You have been assigned to cover the latest royal wedding. That's easy enough: remark on the lovely flowers, oooh and aaah over the wedding dress; make fun of the more outlandish hats. Piece of cake, right? Of course; but who is that lovely blond dressed in full tiara and sash?
Royalty has always mystified the masses. As a reporter your job is to draw back those curtains, but how can you do that if you don't know what's there yourself? Don't want to feel stupid about royal families anymore? This book is a basic guide to help reporters, and other royal followers, identify European royalty of all stripes and give cursory information about who they are and why anyone cares.
Welcome to the 2019 edition. This guide is updated every January to include the latest members to join the royal families, either by birth or marriage, and to say a final farewell to those which have left us in the past year.

2019 Reporter's Guide to the Royal Families of Europe

Daniel A. Willis

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In the 31st century, Naiche Decker joined the Uniterrae military seeking revenge for the death of her mother in battle against the Eternals. After being assigned to a deep space mission to root out the enemy's home world, she finds so much more, questioning if revenge was what she really sought in the first place.
We Have Met the Enemy harkens back to the classic science fiction of Asimov, Clarke and Herbert, but with the richly developed characters of a Roddenberry-esque story.

We Have Met the Enemy

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Felicia Watson

Science Fiction

No royal family has captured the imagination or inspired dreams dripping in diamonds like the Imperial House of Russia, the Romanoffs. For most, their story ended in that damp and musty cellar in Ekaterinburg in July 1918. But that was only the end of one chapter.   While the Bolsheviks did their level best to rid the world of the Romanoff name, they failed. There were survivors, and those hearty souls continued the family. Now, a century after the murders, it is an appropriate time to reflect on how the family has lived in exile, yet maintained their heritage.

The Romanoffs 100 Years Later

History

Russia

Alene Baron is the proud owner of Whipped and Sipped, a café that offers healthful, delectable food and drinks. Her life consists of dreaming up new recipes, raising her three children, and arguing with her ex-husband--until her neighbor and close friend is murdered. She imagines nearly everyone she knows as a possible suspect. After a second attack, Alene is determined to find the true killer ... before she, or her family, become targets.

Battered: A Whipped and Sipped Mystery (Whipped and Sipped Mysteries)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Gottlieb, G P

Mystery

Where the Allegheny Meets the Monongahela

Romance

Watson, Felicia

LGBTQ+ Romance

Pippa is a typical teenager, if you don't consider her inability to operate a cell phone. But then a-typical things start to happen. First her mother dies in a mysterious fire, then a fire seems to come after her. After the ground tries to eat her friend, she runs right into the arms of the most beautiful boy she has ever seen, Pan ... Then things get really strange.When Pan opens a whole new world up to Pippa, she finds herself attending fairy weddings, running with satyrs, and battling a mad centaur. She also learns there are many secrets being kept, some about her and her family, and worse, they are kept from her. But, all she really wants is to find her way back into Pan's embrace. About the author: J.M. Stephen is an author and educator with a penchant for mythologies of all kinds. She loves the woods, secluded places, reading Virginia Woolf and being out in nature. She has taught writing, literature and publishing at The Gotham Writer's Workshop and The New School. Her articles and short stories have appeared in numerous publications. She lives in New York City with her family.

Into the Fairy Forest (Chronicles of Pan)

Teen & Young Adult

J.M. Stephen

Literature & Fiction

A lover in and of the darkness ...Violaine, a devotee of books and learning, finds herself sold by her father to a mysterious nobleman to become his companion. Fearing herself at the mercy of a monster, Violaine instead succumbs to the seductive spell of her magical new home, and the love of a man she has never seen, who comes to her only in the darkness of night.The Ch teau de Boisaulne is a place of many mysteries, but also a refuge for children of the Enlightenment in a time when Europe still languishes under the repressive chains of monarchy and superstition. But modern thought meets ancient lore, as the castle borders the forest lair of the roi des aulnes, an ogre said to be the ancestor of Violaine's unseen lover...or are they one and the same?

The Prisoner of the Castle of Enlightenment

Therese Doucet

Fantasy

Like so many noble women before her, Leonora d'Este was betrothed behind her back and without her consent. She was to marry Prince Carlo di Gesualdo, and that was that. She did her duty to her family, knowing only that her fianc was a widower with a son from the previous wife. It was only after her vows that she learned her husband murdered his wife and her lover in a jealous rage. Given the woman's adultery, Leonora understood and forgave Carlo. But soon she noticed odd behavior from her husband. Was he slipping into madness? Could Leonora care for her husband ad protect herself at the same.This vivid drama of noble life in 16th century Italy plays out through the eyes of Leonora's faithful lady-in-waiting and friend, Livia, who has her own romantic problems. She is hopelessly in love with a young man whom she can never marry, and he loves her too but is promised to another. Will anyone find happiness on The Road to Gesualdo?

The Road to Gesualdo

Erika, Rummel

Genre Fiction

"And Cain left the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden." - Genesis 4:16Nod is never mentioned again in the Bible. Where was it? Where did the people of Nod come from? What became of Cain? Now we have the story of Nod, as told through the eyes of Lailah, the first person to encounter Cain outside of his family. The story of Cain and Abel is brought alive, and the aftermath examined in a way never before told. But more than that we get the story of a primitive people becoming aware of the world around them.

Hotel Historian Rebecca Bridger conducts popular "ghost" tours of the Griffins Keep, though she doesn't believe in such things - until personal encounters with the paranormal rock her skeptical paradigm. But when proposed changes threaten the hotel's higher function as a spiritual portal, only her complete faith in the hotel's magic and its lingering guests will avert supernatural disaster.

Ghost Tour

Claryn Vaile

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