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You may also wish to check out the other History books currently available in the Windmill Bookshop. Please see all photographs for an overview of the book's condition.Īny questions or if you'd like to see more photographs, etc., please drop me a quick message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. This book is in very good condition but has a line of handwritten text in blue ink on the opening (blank) page - see relevant photo. Printed and bound in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd, Frome and London The Wives of Henry VIII Antonia Fraser 4.10 18,316 ratings473 reviews In a sweeping narrative, Fraser traces the cultural, familial and political roots of each of Henrys queens, pushes aside the stereotypes that have long defined them, and illuminates the complex character of each. Typeset by Selwood Systems, Midsomer Norton, Avon This Edition: Ninth Impression, Hardback, August 1993 Publisher: George Weidenfeld and Nicholson Ltd, Orion Publishing Group Limitedįirst published in Great Britain by George Weidenfeld and Nicholson Ltd, Orion Publishing Group Limited, in 1992 I am delighted to be able to offer this beautiful vintage hardback edition of 'The Six Wives of Henry VIII' by Antonia Fraser, with 48 pages of illustrations including 8 pages of colour, published by George Weidenfeld and Nicholson Ltd in August 1993. Welcome to The Windmill Bookshop, the vintage book section of our Etsy shop. This is a story about falling in love, finding your team (on and off the ice), and choosing your own path. When rivalry turns to something more, Mickey will have to decide what he really wants, and what he's willing to risk for it. The only person standing in his way is Jaysen Caulfield, a contender for the #1 spot and Mickey's infuriating (and infuriatingly attractive) teammate. With a father and a grandfather who have gone down in NHL history, Mickey is almost guaranteed the league's top draft spot. Seventeen-year-old Mickey James III is a college freshman, a brother to five sisters, and a hockey legacy. Graziadei's Icebreaker is an irresistible YA debut about two hockey players fighting to be the best-and the romance that catches them by surprise along the way. About the Book "Content warnings: depictions of depression, anxiety, and dissociation, mild suicidal ideation, underage alcohol abuse, brief marijuana use, sports violence"-Page opposite copyright page.Ī. Before long he is invited to meet Sebastian’s family at Brideshead. Soon the two of them have become the thickest of friends with an added certain tension in the background. See sometimes you should judge a book by its cover.Ĭharles Ryder is a bit of a misfit, he doesn’t seem to have a particular place in school society until he starts at Oxford and meets Sebastian (a grown man who carries a bear everywhere he goes) someone who is he warned to avoid. Oddly this is how the previous book group started with ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ so it seemed write to do it again and start with Brideshead Revisited especially as we both wanted one of the fabulous old covers as shown. So after leaving book group (I know shocking) myself and Polly have started ‘Rogue Book Group’ in which we only read books that we both already own or read the books that have been recently made into films and then watch the movie. Chock full of twists and chills and set against the unusual world of the Amish, this series "e will delight fans of Chelsea Cain and Thomas Harris"e (USA Today). The book was first published in June 21st 2011 and the latest edition of the book was published in June 21st 2011 which eliminates all the known issues and printing errors. The book is perfect for those who wants to read thriller, fiction books. Together, they search for the link between the crimes-and uncover a dark secret at work beneath the placid surface of this idyllic Amish community. Breaking Silence is a beautiful novel written by the famous author Linda Castillo. Because the other series of attacks are designated hate crimes, the state sends in agent John Tomasetti, with whom Kate has a long and complex relationship. But who would want to make orphans of the Slabaughs' children? And is this murder somehow related to a recent string of shocking hate crimes against the Amish? Having grown up Amish, Kate is determined to bring the killer to justice. But in the course of a routine autopsy, the coroner discovers that one of the victims suffered a head wound before death-clearly, foul play was involved. When the parents and an uncle are found dead in their barn, it appears to be a gruesome accident: methane gas asphyxiation caused by a poorly ventilated cesspit. The New York Times bestselling series hailed as "e gripping"e (People magazine) and "e compelling"e (USA Today) returns with Police Chief Kate Burkholder called to the scene of a horrific tragedy on a peaceful Amish farm.The Slabaugh family are model Amish farmers, prosperous and hardworking, with four children and a happy extended family. Despite an often depressing worldview, this is a beautiful book from one of the genre's best writers. With the critically acclaimed novels The Gate To Womens Country, Raising The Stones, and the