The Guardian Duke

The Guardian Duke
Author: Jamie Carie
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1433673223

A Regency-era romantic adventure where a Duke is ordered to assume guardianship over a bold young woman who refuses to believe her parents' lives were lost during a treasure hunt. The first in a three-book series.

A Duke's Promise

A Duke's Promise
Author: Jamie Carie
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 143367324X

The third and final novel in award-winning author Jamie Carie's ambitious Forgotten Castles series, an epic love story marked by adventure, betrayal, and resilient faith.

Fugitive Modernities

Fugitive Modernities
Author: Jessica A. Krug
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 147800262X

During the early seventeenth century, Kisama emerged in West Central Africa (present-day Angola) as communities and an identity for those fleeing expanding states and the violence of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The fugitives mounted effective resistance to European colonialism despite—or because of—the absence of centralized authority or a common language. In Fugitive Modernities Jessica A. Krug offers a continent- and century-spanning narrative exploring Kisama's intellectual, political, and social histories. Those who became Kisama forged a transnational reputation for resistance, and by refusing to organize their society around warrior identities, they created viable social and political lives beyond the bounds of states and the ruthless market economy of slavery. Krug follows the idea of Kisama to the Americas, where fugitives in the New Kingdom of Grenada (present-day Colombia) and Brazil used it as a means of articulating politics in fugitive slave communities. By tracing the movement of African ideas, rather than African bodies, Krug models new methods for grappling with politics and the past, while showing how the history of Kisama and its legacy as a global symbol of resistance that has evaded state capture offers essential lessons for those working to build new and just societies.

The Forgiven Duke

The Forgiven Duke
Author: Jamie Carie
Publisher: B&H Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-07
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: 9781433678516

The romance and action of this Regency-era series moves from Europe to Iceland in the epic tale of a young woman searching for her treasurehunting parents, and a Duke whose treasure is the young woman's heart.

The Last Royal Rebel

The Last Royal Rebel
Author: Anna Keay
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2016-05-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 140884608X

'A superb biography, which paints a vivid picture of the times and of her subject' Daily Telegraph 'Fascinating, compelling, outrageous and ultimately tragic' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'It is the best royal biography I have read in years' A.N. Wilson From the Duff Cooper Prize-winning author of The Restless Republic, a remarkable biography of one of the most intriguing figures of the Restoration era. James, Duke of Monmouth, the favoured illegitimate son of Charles II, was born in exile the year his grandfather Charles I was executed and the English monarchy abolished. Abducted from his mother on his father's orders, he emerged from a childhood in the backstreets of Rotterdam to command the ballrooms of Paris, the brothels of Covent Garden and the battlefields of Flanders. Such was his appeal that when the monarchy itself came under threat, the cry was for Monmouth to succeed Charles II as king. He inspired both delight and disgust, adulation and abhorrence and, in time, love and loyalty. Louis XIV was his mentor, Nell Gwyn his protector, D'Artagnan his lieutenant, William of Orange his confidant, John Dryden his censor and John Locke his comrade. In The Last Royal Rebel, Anna Keay matches rigorous scholarship with a storyteller's gift to enrapturing effect. She paints a vivid portrait of the warm, courageous and handsome Duke of Monmouth, a man who by his own admission 'lived a very dissolute and irregular life', but who was ultimately prepared to risk everything for honour and justice. His story, culminating in his fateful invasion, provides a sweeping chronicle of the turbulent decades in which England as we know it was forged.

The Duke

The Duke
Author: Shôn Dale-Jones
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2016-07-25
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1786820323

In 1974 my father invested £750 (£8,100 in today’s money) in a Royal Worcester porcelain figure of The Duke of Wellington on horseback. He kept the figure we affectionately called The Duke, wrapped in sponge, in a big box, under his bed. After he died in 2001, my mother decided to take the figure out and display it on the table in the bay window. In the autumn of 2015 my mother calls. She tells me she’s broken The Duke.

Dancing with the Devil

Dancing with the Devil
Author: Christopher Wilson
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2002-02-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780312288969

Describes the affair that the Duchess of Windsor had with the openly gay heir to the Woolworth fortune in the early 1950s.

The Duke in Darkness

The Duke in Darkness
Author: Patrick Hamilton
Publisher: London : Constable
Total Pages: 98
Release: 1943
Genre: France
ISBN:

In 1580, during the French Civil Wars, the Duke of Latteraine has been imprisoned in the Chateau Lamorre for 15 years, together with his servant, Gribaud. The Duke has feigned blindness in the hope that it will aid his eventual escape. As the two men play a tense game of chess, it becomes evident that confinement has caused Gribaud to lose his reason. They are visited by an erstwhile friend named Voulain, now in the service of the enemy, who tries to persuade the Duke that he is still loyal to him. Voulain sets out a daring plan of escape. The Duke must decide whether he can be trusted-and determine what to do with a loyal, mad companion who could be the plan's undoing.

Four Nights With the Duke

Four Nights With the Duke
Author: Eloisa James
Publisher: HarperLuxe
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-03-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780062344281

Eloisa James returns with another fabulous romance in her New York Times bestselling Desperate Duchesses series! As a young girl, Emilia Gwendolyn Carrington told the annoying future Duke of Pindar that she would marry any man in the world before him—so years later she is horrified to realize that she has nowhere else to turn. Evander Septimus Brody has his own reasons for agreeing to Mia's audacious proposal, but there's one thing he won't give his inconvenient wife: himself. Instead, he offers Mia a devil's bargain . . . he will spend four nights a year with her. Four nights, and nothing more. And those only when she begs for them. Which Mia will never do. Now Vander faces the most crucial challenge of his life: he must seduce his own wife in order to win her heart—and no matter what it takes, this is the one battle he can't afford to lose.