Download or read book Vittorio Goes Undercover written by Rob Haydrek and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vittorio is an unwilling spy with a serious case of doubt. He must go undercover again. And talk to a sparrow. And escape an oily Robin Reliant. And visit a memorial fountain. That's just the start of it once Hildegard calls. Will Mr and Mrs Andrews get their way? Will Mr McGregor ever put on a pair of trousers? Madame Pluck-Iris will surely help with some sage therapy dispensed from her barge on the Thames. But will the Little Man interfere? And will a brave cat realise himself in the world? Above it all men float and become something they had never imagined. And the resistance continues... but against what?
Download or read book The Guerrilla Girls Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art written by Guerrilla Girls and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] tart, funny, lurid little bomb of a book. It's all p.c., of course, but not at all predictable, and a lot of righteous information gets dispersed in record time." -- BUST Magazine We were Guerillas before we were Gorillas. From the beginning, the press wanted publicity photos. We needed a disguise. No one remembers, for sure, how we got our fur, but one story is that at an early meeting, an original Girl, a bad speller, wrote 'Gorilla' instead of 'Guerilla.' It was an enlightening mistake. It gave us our mask-ulinity. Ever wonder about the abundance of naked male statues in the Classical section of your favorite museum? Did you know medieval convents were hotbeds of female artistic expression? And how did those "bad boy" artists of the twentieth century make it even harder for a girl to get a break? Thanks to the Guerrilla Girls, those masked feminists whose mission it is to break the white male stronghold over the art world, art history--as we know it--is history. Taking you back through the ages, the Guerrilla Girls demonstrate how males (particularly white males) have dominated the art scene, and discouraged, belittled, or obscured women's involvement. Their skeptical and hilarious interpretations of "popular" theory are augmented by the newest research and the expertise of prominent feminist art historians. "Believe-it-or-not" quotations from some of the "experts" are sprinkled throughout, as are the Guerrilla Girls' signature masterpieces: reproductions of famous art works, slightly "altered" for historic accuracy and vindication. This colorful reinterpretation of classic and modern art, as outrageous as it is visually arresting, is a much-needed corrective to traditional art history, and an unabashed celebration of female artists.
Download or read book Deceptions written by Michael Weaver and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a corrupt U.S. Attorney General unleashes a global network of assassins to hunt down a woman who could destroy both his career and his life, two Mafia-connected men find themselves unwitting protectors of the innocent woman. By the author of Impulse.
Download or read book Interrupted Narratives and Intersectional Representations in Italian Postcolonial Literature written by Caterina Romeo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for the importance of adopting a postcolonial perspective in analysing contemporary Italian culture and literature. Originally published in Italian in 2018 as Riscrivere la nazione: La letteratura italiana postcoloniale, this new English translation brings to light the connections between the present, the colonial past and the great historical waves of international and intranational migration. By doing so, the book shows how a sense of Italian national identity emerged, at least in part, as the result of different migrations and why there is such a strong resistance in Italy to extending the privilege of italianità, or Italianness, to those who have arrived on Italian soil in recent years. Exploring over 100 texts written by migrant and second-generation writers, the book takes an intersectional approach to understanding gender and race in Italian identity. It connects these literary and cultural contexts to the Italian colonial past, while also looking outwards to a more diffuse postcolonial condition in Europe.
Download or read book Mafia Romance written by Melvin McIlveen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Holdwell is a young adventurous girl who looks for newer experiences. She is adventurous and ever curious and wants to test her resolve and her capacity to embark on her next adventure. She is afraid of nothing, she is in love with life, she thinks not of the hazards but more often of the adventures which life has to offer. Mostly she wants to experience life to the fullest. She looks to newer opportunities, new experiences and new fields to conquer.. She is loving passionate, and capable. Above all, she is aggressive, to the extreme and unafraid.to tackle any problem whatsoever.. The scorn and the ridicule of her best and dearest friend does not deter her from her purpose, even the dreaded retribution of the Mafia does not faze, she has one purpose and that purpose is to find her true love and the father of her only son.
Download or read book The Saint of the Hill written by Luis Zaensi and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Saint of the Hill By: Luis Zaensi About the Book Something is happening on the Island of Ischia. That’s what Umberto tells Salvatore, one of his best detectives, before their ludicrous nightmare begins. Don Franco recently settled on the quaint Italian island, buying a tourist complex on the top of a hill, where members of organized crime convene—or so Umberto and Salvatore believe. With no evidence linking Don Franco to any criminal activity, Detective Salvatore stakes out the compound, trying everything to pin the mobster down, only to find himself three steps behind the smiling saint each time.
