Review: Earlier in the year I read Emiko Jean’s Tokyo Ever After and fell in love with it. Which means upping her newly acquired princess game.īut at what cost? Izumi will do anything to help her parents achieve their happily ever after, but what if playing the perfect princess means sacrificing her own? Will she find a way to forge her own path and follow her heart? At the threat of everything falling apart, Izumi vows to do whatever it takes to help win over the council. And on top of it all, her bodyguard turned boyfriend makes a shocking decision about their relationship. The Imperial Household Council refuses to approve the marriage citing concerns about Izumi and her mother’s lack of pedigree. Her parents’ engagement hits a brick wall. A royal wedding is on the horizon! Izumi’s life is a Tokyo dream come true. Her parents have even rekindled their college romance and are engaged. Her stinky dog, Tamagotchi, is living with her in Tokyo. She has a perfect bodyguard turned boyfriend. Now, she’s overcome conniving cousins, salacious press, and an imperial scandal to finally find a place she belongs. Summary: When Japanese-American Izumi Tanaka learned her father was the Crown Prince of Japan, she became a princess overnight. Title: Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After #2)
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The story sort of reminded me of the Biblical story of Esther. She becomes the main scribe to the queen. Sarah and Darius' story continues in Harvest of Gold. In Harvest of Rubies Tessa tells the story of Sarah Nehemiah's cousin who unlike most women of the time can read and write and speak many languages. Sarah soon learns that she has something of worth to offer beyond her ability with languages and sums her very being proves to be a blessing to others, particularly the aristocrat Darius, whom she is given to in marriage. Ironically, it isn't failure-but success-that causes Sarah to lose her only source of external validation. In her early childhood years, Sarah experienced the death of her mother and her father's subsequent emotional distance, and she came to two conclusions: God does not care about me, and my accomplishments are the measure of my worth.Ĭatapulted into the center of the Persian court, Sarah is working too many hours, rubbing elbows with royalty, and solving intrigues for the Queen. There is only one problem: She's a woman in a man's court. The prophet Nehemiah's cousin can speak numerous languages, keep complex accounts, write on rolls of parchment and tablets of clay, and solve great mysteries. Harvest of Gold Sampler Tessa Afshar 4.65 91 ratings3 reviews Genres Biblical Fiction 42 pages, ebook First published MaBook details & editions About the author Tessa Afshar 17 books2,136 followers TESSA AFSHAR is a Christy and Christian Book Award winning author of historical and biblical fiction, and non-fiction. 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"Essential reading for coming generations."-Keith ThomasĬopyright: 1999 Book Details Book Quality: Publisher Quality ISBN-13: 9780393285475 Related ISBNs: Evans brings "a remarkable range, a nose for the archives, a taste for controversy, and a fluent pen" (The New Republic) to this splendid work. Evans defends this commitment to historical knowledge from the attacks of postmodernist critics who see all judgments as subjective. Historians were being forced to face up to postmodern thinking, which argued that, because all texts were the product of. To materials that are frustratingly meager, or overwhelmingly profuse, they bring an array of tools that range from agreed-upon rules of documentation and powerful computer models to the skilled investigator's sudden insight, all employed with the aim of reconstructing a verifiable, usable past. 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