Author: Karen Jones
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595000347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
With a simple twist of fate, a vulnerable young woman is unwillingly thrust into a struggle for power, caught between an evil destructive duke and a handsome but withdrawn king. From the harsh palace kitchens to the glittering bedchambers above, beautiful Catherine fights for survival amid danger and intrigue. Brooding King Stefan keeps to his rooms, held captive by tortured memories while Richard, Duke of Egravia, spins a web of betrayal and deceit. Plotting to steal the throne, Richard gains control over the weak young prince and seduces Marie, the Prince’s wife. When Catherine bursts onto the scene, the Duke’s plot unravels. Horrified, Richard watches as the King, awakened to life by Catherine, regains his power. Frantically, Richard lures Marie into his plot to kill Stefan and implicate Catherine. With the King alive but severely injured and Catherine locked in the dungeon awaiting death, questions arise: why did Catherine’s mother kill herself so long ago; what secret sorrow tortures the King; and what is the tie between Richard and Princess Marie? As Catherine struggles for her life and King Stefan confronts his memories, the Prince draws upon his inner strength and the wisdom of an ancient duke to save the throne.
Kingdom of Hearts
Author: Karen Jones
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595000347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
With a simple twist of fate, a vulnerable young woman is unwillingly thrust into a struggle for power, caught between an evil destructive duke and a handsome but withdrawn king. From the harsh palace kitchens to the glittering bedchambers above, beautiful Catherine fights for survival amid danger and intrigue. Brooding King Stefan keeps to his rooms, held captive by tortured memories while Richard, Duke of Egravia, spins a web of betrayal and deceit. Plotting to steal the throne, Richard gains control over the weak young prince and seduces Marie, the Prince’s wife. When Catherine bursts onto the scene, the Duke’s plot unravels. Horrified, Richard watches as the King, awakened to life by Catherine, regains his power. Frantically, Richard lures Marie into his plot to kill Stefan and implicate Catherine. With the King alive but severely injured and Catherine locked in the dungeon awaiting death, questions arise: why did Catherine’s mother kill herself so long ago; what secret sorrow tortures the King; and what is the tie between Richard and Princess Marie? As Catherine struggles for her life and King Stefan confronts his memories, the Prince draws upon his inner strength and the wisdom of an ancient duke to save the throne.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595000347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
With a simple twist of fate, a vulnerable young woman is unwillingly thrust into a struggle for power, caught between an evil destructive duke and a handsome but withdrawn king. From the harsh palace kitchens to the glittering bedchambers above, beautiful Catherine fights for survival amid danger and intrigue. Brooding King Stefan keeps to his rooms, held captive by tortured memories while Richard, Duke of Egravia, spins a web of betrayal and deceit. Plotting to steal the throne, Richard gains control over the weak young prince and seduces Marie, the Prince’s wife. When Catherine bursts onto the scene, the Duke’s plot unravels. Horrified, Richard watches as the King, awakened to life by Catherine, regains his power. Frantically, Richard lures Marie into his plot to kill Stefan and implicate Catherine. With the King alive but severely injured and Catherine locked in the dungeon awaiting death, questions arise: why did Catherine’s mother kill herself so long ago; what secret sorrow tortures the King; and what is the tie between Richard and Princess Marie? As Catherine struggles for her life and King Stefan confronts his memories, the Prince draws upon his inner strength and the wisdom of an ancient duke to save the throne.
Short Stories
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Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Pages : 870
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A SYSTEM OF CAUCASIAN YOGA
Author: Count Stefan Colonna Walewski
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326141228
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Count Walewski's famous system of yoga given to him by oral tradition in the Caucasus, the mountain range between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Ranging from simple breathing and posture exercises, to mantras and visualisations, finally being cut short in a description of the summoning of elementals, it includes an account of the use and method of construction of Egyptian Healing Rods. It contains more than 150 illustrations and diagrams by the author.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326141228
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Count Walewski's famous system of yoga given to him by oral tradition in the Caucasus, the mountain range between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Ranging from simple breathing and posture exercises, to mantras and visualisations, finally being cut short in a description of the summoning of elementals, it includes an account of the use and method of construction of Egyptian Healing Rods. It contains more than 150 illustrations and diagrams by the author.
