Download or read book The Duel for Consuelo written by Claudia H. Long and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heart-stopping story of love and betrayal in the time of the Inquisition. Consuelo, beautiful healer, is trapped by her family's history of conversion at the point of a sword. Born to a Crypto-Jewish mother, raised as a Christian, and bound to her family's traditions, Consuelo struggles with her loyalties and the pull of the Enlightenment. She sees the possibilities of love and fulfillment, but when her mother's secret is discovered she is forced to put her love and her very life at risk to save her mother. This story brings the struggle to life and showcases the beauty, terror, courage and sacrifice that honor and family demand in the final decades of the ruthless scourge of the Inquisition.
Download or read book The Duel for Consuelo written by Claudia Long and published by Libertary Company. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, love, and faith combine in a gripping novel set in early 1700's Mexico. In this second passionate and thrilling story of the Castillo family, the daughter of a secret Jew is caught between love and the burdens of a despised and threatened religion. The Enlightenment is making slow in-roads, but Consuelo's world is still under the dark cloud of the Inquisition. Forced to choose between protecting her ailing mother and the love of dashing Juan Carlos Castillo, Consuelo's personal dilemma reflects the conflicts of history as they unfold in 1711 Mexico. A rich, romantic story illuminating the timeless complexities of family, faith, and love.
Download or read book The Meaning of Consuelo written by Judith Ortiz Cofer and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Signe family is blessed with two daughters. Consuelo, the elder, is thought of as pensive and book-loving, the serious child-la niña seria-while Mili, her younger sister, is seen as vivacious, a ray of tropical sunshine. Two daughters: one dark, one light; one to offer comfort and consolation, the other to charm and delight. But, for all the joy both girls should bring, something is not right in this Puerto Rican family; a tragedia is developing, like a tumor, at its core. In this fierce, funny, and sometimes startling novel, we follow a young woman's quest to negotiate her own terms of survival within the confines of her culture and her family. magazine "Judith Ortiz Cofer has created a character who takes us by the hand on a journey of self-discovery. She reminds readers young and old never to forget our own responsibilities, and to enjoy life with all its joys and sorrows."--Bessy Reyna, MultiCultural Review
Download or read book The Tale of the Rose written by Consuelo de Saint-Exupery and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2003-01-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry left his wife, Consuelo, to return to the war in Europe. Soon after, he disappeared while flying a reconnaissance mission over occupied France. Neither his plane nor his body was ever found. The Tale of the Rose is Consuelo’s account of their extraordinary marriage. It is a love story about a pilot and his wife, a man who yearned for the stars and the spirited woman who gave him the strength to fulfill his dreams. Consuelo Suncin Sandoval de Gómez and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry met in Buenos Aires in 1930—she a seductive young widow, he a brave pioneer of early aviation, decorated for his acts of heroism in the deserts of North Africa. He was large in his passions, a fierce loner with a childlike appetite for danger. She was frail and voluble, exotic and capricious. Within hours of their first encounter, he knew he would have her as his wife. Their love affair and marriage would take them from Buenos Aires to Paris to Casablanca to New York. It would take them through periods of betrayal and infidelity, pain and intense passion, devastating abandonment and tender, poetic love. Several times in the course of their marriage they would go their separate ways, but always they would return. The Tale of the Rose is the story of a man of extravagant dreams, and of the woman who was his muse, the inspiration for the Little Prince’s beloved rose—unique in all the world—whom he could not live with and could not live without. Written on Long Island in a quiet spell of reconciliation, The Little Prince was Antoine’s greatest gift to the woman he never stopped loving, the only child to emerge from their union. The Tale of the Rose is Consuelo’s reply—the love letter she never could write to her husband—a fable of its own, just as magical, poetic, and tragic as The Little Prince. Praise for The Tale of the Rose “We find in these pages all the tenderness and patience, but also the tenacity, of a woman who loves. Consuelo does not seek to explain or even to understand her husband, she accepts him and leads him to what he must be. . . . Written with a strong and authentic voice, The Tale of the Rose is a book to read for its strength of character, and for the adventure that it offers.”—Elle
Download or read book With Fire and Sword written by Patrick Lucanio and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study and filmography of English-dubbed Italian spectacles produced in the 1960s. Defines the genre's characteristics and analyzes its iconography and narrative patterns, and presents an annotated filmography of some 300 films. Includes bandw photos. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Nine Tenths of the Law written by Claudia Hagadus Long and published by Kasva Press. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two sisters, their mother, and a Nazi thief. In 1939, a beautiful enameled heirloom menorah was looted by the Nazis, grabbed from the hands of its young Jewish owner. Too beautiful to kill, Aurora herself was singled out by the SS for “special duties”. Eighty years later, Aurora’s daughters Zara and Lilly discover the family menorah in a New York museum. Haunted by their mother’s buried memories, the sisters scheme to get it back—but their quest takes a dangerous turn when the menorah disappears, leaving a trail of murder and mayhem behind it. Aurora’s memories, it turns out, are very much alive; and now her secrets can bind the sisters together or tear them apart.
