Search Results: Titles starting with K from Ohkwaho Books and Fine Art

This book is in good condition, some wear and folding to covers, some staining from partial removal of a sticker from front cover. Minor pencil marking first inner page by previous owner, no other markings inner pages. Spine intact, some creases. "A historical novel. Twice married and twice widowed, Katherine Parr had little taste for another marriage -- although she was in love with the handsome and brilliant Thomas Symour, whom she held entranced by her quick mind and quiet determination. King Henry had known of Katherine for some time, but it wasn't until he suddenly found himself in her comany again that he decided she would make him an excellent and attentive wife. Now that he was in his later years, she was too dignified to prove fatal to him. And so he announced his intention to make her his 6th wife -- much to Katherine's amazement -- and to Thomas Seymour's, who was by now, her fiancé..." Good Reads

This book is used, in 'as new' condition. No wear to covers, no markings inner pages. Spine intact, no creases.

"This classic romance novel tells the true story of the love affair that changed history—that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of most of the British royal family. Set in the vibrant 14th century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the story features knights fighting in battle, serfs struggling in poverty, and the magnificent Plantagenets—Edward III, the Black Prince, and Richard II—who ruled despotically over a court rotten with intrigue. Within this era of danger and romance, John of Gaunt, the king's son, falls passionately in love with the already married Katherine. Their well-documented affair and love persist through decades of war, adultery, murder, loneliness, and redemption. This epic novel of conflict, cruelty, and untamable love has become a classic since its first publication in 1954." Good Reads

"""Anya Seton (January 23, 1904… Read More

This book is in good condition. Minor wear to corners minor pencil marking first inner page. No other markings inner pages. Spine intact, some creases. "Katherine Howard (Six Wives of Henry VIII Series) Smith, Jessica" Good Reads

This book is in very good condition. Minor wear and folds to covers, minor pencil marking first inner page. No other markings inner pages. Spine intact, some creases. "Proud, yet gentle and deeply religious, young Katherine of Spain journeyed to Dover to marry Prince Arthur, eldest son of Henry VII. She expected to eventually be the queen of England-- but within a year she was left a widow-- and left at the mercy of the king and his court.Her rescuer was Henry, Arthur's young brother. In contrast to Katherine's petite darkness, Henry was tall, fair and fiery as is red hair. When he ascended the thrown as King Henry VIII, he promptly married Katherine-- and they were to repent in leisure. As her inability to provide Henry with a son slowly disintegrated their marriage, Katherine was sustained only by her unbreakable will and her abiding faith..." Good Reads

This book is new, never read, no wear to covers, no markings on inner pages, spine intact no creases. One black marker spot on bottom of book.

"An extraordinary journey of instinct and survival from the author of Gentle Ben. When Andy Evans stumbles upon the snow-covered wreckage of a small plane, he's shocked to find a survivor. Should he put the gravely injured dog out of his misery? The look in the animal's eyes says he's not ready to die. It turns out that Kavik's a champion sled dog, and soon he makes a full recovery. When his rightful owner finds out Kavik is alive, he wants the dog back. But Kavik has other ideas. Swiftly paced from the first page . . . dramatic and absorbing. The Horn Book"" Good Reads

"Walt Morey was an award-winning author of numerous works of children's fiction set in the U.S. Pacific Northwestand Alaska, the places where Morey lived for all of his life. His book Gentle Ben was the basis for the 1967 movie Gentle Giant and the 1967-1969 television show Gentle Ben. He… Read More

This book has been read, minor crease to back cover, no wear to front cover. No markings inner pages, spine intact, no creases.

