The Last Kings Of Sark

Author : Rosa Rankin-Gee
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466844001

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The Last Kings of Sark by Rosa Rankin-Gee Pdf

"My name is Jude. And because of Law, Hey and the Obscure, they thought I was a boy." Jude is twenty-one when she flies in a private plane to Sark, a tiny carless Channel Island and the last place in Europe to abolish feudalism. She's been hired for the summer to tutor a rich local boy named Pip. But when Jude arrives, the family is unsettling. Pip is awkward, overly literal, and adamant he doesn't need a tutor, and upstairs, his enigmatic mother Esmé casts a shadow over the house. Enter Sofi: the family's holiday cook, a magnetic, mercurial Polish girl with appalling kitchen hygiene, who sings to herself and sleeps naked. When the father of the family goes away on business, Pip's science lessons are replaced by midday rosé and scallop-smuggling, and summer begins. Soon something powerful starts to touch the three together. But those strange, golden weeks on Sark can't last forever. Later, in Paris, Normandy and London, they find themselves looking for the moment that changed everything.Compelling, sensual, and lyrical, The Last Kings of Sark by Rosa Rankin-Gee is a tale of complicated love, only children and missed opportunities, from an extraordinary new writer.

Author : Rosa Rankin-Gee
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1471193845

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Dreamland by Rosa Rankin-Gee Pdf

Dreamland is a postcard from a future Britain that's closer than we think.

Author : Rosemary Sutcliff
Publisher : Random House
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781448174218

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The Armourer's House by Rosemary Sutcliff Pdf

If only she'd been born a boy, Tamsyn would never have been sent away to Uncle Gideon's - the armourer's - house when her grandmother died. She could have stayed by the wild sea that she loved with her Uncle Martin, the ship merchant. But instead, she is bound for busy, bustling Tudor London, and the armourer's house, far from the coast and far from her beloved ships. Homesick and lonely in the loud family of cousins, it isn't until she meets the strange old Wise Woman that Tamsyn is finally promised her "heart's desire"...

Author : Robert Burns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : English poetry
ISBN : NLS:B000229631

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Tam O'Shanter by Robert Burns Pdf

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783963767159

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Sir Nigel by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

Sir Nigel is a historical novel set during the Hundred Years' War, by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1906, it is a fore-runner to Doyle's earlier novel The White Company, and describes the early life of that book's hero Sir Nigel Loring in the service of King Edward III at the start of the Hundred Years' War.

Author : Rachel Gillig
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316312585

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One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig Pdf

THE FANTASY BOOKTOK SENSATION! For fans of Uprooted and For the Wolf comes a dark, lushly gothic fantasy about a maiden who must unleash the monster within to save her kingdom—but the monster in her head isn't the only threat lurking. Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her. Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom she calls home—she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets. But nothing comes for free, especially magic. When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, her life takes a drastic turn. Thrust into a world of shadow and deception, she joins a dangerous quest to cure the kingdom of the dark magic infecting it. Except the highwayman just so happens to be the King’s own nephew, Captain of the Destriers…and guilty of high treason. He and Elspeth have until Solstice to gather twelve Providence Cards—the keys to the cure. But as the stakes heighten and their undeniable attraction intensifies, Elspeth is forced to face her darkest secret yet: the Nightmare is slowly, darkly, taking over her mind. And she might not be able to stop him.

Author : George R. R. Martin
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 835 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553897845

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A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin Pdf

NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES—THE MASTERPIECE THAT BECAME A CULTURAL PHENOMENON Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King’s Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert’s name. There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard son, Jon Snow. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings and worse—unnatural things relegated to myth during the centuries-long summer, but proving all too real and all too deadly in the turning of the season. Yet a more immediate threat lurks to the south, where Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, has died under mysterious circumstances. Now Robert is riding north to Winterfell, bringing his queen, the lovely but cold Cersei, his son, the cruel, vainglorious Prince Joffrey, and the queen’s brothers Jaime and Tyrion of the powerful and wealthy House Lannister—the first a swordsman without equal, the second a dwarf whose stunted stature belies a brilliant mind. All are heading for Winterfell and a fateful encounter that will change the course of kingdoms. Meanwhile, across the Narrow Sea, Prince Viserys, heir of the fallen House Targaryen, which once ruled all of Westeros, schemes to reclaim the throne with an army of barbarian Dothraki—whose loyalty he will purchase in the only coin left to him: his beautiful yet innocent sister, Daenerys.

