Author: An Incomparable Descendant Ronald Bates
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1642587001
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
For four hundred years, my family has been passing down the story of why our grandparents wrote, how they hid their children in the new world for safety from the Church, and how they hid their signatures in the greatest writings in the English language. They worked in secret and formed secret societies. As the Shakespeare folio was dedicated to the Incomparable Pair of Brethren""I am an Incomparable Descendant. There are thousands of us in America. This book follows the family tree of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Mary Sidney Herbert, and Edward Devere to present day. It is a Roots meets National Treasure meets Da Vinci Code, filled with facts and clues left from hundreds of years ago to modern day that tells their story. This book is a legacy to my children and family. It is very valuable to any Freemason, Elizabethan historian, genealogist, or any American who is proud to be free! After sharing my story and comparing pictures of my family and Queen Elizabeth I, Mary Sidney Herbert, and Edward Devere, in college, the professor said, "You write that book and someone will make a movie out of it!" So the writing begins.
Shakespeare's Lost Purple Bloodline
Author: An Incomparable Descendant Ronald Bates
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1642587001
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
For four hundred years, my family has been passing down the story of why our grandparents wrote, how they hid their children in the new world for safety from the Church, and how they hid their signatures in the greatest writings in the English language. They worked in secret and formed secret societies. As the Shakespeare folio was dedicated to the Incomparable Pair of Brethren""I am an Incomparable Descendant. There are thousands of us in America. This book follows the family tree of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Mary Sidney Herbert, and Edward Devere to present day. It is a Roots meets National Treasure meets Da Vinci Code, filled with facts and clues left from hundreds of years ago to modern day that tells their story. This book is a legacy to my children and family. It is very valuable to any Freemason, Elizabethan historian, genealogist, or any American who is proud to be free! After sharing my story and comparing pictures of my family and Queen Elizabeth I, Mary Sidney Herbert, and Edward Devere, in college, the professor said, "You write that book and someone will make a movie out of it!" So the writing begins.
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1642587001
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
For four hundred years, my family has been passing down the story of why our grandparents wrote, how they hid their children in the new world for safety from the Church, and how they hid their signatures in the greatest writings in the English language. They worked in secret and formed secret societies. As the Shakespeare folio was dedicated to the Incomparable Pair of Brethren""I am an Incomparable Descendant. There are thousands of us in America. This book follows the family tree of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Mary Sidney Herbert, and Edward Devere to present day. It is a Roots meets National Treasure meets Da Vinci Code, filled with facts and clues left from hundreds of years ago to modern day that tells their story. This book is a legacy to my children and family. It is very valuable to any Freemason, Elizabethan historian, genealogist, or any American who is proud to be free! After sharing my story and comparing pictures of my family and Queen Elizabeth I, Mary Sidney Herbert, and Edward Devere, in college, the professor said, "You write that book and someone will make a movie out of it!" So the writing begins.
The Lost Kings
Author: Stephen Moser
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 198229986X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
“The Lost Kings” covers the period 16th-24th April 2021. It is a work of fiction, based on a re-interpretation of historical facts relating to the Royal Blood of the descendants of Jesus, known over the centuries as the ‘sang real’/Holy Grail. So in a sense it is a work of current/historical fiction/non-fiction spanning two millenia. It opens with the immediate aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, the direct descendant of King David and therefore the legitimate pretender to the throne of Israel as well as a Prophet of God. The book finishes with the installation of his direct descendant as Pope Jesus II, who after the passage of two millenia finally brings together the temporal and religious succession to both King David and Jesus. Our hero is David Whitecastle. He, like Ian Fleming and his creation James Bond, had a Scottish father and Swiss mother, attended Fettes College in Edinburgh, and was in a special unit of the armed forces. David is an Oxbridge graduate who joined Jardine Matheson, the Princely Hong immortalised both by its history as the most powerful foreign trading house in Asia, and more recently through the novels of the late James Clavel, whom I got to know and who initiated me into the dark art of story-telling. Through David, the reader meets the larger than life but enigmatic Monseigneur Sobieski, as well as the delightful Anna who turns out to be much more than just pleasing on the eye. The cast includes the 82 year old Madame Fatin who longs to share a secret which has eluded even the most ardent seekers of the hidden truths of Rennes-le-Chateau. Through her we meet the dyed-in-the-wool but confused SS colonel whose uncle Adolf Hitler has entrusted him with a family lineage quest of his own. She also reveals the secret identity and story of Marie who fathered twin sons whose offspring have the most legitimate claim to the throne of the Lost Kings. Then our journey takes us to the corridors of power in Paris and Vienna which have consistently sought out, adopted and used for their own ends the current