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The legend of Tristan and Iseult is an influential romance and tragedy. The tragic story is of the adulterous love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Iseult. The narrative predates and most likely influenced the Arthurian romance of Lancelot and Guinevere, and has had a substantial impact on Western art and the idea of romantic love and literature.
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Written in the middle of the 14th century as the Bubonic Plague decimated the population of Europe, "The Decameron" is a satirical and allegorical collection of stories by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio. Constructed as a series of "frame stories," or stories within a story, the narrative follows seven young women and three young men who take refuge in a secluded villa outside Florence in order to escape the Black Death. During ten evenings of their...
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Songs of Innocence and Experience - William Blake - The simple and beautiful eloquence of William Blake's poetry is exemplified here in "Songs of Innocence and of Experience." This collection of forty-six poems is actually two volumes in one. After first completing and publishing "Songs of Innocence" in 1789 Blake would, some five years later, add "Songs of Experience" to the volume in an effort to show "the two contrary states of the human soul."...
4) Always
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New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands returns with the unforgettable story of a reluctant bride and groom who soon find common ground in the bedroom . . .Bastard daughter to the king, Rosamunde was raised in a convent and wholly prepared to take the veil . . . until King Henry declared she would wed Aric, one of his most valiant knights. Suddenly she found herself promising to love, honor, and obey. Rosamunde's education had not covered a...
5) The Brat
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Whether her heroes are English lords or sexy vampires, this classic historical romance from Lynsay Sands proves that the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author has what it takes to captivate her readers. In this delightful tale of medieval passion, a loyal knight competes with a dangerous villain for the affections of King Edward III's comely goddaughter-who is not really the petulant brat she first appears to be. If you love the historicals...
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Rose Award Finalist: An exiled princess returns to Byzantium-carrying a precious secret she must hide from the husband chosen for her . . .
Princess Theodora of Constantinople is to marry Duke Nikolaos, the general-in-chief of the army, a man chosen for her by the Emperor. An imperial princess must always do her duty-be beautiful, obedient and pure.
But Theodora spent ten years in exile in a barbarian land. There, once, she might have forgotten...
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In 1482, the secret order of Knights Templar still exists. Ian Kincaid's mission as one of these knights is to find sacred treasure taken from the Temple of Solomon by the original Templars but lost for over a century. If it falls into the wrong hands, worldwide chaos could result. Caitlin Shaw, healer and priestess to Clan Sinclair, guards what Ian seeks, Scotland's Stone of Destiny. When the tall, attractive stranger to Rosslyn Castle slips an envelope...
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Tudor Hugger-Mugger is a book of death, deceit and love. A tale of passion and peril. . . 1515 - King Henry VIII's Tudor England is enjoying a period of relative peace but the lives of the King's cousin Alban, Lord Melbroke and the beautiful Frances, daughter of the Earl of Blean, are about to spin into turmoil and danger. Little does Frances know that powerful, evil forces are plotting to cheat and kill her and her family. Little does she know that...
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King Tristan's plan was to unite the neighboring kingdoms and duchies-with himself as ruler. The local kings and rulers, however, proved unwilling to be deposed in favor of Tristan and the plan seemed likely to fail until John o' the Green, a noble and an outlaw, was captured by King Tristan's men. Not to save his own life but for the sake of his nine captured comrades John agreed to his captor's proposal. With chain mail under his innocent minstrel's...
10) Lealtad
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Caristaphel Anne es la única hija de un rey bárbaro, secuestrada y sentenciada a muerte por los pecados de su padre contra el pueblo. Mientras el rey arroja un manto de muerte sobre la tierra, la hija heredera es arrojada a las sucias entrañas del inframundo del reino, y finalmente pasa al cuidado de su mercenario más despiadado y brutal. Sin embargo, su fuerza de espíritu no se romperá, ganándose algo más que el respeto de su guardián asesino....
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Margaret, Lady Ravenwood, is trapped in a loveless marriage and firmly entrenched in the medieval world. Along comes Griffin Nightshade, a historian from the future whose soul resonates with hers. He persuades her to return with him to the 1950s, but heeding her heart means courting danger from a curse that could spell her doom. Haunted by his parents' sudden deaths, Griffin knows all too well the pain born of love lost. He guards his emotions, but...
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After so long apart, Elianna and Chris are finally reunited at last, but the repercussions of the epidemic known as the Ashen Nightmare still linger. When Elianna works herself to exhaustion trying to sort out the aftermath, her father whisks her away from the royal palace and sentences her to strict bedrest at the Bernstein estate. How will Chris cope with being cut off from his beloved yet again?
In the meantime, a visit to the port city of Kelk...
14) The Reiver's Cub
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Ten years ago, Bess Mowatt promised to guard her newborn cousin from his father, Aleck Maxwell. Called the Reiver Wolf, Maxwell is the scourge of the Scottish marches, and no fit guardian for a child. But when the keep where Bess and the boy live suddenly comes under Maxwell's protection, she has nowhere to hide. Aleck doesn't quite believe the tale he was told, that his son died at birth. His head tells him one thing, and his heart another. While...
15) The Right Knight
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After her father dies, Annis of Roxley fears King John will award her home to one of his pet mercenaries. Still, she's unprepared for the knight who arrives carrying John's order: Wed the new lord or become the king's ward. If the new lord is anything like his disheveled representative, she's better off -elsewhere. Rushing to claim the castle John's finally granted him, Sir Hugh reaches Roxley looking so unkempt, Annis takes him for a servant. Before...
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Gabrielle is a flame haired, fire hearted French princess who dreams of becoming a Valkyrie warrior queen like her Viking ancestors from Normandy. Sent to Paris to learn the proper etiquette for a future French queen, she is called home to le Château de Beaufort for a forced marriage to a man she loathes when her father the king's precarious health takes a sudden turn for the worse. Chivalrous, solitary knight Sir Bastien de Landuc suffers an impossible...
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From a lone farm in the district of Oconnalow, Ireland, a young boy called Timoseph Wendel Daye ventures forth into the unknown world, toward an unknown destiny. He finds himself as part of a group, who help out for a big arts project in Italy. In the process, he meets a young girl and falls in love. Will this love persist among the variant forces around him? Find out in this latest story of the Knight and Daye series, The Painted Chapel.
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Graham, a mysterious, enchanted knight, is skilled at finding lost things. His latest assignment is to find a woman and her cookbook-if he wants to win his mother's freedom. Devon did not intend to visit medieval times. She simply opened her grandmother's cookbook. Now she desperately wants to get back to her own time and doesn't know how. But, she is still a woman who will stand up to the bully in the kitchens to protect the weak and helpless. When...
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It's been a difficult year in Lissi Johansen's sixteenth-century Danish village. As Christmas approaches, she longs for holidays past when her parents visited their neighbors, distributing cookies and good wishes to all. She hopes to bake a single batch of her mama's Snowdrop Cookies and tuck a gift of magic wishes inside. But, she will need help to make the miracle come true. Miller Ole Andersen is barely hanging on after the loss of his wife and...
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