Randolph's Challenge

Randolph's Challenge
Author: Chris Warren
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2009-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1606938274

Randolph's Challenge Book One - The Pendulum Swings is fantasy at its best! From the mastermind of writer Chris Warren come characters that live and breathe in the land of Alusia. Randolph Kettle, a likeable wandering minstrel given to occasional flights of fancy and an easy-going attitude, learns that his "lucky breaks" stem from special powers he never knew he had. With his destiny thrust upon him, Randolph is a reluctant hero on a quest-with the fate of the Kingdom of Alusia and the entire Western Realm hanging in the balance. He journeys through Alusia and visits the worlds of Faeries and Gnomes in his bid to overthrow Thrung and Shawadarg. On the way he falls in love, learns how to fly and become invisible, how to speak with animals, and much about relationship with life. Set in medieval times with kings, queens, sorcerers, witches, and the like, and a delicious sense of humour that will leave readers clamouring for more, Tolkein and Rowling fans will gobble up this extraordinary story on the universal theme of good versus evil. You won't put this one down until its exhilarating conclusion!

Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster
Author: Robert Vincent Remini
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 830
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393045529

In this monumental new biography, Robert V. Remini gives us a full life of Webster from his birth, early schooling, and rapid rise as a lawyer and politician in New Hampshire to his equally successful career in Massachusetts where he moved in 1816. Remini treats both the man and his time as they tangle in issues such as westward expansion, growth of democracy, market revolution, slavery and abolitionism, the National Bank, and tariff issues. Webster's famous speeches are fully discussed as are his relations with the other two of the "great triumvirate", Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. Throughout, Remini pays close attention to Webster's personal life - perhaps more than Webster would have liked - his relationships with family and friends, and his murky financial dealings with men of wealth and influence.