Author: Kelly Evans Publisher: Eska Publishing ISBN: 9780995857803 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 264
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THE YEAR IS 1348 AND THE BLACK DEATH IS RAVAGING ENGLAND. For Brother Maurice, a monk and physician, the disease is the most terrifying he's ever seen. But Maurice soon learns of an even more deadly threat: the exanimate Mortecarni. After his first unexpected encounter with the creatures, Maurice is pulled into a world of savagery and secrecy. As he travels across the country, investigating both the plague and the Mortecarni, Maurice questions how such unholy suffering is possible. When his own family is struck down, his beliefs falter. Can he regain his faith and save both England and himself?
Author: Kelly Evans Publisher: ISBN: 9780995857841 Category : Languages : en Pages : 360
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In the 11th Century, when barren wives are customarily cast aside, how does Edith of Wessex not only manage to stay married to King Edward the Confessor, but also become his closest advisor, promote her family to the highest offices in the land, AND help raise her brother to the throne? And why is her story only told in the footnotes of Edward's history?Not everyone approves of Edward's choice of bride. Even the king's mother, Emma of Normandy, detests her daughter-in-law and Edith is soon on the receiving end of her displeasure. Balancing her sense of family obligation with her duty to her husband, Edith must also prove herself to her detractors. Edward's and Edith's relationship is respectful and caring, but when Edith's enemies engineer her family's fall from grace, the king is forced to send her away. She vows to do anything to protect her family's interests if she returns, at any cost. Can Edith navigate the dangerous path fate has set her, while still remaining loyal to both her husband and her family?
Author: Kelly Evans Publisher: ISBN: 9788283310054 Category : Languages : en Pages : 326
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St. BRICE'S DAY, ENGLAND, ANNO 1002. AT THE ORDER OF KING AETHELRED, THOUSANDS OF DANES ARE MURDERED IN A FRENZY OF ETHNIC CLEANSING. OUTRAGED, THE DANISH KING, SWEYN FORKBEARD, SWEARS HE WILL TAKE AETHELRED'S HEAD, AND HIS CROWN. BUT SWEYN NEEDS ALLIES. CHIEF AMONGST HIS SUPPORTERS IS AELFGIFU, AN ENGLISH NOBLEWOMAN AND HEAD OF A ONCE GREAT FAMILY. SHE HAS HER OWN REASONS TO HATE AETHELRED AND AS A PAGAN, SHE IS SYMPATHETIC TO THE DANISH CAUSE. WHEN AELFGIFU MARRIES SWEYN'S SON, CANUTE, WAR IS INEVITABLE. BUT IF AETHELRED IS WEAK, EMMA, HIS NORMAN QUEEN IS NOT, AND SHE WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO DESTROY THE WOMAN AT THE HEART OF THE VIKING ARMY. LOVE, AMBITION AND REVENGE COMBINE IN AN EPIC STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE DURING THE MOST TURBULENT PERIOD IN ENGLAND'S HISTORY.
Author: Jim Butcher Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1429955961 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 767
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The World Fantasy Award–winning anthology featuring an original Game of Thrones novella and new stories from Diana Gabaldon, Jim Butcher, and many more. The twenty-one stories in Dangerous Women showcase some of the best and bravest female characters from across genre fiction—from women warriors and fighter pilots to female serial killers, superheroes, wizards, and bandits. With work from twelve New York Times bestsellers, readers will discover a new Outlander story by Diana Gabaldon, a tale of Harry Dresden’s world by Jim Butcher, a story from Lev Grossman set in the world of The Magicians, and an original novella by George R. R. Martin about the Dance of the Dragons, the vast civil war that tore Westeros apart nearly two centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones. Also included are original stories of dangerous women—heroines and villains alike—by Brandon Sanderson, Joe Abercrombie, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Lawrence Block, Carrie Vaughn, S. M. Stirling, Sharon Kay Penman, and many others.
Author: David Herlihy Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674744233 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 126
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In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of nationalism. This book, which displays a distinguished scholar's masterly synthesis of diverse materials, reveals that the Black Death can be considered the cornerstone of the transformation of Europe.
Author: Morgan K. Tanner Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781793133243 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 124
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After losing his mother to a brain tumour, Trevor King feels totally alone in the world. Someone needs to pay for her death and Dr Mellick, Trevor's work colleague and family GP, is the man he holds responsible. Trevor's yearning for vengeance leads him to concoct a vicious plot to frame the doctor for multiple murders. Trevor skins the corpses, turning them into elaborate art pieces after being inspired by a mysterious textbook. But as the skins of the flayed victims come to life and continue the killings for him, Trevor wonders whether he is in too deep.When Dr Mellick goes missing Trevor becomes convinced the doctor is planning a similar scheme to bring him down.But as Trevor discovers the truth of his mother's death and his own life, this murderous path becomes more of a calling.
Author: A. E. Moorat Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061991333 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 388
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For all the rabid fans who devoured Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, comes A.E. Moorat’s Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter! This outrageously entertaining and deeply irreverent tale of palace intrigue and bloody supernatural mayhem features the most unlikely monster-slayer ever to go toe-to-toe with the living dead. It’s George A. Romero meets the Bronte sisters—it’s Max Brooks’s World War Z in Victorian garb! Watch out flesh-eating zombie scum, it’s Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter!
Author: Lindsey Goddard Publisher: ISBN: 9780997971705 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 150
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When Tara Jane Brewer leaves her polygamous community behind after her family dies in a tragic house fire, she is plagued by ghastly images of death. Hunted by a member of the church who plans to bring her home to Sweet Springs at any cost, Tara Jane must fight to keep her freedom. But everywhere she goes, she sees the charred faces of her burned family, watching her, following her, all thirty-four of them, waiting for her to come home and resume her place in the family.
Author: Christina Bergling Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781798052655 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 120
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In the apocalyptic fallout of the burned world, the screecher is a massive beast evolved to kill and built for survival. One screecher abandons its home among the crushed remnants of a city and moves to explore the wider world. Unbeknownst to it, one of its surviving nephews decides to tag along.Far away, across the dusty sand dunes, three men flee the smoldering ashes of their community along with their regrets, looking for a new place to survive.These two stories, of screechers and humans, alternate and dance around each other before the creatures and men intersect and weave into one story.In the scorched remains, everything struggles to survive. The end of the world produced mutated monsters beyond imagination. When worlds collide, when man meets monster, who will survive in this new world?
Author: Kelly Evans
Author: Kelly Evans
Author: Kelly Evans
Author: Jim Butcher
Author: Sharon Bennett Connolly
Author: David Herlihy
Author: Morgan K. Tanner
Author: A. E. Moorat
Author: Lindsey Goddard
Author: Christina Bergling