![]() And as Rhen realizes Harper is not just another girl to charm, his hope comes flooding back. A prince? A curse? A monster? As she spends time with Rhen in this enchanted land, she begins to understand what's at stake. Harper doesn't know where she is or what to believe. ![]() When she tries to save a stranger on the streets of Washington, DC, she's pulled into a magical world. With her father long gone, her mother dying, and her brother constantly underestimating her because of her cerebral palsy, Harper learned to be tough enough to survive. Before he destroyed his castle, his family, and every last shred of hope. But that was before he turned into a vicious beast hell-bent on destruction. Published by Bloomsbury YA on January 29, 2019Ĭursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year, Prince Rhen, the heir of Emberfall, thought he could be saved easily if a girl fell for him. A Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() A series of misty, evocative watercolors in muted tones suggests the figures and their changing relationships to the landscape. Muth's art is as carefully distilled as his prose. ![]() And the most important thing is to do good for the one who is standing at your side." Moral without being moralistic, the tale sends a simple and direct message unfreighted by pomp or pedantry. ![]() The most important one is always the one you are with. As Leo explains, "There is only one important time, and that time is now. While there, he helps Leo with his garden and rescues an injured panda and her cub, and in so doing, finds the answers he seeks. He visits Leo, an old turtle who lives in the mountains. Yearning to be a good person, Nikolai asks, "When is the best time to do things? Who is the most important one? What is the right thing to do?" Sonya the heron, Gogol the monkey and Pushkin the dog offer their opinions, but their answers do not satisfy Nikolai. Muth (Come On, Rain!) recasts a short story by Tolstoy into picture-book format, substituting a boy and his animal friends for the czar and his human companions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you have not received an order receipt, or shipping confirmation email, please check your junk, spam, or promotions folders and be sure to add to your safe list. You will receive an email when your order has shipped with a tracking number. Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. Shipping is calculated by the weight of the product, any shipping overages will be refunded at the time of mailing. Read The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology by Snorri Sturluson with a free trial. If you order other products with your preorder, they will all be shipped together when the preorder is shipped to you. Preorders are shipped as soon as we receive the products to us. During our bi-annual sales events, shipping times can be 2-3 weeks after orders are placed. ![]() Orders generally ship the next shipping day after your order is placed, however, sometimes we receive dozens of orders in one day and we split orders between the next two shipping days. Please understand we are a two-person shipping operation and do our best to get your goods to you as quickly as possible. Ritualcravt ships two-three times per week. ![]() ![]() (libraries), as opposed to other public institutions, have opened their hearts and their doors to the people who need the most help and they welcome them in,” said Walsh, best known for her work on This Hour Has 22 Minutes. “At a time when we have become very un-Christian in dealing with the most vulnerable people in our society. The fact the library opens its doors to anyone and everyone, including the most marginalized, was a big factor. Actress and comedian Mary Walsh has always been a big reader so emceeing for Biblio Bash, a fundraiser for the Toronto Public Library Foundation, was an easy decision. ![]() ![]() Over the course of her nearly five-decade career, Coerr wrote books for children such as Jane Goodall, Sam the Minuteman, and Meiko and the Fifth Treasure. In the mid-1960s, on one of her trips to the Japanese archipelago, Coerr became compelled by the story of Sadako Sasaki and began writing her story. Coerr traveled to Japan for the first time in 1949 and found the country devastated by the violence of the Second World War. She was married to an American ambassador, and often travelled with him during his diplomatic trips to countries all over the world-including Japan. ![]() ![]() She remained in America, teaching literature and writing at universities in California, and also working as a reporter and newspaper columnist. ![]() Born in Saskatchewan, Canada, Eleanor Coerr attended the University of Saskatchewan but ultimately received her bachelor’s degree from American University in Washington, D.C., and then went on to earn a master’s degree in library science from the University of Maryland. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her first novel, The Blood Lie, won the Simon Wiesenthal Children's Book Award, was silver medalist for the Sydney Taylor Book Award, and was an ALA 2012 Best Book for Young Adults. Shirley Reva Vernick is rapidly becoming the new hot item in young adult fiction. It's a race for her life, her first love, and her sanity. Then maybe this could still be a vacation. ![]() If only George were the tiniest bit open to believing. If only Ghost Girl didn't want Penny dead. Until, that is, she discovers two very real apparitions which only she can see.and meets George, the handsome son of the inn's owner.and crashes into some staggering family secrets. ![]() Penny most definitely does not believe in spirits. This "vacation" is the brainchild of Penny's flaky mother, who's on the other side of the country hunting ghosts. Penny is furious, and who can blame her? She has to spend Christmas break alone at the Black Butterfly, an old inn at the coldest, bleakest edge of America-the coast of Maine. ![]() ![]() They must search for the animal skin, a mythical relic which once found, will either bring them together or rip them apart forever. He needs the seal pelt, not a red-haired temptress.Īs a thief ransacks Maggie’s grandmother’s house, Maggie and Calan are thrust together. But she is a human, and not to be trusted. I’d like to offer a big thank you to the lovely Daisy for hosting me today I’m so excited to be here as part of my current blog tour for my new paranormal erotic romance Selkie’s Revenge. Meeting her in the flesh when she arrives in Orkney is nothing short of spontaneous sexual combustion. Dreaming of Maggie, the mortal woman who arouses him as no other woman ever has. Although she’s lost her trust in men, this dream man inspires her with a lust she’s never known before.Ĭalan Kirk has also been dreaming. When I began to glimpse the phenomenal response to The Selkie, the first in my. ![]() To add to her frustration, Maggie’s dreams are filled with luscious images of a long-haired man, images that draw her to the magical beaches in Orkney. Rosanna Leos Room: Crafting Selkies Revenge.the making of Book 2. ![]() She also learns that others are after the pelt. Maggie travels to her grandmother’s home in Orkney, Scotland to sort through her gran’s things, only to discover the old woman has left her a seal pelt as her inheritance. When her grandmother dies, she hits rock bottom. However, after losing her job and discovering her fiancé cheating, Maggie Collins has her doubts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her novel Savushun, pronounced in Persian as Suvasun, is placed in the 1950s and 1960s under the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah. Therefore Daneshvar sheds light on the real issues of the women of her time and has influenced, even inspired,a large number of Iranian woman writers. ![]() Before her, Daneshvar’s male predecessor wrote about women however they wrote about women from a male mentality and based on “their”comprehension and perspective of a female psyche. Daneshvar is considered as the Voice of Iranian women fighting for their rights. Simin Daneshvar is known as the pioneer of Iranian female literature, whose novels are orbiting around the theme of women trying to gain their voice in a male-dominated society. In Iranian history, woman have been subjugated and dominated by gender and cultural norms and have sometimes been excluded from the governments public sector on some occasions. She wrote novels after the Islamic revolution of the 1979. Simin Daneshvar is the first Iranian female novelist. ![]() ![]() What she doesn’t expect to find is how much she and Teddy actually have in common – and just how much their charade could cost her before it’s done.Ĭlick here to read more about the underrated book project So when a chance encounter with wrocker-turned-movie star Teddy Hudson leads to an unusual proposal to help him stave off the more fervent of his rabid fans, she figures she can handle his supposed charm. She agreed to play with wizard rock band Neville’s Toad at their crazy geek conference only because her cousin Whitney begged her to – and for the free trip to Florida. The first thing that Ren Coffey needs you to know is that she is nobody’s fangirl. ![]() ![]() Her reaction to finding out mermaids are real was so realistic, disbelief and then almost scared. Tara is living her dream life, until her dream really becomes real. I really liked getting a view of professional mermaiding, I didn’t even knew this really existed before reading this book. Then things change and she really does become a mermaid. It follows Tara who is a professional mermaid, she dons a mermaid tail and does shows in aquariums. How to be a Mermaid was exactly what I hoped and expected from the blurb. ![]() ![]() ![]() I received a free copy from the author in exchange for an honest review Summer 2015, award-winning, and best-selling authors will bring you romantic tales of mermaids, sirens, sprites, and other creatures of the deep! Keep in touch as we reveal each title in our collection! In order to survive, she has to learn how to be one, too. Tara may have always wanted to be a mermaid, but now it’s sink or swim. Yet when she returns to the sea to seek out Finn and reverse her transformation, she finds herself in the middle of an impending war between the land and sea. Suddenly, what she thought was a dream turns out to be a nightmare - she’s turning into a mermaid herself. So she takes a year off between high school and college to don a fake tail and tour aquariums across the country in a professional mermaid troupe.Įverything’s great until she meets a gorgeous real-life merman named Finn. ![]() How to be a Mermaid (Falling in Deep Collection)Īll Tara ever wanted was to be a mermaid. ![]() |