Author: Betina Krahn
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 9780821773154
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorNo one gets the better of Blythe Woolrich, who manages to run Woolrich Mercantile and keep her virtue intact among Revolutionary Philadelphia's unsavory characters. But Pirate captain Raider Prescott is intent on making quick money, and ransoming a proper Philadelphia lady seems the perfect scheme - until he discovers that her family has no money. Now he's stuck at sea with the headstrong "Woolwitch," a creature as vexing as she is lovely.
Passion's Ransom
Author: Betina Krahn
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 9780821773154
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorNo one gets the better of Blythe Woolrich, who manages to run Woolrich Mercantile and keep her virtue intact among Revolutionary Philadelphia's unsavory characters. But Pirate captain Raider Prescott is intent on making quick money, and ransoming a proper Philadelphia lady seems the perfect scheme - until he discovers that her family has no money. Now he's stuck at sea with the headstrong "Woolwitch," a creature as vexing as she is lovely.
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 9780821773154
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorNo one gets the better of Blythe Woolrich, who manages to run Woolrich Mercantile and keep her virtue intact among Revolutionary Philadelphia's unsavory characters. But Pirate captain Raider Prescott is intent on making quick money, and ransoming a proper Philadelphia lady seems the perfect scheme - until he discovers that her family has no money. Now he's stuck at sea with the headstrong "Woolwitch," a creature as vexing as she is lovely.
A King's Ransom
Author: Sharon Kay Penman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698167171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Sharon Kay Penman follows up her acclaimed novel Lionheart with this vivid and heart-wrenching New York Times bestseller about the last event-filled years in the life of Richard I of England, Coeur de Lion. November 1192. After his bloody crusade in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Richard and his crew are overcome by a sudden storm, its fierce winds propelling the ship onto the Sicilian shore. But this misfortune is just the beginning. Forced to make a dangerous choice, Richard finds himself in enemy territory, where he is captured—in violation of the papal decree protecting all crusaders—and handed over to the Holy Roman Emperor. Imprisoned in the notorious fortress at Trifels, from which few ever leave alive, Richard, for the first time in his life, experiences pure, visceral fear—while his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, moves heaven and earth to secure his release. Amid betrayals, intrigues, infidelities, wars, and illness, Richard’s courage and intelligence will become legend.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698167171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Sharon Kay Penman follows up her acclaimed novel Lionheart with this vivid and heart-wrenching New York Times bestseller about the last event-filled years in the life of Richard I of England, Coeur de Lion. November 1192. After his bloody crusade in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Richard and his crew are overcome by a sudden storm, its fierce winds propelling the ship onto the Sicilian shore. But this misfortune is just the beginning. Forced to make a dangerous choice, Richard finds himself in enemy territory, where he is captured—in violation of the papal decree protecting all crusaders—and handed over to the Holy Roman Emperor. Imprisoned in the notorious fortress at Trifels, from which few ever leave alive, Richard, for the first time in his life, experiences pure, visceral fear—while his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, moves heaven and earth to secure his release. Amid betrayals, intrigues, infidelities, wars, and illness, Richard’s courage and intelligence will become legend.
Ransom
Author: Lee Rowan
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press LLC
ISBN: 9781632162380
Category : Gay men
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When midshipman Marshall learns of Archer's sacrifice, he discovers what he feels for Archer runs stronger and deeper than friendship.
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press LLC
ISBN: 9781632162380
Category : Gay men
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When midshipman Marshall learns of Archer's sacrifice, he discovers what he feels for Archer runs stronger and deeper than friendship.
The Rescue and Romance
Author: Diana C. Reep
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879722128
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This study of the rescue motif in popular American novels before World War I focuses on the rescue convention as part of the romantic plot of the novels. The rescue as a structured convention that controls the movement of the romantic plot appears in all types of domestic novels, gothics, dime novels, historical romances, and westerns.
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879722128
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This study of the rescue motif in popular American novels before World War I focuses on the rescue convention as part of the romantic plot of the novels. The rescue as a structured convention that controls the movement of the romantic plot appears in all types of domestic novels, gothics, dime novels, historical romances, and westerns.
