The Barefoot Queen

Author : Ildefonso Falcones
Publisher : Crown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804139496

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A romantic and thrilling historical adventure from the internationally bestselling author whose work Diana Gabaldon has called "Enthralling". Spain, 1748. Caridad is a recently freed Cuban slave wandering the streets of Seville. Her master is dead and she has nowhere to go. When, by chance, she meets Milagros Carmona—a spellbinding, rebellious gypsy—the two women become inseparable. Caridad is swept into an exotic fringe society full of romance and art, passion and dancing. But their way of life changes instantly when gypsies are declared outlaws by royal mandate and their world as a free people becomes perilous. The community is split up—some are imprisoned, some forced into hiding, all fearing for their lives. After a dangerous separation, Caridad and Milagros are reunited and join in the gypsies’ struggle for sovereignty against the widespread oppression. It’s a treacherous battle that cannot, and will not, be easily won. From the bustle of Seville to the theatres of Madrid, The Barefoot Queen is an unforgettable historical fresco filled with characters that live, suffer, and fight for the lives of those they love, and for the freedom they can’t live without.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0804139504

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Author : Jean Harrington
Publisher : Epicenter Press (WA)
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1603818456

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What would you do if a pirate's blood was running in your veins and a tyrant was running your life and land? Grace O'Malley, with little more than her bare hands, fights injustice the only way she can . . . maddening one man, thrilling another.

Author : Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra
Publisher : Crown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0804139482

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The Barefoot Queen by Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra Pdf

Facing homelessness after the death of her master, Cuban former slave Caridad becomes a freedom fighter at the side of rebellious gypsy Milagros Carmona, with whom she confronts increasingly hostile elements in mid-eighteenth-century Madrid.

Author : Steven J Pemberton
Publisher : Steven J Pemberton
Page : 1583 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Barefoot Healer by Steven J Pemberton Pdf

"We don't do miracles here. Only magic." All four novels of the Barefoot Healer series in one volume. When apprentice wizard Adramal leaves home, her plan is to complete her training at a new school. But she soon finds herself caught up in bigger and more dangerous events than she could have imagined. She'll have to catch a murderer, rescue a village from plague, and find her way into a secret magical well - while staying ahead of a God who wants her dead and keeping her ever-more complicated love life on track. Meanwhile, Lelsarin, the immortal being who lives in Adramal's head, has her own ideas about how to solve these problems, and they might not involve keeping Adramal safe and sane... This book contains all four novels of the Barefoot Healer series - Death & Magic, Plague & Poison, Dust & Water, and Stone & Silence - along with background material, a glossary, and a bonus short story, The Shortest Distance Between Two Points.

Author : Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307280503

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Jerusalem by Simon Sebag Montefiore Pdf

The epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from King David to the 21st century, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, from the bestselling author of The Romanovs • "Impossible to put down…. Vastly enjoyable." —The New York Times Book Review How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the “center of the world” and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem’s biography is told through the wars, love affairs, and revelations of the men and women who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. As well as the many ordinary Jerusalemites who have left their mark on the city, its cast varies from Solomon, Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent to Cleopatra, Caligula and Churchill; from Abraham to Jesus and Muhammad; from the ancient world of Jezebel, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and Nero to the modern times of the Kaiser, Disraeli, Mark Twain, Lincoln, Rasputin, Lawrence of Arabia and Moshe Dayan. In this masterful narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore brings the holy city to life and draws on the latest scholarship, his own family history, and a lifetime of study to show that the story of Jerusalem is truly the story of the world.

Author : Susan Supernaw
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496220363

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Muscogee Daughter by Susan Supernaw Pdf

How American is Miss America? For Susan Supernaw, a Muscogee (Creek) and Munsee Native American, the question wasn't just academic. Throughout a childhood clouded by poverty, alcoholism, abuse, and a physical disability, Supernaw sought escape in school and dance and the Native American Church. She became a presidential scholar, won a scholarship to college, and was crowned Miss Oklahoma in 1971. Supernaw might not have won the Miss America pageant that year, but she did call attention to the Native peoples living largely invisible lives throughout their own American land. And she did at long last earn her Native American name. Chronicling a quest to escape poverty and find meaning, Supernaw's story is revealing, humorous, and deeply moving. Muscogee Daughter is the story of finding a Native American identity among the distractions and difficulties of American life and of discerning an identity among competing notions of what it is to be a woman, a Native American, and a citizen of the world.

