Download or read book The King of Anavrea written by Rachel Rossano and published by Rachel Rossano. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reluctant king, a blind queen, and a marriage that sparked a rebellion... Ireic Theodoric, King of Anavrea, constantly battles with his council over who will run the country. When the council insists on a treaty with Sardmara, he agrees. However, the treaty quickly becomes an arranged marriage. Ireic offers up himself for the sake of Anavrea. But after he signs, no princess appears. Lirth Parnan, only daughter of the king of Sardmara, survives alone in a cold, damp tower room. Baron Tor kidnapped her in an attempt to control her father. No one came to claim her. She suspects her father considers her flawed beyond use in his political games. After five years of waiting, her hope of rescue wanes with her health. After Ireic fights his way into Lirth’s tower, he realizes the depths of her father’s deception. Instead of being an answer to his problems, Lirth creates new ones. The council will not accept her as queen, but Ireic has sworn an oath that he will marry her. His choice could cost him his throne, perhaps his life.
Download or read book The Crown of Anavrea written by Rachel Rossano and published by Rachel Rossano. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time when castles were the strongest...in a place where combat was face to face...Labren was on the run. He hid his true name and he admitted it freely. In a time when slavery was legal...in a place where kings were all-powerful...Eve, a slave, appeared in the right place at the right time. Eve saved his life. In return, he offered her the opportunity of freedom. She did not know what would happen to her if she chose to accept his proposal, but she did know the consequences of rejecting it.
Download or read book The Mercenary s Marriage written by Rachel Rossano and published by Rachel Rossano. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trained as a mercenary soldier, Darius was a man of decisive action. He was also a man of compassion. Seeing a young slave woman about to become the spoils of war, he claimed her for his own. Marrying her before God and king, he made her a free and respectable soldier's wife. Brice was born a slave. Abused and beaten, she learned quickly to avoid being noticed and to stay away from men. When her master's walls fell to enemy forces, she ran, but not fast enough. In Darius' offer she found deliverance, but experience had taught her to fear power such as his. Could she trust in his protection, or had she traded one form of slavery for another?
Download or read book The Mercenary s Marriage written by Rachel Rossano and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-07-09 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trained as a mercenary soldier, Darius Laris was a man of decisive action. He was also a man of compassion. Seeing a young slave woman about to become the spoils of war, he claimed her for his own. Marrying her before God and king, he made her a free and respectable soldier's wife. Brice Ashlyn was born a slave. Abused and beaten, she learned quickly to avoid being noticed and to stay away from men. When her master's walls fell to enemy forces, she ran, but not fast enough. In Darius' offer she found deliverance, but experience had taught her to fear power such as his. Could she trust in his protection, or had she traded one form of slavery for another?
Download or read book Beauty written by Robin McKinley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author of Rose Daughter reimagines the classic French fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast. I was the youngest of three daughters. Our literal-minded mother named us Grace, Hope, and Honour. . . . My father still likes to tell the story of how I acquired my odd nickname: I had come to him for further information when I first discovered that our names meant something besides you-come-here. He succeeded in explaining grace and hope, but he had some difficulty trying to make the concept of honour understandable to a five-year-old. . . . I said: ‘Huh! I’d rather be Beauty.’ . . . By the time it was evident that I was going to let the family down by being plain, I’d been called Beauty for over six years. . . . I wasn’t really very fond of my given name, Honour, either . . . as if ‘honourable’ were the best that could be said of me. The sisters’ wealthy father loses all his money when his merchant fleet is drowned in a storm, and the family moves to a village far away. Then the old merchant hears what proves to be a false report that one of his ships had made it safe to harbor at last, and on his sad, disappointed way home again he becomes lost deep in the forest and has a terrifying encounter with a fierce Beast, who walks like a man and lives in a castle. The merchant’s life is forfeit, says the Beast, for trespass and the theft of a rose—but he will spare the old man’s life if he sends one of his daughters: “Your daughter would take no harm from me, nor from anything that lives in my lands.” When Beauty hears this story—for her father had picked the rose to bring to her—her sense of honor demands that she take up the Beast’s offer, for “cannot a Beast be tamed?” This “splendid story” by the Newbery Medal–winning author of The Hero and the Crown has been named an ALA Notable Book and a Phoenix Award Honor Book (Publishers Weekly).