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Download or read book Tales of Intramuros written by Emmanuel Besa and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of short stories which fictionalizes history - the 16th to the19th century of Spanish rule and Christianity in Philippines - as a means to explore religious faith and cultural difference and tells the stories of different characters during the Spanish era of colonial rule far from the mother country ruled by the Governor Generals appointed by the King of Spain to represent the state and the Bishop representing the Friars who originally help bring the natives into the fold and a constant battle between church and state kept the country under siege most of the time.
Download or read book Consuelo Vol 4 of 4 written by George Sand and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Consuelo, Vol. 4 of 4: Translated From the French But soon the enthusiastic clamor of the public had stifled these little insinuations, and Wilhelmina, who prided herself on being a good judge, a learned pupil of Porpora and a generous being, had not dared to carry on this underhand war against the most brilliant pupil of the maestro and the idol of society. She had joined her voice to those of the true dilettanti to extol Consuelo, and if she had still depreciated her a little because of the pride and ambition which she had shown in not placing her voice at the disposition of my lady the ambassadress, it was only in a whisper, and in the ears of a chosen few, that my lady the ambassadress allowed herself to blame her for it. Now, when she saw Consuelo coming to her in her modest toilet of the old days, and when Porpora pre sented her officially, as he had never done before, Wilhelmina, vain and frivolous as she was, forgave everything, and assumed a role of generous dignity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Chambers s encyclop dia written by Chambers W. and R., ltd and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Saint Exupery written by Stacy Schiff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the French author and pilot, depicts his complex personality, and looks at his contributions to the war effort.
Download or read book The Eastern Stars written by Mark Kurlansky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intriguing, inspiring history of one small, impoverished area in the Dominican Republic that has produced a staggering number of Major League Baseball talent, from an award-winning, bestselling author. In the town of San Pedro in the Dominican Republic, baseball is not just a way of life. It's the way of life. By the year 2008, seventy-nine boys and men from San Pedro have gone on to play in the Major Leagues-that means one in six Dominican Republicans who have played in the Majors have come from one tiny, impoverished region. Manny Alexander, Sammy Sosa, Tony Fernandez, and legions of other San Pedro players who came up in the sugar mill teams flocked to the United States, looking for opportunity, wealth, and a better life. Because of the sugar industry, and the influxes of migrant workers from across the Caribbean to work in the cane fields and factories, San Pedro is one of the most ethnically diverse areas of the Dominican Republic. A multitude of languages are spoken there, and a variety of skin colors populate the community; but the one constant is sugar and baseball. The history of players from San Pedro is also a chronicle of racism in baseball, changing social mores in sports and in the Dominican Republic, and the personal stories of the many men who sought freedom from poverty through playing ball. The story of baseball in San Pedro is also that of the Caribbean in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and on a broader level opens a window into our country's history. As with Kurlansky's Cod and Salt, this small story, rich with anecdote and detail, becomes much larger than ever imagined. Kurlansky reveals two countries' love affair with a sport and the remarkable journey of San Pedro and its baseball players. In his distinctive style, he follows common threads and discovers wider meanings about place, identity, and, above all, baseball. Watch a Video
