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Author: Desiree Geffers
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012-04-10
Total Pages: 15
ISBN-13: 1105658988
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIsabella is a fun loving little girl who has a family with a variety of passions! She attempts every sport and hobby, but never really falls in love with any of them! Then, one day, her mom takes her to a dance class and Isabella finds her true passion in life! This is a fun-loving story about finding your own niche in life.
Author: Kirstin Downey
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2015-11-10
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 0307742164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in history. In 1474, when most women were almost powerless, twenty-three-year-old Isabella defied a hostile brother and a mercurial husband to seize control of Castile and León. Her subsequent feats were legendary. She ended a twenty-four-generation struggle between Muslims and Christians, forcing North African invaders back over the Mediterranean Sea. She laid the foundation for a unified Spain. She sponsored Columbus’s trip to the Indies and negotiated Spanish control over much of the New World. She also annihilated all who stood against her by establishing a bloody religious Inquisition that would darken Spain’s reputation for centuries. Whether saintly or satanic, no female leader has done more to shape our modern world. Yet history has all but forgotten Isabella’s influence. Using new scholarship, Downey’s luminous biography tells the story of this brilliant, fervent, forgotten woman, the faith that propelled her through life, and the land of ancient conflicts and intrigue she brought under her command.
Author: Melinda Gough
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2019-03-14
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1487518471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnder glittering lights in the Louvre palace, the French court ballets danced by Queen Marie de Médicis prior to Henri IV’s assassination in 1610 attracted thousands of spectators ranging from pickpockets to ambassadors from across Europe. Drawing on newly discovered primary sources as well as theories and methodologies derived from literary studies, political history, musicology, dance studies, and women’s and gender studies, Dancing Queen traces how Marie’s ballets authorized her incipient political authority through innovative verbal and visual imagery, avant-garde musical developments, and ceremonial arrangements of objects and bodies in space. Making use of women’s "semi-official" status as political agents, Marie’s ballets also manipulated the subtle social and cultural codes of international courtly society in order to more deftly navigate rivalries and alliances both at home and abroad. At times the queen’s productions could challenge Henri IV’s immediate interests, contesting the influence enjoyed by his mistresses or giving space to implied critiques of official foreign policy, for example. Such defenses of Marie’s own position, though, took shape as part of a larger governmental program designed to promote the French consort queen’s political authority not in its own right but as a means of maintaining power for the new Bourbon monarchy in the event of Henri IV’s untimely death.
Author: Nancy Rubin
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 0595320767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jean Baptiste Rosario Gonzalve de baron Nervo
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alison Weir
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2006-12-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0345453204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this vibrant biography, acclaimed author Alison Weir reexamines the life of Isabella of England, one of history’s most notorious and charismatic queens. Isabella arrived in London in 1308, the spirited twelve-year-old daughter of King Philip IV of France. Her marriage to the heir to England’s throne was designed to heal old political wounds between the two countries, and in the years that followed she became an important figure, a determined and clever woman whose influence would come to last centuries. Many myths and legends have been woven around Isabella’s story, but in this first full biography in more than 150 years, Alison Weir gives a groundbreaking new perspective.
Author: Victoria Purman
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Published: 2018-06-25
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 1949068374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIsabella Martenson never expected to be a runaway bride. She never expected to be a bride, period. She simply has the wrong DNA to do the whole happily married thing. Until one night in Vegas with a handsome winemaker changes everything... A year later, Harry Harrison’s bride is still a mystery. Who was she? Where was she? And why did she run? When Harry flies to a Australia for his best friend's wedding, he runs straight into the woman he’s never been able to forget. All she asks is for their marriage to be kept a secret. All he asks is for a divorce. But after a week together, Harry and Isabella are forced to face what they really want.
Author: Jill Bever
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780176376260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hooriya
Publisher: Booksclinic Publishing
Published: 2021-04-12
Total Pages: 29
ISBN-13: 9390871492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe, Hooriya and Safa, now the authors of BATTLE, are two Muslim Indian children. While enjoying the sips of coffee, we planned to utilise our freetime in writing fiction. We made an adventurous story and converted the story into words. After writing the story, we told our parents, teachers and friends about the story. They were very surprised and happy on hearing about the creative ability of 13 year and 10 year old girls. The moment when we held the book battle in our hands, was the best moment.
Author: Rachel Bard
Publisher: Danforth Book Distribution
Published: 2007-10
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9781887542562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn her day the beauteous Isabella of Angouleme was called a Jezebel, a sorceress, an adulteress. As the young bride of King John of England she was charged with seducing John into neglecting his kingly duties. Back in her native land she and her second husband were accused of trying to assassinate the King of France. Now meet the real Isabella, Relive the turbulent twelfth and thirteenth centuries when France and England were struggling for control of western France. You'll encounter kings and queens, popes and prelates, warriors and courtiers who were the power elite of their day. You'll become intimately acquainted with this fascinating and enigmatic woman, prey to strong passions and ambitions, aware of the power of her beauty, willing to dare all in order to be and be seen as queen.
