![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Will is a divorced man, and remarriage is still prohibited. Bess finds Wills kisses as sweet as honey, but marriage between them may be impossible. And other dangers exist as well, for Bess has caught the interest of dashing courtier Will Parr. Although Bess has no desire to wed the aging king, she and her family would have little choice if Henrys eye were to fall on her. Brought to court with other eligible young noblewomen by the decree of King Henry VIII, lovely Elizabeth Bess Brooke realizes for the first time that beauty can be hazardous. Book Synopsis AS TEMPESTUOUS AS THE TUDOR MONARCHS THEMSELVES, THE SECRETS OF THE TUDOR COURT SERIES HAS BEEN CALLED RIVETING ( BOOKLIST ) AND WELL DRAWN ( PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ). About the Book Emerson returns to the Tudor Court, where lady-in-waiting Bess must resist the handsome Will Parr, who is betrothed to another. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence?ĭaron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She turned that into a story about rival henna business, which later evolved into The Henna Wars. The main character's use of henna was inspired by her failed attempt to learn henna during a trip to Bangladesh. The idea for the novel came from her own experiences as a Queer Bangladeshi Muslim living in Ireland. She wrote the manuscript for The Henna Wars in the span of three months, rewriting the ending a total of six times before publication. ![]() The book received mostly positive reviews from critics, and was included on Time's list of the "100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time."īefore writing The Henna Wars, Jaigirdar worked on a manuscript for an adult literary novel about grief, but pivoted to the young adult genre after being inspired by writers such as Jenny Han and Sandhya Menon, who wrote young adult fiction about Asian characters. Set in Dublin, the book follows Nishat, a Bangladeshi teenager who comes out as a lesbian while in high school. The Henna Wars is a young adult novel by Adiba Jaigirdar. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Frontier Flame (As: Susan Macias) (1992).Montana Mavericks: Christmas in Whitehorn Books In Publication Order The Kincaid Bride (By:Jackie Merritt) (2020).Home on the Ranch (By:Karen Rose Smith) (2019).Born in Whitehorn (By:Karen Rose Smith) (2017).The Bride Who was Stolen in the Night (By:Diana Palmer) (2016).It Happened One Wedding Night (By:Karen Rose Smith) (2010).Cinderella’s Big Sky Groom (By:Christine Rimmer) (2004).Just Pretending (By:Myrna Mackenzie) (2002).Montana Bred (By:Myrna Mackenzie) (2002).Montana Born (By:Christie Ridgway) (2002).Maverick Hearts (By:Jackie Merritt) (1999).Man with a Past (By:Celeste Hamilton) (1995).Family Homecoming (By:Laurie Paige) (1995).The Rancher Takes a Wife (By:Jackie Merritt) (1994).The Once and Future Wife (By:Laurie Paige) (1994).Sleeping with the Enemy (By:Myrna Temte) (1994).The Widow and the Rodeo Man (By:Jackie Merritt) (1994).Rogue Stallion (By:Diana Palmer) (1994). ![]() ![]() Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Marie Lu, Patrick Rothfuss, and George R. Megan Whalen Turner's Queen's Thief novels are rich with political machinations and intrigue, battles lost and won, dangerous journeys, divine intervention, power, passion, revenge, and deception. New York Times-bestselling author Megan Whalen Turner's entrancing and award-winning Queen's Thief novels bring to life the world of the epics and feature one of the most charismatic and incorrigible characters of fiction, Eugenides the thief. ![]() ![]() The epic novels set in the world of the Queen's Thief can be read in any order. Discover and rediscover the world of the Queen's Thief, from the acclaimed novel The Thief to the thrilling, twenty-years-in-the-making conclusion, The Return of the Thief. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Toby Green's book A Fistful of Shells: West Africa From the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution was published by Allen Lane and Chicago University Press in early 2019. "A riveting new perspective on African history", Rana Mitter, BBC HIstory Magazine It has the potential to become a landmark in our understanding of the most misunderstood of continents.” David Olusoga, New Statesman " this is a stunning work of research and argumentation. "Momentous.a work of staggering scholarship" Ben Okri, Daily Telegraph Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, the Fage and Oliver Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize, the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award, and the Wolfson History Prize.