Best historical fiction book of 2023 - Bjørn Larssen, blogger at Queen’s Book Asylum⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'So good I read it twice,' Lesley Walters, goodreadsShortlisted for the 2022 Selfies Award and the 2022 Chaucer Award; Quarter-Finalist in The Booklife Prize.Loyalty has a price the children payIn the twilight of the old gods, when the last Vikings rule the seas, two cursed orphan...

The term bastard has followed Daivi "Dove" Wright since birth.Running a bookstore that doubles as a mafia front isn't every twenty-eight-year-old's dream, but it's the closest Dove can get to normalcy as a mafia princess. It shouldn't matter that her only source of happiness is still under her family's control. Or that her mother is barely talking to her, and that her only friend seems to be her brother-in-law. So why is she still surprised when she's ordered to marry Will Marlowe,...

Tania Paget bitterly resented Frenchman Claude Girard, who had survived an tragic mountaineering accident, while her brother, James, had not. Then, astonishingly, Claude asked for her co-operation on a book about the two men's mountaineering exploits. Tania finally agreed, but it meant living in the family chateau in the Pyrenees for six months. As she got to know Claude, Tania begins to understand the male fascination with mountains. When Claude's own life was in danger, she discovered th...

“People experience a myth as the truth, in metaphor form, for themselves,” says psychiatrist and author Jean Bolen. Her book Ring of Power (HarperSanFrancisco 1992) describes the truths that Wagner’s great mythical Ring cycle of operas shows us about personal family situations and world politics. The parallels are fascinating and compelling.

In the tumultuous era of the 6th century, a beacon of spirituality emerged from the ruins of the Roman Empire. Saint Benedict, a man of profound faith and wisdom, founded the Benedictine Order, a monastic community that would shape the course of Western civilization. This unabridged biography by Frances Alice Forbes delves into the life and teachings of this extraordinary saint. From his humble beginnings as a young hermit to his role as a revered spiritual guide, Forbes paints a vivid por...

Combined with the second book of this mini-series "Management of Positive Patch Test Reactions", the text gives a comprehensive account on all matters involved when treating patients with allergic skin problems. It is intended to be a cook book for daily dermatological practise. It provides an updated standardized version on patch testing and prick testing procedures. The different techniques, the visual scoring and the pitfalls interpreting positive and/or negative results are covered in ...

Dianora Devlin was on her first interstellar archaeological expedition since graduating from college when she made an incredible find – a gorgeous alien ring, one of the few artifacts of a long-vanished civilization. Unfortunately she yielded to the temptation to try the ring on and nothing was ever the same in her life thereafter. The ring had a will of its own and was determined to plunge her into a life of adventure and unexpected romance with a man from the planet’s ancient past.

Le gardien de but de « L'Étoile Verte » :Pierre Duroc, gardien de but de « L’Étoile Verte » maintes fois sélectionné dans l’équipe de France de football, semble préoccupé à l’entraînement.L’homme est exceptionnellement taciturne, ce qui inquiète son entraîneur qui compte sur lui pour un match capital programmé.Aussi, quand le lendemain, le portier est absent à la préparation, son coach vient aux nouvelles et apprend que son meilleur joueur ...

This volume of eight essays written by French scholars analyzes Daniel Mendelsohn's first three volumes of nonfiction (The Elusive Embrace, 1999; The Lost, 2006; and An Odyssey, 2017) and includes an illustrated interview (2019) in which Mendelsohn tackles various aspects of his work as a literary and cultural critic, as a professor of classical literature, as a translator, and as a memoirist. The essay discussing The Elusive Embrace (1999) argues that, in addition to offering a subtle ref...

This monograph is the first book-length treatment of valuation theory on finite-dimensional division algebras, a subject of active and substantial research over the last forty years. Its development was spurred in the last decades of the twentieth century by important advances such as Amitsur's construction of non crossed products and Platonov's solution of the Tannaka-Artin problem.This study is particularly timely because it approaches the subject from the perspective of associat...

Presents the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Commutative Ring Theory in Fes, Morocco. The text details developments in commutative algebra, highlighting the theory of rings and ideals. It explores commutative algebra's connections with and applications to topological algebra and algebraic geometry.

Heather Fox is a psychologist who comes to an Amish town in order to counsel a young girl who witnessed a murder. Heather cannot help but have more than just a professional interest in the little girl who has become withdrawn from the trauma and her single father, the Amish Michael Miller. She has never been a woman of faith but becomes strangely drawn to the Amish customs and beliefs. But when the case takes a dangerous turn, they both find themselves clinging to one another, becoming clo...