Showing posts with label Carolyn Meyer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carolyn Meyer. Show all posts

November 23, 2013

Book Blast + Giveaway: Beauty's Daughter by Carolyn Meyer

Carolyn Meyer is giving Thanks for her readers! 




BEAUTY'S DAUGHTER: 


What is it like to be the daughter of the most beautiful woman in the world?

Hermione knows . . . her mother is Helen of Troy, the famed beauty of Greek myth. Helen is not only beautiful but also impulsive, and when she falls in love with charming Prince Paris, she runs off with him to Troy, abandoning her distraught daughter. Determined to reclaim their enchanting queen, the Greek army sails for Troy. Hermione stows away in one of the thousand ships in the fleet and witnesses the start of the legendary Trojan War.     In the rough Greek encampment outside the walls of Troy, Hermione’s life is far from that of a pampered princess. Meanwhile, her mother basks in luxury in the royal palace inside the city. Hermione desperately wishes for the gods and goddesses to intervene and end the brutal war—and to bring her love. Will she end up with the handsome archer Orestes, or the formidable Pyrrhus, leader of a tribe of fierce warriors? And will she ever forgive her mother for bringing such chaos to her life and the lives of so many others?
Carolyn Meyer is the author of more than fifty books for children and young adults, and has no intention of quitting any time soon. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.


The Story of Hermione and Helen of Troy: 

After years of writing about the young lives of fascinating women of power, from Cleopatra to Victoria, in BEAUTY'S DAUGHTER I've drawn on the myths of ancient Greece to tell the story of what it must have been like to be the daughter of the most beautiful woman in the world.

When Helen leaves her husband and daughter and runs off to Troy with handsome Paris, a thousand Greek ships sail for Troy to bring her back..and her daughter, Hermione, goes with them as a stowaway. Hermione's adventures on the Trojan beaches, her struggle for survival,, and her search for true love of her life drive this story.

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Victoria Rebels


Queen Victoria’s personal journals inform this captivating first-person account of one of history’s most prominent female leaders.

Queen Victoria most certainly left a legacy—under her rule as the longest reigning female monarch in history, the British Empire was greatly expanded and significant industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military changes occurred within the United Kingdom. To be a young woman in a time when few other females held positions of power was to lead in a remarkable age—and because Queen Victoria kept personal journals, this historical novel from award-winning author Carolyn Meyer shares authentic emotional insight along with accurate information, weaving a true story of intrigue and romance.

Cleopatra Confesses


It is the first century B.C. Cleopatra, the third of the pharaoh's six children, is the one that her father has chosen to be the next queen of Egypt. But when King Ptolemy is forced into exile, Cleopatra is left alone to fend for herself in a palace rife with intrigue and murder. Smart, courageous, ambitious and sensuously beautiful, she possesses the charm to cause two of history's most famous leaders to fall in love with her. But as her cruel sisters plot to steal the throne, Cleopatra realizes there is only one person on whom she can rely--herself.

In Cleopatra Confesses, award winning author Carolyn Meyer writes the story of the teenage girl who would become Egypt's most unforgettable queen, from her early years to her her ultimate destiny.

The Wild Queen


Mary Stuart was just five years old when she was sent to France to be raised alongside her future husband. But when the frail young king dies, eighteen-year-old Mary is stripped of her title as Queen of France and set adrift in the harsh world, alone. Determined to reign over what is rightfully hers, Mary returns to Scotland. Hopingthat a husband will help her secure the coveted English throne, she marries again, but the love and security she longs for elude her. Instead, the fiery young queen finds herself embroiled in a murder scandal that could cost her the crown. And her attempts to bargain with her formidable “sister queen,” Elizabeth I of England, could cost her her very life.
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March 5, 2013

Victoria Rebels Blog Tour: Guest Post & Giveaway



Victoria Rebels
Author: Carolyn Meyer
Genre: YA Historical Fiction
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Publisher: Paula Wiseman Books

Description:

Queen Victoria’s personal journals inform this captivating first-person account of one of history’s most prominent female leaders.

Queen Victoria most certainly left a legacy—under her rule as the longest reigning female monarch in history, the British Empire was greatly expanded and significant industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military changes occurred within the United Kingdom. To be a young woman in a time when few other females held positions of power was to lead in a remarkable age—and because Queen Victoria kept personal journals, this historical novel from award-winning author Carolyn Meyer shares authentic emotional insight along with accurate information, weaving a true story of intrigue and romance.
  


The request for Top Ten list of my favorite books always stops me in my tracks, because I simply don't have ten favorites of anything--OK, maybe food or cities--but definitely not books. My life is books. I'm surrounded by them, involved with them constantly, both as writer and reader. So please let me take this request in another direction. Let me tell you about the books I read while I was writing Victoria Rebels. 

Queen Victoria: A Personal History by biographer Christopher Hibbert was my starting point, so that I could get an overview of Victoria's life. Then I moved on to two biographies about the young Victoria: Becoming Victoria by Lynne Vallone which had beautiful illustrations, and Alison Plowden's The Young Victoria. Those led to A Royal Conflict: Sir John Conroy and the Young Victoria, by Katherine Hudson. Next I began filling in the gaps with two versions of Daily Life in Victorian England, one by Hibbert, another by Sally Mitchell. I referred often to Lytton Strachey's 1921 volume, Queen Victoria, but it was this discovery at the university library that brought it all together: The girlhood of Queen Victoria; a selection from Her Majesty's diaries between the years 1832 and 1840, edited by Viscount Esher and published in 1912, eleven years after her death in 1901

After mining all of this wonderful material, naturally I searched the internet for websites that might add interesting and colorful bits and pieces. This is the process I've used with all of my historical novels. Some of the books go back to the library once I've used them; often, though, when a book is particularly useful, I order a copy and mark it up fearlessly, after which it retires to my shelf. But to find a favorite among all that? Not a chance.

A huge thank you to Carolyn for stopping by the blog today and sharing some of her favorite and most influential books with us!

Carolyn Meyer is as versatile a writer as you will find. Along with historical fiction and realistic novels for young adults she has written nonfiction for young adults and books for younger readers on topics as diverse as the Amish, the Irish, Japanese, Yup'ik Eskimos, a rock band, rock tumbling, bread baking, and coconuts. And ten of her books have been chosen as Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association. In her most recent historical novels she has dealt with the young lives of Mary Tudor, Princess Elizabeth, Anastasia, and Isabel of Castilla, Spain.  

 
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