Download or read book Blood Wine written by John Moss and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2014-05-24 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When homicide detective Miranda Quin becomes a suspect in a murder case, she and her partner, Morgan, must ignore the boundaries of the law in order to find out what really happened.
Download or read book Stories Streets and Saints written by Anthony V. Riccio and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-10-01 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories, Streets, and Saints documents the history of an important Italian American neighborhood, Boston's North End, from the age of immigration at the turn of the twentieth century to the era of neighborhood upheaval in the "New Boston" of the 1980s. Drawing on years of fieldwork, on-site photography, and scholarly research, Anthony V. Riccio records, translates, and transcribes compelling oral histories of elderly Italian American storytellers who weave social history in their unique village idiom, providing an intimate look at daily life in an Italian American neighborhood. Testimonies of post-Unification southern Italy reconstruct the dire social and economic conditions that caused millions to pursue the promise of America. Rare firsthand stories of the Spanish Flu offer timely narratives in the wake of COVID-19, and eyewitness descriptions reconstruct the horrific Molasses Explosion of 1919. Riccio's own photographs from 1979 to 1983, along with images from old family albums, illustrate these oral histories, creating a lasting record of the experiences of Italian Americans, who, like many other ethnic groups, contributed mightily to the building of America.
Download or read book Turner Classic Movies Presents Leonard Maltin s Classic Movie Guide written by Leonard Maltin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to classic films from one of America's most trusted film critics Thanks to Netflix and cable television, classic films are more accessible than ever. Now co-branded with Turner Classic Movies, Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide covers films from Hollywood and around the world, from the silent era through 1965, and from The Maltese Falcon to Singin’ in the Rain and Godzilla, King of the Monsters! Thoroughly revised and updated, and featuring expanded indexes, a list of Maltin’s personal recommendations, and three hundred new entries—including many offbeat and obscure films—this new edition is a must-have companion for every movie lover.
Download or read book The Cop and the Stalker written by Vincent Davis and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cop and the Stalker is a true story of what happened when a highly decorated New York City cop and a career criminal are put on a collision course with the help of US Customs and an overzealous federal prosecutor. It is also a story of raw courage and the friendship of two youths growing up in Yonkers, New York. Vinny Davis worked as a plainclothes cop in the highest crime neighborhoods of the Bronx in the eighties and nineties. He would stop at nothing to put the bad guys behind bars. Richie Sabol was a malevolent psychopath career criminal who preyed on the weak. His first trip to state prison was for armed robbery, but when he was paroled, he was more violent than before. He had moved on to beating people with baseball bats and shooting a drug dealer in the head while robbing him. His crime spree ranged up and down the East Coast until he sold two kilos of coke and got sentenced to twenty years in federal prison. Two years later, he's back on the streets of New York. He's now working for the feds with the promise he can deliver the Lucchese crime family on a silver platter. And the justice department will do and say anything to ensure that he keeps his word at any cost. https://starworldwidenetworks.com/episodes/the-cop-the-stalker-and-the-mobsters-a-true-story
Download or read book The Lie written by Michael Weaver and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. president has decided to turn an international conference on human rights into the scene of his greatest triumph--but instead is taken hostage by a group prepared to kill for world peace. Paul Waters, an intelligence agent assigned to protect the president, joins forces with his lover, Kate Dinneson, to foil the plans of the extremist group and rescue American's leader. But can they stop the fanatics in time? And did the president plan his own kidnapping?
Download or read book Brilliant Short Stories written by Stan Mason and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-01-29 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an anthology of a number of brilliant stories which include comedy, horror, fantasy, drama, romance and suspense with wonderful characters to make each one seem alive… and every one with a twist in the tail! You will be enthralled by them.
Download or read book Tainted Heritage written by Kristine Roth and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tainted Heritage is a tale of romance and suspense. Norwegian Supermodel, Lisette falls head over heels for self- made billionaire playboy Tony McGregor. He sweeps her off her feet with grand extravagant gestures and his sexy charm. But behind his seemingly self- assured and respectable exterior, dark secrets are lurking. After a fall out, Lisette learns about his less than perfect childhood as a member of notorious New York Mob family, the Sciolottis. Tony vehemently denies having anything to do with the Family’s black market dealings. His uncles, Sal and Vittorio operate from a strip club called “Cherry Juice” in Hell’s Kitchen, and their sinister and sordid reality is in stark contrast to Lisette’s and Tony’s glamourous charmed life. Tony is willing to go to any length to protect Lisette from his Mob relatives. The only one he lets her meet is his mother, Luisa. He believes that she has nothing to do with her brothers’ business dealings. True as that may be, Luisa is a rogue mobster working under the radar to wreak havoc and instigate gang wars between the New York Mob Family and the New Jersey Family while pretending to be a good guy. In this powerful story rich in characters and dialog, nobody is who they say they are and everybody seems to have their own secret agenda. Clingy ex- girlfriends and mysterious late night phone calls make Lisette wonder if her sweet romance is for real. Can she trust Tony? Is it true as he reassures her, that he has given up his womanizing ways? One late night when he thinks she’s asleep, she follows him after he gets a suspicious call and leaves the house. Her horrible discovery will devastate her and force her on the run for her life. She can trust no one, not even the FBI, and definitely not the love of her life, Tony. In the end there is only one person she can count on to save her, herself.
