Power Middle Ages

What do you think of when you consider the Middle Ages? Knights in armor and damsels in distress? Vikings plundering monasteries? Religious dissenters burning at the stake? The dead bodies piling up as war, famine, and plague devastated Europe? Think again. While all these are part of the tapestry of the medieval era, the threads of politics, personality and war, culture, religion, education and the arts are vastly more intricate and fascinating.

Get ready for a wild and wacky adventure in "The Brown Note: The Epic Poop-tastic Quest!" Meet Tommy, a young inventor with big dreams of winning "The Young Inventor of the Year Competition." But there's just one problem – all his inventions are total duds! Tommy's quest for a winning idea takes a hilarious twist when he stumbles upon something unexpected. On his way home from school one day, Tommy discovers an old keyboard hidden in a pile of junk. But this isn't your ordinary keyboard – it's contains the legendary Brown Note! And this note has some seriously stinky surprises in store....

Fourteen-year old Seraphina Lincoln lived a perfectly predictable life before she gained a stalker, found a body, and learned to manipulate the future. She uncovers family secrets and is forced to choose — claim her legacy or lose everything. Sera’s mother upends their predictable life in the desert to head to a small town for the summer. Sera swears she’s been followed to their new cabin in the woods. When a house burns down the same night someone is lurking in the forest, she confronts her fears to learn she can influence the future through a genetic quirk. Glowing handwriting and ...

Two new stories from Lynn Carlyle, about women who have waited too long to learn civility: In “The Audit”, fifty-one-year-old Libby Morrison is unhappy to hear that a new accounting firm has been brought in to do an audit of the bookkeeping she oversees at her uncle’s store. After all, she has been the bookkeeper at Everything Wilderness for two decades. Unfortunately, she has also been a tough taskmaster for those who must work with her. Nonetheless, she has been meticulous in her own work. When Charles Caldwell arrives to review the books, she finds that he is just as good looking ...

A fun and exciting fantasy adventure novel for kids and preteens! Girls really can be heroes, and a little magic helps too.Katie is a normal girl living a normal life, until she falls through a glowing crevice in the sidewalk. She makes a note to herself to avoid glowing crevices in the future.On the other side of the crevice lies Dreamland, a realm of fantasy and magic, a place where she can let her imagination soar and develop new powers. Katie has no idea why she's there or what she's supposed to do, and she meets other kids also stunned to find themselves in the same realm of mystery. ...

Walking around in other people's heads can get messy... especially if those people are vampires. Learning that I have the powers to read vampires' minds might make me an invaluable part of the LIGHTS team, but it's a lot to swallow, especially now that I've moved to Kansas City full-time. I miss my friends, my parents, my old life, but I'm also excited about what's to come. Sometimes, it's hard for me to tell which of my sides is the true me--the hunter or the vampire--and it just takes one tricky hunt to get me all off kilter. Can I get myself back together again before my sister Cadence ...

A girl wakes up to find herself in a strange land called the Domain of Wishes. There she meets Min, a sarcastic bamboo-loving panda who becomes her guide. She soon learns from Min that her quest is to fulfill a series of wishes and that an evil group called the Negative Beings will try to prevent her. If she fails in her mission she will end up being stuck in the Domain forever. Together the girl and the panda join forces and embark on a series of adventures filled with excitement and danger.

Everyone has a story. Even the ones who seem hardest to understand. In Through Their Eyes, three unforgettable kids tell their truth from the inside out. Marcus hides his drawings, and his fears, beneath a tough shell sharpened by pressure from his brother’s crew. Tara wears perfection like a costume, even as her parents’ divorce unravels everything she thought she could control. Devin scores goals on the field but can’t face the letters on the page, ashamed of a secret he doesn’t know how to name. Each of them is a bully. Each of them is hurting. And each of them is about to be ...

Thirteen-year-old Dove Boone has always known there was something different about her talent with plants. But on an island where old magic is forbidden and ancient family rifts run deep, some secrets are better left buried. When her aunt's elaborate society wedding brings the divided island families together, Dove's carefully hidden gift becomes harder to control. Something dark is stirring on the forbidden side of Knot Island, where Dove's father vanished nine years ago. As the summer solstice approaches, Dove and her cousins uncover an ancient journal that hints at the truth: the three ...

A dead silence and dread fell on the whole place. He entered a small room behind the platform. The silence continued for about five minutes. It was like the longest day. Harieta feared for the life of her bosom childish friend, Anita. No one could read the mind of DD1 or what would follow next. Then the bell rang for the emergence of the cult leader. All eyes were fixed at the small door. When he eventually came out, he had changed from the black attire to a red one. A hush came over the congregation. Red robe signifies danger or death. But to Anita it was blood, the blood of atonement. DD1...

The collapse of the Carolingian Empire of Charles the Great led to a breakdown in central authority and an extended era of political fragmentation. The beginning of the revival in royal power dates to the reign of Louis VI, and the medieval French monarchy reached its height under Philip IV. A period of decline was arrested by Charles VII’s victory over the English in the mid-15th century which saw France emerge as the most powerful monarchy in Christendom by the end of the Middle Ages.