Beauty and the Inferno

Beauty and the Inferno PDF Author: Roberto Saviano
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1784786527
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Essays on art, politics and life from the best-selling author of Gomorrah Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano’s 2006 exposé of Naples’s Camorra mafia, was an international bestseller and became an award-winning film. But the death threats that followed forced the author into hiding. Saviano was ostracized by his countrymen and went on the run, changing his location every few months and compelled to keep perpetual company with his bodyguards. To this day, he lives in an undisclosed location. The loneliness of the fugitive life informs the essays in Beauty and the Inferno. Among other subjects, he writes about the legendary South African jazz singer Miriam Makeba, his meeting with the real-life Donnie Brasco, sharing the Nobel Academy platform with Salman Rushdie, and the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Present throughout the book is a sense of Saviano’s peculiar isolation, which infuses his words with anger, exceptional insight and tragedy.

Beauty and the Streets

Beauty and the Streets PDF Author: Kim K.
Publisher: Melodrama Publishing
ISBN: 1620780488
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
Young Khye was always spoiled and told that her beauty would get her far. However, no one told her that beauty without brains would lead to a dead end. Khye and her family moved to Harlem from London when she was nine. She figured out quickly that her accent garnered attention. A decade later, her now exaggerated accent grabs the attention of many men. But Khye only has eyes for Floyd, a pretty boy making a name for himself in the music industry. When Floyd is murdered in the recording studio, Khye begins investigating. Secrets about who he really was and how he really earned his living begin to surface, and Khye is determined to pick up right where he left off.

Pimps Up, Ho's Down

Pimps Up, Ho's Down PDF Author: T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814740642
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 201

Book Description
Five essays address feminist issues relating to the women of the hip-hop generation, covering topics ranging from strip clubs and groupie culture to the idealization of white beauty and light skin color.

Charisma: Baller's Wife

Charisma: Baller's Wife PDF Author: Nikki Turner
Publisher: Urban Books
ISBN: 1622864891
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263

Book Description
The past always has a way of catching up with you... Charisma Bland was born and raised in the heart of Baltimore, where she learns that a moment's pleasure can sometimes lead to a life of pain. Against her better judgment, she has a one-night stand that changes her life forever. Turning over the family business to her cousin, she leaves behind her past. Charisma moves to Miami, where she meets Mr. Manny Manifesto, aka Mr. Baseball. Manny is coming off his best season ever, bringing with him a freshly inked 250-million-dollar-plus contract. After a chance meeting, Charisma sees an opportunity to start anew, and she and Manny attempt to build a relationship. The sex might be good, but will their omissions and the deeds of their past come back to haunt them?

Saved by Beauty

Saved by Beauty PDF Author: Roger Housden
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307587746
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
When Roger Housden decided to travel to Iran and finally see the subject of his youthful fascination, he was in his sixties. By then, he thought he had seen the world. He was wrong. It was a quest that changed him forever. In Iran, Housden met with artists, writers, film makers and religious scholars who embody the long Iranian tradition of humanism, and shared with him their belief in scholarship and artistry. From the bustle of modern Tehran to the paradise gardens of Shiraz to the spectacular mosques and ancient palaces of Isfahan, Housden met Iranians who were warm, welcoming, generous, intellectually curious, and altogether alive with their love for one another, and for the faith and tradition that holds them together. Saved by Beauty weaves a richly textured story of many threads. It is a deeply poetic and perceptive appreciation of a culture that has endured for over three thousand years, while it also portrays the creative and spiritual cultures within contemporary Iran. While there, Roger Housden was brought face to face with the reality that beauty and truth, deceit and violence, are inextricably mingled in the affairs of human life, and was forever altered by it.

Brooklyn Bombshells - Part 1: Black Beauty

Brooklyn Bombshells - Part 1: Black Beauty PDF Author: Erica Hilton
Publisher: Melodrama Publishing
ISBN: 1620781077
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
Bad Blood Dating a hustler was never on Chanel's to-do list, but life has always thrown her curveballs. The youngest of three girls and treated like the black sheep, she has always lived in the shadow of her beautiful sisters, Claire and Charlie Brown. Charlie, the oldest sister, gets what she wants and takes what she needs. She has a temper like her crazy parents, and Chanel is her favorite target. Charlie's jealousy and ambition cross over into Chanel's world, and the unthinkable happens. Engaged in a family feud, Chanel and Charlie bump heads like never before. When the men in their lives can't come to their rescue, the sisters quickly learn to fight their own battles.

The Baller's Secret Baby

The Baller's Secret Baby PDF Author: Normandie Alleman
Publisher: Normandie Alleman
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
He may be a player, but this stud’s not shooting blanks.​ NICK I'm nobody's baby daddy. I don't care how many stunning women throw themselves at me, looking to turn one hot night into an eighteen-year paycheck. I've got way too much on the line to throw it away for one night of pleasure. Ball is life, and basketball is my first priority. I've got a championship to win. But when I see that familiar face shaking her pom-poms on the sidelines, I’m transported back to childhood, Back to the days before a fiery plane crash ripped us apart, forcing us to grow up overnight. Those were the days when Eden Evans stole my heart. This time, I might be ready to give it right back to her. EDEN I have no interest in a man who comes with groupies. With a rock legend for a father, I’ve seen the toll fame takes on a marriage. The last thing I need is a guy with more Twitter followers than Justin Beiber. So when Nick Barnes dribbles his way back into my life, my heart and head go into battle. I can't fight my desire for the sexy baller with his eight-pack abs and panty-dropping charm. And when that little stick shows an unmistakable plus sign, suddenly, everything is on the line. With a secret baby on the way, will Nick realize that having the home court advantage is what he's wanted all along? Note: This is a standalone romance novel with a HEA and no cliffhangers. Light on basketball and heavy on steamy romance, this is the first book featuring members of the Barnes family.

Beauty in Chemistry

Beauty in Chemistry PDF Author: David B. Amabilino
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642283403
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Margherita Venturi Enrico Marchi Vincenzo Balzani The Beauty of Chemistry in the Words of Writers and in the Hands of Scientists Luigi Fabbrizzi Living in a Cage Is a Restricted Privilege Kenneth N. Raymond Casey J. Brown Inner and Outer Beauty Carson J. Bruns J. Fraser Stoddart The Mechanical Bond: A Work of Art Jean-Pierre Sauvage David B. Amabilino The Beauty of Knots at the Molecular Level
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