representatives of the ancient bloodline of David. The book begins with an apparently open-and-shut homicide in the Vatican. But as the story unfolds it takes the reader on a truly secret and magical whirlwind tour of history, the world and Mankind itself, embracing the ancient Jewish Kingdom of Septimanie in southern France as well as the Visigoth, Merovingian, Carolingian and Habsburg dynasties. It is also a truly inside look at the machinations from its inception of the Church of Rome and its rival factions, through the eyes of some of the key people who have shaped European and world history, politics and religion. It transpires that there are two living descendants of the original undiluted bloodline, whose existence has not been revealed even to those who considered themselves its custodians and protectors over the centuries. The story culminates in a papal election where the two main contenders are, unbeknownst to themselves, the progeny of twin brothers and the current claimants to the most legitimate bloodline of the House of David. The book finishes on an upbeat note. It seems that the winds of change may finally be beginning to blow away the ancient cobwebs which over the centuries have blighted even the most high-minded of religious leaders and organisations, and so in turn failed to fulfil what the average person expects and needs from them. The book is intended to give readers a new, refreshing, but provocative interpretation of the evolution of our culture and civilisation, and in the process stimulate the little grey cells and encourage each one of us to critically and conscientiously re-appraise some of the supposedly self-evident truths which we have taken for granted. It is my hope that this will lead to greater awareness and understanding of ourselves and our place in things. I also hope that this cocktail of light-hearted banter, unexpected love, adventure, mystery, deceit, and epicurean delights will also allow the reader to have fun in the process.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 198229986X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
“The Lost Kings” covers the period 16th-24th April 2021. It is a work of fiction, based on a re-interpretation of historical facts relating to the Royal Blood of the descendants of Jesus, known over the centuries as the ‘sang real’/Holy Grail. So in a sense it is a work of current/historical fiction/non-fiction spanning two millenia. It opens with the immediate aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, the direct descendant of King David and therefore the legitimate pretender to the throne of Israel as well as a Prophet of God. The book finishes with the installation of his direct descendant as Pope Jesus II, who after the passage of two millenia finally brings together the temporal and religious succession to both King David and Jesus. Our hero is David Whitecastle. He, like Ian Fleming and his creation James Bond, had a Scottish father and Swiss mother, attended Fettes College in Edinburgh, and was in a special unit of the armed forces. David is an Oxbridge graduate who joined Jardine Matheson, the Princely Hong immortalised both by its history as the most powerful foreign trading house in Asia, and more recently through the novels of the late James Clavel, whom I got to know and who initiated me into the dark art of story-telling. Through David, the reader meets the larger than life but enigmatic Monseigneur Sobieski, as well as the delightful Anna who turns out to be much more than just pleasing on the eye. The cast includes the 82 year old Madame Fatin who longs to share a secret which has eluded even the most ardent seekers of the hidden truths of Rennes-le-Chateau. Through her we meet the dyed-in-the-wool but confused SS colonel whose uncle Adolf Hitler has entrusted him with a family lineage quest of his own. She also reveals the secret identity and story of Marie who fathered twin sons whose offspring have the most legitimate claim to the throne of the Lost Kings. Then our journey takes us to the corridors of power in Paris and Vienna which have consistently sought out, adopted and used for their own ends the current representatives of the ancient bloodline of David. The book begins with an apparently open-and-shut homicide in the Vatican. But as the story unfolds it takes the reader on a truly secret and magical whirlwind tour of history, the world and Mankind itself, embracing the ancient Jewish Kingdom of Septimanie in southern France as well as the Visigoth, Merovingian, Carolingian and Habsburg dynasties. It is also a truly inside look at the machinations from its inception of the Church of Rome and its rival factions, through the eyes of some of the key people who have shaped European and world history, politics and religion. It transpires that there are two living descendants of the original undiluted bloodline, whose existence has not been revealed even to those who considered themselves its custodians and protectors over the centuries. The story culminates in a papal election where the two main contenders are, unbeknownst to themselves, the progeny of twin brothers and the current claimants to the most legitimate bloodline of the House of David. The book finishes on an upbeat note. It seems that the winds of change may finally be beginning to blow away the ancient cobwebs which over the centuries have blighted even the most high-minded of religious leaders and organisations, and so in turn failed to fulfil what the average person expects and needs from them. The book is intended to give readers a new, refreshing, but provocative interpretation of the evolution of our culture and civilisation, and in the process stimulate the little grey cells and encourage each one of us to critically and conscientiously re-appraise some of the supposedly self-evident truths which we have taken for granted. It is my hope that this will lead to greater awareness and understanding of ourselves and our place in things. I also hope that this cocktail of light-hearted banter, unexpected love, adventure, mystery, deceit, and epicurean delights will also allow the reader to have fun in the process.