The Smart Set
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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Lady's Realm
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Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Languages : en
Pages : 1488
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Languages : en
Pages : 1488
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Acts of Theft
Author: Arthur A. Cohen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226112503
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"An astonishing, soaring and seizing novel that means no less than to explain human culture. A detective story with a real detective and a real thief—and yet all the while it is the mind that is being plundered of its own frights."—Cynthia Ozick "[Acts of Theft] ranges from the lost world of the Austrian aristocracy . . . to a thick-walled hacienda in the jungles of Mexico in the 1950s. . . . Cohen has resurrected the special man, the one for whom experience is a search an an intellectual problem, the man who deceives himself grandly and discovers the fact when it may be too late. . . . Cohen's writing is as beautiful and complicated as it is possible for writing to be. Rarely, these days, do novelists risk so much so successfully."—K. Deborah Taub, Baltimore Sun "One of the rare novels that one can begin to reread as soon as the last page is finished. By unfolding the drama of an artist obsessed by the authenticity and perfection of his work, Arthur A. Cohen recalls to us, in fact, the destiny of all human existence. Acts of Theft ranks with the best novels of the post-war period."—Mircea Eliade "Acts of Theft is a very elaborate story of cops and robbers—but it aspires to much more and its aspirations are largely fulfilled. The parallels that spring to mind are Crime and Punishment and Les Mesérables."—Joseph McLellan, Washington Post
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226112503
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"An astonishing, soaring and seizing novel that means no less than to explain human culture. A detective story with a real detective and a real thief—and yet all the while it is the mind that is being plundered of its own frights."—Cynthia Ozick "[Acts of Theft] ranges from the lost world of the Austrian aristocracy . . . to a thick-walled hacienda in the jungles of Mexico in the 1950s. . . . Cohen has resurrected the special man, the one for whom experience is a search an an intellectual problem, the man who deceives himself grandly and discovers the fact when it may be too late. . . . Cohen's writing is as beautiful and complicated as it is possible for writing to be. Rarely, these days, do novelists risk so much so successfully."—K. Deborah Taub, Baltimore Sun "One of the rare novels that one can begin to reread as soon as the last page is finished. By unfolding the drama of an artist obsessed by the authenticity and perfection of his work, Arthur A. Cohen recalls to us, in fact, the destiny of all human existence. Acts of Theft ranks with the best novels of the post-war period."—Mircea Eliade "Acts of Theft is a very elaborate story of cops and robbers—but it aspires to much more and its aspirations are largely fulfilled. The parallels that spring to mind are Crime and Punishment and Les Mesérables."—Joseph McLellan, Washington Post
Dangerous Legacy
Author: C. S. Arnold
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532070101
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
It is 1939, and Stefan Zurowski heads to his home nestled in the Masurian Lake District of Poland. Manipulated by his domineering father throughout his life, Stefan’s heart soars with the thought that the count has now called him home to protect their estate and its people from the German invasion. But when he arrives, Stefan finds a horrific scene. His entire family and household staff have been murdered. Now Stefan must continue the path laid out for him. Even in death, his father drives his future. After he journeys to war-torn Warsaw to find his father’s business manager, Stefan learns that his future as the new count must be played out in a strange land with a family that he didn’t know existed and with a wife he has never met. As danger follows him to his new country, Stefan realizes he has desperate enemies who will stop at nothing to obtain the treasure he now possesses. This he must protect, alongside his emotionally unstable wife, while attempting to determine if his enemies are within the new family he’s beginning to know or within another unknown presence. In this historical romance, fierce circumstances drive a young man from his war-torn home in Poland to his destiny in a new land.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532070101
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
It is 1939, and Stefan Zurowski heads to his home nestled in the Masurian Lake District of Poland. Manipulated by his domineering father throughout his life, Stefan’s heart soars with the thought that the count has now called him home to protect their estate and its people from the German invasion. But when he arrives, Stefan finds a horrific scene. His entire family and household staff have been murdered. Now Stefan must continue the path laid out for him. Even in death, his father drives his future. After he journeys to war-torn Warsaw to find his father’s business manager, Stefan learns that his future as the new count must be played out in a strange land with a family that he didn’t know existed and with a wife he has never met. As danger follows him to his new country, Stefan realizes he has desperate enemies who will stop at nothing to obtain the treasure he now possesses. This he must protect, alongside his emotionally unstable wife, while attempting to determine if his enemies are within the new family he’s beginning to know or within another unknown presence. In this historical romance, fierce circumstances drive a young man from his war-torn home in Poland to his destiny in a new land.
The Astronomer
Author: Lawrence Goldstone
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681776030
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Paris, 1534. A student at the Catholic Collège de Montaigu, serving as a courier for the Inquisition, is murdered by members of an extreme Lutheran sect for the packet of letters he is carrying. His friend and fellow classmate Amaury de Faverges—the illegitimate son of the Duke of Savoy and an expert in astronomy and natural science—is recruited as his replacement and promised a decree of legitimacy if he can uncover the secret that threatens to overturn Catholicism and the reign of François I. Working undercover, Amaury journeys south to the liberal court of the king's sister, Marguerite of Navarre, the alleged heart of the conspiracy. The deeper he probes, the more Amaury is forced to confront his own religious doubts; and when he discovers a copy of Copernicus's shocking manuscript showing the sun at the center of the universe, he knows the path he must follow. Replete with characters and events from history—from the iconoclastic Rabelais to the burning of heretics in Paris to preacher John Calvin and Copernicus himself—The Astronomer is a powerful novel of love and betrayal, and a thrilling portrait of what might well have happened at a hinge point in history when science and ancient religious belief collided.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681776030
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Paris, 1534. A student at the Catholic Collège de Montaigu, serving as a courier for the Inquisition, is murdered by members of an extreme Lutheran sect for the packet of letters he is carrying. His friend and fellow classmate Amaury de Faverges—the illegitimate son of the Duke of Savoy and an expert in astronomy and natural science—is recruited as his replacement and promised a decree of legitimacy if he can uncover the secret that threatens to overturn Catholicism and the reign of François I. Working undercover, Amaury journeys south to the liberal court of the king's sister, Marguerite of Navarre, the alleged heart of the conspiracy. The deeper he probes, the more Amaury is forced to confront his own religious doubts; and when he discovers a copy of Copernicus's shocking manuscript showing the sun at the center of the universe, he knows the path he must follow. Replete with characters and events from history—from the iconoclastic Rabelais to the burning of heretics in Paris to preacher John Calvin and Copernicus himself—The Astronomer is a powerful novel of love and betrayal, and a thrilling portrait of what might well have happened at a hinge point in history when science and ancient religious belief collided.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Languages : en
Pages : 2208
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Pages : 2208
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