Author: Miranda Honfleur Publisher: ISBN: 9781949932201 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 390
Book Description
A human princess. A dark-elf prince. A kiss of fire and powder. After a failed courtship in an ally kingdom, twenty-one-year-old Princess Alessandra returns home to a land torn apart by mutual hatred between the humans and the dark-elves. The "Beast Princess," as Aless is known by courtiers, confidently sets her mind to ways of making peace, but her father has already decided for her: she is to marry one of the mysterious and monstrous dark-elves to forge a treaty, and go on a Royal Progress across the kingdom to flaunt their harmonious union. While she intends to preserve the peace, the Beast Princess has plans of her own. Prince Veron has been raised knowing his life is not his own, but to be bargained away by his mother, the queen of Nozva Rozkveta, to strengthen the dark-elf queendom. When his mother tells him he is to marry a self-absorbed, vile human, he is determined to do his duty regardless of his personal feelings. After arriving at the human capital, he finds the "Beast Princess" rebellious and untamed--and not to be trusted. Aless and Veron face opposition at every turn, with humans and dark-elves alike opposing the union violently, as well as their own feelings of dissonance toward each other. Can two people from cultures that despise one another fall in love? Can a marriage between them bond two opposing worlds together, or will it tear them apart for good? If you like the fantasy and politics of Danielle L. Jensen's Malediction Trilogy and the romance of Elizabeth Vaughan's Chronicles of the Warlands, No Man Can Tame will lure you into its world and not let you go. Buy No Man Can Tame today, and journey into a medieval world of magic and Immortals, masquerades and games, love and blood, and a tale as old as time...
Author: R. G. Hunsaker Publisher: ISBN: 9781947117020 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 282
Book Description
A teenage girl must learn to grapple with her family's past, her own identity, and just how complicated love can be, if she wants to save those who matter most to her. This fresh and surprising story blends action, romance, and coming-of-age while merging the legends of two very different traditions-Norse Mythology and the world of vampires.
Author: Erec Toso Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 136554558X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
Night Bloom highlights the power of creative expression in prison writing workshops. Community, courage, and creativity help inmates find themselves in the ongoing story that is their lives. Honesty about the past, finding words in the present, and imagining a future all add up to framing a larger sense of humanity. Through vignettes, profiles, essays, and examples of inmate writing it demonstrates the roles creative writing can play in broadening the horizon of what is humanly possible, even in the context of prison.
Author: Peace Adzo Medie Publisher: Algonquin Books ISBN: 1643751115 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 293
Book Description
A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A Must-Read Novel: The New York Times Book Review * BuzzFeed * Time * Marie Claire * Parade * Travel + Leisure * Ms. * Bustle * The Millions * Book Riot * PopSugar * HelloGiggles * Kirkus Reviews* Good Morning America “[A] mesmerizing debut novel.” —The New York Times Book Review “A story that kept me tied to the page, told in masterful, seamless prose.” —BuzzFeed “I love this book so much I turned the pages so fast . . . It’s all about the search for independence and being true to yourself and who you really are.” —Reese Witherspoon Afi Tekple is a young seamstress in Ghana. Smart and pretty, she has also been convinced by her mother to marry a man she doesn’t know: a wealthy businessman named Elikem. His family has chosen Afi in the hopes that she will distract him from a current relationship they disapprove of. When Afi is moved from her small hometown to live in Accra, Ghana’s gleaming capital full of wealth and sophistication, she is not prepared for the way her life will change. But she has agreed to this marriage in order to give her mother the financial security she desperately needs, and so Afi must see it through. Or must she? A witty, moving, and smart debut novel, His Only Wife takes place in a world of men who want their wives to be beautiful, to be good cooks and mothers, to grant their husbands forbearance. And in Afi, we meet a delightful, brave, and relatable heroine who just may break all the rules.
Author: R. Shamms Mortier Publisher: ISBN: 9781576103104 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 686
Book Description
A comprehensive, cross-referenced resource, this f/x encyclopedia details the effect capabilities and options in After Effects and the available plug-ins. The CD-ROM contains hundreds of animations exemplifying f/x diversity, plus Adobe and MetaCreations support via demo software.
Author: Kiraran Publisher: Starlight ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 159
Book Description
When you are born in the pack, you belong in the group. But as for Lunaris, the only member who can’t be a wolf, that was hard to believe. Because of her circumstances, she was treated as an outsider by her peers. However, the claims that she can’t shift are wrong. She can, but her form is considered taboo in her pack's lore: A panther, another creature of the dark that was born in the darkest cycle of the moon, is prophesied to be the one to destroy the pack. Lunaris knows that if anyone finds out about her secret that she will die instantly. She wanted to leave her tribe, but there are certain rules that one cannot leave until they are of a certain age. But while she was getting closer to her freedom, a phenomenal occurrence happened. Old legends ran in history that when an Alpha is worthy, the lunar goddess would choose their partners for them. A partner who would undoubtedly be the perfect match for them. For Atticus, the next Alpha in line, it was a privilege he vowed to uphold, even though his chosen ‘mate’ appears to keep her distance from him.
Author: Mary Cappello Publisher: Beacon Press (MA) ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 294
Book Description
Capello (English, University of Rhode Island) combines the bilingual journals of her grandfather, her mother's poetry, Sicilian folklore, and dreamwork with her own reminiscences of growing up in an immigrant family in a working-class suburb of Philadelphia. She explores the contradictions of her father's rage and gardening, and her mother's poetry and agoraphobia. As a lesbian who has entered the middle class, she celebrates the subversive desire in her family's responses to the forces shaping their lives. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Lara Hawthorne Publisher: Candlewick Press ISBN: 153623284X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 33
Book Description
Hawthorne delivers an exquisitely illustrated picture book about the Saguaro cactus which grows in the Sonoran desert in Arizona and its flower, which blooms only one night a year. Full color.
Author: Leslie Contreras Schwartz Publisher: ISBN: 9780998640464 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 113
Book Description
In Nightbloom & Cenote, Leslie Contreras Schwartz traverses a nighttime landscape with eyes purposefully wide open. She descends into "nightcups of hurt and stains"¿navigates rugged territory¿¿where most would refuse to tread. In these darkened depths, Leslie pushes against every uncomfortable edge: personal and generational affronts. She relents, "there is too much to move, that won¿t." Yet, she keeps stepping with her gaze focused on what wilts and blooms.In her hometown of Houston, she reflects on both literal and metaphorical landscapes, "where streetlights bust out and stay busted." She¿s bold in her witnessing though her poems seem to palpate under her exacting "knife, the sharp edge/ that we use to make something, /Even if it disappears." In this brilliant volume, Schwartz instructs best in how she navigates loss. "Let me walk unsteadily. /Let me lose and lose/my body in parts while I watch and sing anyway." Her verse, though sorrow- tinged¿¿shouts a powerful song of resistance. She bade us sing no matter what we withstand.¿Glenis Redmond, author of What My Hand Say¿In Nightbloom & Cenote the smallest detail opens a kind of world all its own: ¿I am made of those sweat-filled / sheets of sorrow, / a clothesline of flinching blouses / waiting for that slap and back beat / to dry.¿ I loved this, and I loved also the intensity of being a single person as exhibited in the lyric voice of this work.¿¿Ilya Kaminsky, author ofDancing in Odessa
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