Author: Michael Punke File Type: epub AN UNFORGETTABLE NOVEL OF REVENGE, SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIOThe year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Trapping beaver, they contend daily with the threat of Indian tribes turned warlike over the white mens encroachment on their land, and other prairie foes--like the unforgiving landscape and its creatures. Hugh Glass is among the Companys finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive.The Companys captain dispatches two of his men to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies, and to give him the respect of a proper burial. When the two men abandon him instead, taking his only means of protecting himself--including his precious gun and hatchet-- with them, Glass is driven to survive by one desire revenge.With shocking grit and determination, Glass sets out crawling inch by inch across more than three thousand miles of uncharted American frontier, negotiating predators both human and not, the threat of starvation, and the agony of his horrific wounds. In Michael Punkes hauntingly spare and gripping prose, The Revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession, the human will stretched to its limits, and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution.**

Author: Bob Mendes File Type: epub Erasmus Jacobs is een mislukkeling met een kinderlijke adoratie voor zijn ter dood veroordeelde vader. Terwijl hij in de gevangenis een straf uitzit voor smokkel van bloeddiamanten ontdekt Erasmus Jacobs het middel om in een slag mateloos rijk te worden en de nakomeling van de man die zijn voorvaderen in het verderf stortte, de rekening te presenteren. Vermomd als een joods-orthodox diamantair pleegt hij een jaar later in Antwerpen, geholpen door leden van de Georgische en Zuid-Afrikaanse maffia, een spectaculaire roof. Het gerechtelijk onderzoek gaat gebukt onder interne verdeeldheid en een gebrek aan middelen. Samuela Keizer, een prive-detective die in Antwerpen in opdracht van de Hoge Raad voor Diamant smokkelaars in bloeddiamant opspoort, bindt in haar eentje de strijd aan. Ook zij kan ongenadig zijn...

Author: Elizabeth Norton File Type: epub The turbulent Tudor Age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it truly like to be a woman during this era?The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress of palace intrigue and dramatic politics. But if you were a woman, it was also a time when death during childbirth was rife when marriage was usually a legal contract, not a matter for love, and the education you could hope to receive was minimal at best. Yet the Tudor century was also dominated by powerful and dynamic women in a way that no era had been before. Historian Elizabeth Norton explores the life cycle of the Tudor woman, from childhood to old age, through the diverging examples of women such as Elizabeth Tudor, Henry VIIIs sister Cecily Burbage, Elizabeths wet nurse Mary Howard, widowed but influential at court Elizabeth Boleyn, mother of a controversial queen and Elizabeth Barton, a peasant girl who would be lauded as a prophetess. Their stories are interwoven with studies of topics ranging from Tudor toys to contraception to witchcraft, painting a portrait of the lives of queens and serving maids, nuns and harlots, widows and chaperones. Norton brings this vibrant period to colorful life in an evocative and insightful social history.**ReviewAn absorbing look not only at the powerful women of that era, but everyday life for women throughout Tudor society. - Minneapolis Star Tribune Queens, servants, widows, nuns, harlots, and more are depicted in a rich tapestry of meticulous scholarship, historical detail, and insightful observations. Anyone interested in expanding and enriching her of his view of the Tudor era will enjoy Nortons skillfully written study. - Booklist Engrossing and charming. By uncovering all the tiny, painstaking day-to-day details of these varied existences, Norton has constructed something inspiring. - British Heritage Travel In these absorbing and well-researched portraits, Norton juxtaposes the experiences of prominent and ordinary women across the social, economic, and religious spectra during the Tudor period. Norton weaves her stories with an expert hand and illuminates many rarely discussed aspects of daily life for Tudor women. - Publishers Weekly Norton provides further evidence of her position as a leading authority on Tudor history. Highly recommended for readers interested in the time period. - Library Journal A satisfying series of historical vignettes. - Kirkus ReviewsAbout the AuthorElizabeth Norton is a historian specializing in the queens of England and the Tudor period. She is the author of The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor and lives in England. As a retired board-certified music therapist, licensed counselor, and veteran of the Michigan Opera and several community theaters, Jennifer Dixon has explored the power of words and music to motivate, inspire, provoke, soothe, and heal. She brings this unique perspective to her work as an audiobook narrator.

Author: Casie Legette File Type: pdf This book shows that the publishers and editors of the radical press deployed Romantic-era texts for their own political endsand for their largely working-class readershiplong after those works original publication. It examines how the literature of the British Romantic period was excerpted and reprinted in radical political papers in Britain in the nineteenth century. The agents of this story were bound by neither the chronological march of literary history, nor by the original form of the literary texts they reprinted. Godwins Caleb Williams and poems by Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge, and Shelley appear throughout this book as they appeared in the nineteenth century, in bits and pieces. Radical publishers and editors carefully and purposefully excerpted the works of their recent past, excavating useful political claims from the midst of less amenable texts, and remaking texts and authors alike in the process.