The Beauty And The Savage

Author : Nancy Milford
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780375760815

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Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford Pdf

Thirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she tormented herself. If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. The first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself. Her voice was likened to an instrument of seduction and her impact on crowds, and on men, was legendary. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well. Milford calls her book "a family romance"—for the love between the three Millay sisters and their mother was so deep as to be dangerous. As a family, they were like real-life Little Women, with a touch of Mommie Dearest. Nancy Milford was given exclusive access to Millay's papers, and what she found was an extraordinary treasure. Boxes and boxes of letter flew back and forth among the three sisters and their mother—and Millay kept the most intimate diary, one whose ruthless honesty brings to mind Sylvia Plath. Written with passion and flair, Savage Beauty is an iconic portrait of a woman's life.

Author : Andrew Bolton,Alexander McQueen
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Costume design
ISBN : 9781588394125

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Alexander McQueen by Andrew Bolton,Alexander McQueen Pdf

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 4-July 31, 2011.

Author : Yasmine Davis
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1981146733

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The Beauty and the Savage by Yasmine Davis Pdf

Like a butterfly to a sky. He captures her with his bad-boy style and she captures him with her smile. The gritty, hood love standalone, 'The Beauty and The Savage' takes the readers on a journey where love is a two-way street. Sex, cruelty, corruption, heartbreak, disloyalty, and most of all, love, are the factors when it comes to the latest standalone by Yasmine Davis. The four women: Casha, Tara, Shanell, and Abrina are all close friends at a historically black college, Northside University. All are working hard to leave the projects in the past but is it all that it seems? From crushes to dangerous hood love affairs, a tangled web of lies and corruption are making these women lose focus on their game. The beautiful, twenty-three-year-old Casha Monet Bryant is in her last year at Northside and studying for her communications degree. She tries to avoid love at all costs until it hits her hard when she's introduced to the man of life, Decatur King Reyes. The two starts off with a rocky friendship until they catch feelings for one another. But, can she try to love and finish school or will the pressure of finishing her education with high grades get to her? The intelligent, twenty-three-year-old, Tara Washington is in her last year at Northside University and studying to become a psychologist. She is hiding a secret from her friends, afraid to tell them the truth of her family background. Will she be able to be honest without their friendship becoming strained? Also, she is blessed to find her soul mate, Antonio Garcia, who is in the military. The two are always there for one another, loving one another but what if Tara wants him to permanently commit to her at a young age? Twenty-three-year-old, Abrina Davidson is in her last year at the university with no inspiration to finish. She is known to be a hoe on campus but is she a good friend to her girls? One night on the town led her to meet the handsome, Mike Henderson, a street pharmacist from the south side of town. He introduces her to a proposition that she can't refuse. But will it change her life for the better? The fiery twenty-three-year-old, Shanell Cornell also in last year at Northside and is studying to become a lawyer. She has been hiding a secret from her friends for a few months that she's afraid to keep under wraps. Four best friends and four relationships. Can the women graduate or will they lose everything in the battlefield called love?

Author : Vivienne Savage
Publisher : Payne & Taylor
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Beauty and the Beast by Vivienne Savage Pdf

Author : Greg Barron
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780730498629

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Savage Tide by Greg Barron Pdf

The second race-against-time thriller from the author of ROTTEN GODS, in the tradition of le Carre, Ludlum and Clancy. Intelligence officer Marika Hartmann captures an extremist foot-soldier guilty of a massacre of school children and aid workers in Southern Somalia. Renditioned to a CIA 'black site' in Djibouti, the prisoner hints at a terror plot in the making. Marika and ex-Special Forces colleague PJ Johnson team up to investigate, uncovering a cold-blooded conspiracy that will decimate the cities of the West. From the refugee camps of East Africa to the azure waters off the Iranian coast, the marshes of Iraq to Syria's parched eastern desert, Savage Tide is a manhunt, a quest for truth, and a desperate search for the legacy of a cruel regime bent on dominating the world. Greg Barron is a world traveller who has studied International Terrorism at the prestigious St Andrew's University. His critically acclaimed thrillers reflect his fascination with political, social and environmental change. Praise for Greg Barron's novels: 'A superlative political thriller' Rob Minshull, ABC 'A high-octane thriller ... the pace is excellent, the writing is sharp and Barron has a real talent for the evocation of place ... sufficiently gripping to keep you up at night' The Australian 'Barron is not one to pull his punches' Courier-Mail 'Barron echoes the work of authors such as MacLean, Clancy and Ludlum' Canberra Times 'Supremely intelligent and written at breathtaking pace, Savage Tide combines the very best of a thriller by Tom Clancy with the Boys Own action blockbuster of someone like Chris Ryan. The speed of the action is matched only by the sophistication of the prose and the originality of the plot. Greg Barron has proved he is a political thriller writer at the very top of his game.' ABC Weekend Bookworm

