An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason
An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

Author: Virginia Boecker

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2018-10-23

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 031632728X

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Shakespeare in Love meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this witty and thrilling story of star-crossed assassins in Elizabeth England, perfect for fans of My Lady Jane and TheGentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue! When Lady Katherine's father is killed for being an illegally practicing Catholic, she discovers treason wasn't the only secret he's been hiding: he was also involved in a murder plot against the reigning Queen Elizabeth I. With nothing left to lose, Katherine disguises herself as a boy and travels to London to fulfill her father's mission, and to take it one step further -- kill the queen herself. Katherine's opportunity comes in the form of William Shakespeare's newest play, which is to be performed in front of Her Majesty. But what she doesn't know is that the play is not just a play. It's a plot to root out insurrectionists and destroy the rebellion once and for all. The mastermind behind this ruse is Toby Ellis, a young spy for the queen with secrets of his own. When Toby and Katherine are cast opposite each other as the play's leads, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to one another. But the closer they grow, the more precarious their positions become. And soon they learn that star-crossed love, mistaken identity, and betrayal are far more dangerous off the stage than on.

Blow Your House Down
Blow Your House Down

Author: Gina Frangello

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2021-04-06

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1640093176

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A Good Morning America Recommended Book • A LitReactor Best Book of the Year • A BuzzFeed Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A Rumpus Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A Bustle Most Anticipated Book of the Month "A pathbreaking feminist manifesto, impossible to put down or dismiss. Gina Frangello tells the morally complex story of her adulterous relationship with a lover and her shortcomings as a mother, and in doing so, highlights the forces that shaped, silenced, and shamed her: everyday misogyny, puritanical expectations regarding female sexuality and maternal sacrifice, and male oppression." —Adrienne Brodeur, author of Wild Game Gina Frangello spent her early adulthood trying to outrun a youth marked by poverty and violence. Now a long-married wife and devoted mother, the better life she carefully built is emotionally upended by the death of her closest friend. Soon, awakened to fault lines in her troubled marriage, Frangello is caught up in a recklessly passionate affair, leading a double life while continuing to project the image of the perfect family. When her secrets are finally uncovered, both her home and her identity will implode, testing the limits of desire, responsibility, love, and forgiveness. Blow Your House Down is a powerful testimony about the ways our culture seeks to cage women in traditional narratives of self-sacrifice and erasure. Frangello uses her personal story to examine the place of women in contemporary society: the violence they experience, the rage they suppress, the ways their bodies often reveal what they cannot say aloud, and finally, what it means to transgress "being good" in order to reclaim your own life.

A Treason of Thorns
A Treason of Thorns

Author: Laura Weymouth

Publisher: Chicken House

Published: 2020-03-01

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1760975052

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After seven years of exile, Violet has returns to her beloved Burleigh House–one of the six great magical houses of England. But, since her father’s death, the house’s magic has gone wild. Vi must decide whether her destiny is set in stone, before Burleigh destroys everything she loves.

Just Before Midnight
Just Before Midnight

Author: Charles S. Viar

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 9781480142367

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A TALE OF LOVE, ROMANCE, TREACHERY AND TREASON Alicia Elizabeth McAllister. Pretty but not beautiful, a freshly minted honors graduate of Township College. Alicia moves from rural Connecticut to Washington, D.C., to join James, her boyfriend of three years. Cruelly abandoned by him on the day she arrives, a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger changes her life forever. Thirteen years her senior, Alexander Michael de Vris is handsome, charming, rich and brilliant - and maddeningly enigmatic. A war hero, a former CIA officer, and the head of Washington's most prestigious "think tank," he's also the President's most trusted advisor. Sympathetic - and impressed by her ability - Alex helps her win a position at the Center for Strategic Studies. But not all is well in Washington. Little by little, she slowly awakens to the fact that she's stumbled into the midst of a sinister conspiracy to assassinate the President, and that she'll join the growing list of victims if anyone realizes she's uncovered the plot. Who can she turn to? Who can she trust? Most importantly, is the mysterious Alexander de Vris loyal to the President? Or is he too a traitor?

Treason
Treason

Author: Hedi Kaddour

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2010-04-06

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0300162987

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Hédi Kaddour’s poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic—of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human invention, or human cruelty. With Treason, the award-winning poet and translator Marilyn Hacker presents an English-speaking audience with the first selected volume of his work. The poetries of several languages and literary traditions are lively and constant presences in the work of Hédi Kaddour, a Parisian as well as a Germanist and an Arabist. A walker’s, a watcher’s, and a listener’s poems, his sonnet-shaped vignettes often include a line or two of dialogue that turns his observations and each poem itself into a kind of miniature theater piece. Favoring compact, classical models over long verse forms, Kaddour questions the structures of syntax and the limits of poetic form, combining elements of both international modernism and postmodernism with great sophistication. Capturing Kaddour’s full range of diction, as well as his speed, momentum, and tone, Marilyn Hacker’s translations brilliantly bring these poems alive.

Treason By The Book
Treason By The Book

Author: Jonathan Spence

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2012-04-05

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 0241959144

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In 1728 a stranger handed a letter to Governor Yue calling on him to lead a rebellion against the Manchu rulers of China. Feigning agreement, he learnt the details of the plot and immediately informed the Emperor, Yongzheng. The ringleaders were captured with ease, forced to recant and, to the confusion and outrage of the public, spared. Drawing on an enormous wealth of documentary evidence - over a hundred and fifty secret documents between the Emperor and his agents are stored in Chinese archives - Jonathan Spence has recreated this revolt of the scholars in fascinating and chilling detail. It is a story of unwordly dreams of a better world and the facts of bureaucratic power, of the mind of an Emperor and of the uses of his mercy.

Treason
Treason

Author: Don Brown

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0310259339

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When Muslim terrorists infiltrate the Navy Chaplain Corps, Lieutenant Zack Brewer, just three years out of law school, is pitted against the world's greatest defense attorney in the court-martial of the century.

Treason Keep
Treason Keep

Author: Jennifer Fallon

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2004-11

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780765309877

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A mortally wounded R'shiel seeks the healing powers of the believed-extinct magical Harshini, while Tarja and the Defenders consider an alliance with a long-time adversary in order to protect themselves against Karien invaders.