The Metaphysical Passion
Author: Sona Raiziss
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512818453
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512818453
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Ransom
Author: David Malouf
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307378934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer’s Iliad—one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus in the siege of Troy; and woeful Priam, whose son Hector killed Patroclus and was in turn savaged by Achilles. A moving tale of suffering, sorrow, and redemption, Ransom is incandescent in its delicate and powerful lyricism and its unstated imperative that we imagine our lives in the glow of fellow feeling.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307378934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer’s Iliad—one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus in the siege of Troy; and woeful Priam, whose son Hector killed Patroclus and was in turn savaged by Achilles. A moving tale of suffering, sorrow, and redemption, Ransom is incandescent in its delicate and powerful lyricism and its unstated imperative that we imagine our lives in the glow of fellow feeling.
Passion's Exile
Author: Glynnis Campbell
Publisher: Glynnis Campbell
ISBN: 1938114000
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Haunted by an unforgivable crime, the once noble swordsman, Sir Pierce of Mirkhaugh, now wanders Scotland as the sword-for-hire known as Blade. His latest mission--to unmask two assassins among the pilgrims bound for St. Andrews--goes awry when spirited Rosamund of Averleigh joins the entourage, tempting Blade from his solitude and making him believe in redemption. What he doesn't know is that Rose is fleeing for her life. With an abusive bridegroom tracking her, her only hope is to seek refuge as a nun...until she meets Blade, who awakens her passions and destroys her best-laid plans.
Publisher: Glynnis Campbell
ISBN: 1938114000
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Haunted by an unforgivable crime, the once noble swordsman, Sir Pierce of Mirkhaugh, now wanders Scotland as the sword-for-hire known as Blade. His latest mission--to unmask two assassins among the pilgrims bound for St. Andrews--goes awry when spirited Rosamund of Averleigh joins the entourage, tempting Blade from his solitude and making him believe in redemption. What he doesn't know is that Rose is fleeing for her life. With an abusive bridegroom tracking her, her only hope is to seek refuge as a nun...until she meets Blade, who awakens her passions and destroys her best-laid plans.
Passion
Author: Bobbi Smith
Publisher: Zebra
ISBN: 1420142690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Against a panorama that sweeps from the pageantry of ancient Britain to the untamed wilds of a primitive Viking kingdom, beloved author Bobbi Smith weaves a powerful story of intrigue, adventure and glorious love... To escape a forced marriage to the brutal Prince Edmund, Lady Dynna fled her father's castle...only to spy a viking ship with blood-red sails landing along the Saxon coast. Aboard was Brage, the magnificent Norse warrior they called the Black Hawk—a man who had come for to battle for booty...and for captives. Yet on this day, Brage would be wounded and betrayed. He would fall captive to the hated Saxons...and to a passion that enslaved his very soul. For there on the misty shore, he beheld a woman of unsurpassed loveliness—a tender-spirited beauty who secretly used her healing arts to save his life. Unable to resist the desire that ran like wildfire through their viens, Dynna and Brage risked dishonor and even death for a love as dangerous as it was forbidden...
Publisher: Zebra
ISBN: 1420142690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Against a panorama that sweeps from the pageantry of ancient Britain to the untamed wilds of a primitive Viking kingdom, beloved author Bobbi Smith weaves a powerful story of intrigue, adventure and glorious love... To escape a forced marriage to the brutal Prince Edmund, Lady Dynna fled her father's castle...only to spy a viking ship with blood-red sails landing along the Saxon coast. Aboard was Brage, the magnificent Norse warrior they called the Black Hawk—a man who had come for to battle for booty...and for captives. Yet on this day, Brage would be wounded and betrayed. He would fall captive to the hated Saxons...and to a passion that enslaved his very soul. For there on the misty shore, he beheld a woman of unsurpassed loveliness—a tender-spirited beauty who secretly used her healing arts to save his life. Unable to resist the desire that ran like wildfire through their viens, Dynna and Brage risked dishonor and even death for a love as dangerous as it was forbidden...
