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Louis XIV, the highly-feted “Sun King”, was renowned for his political and cultural influence and for raising France to a new level of prominence in seventeenth-century Europe. And yet, as Antonia Fraser keenly describes, he was equally legendary in the domestic sphere. Indeed, a panoply of women — his wife Anne; mistresses such as Louise de la Vallière, Athénaïs de Montespan, and the puritanical Madame de Maintenon; and an array of courtesans — moved in and out of the court. The highly visible presence of these women raises many questions about their position in both Louis XIV’s life and in France at large. With careful research and vivid, engaging prose, Fraser makes the multifaceted life of one of the most famous European monarchs accessible and vibrantly current..
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The author of the internationally acclaimed Josephine Bonaparte trilogy returns with another irresistible historical novel, this one based on the life of Louise de la Vallière, who, against all odds, became one of the most mysterious consorts of France's Louis XIV, the charismatic Sun King.

Set against the magnificent decadence of the seventeenth-century French court, Mistress of the Sun begins when an eccentric young Louise falls in love with a wild white stallion and uses ancient magic to tame him. This one desperate action of her youth shadows her throughout her life, changing it in ways she could never imagine.

Unmarriageable, and too poor to join a convent, Louise enters the court of the Sun King, where the king is captivated by her. As their love unfolds, Louise bears Louis four children, is made a duchess, and reigns unrivaled as his official mistress until dangerous intrigue threatens her position at court and in Louis's heart.

A riveting love story with a captivating mystery at its heart, Mistress of the Sun illuminates both the power of true and perfect love and the rash actions we take to capture and tame it..
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In book four of the manga Bible, we see the waning days of King David’s dynasty through the rule of Solomon and the division of Israel from Judah. When the corrupted Solomon dies, the line of Judah’s kings goes from bad to worse. When the evil King Ahab finally confronts the prophet Elijah on Mt. Carmel, Baals’ prophets are destroyed. God takes Elijah to heaven in a flaming chariot. Elisha, his successor, ministers to the good King Joash and Israel and Judah both rediscover their commitments to the Lord..
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The uneasy peace within the Dominion's borders was shattered when treacherous forces seized the crown by slaughtering all members of the ruling Clan Leonne. Now, in a neighboring empire, the sole surviving heir to the throne, a young man never destined to rule, must prove his worthiness to claim the crown, even as his family's murderers and their sinister demonic allies plot his doom..
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Washington Post columnist David Ignatius is one of the most highly regarded writers in the capital, an influential journalist and acclaimed novelist with a keen eye for the subtleties of power and politics. In The Sun King, Ignatius has written a love story for our time, a spellbinding portrait of the collision of ambition and sexual desire.
        
Sandy Galvin is a billionaire with a rare talent for taking risks and making people happy. Galvin arrives in a Washington suffering under a cloud of righteous misery and   proceeds to turn the place upside down. He buys the city's most powerful newspaper, The Washington Sun and Tribune, and wields it like a sword, but in his path stands his old Harvard flame, Candace Ridgway, a beautiful and icy journalist known to her colleagues as the Mistress of Fact. Their fateful encounter, tangled in the mysteries of their past, is narrated by David Cantor, an acid-tongued reporter and Jerry Springer devotee who is drawn inexorably into the Sun King's orbit and is transformed by this unpredictable man.
          
In this wise and poignant novel, love is the final frontier for a generation of baby boomers at midlife--still young enough to reach for their dreams but old enough to glimpse the prospect of loss. The Sun King can light up a room, but can he melt the worldly bonds that constrain the Mistress of Fact? In The Sun King, David Ignatius proves with perceptive wit and haunting power that the phrase "Washington love story" isn't an oxymoron.


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The temples of Abu Simbel have long fascinated travelers since they became known to the Western world in the 19th century. In this lavishly illustrated book, Dr. Zahi Hawass, one of the worlds best known Egyptologists, offers extensive information on these magnificent monuments, their builder Ramseses II, and their elaborate relocation in the 1960s. 6 x 9, 78 color illustrations.
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“I believe that the histories which will be written about this court after we are all gone will be better and more entertaining than any novel, and I am afraid that those who come after us will not be able to believe them and will think they are just fairytales.” Thus wrote Louis XIV’s sister-in-law.

Antonia Fraser does indeed entertain us by bringing to life these very “fairytales,” vividly portraying the vast edifice of Louis XIV’s court between the years 1643 and 1715—the magnificence, artistic splendour, intrigues, elaborate ritual and, in some cases, absurdity and misery.
Brilliantly exploring the rich dynamic that existed between Louis XIV and the many fascinating women who ornamented his personal life, Fraser examines not only Louis’s mistresses, principally Louise de La Vallière and Athénaïs de Montespan, as well as the puritanical Madame de Maintenon, but also the wider story of his relationships with women in general: his mother, Anne of Austria; his two sisters-in-law, Henriette-Anne and Liselotte, who were Duchesse d’Orléans in succession; his wayward illegitimate daughters; and lastly Adelaide, the beloved child-wife of his grandson.

Fraser portrays the gallantry of these relationships, from friendship shading to love, the subtle art of courtship, the more frivolous and even dangerous pursuit of flirtation, down to sensual libertinage ending in sex. But if gallantry—or sex—is one theme of this book, then religion is another, and it is in the connection between the two that the fascination of Louis XIV’s relationships with his mistresses properly lies. Great religious figures of the age such as Bossuet spoke out on the subject of royal adultery, and even Louis could not stop them. As for the women’s spiritual life, it was significant that the Penitent Magdalen was the favourite saint of seventeenth-century France.
Drawing attention to the political significance of female figures of the period, this book also inevitably reflects something of the condition of women of a certain status in seventeenth-centruy France. Antonia Fraser considers what were their choices and how far were they—mistresses, and wives, mothers and daughters—in control of their own destinies?

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