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Blog post…”Ms Kennedy proves a fine storyteller and I was engaged right from the start and carried along by the drama. It is claimed by historians that the Protestant Reformation shaped modern day Europe, helping to draw the boundaries of each nation state, as powerful forces coalesced around their preferred new religious leader, and thus their preferred state-sanctioned Christian religion. In Zurich, Ulrich Zwingli led the rebellion against the unyielding edifice of the Roman Catholic Chu
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Blog postWhat started here on WordPress as a blog, is now an award-winning memoir. One reader said, “I started reading your book today. Martha—I love it…If ever there was a love story—this is it.”
It is a love story. Another reader says, “Ms. Kennedy’s narratives are rich with sensory descriptions and heart-warming adventures. Anyone who loves hiking and dogs will love this book.”
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“A beautiful book filled with vivid imagery and profound joy.” “Th -
Blog postCHAUCER BOOK AWARDS 2017 Short Listers for Historical Fiction pre-1750s This is the Official Semi-Finalists List of the Authors and Titles of Works that have been SHORT-LISTED for the Chaucer 2017 Book Awards. These titles will now compete for the First In Category positions. The Chaucer Awards FIRST IN CATEGORY sub-genres are: Pre-Historical Fiction, Ancient Historical Fiction, World/International History (non-western culture historical fiction pre-1750s), Americas-His
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Blog postChristmas at the Leper Community in the village of Gfenn, Switzerland, sometime in the mid-13th century. Posted on “Before the Second Sleep” — book blog by Lisl Zlitni, part of her Journey to Zürich series.
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Blog postI’m very excited about participating in the upcoming Book Blizzard, the San Luis Valley Holiday Book Fair, Friday, December 2 at 5 PM – 8 PM in the Nielsen Library at Adams State University, 208 Edgemont Blvd, Alamosa, Colorado
I will have some copies of each of my novels, Martin of Gfenn, Savior, and The Brothers Path for sale and to sign. During the evening, I’ll read from The Brothers Path, a story that looks at the events of the Protestant Reformation and thei -
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Blog postLisl Zlitni has kindly invited me to write a guest post on her blog, Before the Second Sleep, in connection with a series she’s doing on my novels. Here’s Journey to Zürich.
Zürich Through Time and Space
by Martha Kennedy
Grossmünster (Great Church) My relationship with Zürich did not start well. On my first visit in 1994, the labyrinthine passageways in the Niederdorf, Zürich’s old town, felt sinister and claustrophobic. The whole thing was “t -
Blog postMartin of Gfenn BY MARTHA KENNEDY
Find & buy on Amazon In Martha Kennedy’s quiet, intensely moving novel Martin of Gfenn, the title character is given at a young age by his father to the Augustine Canons of St. Martin in thirteenth-century Zurich. The boy quickly demonstrates a talent for art, which the Augustinians encourage with formal training. At the threshold of his adult life, Martin contracts one of the scourges of the Middle Ages, leprosy (the disease is described with a -
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As a Baby Duck Listens to Thunder: A Foreign Expert in English, Guangzhou China, 1982-83
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Free Magic Show by Martha Kennedy (2011-05-30)
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