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Elizabeth Byrd and the Magic Words
Elizabeth Byrd is determined to find someone who can help her figure out what those elusive magic words are that her mother is always asking her for. She encounters several helpful creatures throughout her adventure that offer magic words like "Alakazam" and "Hocus Pocus", but none are the right words, until she meets Jack. The tale provides a lively and fun way for young children to embrace the benefits of good manners while learning to read.
Immortal Queen
Based on the life of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Roses Have Thorns
From the acclaimed author of To Die For comes a stirring novel told through a groundbreaking point of view that sheds light on Elizabeth I and her court. In 1565, seventeen-year-old Elin von Snakenborg leaves Sweden on a treacherous journey to England. Her fiancé has fallen in love with her sister and her dowry money has been gambled away, but ahead of her lies an adventure that will take her to the dizzying heights of Tudor power. Transformed through marriage into Helena, the Marchioness of Northampton, she becomes the highest-ranking woman in Elizabeth’s circle. But in a court that is surrounded by Catholic enemies who plot the queen’s downfall, Helena is forced to choose between her unyielding monarch and the husband she’s not sure she can trust—a choice that will provoke catastrophic consequences. A rich, tautly woven tale of love, deception, and grace, Roses Have Thorns vividly conjures the years leading up to the beheading of Mary Queen of Scots and is a brilliant exploration of treason, both to the realm and to the heart.
I'll Get by
A 15-year-old girl goes to private school in Manhattan in 1928 and wishes her traveling father spent more time at home.
The World of William Byrd
In The World of William Byrd John Harley builds on his previous work, William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (Ashgate, 1997), in order to place the composer more clearly in his social context. He provides new information about Byrd's youthful musical training, and reveals how in his adult life his music emerged from a series of overlapping family, business and social networks. These networks and Byrd's navigation within and between them are examined, as are the lives of a number of the individuals comprising them.
The World of William Byrd
In The World of William Byrd John Harley builds on his previous work, William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (Ashgate, 1997), in order to place the composer more clearly in his social context. He provides new information about Byrd's youthful musical training, and reveals how in his adult life his music emerged from a series of overlapping family, business and social networks. These networks and Byrd's navigation within and between them are examined, as are the lives of a number of the individuals comprising them.
Haunted Houses!
People who have experienced haunted houses tell of seeing ghostly figures, hearing strange sounds such as rattling chains, smelling special odors, and feeling sudden chills in the air and even ghostly touches. Readers will delight in this spine-tingling exploration of the three ghosts that haunt the historic Westover Plantation. The tragic stories of these unfortunate residents of the home are covered in detail. For those who want to find out about other haunted houses, there is a “More Haunted Houses” section that summarizes the story of other famous sites for paranormal activity.
Liturgy and Contemplation in Byrd's Gradualia
William Byrd’s Gradualia is one of the most unusual and elaborate musical works of the English Renaissance. This large collection of liturgical music, 109 pieces in all, was written for clandestine use by English Catholics at a time when they were forbidden to practice their religion in public. When Byrd began to compose the Gradualia, he turned from the penitential and polemical extravagances of his earlier Latin motets to the narrow, carefully ordered world of the Counter-Reformation liturgy. It was in this new context, cut off from his familiar practice of choosing colorful texts and setting them at length, that he first wrote about the "hidden and mysterious power" of sacred words to e...
Far from Home
Lillian Schlissel is a professor emerita of English and American Studies at Brooklyn CollegeCUNY. She is the author of numerous books, including The Western Women's Reader (with Catherine Lavender) and Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West. Byrd Gibbens is a professor of English at the University of New Mexico, Valencia campus, and the author of This Is a Strange Country: Letters of a Western Family 1880-1906.Elizabeth Hampsten is a professor of English at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, and the author of Settlers' Children: Growing Up on the Great Plains.
