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The Splendour

Author : Judith Saxton

Publisher : Random House

Page : 450 pages

File Size : 42,92 MB

Release : 2012-04-24

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1446441784

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Book three in the stunning Neyler family saga. It is 1931, and once again Europe is heading towards disaster. Life must go on however, and a new generation of the Neyler family are making their way in this turbulent world. Louis Rose, the self-confessed black sheep of the family, returns to England for his father's funeral and is greeted with more bad news: he has lost his mistress to his young nephew. Louis' son Simon, meanwhile, has matured and is embarking on his first love affair. The family hope he’ll have more luck in love that his father. Valentine Neyler, Simon's cousin, visits Berlin for the Olympics, but finds herself experiencing first-hand the prejudice which is gripping Germany. Before she knows it she is caught up in the tragedy of a Jewish family struggling to escape the Nazi horror. Dramas, joys and sorrows intertwine and unfold in this inspiring and moving saga, set against the poignant background of a world hurtling towards war, from the Sunday Times bestselling author Katie Flynn.



The Sunne in Splendour

Author : Sharon Kay Penman

Publisher : Pan

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 32,74 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781447247845

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Richard, last-born son of the Duke of York, was seven months short of his nineteenth birthday when he bloodied himself at the battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury, earning his legendary reputation as a battle commander and ending the Lancastrian line of succession. But Richard was far more than a warrior schooled in combat. He was also a devoted brother, an ardent suitor, a patron of the arts, an indulgent father, a generous friend. Above all, he was a man of fierce loyalties, great courage and firm principles, who was ill at ease among the intrigues of Edward's court.



Seasons of Splendour

Author : Madhur Jaffrey

Publisher : Pavilion Books, Limited

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 46,62 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Folklore

ISBN : 9781857933642

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A collection of traditional tales about gods and heroes in Hindu mythology, aranged in sequence as they might be told at religious festivals during the course of a Hindu calendar year.



The Sunne In Splendour

Author : Sharon Kay Penman

Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin

Page : 945 pages

File Size : 47,86 MB

Release : 2008-01-22

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1429930098

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The classic, magnificent bestselling novel about Richard III, now in a special thirtieth anniversary edition with a new preface by the author In this triumphant combination of scholarship and storytelling, Sharon Kay Penman redeems Richard III—vilified as the bitter, twisted, scheming hunchback who murdered his nephews, the princes in the Tower—from his maligned place in history. Born into the treacherous courts of fifteenth-century England, in the midst of what history has called The War of the Roses, Richard was raised in the shadow of his charismatic brother, King Edward IV. Loyal to his friends and passionately in love with the one woman who was denied him, Richard emerges as a gifted man far more sinned against than sinning. With revisions throughout and a new author's preface discussing the astonishing discovery of Richard's remains five centuries after his death, Sharon Kay Penman's brilliant classic is more powerful and glorious than ever.



Perspectives On Aro History & Civilization: The Splendour of a Great Past

Author : Mazi Azubike Okoro

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 239 pages

File Size : 44,21 MB

Release : 2014-06-24

Category : History

ISBN : 1483412962

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The richest, largest and most authentic repository on Arochukwu history, culture and civilization; written by Aro, devoid of misinterpretations by outsiders and pseudo-historians. This incisive book series presents Aro history as it is, not as perceived by outsiders. Indeed, Aro now has its own history, told by her people.



Perspectives on Aro History & Civilization: The Splendour of a Great Past: Vol. 2

Author : Mazi Azubike Okoro

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 46,7 MB

Release : 2015-09-23

Category : History

ISBN : 1483438511

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The African experience is a compelling theme that will continue to inspire great books of this nature. From Mali, Kanem-Bornu, Sokoto, Benin, Opobo to Arochukwu the stories are the same, of empires and kingdoms systematically broken up and destroyed by the West and ultimately rendered puerile and irrelevant. For centuries, Africa was mindlessly plundered and impoverished by the West. It is a historical fact that while the slaves from Africa were used to power the industrial revolution in Europe and the high yields in the plantations of the Americas, African societies remained neglected and plundered so much so that up to the present time they still manifest all the vagaries of underdevelopment. Aro kingdom had attained great height prior to the monumental destruction, trauma and dislocation occasioned by the British expedition of 1902 and several other problems arising from slavery and colonialism.



Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour

Author : Marti Rulli

Publisher : Open Road Media

Page : 472 pages

File Size : 49,94 MB

Release : 2014-04-01

Category : True Crime

ISBN : 1480497568

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The shocking true crime story of a beloved Hollywood star gone too soon—told by the captain of the boat on which Natalie Wood spent her last night. Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour is the long‐awaited, detailed account of events that led to the mysterious death of Hollywood legend Natalie Wood off the coast of Catalina Island on November 28, 1981. It is a story told by a haunted witness to that fateful evening: Dennis Davern, the young captain of Splendour, the yacht belonging to Wood and husband Robert Wagner. Davern initially backed up Wagner’s version of that evening’s events through a signed statement prepared by attorneys. But Davern’s guilt over failing Natalie tormented him. Davern reached out to his old friend Marti Rulli, and little by little, at his own emotional pace, he revealed the details of his years in Wood’s employ, of the fateful weekend that Natalie died, and of the events following her death that prevented him from telling the whole story—until now.



Maharaja

Author : Anna M. F. Jackson

Publisher :

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 24,48 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Art, Indic

ISBN : 9781851776474

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The word 'maharaja' - literally 'great king' - conjures up a vision of splendour and magnificence. This book examines the real and perceived worlds of the maharaja from the early eighteenth century to 1947, when the Indian Princes ceded their territories into the modern states of India and Pakistan.



Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities

Author : Darko Suvin

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 450 pages

File Size : 24,12 MB

Release : 2016-06-27

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9004325212

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Suvin’s ‘X-Ray’ of Socialist Yugoslavia offers an indispensable overview of a unique and often overlooked twentieth-century socialism. It shows that the plebeian surge of revolutionary self-determination was halted in SFR Yugoslavia by 1965; that between 1965– 72 there was a confused and hidden but still open-ended clash; and that by 1972 the oligarchy in power was closed and static, leading to failure. The underlying reasons of this failure are analysed in a melding of semiotics and political history, which points beyond Yugoslavia – including its achievements and degeneration – to show how political and economic democracy fail when pursued in isolation. The emphasis on socialist Yugoslavia is at various points embedded into a wider historical and theoretical frame, including Left debates about the party, sociological debates about classes, and Marx’s great foray against a religious State doctrine in The Jewish Question.



The Splendor

Author : Breeana Shields

Publisher : Page Street YA

Page : 294 pages

File Size : 30,76 MB

Release : 2021-09-28

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 1645673235

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Within the Enchanted Walls of the Hotel Splendor Lies the Truth That Juliette is Desperate to Find When Juliette’s sister, Clare, returns from her birthday week at the magical hotel upon a hill, she comes back changed. All at once, it seems Clare’s love for Juliette has vanished. Or perhaps it was stolen. Deeply unsettled, Juliette uses the last of her savings to book a stay at the Splendor and unravel its mysteries. Run by the talented young illusionist, Henri, the halls are full of magnificent delights and alluring distractions. Every wonder seemsto twist Juliette’s attention away from the answers lurking just beneath the surface. Even as Henri reveals the truths behind his illusions, Juliette is uncertain whom she can trust in this palace of lies. The Splendor promised Juliette her dreams, but the longer she stays, the more it feels like a nightmare.