Author: Isabel Jolie
Publisher: Noctivity, Inc.
ISBN: 1953942881
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
When he lures the girl, it’s just another day undercover until the unthinkable occurs… She steals his heart and disappears. To the world, billionaire Tristan Wagner is a playboy living a high life. In reality, he's an Interpol agent determined to stop corruption. In an undercover op, he targets the woman he suspects is part of a twisted scheme within the company his great-grandfather founded. The investigation requires time, and the younger woman becomes his favorite pastime–until she disappears. Uncertain about who he can trust, he reaches out to his contacts in an elite black ops security firm based in the United States, the same firm he worked with on a connected abduction. Lucia isn’t looking for love, especially with the coddled Casanova. After all, if he ever learned about her family, he’d want nothing to do with her. It’s her hope their little fling will give her the push she needs to finally make changes in her life. That’s the intent, until her life goal becomes staying alive. Fighting a race against time, Tristan rushes to rescue her and uncovers truths he never imagined, realities that alter his world and force him to face an impossible choice between his family’s legacy and the remarkable woman he’s grown to love. Sinful Beauty, the third in the Beauty trilogy within the Arrow Tactical Series, is a steamy, suspenseful standalone romance full of heat, mystery, and adventure. AUTHOR NOTE: These are written so they can be read without prior reading. However, if you might want to read the earlier books in the trilogy--to avoid spoilers--start with Stolen Beauty.
Sinful Beauty
Author: Isabel Jolie
Publisher: Noctivity, Inc.
ISBN: 1953942881
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
When he lures the girl, it’s just another day undercover until the unthinkable occurs… She steals his heart and disappears. To the world, billionaire Tristan Wagner is a playboy living a high life. In reality, he's an Interpol agent determined to stop corruption. In an undercover op, he targets the woman he suspects is part of a twisted scheme within the company his great-grandfather founded. The investigation requires time, and the younger woman becomes his favorite pastime–until she disappears. Uncertain about who he can trust, he reaches out to his contacts in an elite black ops security firm based in the United States, the same firm he worked with on a connected abduction. Lucia isn’t looking for love, especially with the coddled Casanova. After all, if he ever learned about her family, he’d want nothing to do with her. It’s her hope their little fling will give her the push she needs to finally make changes in her life. That’s the intent, until her life goal becomes staying alive. Fighting a race against time, Tristan rushes to rescue her and uncovers truths he never imagined, realities that alter his world and force him to face an impossible choice between his family’s legacy and the remarkable woman he’s grown to love. Sinful Beauty, the third in the Beauty trilogy within the Arrow Tactical Series, is a steamy, suspenseful standalone romance full of heat, mystery, and adventure. AUTHOR NOTE: These are written so they can be read without prior reading. However, if you might want to read the earlier books in the trilogy--to avoid spoilers--start with Stolen Beauty.
Publisher: Noctivity, Inc.
ISBN: 1953942881
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
When he lures the girl, it’s just another day undercover until the unthinkable occurs… She steals his heart and disappears. To the world, billionaire Tristan Wagner is a playboy living a high life. In reality, he's an Interpol agent determined to stop corruption. In an undercover op, he targets the woman he suspects is part of a twisted scheme within the company his great-grandfather founded. The investigation requires time, and the younger woman becomes his favorite pastime–until she disappears. Uncertain about who he can trust, he reaches out to his contacts in an elite black ops security firm based in the United States, the same firm he worked with on a connected abduction. Lucia isn’t looking for love, especially with the coddled Casanova. After all, if he ever learned about her family, he’d want nothing to do with her. It’s her hope their little fling will give her the push she needs to finally make changes in her life. That’s the intent, until her life goal becomes staying alive. Fighting a race against time, Tristan rushes to rescue her and uncovers truths he never imagined, realities that alter his world and force him to face an impossible choice between his family’s legacy and the remarkable woman he’s grown to love. Sinful Beauty, the third in the Beauty trilogy within the Arrow Tactical Series, is a steamy, suspenseful standalone romance full of heat, mystery, and adventure. AUTHOR NOTE: These are written so they can be read without prior reading. However, if you might want to read the earlier books in the trilogy--to avoid spoilers--start with Stolen Beauty.
