Author: Gérard de Nerval
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: Anne Osterlund
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101200510
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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An impressive debut, equal parts commercial appeal and literary prowess. Princess Aurelia is next in line to rule the kingdom of Tyralt, but she would rather be one of the common folk, free to learn and roam and . . . not marry the next tyrannical prince that comes courting. Naturally, the king wants Aurelia to marry for political power. Aurelia wants to marry for love. And someone in the kingdom wants her . . . dead. Assigned to investigate and protect Aurelia is Robert, the son of the king?s former royal spy and one of Aurelia?s oldest friends. As Aurelia and Robert slowly uncover clues as to who is threatening her, their friendship turns to romance. With everything possible on the line?her life, her kingdom, her heart?Aurelia is forced to take matters into her own hands, no matter the cost.

Author: Kathryn Davis
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1644451689
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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An eerily dreamlike memoir, and the first work of nonfiction by one of our most inventive novelists. Aurelia, Aurélia begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old, is traveling to Europe at an age when one can “try on personae like dresses.” She has the confidence of a teenager cultivating her earliest obsessions—Woolf, Durrell, Bergman—sure of her maturity, sure of the life that awaits her. Soon she finds herself in a Greece far drearier than the Greece of fantasy, “climbing up and down the steep paths every morning with the real old women, looking for kindling.” Kathryn Davis’s hypnotic new book is a meditation on the way imagination shapes life, and how life, as it moves forward, shapes imagination. At its center is the death of her husband, Eric. The book unfolds as a study of their marriage, its deep joys and stinging frustrations; it is also a book about time, the inexorable events that determine beginnings and endings. The preoccupations that mark Davis’s fiction are recognizable here—fateful voyages, an intense sense of place, the unexpected union of the magical and the real—but the vehicle itself is utterly new. Aurelia, Aurélia explodes the conventional bounds of memoir. It is an astonishing accomplishment.

Author: Aurelia C. Scott
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565124642
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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A colorful, firsthand journey inside the world of competitive rose gardening documents the cutthroat gardeners representing a broad cross-section of American rose lovers who will do anything to obsessively cultivate the perfect bloom.

Author: Lori Aurelia Williams
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689868782
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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The acclaimed author of "When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune" now delivers the story of one girl's excruciating struggle to beat the odds. Williams imbues this narrative with an unshakable sense of hope that transcends China's bleak reality.

Author: Cornelia Funke
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338215566
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Dragons, myth, and magic unite in the third installment of Cornelia Funke's bestselling Dragon Rider series. Ben and the Greenblooms must protect a mythical new creature rising from the ocean -- a creature who can bring either light or darkness to whoever it first meets. A new peril has emerged in the world of Fabulous Creatures. One that could cause the disappearance of their kind. Luckily, all of our favorite characters are back--Ben and Firedrake, his wonderful dragon friend, plucky Guinevere and the Greenbloom family, Sorrel the irrepressible brownie, the miniature man Twigleg and a host of new Fabulous Animals and sturdy helpers. But the threat is real and qucikly encroaching. A villian from the family's past is seeking revenge. And all the while, the mysterious Aurelia, the most fabulous and powerful creature of all, moves across oceans to its final destination, introducing a new underwater world to enjoy.

Author: Aurelia Hilton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781646157884
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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It's ladies' night at the hottest club in town. We're supposed to be helping my friend get over her heartbreak, but I just can't take my eyes off of him. I shouldn't go talk to him. I have to be here for my friend! Even though it's ladies' night, I want to get to know him. Should I stay here on the dance floor, swinging my hips to the music? Should I go talk to him? I can feel his eyes on me. He's the barkeep, and his name is Matt. I can't help but think about his toned, muscular body on me. Those stunning green eyes, that soft blonde hair, that killer smile... I'm definitely going to get to know him. But hey, I'm not looking for a boyfriend. My last relationship was rough. I want to have a little fun! All I want is a simple one-night stand. Nothing more. Matt is different, though. I expected that he'd be like every other guy I'd brought home. He's so incredibly compassionate and kind. Sometimes, he's too kind. He wants to take it slow, which is the opposite of what I want. Still, I'm craving him in so many ways. He's changing the way I think about everything. Maybe I'm ready to date again. When I'm with Matt, everything feels right. The feelings I have when I'm with him are so strong. It makes me wonder... Are soulmates real? WARNING This book is part of Aurelia Hilton's hot, sexy & steamy romance novel... Things will get hot & steamy... Find out what happens when a man wants more than just a one-night stand... because it's hot!

Author: Gérard de Nerval
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988202603
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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More than just an account of his travels in Cairo, Beirut, and Constantinople in 1842, Gerard de Nerval's "Journey to the Orient" is a quest for the unknown. If his narrator seems credulous in his retelling of legends of the origins of the pyramids and the mysteries of the Druzes, it is with this purpose in mind. While the Orientalists of his day were confident of having, in the words of Edward Said, "grasped, appropriated, reduced, and codified" the Orient, Nerval's Orient remains elusive, impossible to grasp. Poignantly dramatized in the thematic centerpieces of the tales of the Queen of Sheba and the Caliph Hakim, what takes shape in this visionary travelogue, as the author's hopes are alternately disappointed and rapturously renewed, is the story of the artist's search for the ideal.

Author: Gérard de Nerval
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Aurélia Higuet
Publisher: Clavis
ISBN: 9781605372648
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Crocodile is hungry! What can he eat? The turtle? No, it is too hard. A hedgehog? No, it is too prickly. The other animals aren't ready-to-eat either. But then Crocodile sees a little boy ... A funny picture book for children ages 4 and up, with colorful, mouth-watering illustrations. Aurélia Higuet was awarded the Key Colours Illustrator's Award 2014 for this story with exceptional pictures. Guided Reading Level F