7/6/2023 0 Comments Sworn sword by james aitcheson![]() ![]() The fate of the Kingdom hangs in the balance. A plot which, if allowed to succeed, threatens to undermine the entire Conquest. As the Norman and English armies prepare to clash, Tancred begins to uncover a plot which harks back to the day of Hastings itself. Yet even as Tancred seeks vengeance for his lords murder, he finds himself caught up in secret dealings between a powerful Norman magnate and a shadow from the past. Soon the enemy are on the march, led by the dispossessed prince Eadgar, the last of the ancient Saxon line, who is determined to seize the realm he believes is his. ![]() Badly wounded, Tancred barely escapes with his life. Two years after the Battle of Hastings, Northumbria is the last. In the battle that ensues, their army is slaughtered almost to a man. By James Aitcheson - Published 2011Published 2013. But at Durham the Normans are ambushed in the streets by English rebels. Tancred a Dinant, an ambitious and oath-sworn knight and a proud leader of men, is among them, hungry for battle, for silver and for land. In the depths of winter, two thousand Normans march to subdue the troublesome province of Northumbria. Less than three years have passed since Hastings and the death of the usurper, Harold Godwineson. ![]() ![]()
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7/6/2023 0 Comments Book in the flight attendant![]() “One day I asked the captain, ‘What would you do if your family was kidnapped, and you were told they would die if you didn’t crash the plane?’ The look on his face was pure terror, and he had no answer for me. “It was the first time the flip side occurred to me - how vulnerable does that make the pilots? I couldn’t stop thinking about it,” says Newman. Looking out at the sleeping passengers in the cold, dimly lit cabin, she thought about how everyone’s lives were in the hands of the pilots. TJ Newman was a flight attendant with Virgin America working her usual Los Angeles-to-NYC redeye flight when the idea for her novel came to her. Relationship advice from the Angry Therapist and his partner Rob Delaney’s raw memoir on losing his son gives grieving parents a voice ‘In their own words’: New book compiles powerful first-hand accounts of UFO encounters from across the globeīest books of 2022: Top 30 must-read titles of the year ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands from 184... by Queen Victoria![]() Copyright Status: Public Domain Full Orbis Record: Classification: Books Notes: "Queen Victoria was the first reigning British monarch since Charles I to visit Scotland (apart from a fleeting visit by George IV to Edinburgh in 1822). Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. L44 1868+ Oversize Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler View by request in the Study Room Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Clay, Sons, and Taylor Physical Description: xvii,, 198 pages, 9 leaves of plates : illustrations 31 cm Holdings: Rare Books and Manuscripts DA552. ![]() Published/Created: London : Smith, Elder and Co., 1868. Leaves from the journal of our life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861 : to which are prefixed and added extracts from the same journal giving an account of earlier visits to Scotland and tours in England and yachting excursions / edited by Arthur Helps. ![]() Creator: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 Title(s): ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Ticket to India by N.H. Senzai![]() ![]() ![]() While the intent is clearly to shed light on serious issues in overpopulated, often poverty-stricken India and Pakistan, the adventure sequence amid grief and discovery comes across as contrived, much like the many conversations in which characters clumsily relate things they already know in order to educate Maya and readers. ![]() Then Maya is pursued by a group that runs a crime syndicate of street orphans, leading to an epic chase, a night in the Taj Mahal gatehouse, and Maya’s kidnapping (they want to ransom her) she escapes thanks to the help of a (plucky) street orphan. Sixth-grader Maya and her sister naively blackmail their grandmother into letting them join her, and when forgotten medication lands Naniamma in the hospital, the sisters decide to continue the journey alone. After her grandfather’s death, American Maya learns that her Pakistani grandmother was born in India and is determined to return before the funeral, in search of a ring left behind when the family fled during Partition. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Love from a to z sk ali![]() It also made several best-YA-of-the-year lists, as well as state reading lists. Morris Award finalist and the winner of both the APALA and Middle East Book Honor awards. ![]() ![]() Ten years later, I sold my first book, Saints and Misfits. But, as happens often, the detours of life (which in my case was raising a family and embarking on a teaching career) took me away from my dream until 2006, when I re-dedicated myself to my desire to “grow up and become an author.” For a couple of times a week, I acted like I had another job on top of teaching second graders it was a part-time one consisting of learning all I could about the publishing industry while slowly finishing a manuscript. I got my degree in Creative Writing as soon as I was released from high school in the 1990’s. My sister in the upper bunk of our bunkbeds heard my very first stories. This desire grew into a love of reading and writing and telling stories. ![]() (Maybe the patient adults who refilled it for me would say it was several times).