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Download or read book The Comyn's Curse written by M. Mackinnon and published by DartFrog Plus. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across five centuries and two continents comes the story of a love so strong it cannot be destroyed by death or conquered by time. Fleeing heartbreak in America, Aubrey Cumming comes to the Scottish Highlands and finds an ancient family and a new chance at love...if she can stay alive long enough to break the Comyn's curse.
Book Synopsis The Temple and the Stone by : Katherine Kurtz
Download or read book The Temple and the Stone written by Katherine Kurtz and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the fight for Scotland’s independence, the mystical Order of the Knights Templar battles ancient evil and a treacherous king in this gripping alternate history. A powerful order of warrior monks forged in the fires of the Crusades during the twelfth century, the legendary Knights Templar did not vanish entirely following their failed campaigns in the Holy Land. Having attained great power and arcane skill, they withdrew from the public eye but remained hidden in the shadows, prepared to do battle against the enemies of Christianity and the adherents of the old malevolent gods. Now, these noble defenders of the faith recognize Scotland as the next battleground, foretold in dreams and visions, as legendary Scottish heroes William “Braveheart” Wallace and Robert the Bruce take up arms against the forces of the English King Edward I in the terrible Anglo-Scottish War. Charged with establishing their holy fellowship’s temple in the disputed land, loyal knights Arnault de Saint Clair, the French cleric, and Torquil Lennox of Scottish birth arrive in the midst of the bloody conflict to help prevent the conquest of Scotland and assure the ascension of its rightful liege. But the magical stone upon which every Scottish king must be crowned has been drained of its mystical power, and only an extreme sacrifice can revive the magic. A perilous endeavor must be undertaken to stem the supernatural evil that is growing amidst the chaos in the land as a powerful Pictish shaman attempts to raise the ancient pagan gods from the darkness to feed on blood and terror. Coauthors of the acclaimed Adept historical fantasy series, Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris imagine an alternate history that will appeal to fans of the occult, Scottish history, and the fabled Knights Templar.
Book Synopsis The Story of Alastair Bhan Comyn; Or, The Tragedy of Dunphail by : Lady Eisa Gordon Cumming Middleton
Download or read book The Story of Alastair Bhan Comyn; Or, The Tragedy of Dunphail written by Lady Eisa Gordon Cumming Middleton and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Juniper Tree by : Barbara Comyns
Download or read book The Juniper Tree written by Barbara Comyns and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A feminist reimagining of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale about a single mother and an enchanted friendship—from one of most bewitching British writers of the 20th century. “Comyns’s world is weird and wonderful . . . Tragic , comic and completely bonkers all in one, I’d go as far as to call her something of a neglected genius.” —The Observer Bella Winter has hit a low. Homeless and jobless, she is the mother of a toddler by a man whose name she didn’t quite catch, and her once pretty face is disfigured by the scar she acquired in a car accident. Friendless and without family, she’s recently disentangled herself from a selfish and indifferent boyfriend and a cruel and indifferent mother. But she shares a quality common to Barbara Comyns’s other heroines: a bracingly unsentimental ability to carry on. Before too long, Bella has found not only a job but a vocation; not only a place to live but a home and a makeshift family. As Comyns’s novel progresses, the story echoes and inverts the Brothers Grimm’s macabre tale The Juniper Tree. Will Bella’s hard-won restoration to life and love come at the cost of the happiness of others?
Download or read book Barbara Comyns written by Avril Horner and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun. This pioneering biography reveals the journey of a woman who experienced hardship and single-motherhood before the age of thirty but went on to publish a sequence of novels that are unique in the English language. Comyns turned her hand to many jobs in order to survive, from artist’s model to restoring pianos. Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and witty woman whose complicated life ranged from enduring poverty when young to mixing with spivs, spies and high society. While working as a housekeeper in her mid-thirties, Comyns began transforming the bleak episodes of her life into compelling fictions streaked with surrealism and deadpan humour. The Vet’s Daughter (1959), championed by Graham Greene, brought her fame, although her use of the gothic and macabre divided readers and reviewers. This biography not only excavates Comyns’s life but also reclaims her fiction, providing a timely reassessment of her literary contribution. It sheds new light on a remarkable author who deftly captured the complexities of human life.
Download or read book Cursed Bread written by Sophie Mackintosh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION NOMINEE GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023 From the Booker Prize-nominated author of The Water Cure comes a chilling new feminist fable based on the true story of an unsolved mystery... If you eat the bread, you'll die, he said. The statement made no sense, but it filled me with an electric dread. Elodie is the baker's wife. A plain, unremarkable woman, ignored by her husband and underestimated by her neighbours, she burns with the secret desire to be extraordinary. One day a charismatic new couple appear in town--the ambassador and his sharp-toothed wife, Violet--and Elodie quickly falls under their spell. All summer long she stalks them through the shining streets: inviting herself into their home, eavesdropping on their coded conversations, longing to be part of their world. Meanwhile, beneath the tranquil surface of daily life, strange things are happening. Six horses are found dead in a sun-drenched field, laid out neatly on the ground like an offering. Widows see their lost husbands walking up the moonlit river, coming back to claim them. A teenage boy throws himself into the bonfire at the midsummer feast. A dark intoxication is spreading through the town, and when Elodie finally understands her role in it, it will be too late to stop. Audacious and mesmerising, Cursed Bread is a fevered confession, an entry into memory's hall of mirrors, a fable of obsession and transformation. Sophie Mackintosh spins a darkly gleaming tale of a town gripped by hysteria, envy like poison in the blood, and desire that burns and consumes.