Painful Beauty
Author: Megan A. Smetzer
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295748958
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
For over 150 years, Tlingit women artists have beaded colorful, intricately beautiful designs on moccasins, dolls, octopus bags, tunics, and other garments. Painful Beauty suggests that at a time when Indigenous cultural practices were actively being repressed, beading supported cultural continuity, demonstrating Tlingit women’s resilience, strength, and power. Beadwork served many uses, from the ceremonial to the economic, as women created beaded pieces for community use and to sell to tourists. Like other Tlingit art, beadwork reflects rich artistic visions with deep connections to the environment, clan histories, and Tlingit worldviews. Contemporary Tlingit artists Alison Bremner, Chloe French, Shgen Doo Tan George, Lily Hudson Hope, Tanis S’eiltin, and Larry McNeil foreground the significance of historical beading practices in their diverse, boundary-pushing artworks. Working with museum collection materials, photographs, archives, and interviews with artists and elders, Megan Smetzer reframes this often overlooked artform as a site of historical negotiations and contemporary inspirations. She shows how beading gave Tlingit women the freedom to innovate aesthetically, assert their clan crests and identities, support tribal sovereignty, and pass on cultural knowledge. Painful Beauty is the first dedicated study of Tlingit beadwork and contributes to the expanding literature addressing women’s artistic expressions on the Northwest Coast.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295748958
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
For over 150 years, Tlingit women artists have beaded colorful, intricately beautiful designs on moccasins, dolls, octopus bags, tunics, and other garments. Painful Beauty suggests that at a time when Indigenous cultural practices were actively being repressed, beading supported cultural continuity, demonstrating Tlingit women’s resilience, strength, and power. Beadwork served many uses, from the ceremonial to the economic, as women created beaded pieces for community use and to sell to tourists. Like other Tlingit art, beadwork reflects rich artistic visions with deep connections to the environment, clan histories, and Tlingit worldviews. Contemporary Tlingit artists Alison Bremner, Chloe French, Shgen Doo Tan George, Lily Hudson Hope, Tanis S’eiltin, and Larry McNeil foreground the significance of historical beading practices in their diverse, boundary-pushing artworks. Working with museum collection materials, photographs, archives, and interviews with artists and elders, Megan Smetzer reframes this often overlooked artform as a site of historical negotiations and contemporary inspirations. She shows how beading gave Tlingit women the freedom to innovate aesthetically, assert their clan crests and identities, support tribal sovereignty, and pass on cultural knowledge. Painful Beauty is the first dedicated study of Tlingit beadwork and contributes to the expanding literature addressing women’s artistic expressions on the Northwest Coast.
Romantic Love and Personal Beauty
Author: Henry T. Finck
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Beauty culture
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Beauty culture
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The Beautiful Community
Author: Irwyn L. Ince
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830853413
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The church is at its best when it pursues the biblical value of unity in diversity. Pastor and theologian Irwyn Ince boldly unpacks the reasons for our divisions while gently guiding us toward our true hope for wholeness and reconciliation. To heal our fractured humanity, we must cultivate spiritual practices that help us pursue beautiful community.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830853413
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The church is at its best when it pursues the biblical value of unity in diversity. Pastor and theologian Irwyn Ince boldly unpacks the reasons for our divisions while gently guiding us toward our true hope for wholeness and reconciliation. To heal our fractured humanity, we must cultivate spiritual practices that help us pursue beautiful community.
Sinful Cinderella
Author: Anita Valle
Publisher: Dark Fairy Tale Queens
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
A 1st Place Inkitt Novel Contest Winner for January 2018 Selected as Feminist Book of the Month by F-BOM Book Club for Sep/Oct 2019 I'm not who they think I am. A docile girl who meekly obeys her stepmother and stepsisters. Some kind of sick angel who cheerfully bears their mistreatment. That's what I WANT them to think. Because then they won't suspect what I'm really up to. The ball, the prince - it's all part of my plan to come out on top. Stepmother and her demented daughters will pay for every floor I have scoured, every sneer I have borne. They don't know about the white magic, how I use it to enhance myself. They can't see that my heart is black as midnight, rotten as a poisoned apple. They're about to find out.
Publisher: Dark Fairy Tale Queens
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
A 1st Place Inkitt Novel Contest Winner for January 2018 Selected as Feminist Book of the Month by F-BOM Book Club for Sep/Oct 2019 I'm not who they think I am. A docile girl who meekly obeys her stepmother and stepsisters. Some kind of sick angel who cheerfully bears their mistreatment. That's what I WANT them to think. Because then they won't suspect what I'm really up to. The ball, the prince - it's all part of my plan to come out on top. Stepmother and her demented daughters will pay for every floor I have scoured, every sneer I have borne. They don't know about the white magic, how I use it to enhance myself. They can't see that my heart is black as midnight, rotten as a poisoned apple. They're about to find out.
