The Sprig of Broom

The Sprig of Broom
Author: Barbara Willard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2010
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9781903252352

Medley Plashet faces a life full of riddles. Why, if his father is the humble forest guide he seems, must he flee from home? Medley sets out on a dangerous journey to solve the mystery of his heritage - and uncovers the stunning significance of the sprig of broom.

A Sprig Of Broom

A Sprig Of Broom
Author: Margaret Blake
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2011-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1633557979

Lady Cecily Hadfield has no alternative but to marry Thomas Cadwallader. However, Cecily is proud and haughty and promises that she will never be a meek and compliant wife to him, for he was part of the carnage that resulted in the death of King Richard. Strong and beautiful, Cecily cannot envisage what fate holds in store, or realize how near to scaffold she so carelessly wanders...

The Silver Branch

The Silver Branch
Author: Rosemary Sutcliff
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2011-02-18
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1429934670

Rosemary Sutcliff’s Carnegie Medal-winning Roman Britain Trilogy continues more than a century after the events of The Eagle of the Ninth (The Eagle) in The Silver Branch as two cousins join the Roman side in the fight against a tyrannical British emperor. Violence and unrest are sweeping through Roman Britain. Justin and Flavius find themselves caught up in the middle of it all when they discover a plot to overthrow the Emperor. In fear for their lives, they gather together a tattered band of men and lead them into the thick of battle, to defend the honor of Rome. But will they be in time to save the Emperor...

The School of Donnina Visconti

The School of Donnina Visconti
Author: Gene Washington
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2000-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 147717544X

"The School of Donnina Visconti" is a fictionalized account of the life and adventures of Sir John Hawkwood, condottiere, (1331?-1394) and his wife Donnina Visconti. The story is told primarily through, first, the voice of an editor (who found the MS) and secondly, through the consciousness of Donnina and her "pictures." The poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a descendant of Donnina Visconti and John Hawkwood. "School" is an expansion of "Donnina Visconti," a short story that won first place honors in Utah Arts Festival Short Short Story Contest in 1993.