Download or read book Every King Needs a Queen Not a Handmaiden written by Jayne Okonji and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world where everyone desires the royalty treatment. Sadly, we cannot experience it in a vacuum - especially in a marriage relationship. As the famous saying goes, "like attracts like." Likewise, royalty should attract royalty. Thus, if a husband is treated like a king, his wife should not be treated like a handmaiden.A king-husband is not gifted with a handmaiden-wife who is inferior to him upon marriage. Rather, he is gifted with a queen-wife who is precious and should be valued.Every King Needs a Queen, Not a Handmaiden will: - Open your eyes to a better mindset that is guaranteed to improve your life and, subsequently, your marriage too.- Challenge the norm in the disparity between how husbands are expected to be treated, in contrast to their wives.- Give you a better appreciation of your spouse. - Help a queen-wife break away from any excessive servitude that might come with marital expectations.- Challenge husbands to elevate their spouses from a handmaiden-wife to a queen-wife.
Download or read book The Seventh Handmaiden written by Judith Pransky and published by Green Bean Books. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darya does not remember how she came to be a slave or who she was before she was bought by an army captain for his motherless daughter in the ancient Persian city of Susa. Protected and nurtured by the housekeeper and her daughter, Darya has as good a life as a slave can have, even acquiring the rare skill of reading and writing, which she learns alongside her young mistress. When the captain dies and the household is broken up, this skill proves to be her lifeline. She becomes the seventh handmaiden to the mysterious Esther, who is being housed at the Royal Palace while in contention to be King Xerxes’ new Queen. However, life in Ancient Persia is precarious for women and outsiders, wherever they are in the hierarchy. When the king appoints a new prime minister called Haman, Darya and Esther are drawn into his murderous conflict with the Judean community and Mordechai, their leader, who lives just outside the palace gates. In a world of discord and uprising, Darya seeks to fix the world around her and protect her friends, while also trying to unravel the mysteries surrounding who she is and how she became a slave. As she grows from childhood to womanhood she grapples with her own identity, her aspirations and desires and begins to understand the true meaning of both slavery and freedom.
Download or read book The Queen s Handmaid written by Tracy Higley and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A jealous Egyptian queen. A lascivious Galilean governor. A beautiful servant girl. Theirs is a story of prophecy, self-discovery, and revelation. The year is 39 BC. All of Alexandria awaits the arrival of Herod, the Galilean governor with his eye on the Judean kingship. The handmaid of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, receives a troubling visit from her aging mentor. An orphan since birth, Lydia lives in the palace at the demand of Cleopatra and her royal child, the son of Julius Caesar. But Lydia has a growing problem on her hands: her beauty is becoming a liability to the aging queen, and the visiting Herod’s undisguised interest only makes matters worse. When Lydia’s mentor is murdered, the handmaid inherits a daunting task. An ancient set of sealed scrolls, the secret writings of the prophet Daniel, must be returned to Jerusalem—before those who killed her mentor destroy the scrolls as well. The future of the Israelites depends on it. So Lydia leaves the palace to serve as lady’s maid to Herod’s wife in the Holy City. As Lydia is absorbed into the machinations of Herod’s household, her mission— and her people’s hope of a Messianic King—are endangered at every turn. Can Lydia avoid the adulterous intentions of Herod? Can she deliver the scrolls to the mysterious man on the steps of the Temple? Will the true King of Israel ever rise? "Higley amazes us with another of her action-packed feats of storytelling." —RT Book Reviews, 4 1/2 Stars, TOP PICK! (on Palace of Darkness)
Download or read book A Midsummer Night s Faery Tale written by Wendy Froud and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-10-25 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not once upon a time, but right now, in a forest called Old Oak Wood, faeries frolic, invisible to those humans who choose not to believe in them. In A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S FAERY TALE, doll maker Wendy Froud and award winning fantasy author Terri Windling collaborate to tell the story of one of these elusive fellows, a young tree-root faery named Sneezle. Each page of this delightful book is graced with an elaborately staged photo of Froud's doll creations in their natural habitats, paired with Windling's story of Sneezle's unlikely heroism. Sneezle and his diaphanous friends are adorable enough to charm children and adults alike. Sneezle's adventures begin when he sets out to fetch the Midsummer crown for King Oberon. Meanwhile, the Faery Queen Titania is found asleep, victim of a powerful magic spell. The hopes of the faery kingdom ride on Sneezle who encounters fascinating forest characters, discovers the identity of the wicked sorceress who has enchanted the queen, and learns about courage and loyalty. He also figures out that being 'same old Sneezle' is a fine thing to be.