Download or read book The Betrayer written by Guy Stanton and published by Milo Books Ltd. This book was released on 2022-07-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Stanton was a burly London gangster with a big reputation. For years he operated at the top of the drugs trade, moving huge shipments around the world. He knew the leading players in global organised crime, from wealthy Asian warlords and Turkish heroin barons to British cannabis crews and Colombian cocaine cartels. Yet all along he was living a perilous double life. ‘Stanton’ was the legend – the fake identity – of a covert investigator fronting a bold new concept in deep infiltration. Beta Projects was Britain’s most secret undercover unit. Formed by HM Customs, it trained an elite cadre of officers to adopt false personas and penetrate the international underworld – for as long as it took. Posing as money launderers, yacht skippers, lorry drivers and gangster’s molls, and often just a word away from betrayal and retribution. they lived the life of the villains they pursued, helping to seize tonnes of drugs and illicit contraband. Their clandestine exploits have never been revealed – until now. Stanton’s extraordinary work took him to four continents, all while living on a razor’s edge. He and his colleagues survived gun battles, kidnaps, disasters at sea and false claims of corruption. The job cost him dear, pushing hm to the limits of physical and mental endurance. THE BETRAYER is the authentic account of a ground-breaking assault on the world’s most brutal narcos and of the courage, camaraderie (and humour) of the men and women who took the War on Drugs deep into the heart of the enemy.
Download or read book Unforgotten The Michelli Family Series Book 2 written by Kristen Heitzmann and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lance Michelli had traveled to his grandmother Antonia's old villa in Sonoma to find the truth behind the secrets of her past. There he met Rese Barrett, the woman who now owns the villa and hides secrets of her own. Now Lance has returned to his grandmother with both Rese and the answers he has found. But Antonia refuses to hear what he has to say. Has she really misunderstood the events of that dark night so long ago? Antonia sends Lance on another quest. But this time he discovers that the past has influenced the present far more than anyone realizes. Lance is caught between the two women he loves as he uncovers unforgotten truths that could change them all forever.
Download or read book The Invisible Art of Film Music written by Laurence E. MacDonald and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the era of synchronized sound in the 1920s, music has been an integral part of motion pictures. Whether used to heighten the tension of a scene or evoke a subtle emotional response, scores have played a significant—if often unrealized—role in the viewer’s enjoyment. In The Invisible Art of Film Music, Laurence MacDonald provides a comprehensive introduction for the general student, film historian, and aspiring cinematographer. Arranged chronologically from the silent era to the present day, this volume provides insight into the evolution of music in cinema and analyzes the vital contributions of scores to hundreds of films. MacDonald reviews key developments in film music and discusses many of the most important and influential scores of the last nine decades, including those from Modern Times, Gone with the Wind, Citizen Kane, Laura, A Streetcar Named Desire, Ben-Hur, Lawrence of Arabia, The Godfather, Jaws, Ragtime, The Mission, Titanic, Gladiator, The Lord of the Rings, Brokeback Mountain,and Slumdog Millionaire. MacDonald also provides biographical sketches of such great composers as Max Steiner, Alfred Newman, Franz Waxman, Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein, Henry Mancini, Maurice Jarre, John Barry, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Dave Grusin, Ennio Morricone, Randy Newman, Hans Zimmer, and Danny Elfman. Updated and expanded to include scores produced well into the twenty-first century, this new edition of The Invisible Art of Film Music will appeal not only to scholars of cinema and musicologists but also any fan of film scores.
Download or read book The Espionage Filmography written by Paul Mavis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sean Connery to Roy Rogers, from comedy to political satire, films that include espionage as a plot device run the gamut of actors and styles. More than just "spy movies," espionage films have evolved over the history of cinema and American culture, from stereotypical foreign spy themes, to patriotic star features, to the Cold War plotlines of the sixties, and most recently to the sexy, slick films of the nineties. This filmography comprehensively catalogs movies involving elements of espionage. Each entry includes release date, running time, alternate titles, cast and crew, a brief synopsis, and commentary. An introduction analyzes the development of these films and their reflection of the changing culture that spawned them.
