Charismatic, insatiable and cruel, Henry VIII was, as John Guy shows, a king who became mesmerized by his own legend - and in the process destroyed and remade England. Said to be a 'pillager of the commonwealth', this most instantly recognizable of kings remains a figure of extreme contradictions: magnificent and vengeful; a devout traditionalist who oversaw a cataclysmic rupture with the church in Rome; a talented, towering figure who nevertheless could not bear to meet people's eyes when he talked to them.
A thoroughly enthralling book that proves the truth of the adage, "with age comes wisdom"
Based on video recorded interviews and extensive surveys of more than 500 Centenarians, this unforgettable book brings you into a world few human beings have ever known. What must it be like to have lived an entire century—and not just any century, but one of the most fertile, productive, cataclysmic, revolutionary hundred-year periods in the history of the human race?
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Forget What You Cant Remember
Zombies! Doomsday! And someone who actually finished writing a novel in a month! Mary, Lance, Brady, Lorraine, and the Sergeant are a handful of the survivors from a zombie outbreak that decimates a city. Each of them responds a little differently in the aftermath of the tragedy and to the inexplicable and possibly unrelated memory loss some of them seem to be suffering. Paul is obsessed with a worldwide cataclysmic event he's been predicting for years, and while everyone else seems able to go on with their lives in its wake, he just can't let it go.
Demons begin to rise from the depths of the abyss, Shayol, to plague the mortal world with chaos and destruction. And this time, the Gods are unable to interfere with them, leaving the world's Fate in a questionable state. But when all hope seems lost, five mysterious travelers suddenly appear to stop a cataclysmic war of epic proportion, and put an end to the rising Demon Reign.
