The Kingmaster
The Kingmaster

Author: C.A. Doehrmann

Publisher: C.A. Doehrmann

Published: 2024-08-16

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13:

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Kyen of Avanna is lauded as a hero, but . . . Everyone who meets him immediately doubts it. Shy, skinny, and mortally afraid of women, he keeps to himself by wandering the wilderness. He has to. He’s hiding a dangerous secret—Kade, an ancient being of immense power, lives in secret in Kyen’s head. Kyen’s travels get complicated when a princess named Adeya starts following him. She’s doomed to an arranged marriage, and her only escape is to restore the art of summoning to her kingdom—summoning which involves the very creature Kyen is trying to hide. From the moment they cross paths, Adeya suspects he’s keeping secrets and she’s determined to uncover them. Their fates become entangled when a sinister mage appears. He calls himself the Kingmaster and, wielding a relic of mind-control, he possesses their loved ones and threatens to seize the kingdoms of Ellunon. Now stuck with the princess (and her unwanted suitor), keeping Kade hidden becomes increasingly harder for Kyen. One by one, the Kingmaster is targeting everyone they meet. When he levels his aim at Adeya, Kyen must face a heart-wrenching choice: save everyone he loves or surrender Kade to forces bent on destroying the world? The Kingmaster is a classic quest for those who crave tales of adventure, courage, and magic with a hint of romance. It would be enjoyed by readers of YA Adventure Fantasy similar to Redwall, Eragon, or The Ranger’s Apprentice.

The Kingmaker
The Kingmaker

Author: Kennedy Ryan

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2023-05-23

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1728284910

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From beloved, RITA-award-winning author Kennedy Ryan comes the first in her gripping All the King's Men duology. In a world of haves and have-nots, Maxim Cade's family and their oil empire have it all...and he wants nothing to do with it. At odds with his mogul father, he's determined to build his own empire, even if it means traveling far from home, painted as the black sheep. Lennix Hunter is the exception to every one of Maxim's rules. At a protest for the oil pipeline that threatens to mar her ancestral land forever, they meet in a flurry of stars and sparks, and that one moment changes everything. But Maxim's family is the one stealing from hers, and his father is the man she hates most. He has to lie in order to have her once, and despite the truth, he'll do anything to keep her. Even though Lennix tries to hate Maxim, too, their hearts are pointed in the same direction. The inexorable pull between them, across miles and years, will not be denied. And neither will Maxim.

All the King's Cooks
All the King's Cooks

Author: Peter Brears

Publisher: Souvenir Press

Published: 2011-05-01

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 0285640232

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The massive kitchens at Hampton Court were built to supply the entire household of Henry VIII. They were the first professional kitchens organised on such a scale. Brears provides a practical guide to their running, dispelling many of the misconceptions about the cooking and eating of meals in Tudor England. Including authentic recipes from the period, adapted for modern kitchens, such as Chicken Farced and Smothered Rabbit and White Leach (a form of cool jelly), All the King's Cooks is fully illustrated with colour photographs recreating the life of the kitchens. With the author's own detailed drawings, no other book gets so close to the sights, sounds and smells of the Tudor kitchen.

Black Lions
Black Lions

Author: Melvin F. Compton

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2010-02-09

Total Pages: 825

ISBN-13: 1462813690

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BLACK LIONS, LOVE AND WAR A HISTORICAL DRAMA ON THE BRITISH--ASHANTI WARS. This work of well over a decade, is dedicated to Esi Ayensu of Cape Coast, and to the late Clive Compton, Barrister-At-Law and the late MaryAnn Compton, my loving parents who saw to it that I went to school, learned good manners and be polite, and also strong, for you may suffer long for what you may want. Everyone comes under my microscopic pen and my impeccable candor in this scholarly historical drama of love and war. And as an American I look out for the interest of the entire vast region, from as far down to Brazil Amazon, to U.S.A, Canada, Carribean Island, hoping Americans will read and enjoy my work. But this is too narrow. From my studies in Literature at U.C.L.A. where I earned a B.A. in Literature, on to my M.A. in Education at Georgia State University and my subsequent admission in the Doctoral program, I was taught NOT to see the tree but the entire forest. So now I hope that the entire World will read and enjoy my book and gain from it. It is sheer fun for me to read, create, write, and bring out my artistry, remembering always that this is what distinguishes me from the goat, the cow, the donkey and makes me human. Originate and be Scholarly and remember too that there is nothing as fiction, for the writer draws from life itself, the sine qua non of the pen. I LIVE FOR ART. MELVIN F. COMPTON [email protected]

Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII
Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII

Author: Maria Hayward

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 1351569171

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Henry VIII used his wardrobe, and that of his family and household, as a way of expressing his wealth and magnificence. This book encompasses the first detailed study of male and female dress worn at the court of Henry VIII (1509-47) and covers the dress of the king and his immediate family, the royal household and the broader court circle. Henry VIII's wardrobe is set in context by a study of Henry VII's clothes, court and household. ~ ~ As none of Henry VIII's clothes survive, evidence is drawn primarily from the great wardrobe accounts, wardrobe warrants, and inventories, and is interpreted using evidence from narrative sources, paintings, drawings and a small selection of contemporary garments, mainly from European collections. ~ ~ Key areas for consideration include the king's personal wardrobe, how Henry VIII's queens used their clothes to define their status, the textiles provided for the pattern of royal coronations, marriages and funerals and the role of the great wardrobe, wardrobe of the robes and laundry. In addition there is information on the cut and construction of garments, materials and colours, dr given as gifts, the function of livery and the hierarchy of dress within the royal household, and the network of craftsmen working for the court. The text is accompanied by full transcripts of James Worsley's wardrobe books of 1516 and 1521 which provide a brief glimpse of the king's clothes.

Chronicle of King Pedro Volumes 1 - 3
Chronicle of King Pedro Volumes 1 - 3

Author: Peter Such

Publisher: Aris and Phillips Hispanic Cla

Published: 2020-05-28

Total Pages: 1147

ISBN-13: 1789621348

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This three-volume edition of the Chronicle of King Pedro is a compelling and richly informative account of the turbulent reign of the notorious but enigmatic fourteenth-century Castilian monarch known as Pedro el Cruel. The clear and lively translation is accompanied by a Spanish text taken from Germán Orduna's groundbreaking edition and by a detailed introduction and extensive notes.

THE WORLD OF MASTER ZHUANG
THE WORLD OF MASTER ZHUANG

Author: CHEN Guying

Publisher: American Academic Press

Published: 2020-05-14

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1631816802

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The World of Master Zhuang is translated from Zhuangzi annotated and put into modern Chinese by Chen Guying. It is a fascinating collection of essays and tales composed by Zhou Zhuang of China’s Warring States Period and his followers. It is classified as literary, rich in philosophical ideas and taken as one of the three major classics of Daoism (the other two are Laozi and Liezi). This is why virtually all literate Chinese know the book, and its readers adopt the rich supply of idioms in their daily communication and always learn from it something helpful, whether it is wisdom, knowledge, insight, consonance, sympathies, comfort, relief, reconciliation or compromise. All those who have attempted a translation either intralingually or interlingually share similarities in most cases but differ sometimes, due to occasional illegibility of the original and divergence in interpretation. For this reason, the translators tried to comprehend the original against its historiocultural background, trace the missing information from its context guided by linguistic theories, correct errors adopting expository strategies, make the text coherent by means of necessary cohesive devices and express in English as a native speaker, so that it may be appropriately understood by as many readers as possible.