Middle Ages Fiction

This is your pilot speaking. We have a problem in the engine bay. It's nothing to worry about, but please make your way to the escape pods. Hal Junior and Stephen 'Stinky' Binn live aboard a high-tech space station, far from the nearest planet. The rules are strict, and their lives are carefully regulated. That's why they're so excited about the camping trip to Planet Gyris ... imagine a whole week of fishing, swimming, sleeping in tents and running wild! Unfortunately, the boys crash land in the middle of a forest, and there's little chance of rescue. Is this the end of the camping trip .....

It was never supposed to happen ... Rylee Willet feels like she's caught in quicksand. She's always dealt with anxiety, but the fact that her dad's a highly respected fireman bolsters her shaky self-esteem and makes things okay. But her world turns upside down when her best friend takes part in a reckless prank that leaves her dad paralyzed, effectively destroying his firefighting career. Lacking the courage to confess her own part in the tragedy, Rylee places the blame squarely on the shoulders of her best friend and cuts her out of her life. But when unexpected circumstances bring the ...

Strong-willed and free spirited, lady-in-waiting Marjory de Warenne long ago gave her body and soul to the charming and beguiling Earl of Warwick, Guy de Beauchamp. But her family never approved of the pairing. Now, on the eve of war and an arranged marriage to another suitor, Jory yearns for the man who could make all of her dreams come true.

A middle grade fantasy book that both teens and young adults will enjoy! Perfect for kids who love adventure, dragons, and epic battles! Salem is a young warrior and Medea is a solid white angel dragon, as well as the princess of the northern angel dragons. She is a fireless type of dragon with fur instead of scales. Angel dragons didn't possess the ability to breathe fire and had very little defense since they didn't have scales, but fur instead. The angel dragons did possess the ability to use advanced magic, being a magical type of dragon they had the ability to use advanced magic. ...

No matter what was going on in Molly's life at home, she always had book club at school. Whether she's dealing with a death in the family or her parent's breaking the news they want to move she is able to read a new book and escape life...even if it is just for a little bit. But when someone anonymously notifies school boards about a controversial book in the classroom, her favorite teacher Ms. Lewsiton is suspended...and book club is a banned for the immediate future.

Live the Magic. Love the Adventure. Emma's house is haunted. When she goes to sleep at night, she hears thumps and bumps and the sound of feet running across her wall. Terrified, she asks her sister, Ivy, for help. Ivy enlists the help of her friends. Together they try to solve the mystery, but the creature they're dealing with isn't a ghost, and Emma is in grave peril. Can Ivy save her sister before it is too late? Coming soon!!! Look for two new series: Otter Tales & The Princess Penny Pocket Adventures Dusky Hollows Series: Book 1: Fierce Winds & Fiery Dragons Book 2: The Curse of the ...

Following the fall of Rome in 476 CE, the entire dynamic of Europe underwent a complete shift in power and culture. The Dark Ages was an interesting period of about six centuries. During it, Europe was still trying to figure out what it was and how it would survive the chaos that followed the fall of Rome.

Fifteen-year-old Charlotte is restlessly coming of age in early twentieth-century Basra, Iraq. The daughter of a Seattle doctor and missionary, Charlotte craves an adventure of her own making. Just the thought of the steppes, hills, valleys, and the winding river stirs Charlotte’s imagination and sends her compass of flight dancing. So, preferring the wondrous unknown to solicitude, Charlotte packs up copies of her father’s Gospels and a statue of the Baby Jesus and runs away.

What do you think of when you consider the Middle Ages? Knights in armor and damsels in distress? Vikings plundering monasteries? Religious dissenters burning at the stake? The dead bodies piling up as war, famine, and plague devastated Europe? Think again. While all these are part of the tapestry of the medieval era, the threads of politics, personality and war, culture, religion, education and the arts are vastly more intricate and fascinating.

Jean Le Viste, a 15th-century nobleman close to the King, hires an ambitious artist to design six tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. A talented miniaturist, Nicolas des Innocents overcomes his surprise at being offered this commission when he catches sight of his patron's sumptuous daughter, Claude. His pursuit of her pulls him unwittingly into the web of fragile relationships between husband and wife, parents and children, lovers and servants.

