Impatient with Anne’s inability to produce a male heir, King Henry accused the queen of treason and adultery with a multitude of men, including her own brother, George. Once settled in the bustling, spectacular court of Henry VIII as the wife of a nobleman, Jane was privy to the regal festivities of masques and jousts, royal births and funerals, and she played an intimate part in the drama and gossip that swirled around the king’s court.īut it was Anne Boleyn’s descent from palace to prison that first thrust Jane into the spotlight. For centuries, little beyond rumor and scandal has been associated with “the infamous Lady Rochford.” But now historian Julia Fox sets the record straight and restores dignity to this much-maligned figure whose life and reputation were taken from her.īorn to aristocratic parents in the English countryside, young Jane Parker found a suitable match in George Boleyn, brother to Anne, the woman who would eventually be the touchstone of England’s greatest political and religious crisis. But the price for her loyalty would eventually be her undoing and the ruination of her name. As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry’s ruthless and absolute power, including her own husband and sister-in-law, Queen Anne Boleyn, Jane’s allegiance to the volatile monarchy was sustained and rewarded. In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII.
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And so it falls to the merry band of misfits to use every scrap of cunning and wit (and not a small amount of thievery) to foil the usurper queen and perhaps finally restore peace to the land.ģ.50 Stars. The teens all find solace, purpose and camaraderie-as well as a healthy bit of mischief-in each other's company.īut their travels soon bring them into the orbit of Queen Isabella herself, whose plans to re-seize power in Jerusalem would only guarantee further war and strife in the Holy Land for years to come. On their journey to Jerusalem, Rahma and Zeena come across a motley collection of fellow travelers-including a softspoken Mongolian warrior, an eccentric Andalusian scientist, a frustratingly handsome spy with a connection to Rahma's childhood, and an unfortunate English chaplain abandoned behind enemy lines. And so, Rahma has no choice but to take on one final mission with her sister. Rahma al-Hud loyally followed her elder sister Zeena into the war over the Holy Land, but now that the Faranji invaders have gotten reinforcements from Richard the Lionheart, all she wants to do is get herself and her sister home alive.īut Zeena, a soldier of honor at heart, refuses to give up the fight while Jerusalem remains in danger of falling back into the hands of the false Queen Isabella. A ragtag band of misfits gets swept up in Holy Land politics in Travelers Along the Way by Aminah Mae Safi, a thrilling YA remix of the classic legend of Robin Hood. Once I really sat down to read this book, it took a while to grab me but once it did, I was all in. I enjoyed this book! I do admit that I had a couple of false starts with this one. Only by combining his command of the seas with the unleashed fury of Summer’s formidable gifts can they defeat their brutal enemies and claim the most priceless victory of all: true love. When pirates kidnap Summer and her sisters, Dilys begins a desperate quest to save the woman he loves. Until evil threatens everything they hold dear… Better to live without excitement, she reasons, than risk her heart and lose control-until an irresistible Sealord jolts her awake with a thunderclap of raw desire. Yet her quiet poise conceals dangerous powers she cannot begin to wield. But politics has nothing to do with unexpected temptation.Ī weathermage like her sisters, Gabriella Coruscate’s gentleness exemplifies the qualities of her season name, Summer. To eradicate the pirates threatening Calberna and to secure the power of the Sea Throne, Dilys vows to return home with a fierce warrior-queen as his bride. Seafaring prince Dilys Merimydion has been invited to court the three magical princesses of Summerlea. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter King comes a breathtaking new tale of love and adventure set in the mystical land of Mystral. Wilson returns from the conflict unable to cope with the sadness that engulfs him. His hometown of Bradford in northern England is ripped apart by the fighting. Wilson is one of the Great War's heroes, but also one of its victims. Eventually, in disguise, he sneaks into Tibet. Wilson's eleven-month journey to Everest is wild: full of twists, turns, and daring. In 1933, he takes off from London in a Gipsy Moth biplane with his course set for the highest mountain on earth. But he has the right plane, the right equipment, and a deep yearning to achieve his goal. In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: he will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit-completely alone. "An outstanding book." - The Wall Street Journal * "Gripping at every turn." - Outside * "A hell of a ride." - The Times (London)Īn extraordinary true story about one man's attempt to salve the wounds of war and save his own soul through an audacious adventure. England's most famous barristers seek to represent him but he insists on using an American. Upon their arrival in London, Washington is imprisoned in the Tower to await trial on charges of high treason. Black manages-just-to get Washington aboard the Peregrine, which sails away. Once he lands, though, the "aid by Loyalists" proves problematic because some would prefer just to kill the general outright. His mission, aided by Loyalists, is to kidnap George Washington and spirit him back to London aboard the HMS Peregrine, a British sloop of war that is waiting closely offshore. The revolution is in full swing but has become deadlocked. British special agent Jeremiah Black, an officer of the King's Guard, lands on a lonely beach in the wee hours of the morning in late November 1780. A Finalist for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History "A clever and imaginative tale." -Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author A thought-provoking novel that imagines what would have happened if the British had succeeded in kidnapping General George Washington. They end up falling in love but of course all good things must come to an end and it does here as well.