The Dragon Legacy
Author: Nicholas de Vere
Publisher: Book Tree
ISBN: 9781585091317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
A collection of essays on the Deresthai culture with accompanying extracts from the Dragon Court archives comprising the official history of the Dragon peoples.
Publisher: Book Tree
ISBN: 9781585091317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
A collection of essays on the Deresthai culture with accompanying extracts from the Dragon Court archives comprising the official history of the Dragon peoples.
The Mystery Knight: A Graphic Novel
Author: George R. R. Martin
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0345549406
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A graphic novel edition of The Mystery Knight, one of the thrilling Dunk and Egg novellas from George R. R. Martin’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and a prequel of sorts to A Game of Thrones “Every wedding needs a singer, and every tourney needs a mystery knight.” Westeros is eerily peaceful. King Aerys I sits on the Iron Throne. A ravaging plague has abated. Yet beneath the surface, tensions linger sixteen years after a failed rebellion. In these restless times, noble hedge knight Ser Duncan the Tall—Dunk, to his friends—and his precocious boy squire, Egg, travel the Seven Kingdoms performing chivalrous deeds, though Egg’s bloodline must be concealed at all costs. After heading north for Winterfell, Dunk and Egg are lured off the kingsroad by a wedding feast—and an unusually lucrative tournament. The champion jouster will claim a rare trophy indeed: a dragon’s egg. Dunk, always better in a melee, would be satisfied with a hot meal, a cup of wine, and a purse full of coins. But a treasonous plot is more likely to hatch before another dragon ever stretches its wings. Someone’s on to Egg. And a mystery knight with designs on an even bigger prize soon throws the entire affair into chaos.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0345549406
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A graphic novel edition of The Mystery Knight, one of the thrilling Dunk and Egg novellas from George R. R. Martin’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and a prequel of sorts to A Game of Thrones “Every wedding needs a singer, and every tourney needs a mystery knight.” Westeros is eerily peaceful. King Aerys I sits on the Iron Throne. A ravaging plague has abated. Yet beneath the surface, tensions linger sixteen years after a failed rebellion. In these restless times, noble hedge knight Ser Duncan the Tall—Dunk, to his friends—and his precocious boy squire, Egg, travel the Seven Kingdoms performing chivalrous deeds, though Egg’s bloodline must be concealed at all costs. After heading north for Winterfell, Dunk and Egg are lured off the kingsroad by a wedding feast—and an unusually lucrative tournament. The champion jouster will claim a rare trophy indeed: a dragon’s egg. Dunk, always better in a melee, would be satisfied with a hot meal, a cup of wine, and a purse full of coins. But a treasonous plot is more likely to hatch before another dragon ever stretches its wings. Someone’s on to Egg. And a mystery knight with designs on an even bigger prize soon throws the entire affair into chaos.
