PAWNSHOP & PALACES

PAWNSHOP & PALACES
Author: Helen Osterman Borowitz
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1991-03-17
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

A tale of embezzlement, museum scandal, and political intrigue, Pawnshop and Palaces recounts the stormy history of the famous Campana art collection. Spawned by the criminal offenses of its founder and then dispersed and fought over throughout Europe, the collection evokes nineteenth-century cultural history as it delves into issues of art management and deaccessioning.

The Palace Beautiful

The Palace Beautiful
Author: L. T. Meade
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2023-08-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

"The Palace Beautiful" by L. T. Meade. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Mexico

Mexico
Author: Claude Hervé-Bazin
Publisher: Hunter Publishing, Inc
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2003
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9782884521086

Each guide in the This Way series offers information on the highlights of not only the worlds most popular tourist regions, but also more unusual destinations such as Kenya, Thailand, and Jordan. Designed to provide the maximum of cultural, historical, and practical information in a minimum space, each guide offers a variety of street, subway, and regional maps. From cosmopolitan cities and towering skyscrapers to small villages and natural wonders, each guide is filled with valuable recommendations and addresses for monuments, parks, markets, restaurants, and cafes, whether for a weekend getaway or an extended adventure.

The Magnolia Palace

The Magnolia Palace
Author: Fiona Davis
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2023-01-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593184033

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions. Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after artists' models in New York City, with statues based on her figure gracing landmarks from the Plaza Hotel to the Brooklyn Bridge. But with her mother gone, a grieving Lillian is rudderless and desperate—the work has dried up and a looming scandal has left her entirely without a safe haven. So when she stumbles upon an employment opportunity at the Frick mansion—a building that, ironically, bears her own visage—Lillian jumps at the chance. But the longer she works as a private secretary to the imperious and demanding Helen Frick, the daughter and heiress of industrialist and art patron Henry Clay Frick, the more deeply her life gets intertwined with that of the family—pulling her into a tangled web of romantic trysts, stolen jewels, and family drama that runs so deep, the stakes just may be life or death. Nearly fifty years later, mod English model Veronica Weber has her own chance to make her career—and with it, earn the money she needs to support her family back home—within the walls of the former Frick residence, now converted into one of New York City's most impressive museums. But when she—along with a charming intern/budding art curator named Joshua—is dismissed from the Vogue shoot taking place at the Frick Collection, she chances upon a series of hidden messages in the museum: messages that will lead her and Joshua on a hunt that could not only solve Veronica's financial woes, but could finally reveal the truth behind a decades-old murder in the infamous Frick family.

The Prosecutor

The Prosecutor
Author: Augusto Roa Bastos
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2018-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1683930355

The Prosecutor is the third novel of a trilogy written by the internationally famous Paraguayan author Augusto Roa Bastos. It was preceded by the novels Son of Man and I The Supreme. Together these three works contemplate what the author has termed “the monotheism of power.” The Prosecutor explores the atrocities of the Alfredo Stroessner dictatorship in Paraguay, which lasted from 1954 to 1989. Through connections with important Paraguayan historical figures, such as Francisco Solano López, the novel links the protagonist to Paraguay’s past as he struggles to give meaning to his life by assassinating the dictator and freeing the Paraguayan people. Combining autobiography, detective fiction, historical novel and philosophy, the novel examines the question of whether one man has the right to judge another. A provocative introduction and comprehensive notes by Helene Carol Weldt-Basson illuminate this translation of one of Roa Bastos’s most important works.