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Boeken van Laurel A. Rockefeller in het Nederlands

Nederlands is een prachtige taal. Vaak verward met Duits, is het een aparte taal en de moedertaal van enkele minder bekende maar toch zeer invloedrijke vrouwen uit de geschiedenis. Hier zijn de biografieën van Laurel A. Rockefeller beschikbaar in het Nederlands.

Keizerin Wu Zetian

De meest gehate vrouw in de Chinese geschiedenis!

Reis meer dan duizend jaar terug in de tijd en ontmoet de eerste en enige keizerin van China. Ze werd geboren als Wu Zhao, de ongewenste dochter van Kanselier ...

Livres en français : descriptions de livres et liens de vente au détail

J’adore le français. J’aurais aimé que tous mes livres soient en français – en version imprimée et audio. Le français est la plus belle langue du monde. Voici tous les livres traduits en français jusqu’à présent, ainsi que des liens vers Apple, Amazon et Everand et des descriptions pour chacun.

Aliénor d’Aquitaine: Édition Élèves & Enseignants

Jeune fille, Aliénor était le parti le plus recherché de toute la Chrétienté… et pas seulement à cause de sa beauté. Fille aînée du duc Guil...

First lines: Biographies by Laurel A. Rockefeller

If you still use twitter, you may have noticed discussions among the writing community regarding how best to start your latest work in progress. Lots of theories prevail, but often the best way to get ideas on how to “break the ice” on a story is simply to read the opening lines of existing books.

For me, I tend to use two or three strategies, depending on the book. Most of my biographies employ Prologues as introductions. These are usually set after the death of the biography subject (the...

Book Trailers: the Peers of Beinan series

If you follow the writing communities on both facebook and twitter, book trailers are often treated as one of the best tools for showcasing an independent author’s books – along with 3D cover art.

Here then are the trailers I made with Rachel Boswick for each of the Peers of Beinan series books.

Good-bye A672E92 QuintusSay Good-bye to the Beinarian home world.The Poisoned GroundThe Poisoned Ground. Based in part on conditions in western Pennsylvania.The Great S...

Corann Meets His Father. Excerpt from The Great Succession Crisis

Prince Yubi from “Benji, Zax, and the Alien Prince.”

Long before I devoted my life to history education I was a novelist. Yeah, that seems far fetched to me too! But from 2010 to 2012 I actually wrote a science fiction romance. It was intended to be fan fiction for “Benji, Zax, and the Alien Prince,” that beloved part of my youth. Instead The Great Succession Crisis grew into a five (six if you count The First King flash fiction) book series: The Peers of Beinan.

In this scene Lord...

The Ninth Doctor: Why I disagree with the notion of Nine as a romantic doctor

The Ninth Doctor is my doctor – tied with Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi. As an actor, Christopher Eccleston is perfection in every role he takes up. I like everything he does – not at all unlike my similar positive feelings towards Peter Capaldi’s talents and skills as an actor.

Recently I watched for the first time the “Doctor Who Confidential” segments that appear as the final DVD for season 1 of Doctor Who – but not in the “Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant” Doctor Who boxed...

Off the Beaten Path: Must-Visit Favorite Places in Manhattan

I love New York City. I especially love Brooklyn, New York. From 2000 to 2011 I lived in first northern New Jersey (where my beloved Mithril was hatched), then midwood Brooklyn. Along the way I discovered places I never knew about when I was tourist back in the 1990s coming with my boyfriend to visit his family living in the area. Most of these places tourists never hear about. Allow me to share with you my top picks for going off the beaten path when in the area.

Carriage Rides a...

Great Expectations: Soulmates and Romance

Soulmates are a popular topic in American culture. The notion that there is one perfect romantic match for everyone and that once you find that soulmate you will get married and live happily every after. The criteria for being a soulmate is based on more material and value compatibility over spirituality of course. If, after the fullness of time, one or the other partner evolves in a different direction and the relationship fails, the match is rebranded. Maybe they were not soulmates after al...

Erzählbiografien auf Deutsch: Buchbeschreibungen und Einzelhandelslinks

In den Vereinigten Staaten wird Deutsch oft als eine Sprache außer Acht gelassen, die von den Millionen Amerikanern, die deutsche Vorfahren haben, abgesehen von ihrer Herkunftssprache, stammt, darunter auch ich.

Aber Deutschland und die deutsche Geschichte sind tatsächlich von entscheidender Bedeutung für die Welt, mit Beiträgen, die weit über die Vorstellungskraft des typischen Amerikaners hinausgehen.

Deutsch ist eine von vier Sprachen, die bei Audible und anderen großen Hörbuchhändlern ...

Serious about Series: Retail Links to your favorite series by Laurel A. Rockefeller

If you love to read or love to write for that matter, you know that book series are all the rage. But how do you find all the books in the series you love?

Many, but not all retailers, collect or at least tag books that come from the same series. In my experience these pages are often incomplete – which is why this blog includes all the books from each series in specific posts so dedicated. But what if you don’t want to scroll through all of that here? Easy: browse this post and you ...