Author: C. Gockel Publisher: C. Gockel ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 395
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Fairy tales often have grisly endings … Fairy tales don’t always go by the book either. Cherie, the Charming Princess, rescued Jack, her sleeping prince, but she didn’t receive her happily ever after. Jack is distant, the city is in turmoil, and Cherie’s made new friends, but new enemies, too. And all the while, the Evil Queen is watching, scheming, and waiting for her chance to strike. A retelling of Snow White and Rose Red with Urban Magick, plenty of folklore and mythology, and a Princess Charming. Perfect for fans of Naomi Novik’s Uprooted and Spinning Silver. Keywords: Keywords: Urban Fantasy, Fairy Tale, Snow White, Urban Fantasy Vampire, Vampire, Urban Fantasy Greek Gods, Greek Mythology, Urban Fantasy Fae, Elves, Magical Dystopia, Magic, Sweet Romance, Dragon, Irish Mythology, Demons, Native American Gods, Tricksters, Loki, Coyote, Maui
Author: DK Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd ISBN: 0241522978 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 144
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Explore the intriguing answers to more than 200 questions about the human body in DK's newest biology encyclopedia for kids. What does the heart do? What are bones made of? Why do your ears pop? This children's ebook, ideal for ages 6-9, will help inquisitive minds find out the answers to all the questions they may have about their bodies, and some they hadn't thought of! Covering amazing organs, stupendous senses, and the perplexing ways our bodies work, Why? Human Body helps children get to grips with the gigantic topic that is human biology. Each page asks a new question that kids might have about the human body, before answering it, and features a quick quiz testing children's knowledge of what they have just read. Bursting with mind-boggling details and fascinating facts, this visually stunning ebook is something that every young scientist will want to own.
Author: James A. Moore Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780425217597 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 420
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As the town of Black Stone Bay prepares for its annual Halloween celebration, the residents soon realize that this year will be different when a stranger arrives, armed with an insatiable thirst and a plan for a night no one is meant to survive.
Author: Forum on Blood Safety and Blood Availability Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309589622 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 132
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This volume discusses the current state of the nation's blood supply--including studies of blood availability, ways of enhancing blood collection and distribution, frozen red cell technology, logistical concerns in prepositioning frozen blood, extended liquid storage of red cells, and blood substitutes.
Author: Emma Hamm Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781542349109 Category : Languages : en Pages : 384
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A CREATURE FROM WATER Lyra has been through hell and high water to get to where she is in life. As part of an elite team working for god-like creatures, she considers herself capable of anything. But when she is tasked with finding a person who fulfills a prophecy capable of saving the world, she finds that she has met her match. She must convince this man to help her while hiding secrets of her own... A CREATURE FROM SHADOWS He is known as the "Graverobber." Dark power flows from his fingertips and is wielded without a thought. For years he has existed without a soul. Without conscience. Until a tiny Siren walks into his life and demands he come with her. She is the first person to ever dare order him to do anything. Suddenly, the soulless Graverobber finds himself intrigued by something full of life and light. TOGETHER, THEY MUST FACE THE DARKEST OF EVILS... Brewing in the darkest corners of the world, an ancient evil plots to destroy them all. Lyra and the Graverobber must join forces to save the lives of countless magical creatures and humans. But both find that to protect those they love, they must give up everything that is important to them. GRAVEYARDS, ROMANCE, AND A LITTLE BIT OF MORBID CURIOSITY
Author: Linda L.T. Baer Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group ISBN: 1632990288 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 418
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WINNER OF THE NORTH STREET BOOK PRIZE COMPETITION Red Blood, Yellow Skin is the story of a young girl's survival in war-torn Vietnam during the First Indochina War between France and Vietnam, the civil war between North and South Vietnam, and the later American involvement in the Vietnam War. Linda Baer was born Nguyen Thi Loan, in the village of Tao Xa, Thai Binh Province, in North Vietnam in 1947. When she was four years old, the Viet Minh attacked her village and killed her father, leaving Loan and her mother to fend for themselves. Seeking escape from impoverishment, her mother married a rich and dominating widower who was cruel to his free-spirited and mischievous stepdaughter. Loan found solace in the company of animals and insects and escaped into the branches of trees. In 1954, her family chose to relocate to South Vietnam, rather than live under the yoke of communist North Vietnam. When Loan was thirteen, she ran away to Saigon to flee the cruelty of her stepfather and worked at menial jobs to help her family. At seventeen, she was introduced to bars, nightclubs, and Saigon Tea. At eighteen, she dated and lived with a young American airman.Two months after their baby was born, the airman returned to America, and Loan never heard from him again. She raised their son by herself. However, time healed her heart, and she eventually found true love in a young air force officer, whom she married and accompanied to America in 1971. Red Blood, Yellow Skin is a story of romance, culture, traditions, and family. It describes the pain, struggle, despair, and violence as Loan lived it. The story is hers, but it is also an account of Vietnam of those who were uprooted, displaced, brutalized, and left homeless. It is about this struggle to survive and her extraordinary triumph over adversity that Baer writes. Linda Baer was born Nguyen Thi Loan, in a small village in North Vietnam. Her family relocated to South Vietnam in 1954. She spent most of her youth in Saigon, where she met her husband. She followed him to America in 1971 and became an American citizen in 1973. She currently resides in Charleston, South Carolina, where she is a successful businesswoman.
Author: Leone Ross Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571391680 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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They beat like drums, the fists. I could hear them from inside the courtroom. I remember so many things about that day, but in quiet moments it is the fists that come back to haunt me, pull at me. 1996, London. Nicola, tall and gorgeous, has re-birthed herself. She has landed a breakthrough role and her star is rising - she can feel herself blossoming, can see it in the melting eyes of the men, and the jealous eyes of the women. If Nicola is a flower, Alexandra is a closed bud. Crushed by heartache from a recent breakup, she just wants to succeed as a journalist. Jeanette has just landed from Manchester. She refuses to let her mother's warnings about London or her Doc Martens weigh her down: she's ready for uni - for life - to start. This is the story of three women - and the mysterious Mavis. With laughter in their hearts, power in their spirits and beauty in their souls, they reach for dreams the whole world seems to want to destroy. But soon they discover that those who wear the cloak of friendship - family, community, lovers, peers - often cause the greatest pain, the pain of rejection and violation.
Author: Salla Simukka Publisher: Hot Key Books ISBN: 1471402479 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 179
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The first story in the thrilling Nordic crime series The Snow White Trilogy, an international success published in 52 territories worldwide and soon to be a Hollywood film. 'Fans of Nesbø and Larsson won't be disappointed' Publishers Weekly The streets of Finland are frozen and white with snow. And nothing is as red against snow as blood . . . Seventeen-year-old Lumikki Andersson is hardly your average teenager. She lives by herself in the city of Tampere, Finland, and has a firm rule to mind nobody's business but her own. But that rule is put to the test when she happens upon five hundred washed euro notes hanging up to dry in her school's darkroom, and it is shattered once Lumikki realises who owns them. Caught in an increasingly tangled web of deception, corruption and danger, Lumikki finds herself navigating Tampere's dark underbelly in her quest to expose its shocking connection to the international drugs trade. Lumikki is smart, but is she smarter than a master criminal? Can she bring down the infamous 'Polar Bear' - or will she become another one of his victims?
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