Download or read book The World s Easiest Astronomy Book written by Hitoshi Nakagawa and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-12-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we live on the moon? Can we travel to the future? Why is the sky blue? Questions we all ponder are answered in The World's Easiest Astronomy Book, written by a former Aerospace Development Specialist turned high school teacher, Hitoshi Nakagawa. Hitoshi takes us through the difficult-to-understand subjects of space and the universe beyond with simple, easy-to-understand language and amusing diagrams drawn in crayon. If you ever wanted to know how the universe worked but didn't know where to get started, this guide provides the answers. Going beyond the assumptions of textbooks, this book makes for a wonderfully pleasant read while teaching you something along the way.
Download or read book The Crown of Anavrea written by Rachel Rossano and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time when castles were the strongest...in a place where combat was face to face...Labren was on the run. He hid his true name and he admitted it freely. In a time when slavery was legal...in a place where kings were all-powerful...Eve, a slave, appeared in the right place at the right time. Eve saved his life. In return, he offered her the opportunity of freedom. She did not know what would happen to her if she chose to accept his proposal, but she did know the consequences of rejecting it.
Download or read book Word and Deed written by Rachel Rossano and published by Rachel Rossano. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (a short story loosely set in the medieval era) Death or an arranged marriage, Verity refuses to accept the choices. Verity Favian's father dies unexpectedly. Her half-brother, Verdon, lays claim to all their father left behind: title, castle, and her. Verdon cannot touch the land set aside for her dowry so he offers her hand for sale to the highest bidder. Lord Silvanticus, a man renowned for his military power and close ties to the king, makes the winning bid. Despite the rumors of Silvanticus' madness and cruelty, Verdon accepts. Verdon locks her away in a tower. She is not sure if he seeks to prevent her from fleeing the marriage or spreading the truth only she seems willing to speak: Verdon killed their father. Either way, her time is running out.
Download or read book Worlds Unseen written by Rachel Starr Thomson and published by . This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quiet, timid, and still haunted by the murder of her childhood guardians, Maggie Sheffield wants peace and healing not an opportunity to uncover truths so frightening that they threaten to forever unravel the world she thinks she knows. But when a dying friend gives her an ancient scroll that purports to contain just such truths, Maggie finds the lure of understanding too hard to resist: For the power that killed Maggie s guardians was not human and she has reason to believe the same power is controlling the Seventh World. Leaving her hopes for peace behind, Maggie sets out to carry the ancient scroll to the far eastern city of Pravik, seeking the only man in the world who can read it. Along the way, Maggie falls into the companionship of a charismatic young wanderer called Nicolas Fisher, who has secrets of his own that he has long been trying to keep hidden. Together, their journey plunges them into a strange new world of colourful Gypsies and ancient legends, of death-hounds and beautiful witches, of wilderness treks, unexpected love, and political rebellion. But the price of truth may be too high: for Maggie, Nicolas, and the rebels of Pravik are tearing at the veil between the seen and the unseen, between good and evil, between forgotten past and treacherous future and when that veil grows thin enough, it s anyone s guess what may come through.
Download or read book Heart to Heart written by Rachel Starr Thomson and published by . This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus disciples once came to Him and asked how they should pray. He answered with the simple words most of us know: Our Father, which art in heaven. Several years ago, I began to pray the Lord s Prayer every day. As I did, I sought to know better the Father to whom I prayed. The riches of the prayer overwhelmed me. Heart to Heart is my attempt to put those riches into words. Each chapter of Heart to Heart examines another facet of who God is and what it means for us to live as His children. This book was written as an act of worship. May it move you also to the celebration of childhood and embrace of the Father.
