![]() I have to say that when I first received this book to review that I wasn’t that hopeful. With the help of the Duke’s Military engineer, Leonardo di Vinci they must investigate a series of gruesome murders that involves witches, sex, some of the most powerful men in Italy and a deranged killer who seems to take delight in taunting them.Ĭan Leonardo’s new science of observation and Niccolo’s ‘science of men’ help unravel the mystery and bring the killer to justice? In the midst of this murky and dangerous situation, Damiata enlists the help of a young Florentine diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli. These mercenary armies are bringing terror and despair to Italy and they are intent on maintaining their positions but the Duke is equally determined to destroy their power and build a new Italy. ![]() Traveling across a war torn Italy, she finds herself in the middle of a power struggle between the Pope’s son, the Duke of Valentino and the leaders of the Condottieri. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() PEN, Authors League of America, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Founding member, Ashawagh Hall Writers' Workshop, Ashawagh, NY, 1982. Volunteer writing teacher at Commercial Manhattan Central High, 1968. Dutton (publisher), New York, NY, assistant file clerk, 1949-50 freelance writer, 1949. Agent-Eugene Winick, McIntosh & Otis, Inc, 475 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10017. Education: Attended Vermont Junior College University of Missouri, Columbia, B.A, 1949 Southampton College, Ph.D., 1996 attended New School for Social Research. Meaker, Marijane Agnes Meaker, Vin Packer) PERSONAL:īorn May 27, 1927, in Auburn, NY daughter of Ellis R. Meaker, Marijane 1927- (Ann Aldrich, Mary James, M.E. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Armen leaves Aleppo and travels south into Egypt to join the British army, he begins to write Elizabeth letters, and comes to realize that he has fallen in love with the wealthy, young American woman who is so different from the wife he lost.įast forward to the present day, where we meet Laura Petrosian, a novelist living in suburban New York. There Elizabeth becomes friendly with Armen, a young Armenian engineer who has already lost his wife and infant daughter. The year is 1915 and she has volunteered on behalf of the Boston-based Friends of Armenia to help deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the Armenian genocide. When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Aleppo, Syria she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language. The Sandcastle Girls is a sweeping historical love story steeped in Chris Bohjalian's Armenian heritage. ![]() ![]() Observing the banter between Cindy Sampson and Jason Priestley is every bit as entertaining as watching their on-screen characters, Angie Everett and Matt Shade, trade barbs on the Toronto-based detective series. Seven days later would see the season premiere of their hit detective series Private Eyes. “I’m going to visit my cousins, and I’m so excited,” she said.Īt this point Jason Priestley, from his home in Nashville, asks both of us via Zoom if the maritime bubble is still going on to which Sampson, his good friend and co-star answers It just opened on June 30th, the day of our interview. She was planning to drive from Toronto through New Brunswick to her home in Nova Scotia, which she hadn’t been to in a year and a half because of COVID-19. 15 Edition of The Newfoundland HeraldĬindy Sampson had reason to be excited the day this interview took place. ![]() ![]() Cyndi Sampson and Jason Priestley in Private Eyes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By some miracle Audrey had started first time, and I hummed as I drove along the country lanes lined with jaunty daffodils to Whellerby Hall.When I arrived at the site, Frank, the lugubrious foreman, had even smiled-a first. All rights reserved.I was having a good day until George Challoner turned up.It had rained almost every day since I had arrived in Yorkshire, but that morning I woke to a bright, breezy day. If you’d like to know more about Jessica, visit her website: Excerpt. She eventually stumbled into writing as a way of funding a PhD in medieval history, but was quickly hooked on romance and is now a full-time author based in York. Maybe her little sister's wedding won't be the only one Frith's planning…?About the AuthorJessica Hart had a haphazard early career that took her around the world in a variety of interesting but very lowly jobs, all of which have provided inspiration on which to draw when it comes to the settings and plots of her stories. ![]() She's used to construction sites, not wedding fairs! But estate manager George Challoner's offer of help is one that's too good to resist.George may be the rebel of the prestigious Challoner family, but his insanely good looks are giving Frith wedding fever! Charm personified, he's making her feel things she hasn't dared feel before. Planning the most talked about wedding of the year is enough to make engineer Frith Taylor break out in a cold sweat. ![]() ![]() But her name is Adelia-the king has been sent a "mistress" of the art of death. The Italian doctor chosen for the task is a young prodigy from the University of Salerno. Hoping