Books with author Mortimer

Now in paperback, a literary time machine that takes readers into the sights, smells, and tastes of the fourteenth century—a book that is revolutionary in its concept and startling in its portrayal of humanity.The past is a foreign country. This is your guidebook. A time machine has just transported you back into the fourteenth century. What do you see? How do you dress? How do you earn a living and how much are you paid? What sort of food will you be offered by a peasant or a monk or a lord? And more important, where will you stay? The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England is not your typical look at a historical period. This radical new approach shows us that the past is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived. Through the use of daily chronicles, letters, household accounts, and poems of the day, Mortimer transports you back in time, providing answers to questions typically ignored by traditional historians. You will learn how to greet people on the street, what to use as toilet paper, why a physician might want to taste your blood, and how to know whether you are coming down with leprosy. The result is the most astonishing social history book you’re ever likely to read: revolutionary in its concept, informative and entertaining in its detail, and startling for its portrayal of humanity in an age of violence, exuberance, and fear.

Mystery. Magic. Murder?My new roommate at Hybrid Academy is a little bit strange.She's never around.She's always leaving weird potions and books out.She's a neat-freak who can't stand the fact that my familiar is an actual, real-life cat.Oh, and there's a chance that she's the one causing trouble at Hybrid Academy.There's only one way to find out.Hi, I'm Max: shapeshifting wolf and wannabe witch.This is my story.

An entertaining, accessible guide to Elizabethan England—the latest in the Time Traveler’s Guide seriesAcclaimed historian Ian Mortimer shows readers that the past is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived. Using diaries, letters, books, and other writings of the day, Mortimer offers a masterful portrait of daily life in Elizabethan England, re-creating the sights, sounds, and customs of the sixteenth century from the perspective of both peasants and royals. Through this lens, we can begin to understand Queen Elizabeth’s subjects not only as a people profoundly shaped by the time in which they lived, but also as the people who shaped the world we know and the people we are today.

When the first shifters were created, they were strong. Wild. Powerful. Impossibly fast. They were everything.And then they weren't.Now shifters are hunted. They're hated. They're despised by everyone in the entire world, and that poses a pretty big problem for me because, well, I'm one of them.On the eve of my 18th birthday, I discover that I have the shifter gene. Usually, shifters learn to change into their animal forms long before their birthday, but I guess growing up in foster care and struggling to survive caused my body just a little bit of stress.Now I'm changing into a cat without any notice and struggling to change back, and as it turns out, I only have one option: Shifter Falls Academy.It's a school for people like me, and it's hidden away deep in the Wolf Mountains.I don't want to go to this school.I don't want to go hiding away until I learn to use my powers.I don't want any of these things, but the truth is that monsters are real, and they're coming after me with everything they've got.Fans of Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Supernatural – get ready to explore a world where magic is real and anything can happen.

This compilation of witty mysteries captures John Mortimer's deft writing. Rumpole a la Carte, a delightful discourse on the British legal system, takes us from a restaurant battle over Rumpole's mashed spuds to a confrontation with a detective-novelist on a ship. The zany yarns of Rumpole on Trial are ingenious: devil worshippers, Juvenile Court, a mysterious seductress searching for a barrister to defend her husband for a murder not yet committed, and courtroom strategies a little too lunatic force Rumpole to face the Disciplinary Committee of the Bar Council. Rumpole and the Angel of Death offers a comic commentary on cruelty to animals, human rights, and the fallibility of the justice system. The Third Rumpole Omnibus promises insight and laughter from the barrister who's "as much a detective as Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot" (The Boston Sunday Globe).

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there...Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see, and hear, and smell? Where would you stay? What are you going to eat? And how are you going to test to see if you are going down with the plague?In The Time Traveller's Guide Ian Mortimer's radical new approach turns our entire understanding of history upside down. History is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived, whether that's the life of a peasant or a lord. The result is perhaps the most astonishing history book you are ever likely to read; as revolutionary as it is informative, as entertaining as it is startling.

Would you rather walk on hot coals or swim in the Arctic Ocean? Learn to fly a helicopter or learn to perform open-heart surgery? Be frozen and then thawed out in the future at the age you are now or live forever? Welcome to the book of choices, where every answer brings you one step closer to discovering your hidden self. Want to find out your ideal career? The country that best suits your idea of the good life? The species of your inner animal? Through in-depth exploration and analysis of the inner workings of your mind, we'll peel you back layer by layer and you won't even realize it. Psychologist, comedian, and youth motivational speaker Dr. Matt Bellace dissects your answers and reveals things you didn't even know we were assessing in this hysterically fun quiz book. Each vividly colored page is so exciting, fun, and revealing that you will want to share with your parents, friends, and yes, even your brother and sister. So stop wasting your time trying to discover the true you--let us do it for you!