Author : Jack Lagan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781472944788

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The Barefoot Navigator by Jack Lagan Pdf

'Barefoot navigation: 5,000 years in the making.' Barefoot Navigator introducesus to a unique take on navigation – using the skills of the ancients and technology-free techniques, we learn how to navigate using the sun, sea, wind and stars, and even the flight patterns of ocean birds. The first part of this absorbing book recounts a colourful history of seafarers and their navigation techniques. How did the Polynesians manage to populate an area of ocean larger than North America simply by analysing clouds,currents and wind direction? How did the Vikings routinely travel on the notorious stretches of water between Iceland, Greenland and Scandinavia? The second part shows how to use these ancient techniques to supplement today's navigational hardware, especially in survival situations. Fascinating history, useful advice, enjoyable writing, and different to every other navigation reference out there, this second edition has been beautifully packaged in a hardback format, with new illustrations and thoroughly revised text.

Author : James Hogg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000594424

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The Queen's Wake. A Legendary Poem. [With a Memoir of the Author and a Portrait.] by James Hogg Pdf

Author : Ian Lloyd
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780750991193

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An Audience with Queen Victoria by Ian Lloyd Pdf

One of Britain's most famous and longest serving rulers, Queen Victoria saw widespread change across her empire. During her sixty-three-year reign, in which she became one of the most powerful and influential people in the world, Victoria met everyone from Florence Nightingale to 'Buffalo Bill', as well as royalty from around the world with whom she exchanged truly unique gifts. After meeting the exalted monarch her subjects often recorded their impressions of her, sometimes favourable and sometimes not, and she wasn't shy with her opinion either. The records range from her less than enamoured assessment of 'Greatest Showman' P.T. Barnum and her opinions about Jack the Ripper, to how much she enjoyed Jane Eyre and the affection she held for her family. An Audience with Queen Victoria examines the meetings and letters exchanged between the Queen and a veritable 'who's who' of her time. Through brand-new archival research, newspapers and interviews with descendants, sit right alongside Victoria and, for the first time, experience queenship from her perspective.

Author : Jean Harrington
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426895371

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Killer Kitchens by Jean Harrington Pdf

Book three of Murders by Design Interior designer Deva Dunne just may have hit the jackpot. Sure, her new client Francesco Grandese talks tough and has shady friends, but he has the eye of a connoisseur, and a huge, empty mansion he wants her to decorate. Deva's boyfriend, police lieutenant Victor Rossi, has misgivings about her promising job—especially when he accompanies her to one of Francesco's dinner parties. After Francesco returns a dish to the kitchen untasted, the chauffeur promptly scarfs it down and drops dead from cyanide poisoning. Has the killer made a terrible mistake and murdered the wrong person? Or was the dead man the intended victim? The only thing Deva knows for certain is someone present that night committed murder. And it seems everyone—from the dinner guests to the kitchen help—has a motive. 71,000 words

Author : Mario Oliver
Publisher : IBUKKU LLC
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781685742973

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Alcohol by Mario Oliver Pdf

I COME FROM THE MOON... A VERY COLD PLACE... A STAR... WITH A MYRIAD OF HUGE CRATERS. I LIVE... IN THE SEA OF TRANQUILITY... MARE TRANQUILLITATIS. BUT WHEN I AM SAD... I TAKE REFUGE... ON THE DARK SIDE... OF THE FULL MOON... ON ITS HIDDEN SIDE... TO CRY... THOUSANDS OF STARRY TEARS. I'M NEVER THIRSTY... BECAUSE I'M ALWAYS DRUNK.

Author : Chris Holmes
Publisher : Chris Holmes
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0978713982

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Blood on the Tartan by Chris Holmes Pdf

Catherine Ross rallies her neighbors to openly resist the mass evictions, which empty the glens of her people and replace them with sheep. Constable Ian Macgregor finds duty conflicts with his love for Catherine.

Author : Janet Wilson,Chris Ringrose
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004329270

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New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing by Janet Wilson,Chris Ringrose Pdf

New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing is a collection of critical essays on postcolonial writing from the Caribbean, England, New Zealand and the Pacific, and features new work by 17 creative writers, all in honour of the postcolonial critic, Bruce King.

Author : United States. Coast Guard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1332 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015038633072

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Merchant Vessels of the United States... by United States. Coast Guard Pdf