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July 1815: The Prince Regent’s grandiose plans to celebrate Napoléon’s recent defeat at Waterloo are thrown into turmoil when Lady McInnis and her daughter Emma are found brutally murdered in Richmond Park, their bodies posed in a chilling imitation of the stone effigies once found atop medieval tombs. Bow Street magistrate Sir Henry Lovejoy immediately turns to his friend Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, for help with the investigation. For...
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Her close friends included Van Gogh, Degas, and Renoir. As a sought-after model, Paris celebrated her - until she picked up the brush herself, at a time when art schools refused to accept female students.
"I had a hard time putting the book down to go to sleep at night." Kaela Mays
By the time Suzanne Valadon--a bastard from the tenements--was 15 years- old, she's been a horse walker, a milliner's assistant, a funeral wreath maker, and a circus...
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"During the renovation of a London terrace house in the 1980s, an incredible discovery is made. A dust covered postman's satchel is uncovered. It was buried under rubble caused by one of the relentless bombings during the Blitz of London and still contains letters that were never delivered. Noah, a young architect and owner of the property, decides to finish what the postman could not and finally deliver these long-lost letters. He embarks on a remarkable...
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"This novella was inspired by little-known events that occurred during WWII. The story takes the reader on an exhilarating and gripping journey. A journey that includes the incredible happenings at a spy station in Rhode Island, a daring rescue mission at a luxurious Paris hotel, and the infiltration of a Nazi spy ring operating within the city of London."
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University of California Press
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[2023]
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"Ovid's Metamorphoses is the original source for classical mythology. Combining the best-known versions of tales from Icarus to Medusa, Ovid's epic compendium of Greco-Roman legend has exerted an influence on European art and culture rivaled only by the Bible. Yet despite it being the magnum opus of Rome's cleverest and most creative poet, centuries of conservative translators have robbed the poem of its subversive force as a book-length exploration...
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