| Author | : Alisa M. Libby |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780525477327 |
Cursed at birth, the beautiful and ruthless young Erzebet becomes obsessed with achieving eternal youth and begins to bathe in the blood of virgin girls in order to preserve her beauty. Based on the life of the "Blood Countess," who lived in Hungary in the 1500s.
| Author | : Alisa Libby |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 2006-08-17 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1440678286 |
Erzebet is young, beautiful, rich, and imprisoned in her castle, waiting to be sentenced for murder. In a brilliant fiction debut, Alisa M. Libby resurrects the real-life Erzebet Bathory, a seventeenth-century countess who believed that bathing in human blood would preserve her looks forever. The jailed countess tells her story from her birth, which was overshadowed by a bad omen, to her mother's mental deterioration, Erzebet's own love for a mysterious figure, and the crimes she committed in pursuit of eternal life. This gripping novel combines gothic horror and romance as it explores the connection between beauty and power.
| Author | : Samuel Emery Chamberlain |
| Publisher | : Texas State Historical Assn |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780876111567 |
Not control his amorous and pugilistic inclinations and so left for the West. According to his "Confession," he seduced countless women in the U.S. and Mexico, never missed a fandango, fought gallantly against Mexican guerrillas, and rode with the 1st Dragoons into the Battle of Buena Vista. His remarkable story is pure melodrama; but Goetzmann has proven by his painstaking research that much of it is true. In extensive annotation, the editor has been able to separate.
| Author | : Ilsa J. Bick |
| Publisher | : Carolrhoda Lab ® |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2013-08-01 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1467731714 |
People in Merit, Wisconsin, always said Jimmy was . . . you know. But people said all sorts of stupid stuff. Nobody really knew anything. Nobody really knew Jimmy. I guess you could say I knew Jimmy as well as anyone (which was not very well). I knew what scared him. And I knew he had dreams—even if I didn't understand them. Even if he nearly ruined my life to pursue them. Jimmy's dead now, and I definitely know that better than anyone. I know about blood and bone and how bodies decompose. I know about shadows and stones and hatchets. I know what a last cry for help sounds like. I know what blood looks like on my own hands. What I don't know is if I can trust my own eyes. I don't know who threw the stone. Who swung the hatchet? Who are the shadows? What do the living owe the dead?
| Author | : Kishalay Bhattacharjee |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2015-10-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9351772594 |
'You are here to catch militants, so you have to catch militants. This is your business. You can't say, I have a budget of only 30,000, so I can't catch them.' This anonymous confession by an army officer splits wide open the anatomy of staged encounters in India's northeast, and explains how awards and citations are linked to a body count. Speaking to investigative journalist and conflict specialist Kishalay Bhattacharjee, the confessor tells of the toll this brutality has taken on him.An essay by Bhattacharjee and a postscript that analyses the hidden policy of extra-judicial killings and how it threatens India's democracy contextualize this searing confession. An explosive document on institutionalized human rights abuse.
| Author | : C.C. Humphreys |
| Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2011-05-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1402253524 |
Vlad: The Last Confession is a novel about the real man behind the Bram Stoker myth. It tells of the Prince, the warrior, the lover, the torturer, the survivor and, ultimately, the hero. Dracula. A name of horror, depravity and the darkest sensuality. Yet the real Dracula was just as alluring, just as terrifying, his tale not one of a monster but of a man...and a contradiction. His tale is told by those who knew him best. The only woman he ever loved...and whom he has to sacrifice. His closest comrade... and traitor. And his priest, betraying the secrets of the confessional to reveal the mind of the man history would forever remember as The Impaler. This is the story of the man behind the legend ... as it has never been told before. "Trust nothing that you've heard." Winter 1431, a son is born to the Prince of Transylvania. His father christened him "Vlad." His people knew him as "The Dragon's Son." His enemies reviled him as "Tepes"—The Impaler. He became the hero of a nation. We know him as Dracula.
| Author | : Alisa M. Libby |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780525479703 |
Catharine Howard recounts the events in her life that led to her being groomed for marriage at the age of fifteen to King Henry VIII, her failure to produce an heir to the throne, and her quick execution.
| Author | : R.L. Stine |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2012-07-31 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 144246643X |
A group of teens protect the killer among them in this chilling young adult thriller from Goosebumps author R.L. Stine. When their classmate Al dies, Julie and her friends aren’t exactly broken up about it. They couldn’t stand him and even found themselves wishing he were dead more than once. But no matter what everyone else seems to suspect, Julie knows her friends, and there’s no way any of them actually did anything about their shared hatred of Al. Her friends aren’t killers. But then one of them confesses to the group. It’s a terrible shock, but Julie and the others aren’t going to turn on one of their own just like that—Al was terrible, after all. They make a pact to keep the killer’s secret. It had to have been a one-time thing…right?
