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Book Synopsis Venetian Blood by : Christine Evelyn Volker
Download or read book Venetian Blood written by Christine Evelyn Volker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murderous intrigue in an unforgettable setting. “. . . [A] pleasure trip that quickly devolves into a nightmare . . . ” —AudioFile Magazine “A riveting whodunit . . . ” —Kirkus Reviews A money launderer. A seduction. An old rivalry. Murders. Fighting to forget a crumbling marriage, Anna, a US Treasury officer, comes to Venice on vacation. A choice she soon regrets. Blackmailed by a money-laundering count, Anna demands he return explicit photos taken during their affair. He refuses. Tracking him to a hotel gala blows up when he is murdered and a dogged police detective accuses Anna of the crime. Anna draws upon her talents in math and science to attack the intricate puzzle of finding the killer among many suspects. They stymie her efforts by hiding secrets and spinning lies in a city built on illusions. Whom can she trust? Pursued, gripped by terror, barely dodging death’s dark embrace, Anna struggles to clear her name before police can destroy her alibi and lock her up. But then, as attempts on her life mount, she just might be safer in prison. . . . Readers of psychological mystery will enjoy this story of a brainy heroine battling daunting odds.
Download or read book Forever Young written by Barbara Stanzl and published by Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jasmine, a young anthropology student arrives in Venice, Italy, to research ghost stories. She meets a mysterious young woman who is trapped in a world as ancient and violent as any ghost story. Jasmine starts to help her new friend to escape her mausoleum of a life, and the man who is her beguiling tormentor, but gradually she too starts to fall under his spell.
Download or read book Blood from a Stone written by Donna Leon and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an immigrant dies on a Venice street, it will take a determined detective to pursue the case to its shocking end: “[An] outstanding series.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man’s wares before his death—fake handbags of every designer label. The dead man was one of the many African immigrants purveying goods outside normal shop hours and trading without a work permit. Once Commissario Guido Brunetti begins to investigate this unfamiliar Venetian underworld, he discovers that matters of great value are at stake within the secretive society. And his boss’s warning to avoid getting involved only makes Brunetti more determined to unearth the truth behind this mysterious killing. “[A] stunning novel . . . an engrossing, complex plot.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “The appeal of Guido Brunetti, the hero of Donna Leon’s long-running Venetian crime series, comes not from his shrewdness, though he is plenty shrewd, nor from his quick wit. It comes, instead, from his role as an Everyman . . . [his life is] not so different from our own days at the office or nights around the dinner table. Crime fiction for those willing to grapple with, rather than escape, the uncertainties of daily life.” —Booklist
Book Synopsis The Venetian Bride by : Patricia Fortini Brown
Download or read book The Venetian Bride written by Patricia Fortini Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of vendetta and intrigue, triumph and tragedy, exile and repatriation, this book recounts the interwoven microhistories of Count Girolamo Della Torre, a feudal lord with a castle and other properties in the Friuli, and Giulia Bembo, grand-niece of Cardinal Pietro Bembo and daughter of Gian Matteo Bembo, a powerful Venetian senator with a distinguished career in service to the Venetian Republic. Their marriage in the mid-sixteenth century might be regarded as emblematic of the Venetian experience, with the metropole at the center of a fragmented empire: a Terraferma nobleman and the daughter of a Venetian senator, who raised their family in far off Crete in the stato da mar, in Venice itself, and in the Friuli and the Veneto in the stato da terra. The fortunes and misfortunes of the nine surviving Della Torre children and their descendants, tracked through the end of the Republic in 1797, are likewise emblematic of a change in feudal culture from clan solidarity to individualism and intrafamily strife, and ultimately, redemption. Despite the efforts by both the Della Torre and the Bembo families to preserve the patrimony through a succession of male heirs, the last survivor in the paternal bloodline of each was a daughter. This epic tale highlights the role of women in creating family networks and opens a precious window into a contentious period in which Venetian republican values clash with the deeply rooted feudal traditions of honor and blood feuds of the mainland.
Download or read book Mad Blood Stirring written by Edward Muir and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1998-06-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian History from the American Historical Association Nobles were slaughtered and their castles looted or destroyed, bodies were dismembered and corpses fed to animals—the Udine carnival massacre of 1511 was the most extensive and damaging popular revolt in Renaissance Italy (and the basis for the story of Romeo and Juliet). Mad Blood Stirring is a gripping account and analysis of this event, as well as the social structures and historical conflicts preceding it and the subtle shifts in the mentality of revenge it introduced. This new reader's edition offers students and general readers an abridged version of this classic work which shifts the focus from specialized scholarly analysis to the book's main theme: the role of vendetta in city and family politics. Uncovering the many connections between the carnival motifs, hunting practices, and vendetta rituals, Muir finds that the Udine massacre occurred because, at that point in Renaissance history, violent revenge and allegiance to factions provided the best alternative to failed political institutions. But the carnival massacre also marked a crossroads: the old mentality of vendetta was soon supplanted by the emerging sense that the direct expression of anger should be suppressed—to be replaced by duels.
