![]() The White Queen tells the story of a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition who, catching the eye of the newly crowned boy king, marries him in secret and ascends to royalty. They are the claimants and kings who ruled England before the Tudors, and now Philippa Gregory brings them to life through the dramatic and intimate stories of the secret players: the indomitable women, starting with Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen. ![]() Philippa Gregory, "the queen of royal fiction" ( USA Today), presents the first of a new series set amid the deadly feuds of England known as the War of the Roses.īrother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England, in this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets. ![]()
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![]() And just so you know, Madeline will be a guest on my blog this Thursday, so come back to see what she has to say about the classics and how historical romance has changed. But she will not go the path of her mother. Now back from years in captivity in the Baltic where he was taken in the Crusades as a slave, he fights to regain his rightful place, all the while wanting Moira by his side and without benefit of marriage. Addis married Claire, who was vain and selfish and deserted Addis when he was sorely wounded and it was thought he'd never walk again. She has secretly loved Addis since she was 12 and was always there when he needed care or comforting, even though he was promised to the highborn Claire, Moira's friend. ![]() It takes place in the time of King Edward II and tells the story of Addis de Valence, a high born nobleman and knight, and Moira Falkner, the daughter of a nobleman's mistress and a bondwoman to Valence (though she claims her mother's lover freed her). It is an amazing eat historical setting, well drawn characters, realistic dialog for the period and a wonderful heartrending story of love that overcomes many obstacles. ![]() ![]() This is the 1st in Hunter’s 14th Century London series (see list below). ![]() ![]() Thanks to her early sense of suspicion, Bluestone was quickly out with the first reported story on the overhyped event masterminded by the notorious con man Billy McFarland, who is now serving a six-year sentence in federal prison for fraud. “The site was offering $250,000 ticket packages with yachts and private chefs, yet it looked like it had been designed in a high-school coding class.”īluestone smelled a scam, and soon enough her intuition proved correct as attendees - who had paid exorbitant amounts of money for the privilege of mingling with social media celebrities and taking in a Blink-182 set - arrived at the festival site only to find that they had been marooned at what turned out to be a modern-day Potemkin village whose bare-bones accommodations included disaster-relief tents and cheese sandwiches. “What I found there made no sense,” Bluestone, 32, recounts in her first book, Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet ― and Why We’re Following. ![]() ![]() ![]() She clicked through to the website to see what the fuss was all about. It was 2017, and Bluestone, working as a journalist at Vice, had only been peripherally aware of the now-infamous music festival - fraudulently billed as an elite getaway on a Bahamian island and promoted by scores of influencers - until she noticed on Instagram that a former high school classmate was going. It took Gabrielle Bluestone just a few minutes to conclude that the heavily-hyped Fyre Festival was not what it claimed to be. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has had books selected for the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild, and has been quoted, interviewed, or featured in such publications as The Nation, Redbook, People, and USA Today and appeared on many newscasts including local television and Entertainment Tonight. She is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from RWA. Graham is the recipient of the Silver Bullet from Thriller Writers and was also awarded the prestigious Thriller Master in 2016. In her latest novel, Unknown, Sienna Murray, a woman who pulled her neighbors out of a raging fire at only fourteen years old, and FBI Agent Ryder Stapleton, need to catch a serial arsonist roaming the shadowy streets of New Orleans…before the city burns down around them. She has been the launch author for Dell's Ecstasy Supreme line, Silhouette's Shadows line, and for Harlequin's mainstream brand, Mira Books. These novels run the gamut of the romance genre, from historical fiction to category, from romantic suspense to time travel, and from vampire fiction to Christmas stories. ![]() ![]() VJ Books Presents Heather Graham (aka Shannon Drake, Heather Graham Pozzessere)! Heather Graham is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author that has written over 200 novels, has 60 million books in print, and has been published in approximately twenty-five languages. You are here: Home > Our Authors > Graham, Heather ![]() ![]() ![]() As she detailed growing up in New Mexico, land of the brilliant white desert light that lured Georgia O’Keeffe from New York, Culpepper explained how she would regale her amigas with horror stories in the bathroom of her childhood home. In January when Culpepper’s most recent, and sadly, last book, Windigo Thrall, was released from Bold Strokes Books, Culpepper wrote a blog post for Bold Strokes Books about horror and Windigo Thrall. ![]() That humor put her in a special category for me as a reader, for me as a lesbian, for me as someone battling terminal illness, as she did until Oct. She didn’t write humor–she wrote horror and fantasy–but she was, as a person, funny. And she breathed life into all around her. Humor breathes life into our days, whether we realize it or not.