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Dvorah Lansky

Dvorah Lansky

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D'vorah Lansky has been marketing online and mentoring leaders since 1994. While she has taught several online courses and is a WordPress expert, Connect, Communicate, and Profit is her first "in-print" book!

The Sons of Godwine: Part Two of The Last Great Saxon Earls

The Sons of Godwine: Part Two of The Last Great Saxon Earls

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<p>Emerging from the long shadow cast by his formidable father, Harold Godwineson showed himself to be a worthy successor to the Earldom of Wessex. In the following twelve years, he became the King's most trusted advisor, practically taking the reins of government into his own hands. And on Edward the Confessor's death, Harold Godwineson mounted the throne—the first king of England not of royal blood. Yet Harold was only a man, and his rise in fortune was not blameless. Like any person aspiring to power, he made choices he wasn't particularly proud of. Unfortunately, those closest to him sometimes paid the price of his fame.<br /><br />This is a story of Godwine's family as told from the viewpoint of Harold and his younger brothers. Queen Editha, known for her Vita Ædwardi Regis, originally commissioned a work to memorialize the deeds of her family, but after the Conquest historians tell us she abandoned this project and concentrated on her husband, the less dangerous subject. In THE SONS OF GODWINE and FATAL RIVALRY, I am telling the story as it might have survived had she collected and passed on the memoirs of her tragic brothers.<br /><br />This book is part two of The Last Great Saxon Earls series. Book one, GODWINE KINGMAKER, depicted the rise and fall of the first Earl of Wessex who came to power under Canute and rose to preeminence at the beginning of Edward the Confessor's reign. Unfortunately, Godwine's misguided efforts to champion his eldest son Swegn recoiled on the whole family, contributing to their outlawry and Queen Editha's disgrace. Their exile only lasted one year and they returned victorious to London, though it was obvious that Harold's career was just beginning as his father's journey was coming to an end.<br /><br />Harold's siblings were all overshadowed by their famous brother; in their memoirs we see remarks tinged sometimes with admiration, sometimes with skepticism, and in Tostig's case, with jealousy. We see a Harold who is ambitious, self-assured, sometimes egocentric, imperfect, yet heroic. His own story is all about Harold, but his brothers see things a little differently. Throughout, their observations are purely subjective, and witnessing events through their eyes gives us an insider’s perspective.<br /><br />Harold was his mother's favorite, confident enough to rise above petty sibling rivalry but Tostig, next in line, was not so lucky. Harold would have been surprised by Tostig's vindictiveness, if he had ever given his brother a second thought. And that was the problem. Tostig's love/hate relationship with Harold would eventually destroy everything they worked for, leaving the country open to foreign conquest. This subplot comes to a crisis in book three of the series, FATAL RIVALRY.</p>

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D'vorah has been an avid networker for close to two decades. Once she became an expert in Internet Marketing, with thousands of hours of experience and application, people in the local business community began approaching her to teach them what she knew. After teaching several courses on building business relationships via internet marketing, she realized that there was a great thirst for this knowledge. Thus, she decided to publish a book on this important topic. Connect, Communicate, and Profit - How to Build Successful Business Relationships Online

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&quot;This is a great book for any business owner looking to generate more sales, referrals, and connections in a given marketplace.&quot; <br /><strong>Stu McLaren, Co-Founder, WishList Products. </strong><br /><br />&quot;If you want to build a huge network of people who think about you, care about you, trust you, and most importantly, refer you...but you only have a few minutes a day to do it, then you need to buy this book today and devour it.&quot; <br /><strong>David Frey, CEO, Marketing Best Practices. </strong><br /><br />&quot;Forget the arduous process of trial and error that your competition is relying on to figure it all out. D'vorah has done all the research for you, and provides you with the prioritized steps and cost-effective resources right here in this book.&quot; <br /><strong>Bob Jenkins, Author of &quot;Take Action, Revise Later&quot;. </strong>