Lionheart sharon penman6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is a powerful story of intrigue, war, and- surprisingly-effective diplomacy, played out against the roiling conflicts of love and loyalty, passion and treachery, all set against the rich textures of the Holy Land. In Lionheart, Sharon Kay Penman displays her remarkable mastery of historical detail and her acute understanding of human foibles. ![]() Her novels include Lionheart, about Richard I and the Crusades, A Kings Ransom, completing the story of Richard I, and The Sunne in Splend. And, back in England, by the conniving of Richard's youngest brother, John, to steal his crown. Sharon Penman is the author of several historical novels and medieval mysteries set during the Middle Ages. This was the Third Crusade, and it would be characterized by internecine warfare among the Christians and extraordinary campaigns against the Saracens. When Henry died, Richard would take the throne and, almost immediately, set off for the Holy Land. With two such extraordinary parents, much was expected of them.īut the eldest-charming yet mercurial-would turn on his father and, like his brother Geoffrey, meet an early death. They were the four surviving sons of Henry Plantagenet and Eleanor of Aquitaine. They were called "The Devil's Brood," though never to their faces. From the New York Times-bestselling novelist, a stunning story of a great medieval warrior-king, the accomplished and controversial son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine: Richard, Coeur de Lion. ![]()
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Book of the new sun6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Gene Wolfe’s The Book Of The New Sun is one of the key works of Fantasy of the past forty years, a series that shows a staggering breadth of imagination and which reconfigured what the genre was capable of. The would-be sorcerer alone has faith in the efficacy of pure knowledge rational people know that things act of themselves or not at all.” I did not know that then, but it is a profound mistake to believe that we must know of such things to be influenced by them, and in fact to believe so is to believe in the most debased and superstitious magic. Their acceptance of that coin is their acceptance of the special duties and burdens of military life – they are soldiers from that moment, though they may know nothing of the management of arms. ![]() ![]() When soldiers take their oath they are given a coin, an asimi stamped with the profile of the Autarch. The truth is that they invent us we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her work has been featured AK Turner is The New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning Vagabonding with Kids series, as well as This Little Piggy Went to the Liquor Store, Mommy Had a Little Flask, and Hair of the Corn Dog. She is a contributor to the anthologies Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana (Traveler’s Tales), Little White Dress (Mill Park Publishing), I Just Want to Be Alone and I Just Want to Be Perfect (Throat_Punch Books) and a coauthor of Drinking with Dead Women Writers and Drinking with Dead Drunks. ![]() ![]() Her works have received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, IPPY Awards in Humor and Travel, Foreword Indies Awards, Independent Press Distinguished Favorite, and inclusion in BookLife’s Top 5 Indie Books of 2014. AK Turner is The New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning Vagabonding with Kids series, as well as This Little Piggy Went to the Liquor Store, Mommy Had a Little Flask, and Hair of the Corn Dog. ![]() Michelle paver dark matter review6/24/2023 ![]() Apocalyptic Log: Dark Matter is mostly structured as Jack's diary.Becomes much less ambiguous when he outright says he loves Gus in the final few chapters. ![]() ![]()
Late to the party kelly quindlen6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The only problem? Codi never tells Maritza or JaKory about any of it. In return for never talking about that kiss, Ricky takes Codi under his wing and draws her into a wild summer filled with late nights, new experiences, and one really cute girl named Lydia. Straight kids.īut then Codi stumbles upon one of those cool kids, Ricky, kissing another boy in the dark, and an unexpected friendship is formed. So when Maritza and JaKory suggest crashing a party, Codi is highly skeptical. It’s because she and her two best friends, Maritza and JaKory, spend more time in her basement watching Netflix than engaging with the outside world. She’s never crashed a party, never stayed out too late. Seventeen is nothing like Codi Teller imagined. Late to the Party is an ode to late bloomers and wallflowers everywhere. From author Kelly Quindlen comes a poignant and deeply relatable story about friendship, self-acceptance, and what it means to be a Real Teenager. ![]() Civil war magic tree house6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In the last Ice Age, Jack and Annie encounter Cro-Magnons, wooly mammoths, and a saber-toothed cat while looking for the third object to help Morgan-a mammoth bone flute. Jack and Annie search the Amazon rainforest for a second magical object for Morgan le Fay, which turns out to be a mango. In ancient Japan, Jack and Annie encounter ninjas and samurai and