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"The story of Languoreth, Queen of Cadzow, who lived in sixth century Scotland and came of age at a time when invading Anglo-Saxon forces and the rise of Christianity threatened to change her way of life forever. Together with her twin brother Lailoken, destined to be a Wisdom Keeper and eventually known to history as Merlin, she is catapulted into a world of danger and violence. War brings the warriors of Emrys, the Dragon Warrior or Pen Dragon,...
2) Lost Queen
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No princess is guaranteed a happy ending. We have to fight for it.
The Blood Fae infiltrate my lands, seeking to take over the Four Kingdoms. Their high leader wants my brother dead... and because her body is decaying, she wants to wear me as her new second skin.
I'm not in the mood to be turned into a coat, or to bury my brother. I just saved him and united my males. I intend to enjoy this new life of mine and these four handsome, exasperating...
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"The story continues in The Forgotten Kingdom, the second book in the epic Lost Queen trilogy, already hailed as "Outlander meets Camelot" (Kirsty Logan, author of Things We Say in the Dark) and "The Mists of Avalon for a new generation" (Linnea Hartsuyker, author of The Golden Wolf). AD 573. Imprisoned in her chamber, Languoreth awaits news in torment. Her husband and son have ridden off to wage war against her brother, Lailoken. She doesn't yet...
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Faerie path volume 2
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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After discovering her true identity as Princess Tania of the Faerie Realm, a sixteen-year-old British girl returns to the Mortal World, in search of her mother, Queen Titania, who disappeared 500 years ago.
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For fans of books like THE READERS OF BROKEN WHEEL RECOMMEND, a feel-good story of going home again to get things right. Crocker County crowns a new Corn Queen every year, but Jane Willow's the one you would remember. She can't forget Iowa, either. Even though she fled to LA to become a film critic years ago, home was always there behind her. But when a family tragedy happens, she's forced to drive back to Crocker County. The rolling farmlands can't...
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Now you Seelie, Now you don't.Layanna Fairling hasn't come all the way across the land to be trapped in Dragonscale. Using her wits, and her new found shape-shifting ability, Layanna and her team get free of a second tyrant king.With the dragons by her side, the lost queen must make her way back to Althea. She has been gone longer than expected, allowing King Jordeek and the shroud, to reign over the land. Will Layanna defeat Jordeek before the shroud...
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Layanna Fairling cannot hide, she cannot stop, she must keep going. Dragonscale, the land that floats in the sky, awaits her arrival.The fae are amassing for their Lost Queen as she journeys to persuade the King of Dragons to help her overthrow the false King. When Layanna and her protectors arrive at the Northern Sea, they must agree to aid the mermaid who will help them to cross the treacherous waters. Will they lure a human to his death in order...
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Once a human, now a fae princess, destined to be queen.Layanna Fairling has never belonged to her village, and yet, when it's threatened by a tyrant who wants her dead, she knows she has to protect it.Three mysterious strangers who claim Layanna is a changeling and future ruler of the Seelie Court arrive to aid her. They also claim that the only way of saving her village is by overthrowing the Unseelie tyrant who inherited the throne from his evil...
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A look at the tragically short life of the only daughter of Britain's King George IV who won the heart of a nation.
As the only child of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick, Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817) was the heiress presumptive to the throne. Her parents' marriage had already broken up by the time she was born. She had a difficult childhood and a turbulent adolescence, but she was popular with the public, who looked to her to...
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S erena Gelsomino is about to attend her first courting, hopefully her only. She is shocked to discover she is being taken to a yellow ceremony. Does this mean her caretaker had not lied to her? She was a true orphan, not an abandoned fiorriee? The moment she slips into her yellow dress, questions about her true identity take her on a whirlwind of discovery. Will her limited knowledge of her own identity wind-up killing her? Will she be able to survive...
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Hell hath no Wraith...
Told from the point of view of the Wraith, this novella sees the Atlantis team called upon to help find a missing Wraith queen, lost on a plague-ridden world. But, the shifting tides of trust and mistrust among the Wraith and between the Lanteans and their tentative allies threatens to jeopardize the entire mission, and the nascent alliance between the Wraith and Atlantis.
This novella is set after the STARGATE ATLANTIS Legacy...
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Can you miss someone you never knew?
Zandria and Olena's mother has been missing for the past six years. In many ways, it's like they never knew her at all. The pain of their loss is realized the night after the great battle. Zandria discovers a hidden crystal imprisoning their missing mother.
This discovery sends Zandria on a new quest, while Adam leads a rescue mission of his own. However, the wicked ringleader of the Carnivale Chaotica, Raymond...
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There is a saying in Cambodia: Music is the soul of a nation. Perhaps no one embodied that spirit more than Ros Serey Sothea, a young woman who would forever change the landscape of Cambodian music as the Queen with the Golden Voice.
From a humble rice farmer to nationally recognized singer, Sothea's success captured the hearts of the Khmer people. As the Cambodian civil war raged, her career continued to flourish until the communist Khmer Rouge...
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The New York Times–bestselling author delivers “a riveting saga about Big Sugar flexing its imperialist muscle in Hawaii . . . A real gem of a book” (Douglas Brinkley, author of American Moonshot).
Deftly weaving together a memorable cast of characters, Lost Kingdom brings to life the clash between a vulnerable Polynesian people and relentlessly expanding capitalist...
Deftly weaving together a memorable cast of characters, Lost Kingdom brings to life the clash between a vulnerable Polynesian people and relentlessly expanding capitalist...
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Wrenched from a simple life for her beauty, Esther finds herself at the mercy of King Xerxes. Leaving behind her only relative, her cousin Mordecai, and her first true love, Cyrus, she is thrown headlong into the unrestrained extravagance of palace living.
Quick of mind and strong in spirit, Esther refuses to suffer the fate of her harem sisters and boldly challenges Xerxes to give of his heart before taking his pleasure, thus sealing her place beside...
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Flora McTavish was born the same year as Queen Victoria and as the Queen's undermaid is the perfect person to comment on life above and below the stairs in Victorian times. 'VICTORIAN SCANDAL' Scrubber tells all. Newly discovered diaries reveal rather more than should be seen or heard of Queen Victoria! Astonishing details of Victorian life from above and below stairs, faithfully recorded by one of HMQ's faithful servants. • Incredible inventions...
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THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF SYLVIA BROOKE, THE LAST WHITE RULER OF THE JUNGLE KINGDOM OF BORNEO
Sylvia Brooke was one of the more exotic and outrageous figures of the twentieth century. Otherwise known as the Ranee of Sarawak, she was the wife of Sir Vyner Brooke, the last White Rajah, whose family had ruled the jungle kingdom of Sarawak on Borneo for three generations. They had their own flag, revenue, postage stamps, and money, as well as the power...
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What saves us as children through the dark confusion of loss and abuse? What offers us light and rescue as we live past the memory of betrayal and regret? In Queen of the Leaves, Kay Harkins illuminates the gifts that lift us from despair: music, friendship, and divine love. With empathy, humor, and eyes to see the path of forgiveness through the thicket of human frailty, she offers a lost and found adventure that turns pain into hope.
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When the documentary “Bettie Page Reveals All” was released in 2013, it would have been easy to assume we would never again hear directly from the adored icon. After all, the film is narrated by Bettie Mae Page herself, and she spills on lots of subjects that she had previously kept private—even in her authorized biography—though she does maintain her own decades-long, no-photos rule in the movie. She loathed the effects of aging, said it...