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The Boleyn King by Laura Andersen7/5/2023 That’s a great word for what’s in store here. One among them will pay the price for a king's desire, as a shocking twist of fate changes England's fortunes forever. Then, when he and Dominic both fall in love with Minuette, romantic obsession looms over a new generation of Tudors. With the French threatening battle and the Catholics sowing the seeds of rebellion at home, William trusts only three people: his older sister Elizabeth his best friend and loyal counselor, Dominic and Minuette, a young orphan raised as a royal ward by William's mother, Anne Boleyn.Īgainst a tide of secrets, betrayal, and murder, William finds himself fighting for the very soul of his kingdom. Just seventeen years old, Henry IX, known as William, is a king bound by the restraints of the regency yet anxious to prove himself. Reimagining history in sumptuous detail, Laura Anderssen takes readers back to the deadly intrigue, turbulent affairs, and treacherous passions of Tudor England - and answers the compelling question What if Anne Boleyn had given Henry VIII the son he so desperately wanted? The Boleyn King is the first novel in an enthralling new trilogy. Genre: historical fiction, speculative fiction
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Here also is the Revolution as experienced by American Loyalists, Hessian mercenaries, politicians, preachers, traitors, spies, men and women of all kinds caught in the paths of war.Īt the center of the drama, with Washington, are two young American patriots, who, at first, knew no more of war than what they had read in books - Nathanael Greene, a Quaker who was made a general at thirty-three, and Henry Knox, a twenty-five-year-old bookseller who had the preposterous idea of hauling the guns of Fort Ticonderoga overland to Boston in the dead of winter.īut it is the American commander-in-chief who stands foremost - Washington, who had never before led an army in battle. And it is the story of the King's men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. In this stirring book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence - when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.īased on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality.
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In the shadow of man by jane goodall7/4/2023 This paperback edition contains 80 photographs and in introduction by Stephen Jay Gould. Jane Goodall was a young secretarial school graduate when the legendary Louis Leakey chose her to undertake a landmark study of chimpanzees in the world. Urn:oclc:877693093 Republisher_date 20120625034003 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120622121224 Scanner . This best-selling classic tells the story of one of world's greatest scientific adventuresses. OL548259W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 83.49 Pages 390 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:084466944X OL7466114M Openlibrary_subject long_now_manual_for_civilization Openlibrary_work Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:05:45 Boxid IA148404 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Boston Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition Rev.
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The Loch by Steve Alten7/4/2023 Alten founded the Adopt-An-Author which is a school reading program to motivate young adults to read. The series almost became a film however was cancelled. A series about a paleontologist, Jonas Taylor, finds a megalodon, a massive prehistoric shark, and attempts to prove its existence to the world. Steve Alten was born in Augwho is an American science fiction author is known best for his Meg novels. Zach must return to Scotland and must face his fear of the legend behind Loch Ness. Now his father, Angus Wallace, stands on trial for murder. For years Zach has been experiencing night terrors of a near drowning event in Loch Ness during his childhood in his hometown of Scotland. It tells of story about a marine biologist named Zachary Wallace. The Loch bored me in new ways I couldn't perceive.
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Book review the guest list7/4/2023 There, I saw a quote by the author of The Silent Patient, another book I really enjoyed. So the recommendations led me to the Amazon page for The Guest List by Lucy Foley. Aside from the scary AI implications of this - that computers know us better than we know ourselves! - we must applaud the end results that generally lead us to a book of our liking. I got to hand it to their algorithm because it does a pretty good job determining our likes. I was guided to this book, like many of us are, by Amazon recommendations. How much time does it take you to read your average 300 page book? 10 hours? 20 hours? I would say on average it takes most of us about a week or two to get through a book - that’s a good chunk of time out of our busy lives so let’s make sure we choose wisely. Who knows … these recommendations might say more about you than they do about the book.Īs I do in all my book reviews, let’s first delve into the reason I chose to read this book. In this review of The Guest List by Lucy Foley, I will tell you who I would recommend this book to and who I wouldn’t.
