It was the tumultuous romance that scandalized the world: Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner fought, loved, and lived life to the hilt. Now their unbridled story is brought vividly to life by Heather Webb, the bestselling author of Meet Me in Monaco and The Next Ship Home. In the golden age of Hollywood, two of the brightest stars would define?and defy?an era...She was the small-town southern beauty transformed into a Hollywood love goddess. He was...
It was the tumultuous romance that scandalized the world: Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner fought, loved, and lived life to the hilt. Now their unbridled story is brought vividly to life by Heather Webb, the bestselling author of Meet Me in Monaco and The Next Ship Home. In the golden age of Hollywood, two of the brightest stars would define?and defy?an era...She was the small-town southern beauty transformed into a Hollywood love goddess. He was...
A new approach to reading Dante's La Comedia Divinia through the lens of art history. Dante, Artist of Gesture brings Dante's canonical text into conversation with the visual art of his time to suggest the importance of visual cues to the reading and interpretation of the text itself.
Disembarking on Ellis Island, Francesca arrives on the shores of America with her sights set on a better life than the one she left in Italy. That same day, aspiring linguist Alma reports to her first day of work at the immigrant processing center. Ellis, though, is not the refuge it first appears thanks to President Roosevelt's attempts to deter crime. Francesca and Alma will have to rely on each other to escape its corruption and claim the A...
Ellis Island, 1902: Two women band together to hold America to its promise: "Give me your tired, your poor ... your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..."A young Italian woman arrives on the shores of America, her sights set on a better life. That same day, a young American woman reports to her first day of work at the immigration center. But Ellis Island isn't a refuge for Francesca or Alma, not when ships depart every day with those who...
Christine faces an impossible choice: be a star at the Paris opera, or follow her dream-to become a master of illusions. First, she must steal the secrets of the enigmatic master who haunts her, survive a world of treachery and murder, and embrace the uncertain promise of love. To succeed, she will risk her life in the grandest illusion of all.
A collection of short stories set in the aftermath of WWI, both on and off the battlefield. By various authors, including Hazel Gaynor, Jessica Brokmole and Kate Kerrigan.
Spiritual direction is an ancient art of being with another person in relationship with God. As we struggle in the church to develop meaningful and lasting relationships, this spiritual practice has much to offer us. It is another way of patiently sitting with another soul listening for God's voice and looking for God's leading in a person's life. The small group phenomenon has taken root in many different Christian communities in the US and a...
Joséphine' van Heather Webb is een heerlijke roman over de arme plantersdochter Rose die de wereld zou veranderen als Keizerin Joséphine.
Rose Tascher is net zestien als ze haar vaders plantage op Martinique verruilt voor het verre Parijs. Met haar hoofd vol dromen over het hofleven en haar knappe verloofde Alexandre, de zoon van een Marquis, is ze niet voorbereid op de realiteit. Het is 1779, en haar man Alexandre is te druk met zijn lege...
A mesmerizing tale of art and passion in Belle Époque FranceAs a woman, aspiring sculptor Camille Claudel has plenty of critics, especially her ultra-traditional mother. But when Auguste Rodin makes Camille his apprentice—and his muse—their passion inspires groundbreaking works. Yet, Camille's success is overshadowed by her lover's rising star, and her obsessions cross the line into madness.Rodin's Lover brings to life the volatile love affair...
Drawing from the works of Dante, Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio, Aquinas, and Cavalcanti and other literary, philosophic, and scientific texts, Heather Webb studies medieval notions of the heart to explore the "lost circulations" of an era when individual lives and bodies were defined by their extensions into the world rather than as self-perpetuating, self-limited entities.
