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A professional writer for more than thirty years and the recipient of the 2003 Grand Master Award from the World Horror Convention, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has sold over seventy books and more than sixty works of short fiction. Yarbro lives in her hometown --- Berkeley, California --- with two autocratic cats. When not busy writing, she rides her Norwegian Fjord horse Pikku or attends the symphony or opera. Night Blooming is the 15th novel in her historical series featuring the vampire Count Saint-Germain. The 16th in the series, Midnight Harvest, will be available this fall from Warner Books. Her website is located at http://www.chelseaquinnyarbro.com.
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Night Blooming
At the forced invitation of 8th century Germanic king Karl-lo-Magne (Charlemagne), Hiermon Ragoczy de Santus Germainius, a dark and strange man rumored to have traveled to many far places, makes the dangerous journey to France. He is called to validate the authenticity of the king's newly purchased maps, but unbeknownst to Karl-lo-Magne, Ragoczy's knowledge stems from centuries of being chased from these countries, rather than traveling through them. Despite his longing for peace, he yields to Karl-lo-Magne. What he does not expect, though, is to meet the albino woman, Gynethe Mehaut, who shares his curse of solitude. Showing signs of stigmata, she seeks peace from the church. But when she is taken to Rome, accusations of witchcraft fly, and she is left with a difficult choice-one that even Ragoczy cannot deny.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Summer Reading List
A History of Venice
by John Julius Norwich
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Brothers Grimm, Josef Scharl (Illustrator), Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (Contributor), James Stern (Editor)
I'm comparing two translations of the Grimm's Fairy Tales.
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
by Jack Zipes (Translator), John B. Gruella (Illustrator)
Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut
by Emily White
Penhallow
by Georgette Heyer
I plan on rereading 4 Georgette Heyer mysteries (I haven't decided which yet, other than Penhallow).
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