![]() ![]() Soon Serilda realizes that there is more than one secret hidden in the castle walls, including an ancient curse that must be broken if she hopes to end the tyranny of the king and his wild hunt forever. Love isn't meant to be part of the bargain. In her desperation, Serilda unwittingly summons a mysterious boy to her aid. Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a poor miller's daughter has developed a talent for spinning stories that are fantastical and spellbinding and entirely untrue. ![]() The king orders Serilda to complete the impossible task of spinning straw into gold, or be killed for telling falsehoods. In Gilded, 1 New York Times-bestselling author Marissa Meyer returns to the fairytale world with this haunting tale. When one of Serilda's outlandish tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking and his undead hunters, she finds herself swept away into a grim world where ghouls and phantoms prowl the earth and hollow-eyed ravens track her every move. ![]() In Gilded, #1 New York Times-bestselling author Marissa Meyer returns to the fairytale world with this haunting tale. This audiobook demands to be binged, so listeners should block out some time once they hit play." - AudioFile Magazine "Rebecca Soler brings this YA adaptation of Rumpelstiltskin to life. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() her husband to the rich records in Italy of the banking house of the Medici. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Although the author of The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank is well. ![]() This book charts the family's huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its bloody political scene was dominated by mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of wealth, power and influence. This enthralling book charts their huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence, beginning in the early 1430's with the rise of the dynasty under the near-legendary Cosimo de'Medici, through their golden era as patrons of some of the Medici Popes and Grand Dukes, Florence's slide into decay and bankruptcy, and the end, in 1737, of the Medici line. Cosimo was the father of a line of princes, whose name and age are almost synonymous with the restoration of learning his credit was ennobled into fame his riches were dedicated to the service of. ![]() A republican city state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. Hibbert in The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, 1974 in Martin Longman, Italian Renaissance (Longman, 1992). At its height, Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. ![]() ![]() Men can bid on them, and Nisha hopes that Devan, with whom she is having a flirtation, will bid on her, even though he is from a rich and powerful family. In order to pay for their keep, the girls are trained to be certain kinds of wives, and then "redeemed" when they are over 16. Nisha was abandoned by her parents at the city, which is a refuge for girls who cannot be kept by their parents because of the government's two children restriction. City of a Thousand Dolls (Bhinian Empire #1) Less books about kids doing stupid things. Why not? It's hard enough to keep people in books over the summer, much From July 10-12, you can get it for FREE on Amazon! As Mr.īerenson says " There's no foul language in the book and no sexual situations, only a love-crazed kid doing stupid things." ![]() Middle grade romance books for boys! I sent him a list, and he'sĭutifully reading, but he has also written a book that matches thatĭescription. Author Daniel Berenson e mailed me recently, bemoaning the lack of ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The settlers' hunger for more and more territory thrust them relentlessly westward, where they could establish farms and ranches that they themselves could own. ![]() Demand, which had been pent up for centuries, suddenly encountered plentiful supply. In the early years, Americans' ravenous appetite for land was born of European deprivation confronting New World opportunity. Americans have persistently shown themselves willing to follow market forces with relatively little hesitation. That story, in comparison with the long-term business histories of all other large countries, has been one of intense and incessant competition. But land is only the starting place for the epochal drama of American capitalism. Even down to the present day, more Americans have probably made fortunes from the appreciation of real estate values than from any other source. The very settling of the country, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and onward to Alaska and Hawaii, was one long entrepreneurial adventure. No nation has been more market-oriented in its origins and subsequent history than the United States of America. ![]() ![]() The thrilling plot proves thought-provoking, and it concludes with more questions than answers. Occasionally graphic and frequently featuring unthinkable conflicts, the narrative spotlights the importance of bodily autonomy and offers readers a glimpse into a murderous us-vs.