![]() ![]() ![]() I wish that were the least of my worries. It doesn’t help that he’s hot AF, knows exactly how to push my buttons, and my body hasn’t gotten the memo he’s off-limits. As their rivalry escalates, Ares seems determined to use me as a pawn, and I’m trapped in the middle. ![]() My boyfriend, Chad, is getting in deeper with a local gang.Īnd my loathsome new stepbrother, Ares, has just moved in.Īres despises Chad and Jase, and the feeling is mutual. A chance to end all the sneaking around and make our relationship official. Sleeping with my boyfriend’s best friend, behind his girlfriend’s back, probably wasn’t my smartest idea.īut Jase is mine, and it’s about time Julia knew it.Īttending Lowell University was supposed to be a fresh start. In the secret society of The Luminaries, no sin will go unpunished… ![]()
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![]() As her tale was created primarily to educate her younger 18th-century readers, the tale is an interesting commentary on gender roles of 18th-century France. Her characters and their relationships are often inverted and they behave in ways unexpected and unaccepted by the overtly-gendered, 18th-century patriarchal rule. Adapting her tale from the much longer text by De Villeneuve, De Beaumont created an innovative tale which discusses gendered expectations and marriage relationships in modern ways. ![]() The characters of Beauty, her sisters and that of the Beast are analysed for evidence of typical, patriarchal behaviours and relationships or more modern, innovative ones. Abstract : De Beaumont's fairy tale La Belle et la Bête published in 1757 in France is examined in this article by analysing gender roles and performativity, using the feminist and new historicist frameworks. ![]() ![]() "Readers are sure to fall in love with the delightful and inventive Glory Bea, and with the entire cast of this wonderful story. When the Gladiola Gazette reports that one of the boxcars from the Merci Train (the "thank you" train)-a train filled with gifts of gratitude from the people of France-will be stopping in Gladiola, she just knows daddy will be its surprise cargo.īut miracles, like people, are always changing, until at last they find their way home. Glory Bea understands what Mama and Grams and Grandpa say-that Daddy died a hero on Omaha Beach-yet deep down in her heart, she believes Daddy is still out there. The war ended three years ago, but Glory Bea's father never returned home from the front in France. ![]() Now, Glory Bea needs a miracle of her own. After all, her grandmother-the best matchmaker in the whole county-is responsible for thirty-nine of them. ![]() ![]() Glory Bea Bennett knows that miracles happen in Gladiola, Texas, population 3,421. Description For fans of Kate DiCamillo's Louisiana's Way Home, this heartwarming novel tells the story of ten-year-old Glory Bea as she prepares for a miracle of her very own-her father's return home. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marlow tells the men that the entire journey was a sort of dream-lacking any real-world logic, deeply affecting, and difficult to describe in its details. Hired by a Continental trading company as a steamboat captain between the outer stations and the interior, Marlow's primary mission was to visit and, if necessary, retrieve the mysterious Kurtz, an extraordinarily successful agent who had lost contact and reportedly fallen ill. ![]() ![]() Heart of Darkness tells the story of Marlow, a sailor, who describes to his shipmates the unusual experience he had traveling upriver in the Congo and the effect it had upon him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Movie rights were sold for The Home-Maker (1924). Fisher's translation of Giovanni Papini's Life of Christ (1923) sold 350,000 copies. ![]() The Brimming Cup (1921) was a best-seller. Writing in brief bursts, she completed two volumes of stories about wartime France.įisher returned from the war profoundly depressed, but rebounded through intense work and produced her best, most popular writing in the 1920's. Her husband volunteered for ambulance service in April 1916, and in August the family moved to Paris, where she organized the printing of books in braille for blinded soldiers, ran the commissary for her husband's training camp, and during the last year of the war ran a home for refugee children at Guéthary. In 1911-1912 Fisher worked for five months with Maria Montessori in Rome, an experience that resulted in four books on child development (1912 - 1916) that were drawn also from her experience with her two children.Įducation remained her primary interest, expressed in her writing and in her service on the Vermont State Board of Education (1921 - 1923) and on the American Youth Commission (1935 - 1941). After teaching for a year at the Horace Mann School in New York City, she decided to concentrate on writing, and found it brought her a comfortable living. ![]() ![]() ![]() Until the day she meets someone she's forbidden to love, and Romeo, oh Romeo, will do everything in his power to destroy that love. For 700 years, she's fought Romeo for the souls of true lovers, struggling to preserve romantic love and the lives of the innocent. She was murdered by the person she trusted most, her new husband, Romeo Montague, a sacrifice made to ensure his own immortality. ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book Juliet Immortal (Juliet Immortal, 1) written by Stacey Jay which was published in August 9, 2011. But what Romeo didn't anticipate was that Juliet would be granted eternity, as well, and would become an agent for the Ambassadors of Light. Brief Summary of Book: Juliet Immortal (Juliet Immortal, 1) by Stacey Jay. ![]() She was murdered by the person she trusted most, her new husband, Romeo Montague, a sacrifice made to ensure his own immortality. Fans of Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver and Becca Fitzpatrick's Hush will relish this intense paranormal love story featuring Romeo and Juliet, literary history's most tragic couple, who meet again, not as true lovers, but truly as enemies. Juliet Immortal Stacey Jay Random House Childrens Books, Young Adult Fiction - 320 pages 54 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although she inherited money from both Hamilton and Nelson, her extravagance led her into debt, and she died in poverty.” “Emma attracted the attention of Lord Horatio Nelson, with whom she had a notorious romantic liaison until his death at the Battle of Trafalgar. Charles Greville, whose mistress she was and who commissioned this portrait, educated her in music and literature, and Greville’s uncle, Sir William Hamilton, British ambassador to Naples, brought her to Italy, where they were married.” From the Frick website: “Emma Hart (1765–1815) was a woman of great beauty and charm who rose from humble origins to international fame. Among those I chose were Lady Hamilton and Grace Dalrymple Elliott. ![]() One of the things I like to do when looking at portraits is decide who I’d be friends with, as if you can decide based on how some looks what kind of person they were. I was at the temporary Frick Museum location (in the old Whitney Museum location!) yesterday. ![]() ![]() ![]() Brief interludes by those in Zenobia’s orbit add perspective. ![]() Though Zen is haunted by self-doubt and anxiety, she’s bolstered by the kindness and acceptance of her friends and new family. Bunker ( Felix Yz) brings considerable empathy and skill to her authentic, nuanced portrayal, balancing Zen’s darker moments with humor. A boost of self-confidence comes when Zen, a talented hacker, uses her skills to help the school discover who is posting anti-Muslim and transphobic smears to the school website. But even with the support and love of her aunts, she wrestles daily with the person she sees in the mirror. Zen bonds with the middle school’s band of “orphan misfits,” which includes genderqueer Arli, Congolese immigrant Chantal, and new kid Elijah, who is eventually outed as trans. After her father died in what is being called a hunting accident (her mother passed away when she was small), she has moved from Arizona to Portland, Maine, to live with Aunts Phil and Lucy-a quirky couple with a diverse friend group, including the larger-than-life drag queen “Sprinkles.” She’s also starting school for the first time as a trans girl. It’s a year of big changes for Zenobia July. ![]() ![]() Hannah Farley’s past is mired in darkness, and in this, our heroine struggles to forgive and forget but Hannah’s past has resurfaced, and in this Elijah is determined to protect the woman with whom he is falling in love. ![]() What ensues is the building romance and relationship between Hannah and Elijah, and the potential fall-out as every measure of protection and safety Elijah put into place, has been over ridden or destroyed by demons from the past. With the partners, and their significant others and friends, targeted by any number of desperate individuals, Elijah Banks has set into motion a plan to protect our story line heroine and her family but Elijah’s past refuses to let go, and Hannah’s past may be coming for vengeance. Elijah Banks is the third member of a business triangle co-owned with Grant Twombley and Sebastian Shark. Told from dual first person perspectives (Hannah and Elijah) ELIJAH’S WHIM picks up several months after the events of Grant’s Blaze (Shark’s Edge 6). ![]() ELIJAH’S WHIM can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty but I recommend reading the series in order for backstory and history. This is caterer/chef Hannah Farley, and billionaire businessman / security specialist Elijah Banks’ story line. ![]() ELIJAH’S WHIM by Victoria Blue is the seventh instalment in the contemporary, adult SHARK’S EDGE erotic, romantic suspense series, and the first instalment in Hannah and Elijah’s story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A full-blown rebellion breaks out by the besieged people left behind on Earth and the “perfect society” on Novo begins to unravel. Soon, Ariana, Cal and other teens are given a directive: to save the human race, they must choose a spouse through a “pageant” or calling and have a family or humanity may risk oblivion. She fights her attraction to another cadet, Cal, a gorgeous but arrogant son of Novo’s military commander. She and all the new residents of Novo have no memory of life before coming to the planet - all part of the government’s vision to start a new life with no pain of those they left behind on Earth. Spirited and independent, Ariana adores her dad and is protective of her little sister. The main character is 17-year-old Cadet Ariana Skye. The story opens on planet Novo, a settlement for Earth’s chosen few located 1,200 miles above the Earth’s surface. ![]() ![]() She’s the author of the True Calling series, three science fiction romance novels set against the backdrop of post-apocalyptic Earth. Irish writer SIobhan Davis fits the bill. I love to find new authors online - especially those with a fresh voice, fascinating settings and above all, vivid but imperfect characters. ![]() |