Gathering the Indigo Maidens

Gathering the Indigo Maidens
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Publisher : Libros Publishing
Total Pages : 329
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ISBN-10 : 9780983745815
ISBN-13 : 0983745811
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Gathering the Indigo Maidens by : Cecilia Velastegui

Modern-day human traffickers and art thieves extort a wealthy Laguna Beach, California, art collector, Paloma Zubiondo, by offering to release a young Ecuadorian sex slave in exchange for one of Paloma's treasured seventeenth-century Spanish Colonial paintings, purportedly a stolen painting of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. An epic tale of interwoven narratives that connects art theft and sex trafficking to the palpable triumphs and pathos of three historical indigo maidens: artist, Isabel Santiago from 1699 Ecuador; printing heiress, Maria de Rivera Calderon y Benavides from 1754 Mexico City; and social activist sentenced to San Quentin prison, Modesta Avila from 1889 San Juan Capistrano.

Missing in Machu Picchu

Missing in Machu Picchu
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Publisher : Libros Publishing
Total Pages : 345
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ISBN-10 : 9780985176945
ISBN-13 : 0985176946
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Missing in Machu Picchu by : Cecilia Velastegui

High in the Andes Mountains on the legendary Inca Trail, four thirty-something professional women embark on an adventure to help them confront their online dating dependencyonly to find themselves victims to a predator"s ruse, and in a fight for their very lives. Only two indigenous women and their ancestor mummy can rescue them.

Parisian Promises

Parisian Promises
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Publisher : Libros Publishing
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780985176914
ISBN-13 : 0985176911
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Parisian Promises by : Cecilia Velástegui

Paris, 1973: In the midst of a turbulent period of student unrest, political protest, and terrorist threats, Monica, a naïve and idealistic American college student, arrives in Paris eager to live out her rose-colored dreams. Along with her three friends, Monica soon discovers a Paris not pictured in guidebooks or dreamy black-and-white photographs--a place both seductive and dangerous. The young women, who each dreamed of love at first sight, instead find themselves in a complex tangle of temptation, sex, love, and betrayal. In a city famed for its beauty, the friends soon lose sight of their moral compasses, and discover the seamy side of the Parisian adventure. Monica's passionate involvement with two men puts her in grave danger. Velástegui spins a provocative and mesmerizing tale about the loss of innocence, the allure of desire, the power of both betrayal and redemption, and the danger in romanticizing the most loved and iconic of cities--Paris.

Traces of Bliss

Traces of Bliss
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Publisher : Libros Publishing
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780983745877
ISBN-13 : 0983745870
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Traces of Bliss by : Cecilia Velástegui

In the affluent Los Feliz enclave of Los Angeles, five wealthy seniors recall vivid memories of ancestors after Claire, a young massage therapist, uses her grandmother's specially blended Amazonian aromatherapy oil. The seniors' live-in caregivers, each with a rich history, are inevitably caught up in the drama as the past collides with the present..

Insiders' Guide® to Charleston

Insiders' Guide® to Charleston
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 307
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ISBN-10 : 9781493031085
ISBN-13 : 1493031082
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Insiders' Guide® to Charleston by : Lee Davis Perry

Insiders' Guide to Charleston is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to this charming southern city. Written by locals (and true insiders), it offers a personal and practical perspective of Charleston and its surrounding environs. With over two-million books sold, Insiders’ Guides are the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information making them an indispensable guide for travelers and residents alike.

Indigo Fire

Indigo Fire
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 287
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ISBN-10 : 9781633557888
ISBN-13 : 163355788X
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Indigo Fire by : Krista Janssen

A boldly independent woman, Eden Palmer must save her family's indigo plantation from reverting to the English crown. She sails to Barbados and cuts a bargain with a former buccaneer to buy his secret for growing a profitable crop. She cajoles a handsome Swiss captain to take her and her plants on his ship, and is soon irresistibly drawn to his power and courage. Baron Derek von Walden is sailing with his Swiss colonists to claim property in South Carolina when he is persuaded to carry indigo plants by a spirited young lady. He is stunned to learn that his plantation boundaries overlap hers. Tormented by a tragic past, Derek begins to find healing love with Eden, but their glorious passion is challenged from all quarters as their destiny unfolds.

The Mermuring Maiden

The Mermuring Maiden
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Publisher : KarmiChange
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9780999361351
ISBN-13 : 099936135X
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis The Mermuring Maiden by : Michele Lamar Richards

When an African prince returns from university he sires a child with a sea goddess inspiring his father to make him care for not only the bi-elemental child, but the other child born of no one’s womb in their village—a nomad boy, however the medicine man takes advantage of the villager’s trepidation with the exotic children and plots to restore the shaman as leader by initiating a war between those in the villages and the beings in the sea.

Duke of Midnight

Duke of Midnight
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 362
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ISBN-10 : 9781405515535
ISBN-13 : 1405515538
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Duke of Midnight by : Elizabeth Hoyt

WHEN A MASKED MAN . . . Twenty years ago Maximus Batten witnessed the brutal murders of his parents. Now the autocratic Duke of Wakefield, he spends his days ruling Parliament. But by night, disguised as the Ghost of St. Giles, he prowls the grim alleys of St. Giles, ever on the hunt for the murderer. One night he finds a fiery woman who meets him toe-to-toe-and won't back down . . . MEETS HIS MATCH . . . Artemis Greaves toils as a lady's companion, but hiding beneath the plain brown serge of her dress is the heart of a huntress. When the Ghost of St. Giles rescues her from footpads, she recognizes a kindred spirit. She's even more intrigued when she realizes who exactly the notorious Ghost is by day . . . FIREWORKS WILL FOLLOW Artemis makes a bold move: she demands that Maximus use his influence to free her imprisoned brother-or she will expose him as the Ghost. But blackmailing a powerful duke isn't without risks. Now that she has the tiger by the tail, can she withstand his ire-or the temptation of his embrace? The sixth novel in Elizabeth Hoyt's bestselling Georgian Maiden Lane series

Black Shield Maiden

Black Shield Maiden
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Publisher : Del Rey
Total Pages : 481
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ISBN-10 : 9780593356746
ISBN-13 : 0593356748
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Shield Maiden by : Willow Smith

From Willow Smith and Jess Hendel comes a powerful and groundbreaking historical saga about an African warrior in the world of the Vikings. “Intimate, tender, and fiercely epic.”—Tomi Adeyemi, author of Children of Blood and Bone Lore, legend, and history tell us of the Vikings: warrior kings on epic journeys of conquest and plunder. But the stories we know are not the only stories to tell. There is another story, one that has been lost to the mists of time: the saga of the dark queen. This saga begins with Yafeu, a defiant yet fiercely compassionate young warrior who is stolen from her home in the flourishing Ghānaian empire and taken to a distant kingdom in the North. There she is thrust into a strange, cold world of savage shield maidens, tyrannical rulers, and mysterious gods. And there she also finds something unexpected: a kindred spirit. She comes to serve Freydis, a shy princess who couldn’t be more different from the confident and self-possessed Yafeu. But they both want the same thing: to forge their own fate. Yafeu inspires Freydis to dream of a future greater than the one that the king and queen have forced upon her. And with the princess at her side, Yafeu learns to navigate this new world and grows increasingly determined to become one of the legendary shield maidens—to fight not only for her freedom but for the freedom of others. Yafeu may have lost her home, but she still knows who she is, and she’s not afraid to be the flame that burns a city to the ground so a new world can rise from the ashes. She will alter the course of history—and become the revolutionary heroine of her own myth.