He died in the Palazzo Torlonia, Rome, in 1986.Īrms of Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi. In the 1980s, Torlonia held the title as the "richest man in Rome", as he was the heir to a banking fortune. In 1941, when his mother was dying in New York City, Torlonia took a high speed boat from Portugal and was arrested in error by FBI, thinking he was an enemy of the state and taken to Ellis Island. On the death of his father in 1933, he inherited large estates as well as his father's princely and other titles. Don Alessandro's youngest sister was Donna Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi, grandmother of the American actress Brooke Shields. Marino Torlonia, 4th Prince of Civitella-Cesiĭon Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince of Civitella-Cesi (7 December 1911 – 1 May/) was an Italian banking heir and a member of the House of Torlonia.īorn in Rome on 7 December 1911, Torlonia was the son of Marino Torlonia, 4th Prince di Civitella-Cesi and his American wife, Mary Elsie Moore. Marco Torlonia, 6th Prince of Civitella-Cesi Sandra, Countess Clemente Lequio di Assaba
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She’s earned her rep as the craziest of crazies, but that doesn’t stop the torture. Tenley “Ten” Lockwood has spent the past thirteen months locked inside the Prynne Asylum. This is my story-but the end is only the beginning. My name is Tenley Lockwood, and very soon, I’ll be dead. I’ve been told history is written by survivors. Upon graduation, she took a job as a sports writer for the Los Angeles Times, but while she found success in her early career, it didn’t quite fill her with the passion she craved. And so, after finishing high school, she went on to pursue a degree in journalism at California State University. Who is Karen Kingsbury?īorn in Fairfax, Virginia, in 1963, Karen Kingsbury always had a natural talent for writing. In this post, I’ll give you a full list of every book the author has ever published, from her earliest true crime stories to her smash hit Baxter Family series and everything in between.īut first, let’s take a look at the woman behind the books. 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The smart, sharp, plus sized pop culture reporter was perfectly content writing about other people’s lives on the pages of the Philadelphia Examiner. Cannie Shapiro never wanted to be famous. And the larger woman, I could only assume, was me. Bruce Guberman had been my boyfriend for just over three years, until we’d decided to take a break three months ago. Loving a Larger Woman, said the headline, by Bruce Guberman. At first my eyes wouldn’t make sense of the letters. As horror stories go, this one is heavy on the atmosphere. Honestly, I can't say I liked this one as well as "The Blue Lenses", which had a certain amount of depth that this one doesn't have. The Plot: A man finds himself bewitched by a girl who is liberal with her affections. Rating: 3 Stars (Good)Īlthough du Maurier is best known for having a character named Rebecca in her novel of the same name, here is another instance she uses a similarly named character to sinister effect. I suggest reading the story first, as she includes a minor spoiler.Īvailable to read for free, online here. It's a bit unsettling.Īnother note: This was included in an article on Bibliotherapy: what to read when you're at breaking point. If you happen to be having eye surgery, I would save this one for later. It was indeed a rebirth, the discovery of a world long lost to her. The blue symmetry of vision itself was all important. The Plot: A woman has surgery to repair her vision, but when her bandages are removed, her vision seems to have bizarrely deteriorated instead.Ĭolour was not important. Without sight, would we judge people differently or the same? Daphne du Maurier does an excellent job of playing on some of the more basic fears most people have. Surgeries are a vulnerable time for most people, so it makes sense to write a weird horror tale about the subject. (The audio appears to have more sentences- I'm not sure if it was added on or not.) 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Belloc enlists Mahmoud Ezzedine, a Muslim physician left behind by the last diplomatic visit from the Ottoman Empire, as his undercover agent. It falls to Geoffrey Belloc, a secret warrior from the hottest days of England’s religious battles, to devise a test to discover the true nature of King James’s soul. With time running out, London confronts a seemingly impossible question: What does James truly believe? He has every reason to claim to be a Protestant, but if he secretly shares his family’s Catholicism, then forty years of religious war will have been for nothing, and a bloodbath will ensue. The queen’s spymasters-hardened veterans of a long war on terror and religious extremism-fear that James is not what he appears. The leading candidate is King James VI of Scotland, but there is a problem. Potential successors secretly maneuver to be in position when the inevitable occurs. It is a capital crime even to think that Elizabeth will ever die. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE WASHINGTON POST “Evokes flashes of Hilary Mantel, John le Carré and Graham Greene, but the wry, tricky plot that drives it is pure Arthur Phillips.”- The Wall Street Journal Queen Elizabeth’s spymasters recruit an unlikely agent-the only Muslim in England-for an impossible mission in a mesmerizing novel from “one of the best writers in America” ( The Washington Post) Madeline Hunter ’s novels are: “Brilliant, compelling. But as proximity gives way to mutual seduction, Chase realizes he craves a much deeper alliance. She may be the perfect person to help him uncover the truth about his uncle’s demise. Since the scandal surrounding her husband’s death, she has set up a discreet detective business to rival Chase’s own. Chase can’t decide whether Minerva is a wronged woman or a femme fatale. Only one thing could surprise her more: her sudden attraction to this exasperating man. Now he’s insisting that Minerva has inherited a fortune from his uncle, a wealthy Duke. Instead she wallops the rogue over the head and ties him up-only to realize he is Chase Radnor, the man who nearly got her convicted of her late husband’s murder. When an intruder breaks into her home, she doesn’t swoon or simper. Minerva Hepplewhite has learned the hard way how to take care of herself. In this stunning series debut from New York Times bestselling author Madeline Hunter, a duke’s mysterious bequest brings fortune-and passion-to three young women. He’s become a bit overprotective as a result, but not annoyingly so by any means. (Poor lady’s knee pops throughout the whole book!) Greg, too, is struggling with everything. The book begins with Meg still reeling from everything that happened to her in the last book and she’s still dealing with it emotionally and physically. The amount of blood and gore - oh my goodness! \o/ The action is great and the Rat King, rat hordes and zombie rats made for a surprising complication for our supers. The case was interesting and everything moves along at a fast past and I read the whole book in a day, which is quite rare for me these days (attention span of a spork, I tell ya), so hats off to Jackson! Not a single dull moment. I read Fear and Fury a while back, but my TBR is long long long, so it’s taken me a little while to get to book two but even still I sank very quickly back into Meg and Greg’s world with this book. Bark, rough under my fingers and the palms of my hands A message on the wind. Thus, in "The Littoral Zone," Jonathan and Ruby meet during a summer spent teaching marine biology. Having done so, they disappear behind a veil of obscurity, ignored by a society that is unwilling to recognize the intellectual abilities of women.īarrett has a masterly gift for taking a scientific or medical term, or an anecdote from the history of those disciplines, and using it as a metaphor for a character's interior plight. In this story, two 18th Century women join together to investigate, in secret, the behavior of birds of passage. Linnaeus also appears in passing in "Rare Bird," one of several stories whose plots center on the long history of women's frustrations in being taken seriously as scientists. Entering into his increasingly clouded mind, Barrett shows that even as he faces death, Linneaus cannot cease his attempts to methodically categorize all that lives. In "The English Pupil," she touchingly dramatizes the death of Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, who laid the foundations for the naming and classification of plants. Naturalists and botany appear to be Barrett's scientific specialty. |