True Beauty
Author: Carolyn Mahaney
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433540371
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
What is true beauty? Whether it’s age-defying makeup or the latest diet fad, our culture continually tells women that beauty consists of flawless skin and a supermodel figure. In True Beauty, Carolyn Mahaney and her daughter Nicole Whitacre direct us to the truth of God’s Word, where we encounter an entirely different—and refreshingly liberating—standard of beauty. Offering a path to freedom from the false idols that society, the Devil, and our sinful hearts so often create, this encouraging book will help you exchange the temporary glamour of pop culture for the unfading beauty of godliness. Includes a discussion guide.
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433540371
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
What is true beauty? Whether it’s age-defying makeup or the latest diet fad, our culture continually tells women that beauty consists of flawless skin and a supermodel figure. In True Beauty, Carolyn Mahaney and her daughter Nicole Whitacre direct us to the truth of God’s Word, where we encounter an entirely different—and refreshingly liberating—standard of beauty. Offering a path to freedom from the false idols that society, the Devil, and our sinful hearts so often create, this encouraging book will help you exchange the temporary glamour of pop culture for the unfading beauty of godliness. Includes a discussion guide.
Olive Branch
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spiritualism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spiritualism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Living Beauty
Author: Alejandro García-Rivera
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742552173
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Christian mystery, celebrated in the Roman Catholic liturgy, is a sensible mystery, and calls out for artistic expression. Living Beauty explores the Christian mystery and points to the need for a liturgical aesthetic as a means to encounter the divine mystery. A liturgical aesthetic gives an account of Christian worship in terms of a new set of categories that includes divine beauty, a theology of sensibility, and the new notion of a unitive revelatory experience.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742552173
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Christian mystery, celebrated in the Roman Catholic liturgy, is a sensible mystery, and calls out for artistic expression. Living Beauty explores the Christian mystery and points to the need for a liturgical aesthetic as a means to encounter the divine mystery. A liturgical aesthetic gives an account of Christian worship in terms of a new set of categories that includes divine beauty, a theology of sensibility, and the new notion of a unitive revelatory experience.
Wicked Beauty
Author: Katee Robert
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1728231809
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
She was the face that launched a thousand ships, the fierce beauty at the heart of Olympus...and she was never ours to claim. *A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Helen of Troy, Achilles, and Patroclus that's as sinful as it is sweet.* In Olympus, you either have the power to rule...or you are ruled. Achilles Kallis may have been born with nothing, but as a child he vowed he would claw his way into the poisonous city's inner circle. Now that a coveted role has opened to anyone with the strength to claim it, he and his partner, Patroclus Fotos, plan to compete and double their odds of winning. Neither expect infamous beauty Helen Kasios to be part of the prize...or for the complicated fire that burns the moment she looks their way. Zeus may have decided Helen is his to give to away, but she has her own plans. She enters into the competition as a middle finger to the meddling Thirteen rulers, effectively vying for her own hand in marriage. Unfortunately, there are those who would rather see her dead than lead the city. The only people she can trust are the ones she can't keep her hands off—Achilles and Patroclus. But can she really believe they have her best interests at heart when every stolen kiss is a battlefield? "Deliciously inventive...Red-hot."—Publishers Weekly STARRED for Neon Gods "I get shivers just thinking of their interactions. SHIVERS."—Mimi Koehler for The Nerd Daily for Neon Gods The World of Dark Olympus: Neon Gods (Hades & Persephone) Electric Idol (Eros & Psyche) Wicked Beauty (Achilles & Patroclus & Helen) Radiant Sin (Apollo & Cassandra)
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1728231809
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