Hidden In Plain Sight
Author: Peter Rush
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988395916
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Shakespeare scholars and professors whose life profession is Shakespeare freely acknowledge that the Sonnets remain a deep mystery. The scholars who have attempted glosses of every sonnet universally understand the sonnets to be written by the traditionally understood "Shakespeare" of Stratford to a younger man (sonnets 1-126) and to a woman (sonnets 127-152), who also figures prominently in many of the first 126 sonnets as well. The ostensible story as told by all authors is of a very weird love triangle between the older man (the poet), the younger man (that most agree is the 3rd Earl of Southampton), and the woman, about whose identity there is no unanimity, and no convincing candidate. It is a story of fickleness, betrayal, forgiveness, separation, and frequently disquisitions on irrelevant topics (like wig-wearing or cosmetics), with strong overtones of homosexuality (between the men) and undefinable relationships between each man and the woman.The miasma into which conventional scholarship has fallen, resorting to an internally inconsistent, often non-sensical or contradictory, narrative, betrays that all conventional critics suffer from a fundamental misunderstanding of what the sonnets are about. Such basic agreement on such manifestly erroneous premises within the academic community can only be possible if, as Thomas Kuhn in "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" described the phenomenon, all scholars are operating from a fundamentally flawed paradigm-what he calls a "paradigm shift" is the only solution to such a conundrum.Hidden in Plain Sight reveals the true meaning and context of the entire sonnet series to be profoundly political, that of the succession to Elizabeth and the fortunes of the Earl of Southampton who the sonnets reveal had a claim to the throne. With this paradigm shift, the Sonnets becomes, after 400 years, intelligible, as line after line in sonnet after sonnet can now be read as parts of a consistent, reality-based narrative. The insights in Hidden in Plain Sight are based on the pioneering research and discoveries of dedicated researcher Hank Whittemore, who deserves the credit for realizing, 400 years after the original publication of the Sonnets what the sonnets are about, the results of which he has published in several volumes, most notably "The Monument" (2005). The current volume adds original material and interpretations of many sonnets, and additional contemporary evidence supporting Whittemore's ground-breaking new paradigm, but it also presents the entire case for that paradigm in a forensic manner, working from the most easily deciphered clues as to the real story progressively down to deeper and deeper levels of meaning, making the case for the new parameter much easier to follow and comprehend.While a majority of conventional critics agree that Sonnet 107 refers to the accession of James I in April of 1603, and to the almost immediate release of Southampton from the Tower of London, not one draws the required conclusion that there must therefore be a sonnet documenting when Southampton first entered the Tower. Whittemore found it (Sonnet 27), thereby establishing the intervening sonnets as written while Southampton was under arrest, making sonnets 27-126 "prison sonnets." With that huge shift as a key, a multitude of references in these sonnets at last became clear.The other required paradigm shift is to realize that the traditional candidate to be "Shakespeare", Shakspere (his usual spelling of his own name) of Stratford wasn't, and couldn't have been, the author, and that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was "Shakespeare." The Sonnets contain a multitude of passages that reveal that the author of the Sonnets HAD to be Oxford, and also many that prove that Shakspere of Stratford COULDN'T have been the author-and therefore couldn't have been Shakespeare. Read Hidden in Plain Sight to finally understand these most exquisite poems for the first time.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988395916
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Shakespeare scholars and professors whose life profession is Shakespeare freely acknowledge that the Sonnets remain a deep mystery. The scholars who have attempted glosses of every sonnet universally understand the sonnets to be written by the traditionally understood "Shakespeare" of Stratford to a younger man (sonnets 1-126) and to a woman (sonnets 127-152), who also figures prominently in many of the first 126 sonnets as well. The ostensible story as told by all authors is of a very weird love triangle between the older man (the poet), the younger man (that most agree is the 3rd Earl of Southampton), and the woman, about whose identity there is no unanimity, and no convincing candidate. It is a story of fickleness, betrayal, forgiveness, separation, and frequently disquisitions on irrelevant topics (like wig-wearing or cosmetics), with strong overtones of homosexuality (between the men) and undefinable relationships between each man and the woman.The miasma into which conventional scholarship has fallen, resorting to an internally inconsistent, often non-sensical or contradictory, narrative, betrays that all conventional critics suffer from a fundamental misunderstanding of what the sonnets are about. Such basic agreement on such manifestly erroneous premises within the academic community can only be possible if, as Thomas Kuhn in "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" described the phenomenon, all scholars are operating from a fundamentally flawed paradigm-what he calls a "paradigm shift" is the only solution to such a conundrum.Hidden in Plain Sight reveals the true meaning and context of the entire sonnet series to be profoundly political, that of the succession to Elizabeth and the fortunes of the Earl of Southampton who the sonnets reveal had a claim to the throne. With this paradigm shift, the Sonnets becomes, after 400 years, intelligible, as line after line in sonnet after sonnet can now be read as parts of a consistent, reality-based narrative. The insights in Hidden in Plain Sight are based on the pioneering research and discoveries of dedicated researcher Hank Whittemore, who deserves the credit for realizing, 400 years after the original publication of the Sonnets what the sonnets are about, the results of which he has published in several volumes, most notably "The Monument" (2005). The current volume adds original material and interpretations of many sonnets, and additional contemporary evidence supporting Whittemore's ground-breaking new paradigm, but it also presents the entire case for that paradigm in a forensic manner, working from the most easily deciphered clues as to the real story progressively down to deeper and deeper levels of meaning, making the case for the new parameter much easier to follow and comprehend.While a majority of conventional critics agree that Sonnet 107 refers to the accession of James I in April of 1603, and to the almost immediate release of Southampton from the Tower of London, not one draws the required conclusion that there must therefore be a sonnet documenting when Southampton first entered the Tower. Whittemore found it (Sonnet 27), thereby establishing the intervening sonnets as written while Southampton was under arrest, making sonnets 27-126 "prison sonnets." With that huge shift as a key, a multitude of references in these sonnets at last became clear.The other required paradigm shift is to realize that the traditional candidate to be "Shakespeare", Shakspere (his usual spelling of his own name) of Stratford wasn't, and couldn't have been, the author, and that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was "Shakespeare." The Sonnets contain a multitude of passages that reveal that the author of the Sonnets HAD to be Oxford, and also many that prove that Shakspere of Stratford COULDN'T have been the author-and therefore couldn't have been Shakespeare. Read Hidden in Plain Sight to finally understand these most exquisite poems for the first time.
