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Author: Hayley Myer Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1462838693 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 249
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A war between the vampires and faeries has been taking place for decades. Slaitor Velynis, the Duke of Rolume, led his armies into battle for the sake of his people. Known as a military genius, Duke Velynis and his wife, the Grand Duchess Clara Velynis, rule over Rolume with an iron fist, keeping the peasants within their tight grasp while managing their desired war. All seemed to be flowing smoothly, and it was into this world that the young Duchess Litiva Velynis was born. Twenty-two years later, the war is still being waged with no sign of ending. The Duchess, while abhorring her mother’s behavior and attitudes towards the administration, admires her father’s dedication to the conflict and his superior knowledge of government. Given the best education available by the curious Doktor Rosen and developing a large understanding of her father’s political system, Litiva is seen in the eyes of her fellow noblemen and –women as a child prodigy. The Duke, her father, recognizes his daughter’s intellect and goes against his wife’s wishes, believing Litiva to be ready for the renowned Generals’ meetings, a gathering of the local politicians to discuss and debate current events. Litiva eagerly agrees and prepares herself for the future of her political career. What was supposed to be a political meeting turns out to be a political battle, and Litiva observes how corrupted her father’s administration truly is. Realizing that she, too, has a role to play in government as the Duchess of Rolume, Litiva wishes to work with her father to help solve the issues hindering the town. Yet after an attack from her father and the release of a diabolical scheme on the peasants living in the district, Litiva breaks away from her family in order to fix her father’s errors. With opposing politicians within the administration, Litiva must fight for her political future on her own, recruiting the help of the most unexpected supporters and working in secrecy for fear of being captured by her own parents.
Author: Hayley Myer Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1462838693 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 249
Book Description
A war between the vampires and faeries has been taking place for decades. Slaitor Velynis, the Duke of Rolume, led his armies into battle for the sake of his people. Known as a military genius, Duke Velynis and his wife, the Grand Duchess Clara Velynis, rule over Rolume with an iron fist, keeping the peasants within their tight grasp while managing their desired war. All seemed to be flowing smoothly, and it was into this world that the young Duchess Litiva Velynis was born. Twenty-two years later, the war is still being waged with no sign of ending. The Duchess, while abhorring her mother’s behavior and attitudes towards the administration, admires her father’s dedication to the conflict and his superior knowledge of government. Given the best education available by the curious Doktor Rosen and developing a large understanding of her father’s political system, Litiva is seen in the eyes of her fellow noblemen and –women as a child prodigy. The Duke, her father, recognizes his daughter’s intellect and goes against his wife’s wishes, believing Litiva to be ready for the renowned Generals’ meetings, a gathering of the local politicians to discuss and debate current events. Litiva eagerly agrees and prepares herself for the future of her political career. What was supposed to be a political meeting turns out to be a political battle, and Litiva observes how corrupted her father’s administration truly is. Realizing that she, too, has a role to play in government as the Duchess of Rolume, Litiva wishes to work with her father to help solve the issues hindering the town. Yet after an attack from her father and the release of a diabolical scheme on the peasants living in the district, Litiva breaks away from her family in order to fix her father’s errors. With opposing politicians within the administration, Litiva must fight for her political future on her own, recruiting the help of the most unexpected supporters and working in secrecy for fear of being captured by her own parents.