get a moonstone. Jack and Annie must find four magical objects to reverse the spell, with the help of a mouse named Peanut. Season 2: Magic Spell Mystery Episode No. Jack and Annie encounter some pirates in the Caribbean Sea and meet Morgan le Fay, who turns out to be the mysterious "M". In Ancient Egypt, Jack and Annie help Queen Hutepi find her missing Book of the Dead. In England during the Middle Ages, Jack and Annie explore a castle and meet a brave knight. Jack finds a gold medallion with the letter "M" on it. ![]() Jack and Annie discover the tree house and, using the magical books there, they travel back to the late Cretaceous period (65 million years ago) where they meet a Pteranodon that saves them from a Tyrannosaurus rex. ![]() 3.5 Season 5: Enchanted Dog Arc MysteryĮpisodes Season 1: Treehouse Mystery Episode No. ![]() These rebel waves series6/24/2023 ![]() The crown prince of Argrid, he harbors a secret obsession with Grace Loray’s forbidden magic. ![]() An expert navigator, he agrees to help Lu find the Argridian - but the truth they uncover could be deadlier than any war.īenat is a heretic. ![]() But after Argrid accuses raiders of the diplomat’s abduction, Vex becomes a target. As one of the stream raiders who run rampant on Grace Loray, he scavenges the island’s magic plants and sells them on the black market. When an Argridian delegate vanishes during peace talks with Grace Loray’s new Council, Argrid demands brutal justice - but Lu suspects something dangerous is at work.ĭevereux is a pirate. Five years ago, she helped the magic-rich island of Grace Loray overthrow its oppressor, Argrid, a country ruled by religion.īut adjusting to postwar life has not been easy. A thrilling new fantasy series - full of deadly magic, double crosses, and a dangerous quest in a new world - from Sara Raasch, the New York Times best-selling author of the Snow Like Ashes seriesĪdeluna is a soldier. ![]() The lost plot genevieve cogman6/23/2023 ![]() When a new Librarian finds himself tangled up in their quest to retrieve a book, Irene and her young dragon apprentice Kai must travel to an alternate 1920s New York to save him and protect the Libraries neutrality. The one who completes it gains favor with the Queen, and the one who does not faces a disgrace that will require sacrifice to atone. Vampires, fae, and dragons all give Irene fits in The Lost Plot. While each book features a current case and danger the overall worldbuilding, characters and threats to the library are better enjoyed from the beginning. If you have not begun this series, it is best, to start with, book one, The Invisible Library. It follows our heroine librarian, Irene Winters. ![]() ![]() Every spoken word counts in The Lost Plot delivering non-stop action and entertainment. ![]() Dragons, betrayal and multiple identities lead to exciting events as Librarian Irene Winters looks to thwart an attempt that may have dire consequences for the library. Genevieve Cogman vivid imagination continues to enchant me in The Lost Plot, the fourth book in the Invisible Library series. ![]() The oresteia6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Her desire for vengeance, and its dire consequences, instigates the action of these poetic tragedies. Yet she finds it difficult to forgive his sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia, who was killed to ensure the Greek fleet fair winds in their voyage to Troy. At the beginning of the first part, the Trojan War has ended and the Greek general, Agamemnon, is returning victorious to his wife Clytemnestra. It tells the tragic tale of the House of Atreus, whose inhabitants have been cursed and are doomed to play out their bloody, vengeful destinies. ![]() It encompasses three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Furies. The Oresteia is a trilogy by Aeschylus, one of the foremost playwrights of ancient Greece. Translated by Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (1849 - 1912) Download cover art Download CD case insert The Oresteia ![]() American born chinese isbn6/23/2023 ![]() He was named a National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress in 2016, and advocates for the importance of reading, especially reading diversely. ![]() Gene Luen Yang writes, and sometimes draws, comic books and graphic novels. ![]() Printz Award, a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature, the winner of the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New, an Eisner Award nominee for Best Coloring, a 2007 Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, and a New York Times bestseller. American Born Chinese is an amazing ride, all the way up to the astonishing climax.Īmerican Born Chinese is the winner of the 2007 Michael L. Their lives and stories come together with an unexpected twist in this action-packed modern fable. Printz Award winner, a National Book Award finalist, and a New York Times bestseller!Ī tour-de-force by New York Times bestselling graphic novelist Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese-American student at his new school the powerful Monkey King, subject of one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables and Chin-Kee, a personification of the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, who is ruining his cousin Danny's life with his yearly visits. ![]() |