Author : Nayuna Sakurano,ANNE MATHER
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9784596486233

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A SAVAGE BEAUTY by Nayuna Sakurano,ANNE MATHER Pdf

For the first time, I am moved by a man’s passion… Emma grew up in a lonely household with music as her only comfort. One day she’s rescued by a sexy man named Miguel and finds herself having to turn down his passionate advances, since she’s already engaged to be married. But when they meet again, Emma realizes he’s Miguel Salvaje, the world-famous pianist whom she has always admired! Does fate have more in store for Emma?

Author : Frank Savage
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118513668

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The Savage Way by Frank Savage Pdf

Inspiring lessons on business and life from Frank Savage Frank Savage's is an unlikely success story. Raised in segregated Washington, DC, by his mother, a hairdresser and entrepreneur with little formal education, Savage's career has taken him around the world as a globetrotting financier. From his first banking job at Citibank to his current position as Chairman Emeritus of Howard University, The Savage Way shares the life and business lessons he learned along the way. This memoir relates the many starts and stops, successes and failures in his long career, from his involvement in the collapse of Enron, to his experience investing in Africa, to his days as a competitive yachtsman—always guided by the wisdom of the mother who taught him to transcend all limits. A powerful memoir of an inspiring business leader Savage is the current Chairman of his alma mater, Howard University, and the CEO of the global financial services company Savage Holdings LLC A rare and inspiring story of personal and professional challenge and ultimate triumph, The Savage Way is a memoir that offers powerful inspiration and wisdom for tomorrow's business leaders.

Author : Frank Bill
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374710910

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The Savage by Frank Bill Pdf

In the raucous and action-packed follow-up to Donnybrook, mayhem is still the order of the day-only more so Frank Bill's America has always been stark and violent. In his new novel, he takes things one step further: the dollar has failed; the grid is wiped out. Van Dorn is eighteen and running solo, dodging the bloodthirsty hordes and militias that have emerged since the country went haywire. His dead father's voice rings in his head as Van Dorn sets his sights not just on survival but also on an old-fashioned sense of justice. Meanwhile, a leader has risen among the gangs-and around him swirls the cast of brawlers from Donnybrook, with their own brutal sense of right and wrong, of loyalty and justice through strength. So, this is not the distant postapocalyptic future-this is tomorrow, in a world Bill has already introduced us to. Now he raises the stakes and turns his shotgun prose on our addiction to technology, the values and skills we've lost in the process, and what happens when the last systems of morality and society collapse. The Savage presents a bone-chilling vision of America where power is the only currency and nothing guarantees survival. And it presents Bill at his most ambitious, most eloquent, most powerful.

Author : Nancy Milford
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062032461

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Zelda by Nancy Milford Pdf

“Profound, overwhelmingly moving . . . a richly complex love story.” — New York Times Acclaimed biographer Nancy Milford brings to life the tormented, elusive personality of Zelda Sayre and clarifies as never before Zelda’s relationship with her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald—tracing the inner disintegration of a gifted, despairing woman, torn by the clash between her husband’s career and her own talent. Zelda Sayre’s stormy life spanned from notoriety as a spirited Southern beauty to success as a gifted novelist and international celebrity at the side of her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda and Fitzgerald were one of the most visible couples of the Jazz Age, inhabiting and creating around them a world of excitement, romance, art, and promise. Yet their tumultuous relationship precipitated a descent into depression and mental instability for Zelda, leaving her to spend the final twenty years of her life in hospital care, until a fire at a sanitarium claimed her life. Incorporating years of exhaustive research and interviews, Milford illuminates Zelda’s nuanced and elusive personality, giving character to both her artistic vibrancy and to her catastrophic collapse.