Author: Janice Gould Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 0816501297 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 98
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Doubters and Dreamers opens with a question from a young girl faced with the spectacle of Indian effigies lynched and burned “in jest” before UC Berkeley’s annual Big Game against Stanford: “What’s a debacle, Mom?” This innocent but telling question marks the girl’s entrée into the complicated knowledge of her heritage as a mixed-blood Native American of Koyangk’auwi (Concow) Maidu descent. The girl is a young Janice Gould, and the poems and narrations that follow constitute a remarkable work of sustained and courageous self-revelation, retracing the precarious emotional terrain of an adolescence shaped by a mother’s tough love and a growing consciousness of an ancestral and familial past. In the first half of the book, “Tribal History,” Gould ingeniously repurposes the sonnet form to preserve the stories of her mother and aunt, who grew up when “muleback was the customary mode / of transport” and the “spirit world was present”—stories of “old ways” and places claimed in memory but lost in time. Elsewhere, she remembers her mother’s “ferocious, upright anger” and her unexpected tenderness (“Like a miracle, I was still her child”), culminating in the profound expression of loss that is the poem “Our Mother’s Death.” In the second half of the book, “It Was Raining,” Gould tells of the years of lonely self-making and “unfulfilled dreams” as she comes to terms with what she has been told are her “crazy longings” as a lesbian: “It’s been hammered into me / that I’ll be spurned / by a ‘real woman,’ / the only kind I like.” The writing here commemorates old loves and relationships in language that mingles hope and despair, doubt and devotion, veering at times into dreamlike moments of consciousness. One poem and vignette at a time, Doubters and Dreamers explores what it means to be a mixed-blood Native American who grew up urban, lesbian, and middle class in the West.
Author: Susan Parisi Publisher: Penguin Group Australia ISBN: 1742280242 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 342
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The award-winning debut novel One woman's quest to unmask a killer becomes a journey of self-discovery with devastating consequences. Pleasure rules in eighteenth-century Venice, where any desire can be satisfied. But while hedonists delight in the decadence of Carnevale, a killer stalks his victims' dreams, believing he has found the answer to the most secret desire within us all - the desire to live forever. Only one woman has the power to stop the slaughter. But as the killer draws closer, she uncovers a trail of sacrifice and betrayal leading back into her past. To unmask the murderer, she must set a trap with the power to destroy them all... In the tradition of Anne Rice and Patrick Suskind, Blood of Dreams transports you to another world. A truly intoxicating novel.
Author: Karen Thompson Walker Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0812994175 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 315
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NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of The Age of Miracles. “Stunning.”—Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven • “A startling, beautiful portrait of a community in peril.”—Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Glamour • Real Simple • Good Housekeeping One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep—and doesn’t wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster. Those affected by the illness, doctors discover, are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, higher than has ever been recorded before. They are dreaming heightened dreams—but of what? Written in luminous prose, The Dreamers is a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life—if only we are awakened to them. Praise for The Dreamers “Walker’s roving fictive eye by turns probes characters’ innermost feelings and zooms out to coolly parse topics like reality versus delusion. . . . [It has] the perfect ambiguous frame for a tense and layered plot.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[Walker’s] gripping, provocative novel should come with a warning: may cause insomnia.”—People (Book of the Week) “Powerful and moving . . . written with symphonic sweep.”—The New York Times Book Review “2019’s first must-read novel . . . Alternately terrifying and moving . . . The Dreamers is overflowing with humanity.”—Jezebel “This is an exquisite work of intimacy. Walker’s sentences are smooth, emotionally arresting—of a true, ethereal beauty. . . . This book achieves [a] dazzling, aching humanity.”—Entertainment Weekly
Author: Madison Ruth Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1365963748 Category : Languages : en Pages : 228
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Years ago twelve year old Charlotte Lynn was a Blood Dreamer and had powers that many were envious of. She kept a journal of secrets, and suddenly, she vanished into thin air. Her journal disappeared as well. In present day, Matt Vaisley is the new Blood Dreamer at fourteen years old. He is struggling to control his new powers, do his school work, and not lose his cool with some of his more annoying classmates. Charlotte's journal, thought to be gone forever, suddenly ends up in Matt's hands. Now Matt and his friends are reading the journals and discovering the clues Charlotte had left behind. With his need to solve the Charlotte's puzzle and prove that he can be just as powerful, Matt takes his friends on a journey through dragons, Fire Queens, and worlds full of magic.