Some girls dream about being astronauts. Others want to be ballerinas, veterinarians, or dragon tamers (hey, it could happen). But Bella? Bella dreams in glitter. Not the kind that gets stuck to your elbow for three weeks—though that happens too—but the kind of glitter that sparkles behind her eyes when she thinks about Fanta, her unicorn. Fanta isn’t just any unicorn. She’s a marshmallow-sweet, rainbow-maned, secret-telling, giggle-snorting best friend who lives in the magical place Bella calls the Meadow of Maybe. It’s a land where trees hum lullabies and bubblegum rivers twist ...

Fourteen-year old Seraphina Lincoln lived a perfectly predictable life before she gained a stalker, found a body, and learned to manipulate the future. She uncovers family secrets and is forced to choose — claim her legacy or lose everything. Sera’s mother upends their predictable life in the desert to head to a small town for the summer. Sera swears she’s been followed to their new cabin in the woods. When a house burns down the same night someone is lurking in the forest, she confronts her fears to learn she can influence the future through a genetic quirk. Glowing handwriting and ...

For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns and antidotes tested on condemned prisoners. The Royal Art of Poison is a hugely entertaining work of popular history that traces the use of poison as a political - and cosmetic - tool in the royal courts of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Kremlin today.

During the time of the Crusades, an unlikely trio - a Christian princess, her affianced prince, and a Muslim assassin - embarks on a quest to the court of the most fearsome warrior the world has ever known, Genghis Khan. A rousing tale of adventure and romance about three young people who must grapple with fundamental issues of loyalty, friendship, faith, honor, and courage against the backdrop of conflicts that still resonate today.

The epic saga of Christina Kohl continues in the fourth novel in the No Man is Her Master series, She Serves the Realm. At the conclusion of Her Dangerous Journey Home, Christina Kohl learns of the death of Sir Edgar Baldewyne, the boorish and abusive husband of her beloved Lady Cecily. At last free to marry, Christina and Cecily lack only the permission of the king to fulfill their heart’s fondest desire. This seems only a modest hurdle, as they both enjoy his favor. But in the turbulent times of Edward II’s reign, he is much more concerned with making use of Christina’s considerable...

After months of living without electricity or parents, Tig and Peter are forced to move in with their Uncle Scott and his partner, Manny. The transition from down-and-out to picture-perfect isn't easy, especially in pristine Wensleydale with the idyllic couple and their beautiful home. Tig, with Peter's support, decides to make their new life messy, starting with daily arguments and her plans to become a competitive cheese racer. She'll run circles around her new guardians, outrun a wheel of cheese, and leave the past buried in her dust.

Patti never expected to portray a legendary character, nor fall in love. She just wanted a part-time job over the holidays. But between the Simon Cowell look-a-like guy who played Santa and her granddaughter Tabitha, and maybe God, she pulled on the green vinyl boots, powdered her eyebrows and “sucked it up”, as Tabby would say until . . . the Santa who came to give out gifts at church was different. And she kissed him. Did she kiss the wrong Santa?

Ivy Mae Bloom is almost 13 years old, her name is almost a complete sentence, and her family’s RV is almost a home. That’s one too many “almosts” for Ivy. She desperately wants a place to put down roots, but it’s her mama’s job as a fallen star to tend the magic underpinning the world - a job that’s kept Ivy’s family living on the road since before Ivy was born. After Ivy steals Mama's entire supply of wish jars in the hopes of finding a place to call home, disaster strands her family in Whistling Ridge, North Carolina, with Mama's star sisters.

Unas feels life escaping from him. His heir sons having prematurely died, he summons high dignitaries in order to proclaim his successor. A page of the Old Kingdom is being turned, the VIth dynasty emerges. Egypt is thriving, peace is reigning, floods are plentiful and harvests are filling the silos. But events are going to disrupt this serenity, dragging the country into a period of fright and misery. Between grandeur and decadence, Egypt will have to find a new way... A novel Ebook Kindle - Translated from French - Revised edition Also available in printed edition 224 pages 6x9in

Eleven-year-old Aliya Shah lives a double life in Islamabad, Pakistan - at home with her Pakistani father and Dutch mother, and at the American School, where Aliya tries to downplay that she is a "half-and-half." But when a hit-and-run driver kills the son of the family's servant, Sadiq, who is also Aliya's dear friend, her world is turned upside down. After she discovers the truth behind the tragedy - a terrible secret that burdens her heart - her conflicted loyalties are tested as never before.