įallon is shipped off and told that Madoc doesn’t want her Madoc is told that Fallon complained that she was being forced neither parent is in their kids’ life and when Fallon comes back into town for the summer before she heads off to college, she’s ready for revenge on all of them. They start when they are sixteen and though they never show it in public they are all over each other at night. That doesn’t stop them from wanting to have sex. Madoc and Fallon are step-siblings who have never gotten along. Tracy’s review of Rival (Fall Away #2) by Penelope Douglas That’s what he wants, right? As long as I keep my guard up, he’ll never know how much he affects me…. Two years and I can tell he still wants me, even if he acts like he’s better than me.īut I won’t be scared away. I was stupid then, but now I’m ready to beat her at her own game… Back when we lived in the same house, she used to cut me down during the day and then leave her door open for me at night. Two estranged teenagers playing games that push the boundaries between love and war…įor the two years she’s been away at boarding school, there was no word from her. Amazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play Books Although he’s only been a member of DeviantArt for two years, Picolo-kun has quickly become a core part of the community. If you venture through his journals, you’ll see various stories about his growth, art features promoting other artists from DeviantArt, and tips and tricks for beating procrastination. Outside of his artwork, he’s hosted his own challenges with prizes for the DeviantArt community. Recently, he also hosted a challenge on Sketch This in the Autodesk Sketchbook mobile app. Once the 365 Days of Doodles were complete, he started a new palette project in which he focused on a different color in his artwork each month. From there, he continued to challenge himself and the DeviantArt community to create art in new and different ways. Starting off his DeviantArt career with his 365 Days of Doodles project, he was an instant hit with his complex daily drawings. Picolo-kun made a mark on the DeviantArt community from the moment he joined. Robin grew her writing career and has written over seventy novels and novellas which have been translated to various languages such as Chinese, Dutch and French. She used to write for fun and used writing to transport her to any place any time. She started writing and scribbling stories and poems in notebooks while in high school. While in school and as a young adult, Robin was involved in various theatre productions. She always had a theatrical nature since she was a child and was aspiring to be a movie star. Robin never wanted to be a writer initially. Her books have a dominant theme of the beauty of second chances and God’s grace. Robin is a best selling author who is popularly known for her heartwarming stories of faith, love and courage. The Hawk and the Heather (As: Robin Leigh) Frost, it's the catalyst for a series of events that will send Odie, Albert, and Mose to rescue Emmy and flee down the river in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi, leaving a dead body in their wake. And they find another ally in Cora Frost, a widowed teacher who is raising her little girl, Emmy, by herself. The two boys' best friend is Mose, a mute Native American who is also the strongest kid in school. Brickman, are often in trouble for misdeeds both real and imagined. The only two white boys in the school are orphan brothers Odie and Albert, who, under the watchful eyes of the cruel superintendent Mrs. This beautiful, tender land."ġ932: Located on the banks of the Gilead River in Minnesota, Lincoln School is home to hundreds of Native American boys and girls who have been separated from their families. Sure this is hard work, but it's good work because it's a part of what connects us to this land. In the dirt, the rain, the sky, the trees, the apples, the stars in the cottonwoods. The acclaimed author of Ordinary Grace crafts a powerful novel about an orphan's life-changing adventure traveling down America's great rivers during the Great Depression, seeking both a place to call home and a sense of purpose in a world sinking into despair. It is even more difficult to find a language that conveys persuasively what they have seen. The protagonists are both subjected to the dialectic of trauma in that they find it difficult to remain clearheaded, to see more than a few fragments of the picture at one time, and to retain all the pieces and to fit them together. These symptoms are analyzed in a way to call attention to the existence of unspeakable secret and simultaneously as means to deflect attention from it. The psychological distress symptoms including the inability to sleep, lack of concentration, flashbacks and state of surrender are thus investigated in the narrator and Billy Pilgrim as the two figures who are suffering from PTSD. It is an attempt to analyze the conflict between the will to deny horrible events experienced by the protagonists of the novel in World War II and the will to proclaim them aloud. The present paper seeks to closely explore Kurt Vonnegut " s Slaughterhouse-Five in terms of Judith Herman " s surveys and categorization of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. |