"Twelve-year-old Sophie Foster has a secret. She's a Telepath—someone who hears the thoughts of everyone around her. It's a talent she's never known how to explain. Everything changes the day she meets Fitz, a mysterious boy who appears out of nowhere and also reads minds. She discovers there's a place she does belong, and that staying with her family will place her in grave danger. In the blink of an eye, Sophie is forced to leave behind everything and start a new life in a place that is vastly different from anything she has ever known. Sophie has new rules to learn and new skills to master, and not everyone is thrilled that she has come "home." There are secrets buried deep in Sophie's memory—secrets about who she really is and why she was hidden among humans—that other people desperately want. Would even kill for. In this page-turning debut, Shannon Messenger… Read More

This book is in very good condition. Minor wear to covers, minor pencil marking first inner page. No other markings inner pages, spine intact, some creases. "This is a wonderful historical tale of a doctor who is Jewish, and how he conceals his religion from Torquemada and the Spanish inquisition. He sends his family to the safety of Africa, selling everything he owned. He however keeps his gold home key, only to pass on the key, and the memories it represents." Good Reads "Born in Anamosa, Iowa, Schoonover attended the University of Wisconsin, then worked in advertising before becoming a novelist.Lawrence Schoonver had four daughters with his wife, Gertrude Hedwig Bonn: Judith Hedwig (1940), Mary Elizabeth (1942), Caroline Grace (1944–2005), and Virginia (1946).Writing mostly historical fiction, his attention to detail and historical accuracy won him great praise by his contemporaries. " Good Reads

This book has been read, some minor wear on covers, stamps and stickers from former library still present, no other markings on inner pages. Spine intact but some creases.

"Nashville Katz is about to be the main course of her own Early Bird Special! Has deli owner and former New Yorker Gwen "Nashville" Katz bitten off more than she can chew? The spunky owner of Murray's Pastrami Swami finds the McCoy's Bakery delivery guy dead right in front of her deli, and his employers want to settle someone's corned beef hash. With the pregnant wife of the expired driver due any minute and her policeman brother turning up the heat, Gwen's in quite a pickle--she's a prime suspect and is about to face a griddling hot enough to sizzle a Hebrew National Frankfurter. Clearing her name and finding the killer won't be easy. Is it a newspaper editor with an off-the-record grudge? A dirty cop? Maybe a vegan with a serious beef? Between juggling two romances and making salami sandwiches, Gwen barely has time to dig for… Read More

This book is used, in "as new" condition. No wear to covers, no markings inner pages. Spine intact, no creases.

"""In King Hereafter, Dorothy Dunnett's stage is the wild, half-pagan country of eleventh-century Scotland. Her hero is an ungainly young earl with a lowering brow and a taste for intrigue. He calls himself Thorfinn but his Christian name is Macbeth.

Dunnett depicts Macbeth's transformation from an angry boy who refuses to accept his meager share of the Orkney Islands to a suavely accomplished warrior who seizes an empire with the help of a wife as shrewd and valiant as himself."" Good Reads"

"Dorothy Dunnett OBE was a Scottish historical novelist. She is best known for her six-part series about Francis Crawford of Lymond, The Lymond Chronicles, which she followed with the eight-part prequel The House of Niccolò. She also wrote a novel about the real Macbeth called King Hereafter and a series of mystery novels centered on Johnson Johnson, a portrait painter/spy." Good Reads

This book is used, in "as new" condition, no wear to covers, very minor pencil marking first inner page. Spine intact, no creases.

"The life of Alfred the Great." Good Reads

"""""There have been few historical imaginations better informed or more gifted than Alfred Duggan's"" (The New Criterion).

Historian, archaeologist and novelist Alfred Leo Duggan wrote historical fiction and non-fiction about a wide range of subjects, in places and times as diverse as Julius Caesar's Rome and the Medieval Europe of Thomas Becket.

Although he was born in Argentina, Duggan grew up in England, and was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. After Oxford, he travelled extensively through Greece and Turkey, visiting almost all the sites later mentioned in his books. In 1935 helped excavate Constantine's palace in Istanbul.

