High in the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There he finds the intense comradeship of war. And there he finds Maria who has escaped from Franco’s rebels.
With the same riveting historical narrative that made The Kitchen Boy a national bestseller and a book-club favorite, Robert Alexander returns to revolutionary Russia for the harrowing tale of Rasputin's final days as told by his youthful and bold daughter, Maria. Interrogated by the provisional government on the details of her father's death,
Most often studies of major artists and the women in their lives consist of a string of love affairs that punctuate or accompany a professional career that remains separate from these female entanglements. It is noteworthy that Maria Ignatieva is concerned with the professional, not romantic aspect of Stanislavsky’s relations with women. The focus is on both Stanislavsky and the women, who in every case are regarded primarily as artists. His role in their careers is evenly balanced by their role in his career.
Loyal in Love - Henrietta Maria, Wife of Charles I
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 5 January 2012
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Loyal in Love - Henrietta Maria, Wife of Charles I
The daughter of Henry IV of France, Princess Henrietta Maria, becomes a pawn in a political strategy to stabilize relations between two countries when her father marries her to Charles I of England. Sent abroad, she finds herself living in a Protestant country that views her own faith—Catholicism—with deep suspicion.
Pedro is ugly, so ugly that he has been mistakenly identified as El Chupacabra. In the town of Santa Maria all animals are welcome and free. But from the mountains, the lizard king and his gang raid the town of precious supplies. In their hour of need the town turn to a hero, a hero whose name will strike fear in to all that hear it. Will Pedro save Santa Maria? Or will the truth be told?
