Author: Elizabeth York Miller
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: Demetrius Jakson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780977113347
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Victoria Shorr
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393652785
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Exquisite and nuanced in its storytelling, Midnight crafts intimate, humanizing portraits of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc that ask us to behold the women behind the icons. Midnight is a study in the courage of three women—Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Joan of Arc. Jane Austen was poor in 1802, unmarried and homeless. She had outlines, ideas, and first drafts of her future novels but no place to sit and write them. It is at this bleak moment that she receives an offer of marriage from a rich man. Midnight takes us to the hour of her decision between financial security and her writing life. When sixteen-year-old Mary Godwin elopes to France with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, she scoffs at the cost—life as an outcast. Together they travel through Europe, reading and writing, but Midnight finds her alone, eight years later, pacing a terrace overlooking the Italian shore, watching for Shelley to sail home over stormy seas in a shaky boat. Joan of Arc, imprisoned in chains, kept her faith for a long year. Be brave, daughter of God, her saints had whispered, you will be saved—and she believes it, until she is taken to be burned at the stake. Midnight is the story of Joan’s final days, between her terrified recantation and her heroic return to the stake.

Author: Beda (Venerabilis.)
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 0853236933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 585

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From the patristic age until the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, computus -- the science of time reckoning and art of calendar construction -- was a matter of intense concern. Bede's The Reckoning of Time (De temporum ratione) was the first comprehensive treatise on this subject and the model and reference for all subsequent teaching discussion and criticism of the Christian calendar. It is a systematic exposition of the Julian solar calendar and the Paschal table of Dionysius Exiguus, with their related formulae for calculating dates. But it is more than a technical handbook. Bede sets calendar lore within a broad scientific framework and a coherent Christian concept of time, and incorporates themes as diverse as the theory of tides and the doctrine of the millennium. This translation of the full text of The Reckoning of Time includes an extensive historical introduction and a chapter-by-chapter commentary. It will interest historians of medieval science, theology, and education, Bede scholars and Anglo-Saxonists, liturgists, and Church historians. It will also serve as an accessible introduction to computus itself. Generations of medieval computists nourished their expertise in Bede's orderly presentation; modern scholars in quest of safe passage through this complex terrain can hope for no better guide.

Author: Janet Derry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Romance fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: Mark ALLERTON (pseud. [i.e. William Ernest Cameron.])
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: Charlotte Nicole Davis
Publisher: Tor Teen
ISBN: 125029973X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355

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The Sisters of Reckoning is the blockbuster sequel to Charlotte Nicole Davis's alternate Old West-set fantasy adventure. The Good Luck Girls are free. Aster's sister and friends have new lives across the border in Ferron, while Aster remains in Arketta, helping more girls escape. But news of a new welcome house opening fills Aster with a need to do more than just help individual girls. And an unexpected reunion gives her an idea of how to do it. From there, grows a wildly ambitious plan to free all dustbloods, who live as prisoners to Arketta's landmasters and debt slavery. When Clementine and the others return from Ferron, they become the heart of a vibrant group of fearless fighters, working to unite the various underclasses and convince them to join in the fight. Along the way, friendships will be forged, lives will be lost, and love will take root even in the harshest of circumstances, between the most unexpected of lovers. But will Arketta's dustbloods finally come into power and freedom, or will the resistance just open them up to a new sort of danger? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author: Tage Lindbom
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 143

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Author: James Belich
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199604541
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 587

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Pioneering study of the anglophone 'settler boom' in North America, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand between the early 19th and early 20th centuries, looking at what made it the most successful of all such settler revolutions, and how this laid the basis of British and American power in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Author: James Harris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732118669
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Malvo Necrosyse had control of Icearaus as the resistance gathered on Huelgrawt. In one final brutal act of destruction - and under the watchful eye of the six princes of Hades - Malvo would destroy the resistance and hand deliver Icearaus to his father and take his proper form as a demon... or would he? The resistance was not ready to lay down and die like vermin, but still held the heart and courage to fight. It would be now under the darkest of hours that Averie would be forced to make the most difficult decision in her young life.