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Author: Dann Przybylski
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615139795
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Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Author: Libbie Hawker
Publisher: Running Rabbit Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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When Zenobia takes control of her own fate, will the gods punish her audacity? Zenobia, the proud daughter of a Syrian sheikh, refuses to marry against her will. She won’t submit to a lifetime of subservience. When her father dies, she sets out on her own, pursuing the power she believes to be her birthright, dreaming of the Roman Empire’s downfall and her ascendance to the throne. Defying her family, Zenobia arranges her own marriage to the most influential man in the city of Palmyra. But their union is anything but peaceful―his other wife begrudges the marriage and the birth of Zenobia’s son, and Zenobia finds herself ever more drawn to her guardsman, Zabdas. As war breaks out, she’s faced with terrible choices. From the decadent halls of Rome to the golden sands of Egypt, Zenobia fights for power, for love, and for her son. But will her hubris draw the wrath of the gods? Will she learn a “woman’s place,” or can she finally stake her claim as Empress of the East? This book was previously published by Lake Union Publishing, from 2015 - 2022.

Author: Frances Everard
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781290601009
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author: Lichelle Slater
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 416

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A street rat. A magic lamp. An obnoxiously handsome prince. Stealing a golden serpent should have been an easy-in, easy-out mission with my father. Instead, he was captured by the soldiers of Zunbar. I thought the only chance of freeing him was to get arrested too, but he was moved to the palace prison. Now, my only hope is to join the Desert Trials and find the magic lamp hidden inside the Dragon's Lair cave. Ten tasks to prove my proficiency in the art of magic. How hard could it be? Only, I've never used magic in my entire life. Surviving the trials is only part of the problem. I've inadvertently partnered with Prince "Abubu" and he's bent on reaching the magic lamp before his sister. The lamp with a jinni inside willing to give just one wish is my birth right, and I'm not about to let a dashing prince reach it before me. But the Dragon's Lair is more like the Cave of Nightmares, and I can't escape without Prince Abudar's help. If we don't work together, we might not make it out alive, and I am not wasting my only wish in order to escape. With the chance to make a single wish, can a street rat finally prove her worth? Find out in this adventure-packed retelling of Aladdin!

Author: Pamela South
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780872165410
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Author: Kyrja
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781549513374
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 379

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The birth of the heir of Amphedia, the Goddess of the Seas, changed everything some twenty years past, both for those who dwell in the desert, and those who live by the sea. After hundreds of years of sending those young men and women who could feel the water beneath the sands to the city by the sea, in hope of producing Amphedia's heir, the pact between Amphedia , and Giya, the Earth Goddess, has been concluded.Jarles adamantly refuses his role as heir, though, because the life of his father was forfeit as the price of his birth, and his mother was brutally murdered while he was a young boy, by the very same priests who were responsible for ensuring his conception. And yet his world is dying. The abilities of those who can feel the water beneath the sands are diminishing, while he can not only feel it, but can call the water to him - as long as he keeps moving west, across the desert, to Amphedia's city by the sea.Nor can he stop the Goddess of the Seas from dropping him into visions so real he believes he is physically immersed in various bodies of water all over the world. It is during one of these visions that a young woman falls into the sea with him, changing the course of his life - and the plans of the gods who have conspired against him and each other. While Sov, the Sun God, continues to blaze brightly, turning more and more of the planet into desert.The blind Goddess of Air has used an ancient device to see the future, and now must pay the price for using the eyesight of her companion, who once was an owl, to do so.

Author: Frances Everard
Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Author: Sarah Beth Durst
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062888625
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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“National Velvet with monsters and a big helping of palace intrigue, Race the Sands is monstrous (literally), heartwarming, and empowering in equal measure. An incredibly fun and inspiring read.” – Katherine Arden, New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale In this epic standalone fantasy, the acclaimed author of the Queens of Renthia series introduces an imaginative new world in which a pair of strong and determined women risk their lives battling injustice, corruption, and deadly enemies in their quest to become monster racing champions. Life, death, and rebirth—in Becar, who you are in this life will determine your next life. Yet there is hope—you can change your destiny with the choices you make. But for the darkest individuals, there is no redemption: you come back as a kehok, a monster, and are doomed to be a kehok for the rest of time. Unless you can win the Races. After a celebrated career as an elite kehok rider, Tamra became a professional trainer. Then a tragic accident shattered her confidence, damaged her reputation, and left her nearly broke. Now, she needs the prize money to prevent the local temple from taking her daughter away from her, and that means she must once again find a winning kehok . . . and a rider willing to trust her. Raia is desperate to get away from her domineering family and cruel fiancé. As a kehok rider, she could earn enough to buy her freedom. But she needs a first-rate trainer. Impressed by the inexperienced young woman’s determination, Tamra hires Raia and pairs her with a strange new kehok with the potential to win—if he can be tamed. But in this sport, if you forget you’re riding on the back of a monster, you die. Tamra and Raia will work harder than they ever thought possible to win the deadly Becaran Races—and in the process, discover what makes this particular kehok so special.

Author: Ellen Klages
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670062355
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Living with the Gordons in their quite desert town in New Mexico in 1946, Dewey is learning a lot from her science-obsessed adoptive family, but just as she begins to settle in and get comfortable, Dewey's long-lost mother reemerges to take her away from the only stability she has ever really known in her young life. 20,000 first printing.

Author: Laura Cumming
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1501198726
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez shares a riveting true story “with as many twists and turns as any mystery” (Los Angeles Times) describing her mother’s mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village—“an incredible and incredibly unusual book about family secrets” (Nick Hornby, The Believer). In the fall of 1929, when Laura Cumming’s mother was three years old, she was kidnapped from a beach on the Lincolnshire coast of England. There were no screams when she was taken, suggesting the culprit was someone familiar to her, and when she turned up again in a nearby village several days later, she was happy and in perfect health. No one was ever accused of a crime. The incident quickly faded from her memory, and her parents never discussed it. To the contrary, they deliberately hid it from her, and she did not learn of it for half a century. This was not the only secret her parents kept from her. For many years, while raising her in draconian isolation and protectiveness, they also hid the fact that she’d been adopted, and that shortly after the kidnapping, her name was changed from Grace to Betty. “Both page-turning and richly absorbing” (The Providence Journal), On Chapel Sands (originally titled Five Days Gone) unspools the tale of Cumming’s mother’s life and unravels the multiple mysteries at its core. Using photographs from the time, historical documents, and works of art, Cumming investigates this case of stolen identity w​ith the toolset of a detective and the unique intimacy of a daughter trying to understand her family’s past and its legacies. “Brilliant” (The Guardian) and “a story told with such depth of feeling and observation and such lyrical writing I couldn’t put it down” (Anna Quindlen), On Chapel Sands is a masterful blend of memoir and history, an extraordinary personal narrative unlike any other.