В интернет-магазине нашего партнера вы можете купить и прочитать книгу в бумажном варианте. During Chinas infamous Tang Dynasty, a time awash with luxury yet littered with deadly intrigues and fallen royalty, betrayed Princess Ai Li flees before her wedding.Miles from home, with only her delicate butterfly swords for defence, she enlists the reluctant protection of a blue-eyed warrior. Ai Li’s innocent trust in him and honourable, stubborn nature make him desperate to protect her – which means not seducing the first woman he has ever truly wanted…‘If Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon merged with A Knight’s Tale, you’d have the power and romance of Lin’s dynamic debut.’ – RT BOOK Reviews Произведение относится к жанру Историческая литература. Miles from home, with only her delicate butterfly swords for a defence, she enlists the reluctant protection of a blue-eyed warrior…Embittered barbarian Ryam has always held his own life at cheap value. JOURNEY TO THE VERY EDGE OF HONOUR, LOYALTY…AND LOVEDuring China’s infamous Tang Dynasty – a time awash with luxury, yet littered with deadly intrigues and fallen royalty – betrayed Princess Ai Li flees before her wedding.
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When Marie-Louise, the eighteen year old daughter of the King of Austria, is told that the Emperor has demanded her hand in marriage, her father presents her with a terrible choice: marry the cruel, capricious Napoleon, leaving the man she loves and her home forever, or say no, and plunge her country into war. National bestselling author Michelle Moran returns to Paris, this time under the rule of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte as he casts aside his beautiful wife to marry a Hapsburg princess he hopes will bear him a royal heir.Īfter the bloody French Revolution, Emperor Napoleon’s power is absolute. By exploiting quantum states, real-world Microsoft eventually hopes to create software that can be used just once.īut a successful novel needs more than just a smattering of gee-whiz tech, which is why Timeline isn't as compelling as some of his earlier books. Still-hypothetical quantum computers could penetrate modern encryption algorithms nearly instantaneously. 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The Midnight Gang tells an extraordinarily heartwarming and, of course, funny story of five children on a hospital ward – and on a quest for adventure! It is a story of friendship and magic – and of making dreams come true. Things go from bad to worse when he meets the wicked matron in charge of the children’s ward… But Tom is about to embark on the most thrilling journey of a lifetime! When Tom gets hit on the head by a cricket ball, he finds himself at Lord Funt Hospital, and is greeted by a terrifying-looking porter. That is when their adventures are just beginning… Description Welcome to the Midnight Gang! Midnight is the time when all children are fast asleep, except of course for… the Midnight Gang. To fulfill her vision, Lavinia turned to Mabel Loomis Todd, the vivacious young wife of an Amherst College professor. Susan did not pursue publication quickly enough for Lavinia, and Higginson was otherwise occupied. Lavinia approached two of the poet’s friends–sister-in-law Susan Dickinson and mentor Thomas Wentworth Higginson–for help. She later wrote: “I have had a ‘Joan of Arc’ feeling about Emilies poems from the first” (Letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, December 23, 1890, as quoted in Bingham, p. Yet their sometimes competing contributions affirmed the vitality of Dickinson’s verse and ensured its immortality.Īfter discovering hundreds of Emily’s poems shortly after her death, the poet’s sister Lavinia resolved that the poetry must be published. None of the principal characters, all of whom had personal connections to the poet, ever expected to be involved in such an effort. What was done with them, how Dickinson went from unknown to internationally-famous poet, is a story fraught with emotional intensity, differing loyalties, and personal sacrifice. “The Single Hound, Poems of a Lifetime” (left) by Emily Dickinson, edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi, and “Poems” (right) by Emily Dickinson edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson |