![]() ![]() Soon, he discovers that fighting against the passion they ignite in one another is futile. One taste of her lips, and she becomes his obsession. ![]() For a while.ĭespite the hatred Raven harbors for their kind, he is intrigued by the witch. Yet one glance into her captor’s eyes, and she is swept away by emotions long ago denied to her. While the gods might have planned for her to be captured, surrender is not something that comes easy to Amira. And kidnapping a witch is only the beginning-for he intends to right the wrongs of his past by any means necessary. Plagued by the memories and guilt over his family’s demise, Raven lives for the sole reason of restoring his younger brother. Forced to be born anew every time she fails in fulfilling an ancient prophecy, Amira is desperate to break the vicious cycle.Ī TORMENTED WARRIOR WHO HAS LOST EVERYTHING… And yet, she is but a slave to the whims of the gods. Till Death and Beyond is a sizzling tale of two souls bound by destiny in a cruel plot to separate them forever…Ī COLD BEAUTY WHO KNOWS DEATH INTIMATELY…Īmira is the strongest witch on the face of the earth, with psychic abilities no others possess. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() She lives with her husband and son in Yorkshire, England. A sortable list in reading order and chronological order with publication date, genre, and rating. "If I save his daughter," Lilly reasons, "the prime minister's sure to reward me." Little does Lilly know that it will take more than grit to outwit the tricky, treacherous piratical tribes!ĮMILY DIAMAND is a lifelong environmental activist, and her concern for the earth greatly influenced the story of RAIDERS' RANSOM, her debut novel and the winner of the inaugural London Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition. Series list: Raiders' Ransom (2 Books) by Emily Diamand. The well-paced plot keeps readers hooked. And with a ransom: a mysterious talking jewel. Emily Diamand convincingly creates a fantasy world that seems to take place in the past, then slowlyand just as crediblyreveals that the book is set in a post-computer twenty-third century. Her village blamed, Lilly decides to find the girl. Poor Lilly is out fishing with her trusty sea-cat when greedy raiders pillage the town-and kidnap the prime minister's daughter. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this sci fi adventure quest story. It's the 22nd century and, because of climate change, much of England is underwater. Emily Diamand Raiders Ransom, Flood and Fire. Synopsis: Winner of the inaugural Chicken House/London Times Children's Fiction Competition, which called it "a funny, clever, towering adventure." ![]() ![]() ![]() Self-doubt however, it is in her journal entries, an English classĪssignment focused on Wuthering Heights, where she reveals insight and Dylan's tragic past comes into play as he acts out, usesĭrugs, and makes a reckless decision that redefines his life.Įmma's story, as she tells it, is full of teenage angst and ![]() Drama ensues as Emma joinsĪ competitive dance team, makes a new best friend, develops a crush on aĭecoy boyfriend, and learns how Dylan's body became scarred soīadly. Teenager Dylan McAndrews, Emma's simple life becomes complicated.Įmma and Dylan are immediately attracted to each other and quicklyĭevelop a clandestine relationship, knowing that if they are discovered,ĭylan will likely be removed from the family. This "child" turns out to be handsome, charming, and artistic Her departure approaching, her exceptional parents decide to take in aįoster child as a companion to Emma's much younger brother. Her academic future, most likely attending a distant university. This is her senior year of high school, and she is starting to plan 978-3-2.Įmma Ellenburg may be socially awkward, but behind her glasses, she ![]() ![]() Wrong in All the Right Ways." Retrieved from Wrong in All the Right Ways." The Free Library. ![]() ![]() In time, Frédéric is invited to join Jacques and Marie for dinner, and he finds that his infatuation with Marie has only grown stronger. Frédéric begins spending time with Hussonet and a group of students who meet at the shop. There he meets a young man named Hussonet, who Frédéric discovers works for Jacques. ![]() Instead, he lingers in Paris, aimless.Ī few weeks later, Frédéric attends a student protest as the political situation in France staggers toward the revolution of 1848. While in Paris, Frédéric comes across a shop that happens to be owned by Jacques although Frédéric has often thought of Marie, he chooses not to go inside and renew his acquaintance. Frédéric meets with Dambreuse, but the meeting does not lead to anything. Frédéric has come to Paris based on the advice of his old friend, Deslauriers, who has given him a letter of introduction to a wealthy banker named Dambreuse. Frédéric is smitten with Marie, but takes his leave when the ship arrives. He meets an older man named Jacques Arnoux, and they have a conversation he is introduced to Jacques’s wife, Marie. The story opens with Frédéric Moreau, who is on a short break between earning his bachelor’s degree and plunging into a study of the law, on board a ship heading to Paris. ![]() ![]() ![]() The follow-up to his classic, Madame Bovary, it was extremely influential and is considered a key work in the formation of the modern concept of the novel. A Sentimental Education is a French novel by Gustave Flaubert, published in 1869. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America. While we all live under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at the poor. Today, automated systems-rather than humans-control which neighborhoods get policed, which families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, employment, politics, health, and human services has undergone revolutionary change. In Pittsburgh, a child welfare agency uses a statistical model to try to predict which children might be future victims of abuse or neglect. The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps, and cash benefits in three years-because a new computer system interprets any mistake as "failure to cooperate." In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritize them for an inadequate pool of housing resources. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lazlo escapes the monastery and becomes a librarian, determined to find out everything he can about Weep, and desperate to some day travel there and witness magic for himself. One day, Lazlo feels the name of the city literally wiped from his mind and replaced with the word “Weep.” This incident drives a lifelong passion for uncovering the mysteries of the Unseen City. In particular, he loves the story of a long-forgotten city filled with magic, gods, and warriors. Lazlo Strange, a war orphan raised in a strict monastery, loves stories. For me, Strange the Dreamer falls somewhere between those two extremes. I absolutely adore her unfinished series Faeries of Dreamdark but gave up on the Daughter of Smoke and Bone series after barely making it through the first book. It seems like almost every YA fantasy fan has read-and raved about-this one, so of course I had to follow suit, despite my somewhat mixed feelings for the Taylor’s previous work. ![]() I’ve read a lot of good things about Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was the granddaughter of caricaturist Purchasers never looked at anything but the beginning and the end."ĭaphne du Maurier was born in London into an artistic family. Tearing out the middle pages to read at home, for prospective Hovering outside the bookshops, and when the bookseller was inside, In wagons when the carter smiled, in scuffling with apprentice boys, in Adventure was in gazing into pawnbrokers' windows, in riding Offering it to an old gentleman who patted her head and gave her Adventure was in picking up a posy dropped by a lady and The novel has been characterized as the last and mostįamous imitation of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847). ![]() Orson Welles's radio adaptation from 1938 also paved way for ![]() Du Maurier is best known for Rebecca (1938), filmed by Alfred Hitchcock ![]() Playwright, who published romantic suspense novels, mostly set on theĬoast of Cornwall. zip of the website is also available.ĭaphne du Maurier (1907-1989) - married name Lady Daphne Browning All pages are unmodified as they originally appeared some links and images may no longer function. The original website was published by Petri Liukkonen under Creative Commons BY-ND-NC 1.0 Finland and reproduced here under those terms for non-commercial use. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The queen once travelled through the land, with her little daughter, who was a princess. But the looking-glass said: “You are more than pretty-you are beautiful!” Karen then was dressed in clean and tidy clothes, and was taught to read and to sew, and people said she was pretty. There happened to pass by a large, old-fashioned carriage, in which sat an old lady, who took compassion on the little girl, and said to the preacher: “Pray, give me that little girl, and I will adopt her.”Īnd Karen fancied that all this was owing to the red shoes but the old lady thought them abominable, and ordered them to be burnt. They were not fit for mourning, it is true, but having no others, she put them on to her bare feet, and followed the pauper’s coffin to its last resting-place. She received the red shoes, and put them on, for the first time, on the very day her mother was buried. In the village lived an old shoemaker’s wife, who fashioned a little pair of shoes as well as she could out of some old strips of red cloth they were rather clumsy, but the intention was kind, for they were to give to the little girl, whose name was Karen. HERE was once a little girl who was delicately pretty, but who was obliged to walk about with bare feet in summer (for she was poor), and to wear coarse wooden shoes in winter, so that her little insteps were red all over. ![]() ![]() Inside, the Heath brothers reveal the anatomy of ideas that “stick” and explain sure-fire methods for making ideas stickier, such as violating schemas, using the Velcro Theory of Memory, and creating “curiosity gaps.” Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? In Made to Stick, accomplished educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath tackle head-on these vexing questions. Meanwhile, people with important ideas-businessmen, educators, politicians, journalists, and others-struggle to make their ideas “stick.” Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. “For anyone with good ideas who wants to capture an audience.” It was named to several “best of the year” lists and was selected as one of the best 100 business books of all time. Made to Stick made the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists and was retired from the BusinessWeek list after a 24-month run. ![]() It’s been translated into Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Dutch, and 25 other languages. Since its release in 2007, Made to Stick has become popular with managers, marketers, teachers, ministers, entrepreneurs, and others who want to make their ideas stick. ![]() “It will join The Tipping Point and Built to Last as a must-read for business people.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But if we see a naughty, evil child, then we must weep tears of sorrow, and each tear adds one day more to our time of waiting."Now kiddies, your bedtime story is over. The child never knows when we fly through the room if its goodness makes us smile with pleasure, a year is taken from the three hundred. Hans, Hans, Hans, you sick fuck.I haven't read the Disney version but I bet it ain't nothing like this.The original (translated) version includes:The cutting out of a tongueThreats of murderBlack milk coming out of a witches breastHierarchy of sisterly beautyMarital possessivenessAnd perhaps most disturbingly of all, the overall message as explained in the final paragraph:"Unseen, we glide into human homes where there are children, and whenever we find a good child, one who makes its parents happy and deserves their love, God shortens our time of trial. ![]() |