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Sweet Dreams by Kristen Ashley7/4/2023 Life throws curveball after curveball at Laurie and Tate. He stakes his claim for Lauren before he goes on the hunt for a killer but Laurie doesn’t speak biker nor does she understand bounty hunters and Tate comes back from the hunt to find his old lady has moved on. Until a serial killer hits Carnal and Lauren finds out Tate isn’t a bartender, he’s a bounty hunter. The clash of the bartender and barmaid begins but, even though Tate makes his change of mind clear (in biker-speak, a language Lauren is not fluent in), Lauren is intent on going her own way. Tate’s angry insults seared in her brain, Lauren decides the feeling is mutual and she doesn’t want anything to do with the gloriously handsome Tate Jackson. Part-owner of the bar, he took one look at high-class Lauren and wanted nothing to do with her. It was perfect: a nothing job in a nowhere bar in Nowheresville. So, after divorcing her cheating husband, Lauren searched for nothing special and she thought she found it when she landed a job as a waitress in a biker bar in Carnal. But she learned the hard way that special wasn’t on offer. She didn’t know what it was, she just knew it would one day be hers. Lauren Grahame has spent her whole life thinking something special was going to happen.
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Setting her stories in fantasy worlds, she makes sure to use contemporary issues in order to reflect the real world and what is actually going on. Mainly writing stand-alone titles, she mostly concerns herself with writing self-contained narratives for her audience. Her characters have also become well known for having an impassioned voice of their own too, speaking almost directly to the audience. This is something she has been building upon over time, as it is her messages that have also resonated with readers from all across the world. Creating entire worlds within her work, she is mainly known for focusing on the science-fiction genre, taking her narratives in exciting and imaginative directions. Making a strong name for herself as a novelist with a powerful imagination, as well as something important to say, she has been making waves throughout the publishing industry as a whole. Morrow has become an extremely creative and innovative writer in recent years. Largely writing Young Adult fiction, the American writer Bethany C.
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CHESTER, the cat, Harold, the dog, Bunnicula, the vampire (?) rabbit, and Howie, the wirehaired dachshund puppy, return in this sequel to Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery and Howliday Inn to ask the question: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of lettuce?Ĭhester has just finished retelling the tale of Bunnicula to Howie, who has just joined the Monroe family, when he discovers that Bunnicula is missing from his cage.
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The night watch by sarah waters7/3/2023 And although I loved the style of writing here, it really is so evocative and so wonderfully descriptive, the story seemed to be almost undone by the manner in which it was told. I really enjoyed The Little Stranger but I had problems with the ending. But it doesn’t fit, not really, so I won’t be counting it as an RIP read this year. The title sounded vaguely possibly horror/creepy. I was browsing for something to pick up at the library and came across this. I originally picked this up because the only other Sarah Waters’ book I’d read1 was a wonderful creepy read. They don’t all know one another, but their stories and lives intersect over the course of the book. And the war, but the war is more of a backdrop to the story of Kay, Helen, Julia, Duncan and Viv. People and relationships and just plain living. They have yet to become who they were when we met them at the start of the novel.Īs for that the story is about? Well, it is about people. Their loves and losses, the air raids and rations, these things are all ahead of the characters. Their stories progress by going backwards in time, so that when we leave them they have it all to experience. Starting in 1947 The Night Watch tells the story, in reverse chronology, of various people in and around London during the Blitz.
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Becoming Dad by M.A. Jackson7/3/2023 He and Lydia are nearly attacked by The Alpha Werewolf and Derek visits him in the locker room to learn more about the incident. Jackson comes across Derek Hale in school, and, when he confronts the wounded werewolf, he was scratched on the back of the neck. He joins Scott and Allison Argent on a double date with Lydia where he lets Scott know he's still figuring out what his secret is. ( Read More.)ĭuring lacrosse practice, Scott injures him and later tries to sabotage his chances of scoring points for the team. Scott McCall’s sudden improvement on the lacrosse field threatens Jackson’s supremacy, makes him suspicious and prompts his investigation of Scott. Gerard Argent managed to lure him back home with a threat to all supernaturals worldwide. Only when Lydia said she loved him did his conflict get resolved and he became a werewolf.Īfter training briefly with Derek Hale on how to control himself as a werewolf, Jackson moved to London where he entered a relationship with former Alpha Ethan. He suffered from emotional and mental issues that corrupted his transformation into a werewolf and instead became a Kanima. Teen Wolf Mystery When Werewolf Bites Go Wrong |