Author: Sandra Marton Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 1488058806 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 236
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Read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author Sandra Marton! Previously published as Roman Spring in 1993. Destination: Rome Attractions: the Colosseum, Vatican City...and Nicolo Sabatini New World woman versus Old World man -- it’s more than just a culture clash when American fashion model Caroline Bishop meets Prince Nicolo Sabatini. Certainly to a woman of the nineties, this Roman hunk’s views on love are as antiquated as the ruins of his city. And, given half a chance, perhaps as eternal...
Author: Bob Burton Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1440690634 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 254
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The complete history of soldiers for hire. From Biblical times and the Crusades through the American Revolution up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, mercenaries-professional soldiers who contract themselves out to the highest bidder-have played a vital role in most, if not all, military and paramilitary campaigns, helping to determine the victors and the vanquished. Contract Warriors reveals their compelling story for the first time. * Why they fight (and for how much) * How they fight * The unique lifestyle of mercenaries both on and off the battlefield * The spoils and business of war * The current role of mercenaries in the world's arms trade * The significance of the mercenary in popular culture and film Featuring a special afterword by W. Thomas Smith Jr. and his interview with Richard Marcinko, military consultant and author of the bestselling book Rogue Warrior
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Caroline works as a model while dreaming of becoming a designer, but the harshness of reality is slowly filling her with disenchantment and discouragement. One night, a vulgar buyer makes a play for Caroline and troubles her. Then a savior arrives! The handsome man saves her in a stylish manner. The president of the modeling agency even calls him “Prince” and goes down on his knees. But suddenly, the savior grabs a confused Caroline’s hand. He tells Caroline that he’s not letting her leave. Is he another hypocrite in the guise of a gentleman?
Author: Janette Kenny Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 1460334744 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 192
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Bound by business… Physiotherapist Caprice Tregore steels herself as she prepares to meet the man she had vowed never to see again. She needs his help, and she can only guess at what the captivating Luciano will demand in return. But the years have changed her, and she's no longer the naive innocent he once knew…. Branded by passion? Luciano Duchelini needs Caprice to insure his brother's recovery. But two months in her company shows that the tantalizing attraction he turned his back on years before is still there, and this time he's determined to satisfy his every desire…regardless of the cost.
Author: M. J. Trow Publisher: BLKDOG Publishing ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 327
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Kit Marlowe was the bad boy of Elizabethan drama. His ‘mighty line’ of iambic pentameter transformed the miracle plays of the Middle Ages into modern drama and he paved the way for Shakespeare and a dozen other greats who stole his metre and his ideas. When he died, stabbed through the eye in what appeared to be a tavern brawl in Deptford in May 1593, he was only 29 and many people believed that he had met his just deserts. But Marlowe’s death was not the result of a brawl. And it did not take place in a tavern. The facts tell a different story, one involving intrigue, espionage, alchemy and the highest in the land. Born the son of a shoemaker in Canterbury, Marlowe read Theology at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and was destined for a career in Elizabeth I’s new Church of England. But in 1583, he moved to London and wrote dazzling new plays like Dido, Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine, the Jew of Malta and Doctor Faustus. He was the ‘Muse’s darling’, ‘all fire and air’ and the crowds flocked to his dramas at the Curtain, the Theatre and the Rose. But even before he left Cambridge, Kit Marlowe was recruited into the dangerous and murky world of espionage, perhaps by Nicholas Faunt, secretary to the queen’s spymaster, Francis Walsingham. The religious world was split between Catholic and Protestant and there was a price on the queen’s head - the pope himself had ordered the assassination of the English whore, the Jezebel, who had betrayed Catholicism. Walsingham’s efforts and those of ‘intelligencers’ like Marlowe, were all designed to keep the queen and her country safe. Marlowe was a maverick, a whistle-blower, with outspoken views on religion, the government for which he worked and he was critical of the norms of behaviour. Almost certainly homosexual, at a time when that meant execution, he claimed that Christ had a homosexual relationship with John the Baptist. Or did he? Was all that merely propaganda, invented by the ever-growing list of enemies building up by 1593? This book offers a different interpretation to the death in Deptford. Marlowe knew too much about the Privy Council, the gang of four who effectively ran England under the queen. He openly defied them in his last plays – the Massacre at Paris and Edward II. And they, in turn, were keen to destroy him – ‘His mouth must be stopped’ – and stopped it was by a trio of agents operating at the highest level. The brutal murder of a young playwright at the peak of his powers has intrigued and captivated for over 400 years. This compelling journey through the evidence allows us to know, for the first time, who killed him.
Author: Mary E. Frandsen Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019534636X Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 530
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This book is an examination of the uneasy alliance of two confessions, Lutheran and Catholic, at the prominent seventeenth-century court of Dresden, and the implications of this alliance for the repertoire of sacred art music cultivated there, an influential repertoire that has received only scant attention from scholars.
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