Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
The astonishing life of Caterina Sforza, one of the most prominent women of Renaissance Italy, who was a wife, mother, leader, and warrior with enough fierceness to make Machiavelli himself wince.
In this glittering biography, Elizabeth Lev reexamines Caterina's extraordinary life and accomplishments.
Raised in the court of Milan and wed at age ten to the pope's corrupt nephew, Caterina was ensnared in Italy's political intrigues early in life....
Author
Language
English
Description
A Hungarian-American journalist confronts the beauty and terror of his aristocratic heritage in this suspenseful chronicle of murder and eroticism Turmoil reigns in post-Soviet Hungary when journalist Drake Bathory-Kereshtur returns from America to grapple with his family history. He's haunted by the legacy of his ancestor, the notorious sixteenth-century Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who is said to have murdered more than 650 young virgins and bathed...
24) The countess
Language
English
Description
The newly widowed countess falls hard for a charming, handsome younger man whose father thwarts their romance. Believing her age made her undesirable, the countess becomes obsessed with the rejuvenating power of blood taken from virgins. Soon, she is bathing in it regularly, local young women are going missing, and someone is sent to investigate the terrifying rumors-- the very same young man who drove her to this madness.
25) Shadows of Pnath
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A brave few fight against the ancient entities lurking at the edge of our reality, whose powers would lay waste to our world... Notorious thief Countess Alessandra Zorzi has a new vocation: reacquiring the occult artifacts she once stole in order to put them in safer hands at Miskatonic University. With new apprentice Pepper Kelly by her side, Zorzi heads to Paris to find her next target. But the city is rife with spies and the countess has many enemies....
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Brilliant but rumored mad, Michael Layward, the impoverished Duke of Wyverne, has no success courting heiresses until widowed Lady Stratton takes up his cause after first refusing his suit. Caroline Graves, the popular Countess of Statton, sits alone at the pinnacle of London society and has vowed never to remarry. When Michael, her counterpart in an old scandal, returns to town after a long absence, she finds herself as enthralled with him as ever....
Author
Language
English
Description
Sixteenth-century Hungarian noblewoman Elizabeth B thory became known as the Blood Countess after being accused of torturing and killing numerous young women. She was never convicted of these crimes, but accounts of her life became intertwined with bloody folklore. Some say she bathed in her victims blood to stay young. This gripping biography relates the fascinating facts and the gruesome and grisly tales that hound this woman s legacy. Sidebars,...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After the Russian Revolution turns her world upside down, Anna, a young Russian countess, has no choice but to flee to England. Penniless, Anna hides her aristocratic background and takes a job as a servant in the household of the esteemed Westerholme family. Anna is overwhelmed by her new duties, and her instant attraction to Rupert, the handsome Earl of Westerholme. To make matters worse, Rupert appears to be falling for her, too. Anna finds it...
Series
Language
English
Description
Life is a Sunday in the park for Aurelia, a dotty Parisian countess who looks as if she stepped out of a Georges Seurat painting. But sooner or later, Aurelia had to find out about the so-called sane world and its student unrest, the bomb, even its greedy scheme to transform the City of Light into a forest of oil derricks. If this is sanity, she'll do anything to stop it! This spirited and timelier than ever satire based on Jean Giradoux's famed play...
Author
Language
English
Description
He was Grand Duke Michael, handsome brother of Tsar Nicholas II. She was the beautiful twice-divorced daughter of a Moscow lawyer. Everything was wrong...yet for Michael, it was love at first sight—an obsession that would lead to disgrace, humiliation, and exile. Their scandalous love affair and their runaway marriage to Vienna in 1912, trailed by the Tsar's secret police, caused uproar in Russia and was the talk of all Europe.
Based on hundreds
...Author
Language
Polish
Description
Jedenastoletnia Elżbieta, siostrzenica Stefana Batorego, opuszcza rodzinny dom i zostaje zmuszona do zaręczyn. Szybko musi odnaleźć się w roli żony i... kochanki. Sama wśród obcych, zabiega o ich względy, by przetrwać w świecie pełnym wyrafinowanych intryg, gry o władzę i przemocy. Osamotniona, oślepiona tęsknotą za nieodwzajemnioną miłością, poddaje się szalonemu złudzeniu, że przelana krew pomoże jej zdobyć władzę i...
Series
Language
Italiano
Description
When a rich countess is murdered, it's a race to see who'll inherit her estate and you can bet that the body count is going to rise rapidly in the process as the plot twists spins wildly out of control. The pile of bloodied corpses is going to get higher and higher as one by one the mangled victims are hung, speared, stabbed and macheted. One by one, the horrific murders turn the screen crimson with blood.
Author
Language
English
Description
Johns's creepily enticing second novel (after Icebergs) travels to 1611 Hungary as Countess Erzsébet Báthory-- aka the Blood Countess-- is being walled into a castle tower as punishment for the murder of dozens of women and girls. She begins writing her life story as an exposé of the many betrayals that have brought about this-- as she sees it-- outrageous and unjust imprisonment. The steady, calm tone of Erzsébet's narration lulls the reader...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the glittering Tudor court to the Tower of London, Lady Margaret Douglas weathered triumphs and tragedies in an era of tremendous change. Yet she never lost hope that she would see her family rule throughout the British Isles, which eventually happened when King James (I of England, VI of Scotland) united the crowns in 1603. Drawing on previously unexamined archival sources, So High a Blood presents a fascinating and dramatic portrait of this...