She was the face that launched a thousand ships, the fierce beauty at the heart of Olympus...and she was never ours to claim. *A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Helen of Troy, Achilles, and Patroclus that's as sinful as it is sweet.* In Olympus, you either have the power to rule...or you are ruled. Achilles Kallis may have been born with nothing, but as a child he vowed he would claw his way into the poisonous city's inner circle. Now that a coveted role has opened to anyone with the strength to claim it, he and his partner, Patroclus Fotos, plan to compete and double their odds of winning. Neither expect infamous beauty Helen Kasios to be part of the prize...or for the complicated fire that burns the moment she looks their way. Zeus may have decided Helen is his to give to away, but she has her own plans. She enters into the competition as a middle finger to the meddling Thirteen rulers, effectively vying for her own hand in marriage. Unfortunately, there are those who would rather see her dead than lead the city. The only people she can trust are the ones she can't keep her hands off—Achilles and Patroclus. But can she really believe they have her best interests at heart when every stolen kiss is a battlefield? "Deliciously inventive...Red-hot."—Publishers Weekly STARRED for Neon Gods "I get shivers just thinking of their interactions. SHIVERS."—Mimi Koehler for The Nerd Daily for Neon Gods The World of Dark Olympus: Neon Gods (Hades & Persephone) Electric Idol (Eros & Psyche) Wicked Beauty (Achilles & Patroclus & Helen) Radiant Sin (Apollo & Cassandra)
Lethal Bayou Beauty
Author: Jana DeLeon
Publisher: Jana DeLeon
ISBN: 0985003774
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jana DeLeon brings you the second book in the bestselling Miss Fortune series. No one in Sinful liked Pansy Arceneaux, but who hated her enough to kill her? When aspiring actress Pansy Arceneaux returns to Sinful, Louisiana to head up the beauty pageant portion of the Summer Festival, CIA assassin Fortune Redding knows she’s in for trouble. Her undercover identity as a former beauty queen make Fortune the perfect choice to chair the event with Pansy, but Pansy’s abrasive personality make it impossible to get through a single rehearsal without a fight. When Pansy turns up dead, Fortune is the prime suspect. Armed with only her wits and two conniving seniors referred to locally as The Geritol Mafia, Fortune launches an investigation to find the real killer before her cover is blown. Lethal Bayou Beauty is a humorous mystery set in the bayous of southern Louisiana. It has a cozy mystery feel and features a strong woman sleuth in a fish-out-of-water storyline. Lethal Bayou Beauty is the second book in the Miss Fortune series and appeals to readers of the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. "Southern wit at its best!" - NYT Bestselling author Gemma Halliday "Sinfully funny!" - NYT Bestselling author CC Hunter/Christie Craig “DeLeon is excellent at weaving comedy, suspense and spicy romance into one compelling story.” – RT Book Reviews “I don’t know where she comes up with this funny stuff, but I can’t wait to read the next book…” – Night Owl Reviews “Jana DeLeon has a breezy style with enough of a comic touch to leave you smiling.” – The Romance Reader “Son of a gun, we’re having fun in the bayou!” – Fresh Fiction “The quirky characters keep the action moving…” – Barbara Vey, Publisher’s Weekly Blogger To learn more about Jana and her books visit her at: http://janadeleon.com http://facebook.com/janadeleonauthor @JanaDeLeon
Publisher: Jana DeLeon
ISBN: 0985003774
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jana DeLeon brings you the second book in the bestselling Miss Fortune series. No one in Sinful liked Pansy Arceneaux, but who hated her enough to kill her? When aspiring actress Pansy Arceneaux returns to Sinful, Louisiana to head up the beauty pageant portion of the Summer Festival, CIA assassin Fortune Redding knows she’s in for trouble. Her undercover identity as a former beauty queen make Fortune the perfect choice to chair the event with Pansy, but Pansy’s abrasive personality make it impossible to get through a single rehearsal without a fight. When Pansy turns up dead, Fortune is the prime suspect. Armed with only her wits and two conniving seniors referred to locally as The Geritol Mafia, Fortune launches an investigation to find the real killer before her cover is blown. Lethal Bayou Beauty is a humorous mystery set in the bayous of southern Louisiana. It has a cozy mystery feel and features a strong woman sleuth in a fish-out-of-water storyline. Lethal Bayou Beauty is the second book in the Miss Fortune series and appeals to readers of the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. "Southern wit at its best!" - NYT Bestselling author Gemma Halliday "Sinfully funny!" - NYT Bestselling author CC Hunter/Christie Craig “DeLeon is excellent at weaving comedy, suspense and spicy romance into one compelling story.” – RT Book Reviews “I don’t know where she comes up with this funny stuff, but I can’t wait to read the next book…” – Night Owl Reviews “Jana DeLeon has a breezy style with enough of a comic touch to leave you smiling.” – The Romance Reader “Son of a gun, we’re having fun in the bayou!” – Fresh Fiction “The quirky characters keep the action moving…” – Barbara Vey, Publisher’s Weekly Blogger To learn more about Jana and her books visit her at: http://janadeleon.com http://facebook.com/janadeleonauthor @JanaDeLeon