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The alignment of the stars at Marie Mancini's birth warned that although she would be gifted at divination, she was destined to disgrace her family. Nonetheless, Cardinal Mazarin brings his niece to the opulent French court, where the forbidden occult arts thrive in secret. In France, Marie discovers...

St Andrews, 1583. The young king James VI is confined at Falkland palace, plotting his escape. Dissension rages between Kirk and Crown, the king and his 'lord enterprisers', and between the separate factions of the church. In St Andrews Castle, a bishop in decline plays out his darkest fantasies,...

The new beginning and the grand finale of Lian Hearn's celebrated Tales of the Otori is "rivetingly elegant" (Washington Post). Don't miss the related series, The Tale of Shikanoko. Heaven's Net Is Wide is the prequel that reveals the full story of Lord Otori Shigeru—the figure...

This carefully crafted ebook: “Bracebridge Hall - The Humorists, A Medley (Illustrated)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists, A Medley was written by Washington Irving in 1821, while he lived in England. This...

**A New York Times Notable Book  A powerful historical picture book about the child of founding father Thomas Jefferson and the enslaved Sally Hemings.** In an evocative first-person account accompanied by exquisite artwork, Winter and Widener tell the story of James Madison Hemings’s...

In this provocative and dreamy parable, a young man disillusioned by the corruption of his homeland sets out on a quest to find Gebel, the land of perfection, from which no one has ever returned. On his way, Ibn Fattouma passes through a series of very different lands--realms where the moon is...

“Yes, we the Maya are the slaves. It’s been that way since the days of the conquistadors, since Cortez stepped onto our soil with the great Adelantado Montejo and his title to conquer and colonize for the crown.” But now, two teenage boys will change the course of history and lead the Maya to...

Among the possessions seized from Theobald Wolfe Tone upon his arrest in 1798 were two copies of Belmont Castle, the epistolary novel he wrote and published with his friends Richard Jebb and John Radcliffe in 1790. Much more than a mere youthful literary squib, Belmont Castle is an elaborate roman...

In 13th-Century Japan, a land of ancient spirits, shapeshifting animals, and demons, Ken’ishi is a warrior without a master. Orphaned in infancy, he has only one link to his past—Silver Crane, his father’s sword. When Silver Crane is stolen, Ken’ishi must go on a quest to recover his very...

Weeks before his inauguration as President of The United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is assassinated by Giuseppe Zangara in Miami’s Bayfront Park during a political rally. Meanwhile, on a train bound for Washington D.C., Senator Huey Long of Louisiana learns of the shooting, and devises a...

Artist Laura Matthews finds her new home in the Welsh mountains to be a place so charged with tales and legends that she is able to reach through the gossamer-fine veil that separates her own world from that of myth and fable. She and her husband Dan have given up their city life and moved...

Luqman (also known as Luqman the Wise, Luqmaan, Lukman, and Luqman al-Hakeem. was a wise man for whom Surah Luqman, the thirty-first sura (chapter) of the Qur'an, was named. Luqman (c. 1100 BC) is believed to be from Africa and is of Ethiopian descent. There are many stories about Luqman in Persian,...

Brandenburgers is a historical fantasy set during Operation Barbarrossa, the German invasion of Russia in June of 1941.  It is a fast-paced tale about a squad of soldiers racing across the Baltic States toward Leningrad. The squad is held together by the main character, Sergeant Wolfgang Steiner,...

Life of Prophet Adam (Pbuh) The First Messenger and Prophet of Allah SWT (God) Bilingual Edition In English And Spanish Languange. Prophet Adam (Pbuh) is believed to have been the first human being and nabi (prophet) on Earth, in Islam. Adam's role as the father of the human race is looked...