scientific investigation will exonerate the Jews, Henry calls on his cousin the King of Sicily-whose subjects include the best medical experts in Europe-and asks for his finest "master of the art of death," an early version of the medical examiner. Without the taxes received from Jewish merchants, his treasuries would go bankrupt. King Henry II is no friend of the Jews-or anyone, really-but he is invested in their fate. To save them from the rioting mob, the king places the Cambridge Jews under his protection and hides them in a castle fortress. ![]() The crimes are immediately blamed on the town's Jewish community, taken as evidence that Jews sacrifice Christian children in blasphemous ceremonies. In medieval Cambridge, England, four children have been murdered. ![]() A chilling, mesmerizing novel that combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the detail and drama of historical fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pretend that it's a song 'cause forever it's yoursĪnd now there's nothing to do but tear my voice apart So I'll try to write and fill the pen with blood from the sinkīut don't just say it, you should sing my name My love for you was bulletproof but you're the one who shot meĪnd God damn it, I can barely say your name I wanna hold your hand so tight I'm gonna break my wristĪnd when the vultures sing tonight I'm gonna join right inīy the time you're hearing this I'll already be goneĪnd now there's nothing to do but scream at the drunken moon Will never leave my lips again under the blinding rain You've gone and sewn me to this bed, the taste of you and me In the sunset turning red behind the smoke ![]() So darling, don't, don't wake me up, 'cause my thrill is gone It was the best time of my life, but now I sleep alone We used to laugh until we choked into the wasted nights I breathe you in with smoke in the backyard lights ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet for them, as for so many, life will never be the same again. ![]() ![]() Longlisted for the Booker Prize ‘Deeply humane and acutely truthful’ Peter Kemp, Sunday Times After the upheavals of the Second World War, the Richardson family - Sam, Ellen and their young son Joe - settle back to working-class life in the Cumbrian town of Wigton. This is a highly accomplished novel’ D.J. Utterly credible, utterly compelling, and very enjoyable’ Allan Massie, Scotsman ‘Deeply felt, beautifully realised’ John Sutherland, Sunday Times ‘The first Great War came alive in Faulks’s Birdsong the second Great War, and in particular the Burma campaign, comes very much alive in Melvyn Bragg’s The Soldier’s Return wholly absorbing’ John Bayley, Evening Standard ‘Sympathetic, touching, infinitely believable… As all three strive to adjust, the bonds of loyalty and love are stretched to breaking point in this taut, and profoundly moving novel. In addition, his six year old son now barely remembers him, and his wife has gained a sense of independence from her wartime jobs. ![]() But the war has changed him, broadening his horizons as well as leaving him with traumatic memories. ‘Unsentimental, truthful and wonderful’ Beryl Bainbridge, Independent Books of the Year When Sam Richardson returns in 1946 from the ‘Forgotten War’ in Burma to Wigton in Cumbria, he finds the town little changed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tiphaine successfully kills the knight and flees the scene even though she is ambushed by the Rangers. ![]() ![]() Sandra sends Tiphaine to kill the knight so he cannot be used as evidence against the PPA. Sandra Arminger and her servant/ assassin Tiphaine also travel to Corvallis to speak in defense of the PPA. Meanwhile, the Dunedain Rangers have captured a major knight of the PPA leading a band of raiders into their territory and take him to Corvallis for his trial. Mike (Lord Bear) and Signe Havel of the Bearkillers and Juniper Mackenzie of Clan Mackenzie travel to Corvallis, a neutral city-state, to convince them to join in resisting the PPA. It describes the war between the Portland Protective Association (PPA) and the other communities of the Willamette Valley. The story describes the events of roughly a year, some nine to ten years after the Change that altered the Laws of physics. It is third novel in the Emberverse series that began with Dies the Fire and continued with The Protector's War. ![]() A Meeting at Corvallis is a 2006 science fiction novel by S. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only thing more perilous than Corinne’s adventures across the sea is the foe that waits for her back home. Corinne and her friends Dru, Bouki, and Malik must travel with mermaids across the ocean to the shores of Ghana to fetch a powerful object for Mama D’Leau. But Mama D’Leau’s help comes with a price. To rescue the missing children and clear her own name, Corinne goes deep into the ocean to find Mama D’Leau, the dangerous jumbie who rules the sea. When local children begin to go missing, snatched from the beach and vanishing into wells, suspicious eyes turn to Corinne. Everyone knows Corinne is half-jumbie, and many of her neighbors treat her with mistrust. Corinne LaMer defeated the wicked jumbie Severine months ago, but things haven’t exactly gone back to normal in her Caribbean island home. ![]() |