The Book of Magic
Author: Alice Hoffman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982189460
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters. The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger—the curse is already at work. A frantic attempt to save a young man’s life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they travel from Paris to London to the English countryside where their ancestor Maria Owens first practiced the Unnamed Art. The younger generation discovers secrets that have been hidden from them in matters of both magic and love by Sally, their fiercely protective mother. As Kylie Owens uncovers the truth about who she is and what her own dark powers are, her aunt Franny comes to understand that she is ready to sacrifice everything for her family, and Sally Owens realizes that she is willing to give up everything for love. The Book of Magic is a breathtaking conclusion that celebrates mothers and daughters, sisters and brothers, and anyone who has ever been in love.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982189460
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters. The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger—the curse is already at work. A frantic attempt to save a young man’s life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they travel from Paris to London to the English countryside where their ancestor Maria Owens first practiced the Unnamed Art. The younger generation discovers secrets that have been hidden from them in matters of both magic and love by Sally, their fiercely protective mother. As Kylie Owens uncovers the truth about who she is and what her own dark powers are, her aunt Franny comes to understand that she is ready to sacrifice everything for her family, and Sally Owens realizes that she is willing to give up everything for love. The Book of Magic is a breathtaking conclusion that celebrates mothers and daughters, sisters and brothers, and anyone who has ever been in love.
Kiss of the Night
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312992416
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In this Dark-Hunter novel, Wulf and Cassandra face ancient curses, prophecies, and the direct meddling of the Greek gods to find true happiness.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312992416
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In this Dark-Hunter novel, Wulf and Cassandra face ancient curses, prophecies, and the direct meddling of the Greek gods to find true happiness.
A Song of Shadows
Author: John Connolly
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501118315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Still recovering from his life-threatening wounds, private detective Charlie Parker investigates a case that has its origins in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II in this “all-out thrill ride” (Suspense Magazine). Parker has retreated to the small Maine town of Boreas to regain his strength. There he befriends a widow named Ruth Winter and her young daughter, Amanda. But Ruth has her secrets. Old atrocities are about to be unearthed, and old sinners will kill to hide their sins. Now Parker is about to risk his life to defend a woman he barely knows, one who fears him almost as much as she fears those who are coming for her. His enemies believe him to be vulnerable. Fearful. Solitary. But they are wrong. Parker is far from afraid, and far from alone. For something is emerging from the shadows…
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501118315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Still recovering from his life-threatening wounds, private detective Charlie Parker investigates a case that has its origins in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II in this “all-out thrill ride” (Suspense Magazine). Parker has retreated to the small Maine town of Boreas to regain his strength. There he befriends a widow named Ruth Winter and her young daughter, Amanda. But Ruth has her secrets. Old atrocities are about to be unearthed, and old sinners will kill to hide their sins. Now Parker is about to risk his life to defend a woman he barely knows, one who fears him almost as much as she fears those who are coming for her. His enemies believe him to be vulnerable. Fearful. Solitary. But they are wrong. Parker is far from afraid, and far from alone. For something is emerging from the shadows…
The Serpent King
Author: Jeff Zentner
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 0553524046