Shifter Falls Academy is known for three things: great food, great teachers, and great scenery. Notice that I didn't say great students because, well, it's not exactly known for having great students. In fact, some of the students at my school would best be described as scum-of-the-Earth.Shifter Falls isn't exactly a high school or a college. It's something completely in-between. It's a place where people can learn to use their powers for good or for evil, and unfortunately, a lot of students choose to use those powers for evil.I've been at Shifter Falls for an entire year when I realize that something about my Shifting on Command instructor seems a little...strange. He's constantly looking over his shoulder like he's being watched, and everything about him is really, ridiculously private.What's he hiding in the attic of the school?And why is it so important to him that every single student learn to shift effortlessly without hesitation?He knows something we don't know, and I'm not going to stop until I find out what.Author's Note: Shifter Falls is an adventure academy story full of twists, turns, and a sprinkling of romance. Perfect for fans of Harry Potter and Hybrid Academy.

The past is a foreign country. This is your guidebook.A time machine has just transported you back to the fourteenth century. What do you see? How do you dress? How do you earn a living and how much are you paid? What sort of food will you be offered by a peasant or a monk or a lord? And more important, where will you stay? The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England is not your typical look at a historical period. This radical new approach shows us that the past is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived. All facets of everyday life in this fascinating period are revealed, from the horrors of the plague and war to the ridiculous excesses of roasted larks and medieval haute couture. Through the use of daily chronicles, letters, household accounts, and poems of the day, Mortimer transports you back in time, providing answers to questions typically ignored by traditional historians. You will learn how to greet people on the street, what to use as toilet paper, why a physician might want to taste your blood, and how to know whether you are coming down with leprosy. From the first step on the road to the medieval city of Exeter, through meals of roast beaver and puffin, Mortimer re-creates this strange and complex period of history. Here, the lives of serf, merchant, and aristocrat are illuminated with re-markable detail in this engaging literary journey. The result is the most astonishing social history book you’re ever likely to read: revolutionary in its concept, informative and entertaining in its detail, and startling for its portrayal of humanity in an age of violence, exuberance, and fear.

Seducing Ethan (Knight Security 6) is the 7th and LAST book in USA Today Bestselling author, Carole Mortimer’s, Amazon #1 Knight Security series. This is a spin-off series to the #1 Bestselling Alpha Series, so come and say hi to old friends and meet a lot of new ones.Includes BONUS novella – Resisting Alexandre (Knight Security 0.5)Be sure to look for Carole Mortimer’s NEW contemporary series, Hearts of Steele, coming soon!Author’s Note: The stories in the Knight Security, Alpha, Regency Unlaced, and Regency Sinners series have stronger sexual content and language than my other books. These books have the UNICORN LOGO. Returning from a late night swim and discovering someone waiting for him in the darkness of his finca is the last thing Ethan was expecting. Discovering that someone to be Talia Krechenko, is even more unwelcome.Talia’s father has disappeared. Alone and frightened, unsure if she’s being followed, Talia has no one else but Ethan Knight to turn to for help. The last thing she expected was for him to say no.It’s been over three years since the two of them last met, and Talia is no longer an infatuated teenager but a woman who knows exactly what she wants. What she’s always wanted. Ethan.Can Talia persuade Ethan into helping her to find her father, or is it already too late?Carole Mortimer has written over 225 books, in contemporary and Regency romance, and is the Recipient of the prestigious 2015 Romance Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She is an Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Romance Author—ever. 2014 Romantic Times Pioneer of Romance. Was recognized by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012, for her “outstanding service to literature”.Other books by Carole MortimerContemporary Knight Security Series – Spin-off to Amazon #1 Alpha SeriesResisting Alexandre (Knight Security 0.5) previously publishing in Royals & Rogues anthology.Defying Asher (Knight Security 1)Challenging Gabriel (Knight Security 2)Capturing Caleb (Knight Security 3)Tempting Zander (Knight Security 4)Enticing Ian (Knight Security 5)Seducing Ethan (Knight Security 6)Series is now complete. Contemporary Alpha Series:Christmas Alpha (Alpha 1)Dark Alpha (Alpha 2)Shadow Alpha (Alpha 3)Midnight Alpha (Alpha 4)Renegade Alpha (Alpha 5)Warrior Alpha (Alpha 6)Rogue Alpha (Alpha 7)Savage Alpha (Alpha 8)Series is now complete.Regency Unlaced Series:The Duke’s Mistress (Regency Unlaced 1)Claimed by the Marquis (Regency Unlaced 2)Taken by the Earl (Regency Unlaced 3)Pursued by the Viscount (Regency Unlaced 4)Desired by a Lord (Regency Unlaced 5)Captured by a Gentleman (Regency Unlaced 6)Pleasured by a Duke (Regency Unlaced 7)Seduced by a Marquis (Regency Unlaced 8)Tamed by the Earl (Regency Unlaced 9)Series now complete.Regency Sinners Series:Wicked Torment (Regency Sinners 1)Wicked Surrender (Regency Sinners 2)More books to come in this series.

Through the seasons, Cat and Mouse work together in the garden.Together, they watch seeds that turn into plants in the spring,and plants that turn into flowers in the summer,and flowers that turn into pumpkins in the fall!And when their pumpkins are finally ready, Mouse gives the best surprise of all to his friend, Cat!Anne Mortimer’s charming story about friendship and discovery is perfect for any season.