Saint Joan of Arc - Quest for Peace

Title: Saint Joan of Arc - Quest for Peace

Authors/Illustrators: Brunor & Dominique Bar

Rating: ★★★★☆

Age Category: Middle Grade

    The year was 1429, and the Hundred Years' War was raging. The Dauphin, the rightful king of France, had been denied his throne, his hereditary lands torn from him. His enemies schemed to crown the English king as monarch of both England and France. Only a few French strongholds remained loyal. Hope was trickling away...

    But outside the besieged town of Orleans, a seventeen-year-old girl from Domremy, her white and gold banner flying, would lead the French army to an improbably victory over their English oppressors. "What God commands must be right," she declared.

    Who was this astonishing young woman? How did she accomplish the feats that military experts called impossible? And what would become of her - and of her heroic quest for peace?

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“Memories are not created from things you said you would do. They are built from things you have done.” — Unknown — 

Soleasi Nel Mio Cor by Petrarch

Soleasi Nel Mio Cor

by Petrarch

She ruled in beauty o'er this heart of mine,
A noble lady in a humble home,
And now her time for heavenly bliss has come,
'Tis I am mortal proved, and she divine.
The soul that all its blessings must resign,
And love whose light no more on earth finds room,
Might rend the rocks with pity for their doom,
Yet none their sorrows can in words enshrine;
They weep within my heart; and ears are deaf
Save mine alone, and I am crushed with care,
And naught remains to me save mournful breath.
Assuredly but dust and shade we are,
Assuredly desire is blind and brief,
Assuredly its hope but ends in death.

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“Some memories never fade, they just get stronger with time.” — Unknown — 

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“Every moment is a memory in the making.” — Unknown — 

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“You shouldn’t wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.” — Heidi Klum — 

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“We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.” — A.A. Milne —