īook of the Year in History Today, Observer, Prospect, and The Wall Street Journal. ![]() Winner of the Historical Writers Association Non-Fiction Crown, the Jerry Bentley Prize in World History and the Nayef Al-Rohdan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding A site on British historian and writer Toby Greenįeatures and books on history and current affairs ![]() ![]() Tribal members who prefer capitalism and like America the way it currently is need not apply. ![]() Mind you, what he says is that Native Americans should govern the nation. Este holds “discussions” urging young people to join him against “settler colonialism” and “US imperialism” “from Hawaii to Samoa, First Nations, Black America and Palestine.” He talks about decolonizing America, but does not explain exactly what this would entail or how it is achieved, other than to say that when it is completed, he believes he and his colleagues should run the nation. In 2014, he co-founded a Native American revolutionary organization called “The Red Nation.” His work centers on refuting and condemning world history and critically judging capitalists and persons who are of fully European heritage. at the University of New Mexico – where he is now an Assistant Professor in American Studies. Nick Estes, a member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, earned his Ph.D. ![]() ![]() ![]() NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. ![]() Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() When Lily is grotesquely killed and placed in her hotel room without a trace of evidence, Hulan and David realize their cases are linked, and are highly dangerous. Each of the members of the Site 518 team seem to be hiding something, and all seem to have motives of their own. Ma, the leader of the site who appears to be hiding something, and Michael Quon, another wealthy man with a questionable purpose. ![]() When they reach the site, they meet a host of characters, including Catherine and Stuart Miller, a father/daughter team of wealth and power, Angela, the sister of the deceased archaeologist, Lily, a dishonest auction house worker who uses others to obtain precious artifacts, Dr. The couple, having marital problems, will have to work together to discover how the murder and the theft are related. Simultaneously, her husband, David Stark, is assigned to a case of artifact theft at the same archaeological site from which Brian disappeared, that of Site 518. Liu Hulan, a Red Princess, is assigned the case, but has issues dealing with things, as she has recently lost her only daughter to illness and blames herself. When the body of a foreigner, Brian McCarthy, washes onto the shore of the Yangtze River, an investigation is ordered. Through a combined murder/theft investigation, David Stark and Liu Hulan rediscover their love for one another and discover that no one and nothing is as it seems. ![]() ![]() Dragon Bones by Lisa See is a story of murder, artifact theft, Chinese history and love. ![]() ![]() The world of which Erckmann–Chatrian wrote has long since vanished a world of noblemen and peasants, enchanted castles and mysterious woods, haunted by witches, monsters, curses, and spells. In The Invisible Eye, Hugh Lamb has collected together the finest weird tales by Erckmann–Chatrian, adding several stories to those which he assembled for the Millington volume (the fate of which he discusses in the appendix to the present work). After their deaths, however, they slipped into obscurity and apart from the odd tale reprinted in anthologies, and the ill-fated collection of their weird tales published by Millington in 1981, their work has remained difficult to find. At the height of their powers they were known as 'the twins', and their works proved popular in England, where they began appearing (in translation) as early as 1865. It is high time that they were made more accessible than they are.'Įmile Erckmann (1822–99) and Louis Alexandre Chatrian (1826–90) began their writing partnership in the 1840s, and continued working together-producing plays, novels, and short stories-until the year before Chatrian's death. ![]() ![]() The blend of French with German in them, comparable to the French–Irish blend in Le Fanu, has produced some quite first-rate romances of this kind. ![]() Lovecraft spoke highly of the weird tales of Erckmann–Chatrian, James writing (in 'Some Remarks on Ghost Stories') that 'I should feel myself ungrateful if I did not pay a tribute to the supernatural tales of Erckmann–Chatrian. ![]() |