Author : Murray Brewster
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781118122068

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The Savage War by Murray Brewster Pdf

On the tenth anniversary of Canada's involvement, a leading journalist offers a fascinating assessment of Canada's past and present role in the Afghan war Of the 33,000 troops under NATO command in Afghanistan in October 2006, 12,000 were Americans and 2,500 were Canadians. Deployed to southern Afghanistan, the Canadian forces were charged with ending the violent insurgency in Kandahar Province. The Savage War offers a compelling look at how the war has been conducted by Canada and its allies on the ground and at the highest echelons. With unprecedented access to classified documents and the exceptional storytelling skills that have made him an award-winning reporter, Murray Brewster offers a powerful new perspective on the war. Told in the first person by a journalist who's spent more time in the trenches than any of his peers, The Savage War provides a candid look at the war's principal figures captured in off-camera moments and the daily, gritty reality of ordinary soldiers and Afghans. And as Canada prepares to take on a new mission in Afghanistan, this is the first comprehensive account of the five most significant years of the war and the key moments in it that shaped history. Murray Brewster provides tough-minded analysis and a critique of bureaucracy as well as revelations about corruption—sure to incite commentary and stir controversy Includes eyewitness accounts, exclusive interviews, and access to classified documents An unflinching, unvarnished analysis of Canada's role in the war, told in first-person by a journalist who has sat in trenches with soldiers, and also in the living room of 24 Sussex Drive with the prime minister Taking readers beyond punditry and political spin, The Savage War is the first comprehensive account of the key moments in the Afghan war that have shaped history. Many have asked what went wrong. The Savage War tackles this question head on.

Author : Robert A. Williams
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137116079

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Savage Anxieties by Robert A. Williams Pdf

From one of the world's leading experts on Native American law and indigenous peoples' human rights comes an original and striking intellectual history of the tribe and Western civilization that sheds new light on how we understand ourselves and our contemporary society. Throughout the centuries, conquest, war, and unspeakable acts of violence and dispossession have all been justified by citing civilization's opposition to these differences represented by the tribe. Robert Williams, award winning author, legal scholar, and member of the Lumbee Indian Tribe, proposes a wide-ranging reexamination of the history of the Western world, told from the perspective of civilization's war on tribalism as a way of life. Williams shows us how what we thought we knew about the rise of Western civilization over the tribe is in dire need of reappraisal.

Author : Rachel Monroe
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781501188893

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Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe Pdf

A “necessary and brilliant” (NPR) exploration of our cultural fascination with true crime told through four “enthralling” (The New York Times Book Review) narratives of obsession. In Savage Appetites, Rachel Monroe links four criminal roles—Detective, Victim, Defender, and Killer—to four true stories about women driven by obsession. From a frustrated and brilliant heiress crafting crime-scene dollhouses to a young woman who became part of a Manson victim’s family, from a landscape architect in love with a convicted murderer to a Columbine fangirl who planned her own mass shooting, these women are alternately mesmerizing, horrifying, and sympathetic. A revealing study of women’s complicated relationship with true crime and the fear and desire it can inspire, together these stories provide a window into why many women are drawn to crime narratives—even as they also recoil from them. Monroe uses these four cases to trace the history of American crime through the growth of forensic science, the evolving role of victims, the Satanic Panic, the rise of online detectives, and the long shadow of the Columbine shooting. Combining personal narrative, reportage, and a sociological examination of violence and media in the 20th and 21st centuries, Savage Appetites is a “corrective to the genre it interrogates” (The New Statesman), scrupulously exploring empathy, justice, and the persistent appeal of crime.

