She was also well connected to the Castilian royal family, by illegitimate descent. Her family descended both from the Galician and Portuguese nobilities. Inês was the natural daughter of Pedro Fernández de Castro, Lord of Lemos and Sarria, and his noble Portuguese mistress Aldonça Lourenço de Valadares. The dramatic circumstances of her relationship with Pedro (at the time Prince of Portugal), which was forbidden by his father King Afonso IV, her murder at the orders of Afonso, Pedro's bloody revenge on her killers, and the legend of the coronation of her exhumed corpse by Pedro, have made Inês de Castro a frequent subject of art, music, and drama through the ages. Inês de Castro ( Portuguese pronunciation: in Castilian: Inés 1325 – 7 January 1355) was a Galician noblewoman and courtier, best known as lover and posthumously-recognized wife of King Pedro I of Portugal.
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In the "Avaryan Rising" series, Tarr's historical erudition is less explicit. Many critics reacted positively to Tarr's mix of history, romance, and fantasy: "Tarr provides loving detail to each characterization, subplot, image, and interaction-her craft is exceptional," Day concluded. The Golden Horn finds him and his immortal lover Thea in the city of Constantinople, which is besieged by Crusaders, while The Hounds of God places Alfred as chancellor of the kingdom of Rhiyana, where the few surviving immortals are under attack by the Inquisition. In The Isle of Glass, Alfred is sent on an important mission to the Crusader king, Richard I of England. Because of his ancestry, Alfred suffers from a conflict between "his spiritual needs as a monk, his magical ability, and his physical reality as a non-human," explained Phyllis J. Alfred was abandoned at birth, as many unwanted children were in ancient and medieval times, and was raised in a monastery as an oblate. Tarr's "Hound and the Falcon" fantasy series, consisting of The Isle of Glass, The Golden Horn, and The Hounds of God, traces the adventures of Alfred, an immortal of unknown origins. She then worked as a children's book editor in Bath, where she was also part of the team that established the Bath Festival of Children's Literature. After leaving school she went to university and gained a degree in Philosophy. She's determined not to let another ghost get the better of her, but she might not have any choice in the matter.ĪBOUT THE AUTHOREleanor Hawken spent her teenage years at boarding school, where there was many an opportunity to tell ghost stories by torchlight. Helped by the rather hunky Nate (not that Suzy's letting herself get distracted, of course) Suzy sets out to discover exactly what happened to this girl. Is the girl real - or something altogether more sinister? Things like a mysterious grey girl running towards the abandoned boathouse in the dead of the night. Almost as soon as she arrives Suzy begins to feel watched, and she starts to see strange things. Unfortunately, that quickly looks unlikely. Poor Suzy thought she'd never get over the terrifying events from her time at St Marks, but she's resolved to put all thoughts of ghosts and murders (and school.) behind her as she sets off to stay in her aunt's country estate for the summer. A gripping, spooky sequel to THE BLUE LADY I suspect that the study offered other perks of monitoring and treatment which had led my mother, who loved freebies of all kinds, to insist that my father volunteer for it. Some years before he died, my father had participated in a study of memory and aging at Washington University, and one of the perks for participants was a post-mortem brain autopsy, free of charge. I remember putting the report back into its envelope without reading any further. I remember translating grams into pounds and pounds into the familiar shrink-wrapped equivalents in a supermarket meat case. The brain (it began) weighed 1,255 gm and showed parasagittal atrophy with sulcal widening. I remember leaving the candy, the card, and the ornament in my living room, taking the autopsy report into my bedroom, and sitting down to read it. I remember the bright-gray winter light that morning. Goodbars, one hollow red filigree heart on a loop of thread, and one copy of a neuropathologist’s report on my father’s brain autopsy. Louis, a Valentine’s package containing one pinkly romantic greeting card, two four-ounce Mr. On an overcast morning in February, 1996, I received in the mail from my mother, in St. According to the 1994 national census, there were 3,163 people who were identified as Mursi in the SNNPR 3,158 spoke Mursi as their first language, while 31 spoke it as their second language. Mursi is closely related (over 80% cognate) to Me'en and Suri, as well as Kwegu. It is a part of the Surmic language family. The Mursi speak the Mursi language as a mother tongue. They are grouped together with the Me'en and Suri by the Ethiopian government under the name Surma. Their neighbors include the Aari, the Banna, the Mekan, the Karo, the Kwegu, the Nyangatom and the Suri. Surrounded by mountains between the Omo River and its tributary the Mago, the home of the Mursi is one of the most isolated regions of the country. According to the 2007 national census, there are 11,500 Mursi, 848 of whom live in urban areas of the total number, 92.25% live in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region (SNNPR). They principally reside in the Debub Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region, close to the border with South Sudan. The Mursi (or Mun as they refer to themselves) are a Surmic ethnic group in Ethiopia. but a woman like Jessica is worth the fight. Winning her heart will be another matter. Powerful and confident, Slade knows he can honor his vow to protect Jessica body and soul. So it won’t be easy to convince beautiful, vulnerable Jessica that