īeing sopping wet didn’t stop me from wanting to paint the world – at first with pictures, and then with words. ![]() I remember that brushstroke vividly because in my excitement, I knocked over the jar filled with water. Upon making my first paint stroke at the age of four, I fell in love with creating things. ![]() ![]() ![]() The jury is still out as to whether St Piran was the Irish Bishop Ciaran of Saighir (c.501-530) Bishop Ciaran of Clonmacnoise (516-546), whose father was reputed to have been Cornish or if he was a native Dumnonian priest who may have trained in Ireland (Dumnonia was the Celtic kingdom that included both Cornwall and Devon). There, in the great expanse of sand dunes beyond the beach he built his oratory that is reputed to be the remarkable building that survives to this day (or a likely forerunner of it). The tale is that he was thrown from an Irish cliff by antagonistic local chieftains, chained to a millstone which then floated miraculously, bearing him safely across the Celtic Sea to a landfall at Perranporth. True to the traditions of Cornish saints, Piran himself is something of a mystery, for he has never been conclusively identified. Originally, he was the patron saint of tinners. St Piran is the third in a succession of patron saints of Cornwall, after St Petroc and St Michael the Archangel. With grateful thanks to CRAIG WEATHERHILL ![]() ![]() ![]() Let God tenderly open our wounds to set us free. Find courage to walk away from the ways we live out of fear. Throughout this study guide, you will: Learn how to guard the most important thing about you.your heart. ![]() Staci Eldredge wrote Captivating to share that your heart matters more than anything else in all creation. They are the secret to the feminine heart. ![]() Those desires are far more than childs play. She longs to be swept up into a romance, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, to be the beauty of the story. And every little girl holds in her heart her most precious dreams. The effect has not been good on the feminine soul. Sadly, too many messages for Christian women do nothing but add to the pressure: Do these ten things, and you will be a godly woman. Book Synopsis Do you feel like you have to settle for a life of duty? Many women feel pressure to strive to be the women they ought to be, often living with the sense that theyve failed. About the Book In Captivating, Stasi Eldredge shows women how God offers to come now as the Hero of their story-to rescue their heart and release them to live as fully alive and feminine women. ![]() ![]() And ultimately that’s the rub: Loli pursues being interesting in ways that often make her anything but and selfishly puts her relationships in jeopardy, but the novel doesn’t offer much depth as to why, which may frustrate readers.Īn imperfect protagonist-and novel-with a lot of charm. Loli hates cliché, but even she would have to accept that her budding romance with the Mysterious Voice from the party proves to be as predictable as it is dangerous. Like the accompanying playlist that punctuates the story’s beats with song titles naming chapters, the novel uses tropes compellingly. Still, the party changes everything as, among other rumored happenings, Cairo is tapped to become a supermodel, Ryan experiences a moment that puts his sexuality in question, and Loli becomes entangled in a risky competition with an appealing but anonymous individual. ![]() So Loli never has to reveal that the party is actually a ruse to right a wrong before it’s revealed and can break Ryan’s heart. When Loli decides to throw an impromptu rager at an ex-boyfriend’s house, few questions are asked before they’re onboard with what becomes a historical event. Doting best friends Ryan Pope, who reads White, and Cairo Dahmani, who is Moroccan, enable her shenanigans. ![]() ![]() High schooler Naloli Tamryn Crawford is bored with life in Woolridge Grove, where there are few other Black girls. Self-involved, self-destructive Loli seeks thrills and chaos, but one mystery adventure carries her kicking and screaming to the point of self-reflection. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Winterkill kate boorman![]() I think this is an obvious conclusion to draw from the description and I'm clearly not the only one to go there. When I first saw this book one thing came to my mind: The Village. If Emmeline isn’t careful, she will be next. Her grandmother followed the same path and paid the price. The trail leads to a secret that someone in the village will kill to protect. But before she’s forced into an impossible decision, her dreams urge her into the woods, where she uncovers a path she can’t help but follow. ![]() When the settlement leader asks for her hand in marriage, it’s an opportunity for Emmeline to wash the family slate clean-even if she has eyes for another. ![]() Living with the shame of her grandmother’s insubordination, Emmeline has learned to keep her head down and her quick tongue silent. The enemy that wiped out half her people lurks there, attacking at night and keeping them isolated in an unfamiliar land with merciless winters. Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.Įmmeline knows she’s not supposed to explore the woods outside her settlement. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Wish, Vol. 01 by CLAMP![]() ![]() only) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ If you have any questions regarding this auction, please ask me beforebidding on the auction. ![]() The angel granted him a wish to repay his. Paypal can only be accepted from a verified Paypal address !) S/H: 7.25 USD, 2.00 for each additional set! (Insurance and Delivery Confirmation included!) (I will only ship to the residential U.S. One moonlit night, Shuichiro saved an angel stuck in a tree. ![]() ![]() Volume 1 is the special edition version with a dust jacket! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Payment Details: Paypal (Preferred), Money Orders in USD only (If ordering by money order, Buyer MUST contact me within 48 hours to finalize the purchase and it must be received within 5 days. each Quality: Used but in excellent condition. Thank you! Comes from a pet-free, smoke-free home! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Title: WISH Circle/Artist: CLAMP Pairing: N/A Type: Manga, Fantasy, Romance Rating: PG-13 Number of Pages: Roughly 180-200 p. Hello and Welcome! Warning : Please do not bid on this item unless you understand what 'shounen-ai' or 'yaoi' is and you must be a serious bidder. ![]() |