Dove and the Rose

Dove and the Rose
Author: Ethel Herr
Publisher: Turtleback
Total Pages:
Release: 1996-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780613555876

As the Inquisitors try to suppress the "new faiths" arising all around them, Pieter-Lucas and Aletta dare to begin their own search for truth and justice. Seekers.

The Dove and the Rose (Seekers Book #1)

The Dove and the Rose (Seekers Book #1)
Author: Ethel Herr
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 423
Release: 1997-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1441262512

Historical Fiction Series From a Fascinating Era Caught in the sweeping changes connected with the European Reformation and Renaissance, sixteenth-century Holland under the reluctant leadership of William of Orange rebelled against the strong control of Spain's King Philip. The war that ensued to squelch the rebellion and exterminate religious heresy at any cost sets the background for Ethel Herr's compelling series, THE SEEKERS. In The Dove and the Rose, two young people are wrenched apart by the struggles of their parents. Pieter-Lucas is banished from his home for refusing to abide by his father's commitment to the Beggars, an extreme wing of Calvinism. Aletta Engelshofen is not allowed by her father to see Pieter for fear of any association with the Beggars. While they meet in secret, Aletta promises her love to Pieter and that she will wait for him until the trouble passes. Swirling tides of emerging religious, political, cultural, and personal independence clash in this excellent first book in THE SEEKERS.

The Dove and the Rose

The Dove and the Rose
Author: Ethel L. Herr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1996
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781556617461

Book 1 in The Seekers. Pieter-Lucas and Aletta are wrenched apart by the political and religious turmoil of sixteenth-century Holland. When Peter returns and finds that Aletta has fled, will their pledge of love survive?

The Dove, the Rose and the Sceptre

The Dove, the Rose and the Sceptre
Author: Maree Moore
Publisher:
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2004-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780958189118

Journeying through Ireland, the Freemasonic Chapel of the Knights Templar in Scotland, and St Columba's island of Iona, this book attempts to find the answers to many mysteries. It also talks about the life of Merlin, King Arthur, the families whose blood-line was that of the Holy Grail, and the place where the Ark of the Covenant is resting.

A Cup of Silver Linings

A Cup of Silver Linings
Author: Karen Hawkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2021-07-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982105569

From New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins comes another "mesmerizing fusion of the mystical and the everyday" (Susan Andersen, New York Times bestselling author) in her Dove Pond series--and this time Ava's famous tea leaves spell trouble ahead. Ava Dove--the sixth of seven daughters of the famed Dove family, and owner of Ava's Landscaping and Specialty Gourmet Tea--is frantic. Just as she is getting ready to open her fabulous new tearoom, her herbal teas have gone wonky. Suddenly, the tea that is supposed to help people sleep is startling them awake with vivid dreams; the tea that infuses romance back into tired marriages is causing people to blurt out their darkest secrets; and the tea that helps people find happiness is making them spend hours staring into mirrors. Meanwhile, living four doors down the road from Ava, sixteen-year-old Kristen Foster's life has just crashed down around her. After her mother's death, Kristen's grandmother Ellen has arrived in town to sweep Kristen off to a white mansion on a hill in distant Raleigh. But Kristen has had enough 'life changes' and is desperate to stay with her friends in her beloved hometown of Dove Pond. But to do so means Kristen must undertake a quest she's been avoiding her entire life--finding her never-been-there-for-her father. With the help of an ancient herbal remedy book found in her attic by her sister, Ava realizes that Kristen holds the key to fixing her unstable tea leaves. So Ava throws herself into Kristen's search, even convincing Kristen's grandmother Ellen to help, too. Together, the three embark on a reluctant but magical journey of healing, friendship, and family that will delight fans of Alice Hoffman, Kate Morton, and Sarah Addison Allen.

For the Roses

For the Roses
Author: Julie Garwood
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1996-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 067187098X

In 1860s New York, an abandoned baby girl is found by four boys and they adopt her. In time, the boys start a ranch in Montana and she grows up to be a beautiful woman. One day there arrives at the ranch a handsome Scottish lawyer, looking for an English lord's daughter kidnaped two decades earlier. By the author of Prince Charming.

Tales of the Rose Tree

Tales of the Rose Tree
Author: Jane Brown
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2006
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781567923124

"From the towering Burmese magnificum, with its three-foot-diameter trunk and its masses of sweet-smelling purple flowers, to the potted pink azalea, glowing like a burning bush on the backyard garden patio, Rhododendron is a genus of infinite variety and beauty. There are 1,025 known species: it is a native of the snows of the Himalayas and the swamps of the Carolinas, the jungles of Borneo and the island inlets of Japan. It is also one of the oldest of plants - many believe the dove that returned to Noah's ark was carrying a rhododendron sprig - although it has been known to western horticulture for only 300 years. The curious history of Westerners and rhododendrons is full of swashbuckling plant collectors and visionary gardeners, colonial violence and ecological destruction, stunning botanical successes and bitter business disappointments. And it is here related with consummate skill by Jane Brown, an English garden writer."--BOOK JACKET.

The Rose Code

The Rose Code
Author: Kate Quinn
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2021-03-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062943480

“The reigning queen of historical fiction” -- Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over. 1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything—beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses—but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart. 1947. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter--the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. A mysterious traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and now Osla, Mab, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger--and their true enemy--closer...