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Before the Hooded. Before Hurnungaz and Wulfrun of Scarsdale and before Caerne, the Sheriff of Nottingham and the Black Bishop. William of Gisborough is a young man, serving in the King's Army, fighting in the Holy Land. He is making a name for himself as a capable and competent warrior, serving under Captain Hwitbei. He believes in the cause, in the Holy War. One night, half asleep, watching a sensuous dancer practicing her art, his rest and composure is disturbed by the arrival of a commanding brother, a servant of The Christ of the East.

She wants excitement and wealth. Unfortunately, she all too easily falls in love with a poor man. Can she bear to stay with him? “I am finally free. I feel like I’ve met myself after living here with you and your family.” Lucinda shook her head. “That doesn’t make sense, does it?” Free? What does Lucinda Kilbourne want to escape from by leaving Knotty Pine? Why does she need to use a false name to flee? Lucinda’s father puts her on a train. He is determined she will not break up a marriage simply to have her own way. Instead, he will send her to his autocratic sister in New ...

Daniel Spitzer gilt heute als einer der bedeutendsten Satiriker und Humanisten Wiens. Seine Erzählungen sind humoristisch und apokryphisch, ein echter Genuss. Inhalt: Der Maulaufreißer von Wien (Juli 1865) - Die Enterprise des pompes funèbres (April 1867) - Politik und schlechtes Wetter (März 1887) - Johann Strauß und Richard Wagner (Jänner 1877) - Die Götterdämmerung (November 1879) - Die Corruption in Österreich (September 1872) - Reisebericht eines Wiener Spaziergängers (August 1872) - Ein Bad in der Renaissancezeit (Juni 1881).

Spanish ships have been sailing the coast of Alta California for more than two hundred years. Majestic Manila galleons laden with riches from the Orient cruise past regularly, bound for the port of Acapulco. But no Spaniard has ever ventured inland to explore the inhospitable country lying beyond the rocky shoreline. The King of Spain, Carlos III, is concerned about the predations of English pirates and Russian encroachment from the north. He wishes to secure his possessions in America and has appointed Gaspar de Portolá to the governorship of both Alta and Baja California. Portolá has ...

London Tales is a collection of short stories from Tim Walker that offer dramatic pinpricks in the rich tapestry of London's timeline, a city with two thousand years of history. The stories offer glimpses of imagined lives and dramatic moments, starting with a tribal perspective on the Roman invasion followed by the terror of Boudica's destruction of the fledgling city.

How many times can a boy lose his home? When Jacques is transferred to the Buckners Orphans' Home in 1916 at the age of six, he hopes that he's finally found a place to belong. Unfortunately, he couldn't be more wrong. Jacques' only choice is to run away to Dallas and live on the streets. He has no future, no guarantee he will even survive. Then he stumbles on a once-in-a-lifetime chance to change everything—if he dares to take it. Origin/Prequel novelette for Black Jade - A Daiyu Wu Mystery. Stand-alone fiction.

Unbelievable! After all this time… Last fall, my closest friend moved to work at his father’s ranch. Despite eight months of silence from him, I finally gave in and agreed to marry the man my father thought was the ideal son-in-law and business partner. My best friend reappeared, disrupting my upcoming wedding to a different man and turning my life upside down. I can’t ignore the depth of my feelings for him, regardless of how mad I am. His confession came as a shock, and I wasn’t ready to forgive him, especially after we were stranded miles from the ranch overnight. Should I marry ...

Synopsis - A traveling wise man gives each customer the service they need, and teaching his apprentice a valuable lesson about externality. After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions. Podcast discussions of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and Youtube. ★★★ If you enjoy this story, subscribe via our website to "After Dinner ...

In this book Mahesh Prabhu presents Vedic stories in their core essence, relaying and focusing their deeper meaning, not interfering with it or reducing it to alien and superficial concepts. His stories are short, poignant, and diverse, with multiple levels of meaning, like parables, conundrums, paradoxes and axioms (sutras). He has drawn these stories from many traditional sources in Sanskrit literature and reworked them in a concise and invocative manner. They feature the names and stories of famous sages, kings, places and the peoples of old India. Such exalted figures as King ...