-them mindset. This sets off a chain of events that plunges Nita further into the black market world, only this time as a commodity rather than a supplier. ![]() After Nita comes up against one hard and fast moral line she won’t cross-slicing pieces from a live specimen, a boy-she defies her cruel mother, who doesn’t take disobedience lightly. ![]() Nita, herself a self-healing unnatural, has the grim task of dissecting the corpses, though she likes it just fine. ![]() In Peru, 17-year-old Nita’s mother hunts and kills “unnaturals,” supernatural beings who coexist with humans, and her father sells their body parts online. Author Schaeffer debuts with a dark fantasy tale of survival. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Once there, she is amazed by the beauty, health, and vitality of the students, and by her old friend’s commitment to and joy in her work. Miss Hodge is now the head of a women’s physical education college, Leys, which trains its students to be PE teachers or physiotherapists (the two qualifications, in 1946, seem to have been interchangeable). When she gets a letter from an old schoolfriend, Henrietta Hodge, asking her to come and give a lecture, she welcomes the opportunity to get away from London for a night. Being lauded in literary circles as a psychological expert is fun for a while, but it also becomes overwhelming. ![]() At the start of the novel, she has recently found success in writing a short non-fiction book on psychology, which unexpectedly became a runaway bestseller. The eponymous Lucy Pym is a former teacher. ![]() ![]() The opening chapter jumps thirty-plus years forward. To start, the novel’s gothic opening sees a London aristocrat deliver a new-born to the East End Widow Trewlove, by-blow of an affair? shame of the aristocracy? Yet, the birth scene had been one of tenderness and love between mother and father … whatever happened here, I wanted to know. ![]() What kept me rivetted was Heath’s weaving of a tale about the need to be recognized, acknowledged, loved, and validated, a journey both hero and heroine take in their unique ways, about what family means, and where we can meet on a plane of forgiveness and reconciliation. ![]() The similarities to Kleypas saw me through the premise’s set-up. ![]() Beyond Scandal and Desire‘s cross-class promise, its ingenue heroine who’s too smart to stay that way and guttersnipe-made-good hero kept me reading through a slow, though evident of a sure writing hand, first third. Ostensibly, Lorraine Heath’s Beyond Scandal and Desire has echoes of Kleypas’s romance classic, but in many other ways, it is an entirely different beast, unique to Heath’s vision. I adored Sarah and Derek, the casino setting, the pesky, bespectacled heroine and hardened with a secret heart of gold hero. One of the first romance novels I read when I returned to the genre and combed through best-of lists for titles to throw money at was Lisa Kleypas’s Dreaming Of You. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Functions of the thematic lexicon connected with the war topic are more obvious in the literary texts with macro- and meso-inclusions of military themes. Our aim is to establish the main lexical-semantic and stylistic peculiarities of the dominant lexical combinations in contemporary British fiction with macro-, meso- and micro-inclusions of military themes. In order to account for all the lingual and extralingual factors influencing the process of fictional text composition, this article takes a philological approach and conducts an integrated analysis – combining linguistic and literary-theoretical perspectives – of the lexical patterning of contemporary military fiction. ![]() Despite the sustained philological attention to fictional texts of different genres, the relative disregard of the lexical patterning in fiction on military themes stands in need of scrutiny. This article focuses on the lexical-semantic features of the language means of contemporary British military fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Review Quotes prose is sleek and image driven his ludicrous situations are an entry point to social realism, exploring the very real lives of men and women on the margins of society. Van Alst Jr.s introduction puts Jones on the literary map. Examining Joness contributions to American literature as well as noir, Theodore C. ![]() The Faster Redder Road features excerpts from Joness novels-including The Last Final Girl, The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong, Not for Nothing, and The Gospel of Z-and short stories, some never before published in book form. ![]() Book Synopsis This collection showcases the best writings of Stephen Graham Jones, whose career is developing rapidly from the noir underground to the mainstream. About the Book This collection showcases the best writings of Stephen Graham Jones, whose career is developing rapidly from the noir underground to the mainstream. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 41, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story his children's books are classics of children's literature and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". His poems include Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919), The White Man's Burden (1899), and If- (1910). Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). ![]() Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. ![]() |