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Named to ten BEST OF THE YEAR lists and selected as a William C. Morris Award Winner,The Serpent King is the critically acclaimed, much-beloved story of three teens who find themselves--and each other--while on the cusp of graduating from high school with hopes of leaving their small-town behind. Perfect for fans of John Green's Turtles All the Way Down. "Move over, John Green; Zentner is coming for you." —The New York Public Library “Will fill the infinite space that was left in your chest after you finished The Perks of Being a Wallflower.” —BookRiot.com Dill isn't the most popular kid at his rural Tennessee high school. After his father fell from grace in a public scandal that reverberated throughout their small town, Dill became a target. Fortunately, his two fellow misfits and best friends, Travis and Lydia, have his back. But as they begin their senior year, Dill feels the coils of his future tightening around him. His only escapes are music and his secret feelings for Lydia--neither of which he is brave enough to share. Graduation feels more like an ending to Dill than a beginning. But even before then, he must cope with another ending--one that will rock his life to the core. Debut novelist Jeff Zentner provides an unblinking and at times comic view of the hard realities of growing up in the Bible belt, and an intimate look at the struggles to find one’s true self in the wreckage of the past. “A story about friendship, family and forgiveness, it’s as funny and witty as it is utterly heartbreaking.” —PasteMagazine.com “A brutally honest portrayal of teen life . . . [and] a love letter to the South from a man who really understands it.” —Mashable.com “I adored all three of these characters and the way they talked to and loved one another.”—New York Times
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 0553524046
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Named to ten BEST OF THE YEAR lists and selected as a William C. Morris Award Winner,The Serpent King is the critically acclaimed, much-beloved story of three teens who find themselves--and each other--while on the cusp of graduating from high school with hopes of leaving their small-town behind. Perfect for fans of John Green's Turtles All the Way Down. "Move over, John Green; Zentner is coming for you." —The New York Public Library “Will fill the infinite space that was left in your chest after you finished The Perks of Being a Wallflower.” —BookRiot.com Dill isn't the most popular kid at his rural Tennessee high school. After his father fell from grace in a public scandal that reverberated throughout their small town, Dill became a target. Fortunately, his two fellow misfits and best friends, Travis and Lydia, have his back. But as they begin their senior year, Dill feels the coils of his future tightening around him. His only escapes are music and his secret feelings for Lydia--neither of which he is brave enough to share. Graduation feels more like an ending to Dill than a beginning. But even before then, he must cope with another ending--one that will rock his life to the core. Debut novelist Jeff Zentner provides an unblinking and at times comic view of the hard realities of growing up in the Bible belt, and an intimate look at the struggles to find one’s true self in the wreckage of the past. “A story about friendship, family and forgiveness, it’s as funny and witty as it is utterly heartbreaking.” —PasteMagazine.com “A brutally honest portrayal of teen life . . . [and] a love letter to the South from a man who really understands it.” —Mashable.com “I adored all three of these characters and the way they talked to and loved one another.”—New York Times
Fair Blows the Wind
Author: Louis L'Amour
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553899112
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
His father killed by the British and his home burned, young Tatton Chantry left Ireland to make his fortune and regain the land that was rightfully his. Schooled along the way in the use of arms, Chantry arrives in London a wiser and far more dangerous man. He invests in trading ventures, but on a voyage to the New World his party is attacked by Indians and he is marooned in the untamed wilderness of the Carolina coast. It is in this darkest time, when everything seems lost, that Chantry encounters a remarkable opportunity. . . . Suddenly all his dreams are within reach: extraordinary wealth, his family land, and the heart of a Peruvian beauty. But first he must survive Indians, pirates, and a rogue swordsman who has vowed to see him dead.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553899112
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
His father killed by the British and his home burned, young Tatton Chantry left Ireland to make his fortune and regain the land that was rightfully his. Schooled along the way in the use of arms, Chantry arrives in London a wiser and far more dangerous man. He invests in trading ventures, but on a voyage to the New World his party is attacked by Indians and he is marooned in the untamed wilderness of the Carolina coast. It is in this darkest time, when everything seems lost, that Chantry encounters a remarkable opportunity. . . . Suddenly all his dreams are within reach: extraordinary wealth, his family land, and the heart of a Peruvian beauty. But first he must survive Indians, pirates, and a rogue swordsman who has vowed to see him dead.