Download or read book The Demon Queen written by Jewel Killian and published by Jewel Killian. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They call me Uniter of Realms, Bringer of Peace, High Queen. But I don't know how to be any of that. Five realms hang in the balance, three races whose lives depend on magic, and one corrupt king hoarding it all for himself. My role? Oh, just fixing it. Easy, right? But a handful of sexy realm leaders insist I'm the human-born with demon blood—each vying for attention, each one's touch drawing something strange and blissful from me. Sweet, attentive Callum, pragmatic and commanding Sorin, dark and intuitive Verrill, and icy, collected Jadzeera. Each one has something to teach me—about magic and about myself. The longer I stay in these hell realms the closer I grow to each realm leader, the more my power grows and the more I realize I cannot simply have one realm leader. I need them all by my side—and in my bed—to bring the realms back together. The Demon Queen is a fast-burn FFMMM Reverse Harem. This fun, sexy ride is packed full of seductive demons, a smart heroine, a wisecracking best friend, and a teleporting cat. EDITORIAL REVIEWS It's EXTREMELY rare for me to give a book 5 stars. I reserve it only for books that move me and make me want to revisit their pages. This book is that and so much more. Being a pansexual/non-monogamous woman has been a journey. Accepting it and being proud to declare such titles has not been sinple, and escaping into the RH world has been a fun way to escape into a fantasized reality, but never have I read a story with characters that so deeply made me feel the vast range of emotions. (How dramatic for a fantasy book about sexy stuff, right? Lol) Beyond the personal rightness this book gave me, tingly belly feels and all, the world building is orgasmic in its own right. The storyline was engaging and magical with just a hint of realism and "it-could-happen" factor. I absolutely loved every moment of this story, and if you are looking for an awesome bisexual main character with a lady lover and four delicious dudes, then you'll absolutely love this book. I definitely did. -JSpringer Original. Groundbreaking! ...Reading RH can feel a bit wearisome at times.... When you read RH the way I do, it is really refreshing to finally find a horde with lady interest. This is the first in well over one hundred reads that went there, and balanced all the parts perfectly. Kudos to the author for breaking out of a mold and reshaping things. Also, I want to say that this author found a way to have the heroine actually figure things out without spending too much time on her baggage. It's there, but Zurie jumps beyond. Love it. -SJennings
Download or read book The Pregnant King written by Devdutt Pattanaik and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I am not sure that I am a man,’ said Yuvanashva. ‘I have created life outside me as men do. But I have also created life inside me, as women do. What does that make me? Will a body such as mine fetter or free me?’ Among the many hundreds of characters who inhabit the Mahabharata, perhaps the world’s greatest epic and certainly one of the oldest, is Yuvanashva, a childless king, who accidentally drinks a magic potion meant to make his queens pregnant and gives birth to a son. This extraordinary novel is his story. It is also the story of his mother Shilavati, who cannot be king because she is a woman; of young Somvat, who surrenders his genitals to become a wife; of Shikhandi, a daughter brought up as a son, who fathers a child with a borrowed penis; of Arjuna, the great warrior with many wives, who is forced to masquerade as a woman after being castrated by a nymph; of Ileshwara, a god on full-moon days and a goddess on new-moon nights; and of Adi-natha, the teacher of teachers, worshipped as a hermit by some and as an enchantress by others. Building on Hinduism’s rich and complex mythology—but driven by a very contemporary sensibility—Devdutt Pattanaik creates a lush and fecund work of fiction in which the lines are continually blurred between men and women, sons and daughters, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers. Confronted with such fluidity the reader is drawn into Yuvanashva’s struggle to be fair to all—those here, those there and all those in between.