Duggan came to writing fiction quite late in his life: his first novel about the First Crusade, Knight in Armour, was published in 1950, after which he published at least a book every… Read More

This book is in excellent condition, very minor wear to edges of covers. No markings inner pages, spine intact, no creases. "Forced to watch as Arthur's knights rape and murder his beloved sister, young Raven vows never to be helpless again, and when he demands retribution for the crime, he is taken on as part of the court in a fantastical story of romance, adventure, and revenge. " Good Reads "Cary James was born in Virginia, and received degrees from the College of William and Mary, and the University of California at Berkeley. For two decades he practiced architecture in the San Francisco Bay area, before becoming a professional writer. He has published short stories, poems, and book reviews, and served as chair of the Fiction Award Committee of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association. He is the author of Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel, a photographic essay on that now-demolished building, Julia Morgan, a young person's biography of the San Francisco architect' and King & Raven, his first… Read More

This book is in good condition, some wear to covers, some stamps to first inner page by previous owner. No other markings inner pages, spine intact, some creases. "A heroic new figure to excite the imaginings of future generations, he towers above the other knights of lgend and fable! he was Guy of Vienne. he wielded a mighty sword as Lord of Sachem. But all his valor could not move the tawny haired Alice, who dwelt alone in a ruined tower. She opened his spirit to new worlds, but the Crusades called him away. Then he became al-Adil, Imam of the Ishmaelites. he rose from the slave-traders block to become the spiritual leader of thousands of Moslems. And to the tempestuous Princess Yasmin he brought nights of magnificent, tumultuous passion. But fragments of a mysterious, alien past shimmered in his dreams, only to scatter beyond reach each morning." Good Reads

This book has been read, minor wear to covers, previous owner has signed first inner page. Some minor pencil markings inner page. Spine intact, some creases.

"Ten years after the aged Baroness Ailena Valaise was turned out of her castle by her son, Guy, Ailena returns, restored to her youth by a drink from the Holy Grail, and announces her plans to end Guy's reign." Good Reads

"I'm a novelist and student of the imagination living in Honolulu. Fantasies, visions, hallucinations or whatever we call those irrational powers that illuminate our inner life fascinate me. I'm particularly intrigued by the creative intelligence that scripts our dreams. And I love carrying this soulful energy outside my mind, into the one form that most precisely defines who we are: story." Good Reads

This book is in as new condition, no wear to covers or dust jacket, no markings inner pages. Spine intact, no creases. "A girl with no gifts must bargain for the power to fight her own mother's dark schemes—even if the price is her life.Heir to two lines of powerful witchdoctors, Arrah yearns for magic of her own. Yet she fails at bone magic, fails to call upon her ancestors, and fails to live up to her family's legacy. Under the disapproving eye of her mother, the Kingdom's most powerful priestess and seer, she fears she may never be good enough.But when the Kingdom's children begin to disappear, Arrah is desperate enough to turn to a forbidden, dangerous ritual. If she has no magic of her own, she'll have to buy it—by trading away years of her own life.Arrah's borrowed power reveals a nightmarish betrayal, and on its heels, a rising tide of darkness that threatens to consume her and all those she loves. She must race to unravel a twisted and deadly scheme… before the fight costs more than she… Read More

This book has been read, very minor wear to covers, some markings first inner pages by previous owner. Spine intact, some creases.

"As Uthr Pendragon battles to overthrow the tyrant Vortigern tragedy strikes. There is only one man who can lead Britain from the chaos of darkness into a new age of glory. Protected since birth, he is revealed as the new Pendragon." Good Reads

"""I escaped London in January 2013 to live in North Devon - but was born in Walthamstow, North East London in 1953 I began writing at the age of 13. Desperately wanting a pony of my own, but not being able to afford one, I invented an imaginary pony instead, writing stories about our adventures together at every spare opportunity. In the seventies I turned to science fiction - this was the age of Dr. Who, Star Trek and Star Wars. I still have an unfinished adventure about a bit of a rogue who travelled space with his family, making an honest(ish) living and getting into all sorts of scrapes. Perhaps one day I might finish it.

I… Read More

This book has been read, minor wear to covers, no markings inner pages, spine intact, some creases.

