[PDF] A Pride Of Kings eBook

Author : Colin Ellis
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 2013-12-12
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ISBN : 9781291665956

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In August 1642 Charles Stewart King of England raises his standard at Nottingham, and a bitter war starts between King and Parliament over the Divine right of Kings to rule unimpeded by commoners. Jonas Stalker, as proud and haughty as any King, fights an unjust duel that leaves his opponent bleeding on the ground and sets in motion events that will eventually tear his whole world apart. A friendship broken, a woman scorned and abandoned, and an unwanted child litter Jonas' wake as he eagerly joins the Kings war. But three years of fighting forges a changed man, a better man, and after the carnage of the Battle of Naseby it is a different Stalker that finds a true love at last with a beautiful woman. But standing before their happiness is the brutal spectre of Jonaspast, and a savage revenge too cruel to endure. A turbulent story set against the backdrop of the English civil war that portrays two peoples journey to love, against all the odds!

Author : R. Eric Thomas
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 43,91 MB
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0593326202

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"Infused with all the joy of the best teen movies, Kings of B'more is sure to be a big hit." —BuzzFeed Two Black queer best friends face their last day together with an epic journey through Baltimore in this magnetic YA debut by bestselling author of Here for It, R. Eric Thomas. A 2023 Stonewall Honor Book for Young Adult Literature With junior year starting in the fall, Harrison feels like he’s on the precipice of, well, everything. Standardized testing, college, and the terrifying unknowns and looming pressures of adulthood after that—it’s like the future wants to eat him alive. Which is why Harrison is grateful that he and his best friend, Linus, will face these things together. But at the end of a shift at their summer job, Linus invites Harrison to their special spot overlooking the city to deliver devastating news: He’s moving out of state at the end of the week. To keep from completely losing it—and partially inspired by a cheesy movie-night pick by his dad—Harrison plans a send-off à la Ferris Bueller’s Day Off that's worthy of his favorite person. If they won’t be having all the life-expanding experiences they thought they would, Harrison will squeeze them all into their last day together. They end up on a mini road trip, their first Pride, and a rooftop dance party, all while keeping their respective parents, who track them on a family location app, off their trail. Harrison and Linus make a pact to do all the things—big and small—they’ve been too scared to do. But nothing feels scarier than saying goodbye to someone you love. COVER MAY VARY.

Author : Francesco Guicciardini
Publisher : General Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 2009-08
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ISBN : 9781458921017

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES. The Roman Pontiff's, of whom the first was the Apostle Peter.?It is not certain that Peter ever visited Rome. It is certain that he never resided there, as did James at Jerusalem. A Church existed in that city, consisting of individuals who were converted at various times by various persons, previously to Paul's being conveyed thither a prisoner, on his appealing to the judgment of Caesar. We learn this from his Epistle to the Romans, and from the Acts of the Apostles; and from both, the inference is strong, that if he was not the only Apostle who entered the capital of the Roman world, he was certainly the first. His was no passing visit. For two whole years, in his own hired house, all had access to his preaching and to his instructions, whether, as inquirers after truth, they sought his presence to learn fully the doctrines of thatsect that was everywhere spoken against; or, as Christians and members of the Roman Church, they wished for his teaching, or needed his guidance in adjusting the ecclesiastical arrangements of a recently formed Christian community. Nor was this all, for he visited Rome a second time; and as he was specially ordained by the Great Head of the Church to be the Apostle for the Gentiles, a claim of ministerial descent, if made from an Apostle by the Bishop of Rome, should be made from Paul?not Peter. A consciousness of this truth is betrayed in the junction of the two, as the official progenitors of the Roman Pontiff. Though Guicciardini names but the one, Paul is called in to aid Peter in sustaining the most ambitious claims that were ever reduced to systematic domination, or ever even put forth by man. It has been remarked, that the Jews, viewed in relation to prophecy, are a standing miracle. It is equally true of the Roman Po...

Author : Judith Tarr
Publisher :
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Alternative histories (Fiction), American
ISBN : 9780739421628

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"At the coronation of the new king of England, two crowns are offered to Richard the Lionheart; the mortal and the magical. Lured by earthbound glory and driven by mortal faith, Richard spurns the pagan crown and rides off on a Crusade to reclaim a sun-scorched Jerusalem from the infidels, leaving his new kingdom defenseless in the mists." -- Back cover.

Author : James Thackara
Publisher : Overlook Books
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 2000-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781585670505

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In this electrifying grand-scale novel set on the eve of the Nazi invasion of Europe, the idyllic student life of four friends in Paris gives way to the frenzy of war.

Author : Richard Nell
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 14,92 MB
Release : 2020-08-17
Category :
ISBN :

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In the final book of the Ash and Sand trilogy, Ruka, son of Beyla, faces the emperor of the world, yet even victory may not save his people...With the death of his ally, Farahi Alaku, Ruka 'Godtongue' is alone. Or not exactly... The island prince Kale Alaku now haunts his mind, rattling within his once peaceful 'Grove', promising revenge and growing every moment in power. Meanwhile, the Pyu isles are in chaos; the coastal kingdom of the Tong is still Ruka's enemy, and every day that passes brings the empire closer to destroying his dream of a new world for his people.Once again, the son of Beyla will need the strength of his dark twin, Bukayag. Perhaps together they can unite three peoples, gather an army of ash, and defend or destroy their way to peace. But in the end, there can be only one king of heaven...

Author : Morgan Llywelyn
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 1997-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429983507

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Lion of Ireland was the breathtaking chronicle of Brian Boru, the Great King who led the bickering chiefs of Ireland to unity under his reign. He overthrew traditions, reformed society, and became the Irish Charlemagne. The Ireland of 1014 was a dream Brian Boru had dreamed and brought into being. Now, with all the fire and brilliance for which her writing is known, Morgan Llywelyn takes us there, to the battlefield where Brian died, and to Brian's fifteen-year-old son, Donough, whose mother is the voluptuous and treacherous Gormlaith, with her lust for life and power undiminished by age: Donough, the son who is determined to make the High Kingship of Brian Boru's Ireland his own. "I know he's too young, but he's all we have left," says Fergal, and thus the boy takes his first command, on the bloody ground of Clontarf. From there he must move to establish his right to rule in Kincora and to make the kings of Ireland accept him as their High King. Yet Donough is torn--torn by his hatred for his mother and by his all-consuming passion for the beautiful pagan girl Cera, who remains beyond his reach, for the High King must have a Christian consort.... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.