Laurel A. Rockefeller

Born, raised, and educated in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, author-historian Laurel A. Rockefeller has published over twenty book titles since August 2012. Best known for the Legendary Women of World History biography Series, she is a tireless history educator and advocate for social justice.

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The Poisoned Ground (The Peers of Beinan Series)

Science Fiction, Mystery-Detective

Tyranny and plague! When a sudden plague of mysterious cancers strikes the southwestern city of Nan-li, it falls to Lady Abbess Cara of house Ten-Ar to investigate, entangling her in a royal trap that may cost her life. A Peers of Beinan Series novella. 

Interactive: click on hypertext links to discover more about planet Beinan and Beinarian society. 

Social issues: rape culture, government corruption, pollution, domestic violence, abuse of power, corporate greed, environment, poverty, re-forestation. 

The Ghosts of the Past

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Murder-Mystery

Terror across Beinan!

Three generations after The Great Succession Crisis, terror ravages Beinarian cities as healing centers planet-wide fall to unseen assailants.  Crippled by loss and fear is Lord Knight Elendir, a young man haunted by the death of his healer parents.  Desperate to find peace, he secures permission to investigate, wholly unaware how deeply his parents' murderers have infiltrated and corrupted Beinarian government.  Now it is a race against time to save the people he loves most before all hope is gone forever and Beinan falls to the blood thirsty monster his own failings helped create.

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The Great Succession Crisis Extended Edition

Science Fiction/Fantasy/Paranormal Romance

Power play!

The future of planet Beinan hangs in the balance.  After the Great Council upholds the law limiting female inheritance, young Princess Anlei must navigate the dangerous adult world of gender politics to become the person she was born to be.

Extended Edition features two bonus chapters, all five data files, plus a look behind the history and science that makes the Great Succession Crisis so special.
                  
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Boudicca: Britain's Queen of the Iceni (Legendary Women of World History)

History

In the first century of the common era, one woman dared stand up against Roman tyranny in Britain. Her name was Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni.

Based on the accounts of Boudicca's revolt in the Annals of Tacitus and supplemented by research presented by the BBC, discover the legendary life of one of the greatest women of the ancient western world.

For children, teens, and adults ages 7+.

Beinarian Houses and Heraldry 

Beinarian government is dictated by several noble houses, some more dominate than others who all compete for power, prestige, wealth, and dominance over Beinarian society and resources. These houses pre-date the Great Migration and originate back more than 20,000 yen-ars ago on their original home world of A672E92 Quintus around a blue-white class A star in a bar spiral galaxy some 90.8967 million light yen-ars from Beinan. 

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Catherine de Valois

History

Shakespeare was wrong! 

In 1401, Catherine de Valois seemed like just another daughter to King Charles VI of France and his wife, Queen Isabeau of Bavaria, doomed to live forever in obscurity. That is until she became the excuse King Henry V of England needed in order to declare war with France. 

Caught between her father's mental illness and both a civil war at home and war with England, Catherine found the eyes of the Christian world fixed upon her. 

Shakespeare would tell her story in his grand history play "Henry V," concealing the real woman she was. 

Discover the real Catherine and how this young woman of courage, conviction, and peace changed not just her 15th century world, but the lives of every British and American woman and man born since. 

Based on primary source accounts supplemented by research from the BBC. 

For children, teens, and adults.
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