Download or read book Rumpelstiltskin written by Scott O. Jones and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the town of Lingen a creature exists that can spin straw into gold. The price he charges is more than one royal couple is willing to pay! This is a fun retelling of the children's classic for theaters of any size and talent level. Production of this show is NOT allowed without a properly executed "Agreement to Produce" on file with the publisher.
Download or read book The Romance of Arthur written by James J. Wilhelm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Ke de unn y Meg a e n written by Barhebraeus and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Queen s Prophet written by Dawn Patitucci and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Velázquez’s baroque masterpiece, Las Meninas, The Queen’s Prophet is an imagined account of the dwarfess Maribarbola of Spain (featured prominently in Velázquez’s painting) and her struggle for survival and self-determination at a time when dwarfs were kept by aristocracy as pets, prophets, and good luck charms. When the Countess of Walther dies at her German estate, her loyal dwarfess Maria-Barbara is forced to work as a prophet for a traveling magician, who betrays her by selling her to the Queen of Spain. At the royal court in Madrid, Mari finds herself in a bizarre, enchanted world, a society culturally splendid but intellectually isolated. There she becomes Maribarbola, prophet to the Queen, and, her survival at stake, endeavors to outsmart the Spaniards. Mari's wits and loyalties are tested as she becomes embroiled in palace intrigue alongside the politically embattled Queen. When Mari's carefully schemed prophecies dazzle all of Spain, she and the Queen climb to dizzying heights of power, a place as intoxicating as it is dangerous. But even as Mari survives and thrives at the Spanish court, the loss of identity she suffers from living a lie makes her question whether she is really surviving at all.
Download or read book Oriental Wit and Wisdom Or the Laughable Stories written by Bar Hebraeus and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dragon people of planet Draco written by Jerry N Valdez and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2024-03-17 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cristin was swimming and looked up and saw the dragons flying her way she got out and got into her tent and came out a few minutes later as the dragons were landing she saw them transforming into human forms. As she finds out that her father is dying she goes with them to her handmaidens 11 hatch party her brother is trying to kill her, instead of looking for the Golden Dragon egg
Download or read book Zoroaster written by Francis Marion Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Guardians and the Heirs of the Brown Dragon written by Katherine M. L. Smith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terrifying news spreads throughout the land like wildfire, and no one rests easily anymore. Morbane, the most powerful Black Dragon in the world, has risen, and he will not rest until he has destroyed the Guardians, an ancient race of dragons that have long protected Balsk. Their prophecy for victory against Morbane depends on two special dragons who will embody the spirit and power of the Brown Dragonthe founder of the Guardians. And so arise two unlikely heroes: Umphy, a runt plagued by dreams and an unknown illness, may hold the key to discovering the powerful secret he carries within himself. Tarragon is a powerful, rebellious young dragon whose size, strength, and protective instincts may be the equal of Morbane himself! But when both dragons are banished from their clans, they embark on separate paths that will change their lives forever. Umphys path takes him to a powerful northern kingdom, where he becomes caught in a web of vengeance and dark magic. And when Morbane viciously attacks Tarragons home, the young dragon begins a search for the survivors that leads him to a confrontation that will test his strengthand his fate.
Download or read book Episode written by Tracey Morait and published by K & T Mitchell. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alisha Dainton has severe epilepsy, so she's used to having seizures. Sometimes she even has weird visions and hears strange noises. After a particularly bad episode on holiday in Cyprus, what she sees and hears makes her think she's going mad: who is the beautiful girl with the see-through eyes, multi-coloured hair and rainbow and the half-woman, half-bird creature singing by the hotel pool, and just why has she been chosen to go back in time to ancient Sparta to help save a princess called Helen? Either Ali is having some sort of bizarre dream, or she's about to have an amazing adventure that might change the entire story of the Trojan War.
