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-- It's Christmas, and Phryne has an invitation to the Last Best party of 1928, a four-day extravaganza being hosted at the Werribee Manor House by the Golden Twins, Isabella and Gerald Templar. Phryne is of two minds about going. But when threats begin arriving in the mail, she promptly decides to accept the invitation. No one tells Phryne Fisher what to do.At the Manor House, she is accommodated in the Iris room. At the party she dallies with two...
83) Saratoga trunk
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1941
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Old New Orleans and Saratoga in the 80's. The story of a young Texan and the daughter of a Creole aristocrat.
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Reynal
Pub. Date
[1965]
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This is the most magnificent and most comprehensive volume ever published on Michelangelo and his work. It is a companion volume to the monumental work on Leonardo da Vinci published in 1956, of which there are now over 150,000 in print. Michelangelo and Leonardo were the two great geniuses of the Italian Renaissance and this book, like the one on Leonardo, brings the full scope of the artist's achievements vividly to life. Compiled by outstanding...
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Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018
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A deeply textured dual biography and fascinating intellectual history that examines two of the greatest minds of European history-Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther-whose heated rivalry gave rise to two enduring, fundamental, and often colliding traditions of philosophical and religious thought.
Erasmus of Rotterdam was the leading figure of the Northern Renaissance. At a time when Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael were revolutionizing Western...
86) The Renaissance
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Peter Bedrick Books
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[2000]
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Key works of Renaissance art and other artifacts are used to explore European civilization at the end of the Middle Ages.
87) Michelangelo
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Peter Bedrick Books
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[1996]
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With reproductions of art masterpieces in full color, this book examines the life and art of Michelangelo and focuses on the cultural developments of the era in which he lived.
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New Video Group
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[2011]
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A prequel to the video game Assassin's Creed II. It centers around the father of the game's main character Ezio Auditore da Firenze. Giovanni is an assassin living during the Renaissance in 15th century Italy. At this dawn of a new era, a conspiracy is being plotted by one corrupt family to overthrow the powerful Medici family and destroy a unified Italy. Giovanni must face this threat and bring justice.
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"Virginia Woolf's Orlando, 'the longest and most charming love letter in literature,' playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning thee centuries of boisterous, fantastic adventure, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces experiences with first love as England, under James I, lies locked...
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"For Madeleine McCarthy, high-spirited and eight years old, her family's posting to a quiet air force base near the Canadian-American border is at first welcome, secure as she is in the love of her family and unaware that her father, Jack, is caught up in his own web of secrets. The early sixties, a time of optimism infused with the excitement of the space race and overshadowed by the menace of the Cold war, is filtered through the rich imagination...
91) Renaissance
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Knopf
Pub. Date
[1999]
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First American edition.
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An overview of the philosphy, inventions, art, government, religion and daily life of the Renaissance.
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Phryne Fisher is in the last hours of a dance competition at Melbourne's premier dance hall, the Green Mill, when someone slumps to the ground, stabbed. Conscious of how narrowly the weapon missed her own bare shoulder, back, and dress, Phryne investigates. She follows the deadly trail into the dark, smoky jazz clubs of Fitzroy, into the arms of eloquent strangers, and finally into the sky, as she uncovers a complicated family tragedy from the Great...
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"When the glamorous Phryne Fisher, accompanied by Dot, decides to leave her delightfully fast, red Hispano-Suiza at home and travel to the country in the train, the last thing she expects is to have to use her trusty Beretta .32 to save their lives. What was planned as a restful country sojourn turns into the stuff of nightmares: a young girl who can't remember anything, rumors of vile white slavery and the body of an old woman missing her emerald...
95) The it girls
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From New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper comes a novel based on the lives of two amazing sisters . . .
One sailed the Titanic and started a fashion empire . . .
The other overtook Hollywood and scandalized the world . . .
Together, they were unstoppable.
They rose from genteel poverty, two beautiful sisters, ambitious, witty, seductive. Elinor and Lucy Sutherland are at once each other's fiercest supporters and most vicious critics.
Lucy...
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Phryne Fisher, a private investigator in 1920s Paris, must deal with problems on the domestic front, while looking into the suspicious deaths of two soldiers who were part of a group that inadvertently witnessed a murder while on leave in the City of Lights during World War I.
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Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2011
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From the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Death at Victoria Dock, the next historical mystery featuring the wit and authenticity of Miss Fisher. When a terrible crime hits a little too close to home, Phryne will stop at nothing to seek out the truth.
"Those who like their heroines resourceful and their mystery plots leavened with humor will read this with pleasure."-Publishers Weekly
Looking for a thrilling detective novel? This...
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H.N. Abrams
Pub. Date
1996
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An illustrated survey of the Renaissance, the period of European history ranging from the fourteenth through the seventeenth century which marked the emergence of the modern world from the dark ages, discussing over 100 topics, divided among the eight major themes of intellectual, political, religious, economic, social, technological, artistic, and architectural life.
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