This is a fictional novel based on the true story of four family's and how they went from rags to riches and back again several times over throughout the hundred or so years that the novel covers. It follows them through three wars and into eventual peace times.
These are the stories of the women behind the Rulers of France. Its often intimate and personal stories of how famous women controlled their husbands / lovers to change the history of France and therefore Europe in the last one and a half millenniums
The book starts in the near future with the heroine being arrested for a fraud on a massive global scale. During the interrogation, her story unfolds and the story is her revealing her life story and ability. She had always had an interest in gambling but at school she started to get headaches and found that after the headaches she knew what was going to happen. She used this ability to become the richest person in the world and then she started to do good for others. Among other things for good she sets up a trust to fund up and coming inventors who couldn't get funding from other sources. One of these inventors had an idea for a sort of time machine, but it would cost a fortune to build. They built it and the time machine worked but it had unfortunate consequences it gave the heroine terminal cancer due to her being the pilot and genie-pig using it. The heroine died before she could be brought to trial and so escaped justice. But as always there was a twist at the end, especially when you mess with time.
These are the true stories of how strong willed women of influence changed the course of history within the Crown of England. Sometimes for the good of the Kingdom of England and sometimes for their own reasons and advantages. Always however with interesting results. It is a complete history of the last thousand years of the history within the monarchy of England and how the women in the background changed it. Whether through their sexuality, their intellect or through just force of personality.
How does a woman find the strength to endure unbearable situations? Newlyweds Aniko and Laszlo are forced to flee Budapest, Hungary in 1944. The Russians are moving into the German occupied country and America is carpet bombing the city. Aniko gives birth to her first child under horrific conditions in a peasant house in Austria. They return to Hungary within a few months and find that their apartment had been bombed. Laszlo is a hunted man after it is discovered that he wrote against communism before the Russian invasion. The wealthy lifestyle they once knew has been reduced to living in severe poverty. Another child makes their situation even more of a challenge and scurvy, near starvation, and Aniko being the only bread winner, make the next eleven years a living hell. Escaping to Canada during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, promises to give the family a better life. When the children are grown, the family resettles in America, where more heartache awaits Aniko, as adultery, mental illnesses, and failed marriages threaten to destroy the family. Will there ever be peace in their lives? Through it all, Aniko remains the rock of the family in this compelling story that will inspire you and lift your spirits.
This is the last book in the Creator's Dimensions series of books and it explains the last of the unexplained questions. The seven crew members of the Inter Dimensional / Inter Universal Star-ship "Discovery" finally manage to leave this Universe, despite the efforts of the Authorities to stop them. Once they are in the Realm of the Creator they encounter many strange universes with different universal laws to ours and they create terrible consequences for the crew and for the universes. The changes that they make in the universes become a permanent addition to them and therefore changes them forever. Finally they return back into our universe, however this return creates changes that affect it's future and therefore changes this universe forever too. Never has seven people created such mayhem.
This is pure Sci-Fi and NO WIZARDS, MAGIC,DUNGEON'S or DRAGON'S are in it. It is the story of a band of Dimensionaut's who as small pioneering teams venture to the far corners of the Universe. Its their staory starting with the problems of the early days of the programme and the trials and tribulations of their many trips to strange worlds. Their encounters with bothvery advanced entities and primitive life forms. It is accounts of their contacts with beings from other dimensions and finally what happened when one of them ends up going outside of the known Universe. The subsequent meeting with the Creator has profound consequences for the human race on her return.
From England and France to the Low Countries, Wales, Scotland, and Italy, the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) fundamentally shaped late-medieval literature. This volume adopts an expansive focus to reveal the transnational literary consequences of over a century of international conflict. While traditionally seen as an Anglo-French conflict, the Hundred Years War was a multilateral conflict with connections across the continent through alliances and proxy battles. Writers, whether as witnesses, diplomats, or provocateurs, played key roles in shaping the conflict, and the conflict equally impacted the course of literary history. The volume shows how a wide variety of genres and works are deeply engaged with responses to the war, from women’s visionary writing by figures like Catherine of Siena to anonymous lyric poetry, from Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies to Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
This collection of fresh essays examines the intersection of baseball and social class, pointing to the conclusion that America's game, infused from its origins with a democratic mythos and founded on high-minded principles of meritocracy, is nonetheless fraught with problematic class contradictions. Each essayist has explored how class standing has influenced some aspect of the game as experienced by those who play it, those who watch it, those who write about it, and those who market it. The topic of class is an amorphous one and in tying it to baseball the contributors have considered matters of race, education, locality, integration, assimilation, and cultural standing. These elements are crucial to understanding how baseball creates, preserves, reinforces and occasionally assails class divisions among those who watch, play, and own the game.