Hugo-nominated Grass, Sheri Tepper has established herself as one of the major science fiction writers of out Time.In Beauty, she broadens her territory even further, with a novel that evokes all the richness of fairy tale and fable. Tepper manages to maintain interest, style and theme throughout these disparate elements, and she consistently sniffs out the ugly (e.g., the storybook land of Chinanga, which has all the facets of a fairyland but is an extremely boring place to live). Sleeping Beauty's sleep continues endlessly, prince notwithstanding Cinderella is as heartless and nasty to her ugly stepsisters as they are to her and Snow White is a blond bimbo, while the dwarfs are a querulous collection of Basque brothers. Grass was a New York Times Notable Book and Hugo Award nominee, and Beauty was voted Best Fantasy Novel by the readers of Locus magazine. Retelling various fairy tales, Tepper strips away each story's gloss. Tepper (19292016) is the award-winning author of A Plague of Angels, Sideshow, Beauty, Raising the Stones, Grass, The Gate to Women's Country, After Long Silence, and Shadow's End. Still more impressive is the evolution of the narrator and title character, whom we follow for a century of life (ages 16 to 116) as she matures gradually and subtly from a pouty, slightly spoiled daughter of a duke to a wise old woman. The latest from the talented Tepper ( The Gate to Women's Country ) is many things: a fantasy of manners, a dystopian science fiction tale, a time-travel story and an eco-morality play. Is there any way you could color code this thing by clothes or search for people by their hair color? She’s a redhead.” My eyes focused on the screens that were now showing people walking in and out of the lounge. He began typing away at his keyboard and the twenty massive screens that covered his office wall began to illuminate in grids and static. “New Year’s Eve between eleven thirty and midnight.” Don’t act like this is against your morals or something, Corey. “Because you’re my best friend and an employee. “So, why am I hacking into the security footage of Pacific Bay Lounge at seven in the morning?” Second of all, I don’t even know who she is.” But since you said it was love at first sight, I guess I can make an exception.” “Whatever you call it, it’s highly illegal. “What am I supposed to be doing for you again? Stalking some woman you met?” “You’re here on time?” My best friend Corey rolled his eyes. I walked into the security director’s office and shut the door. Trees and vines and bushes and grass and undergrowth, verdant, overripe to the point of hysteria. Wet, heavy summer rain, seemingly just as endless, pouring into puddles drop after drop. Bright summer sun, hanging overhead like it will never set again. Big summer-night skies, full of stars and moonlight. In between, nature, as drawn with preposterous skill by Jillian Tamaki, proves capable of enveloping her without her help. At the end she and a friend dig a hole in the beach big enough to contain her, and she lies in it, posing for her last picture of the summer - this is how she wants to remember it. At the beginning of This One Summer, its main character, Rose, splashes down into her bed, holding her nose and falling backwards as if leaping off a dock into the lake nearby. In the meantime I will tell Ulysses about your course, and will explain everything to him so as to prevent your suffering from misadventure either by land or sea.' Then she stood in the midst of us and said, 'You have done a bold thing in going down alive to the house of Hades, and you will have died twice, to other people's once now, then, stay here for the rest of the day, feast your fill, and go on with your voyage at daybreak tomorrow morning. "While we were doing all this, Circe, who knew that we had got back from the house of Hades, dressed herself and came to us as fast as she could and her maid servants came with her bringing us bread, meat, and wine. When his body and armour had been burned to ashes, we raised a cairn, set a stone over it, and at the top of the cairn we fixed the oar that he had been used to row with. We cut firewood from a wood where the headland jutted out into the sea, and after we had wept over him and lamented him we performed his funeral rites. "Then, when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, I sent some men to Circe's house to fetch the body of Elpenor. We then drew our ship on to the sands and got out of her on to the shore, where we went to sleep and waited till day should break. "After we were clear of the river Oceanus, and had got out into the open sea, we went on till we reached the Aeaean island where there is dawn and sunrise as in other places. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate every other super-powered person that he can find-aside from his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with an unbreakable will. Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe), aided by a young girl with a stunning ability. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong. A shared interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. Victor and Eli started out as college roommates-brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same ambition in each other. |