Author : Keith Lowe
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250015044

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Savage Continent by Keith Lowe Pdf

The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years... The end of the Second World War in Europe is one of the twentieth century's most iconic moments. It is fondly remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, danced, drank and made love until the small hours. These images of victory and celebration are so strong in our minds that the period of anarchy and civil war that followed has been forgotten. Across Europe, landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed and more than thirty million people had been killed in the war. The institutions that we now take for granted - such as the police, the media, transport, local and national government - were either entirely absent or hopelessly compromised. Crime rates were soaring, economies collapsing, and the European population was hovering on the brink of starvation. In Savage Continent, Keith Lowe describes a continent still racked by violence, where large sections of the population had yet to accept that the war was over. Individuals, communities and sometimes whole nations sought vengeance for the wrongs that had been done to them during the war. Germans and collaborators everywhere were rounded up, tormented and summarily executed. Concentration camps were reopened and filled with new victims who were tortured and starved. Violent anti-Semitism was reborn, sparking murders and new pogroms across Europe. Massacres were an integral part of the chaos and in some places – particularly Greece, Yugoslavia and Poland, as well as parts of Italy and France – they led to brutal civil wars. In some of the greatest acts of ethnic cleansing the world has ever seen, tens of millions were expelled from their ancestral homelands, often with the implicit blessing of the Allied authorities. Savage Continent is the story of post WWII Europe, in all its ugly detail, from the end of the war right up until the establishment of an uneasy stability across Europe towards the end of the 1940s. Based principally on primary sources from a dozen countries, Savage Continent is a frightening and thrilling chronicle of a world gone mad, the standard history of post WWII Europe for years to come.

Author : Loxley Savage
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798466602180

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Broken Beasts of Beauty by Loxley Savage Pdf

I thought I'd die in the dungeons. My father is a terrible man. He claimed a demon lived inside me and imprisoned me for months in his torture chamber. Then, one fateful day, he found himself on the bitter end of a curse, and he offered me in exchange for his freedom. I thought my life was over, but I was wrong. While trapped within the curse creator's ancient castle, phantoms begin speaking to me. They caress me with invisible hands, and proclaim I'm theirs. One is cold and possessive, another curious and calculating, and the third... well, he might be damaged beyond repair-just like me. At night, however, when the phantoms leave, terrifying beasts emerge. Their snarls and roars awaken something dark within me, and their pull is impossible to resist. I'm changing, becoming something greater than I ever thought I could be. When the past comes back to haunt me, and my future is compromised, I find myself facing an old enemy. This time, though, I won't submit. This time, I'll become the demon he always claimed I was-a broken beast. ***Broken Beasts of Beauty is a full-length, stand-alone, dark, PNR, RH fairytale retelling. Nothing inside these pages is appropriate for a children's story. Within this tale are scenes with detailed sex, naughty language, torture, violence, revenge, and much more. If such material bothers or offends you, please do not read this book.***

Author : Nathaniel G. Moore
Publisher : Anvil Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Boys
ISBN : 1927380553

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Savage, 1986-2011 by Nathaniel G. Moore Pdf

Nate's nervous mother chews gum at warp speed and has a bob that resembles Darth Vader's helmet. His icy father dabbles part-time in the death trade at a funeral home after working for a decade in the insurance racket. His older sister Holly is always lurking in the shadows or away at school. Nate, a creative, messy, and anxious teen, has chosen Randy Savage as his hero. As he finishes high school, the world to which Savage belongs is quickly waning in popularity, and Nate begins to seethe wrestler's downfall mirrored in his own life. But not until the family dismantles for good in 1994 does Nate's life truly begin to fracture. Savage 1986-2011 chronicles the middle-class implosion of Nate's nuclear family, bracketed by July 1986 - when he first saw Randy Savage in person - and the wrestler's sudden death in May 2011. When Savage dies, Nate is freed from beliefs--once a source of beauty and escape--that had come to constrict him, fusing him to a moribund past...The novel is about the blurred lines between child and adult roles and the ever-changing landscape of interior heroism. Whether dealing with a family's economic turbulence, the scarring effects of teenage love, or creating a new family order, Moore revisits, remasters, and repackages a twenty-five year family odyssey with guts, honesty, and love.