Download or read book Honor written by C S Phoenix and published by Ember Press. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kill Whitey written by Ken Harvill and published by Uglytown Productions. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Butchers Harbor, two mob families fight for control of the sick city's criminal trade. It's time for the Irish Lynch family to strike back, and the family patriarch believes that only his estranged albino son Whitey can do it.
Download or read book Miracle for Jen written by Linda Barrick and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother chronicles her family's spiritual journey of coping with the devastating accident that left her daughter with brain trauma.
Download or read book The Tutor s Daughter written by Julie Klassen and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-Winning Regency Romance from Bestselling Author Julie Klassen Emma Smallwood, determined to help her widowed father regain his spirits when his academy fails, agrees to travel with him to the distant Cornwall coast, to the cliff-top manor of a baronet and his four sons. But after they arrive and begin teaching the younger boys, mysterious things begin to happen and danger mounts. Who does Emma hear playing the pianoforte, only to find the music room empty? Who sneaks into her room at night? Who rips a page from her journal, only to return it with a chilling illustration? The baronet's older sons, Phillip and Henry, wrestle with problems--and secrets--of their own. They both remember Emma Smallwood from their days at her father's academy. She had been an awkward, studious girl. But now one of them finds himself unexpectedly drawn to her. When the suspicious acts escalate, can the clever tutor's daughter figure out which brother to blame...and which brother to trust with her heart?
Download or read book So Shines the Night written by T. L. Higley and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a city teetering at the brink of anarchy, Daria finds hope among people of The Way. She escaped a past of danger and found respite in beautiful Ephesus, a trading center on the Aegean coast, serving as tutor to Lucas, the wealthy merchant who rescued her. But the darkness she fled has caught up with her. The high priests of Artemis once controlled the city, but a group of sorcerers are gaining power. And a strange group who call themselves followers of The Way further threaten the equilibrium. As Daria investigates Lucas's exploits into the darker side of the city, her life is endangered, and she takes refuge in the strange group of believers. She's drawn to Paul and his friends, even as she wrestles with their teachings. When authorities imprison Lucas for a brutal crime, Daria wonders if even Paul's God can save him. Then she uncovers a shocking secret that could change everything--Lucas's fate, her position in his household, and the outcome of the tension between pagans and Christians. But only if she survives long enough to divulge what she knows. "Meticulously-researched, spellbindingly written with luscious prose and compelling and complex characters." --Tosca Lee, New York Times best-selling author of Havah: The Story of Eve
Download or read book Spindle s End written by Robin McKinley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-05-13 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evil fairy Pernicia has set a curse on Princess Briar-Rose: she is fated to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into an endless, poisoned sleep. Katriona, a young fairy, kidnaps the princess in order to save her; she and her aunt raise the child in their small village, where no one knows her true identity. But Pernicia is looking for her, intent on revenge for a defeat four hundred years old. Robin McKinley's masterful version of Sleeping Beauty is, like all of her work, a remarkable literary feat.
Download or read book Seventh Born written by Rachel Rossano and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where seventh born sons are valued for their strength and power, she is born a daughter.Zezilia Ilar is the disappointment. Born after six brothers, she was supposed to be the son to restore her family’s prestige. She intends to remedy her shortcomings by being a dutiful daughter, marrying well and producing children, preferably a set of seven sons. But when someone offers her an alternative, she begins to dream of more.In a society that worships a goddess, he follows the Almighty.Hadrian Aleron, as a seventh son of a seventh son, stands to take up the second highest position in government, Sept Son. His main qualification for office is his birth. Despite preparing for this role from childhood, he does not desire what is to come. As a follower of the Almighty, he knows he will be the target of many, and his faith might eventually lead to death.SEVENTH BORN is first in a series of three books.