Download or read book The Scotsman written by Juliana Garnett and published by Fanfare. This book was released on 2009-10-14 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Scottish rebel makes an unholy exchange when he strikes back against the English enemies who have captured his brother--taking the beautiful daughter of the lord hostage. Now he faces the wrath of a violent, determined man. The battle has begun. But his heart is already lost--to the fiery woman he must use to save his kin... From the Paperback edition.
Book Synopsis Select English Works of John Wyclif by : John Wycliffe
Download or read book Select English Works of John Wyclif written by John Wycliffe and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Curse on This Country by : Danny Orbach
Download or read book Curse on This Country written by Danny Orbach and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial Japanese soldiers were notorious for blindly following orders, and their enemies in the Pacific War derided them as "cattle to the slaughter." But, in fact, the Japanese Army had a long history as one of the most disobedient armies in the world. Officers repeatedly staged coups d'états, violent insurrections, and political assassinations; their associates defied orders given by both the government and the general staff, launched independent military operations against other countries, and in two notorious cases conspired to assassinate foreign leaders despite direct orders to the contrary.In Curse on This Country, Danny Orbach explains the culture of rebellion in the Japanese armed forces. It was a culture created by a series of seemingly innocent decisions, each reasonable in its own right, which led to a gradual weakening of Japanese government control over its army and navy. The consequences were dire, as the armed forces dragged the government into more and more of China across the 1930s—a culture of rebellion that made the Pacific War possible. Orbach argues that brazen defiance, rather than blind obedience, was the motive force of modern Japanese history.Curse on This Country follows a series of dramatic events: assassinations in the dark corners of Tokyo, the famous rebellion of Saigō Takamori, the "accidental" invasion of Taiwan, the Japanese ambassador’s plot to murder the queen of Korea, and the military-political crisis in which the Japanese prime minister "changed colors." Finally, through the sinister plots of the clandestine Cherry Blossom Society, we follow the deterioration of Japan into chaos, fascism, and world war.
Book Synopsis The english works of John Wyclif by : John Wycliffe
Download or read book The english works of John Wyclif written by John Wycliffe and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sylvie and Bruno written by Lewis Carroll and published by London ; New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1889 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1889, this novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland.
Download or read book & 11 written by Gerald Brenan and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The House of Howard by : Gerald Brenan
Download or read book The House of Howard written by Gerald Brenan and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Northumberland. Issued Under the Direction of the Northumberland County History Committee by : Northumberland county history committee
Download or read book A History of Northumberland. Issued Under the Direction of the Northumberland County History Committee written by Northumberland county history committee and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scotland written by William Beattie and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book His Enchantment written by Diana Cosby and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Medieval Scotland roars to life in this fabulous series." —Pamela Palmer, New York Times bestselling author She Could Never Live In His World Lady Catarine MacLaren is a fairy princess, duty-bound to eschew the human world. But the line between the two realms is beginning to blur. English knights have launched an assault on the MacLarens, just as the families of Comyn have captured the Scottish king and queen. Now, Catarine is torn between loyalty to her people and helping the handsome, rust-haired Lord Trálin rescue the Scottish king. . . But He Couldn't Live Without Her As guard to King Alexander, Lord Trálin MacGruder will stop at nothing to defend the Scottish crown against the Comyns. And he finds a sympathetic, and gorgeous, ally in the enigmatic Princess Catarine. As they plot to rescue the kidnapped king and queen, Trálin and Catarine will discover a love made all but impossible by her obligations to the Otherworld. But a passion this extraordinary may be worth the irreversible sacrifices it demands. . . Praise for the novels of Diana Cosby "Fans of Cosby will enjoy returning to William Wallace's historically detailed Scotland. Familiar characters play a large role, to the delight of longtime readers." —RT Book Reviews on His Destiny "Diana Cosby writes wonderful historical romance!" —Susan King "Passion, danger, lush history and a touch of magic." —Hannah Howell, New York Times bestselling author on His Conquest "Finally! A bold, lusty Medieval! Diana Cosby is superbly talented." —Cathy Maxwell, New York Times bestselling author on His Captive 72,000 Words
Book Synopsis The MacGruder Brothers ebook boxset (Diana Cosby) by : Diana Cosby
Download or read book The MacGruder Brothers ebook boxset (Diana Cosby) written by Diana Cosby and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 1910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together for the first time, the MacGruder Brothers historical romances.“ New York Times bestselling author His Captive Alexander MacGruder just wants to avenge his father’s murder, but his desire to keep Lady Nichola, his English captive, with him, in his home—in his bed—unwittingly makes her a target for zealous Scottish rebels. His Woman Three years ago, Isabel Adair broke off her engagement to Duncan MacGruder, shattering his heart. Now, the two wary lovers must confront both the enemies hunting them and the secret legacy that threatens their very lives . . . His Conquest When her brother intends to trade her like so much chattel, Linet Dancort escapes her fate with a rebel prisoner trapped in her brother’s dungeon—one Seathan MacGruder . . . His Destiny Scottish rebel Sir Patrik Cleary MacGruder saves an innocent damsel and embarks with her on a perilous journey, not realizing that she is really English mercenary Emma Astyn. His Seduction Englishman Griffin Westcott leads a clandestine—and lonely—life as a spy for Scotland, a secret he must keep from the spirited and tempting woman who has suddenly become his wife . . . His Enchantment As they plot to rescue the kidnapped Scottish king, Lord Trálin MacGruder and Lady Catarine MacLaren will discover a love made all but impossible by her obligations to her realm . . . Praise for Diana Cosby “Diana Cosby is superbly talented.”—Cathy Maxwell, New York Times bestselling author “A sexy new voice in historical romance.”—Sandra Hill, USA Today bestselling author