Filled with suspense, these stories are at times comforting and humorous, or horrifying. The Other Side of Down Home is a collection of seven tales that stir the imagination and keep readers thinking long after they are over. Each story is unique and compelling. The contents include the previously published stories Better Off Dead, Ride The Wind, The Tenant, Creative Minds, Mask of Mitwaba, Redneck Reunion, and Kentucky Feud. -- “I have become a huge Ryan King fan and this did not disappoint. I liked the characters and the plot keeps your attention to the very end.”

When the ingenious Hugo made it his mission to save the souls and lives of his fellow humans, he is not like most sanctimonious people out there. So, when he tries to stop a massacre, he is only protecting the sanctity of life and preventing the tainting of a soul. However, his self-sacrificing act ignites a haunting impulse that sees him blazing a path through life in pursuit of a cause against evil, which raises mixed feelings and questions his beliefs. But who is the searching soul to himself in a conflict with his world that mirrors man's pilgrimage through life? Is Hugo a "Man of God",...

When the debased Njoumen seeks sanctuary in his grandfather's royal palace, her number one concern is her mental health. As she glosses in her recovered status as a princess and unleashes the full force of her free-spiritedness, her unfamiliar ways make her the source of attention. But nobody has an idea of what would make her contented in life. That is until she engages her grandfather the king. What she wants most is a man to make her feel fulfilled in life, a sense of worth her husband never stirred in her bosom. So, when three years later, Njoumen's dejected husband challenges this ...

A teenage girl who is about to take a leap of faith seeks the counsel of his insightful uncle. But all he can provide are insights. Does a journey that takes her to the heart of altruism, charity and solidarity, bigotry, racism, and divine providence provide the guidelines that can help her come to terms with her destiny? Does his insightful hand-in-hand lead provide the answers she needs? “Fateful Ties” proceeds “The Fire and Ice Legend”, and precedes “The Sweetest Madness” in the short stories collection entitled “Me Before Them”.

Available as a value box set amazon.com/dp/B084ZVTHMM (copy and paste the link into your browser) Being smart was as much a curse as it was a blessing for Jewel Anderson. And then when her father died, leaving the family in financial turmoil, the time had come for her to give up her free independent ways and find herself a man. Only problem was, there wasn’t a man in all of Portland Maine who didn’t know her as an opinionated loud mouth. It was up to her mother and younger sister to find Jewel a husband, and so they did. They sent her out West to the little town of Shady Falls where ...

Эрик-Эмманюэль Шмитт — мировая знаменитость, это едва ли не самый читаемый и играемый на сцене французский автор. Впервые на русском языке новый роман автора Женщина в зеркале. В удивительном сюжете сплетаются три истории из трех различных эпох. Брюгге XVII века. Вена начала ХХ века. Лос-Анджелес, наши дни. Анна, Ханна, Энни — все три потрясающе красивы, и у каждой особое призвание, которое еще предстоит осознать. Призвание, которое может стоить жизни.

She rejected him once. Will Clarice grab her second chance at happiness when it comes her way? Obedient. Rigid. Those words had described her once. Clarice watched life of obedience stifle her niece, Sylvia. Desperate to help her, she convinced the young woman to leave her father's home. When Sylvia left, Clarice went with her. She now spent her days aiding her dear friend in the campaign for the rights of women. While others found such work satisfying, Clarice wanted something more than a cause to live for each day. But did that something she desired truly involve the man from her past? ...

Ever think about starting over with someone you left behind? How about if you could avoid all those mistakes -- because you remember them? Here's how it all starts.

This book is a true-to-life collection of 30 short stories from physicist and electrical engineer Roman Litovsky chronicling his family’s harrowing emigration journey in 1989 from Ukraine to the United States during the height of the impending collapse of the USSR. It details his life in Kyiv, traveling throughout Europe to gain freedom from the oppressive Soviet regime, settling in the U.S., and his life after that with a great engineering career at a prominent U.S. electro-acoustic company.

A string of pearls makes its way through three generations of women in the Clarendon family. Their behavior changes but will respect for family tradition survive?

It’s Prohibition-era Detroit. With a family to feed, Edmund Grabowski is short on money and even shorter on patience—until a shady pharmacist makes him a dangerous offer. Will he survive his first descent into criminality—or will it destroy his life?