Author : Chris Killen
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782114444

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In Real Life by Chris Killen Pdf

STILL FRIENDS A DECADE ON? WHAT ARE THE CHANCES? For a while, Ian, Lauren and Paul shared the same friends, the same university, the same dreams and the same potential. Ten years on they are worlds apart. Call centres, charity shops and bedrooms that smell like cabbage were never part of the plan. The real world doesn't look quite like any of them imagined. But when Lauren, in a moment of nostalgia, cracks open a long-forgotten Hotmail account, she comes face to face with the people these three friends used to be . . . For two of them it will mean a new beginning to an old love story. Hilarious and heart-breaking, In Real Life paints a searingly honest portrait of a generation and captures a world where human connection is easier than ever before but where relationships remain just as tricky.

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780744036886

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The Big Trivia Quiz Book by DK Pdf

Put your general knowledge to the test, and impress your family and friends with your astonishing brainpower and trivia genius. An addictive quiz book for all the family featuring 10,000 questions, The Big Quiz Book has something for everyone. With 10 different general knowledge categories - from Science & Technology, Art & Literature, and Natural History, to Food & Drink, Film & TV, and Sport & Leisure - and three increasing levels of difficulty, it offers a fresh and up-to-the-minute quizzing experience that will educate and entertain all the family. Bursting with fascinating facts to boost your trivia knowledge, whatever your specialist subject or your nemesis topic, The Big Quiz Book is perfect for home entertainment and virtual pub quizzes. You won't be able to put it down!

Author : H.E. Marshall
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780297857280

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Our Island Story by H.E. Marshall Pdf

Just over a century ago, Our Island Story entranced a nation's children by telling their history in stories. Short, simply written chapters, packed with living characters and thrilling action - and illustrated with vivid colour pictures - illuminate all the main events from Britain's earliest days to the end of Victoria's reign. And its glorious fusion of myth and legend with sober fact - Canute and King Arthur with Cromwell and the Indian Mutiny - is as seductive now as it ever was. 'I was given H.E. Marshall's Our Island Story at Christmas 1936 and I've still got that copy. It was a direct inspiration for me in my career as a historian' Antonia Fraser 'It is written in a way that really captured my imagination and which nurtured my interest in the history of our great nation' David Cameron 'One of the most influential works of history of the 20th century' Times Educational Supplement

Author : Edward Rutherfurd
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1330 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780099551379

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London by Edward Rutherfurd Pdf

The triumphs and failures of seven individual family clans span the history of a city from the third-century Roman occupation of Londinium through such eras as the Norman conquest and the Elizabethan period.

Author : Ruth Edna Kelley
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387516735

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The Book of Hallowe'en by Ruth Edna Kelley Pdf

Learn the secrets of the most frightening, fun-filled day of the year! The only day when the forces of darkness are openly celebrated, Halloween comes down to us from the strange, shrouded mists of antiquity, originating in the pagan world and the primitive ceremonies that honor Samhain, the dark, mysterious Lord of the Dead, at a time when the veil between our world and theirs is at its thinnest. The strange and weird customs and beliefs of our ancestors live again, every October 31st, in the only day of the year when it is considered okay to dress in frightening costumes, to go door to door begging, and to feast on fear. A true classic in the literature of pagan lore, you will find this book frightening, fascinating and fun!

Author : Misty Kalkofen,Kirsten Amann
Publisher : Quarry Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781631596377

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Drinking Like Ladies by Misty Kalkofen,Kirsten Amann Pdf

Drinking Like Ladies is dedicated to the proposition that a woman’s place is behind the bar. . . or in front of it. . . or really any place she pleases. Acclaimed bartenders Kirsten Amann and Misty Kalkofen have scoured the globe collecting recipes--often from equally acclaimed female bartenders--pairing each tipple with a toast to a trailblazing lady. From gin to whiskey, tequila to punch, Drinking Like Ladies has a twist and a toast for every tippler, whatever your base spirit.

Author : W G Collingwood
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1498199933

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Thorstein of the Mere by W G Collingwood Pdf

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1895 Edition.

Author : Joanna Hershon
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349004198

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A Dual Inheritance by Joanna Hershon Pdf

Autumn 1962: Ed Cantowitz and Hugh Shipley meet in their final year at Harvard. Ed is far removed from Hugh's privileged upbringing as a Boston Brahmin, yet his drive and ambition outpace Hugh's ambivalence about his own life. These two young men form an unlikely friendship, bolstered by a fierce shared desire to transcend their circumstances. But in just a few short years, not only do their paths diverge-one rising on Wall Street, the other becoming a kind of global humanitarian-but their friendship ends abruptly, with only one of them understanding why. Can a friendship define your view of the world? Spanning from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the present-day stock market collapse, with locations as diverse as Dar es Salaam, Boston, Shenzhen, and Fishers Island, A Dual Inheritance asks this question, as it follows not only these two men, but the complicated women in their vastly different lives. And as Ed and Hugh grow further and further apart, they remain uniquely-even surprisingly-connected.