty and opulence of the Ottoman Empire. Rose mistakenly believes that her marriage to an aristocratic French lieutenant will insure her place in Parisian society. Both will be proven wrong. This first book in Zia Wesley’s The Veil and the Crown series tells the beginning of the extraordinary true story of Aimée Dubucq de Rivery and her cousin, Rose Tascher de La Pagerie...both destined to be queens. Publisher's Note: This is an extraordinarily well-researched novel that is true to the period. As such, there is explicit sexual and violent content that, while typical to the era, is most appropriate for adult readers. The Veil and the Crown, in series order: The Stolen Girl The French Sultana “I lingered over and savored the vivid descriptions and found it absorbing, historically interesting, well researched and constantly enticing. It was as if Zia took me by the hand and we followed the heroine through all her adventures. Scheherazade, eat your heart out!” - Lorain Fox Davis, Grammy winner and educator


Fifty and Fabulous

Fifty and Fabulous

Author: Zia Wesley-Hosford

Publisher: Prima Lifestyles

Published: 1996-08-14

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780761504467

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Zia is living proof that sun-damaged and wrinkled skin can be improved at any age! Her philosophy combines two decades of experience in the field of skin care with wisdom she received from herbalists, acupuncturists, nutritionists, aerobics instructors, and meditation teachers.


Imperial Woman

Imperial Woman

Author: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

Publisher:

Published: 1956

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13:

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Fictionized biography of Tzu-hsi, the last empress of China, who was known as "Old Buddha."


Daughter Of Paris

Daughter Of Paris

Author: A G Mogan

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-12-27

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9781651796054

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The story of Marie Duplessis, the courtesan who consumed Parisian high society in the 19th Century, and the inspiration behind masterpieces such as Alexandre Dumas Fils' The Lady with the Camellias and Verdi's Traviata, is one that overwhelms with its soul-searing tragedy.This peasant girl, who endured cruelty, abandonment, and the torment of a woman's lot in her time, clawed her way through the class and cultural strata of Paris from one rich man to another, with her sensational beauty lighting the way. Yet her beauty wasn't the only thing capturing hearts, but also her indefatigable spirit, unflappable honesty, and raw commitment to finding love, no matter the cost-an ideal that always seemed to elude her. Marie Duplessis was the courtesan who conquered her world as no other woman has, past or present. This is the story of a peasant girl who surpassed all suppressions her era imposed on its women, to become one of the most famous individuals 19th century Europe had ever known.


Candide

Candide

Author: Voltaire Voltaire

Publisher: Xist Publishing

Published: 2016-04-02

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1681959526

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Candide by Voltaire from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Do you believe,' said Candide, 'that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?' Do you believe,' said Martin, 'that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?” ― Voltaire, Candide Candide is a young man who is raised in wealth to be an optimist but when he is forced to make his own way in the world, his assumptions and outlook are challenged.


The Sultan and the Queen

The Sultan and the Queen

Author: Jerry Brotton

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0525428828

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First published in Great Britain in 2016 as This Orient isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic world.