Author: Simu Liu Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0063046512 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 315
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant, his battles with cultural stereotypes and his own identity, becoming a TV star, and landing the role of a lifetime. In this honest, inspiring and relatable memoir, newly-minted superhero Simu Liu chronicles his family's journey from China to the bright lights of Hollywood with razor-sharp wit and humor. Simu's parents left him in the care of his grandparents, then brought him to Canada when he was four. Life as a Canuck, however, is not all that it was cracked up to be; Simu's new guardians lack the gentle touch of his grandparents, resulting in harsh words and hurt feelings. His parents, on the other hand, find their new son emotionally distant and difficult to relate to - although they are related by blood, they are separated by culture, language, and values. As Simu grows up, he plays the part of the pious child flawlessly - he gets straight A's, crushes national math competitions and makes his parents proud. But as time passes, he grows increasingly disillusioned with the path that has been laid out for him. Less than a year out of college, at the tender age of 22, his life hits rock bottom when he is laid off from his first job as an accountant. Left to his own devices, and with nothing left to lose, Simu embarks on a journey that will take him far outside of his comfort zone into the world of show business. Through a swath of rejection and comical mishaps, Simu's determination to carve out a path for himself leads him to not only succeed as an actor, but also to open the door to reconciling with his parents. We Were Dreamers is more than a celebrity memoir - it's a story about growing up between cultures, finding your family, and becoming the master of your own extraordinary circumstance.
Author: David Eddings Publisher: Hachette+ORM ISBN: 0446534056 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 348
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Flush from their narrow victory over the horrific Vlagh, Longbow and his companions are drawn to a pastoral territory in south Dhrall, confident that they will thwart the next assault by their inhuman foe. But on the border of the Wasteland, the Vlagh is breeding a monstrous new army of venomous bat-bugs and armored spiders. These grotesque legions threaten to overwhelm the allies, who are further shocked by a prophecy delivered by the Dreamers: an invasion by a new, second army. A force of armed acolytes approaches to plunder this unspoiled land in a global holy war. Now farmers and hunters, soldiers and madmen, mortals and gods-all charge to a battle that will decide the fate of the world.
Author: Shirley G. East Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1465396942 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 594
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THE PALEO INDIAN SERIES: CLOVIS THE DREAM HUNTERS EPOCH A frightened abandoned child struggles to survive the terrifying perils of the Pleistocene Llano Estacado to become a powerful woman, protected by Spirit Mammoth Mother; her only friend a huge Dire Wolf. Set against the panoramic backdrop of the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains and Llano Estacado of Wyoming, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico, the reader will thrill to meet the majestic Columbian Mammoth, shiver with fear at the attack of a fi erce Saber Toothed Tiger and come to love a very special Dire Wolf. She seeks and fi nds Th e People only to be threatened by an evil Dreamer who recognizes her as a threat and seeks her death. Th e Dream Hunters series will both captivate and educate the reader as they learn about the Clovis people, that early Paleo-Indian culture which has so intrigued and eluded the archaeologists for decades. Th e author has applied her fi rst hand experience as continued to back fl ap
Author: Barbara Alice Mann Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199997209 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 379
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Before invasion, Turtle Island-or North America-was home to vibrant cultures that shared long-standing philosophical precepts. The most important and wide-spread of these was the view of reality as a collaborative binary known as the Twinned Cosmos of Blood and Breath. This binary system was built on the belief that neither half of the cosmos can exist without its twin. Both halves are, therefore, necessary and good. Western anthropologists typically shorthand the Twinned Cosmos as "Sky and Earth" but this erroneously saddles it with Christian baggage and, worse, imposes a hierarchy that puts sky quite literally above earth. None of this Western ideology legitimately applies to traditional Indigenous American thought, which is about equal cooperation and the continual recreation of reality. Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath examines traditional historical concepts of spirituality among North American Indians both at and, to the extent it can be determined, before contact. In doing so, Barbara Alice Mann rescues the authentically indigenous ideas from Western, and especially missionary, interpretations. In addition to early European source material, she uses Indian oral traditions, traced as much as possible to their earliest versions and sources, and Indian records, including pictographs, petroglyphs, bark books, and wampum. Moreover, Mann respects each Indigenous culture as a discrete unit, rather than generalizing them as is often done in Western anthropology. To this end, she collates material in accordance with actual historical, linguistic, and traditional linkages among the groups at hand, with traditions clearly identified by group and, where recorded, by speaker. In this way she provides specialists and non-specialists alike a window into the purportedly lost, and often caricatured, world of Indigenous American thought.
Author: Hayley Myer
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