Download or read book The Tender Art of War written by Vlad Kahany and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wicked schemer and a haughty courtesan collide in this passionate tale set in Victorian London! Deceived noblemen. A trail of crimes. And behind all of it is the most fascinating schemer Europe has ever seen but hasn't caught yet. Jean-Christophe De Luca-the schemer goes by many names. Devilishly handsome, daring, and witty, he plays people like chess pieces. And when Kat Wilde sees him in the Grand Parlor of the Belle House, she recognizes him-the man who a year ago so shamelessly robbed her in plain view. She'd love to hate him. Except the scoundrel is irresistible, and Kat is no angel herself. De Luca has had many women but hasn't met one like a haughty courtesan from a luxury brothel on Piccadilly. Catherine "Kat" Wilde is striking and is rumored to be an insatiable lover. But he doesn't expect to meet a fellow fraudster with a touch of an angel and a mind of a devil. Finally, he has a worthy partner-in schemes as well as in bed. He is more than curious-he wants to have the little courtesan wrapped around his finger. The deal is made. The sparks ignite and grow into a blaze. Except this blaze starts feeling a lot like love. And that's the game they haven't played before. The question isn't whether they will outsmart the law. It's whether they will surrender to their feelings. "The Tender Art of War" is a steamy and twisted book 5 in "The Belle House" series. It's a stand-alone novel, complete with HEA and no cliffhangers. It contains explicit scenes for mature audience only! The Belle House Series: The Tender Days of May The Tender Touch of Night The Tender Rules of Eden The Tender Kiss of Fate The Tender Art of War

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Download or read book Lovely War written by Julie Berry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the novel New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network Kate Quinn called "easily one of the best novels I have read all year!" A critically acclaimed, multi-layered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fates--and the hearts--of four mortals in their hands. They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. A classical pianist from London, a British would-be architect-turned-soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the U.S. Army, and a Belgian orphan with a gorgeous voice and a devastating past. Their story, as told by goddess Aphrodite, who must spin the tale or face judgment on Mount Olympus, is filled with hope and heartbreak, prejudice and passion, and reveals that, though War is a formidable force, it's no match for the transcendent power of Love. Hailed by critics, Lovely War has received seven starred reviews and is an indie bestseller. Author Julie Berry has been called "a modern master of historical fiction" by Bookpage and "a celestially inspired storyteller" by the New York Times, and Lovely War is truly her masterwork.

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Download or read book War and Turpentine written by Stefan Hertmans and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 A New York Times Top 10 Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year The life of Urbain Martien—artist, soldier, survivor of World War I—lies contained in two notebooks he left behind when he died in 1981. In War and Turpentine, his grandson, a writer, retells his grandfather’s story, the notebooks providing a key to the locked chambers of Urbain’s memory. With vivid detail, the grandson recounts a whole life: Urbain as the child of a lowly church painter, retouching his father’s work;dodging death in a foundry; fighting in the war that altered the course of history; marrying the sister of the woman he truly loved; being haunted by an ever-present reminder of the artist he had hoped to be and the soldier he was forced to become. Wrestling with this tale, the grandson straddles past and present, searching for a way to understand his own part in both. As artfully rendered as a Renaissance fresco, War and Turpentine paints an extraordinary portrait of one man’s life and reveals how that life echoed down through the generations. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout)

Download or read book The Byzantine World War written by Nick Holmes and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a new angle on the Crusades – from the viewpoint of the Byzantine Empire. An exciting narrative describing the fall of Byzantium in the eleventh century, the origins of modern Turkey, and the epic campaign of the First Crusade. Will appeal to anyone interested in history, military history or medieval history.

Download or read book Tender Mint written by Samih al Qasim and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In september 2011 verhuist Lynn Alleva Lilley (USA) met haar man en twee kinderen naar Amman, Jordanië. Ver weg van haar geboorteland en van haar vader, die ziek op dat moment is probeert ze een thuis te maken voor haar gezin in de onbekende stad. Daar gebruikt ze haar fotografie om dit, voor haar, vreemde land vertrouwd te maken. Gedurende drie jaar fotografeerde ze het Jordaanse volk, Syrische en Iraakse vluchtelingen, dieren in private dierentuinen of boerderijen, de vogeltrek en landschappen. Thema?s als misplaatsing, beknelling en adaptatie zijn sterk terug te vinden in dit boek. Haar vervreemdende beelden drukken tegenstrijdige emoties uit als verzorging en pijn, lijden en berusting, eenzaamheid en gezelschap, schoonheid en verval.

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