she can trust him-that from the moment she walked into his life, she’s been the only one he’s wanted. Mixed martial arts fighter Slade Martin knows he has a bad reputation. But will she ever be able to take a chance on love again with someone new? After weeks of healing from a broken rib and collapsed lung, and with Dennis behind bars, Jessica finally feels ready to come out of hiding. How could she have been so stupid? When Jessica Cross decides to give her violently jealous boyfriend-the otherwise influential and charming Dennis Stavros-a second chance, she very nearly becomes a statistic. Genre: adult, contemporary, erotic, romance, MMAĪbout the book: Release Date October 28, 2014 Full Conact / Below the Belt (Worth the Fight #2 & 3) by Sidney Halston-a review We also get a deeper look at character relationships, backgrounds, as well as even more development. I loved the second installment in the Strange Angels series! In the book we get to delve deeper in the world of the paranormal that Dru is surrounded by. This time around the novel is set in the Schola (boarding school) for dhampirs, werewolves, etc. And with all eyes on her, discovering a traitor within the Order could mean a lot more than social suicide…Ĭan Dru survive long enough to find out who has betrayed her trust-and maybe even her heart? (Description from Goodreads) A school full of cute boys wouldn’t be so bad, but Dru’s killer instinct says that one of them wants her dead. Now Dru is stuck at a secret New England Schola for other teens like her, and there’s a big problem-she’s the only girl in the place. Her parents are long gone, her best friend is a werewolf, and she’s just learned that the blood flowing through her veins isn’t entirely human. “Betrayals (Strange Angels #2)” by Lili St.Crow (2009)īook Length: 304 pages (paperback edition) Book Review” “Betrayals” (Strange Angels #2) by Lili St.Crow All Emma, Mark, and Julian have to do is solve the murders within two weeks…and before the murderer targets them. This is Emma’s chance for revenge-and Julian’s chance to get back his brother Mark, who is being held prisoner by the faerie Courts. When the bodies of humans and faeries turn up murdered in the same way Emma’s parents were when she was a child, an uneasy alliance is formed. Shoulder to shoulder with her parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, she patrols the streets of Los Angeles, where vampires party on the Sunset Strip, and faeries-the most powerful of supernatural creatures-teeter on the edge of open war with Shadowhunters. Parabatai can be everything to each other-but they can never fall in love.Įmma Carstairs is a warrior, a Shadowhunter, and the best in her generation. In a secret world where half-angel warriors are sworn to fight demons, parabatai is a sacred word.Ī parabatai is your partner in battle. This book is essential reading for both students and scholars of the medieval world. A detailed glossary offers readers a helpful vocabulary of the subject. But he also wrote scholarly monographs, on Edmund of Abingdon and Adam Marsh. We are shown, for instance, the controversy between the Benedictines and the reformed monasticism of the twelfth century and the problems that confronted women in religious life. (Hugh) Lawrence (19212018) was, perhaps, best known for his brilliant general survey Medieval Monasticism which was first published in 1984 and has gone into four editions and is still in print. In this book many of them, together with their supporters and critics, are presented to us and speak their minds to us. For a thousand years, the great monastic houses and religious orders were a prominent feature of the social landscape of the West, and their leaders figured as much in the political as on the spiritual map of the medieval world. Hugh Lawrence explores the many sided relationship between monasteries and the secular world around them. Medieval Monasticism traces the Western Monastic tradition from its fourth century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria, through the many and varied forms of religious life it assumed during the Middle Ages. According to Read Geek, legendary editor Ursula Nordstrom suggested a rewrite of the ending to Brown, who later added the final line: "' Have a carrot,' said the mother bunny." Can you imagine the story without this ending? It perfectly wraps up the story and brings it back to reality with a little common sense from mom. The original ending of The Runaway Bunny was a little different from the story as it stands today. But The Runaway Bunny's editor also had a huge impact on the book's final outcome. And illustrator Clement Hurd also provided the art for Goodnight Moon, as well as other children's works such as The World is Round (written by Gertrude Stein). The runaway Bunny ( English Story) - Story For Kid Smile Kids 32K views 5 years ago The Runaway Bunny - (Read Aloud) STORYTIME with REGINALD 4. Margaret Wise Brown also wrote Goodnight Moon and My World her name is forever synonymous with children's literature. We’ll be doing a unit on The Runaway Bunny this fall, so these printables were created as a go-along to use with the book. I love Margaret Wise Brown’s books and this one is no exception. So the author and illustrator of The Runaway Bunny are both pretty well known. The Runaway Bunny is one of those books that will stay on our bookshelf even after the kids are ‘too big’ for the story. But even if you've read the story a thousand times, there's probably one thing you never knew about The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd. This sweet story of a little bunny who daydreams about running away and turning into a fish, bird, and sailboat, among other things, has long been a favorite of readers everywhere. Generations of children have settled down for bed time with a lovely reading of The Runaway Bunny. |