The Venus Fixers

The Venus Fixers
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 341
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ISBN-10 : 9780312429904
ISBN-13 : 0312429908
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis The Venus Fixers by : Ilaria Dagnini Brey

An untold chapter in WWII history, the story of the corps of unlikely soldiers who saved Italy's most precious art and architecture from destruction.

The Venus Fixers

The Venus Fixers
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Publisher :
Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : 1845950887
ISBN-13 : 9781845950880
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis The Venus Fixers by : Ilaria Dagnini Brey

The Venus Fix

The Venus Fix
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Publisher : Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated
Total Pages : 411
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ISBN-10 : 9781940887463
ISBN-13 : 1940887461
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis The Venus Fix by : M. J. Rose

As one of New York's top sex therapists, Dr. Morgan Snow sees everything from the abused to the depraved. From high-profile clients with twisted obsessions to courageous survivors, the Butterfield Institute is the sanctuary to heal battered souls. Morgan Snow's newest patient is a powerful, influential man -- secretly addicted to watching Internet Web cam pornography. He's not alone in his desires. She's also working with a group of high school teenagers equally and dangerously obsessed with these real-time fantasies. Fantasies that are all too accessible. Then the woman start dying online, right in front of their eyes. Now it's all about murder.

Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis

Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 491
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ISBN-10 : 9780393240450
ISBN-13 : 0393240452
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis by : Robert M. Edsel

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Monuments Men: "An astonishing account of a little-known American effort to save Italy's…art during World War II." —Tom Brokaw When Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. On the eve of the Allied invasion, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect these historic riches. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes—artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt—embarked from Naples on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars of missing art, including works by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli. With the German army retreating up the Italian peninsula, orders came from the highest levels of the Nazi government to transport truckloads of art north across the border into the Reich. Standing in the way was General Karl Wolff, a top-level Nazi officer. As German forces blew up the magnificent bridges of Florence, General Wolff commandeered the great collections of the Uffizi Gallery and Pitti Palace, later risking his life to negotiate a secret Nazi surrender with American spymaster Allen Dulles. Brilliantly researched and vividly written, the New York Times bestselling Saving Italy brings readers from Milan and the near destruction of The Last Supper to the inner sanctum of the Vatican and behind closed doors with the preeminent Allied and Axis leaders: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and Churchill; Hitler, Göring, and Himmler. An unforgettable story of epic thievery and political intrigue, Saving Italy is a testament to heroism on behalf of art, culture, and history.

A World in Flames

A World in Flames
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Publisher : University Alabama Press
Total Pages : 382
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000095629592
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis A World in Flames by : Martha Byrd

Who did what in World War II, and where and when did it take place?

Easy Beauty

Easy Beauty
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9781982152000
ISBN-13 : 1982152001
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Easy Beauty by : Chloé Cooper Jones

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 * Vulture’s #1 Memoir of 2022 * A Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA TODAY, Time, BuzzFeed, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient—an “exquisite” (Oprah Daily) and groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and the search for a new way of seeing and being seen. “I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living.” So begins Chloé Cooper Jones’s bold, revealing account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. Jones learned early on to factor “pain calculations” into every plan, every situation. Born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis which affects both her stature and gait, her pain is physical. But there is also the pain of being judged and pitied for her appearance, of being dismissed as “less than.” The way she has been seen—or not seen—has informed her lens on the world her entire life. She resisted this reality by excelling academically and retreating to “the neutral room in her mind” until it passed. But after unexpectedly becoming a mother (in violation of unspoken social taboos about the disabled body), something in her shifts, and Jones sets off on a journey across the globe, reclaiming the spaces she’d been denied, and denied herself. From the bars and domestic spaces of her life in Brooklyn to sculpture gardens in Rome; from film festivals in Utah to a Beyoncé concert in Milan; from a tennis tournament in California to the Killing Fields of Phnom Penh, Jones weaves memory, observation, experience, and aesthetic philosophy to probe the myths underlying our standards of beauty and desirability and interrogates her own complicity in upholding those myths. “Bold, honest, and superbly well-written” (Andre Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name) Easy Beauty is the rare memoir that has the power to make you see the world, and your place in it, with new eyes.

Monster Girls with a Need for Seed

Monster Girls with a Need for Seed
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Publisher : FAKKU
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 1634422872
ISBN-13 : 9781634422871
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Monster Girls with a Need for Seed by : Anthology

It's mating season and a bevy of monster girls are on the lookout for a potential mate to become their one true love! A wolfgirl looking for love in the big city, a newly created golem looking to serve her master, a giantess trying to break a spell with true love and an indebted sprite looking to repay her hero are just a small taste of what to expect from this collection. These monster girls are revving in high gear because they have the need for seed and nothing will stop them until they get what they want! Monster Girls With a Need for Seed is FAKKU Publishing's first anthology title featuring nine different artists, including Kodomo no Jikan artist Kaworu Watashiya, with their own unique spin on gorgeous giantesses, sizzling succubi, and all other desirable species of Monster Girls! With over 250 pages blending classic fantasy with modern isekai formula, this collection races ahead to the winners circle for a first place finish!

The Monuments Men

The Monuments Men
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Publisher : Center Street
Total Pages : 469
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ISBN-10 : 1599952653
ISBN-13 : 9781599952659
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis The Monuments Men by : Robert M. Edsel

At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised. In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Momuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture. Focusing on the eleven-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments Men and their impossible mission to save the world's great art from the Nazis.

'Venus Fixers' Won Their War, Too

'Venus Fixers' Won Their War, Too
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 58
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:80081225
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis 'Venus Fixers' Won Their War, Too by : Sumner McKnight Crosby

They Dared Return

They Dared Return
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Publisher : Da Capo Press
Total Pages : 273
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780786745838
ISBN-13 : 0786745835
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis They Dared Return by : Patrick K. O'Donnell

At the height of World War II, with the Third Reich's final solution in full operation, a small group of Jews who had barely escaped the Nazis did the unthinkable: They went back. Spies now, these men took on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines. They Dared Return is their story—a tale of adventure, espionage, love, and revenge.