The birth of venus novel6/30/2023 The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain’s most innovative writers of literary suspense. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra’s married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola’s reactionary followers. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra’s parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities. Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo.
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Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry6/30/2023 One thing that makes the book so good is the sheer sweep of the plot. It certainly is the best of Larry McMurtry's, and he has written good ones before. It happens instead to be the start of one of the best westerns I have ever read. Turn the key, and the clockwork figures will start shooting, drinking, roping cows, whoring. This could be the beginning of any number of western novels. There's other company in Lonesome Dove as well: an exceptionally beautiful (and morose) whore named Lorena, a piano player named Lippy with a hole in his stomach, an independent young widow named Mary Cole, and so on. There's also a small crew: Pea Eye, a former corporal in the Rangers Bolivar, a former Mexican bandit turned cook Deets, a black cowboy and the best tracker in Texas and Newt, a 17- year-old boy. Traffic both ways is brisk.)Ĭall, though a compulsive worker, doesn't do everything on the ranch himself. (Sometimes they are merely reclaiming stock which Pedro Flores, the fierce hacienda owner to the south, had previously crossed the river to steal in Texas. Gus McCrae mainly loafs around the ranchhouse with a whiskey jug, though he does participate in night raids into Mexico to steal horses and cattle. These days they are running a combination ranch and livery stable - or at least Call is. In it, somewhere around the year 1880, live two former captains in the Texas Rangers: Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae. LONESOME DOVE is a very small Texas town, right on the Mexican border. She currently resides in Lawrenceville, GA with her husband and two children. Patrice McLaurin is a graduate of Alabama A&M University. She also hopes to inspire children to recognize and embrace their own genius. Her goal is to demonstrate to children how the genius of African-American minds is utilized on a daily basis. Author of the best selling Have You Thanked an Inventor Today, I Am Because I Choose and Have You Thanked a KidVentor Today. “Have You Thanked an Inventor Today?” is Patrice’s first children’s book. Patrice McLaurin Children's Book Author and Public Speaker. She’s also worked with alternative school youth. As a character education coordinator, she traveled to various schools and implemented character education curriculum while conjointly working with young women at a girl’s detention center. From there, she coordinated and facilitated numerous youth workshops. Patrice McLaurin is a graduate of Alabama A&M University. Her journey began as a volunteer at a local Girls Inc., where she developed and taught a cultural heritage course, designed to promote self-esteem and self-determination. Patrice McLaurin has worked to empower and to enhance the lives of young people for well over 15 years. Christina henry alice series6/28/2023 Only something else has escaped with her. Then, one night, a fire at the hospital gives the woman a chance to escape, tumbling out of the hole that imprisoned her, leaving her free to uncover the truth about what happened to her all those years ago. Just a tea party long ago, and long ears, and blood… She doesn’t remember why she’s in such a terrible place. Her hair, once blond, hangs in tangles down her back. In a warren of crumbling buildings and desperate people called the Old City, there stands a hospital with cinderblock walls which echo the screams of the poor souls inside. Oz will dive into the countless popular books that came out throughout the ages from different genres that surprisingly enough, he didn’t even bother to read yet! Can you believe it? What a dork pĪ mind-bending new novel inspired by the twisted and wondrous works of Lewis Carroll… Diving into the Known is a new series contributed by the new addition to the YomM team, Ozhasbooks. 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