"From the murky Thames to the misty Moors of the North, murder stalks Welsh soldier-sleuth Owen Archer and his dearest friend… It is 1367. When Sir William of Wyndesore's page is found drowned in the icy Windsor Castle moat, some say he was done away with by Ned Townley-soldier, spy, and jealous lover, But Ned's struggle to prove his innocence to his ladylove, Mary, is thwarted by his abrupt dispatch to Yorkshire on a royal mission. Soon an unseen hand speeds Mary to a watery grave, while hot-tempered Ned vanishes in the northern wilds. And Archer, his old comrade-in-arms, must pursue him through a tangle of threats and butchered corpses, to save his life...or to bring him to justice. Owen, with his one sound eye, can see more than most with two, but what the bold ex-archer spies-with the help of his apothecary wife Lucie-will enmesh him and his friend in the dark and bloody intrigues of Church,… Read More

This book has been read, minor wear to back cover, no markings inner pages. Spine intact, no creases.

"""In the fifth novel in Kate Emerson's highly acclaimed Secrets of the Tudor Court series, a young gentlewoman catches King Henry the Eighth's roving eye.In 1533 and again in 1534, Henry the Eighth reportedly kept a mistress while he was married to Anne Boleyn. Now, that mistress comes to vivid life in Kate Emerson's The King's Damsel.
A real-life letter from Spanish Ambassador Eustace Chapuys, written on September 27, 1534, reported that the king had ""renewed and increased the love he formerly bore to another very handsome young lady of the Court"" and that the queen had tried ""to dismiss the damsel from her service."" Other letters from Eustace reveal that the mystery woman was a ""true friend"" of the Princess (later Queen) Mary, Henry's daughter by Catherine of Aragon. Though no one knows who ""the king's damsel"" really was, here Kate Emerson presents her as young gentlewoman Thomasine… Read More

This book has been read, minor wear to covers, minor pencil marking first inner page, no other markings inner pages. Spine intact, some creases. "England, 1604.Fourteen-year-old Frances Howard is tricked into falling in love with the handsome Robin Carr, 'The King's Favorite', so a certain member of court can control the Throne.There is one problem though – Frances is already married.Frances and Robin, however, fall madly and deeply in love, shocking everyone and throwing the plot into chaos.Caught up in a storm of lies, betrayal, witchcraft, and murder, Frances and Robin remain oblivious to the dangers around them and are willing to do anything to be together, including kill anyone who tries to get in their way.Set during the turbulent reign of King James I, 'The King's Favourite' by Marjorie Bowen takes readers behind the scenes of court intrigue more deadly than the Tudor Court.'The King's Favourite' is based on the true and shocking story of Frances Howard, an English noblewoman who was the… Read More

This book has been read, no wear to covers, very minor marking first inner page from previous owner. Spine intact, no creases.

"Katharine of Aragon was a proud Spanish beauty who became Queen of England. From the moment of Katharine's betrothal to Arthur, Prince of Wales, she looked upon herself as the future Queen of England. Arthur died just after their marriage and it was as the wife of his brother, Henry VIII, that she went to her coronation." Good Reads

"Norah Lofts, née Norah Ethel Robinson, (27 August 1904 – 10 September 1983) was a 20th-century British writer. She also wrote under the pen names Peter Curtis and Juliet Astley. She wrote more than fifty books specialising in historical fiction, but she also wrote some mysteries, short stories and non-fiction. Many of her novels, including her Suffolk Trilogy, follow the history of specific houses and their residents over several generations." Wikipedia

This book is in as new condition, no wear to covers, no markings inner pages. Spine intact, no creases. "Unwilling to fight but feeling a sense of duty, sixteen-year-old Martin Crawford joins Scotland's rebel army as a swift rider and master of espionage for the leader, Robert the Bruce." Good Reads "Maureen Mollie Hunter McIlwraith writes under the name Mollie Hunter. Mollie Hunter is one of the most popular and influential twentieth-century Scottish writers of fiction for children and young adults. Her work, which includes fantasy, historical fiction, and realism, has been widely praised and has won many awards and honors, such as the Carnegie Medal, the Phoenix Award, a Boston Globe - Horn Book Honor Award, and the Scottish Arts Council Award.There has also been great interest in Hunter's views about writing fiction, and she has published two collections of essays and speeches on the subject. Hunter's portrait hangs in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, and her papers and manuscripts are… Read More