Ĭate Culpepper was funny. ![]() Those of us who are, and who find humor essential to managing life’s many hills and valleys appreciate other funny people. ![]() ![]() ![]() We live in times when it is easy to understand how people can be bestial to each other because of their religious imaginations. And now England and France are also at peace only the Isles de la Manche remind us that once the ancestors of Queen Elizabeth II ruled a kingdom spanning the Channel waters, a truly European power, whose centre might just as well have been Paris as Westminster. ![]() ![]() Poor Sir Matthieu did not live to follow his master back to France and see Bourges once more, but he found an honourable and tranquil grave in East Anglia. ![]() By 1431 de la Pole was home, his purse considerably lighter after paying a crushing ransom, but he would have been a natural host for this now-Anglophile scion of the French royal house. The village was one of the principal homes of William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk: in 1429, he had found himself the opposite number of the Duke as a prisoner in France, captured in the wake of the crushing English humiliation at the relief of the city of Orléans, which turned Joan forever into “the Maid of Orléans”. It is likely that the Duke of Orléans spent time at Westhorpe as an honoured if involuntary guest alongside Sir Mathieu Borgue. ![]() ![]() Dummer, Peterborough East, Ontario, CanadaĪdd Spouse to Charles Doughty Charles Doughty 1831–1893 Ĭhildren of Elizabeth Jane Vansickle and Charles Doughty (8) William Charles Doughty 1856–1939 Īdd Child to Charles Doughty and Elizabeth Jane VansickleĪdd Child with an Unknown Mother Parents and SiblingsĪdd Parent to Charles Doughty James Doughty 1806–1891.Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England Residence.1891 Asphodel, Peterborough East, Ontario, Canada Residence.1871 Dummer, East Peterborough, Ontario, Canada Residence.1861 Dummer, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada Residence.1851 Asphodel, Peterborough County, Canada West (Ontario), Canada Residence.Birth Name Charles Doughty Custom Event., Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England Death.25 August 1831 Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England Christening. ![]() ![]() ![]() LHR8-V6S Details Time Line Sources 18 Collaborate 0 Memories 0.LHR8-V6S View Tree Watch Male Charles Doughty 1831–1893.Charles Doughty 25 August 1831 – 9 August 1893 ![]() ![]() ![]() Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Kaye from The Ordinary Princess, Puffin Books These beautiful illustrations, kindly provided by Puffin Books, are also by Mollie Kaye who illustrated most of her children’s stories herself. Other popular children’s stories that she wrote include Willow Witches Brook (1944), Gold Gorse Common (1945) and Thistledown (1981). She twisted the standard blueprint for fairy tales and created characters that appealed to readers of all ages. Kaye had a knack for writing for children. Here she met an odd job boy who was also disguising his princely status, and the rest is history… Relishing her freedom, she lived a joyful life in the woods before getting a job as fourth scullery maid in a local kitchen. ![]() On hearing that her father had arranged for a Prince to slay a dragon and ask for her hand in marriage, the ordinary princess ditched her finery and jewels and jumped out of the nursery window. This meant that instead of having long blond hair, perfect features and lavish ballgowns like her older sisters, she had short mousy hair, a plain face and preferred to play in scruffy clothes. In 1980 she published The Ordinary Princess, which is the story of a princess who at her christening was bestowed the gift of ordinariness. Kaye wrote prolifically throughout her life both for children and adults. Although best known for The Far Pavilions, M.M. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There, Cadie and Daniela are forced to face a dark secret that ended both their idyllic childhood bond and the magical summer that takes up more space in Cadie’s memory then all her other years combined. But deep down, didn’t she always know her secret would surface?Īn urgent message from her long-estranged best friend Daniela Garcia brings Cadie, now a forestry researcher, back to her childhood home. "Smart and searingly passionate.an illuminating snapshot of nature, betrayal, and sacrifices set in the evocative New Hampshire wilderness."-Kim Michele Richardson, bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome CreekĪ startling and timely debut, Julie Carrick Dalton's Waiting for the Night Song is a moving, brilliant novel about friendships forged in childhood magic and ruptured by the high price of secrets that leave you forever changed.Ĭadie Kessler has spent decades trying to cover up one truth. Named a Most Anticipated book by Newsweek * USA Today * CNN * Parade * Buzzfeed * Medium * GoodReads * PopSugar * Frolic Media * Betches * The Nerd Daily * SheReads and more ![]() ![]() ![]() The antelope Oryx, at once ordinary and extraordinary, can be seen as a beautiful, tough, ephemeral creature that stands as a symbol of both the pros and cons of deep ecology. Years later, when the antelope Oryx is completely extinct, Jimmy and his friend actually find the girl or at least they think it’s her and she becomes Crake’s girlfriend and Jimmy’s lover. This dystopic society is so consumer-driven that nothing is sacred anymore, nothing is protected. ![]() Oryx and Crake treats child pornography very casually. Our main point-of-view character, Jimmy, first saw this girl during high school when he and his best friend Glenn were watching child pornography, something they often did when they got tired of playing video games. Oryx in the novel is the hacker name of a girl whose real name we never learn-Margaret Atwood likes that trope. ![]() ![]() (Image: CherylRamalho/Shutterstock) Oryx: A Symbol of Deep Ecology In Oryx and Crake, the Oryx stands as a symbol of both the pros and cons of deep ecology. In Oryx and Crake, these two terms are code names used by hackers and genetic engineers committed to deep ecology. , University of Connecticut Oryx and Crake is a part of Margaret Atwood ‘s the MaddAddam trilogy, which also includes The Year of the Flood, and MaddAddam, published between 20. ![]() |