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A gorgeous and timely novel based on the incredible story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenged the Nazi regime during World War II as part of The White Rose, a nonviolent resistance group.
Author : Kip Wilson
Publisher : Versify
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 18,76 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1328594432
A gorgeous and timely novel based on the incredible story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenged the Nazi regime during World War II as part of The White Rose, a nonviolent resistance group.
Author : Viviana Prado-Núñez
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781999776824
It is 1957 in Marianao, a suburb of Havana. Adela Santiago is 13 years old and lives in a small blue house with her mother, father, brother, and grandfather. And yet something is amiss. The students on her street are disappearing. Not only that but her parents' marriage seems to be disintegrating and her cousin is caught up in a bombing at the Hotel Nacional. Welcome to a world where a revolution is brewing. Welcome to Cuba. An insight into what it is like to be young when bad things happen and it is not your fault.
Author : R. Garcia y Robertson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 2004-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312869940
R. Garcia y Robertson's delightful saga of time travel and romance, which began with Knight Errant and continued through Lady Robyn, grows even more irresistible as Robyn Stafford, a savvy Hollywood exec mystically transplanted to 15th century England, works overtime to secure happiness and true love amidst the fratricidal madness of the War of the Roses. Once a thoroughly modern Californian (and former Miss Rodeo Montana), Robyn has come to savor her new life as Lady Robyn of Pontefract, betrothed to the dashing young Edward Plantagenet, Earl of March, Duke of York, and heir to the English throne. Temporarily stranded back in 21st century, she wastes no time getting back to 1461, albeit with a few unexpected bumps along the way. But her troubles hardly end when she makes it back to Merrie Olde England and the arms of her beloved knight errant. War is in the air, with a rebellious Tudor army challenging Edward's forces at home, and a French invasion force gathering in the north, preparing to march on London. Having witnessed firsthand the deadly realities of medieval politics, Robyn is in no hurry to see Edward claim the throne, but, like it or not, he is the heir apparent, and Robyn must use all her wits to keep their love alive -- even if it means inventing tabloid journalism several centuries early! Look out, London! Lady Robyn has returned, so the Middle Ages had best mind its manners.
Author : David Austin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,84 MB
Release : 2012
Category : English roses
ISBN : 9781870673709
Fully illustrated, the charm of his English Roses comes across on every page, even if the reader has to imagine their scent. The Irish Garden Like its highly-respected companion in the series, Old Roses, this title draws the most useful information fr
Author : Johanny L. Vicente
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1453594000
Aspiring singer Jasmine Sanchez, hides a mysterious painful past, one who producer Andrew Williams tries to unravel and help her recover from. After recurrent dreams about white roses, Jasmine then learns shes an extraordinary dreamer who foresees fragments of futuristic events she fails to understand. Later Jasmine learns what the dreams portended and how they changed her life forever. Jasmine learns that the only way to let go of our past is by simply letting go of any rancor and understand that only a life lived for others, is worth living.
Author : Julie Garwood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 23,10 MB
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501131451
#1 New York Times bestselling queen of romance Julie Garwood offers the beloved novellas of the Clayborne brothers, now each available as a separate ebook—at an irresistible price! The Clayborne brothers are back and love is in bloom! First introduced in Julie Garwood’s magnificent New York Times bestseller For the Roses, the Clayborne brothers of Blue Belle, Montana, have been embraced by millions worldwide. In the classic One White Rose, quiet, steady Douglas Clayborne will do anything to protect a creature in need—and that includes the stubborn, beautiful, and strong-willed Isabel Grant.
Author : Shannon Taylor Vannatter
Publisher : Barbour Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628360899
Pastor Grayson Sterling loves his wife. But Sara was killed two years ago. Grayson knows that the continuing depth of his grief is not healthy. Desperate, he convinces his church to hire Mark Welch as associate pastor to relieve some of his load. When Adrea Welch arrives at church with her brother, Grayson cannot deny his attraction to her. For years, florist Adrea Welch has been arranging white roses for Sara Sterling. Now those flowers are carried to the cemetery by a grieving husband. How can Adrea be so attracted to a man still devoted to his dead wife?
Author : Eileen Chang
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141970502
There were two women in Zhenbao's life: one he called his white rose, the other his red rose. One was a spotless wife, the other a passionate mistress. Isn't that just how the average man describe a chaste widow's devotion to her husband's memory - as spotless, and passionate too? Maybe every man has had two such women - at least two. Marry a red rose and eventually she'll be a mosquito-blood streak smeared on the wall, while the white one is "moonlight in front of my bed." Marry a white rose, and before long she'll be a grain of sticky rice that's gotten stuck to your clothes; the red one, by then, is a scarlet beauty mark just over your heart. In Eileen Chang's eloquent and evocative novella, Zhenbao is a devoted son, a diligent worker, and guarded in love. But when he meets a friend's spoilt, spirited, desirable wife, he cannot resist her charms, or keep their relationship under his control. As he succumbs to passions and resentments, Red Rose, White Rose is both sensual and restrained.
Author : Desmond Seward
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1605985902
One of the most dramatic periods of British history, the Wars of the Roses didn't end at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. Despite the death of Richard III and Henry VII's victory, it continued underground into the following century with plots, pretenders and subterfuge by the ousted white rose faction. In a brand new interpretation of this turning point in history, well known historian Desmond Seward reviews the story of the Tudors' seizure of the throne and shows that for many years they were far from secure. He challenges the way we look at the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII, explaining why there were so many Yorkist pretenders and conspiracies, and why the new dynasty had such difficulty establishing itself. King Richard's nephews, the Earl of Warwick and the little known de la Pole brothers, all had support of enemies overseas, while England was split when the lowly Perkin Warbeck skilfully impersonated one of the princes in the tower in order to claim the right to the throne. Warwick's surviving sister Margaret also became the focus of hopes that the White Rose would be reborn. The book also offers a new perspective on why Henry VIII, constantly threatened by treachery, real or imagined, and desperate to secure his power with a male heir, became a tyrant.
Author : Joanna Hickson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007447027
The powerful story of Cecily Neville, torn between both sides in the War of the Roses, from the best-selling author of The Agincourt Bride.