Author: Qiao Mei
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1649918674
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
She was immortal and did not die of old age. She used a knife in her hand to unravel all the mysteries around her. He, the current prince, calmly played chess with every move he made. A broken piece of jade pushed the two unrelated people together. She gave up love and wanted nothing more than to find a way to live. Facing each other day and night, a deep love, hand in hand and retreat, cutting through thorns and thorns. Power conspiracy, mystery, who was the most important person!
Prince and His Forensic Beauty
Author: Qiao Mei
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1649916981
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
She was immortal and did not die of old age. She used a knife in her hand to unravel all the mysteries around her. He, the current prince, calmly played chess with every move he made. A broken piece of jade pushed the two unrelated people together. She gave up love and wanted nothing more than to find a way to live. Facing each other day and night, a deep love, hand in hand and retreat, cutting through thorns and thorns. Power conspiracy, mystery, who was the most important person!
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1649916981
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
She was immortal and did not die of old age. She used a knife in her hand to unravel all the mysteries around her. He, the current prince, calmly played chess with every move he made. A broken piece of jade pushed the two unrelated people together. She gave up love and wanted nothing more than to find a way to live. Facing each other day and night, a deep love, hand in hand and retreat, cutting through thorns and thorns. Power conspiracy, mystery, who was the most important person!
A Bride for the Tsar
Author: Russell E. Martin
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1609090594
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
From 1505 to 1689, Russia's tsars chose their wives through an elaborate ritual: the bride-show. The realm's most beautiful young maidens—provided they hailed from the aristocracy—gathered in Moscow, where the tsar's trusted boyars reviewed their medical histories, evaluated their spiritual qualities, noted their physical appearances, and confirmed their virtue. Those who passed muster were presented to the tsar, who inspected the candidates one by one—usually without speaking to any of them—and chose one to be immediately escorted to the Kremlin to prepare for her wedding and new life as the tsar's consort. Alongside accounts of sordid boyar plots against brides, the multiple marriages of Ivan the Terrible, and the fascinating spectacle of the bride-show ritual, A Bride for the Tsar offers an analysis of the show's role in the complex politics of royal marriage in early modern Russia. Russell E. Martin argues that the nature of the rituals surrounding the selection of a bride for the tsar tells us much about the extent of his power, revealing it to be limited and collaborative, not autocratic. Extracting the bride-show from relative obscurity, Martin persuasively establishes it as an essential element of the tsarist political system.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1609090594
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
From 1505 to 1689, Russia's tsars chose their wives through an elaborate ritual: the bride-show. The realm's most beautiful young maidens—provided they hailed from the aristocracy—gathered in Moscow, where the tsar's trusted boyars reviewed their medical histories, evaluated their spiritual qualities, noted their physical appearances, and confirmed their virtue. Those who passed muster were presented to the tsar, who inspected the candidates one by one—usually without speaking to any of them—and chose one to be immediately escorted to the Kremlin to prepare for her wedding and new life as the tsar's consort. Alongside accounts of sordid boyar plots against brides, the multiple marriages of Ivan the Terrible, and the fascinating spectacle of the bride-show ritual, A Bride for the Tsar offers an analysis of the show's role in the complex politics of royal marriage in early modern Russia. Russell E. Martin argues that the nature of the rituals surrounding the selection of a bride for the tsar tells us much about the extent of his power, revealing it to be limited and collaborative, not autocratic. Extracting the bride-show from relative obscurity, Martin persuasively establishes it as an essential element of the tsarist political system.
Encyclopædia Americana
Author: Francis Lieber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Wrong House
Author: Elizabeth Cooke
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504019490
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Anna Miles has hidden from the world for months. But on a storm-lashed night, a stranger arrives at her door: a mute girl with the body of an old woman in her car. Who is the girl, and what is her strange connection to Anna? And from whom has Anna been hiding all this time? Chief Inspector Robert Wilde assumes the task of investigating the elderly passenger’s death, a case which turns out to be the strangest and most disturbing of his career. This edition is the first publication of this title outside the United Kingdom.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504019490
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Anna Miles has hidden from the world for months. But on a storm-lashed night, a stranger arrives at her door: a mute girl with the body of an old woman in her car. Who is the girl, and what is her strange connection to Anna? And from whom has Anna been hiding all this time? Chief Inspector Robert Wilde assumes the task of investigating the elderly passenger’s death, a case which turns out to be the strangest and most disturbing of his career. This edition is the first publication of this title outside the United Kingdom.
Encyclopaedia Americana
Author: Francis Lieber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection
Author: Kerri Maniscalco
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 031659234X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1584
Book Description
Devour the complete #1 New York Times bestselling Stalking Jack the Ripper series: Stalking Jack the Ripper, Hunting Prince Dracula, Escaping from Houdini, Capturing the Devil, and a free novella are included in this thrilling new collection! Between social teas and silk dress fittings, Audrey Rose Wadsworth leads a secret life studying corpses in the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. A string of ghastly corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer as she searches for the identity of Jack the Ripper. This is only the beginning of Audrey's life-shattering journey. Soon, she's drawn deeper into the captivatingly gruesome world of bizarre murders. As Audrey finds herself in the castle of Dracula himself, and then face-to-face with the one and only Houdini, she discovers that love and death go hand in hand, and there's something irresistible about the charming Thomas Cresswell who accompanies her. Shocking, blood-soaked discoveries will take Audrey and Thomas across the seas from London to America, where they find themselves dangerously lost in the infamous Murder Hotel. Will Audrey Rose and Thomas see their last mystery to the end-together and in love-or will their fortunes finally run out when their most depraved adversary makes one final, devastating kill?
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 031659234X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1584
Book Description
Devour the complete #1 New York Times bestselling Stalking Jack the Ripper series: Stalking Jack the Ripper, Hunting Prince Dracula, Escaping from Houdini, Capturing the Devil, and a free novella are included in this thrilling new collection! Between social teas and silk dress fittings, Audrey Rose Wadsworth leads a secret life studying corpses in the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. A string of ghastly corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer as she searches for the identity of Jack the Ripper. This is only the beginning of Audrey's life-shattering journey. Soon, she's drawn deeper into the captivatingly gruesome world of bizarre murders. As Audrey finds herself in the castle of Dracula himself, and then face-to-face with the one and only Houdini, she discovers that love and death go hand in hand, and there's something irresistible about the charming Thomas Cresswell who accompanies her. Shocking, blood-soaked discoveries will take Audrey and Thomas across the seas from London to America, where they find themselves dangerously lost in the infamous Murder Hotel. Will Audrey Rose and Thomas see their last mystery to the end-together and in love-or will their fortunes finally run out when their most depraved adversary makes one final, devastating kill?
Truth
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1662
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1662
Book Description
The American Cyclopaedia
Author: George Ripley
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
The United States Manual of Biography and History ... with Authentic Copies of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution of the United States. To which is Prefixed an Introductory History of the United States ... Illustrated with Portraits, Etc
Author: James V. MARSHALL
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Sophocles : The plays and fragments
Author: Sophocles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description