The Ideal of Kingship in the Writings of Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien
Author: Christopher Scarf
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
ISBN: 0227901967
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
In his distinctive work, Christopher Scarf explores the writings of the three most prominent Oxford Inklings - Charles Williams (1886-1945), C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), and J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) - to reveal and contrast their conceptions of the ideal of 'kingship'; divine, human, and mythological. As practising Christians, the faith of all three writers was central to their literary and personal visions of kingship, society, love, beauty, justice and power. Scarf investigates their beliefin God as Creator and heavenly King, opinions on the nature of His very being, and the way in which all believed the Creator to be unique rather than one among many. The relationship between the earthly and heavenly King is considered, as well as the extent to which the writers contend that earthly kings are God's viceregents, act with His authority, and are duty-bound to establish and sustain just and joyous societies. Examining the writings of all three men in detail, Scarf also highlights the covert evidence of their lives and personalities which may be discovered in their texts. An understanding of the authors' individual but overlapping views of the essential meaning of Kingship, and their personalities and early lives, will enrichthe reader's appreciation of their created worlds. This volume provides a unique focus on Kingship and the Christian beliefs of three well-loved writers, and will be of interest to any reader seeking a fuller understanding of the individuals and their works.
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
ISBN: 0227901967
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
In his distinctive work, Christopher Scarf explores the writings of the three most prominent Oxford Inklings - Charles Williams (1886-1945), C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), and J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) - to reveal and contrast their conceptions of the ideal of 'kingship'; divine, human, and mythological. As practising Christians, the faith of all three writers was central to their literary and personal visions of kingship, society, love, beauty, justice and power. Scarf investigates their beliefin God as Creator and heavenly King, opinions on the nature of His very being, and the way in which all believed the Creator to be unique rather than one among many. The relationship between the earthly and heavenly King is considered, as well as the extent to which the writers contend that earthly kings are God's viceregents, act with His authority, and are duty-bound to establish and sustain just and joyous societies. Examining the writings of all three men in detail, Scarf also highlights the covert evidence of their lives and personalities which may be discovered in their texts. An understanding of the authors' individual but overlapping views of the essential meaning of Kingship, and their personalities and early lives, will enrichthe reader's appreciation of their created worlds. This volume provides a unique focus on Kingship and the Christian beliefs of three well-loved writers, and will be of interest to any reader seeking a fuller understanding of the individuals and their works.
The Saving Cross of the Suffering Christ
Author: Benjamin R. Wilson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110477114
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
What is the place of the cross in the thought of the third evangelist? This book seeks to show the central significance of the death of Jesus for Luke's understanding of (1) how salvation is accomplished and (2) what it means for Jesus to be the messiah. Whereas previous authors have helpfully attended to individual motifs within Luke's account of the passion, this book takes more of a wide-angle approach to the topic, moving from the very first allusions to Jesus' rejection at the beginning of Luke's gospel all the way through to the retrospective references to Jesus' death that occur throughout the speeches of Acts. By focusing on the inter-relationship of the various parts that form the whole of the Lukan portrayal of Jesus' death, Wilson proposes fresh solutions to several of the intractable exegetical disputes related to the place of the cross in Lukan theology, thereby helping to situate Lukan soteriology within the broader context of Jewish and Christian belief and practice in the first century.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110477114
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
What is the place of the cross in the thought of the third evangelist? This book seeks to show the central significance of the death of Jesus for Luke's understanding of (1) how salvation is accomplished and (2) what it means for Jesus to be the messiah. Whereas previous authors have helpfully attended to individual motifs within Luke's account of the passion, this book takes more of a wide-angle approach to the topic, moving from the very first allusions to Jesus' rejection at the beginning of Luke's gospel all the way through to the retrospective references to Jesus' death that occur throughout the speeches of Acts. By focusing on the inter-relationship of the various parts that form the whole of the Lukan portrayal of Jesus' death, Wilson proposes fresh solutions to several of the intractable exegetical disputes related to the place of the cross in Lukan theology, thereby helping to situate Lukan soteriology within the broader context of Jewish and Christian belief and practice in the first century.