Mailbox Monday


Another Monday, Another Mailbox!! This is a underline where we all share with each alternative a tantalizing books which showed up during our doors! WARNING: Mailbox Mondays can lead to extreme enviousness as well as GINORMOUS wishlists!!

Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia during The Printed Page, though for a month of Nov MM is on debate as well as hosted by Julie @ Knitting as well as Sundries.

Good sunrise sunshines! we hope you all had a great weekend...it was a prolonged one for me as well as we got a lot of reading done, which is a great thing because we perceived dual some-more books for review as well as afterwards picked up another one because of a 50% Borders coupon (you know we couldn't pass which up!).

The Lady's Slipper
by Deborah Swift

Publication Date: Nov 23, 2010

SYNOPSIS: 1660. King Charles II has returned from exile, though memories of a English Civil War still rankle. There are old scores to settle, as well as religious differences threaten to overturn a fragile peace. When Alice Ibbetson discovers a singular orchid, a Ladys Slipper, growing in a wood belonging to Richard Wheeler, she is perplexed by a beauty though Wheeler, a Quaker, is determined to keep a flowering plant where God intended it to grow. Knowing which a orchid is a last of a kind, she steals a flower, little forgetful whic! h her se emingly elementary act will set off a chain of events which will lead to attempted murder as well as exile, as well as shift her hold up forever


The Queen's Rival: In a Court of Henry VIIIby Diane Haeger

Release Date: March 1, 2011

SYNOPSIS: From a writer of The Queen's Mistake comes a untold story of King Henry VIII's initial obvious mistress.

As a pleasing daughter of courtiers, Elizabeth "Bessie" Blount is vivacious when she secures a position as lassie of honor to Katherine of Aragon. But when she captures a attention of a king himself, there are whispers which a queen ought to be worried for her throne.

When Bess gives birth to a full of health son a whispers become a roar. But shortly a infamous Boleyn girls come to court as well as Henry's adore for her starts to fade. Now, Bess contingency spin to her trusted friend, a illegitimate son of Cardinal Wolsey, to assistance her move over hold up as a queen's rival...


The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
by G.J. Meyer

Publication Date: Feb 23, 2010

SYNOPSIS: For a initial time in decades, here, in a singular volume, is a fresh demeanour during a fabled Tudor dynasty, comprising some of a most puzzling total ever to order a country. Acclaimed historian G. J. Meyer reveals a flesh-and-bone reality in all a wild excess.

! In 1485, young Henry Tudor, whose claim to a throne was so weak as to be roughly laughable, crossed a English Channel from France during a conduct of a ragtag little army as well as took a climax from a family which had ruled England for roughly four hundred years. Half a century later his son, Henry VIII, unfortunate to rid himself of his initial mother in order to marry a second, launched a reign of terror aimed during receiving powers no prior sovereign had even dreamed of possessing. In a process he plunged his kingdom in to generations of multiplication as well as disorder, formulating a legacy of red blood as well as profanation which would blight a lives of his young kids as well as a future of his country.

The boy king Edward VI, a fervent believer in reforming a English church, died prior to bringing to delight his dream of a second English Reformation. Mary I, a disgraced daughter of Catherine of Aragon, attempted as well as failed to reestablish a Catholic Church as well as produce an heir. And eventually came Elizabeth I, who clinging her hold up to formulating an image of herself as Gloriana a Virgin Queen but, behind which mask, sacrificed all possibility of personal complacency in order to survive.

The Tudors weaves together all a sinners as well as saints, a tragedies as well as triumphs, a high dreams as well as dark crimes, which exhibit a Tudor era to be, in a enthralling, notorious truth, as useful as well as as erotically appealing as a fictions audiences have come to love.

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