BEAUTY POSSESSED is a historical fiction romance novel, based on the actual events of showgirl Evelyn Nesbit's life, leading up to what was coined the “Murder of the Century” by the press, the crime reported “to the ends of the civilized globe.” On June 25th, 1906, Stanford White, New York City's leading architect and man about town was shot to death while attending a musical performance at Madison Square Garden's rooftop theater, a building of his own design and construction. Harry K. Thaw, eccentric heir to a Pittsburgh railroad fortune, had pulled the trigger, marking the final act in a struggle between the two men over Thaw's young wife, the model and showgirl Evelyn Nesbit. By her sixteenth birthday, in 1900, Evelyn was known by millions for her underage sexuality, sparking an entirely new industry of news and gossip and signaling the beginning of America's growing obsession with beauty, glamour, celebrity and sex. Pleas for clemency by wealthy supporters for Thaw touched off an extended debate over widespread acceptance of a double standard – one for rich Americans and another for everyone else. Money, power, sex, drugs, jealousy, betrayal, murder, art and Broadway are the ingredients of this true story, as relevant today as it was in 1906.
Beneath The Butterfly Tree is a historical fiction novel, based on true events. The story of two lives separated by time, finding their way to one another through a common destiny. A Chumash Indian boy, in 1860, struggling to make his way back to his tribe. And a successful architect, in 1991, determined to uncover the meaning of his strange, recurring dreams.
In a make-or-break effort to save his relationship with his girlfriend, Mark purchases a new house and immediately begins to find dead animals out in the front lawn beneath the tall palm tree. He soon discovers a family of crows living in the tree are responsible for all the dead bodies. But Mark has a new nest of his own to worry about and when he attempts to drive away the crows, he discovers they are far more intelligent, determined and dangerous than anyone might have thought.
At ten, Joe watched his Mama cogh herself to death from pneumonia. At thirteen, he was forced to watch his fifteen year- old sister raped by two local cops. And at eighteen, he chopped those two cops up with an ax, back in the swamps. When he left Biloxi and his pregnant girlfriend, Izzy, it was for good. But a few years later when he got word that his Daddy, a pentecostal preacher, had finally drank hisself to death, Joe decided to return to Biloxi. When he did, he found a treasure map his Daddy had left him, locked away in a small metal box. A map that would lead Joe on a trail back through some of the most horrific events of his life.
The year is 1709. Dolph's father has been murdered, and to provide for his widowed mother, Dolph takes a position as assistant to the eccentric Dr. Knipperhausen, of New York City, where he soon discovers the doctor is in possession of an amulet with magical powers. When he accompanies the doctor on a riverboat up the Hudson River to Communipaw, a quaint little Dutch settlement, he is suddenly thrown into a world of goblins, spirits, Indians, pirates both living and dead, and falls in love with the beautiful Amy Webber, who he must rescue from an ancient cavern filled with all manner of fantastic dangers, and where he is finally given the opportunity to avenge his father.
Ever wonder what it takes to swallow a sword? Or how someone can walk across hot coals without burning the bottoms of their feet? This title presents a behind-the-scenes, no-holds-barred look at these stunts and many others - straight from the boys who have turned them into an art form.
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