Book Synopsis Venetian-English English-Venetian by : Lodovico Pizzati
Download or read book Venetian-English English-Venetian written by Lodovico Pizzati and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard not to be florid about this book Devoured in snippets or read straight through. It presents amazing experiences and skills. Because Marc-Charles Nicolas has a brilliantly delicate appreciation for the idea of a sentence in a poem, the juxtapositions of segments in these pages appear essentially to construct entire topics for mediation. Examined along and the dawnings increase and multipy--- inspirations, love, feelings, locations, events hitherto isolated are now all hooks-and-eyes into each other. And because Marc-Charles gets his inspiration from the muse, you feel the exquisiteness and beauty buried in shattered phrases about the "universality of poetry." As a poet he belongs to a life larger than his own. The life of genuine things. And (One more performance worth a word): the poems in his book "Perfumed Paradise" are filled with aboutness'. Put together as they are, they're seen to abound with roots: their laughter or melancholy or ire has discernible reasons. The humanness of poem-writing as a hobby, the splendid unavoidability of it ---that is what this compilation brings together. But floridity was to be kept away. One cloudless day---pace the anti-sentimentalists: life is short I sat in the sun and by a Brook with a friend and passed pages of this manuscript from side to side, reading fragments aloud, laughing quietly or looking grave, occasionally thrilled and bemused. A while back, this was, yet I remember no happier afternoon. The poems were written originally in French 13 years ago in the year 1993, delicious remembrance - fantastic book! Virgo A. Bernice
Book Synopsis The Nature of Blood by : Caryl Phillips
Download or read book The Nature of Blood written by Caryl Phillips and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A German Jewish girl whose life is destroyed by the atrocities of World War II . . . her uncle, who undermines the sureties of his own life in order to fight for Israeli statehood . . . the Jews of a 15th-century Italian ghetto . . Othello, newly arrived in Venice . . . a young Ethiopian Jewish woman resettled in Israel. These are the extraordinary people who inhabit Caryl Phillips' eloquent and moving new novel, and whose stories are connected by circumstance, spirit, and blood across the centuries.
Book Synopsis history of the venetian republic: her rise, her greatness and her civilization by : w. carew hazlitt
Download or read book history of the venetian republic: her rise, her greatness and her civilization written by w. carew hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Venetian Republic by : William Carew Hazlitt
Download or read book The Venetian Republic written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blood Trust written by Eric Lustbader and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack McClure and Alli Carson are back for another adventure through the shadows of power in this third installment of the New York Times bestselling series.
Download or read book Venice written by Brown and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Venetian Republic: Her Rise, Her Greatness, and Her Civilization by : William Carew Hazlitt
Download or read book History of the Venetian Republic: Her Rise, Her Greatness, and Her Civilization written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Venetian Republic by : William Carew Hazlitt
Download or read book History of the Venetian Republic written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flash Blood written by Joseph Hirsch and published by Caliburn Press. This book was released on 2014-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After twenty years as a private investigator, Detective James Arklow is seriously contemplating retirement--that is, until a man named Dan Maple shows up at his door holding one hundred thousand dollars. He promises another hundred grand if Arklow agrees to find a missing drug addict and veteran of the war in Afghanistan. The detective agrees to take on the case, and gets much more than he bargained for when he stumbles onto a secret that might cost him his soul and his sanity."--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Blood Rain written by Michael Dibdin and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2009-10-07 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aurelio Zen—cynical and tough, yet worn down from years of law enforcement—has just been given the worst assignment he could imagine. He has been sent to the heart of hostile territory: Sicily, the ancient, beautiful island where blood has been known to flow like wine, and the distinction between the police and the criminals is a fine one. Even worse, he has been sent to spy on the elite anti-Mafia squad.The only thing that makes the job palatable—and takes his mind off routine details like the rotting body found in a remote train car—is that Zen's adopted daughter, Carla, is also in town. But life becomes precarious for Carla when she stumbles upon some information she'd be better off not knowing and befriends a local magistrate on the Mafia's most wanted list. What ensues is a breakneck plot of amazing complexity that culminates in a stunning finale. Blood Rain, emotionally gripping and defiantly original, is surely one of Dibdin's finest works.
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Download or read book Chambers's New Handy Volume American Encyclopædia written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chambers's Encyclopædia by : Ephraim Chambers
Download or read book Chambers's Encyclopædia written by Ephraim Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
