![]() But he does need to secure his claim to Winteringham Priory, and marriage to Katherine Harley is the key. Making bold choices in her life, finding enemies on all sides, risking infamy and banishment for her relationship with King Edward, Alice survived and flourished. The Uncrowned Queen (2012) Anne O’Brien Books Overview Puritan Bride Marcus doesn’t believe love can be found within matrimony. ![]() Join Alice Perrers in her astonishing journey, from a child of obscure birth to the most powerful woman in the land. The spell-binding pages of The King’s Concubine invite you to enter the world of Edward III, one of England’s most powerful and charismatic monarchs. So how did Alice achieve her pre-eminence? How did she attract the attention of Queen Philippa to be appointed as one of her damsels, or take the eye of King Edward to become his mistress? How did she come to the royal court at all if she was, as rumour had it, the illegitimate abandoned child of a common labourer and a tavern whore? If even half of this was true, she was a remarkable woman. Of manipulating an aging monarch until her avaricious hands replaced his on the reins of power. ![]() This is Alice Perrers, the King’s Concubine, a vicious royal mistress accused by her contemporaries of rapacious and self-serving greed, wheeling and dealing to achieve a fortune in land and jewels. ![]() There was … in England a shameless woman and wanton harlot called Ales Peres, of base kindred … being neither beautiful or fair, she knew how to cover these defects with her flattering tongue …’ ![]()
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![]() In perhaps the strongest aspect of his book, Lustig deconstructs one of the most pervasive, and possibly damaging health misconceptions of our time: a calorie is a calorie. He claims that the answer to the epidemics of obesity and metabolic disease lies in understanding the biochemical and physiological effects of our increased consumption of sugar, and offers his recommendations for how to address these problems. Robert Lustig describes how increased consumption of sugar has paralleled a steep rise in obesity and metabolic disease (diabetes, heart disease, cancer and dementia) over the last thirty years, amid dietary recommendations to eat less fat and cholesterol (and therefore more carbohydrates). In this 2012 full-length book follow-up to his 2009 YouTube sensation, Sugar: The Bitter Truth, Dr. Nourishing Traditional Diets with Sally Fallon Morellįat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity and Disease. ![]() ![]() Before long, she joins the boys at school in a bet to steal from the Widow Douglas, and Becky convinces her new best friend, Amy Lawrence, to join her. With her Mama frozen in grief and her Daddy busy as town judge, Becky spends much of her time on her own, getting into mischief. Tom Sawyer's and Huckleberry Finn's adventures are legendary, but what about the story you haven't heard? In 1860, eleven-year-old Becky Thatcher is the new girl in town, determined to have adventures like she promised her brother Jon before he died. ![]() Read full overviewīecky Thatcher has her side of the story to tell-and it's a whopper-in this creative spin on Mark Twain's beloved "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," complete with illustrations, that "Publishers Weekly "calls "a rewarding read on many levels" (starred review). ![]() ![]() Becky Thatcher has her side of the story to tell-and it's a whopper-in this creative spin on Mark Twain's beloved "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," complete with illustrations, that "Publishers Weekly "calls "a rewarding read on many levels" (starred. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the novels bulk quickly surrenders to its comfortable pace and the picturesque scenes of California’s Salinas Valley and the rural farmlands of pre-WWI Connecticut. Steinbeck underpins these with biblical references from the Book of Genesis, specifically the story of Cain and Abel, both alluded to and direct. Weighing in at just over 700 pages, Steinbeck’s 1952 work details the interwoven stories of two families as they grapple with life's greatest ambiguities including morality, sacrifice, love, acceptance, forgiveness, pride and mortality. It is without doubt that John Steinbeck’s East of Eden is a daunting novel to undertake simply due to its sheer size. ![]() ![]() The book begins from the reign of Jahangir, Dara Shukoh’s grandfather and also the time when the princes Khurram (later Shah Jahan), Parvez and Shahryr began competing for the Mughal throne. The newest biography of the Mughal-era personality by Supriya Gandhi, The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India (Belknap Press, Harvard University Press), is an excellent attempt at uncovering these hidden aspects of the life of Dara Shukoh while placing him in the context of seventeenth century Mughal India. ![]() ![]() As the figure of Dara is inscribed with modern labels of liberal and secular, the nuances and complexities in the personality of Shah Jahan’s eldest son remain hidden. In the case of Dara, he finds appeal even among Hindu nationalists. Dara Shukoh, along with Akbar, remains among the two well-loved personalities of Mughal India. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Martian's Regress is a brilliant, provocative, often darkly comic work that explores what a fragile environment eventually makes of those who persist in tampering with it. This is the story of what life becomes when stripped of all that makes it worth living - of what humans become when they lose their humanity. Cut off from his people, the martian's story is that of the individual: his duty at odds with his desire the race of which he's still a part playing always on his mind, as well as the race that once was. During this journey back to the now-broken and long-abandoned mother planet, the martian begins to consider his own uncertain origins, and his own future. He leaves behind him a hardened survivalist culture, its muddled myths and songs, its continued abuse of the environment that sustains it. **SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE 2020** From the winner of the Costa Poetry Award A lone martian returns to Earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But one region has festered for decades: Europe, whose despots and monarchs can barely contain the simmering anger of their people. Liberal, tolerant, and above all rich, the countries and cultures of North Africa and the Middle East have dominated the globe for centuries, from the Far East to the young nations of the Sunset Lands. Senior investigator Khalid al-Zarzisi is a modern man, a product of the unsurpassed educational systems of North Africa and the Middle East. *io9's New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books You Need to Put On Your Radar This Fall From the modern master of alternate history and New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove, Through Darkest Europe envisions a world dominated by a prosperous and democratic Middle East-and under threat from the world's worst trouble spot. ![]() ![]() ![]() If an unbeliever, he will attribute his safety to chance. Of the thing that sustains him through trials, man has no inkling, much less knowledge, at the time. ![]() Though I had acquired a nodding acquaintance with Hinduism and other religions of the world, I should have known that it would not be enough to save me in my trails. 20th chapter from the first part ‘Nirbal Ke Bal Rama’ Nirbal Ke Bal Rama – 20th Chapter of The Story of My Experiments with Truth Designated as one of the “100 Best Spiritual Books of the 20th Century” by a committee of global spiritual and religious authorities is divided into five parts. It’s English translation ‘The Story of My Experiments with Truth’ also appeared in installments in his other journal Young India. Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography was Originally written in Gujrati with the title ‘Satya Na Prayogo athva Atmakatha’ and was published in weekly installments in his journal Navjivan from 1925 to 1929. Read the 20th Chapter from the first part ‘Nirbal Ke Bal Rama’ ![]() ![]() ![]() In the Midst of Winter will stay with you long after you turn the final page. These three very different people are brought together in a mesmerizing story that moves from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil, sparking the beginning of a long overdue love story between Richard and Lucia.Įxploring the timely issues of human rights and the plight of immigrants and refugees, the book recalls Allende’s landmark novel The House of the Spirits in the way it embraces the cause of “humanity, and it does so with passion, humor, and wisdom that transcend politics” (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post). ![]() At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucía Maraz-a 62-year- old lecturer from Chile-for her advice. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor’s house seeking help. ![]() Richard Bowmaster-a 60-year- old human rights scholar-hits the car of Evelyn Ortega-a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala-in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident-which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. ![]() New York Times and worldwide bestselling author Isabel Allende. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first chapter of 1Q84 had also been read as an excerpt in the Selected Shorts series at Symphony Space in New York. An excerpt from the novel appeared in the Septemissue of The New Yorker magazine as "Town of Cats". The English-language edition of all three volumes, with the first two volumes translated by Jay Rubin and the third by Philip Gabriel, was released in North America and the United Kingdom on October 25, 2011. The novel's first printing sold out on the day it was released and sales reached a million within a month. She is quickly caught up in a plot involving Sakigake, a religious cult, and her childhood love, Tengo, and embarks on a journey to discover what is "real". The novel is a story of how a woman named Aomame begins to notice strange changes occurring in the world. It covers a fictionalized year of 1984 in parallel with a "real" one. ![]() United States edition of 1Q84, first published in the United States in 2011 by Knopf.ġQ84 ( いちきゅうはちよん, Ichi-Kyū-Hachi-Yon, stylized in the Japanese cover as "ichi-kew-hachi-yon") is a novel written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, first published in three volumes in Japan in 2009–10. ![]() |