Music's Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac (Eastman Studies in Music) (Volume 22) Slang & Word ListsThe American born Winnaretta Singer (1865 1943) was a millionaire at the age of eighteen, due to her inheriting a substantial part of the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. Her 1893 marriage to Prince Edmond de Polignac, an amateur composer, brought her into contact with the most elite strata of French society. After Edmond's death in 1901, she used her fortune to benefit the arts, science, and letters. Her most significant contribution was in the musical
Military history buffs and scholars will revel in Wiley Sword's exciting narrative
a roommate who ran a call girl service
In Why I Stayed
and unexpected--and surprisingly modern--flashes of dark humor and irony
Roy Grace finds himself up against that most dangerous of all adversaries—a man with fury in his heart who ha
wise-cracking mouths of the time
and looks at the work of contemporary glass artists
Leather clad The Children's Bible
highlighting women throught Scripture
and was actually fun to read
Discusses the implications involved in studying the Bible as a literary text
Their efforts at building an army and preparations to trap the union naval forces before the campaign began have been all but lost in the literature of the Civil War