Author :
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 19,43 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
A good-hearted woodcutter finds a heavenly wife in this retelling of a Korean folk tale.
Author : Stella Fitzsimons
Publisher : Butterfly Electric Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 25,53 MB
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Not every plan is a good one. Luna finds herself living in the San Diego Keep betrothed to the higher Alpha, Cyrus, a man she holds in low esteem in any of his forms. She has no choice. It was the only way to give Winter a chance to survive locked away in a dark place by the Persian King of Kings. Hard to believe it could get worse until a troll twice the size of Kong lands in San Diego’s financial district. Fantasy world… meet human world. #epicfantasyfail And then the whole faulty portal wards letting banished monstrosities back into the five realms thing starts to trend and that means endless work for Luna, Kirsi and a certain brother from another mother. Yeah, a total disaster. And there’s still the shotgun wedding, that total xxxxx Chazona, the whole lizard people thing, bear bats, killer trees and a wintry night in the forest of nightmares. Luna could really use a couple new powers like yesterday… and Winter, where is he? urban fantasy, witch, immortals, shapeshifters, werewolf, coming of age, paranormal, fantasy series, witches, paranormal elements, fantasy adventure, contemporary fantasy, fantasy romance, new adult fantasy, strong heroine, supernatural mystery, supernatural suspense
Author : Laura London
Publisher :
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 14,48 MB
Release : 2014-07
Category : Historical fiction
ISBN : 9781455551996
Known as the "naughtier twin" of Downpatrick Hall, Miss Lynden is far more brash and adventurous than her sister Lorraine. After flying a kite into a tree and climbing out onto a branch, she is saved from a terrible fall by Lord Justin Melbrooke, who pulls her through his open window ... and into his bedroom. It's all quite innocent, of course. But when an unannounced visitor walks in-and sees Lord Justin untangling Lynden's skirt-there is only one way to salvage her reputation: marriage. In a whirlwind ceremony, Lynden finds herself exchanging vows with one of England's most sought-after bachelors. Neither one is truly ready to settle down, but their heated words soon turn to heated kisses, and their marriage of convenience may just turn out to be the match of a lifetime.
Author : Yukari Takimoto Amos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1475843690
This new volume, Children’s Literature from Asia in Today’s Classrooms: Towards Culturally Authentic Interpretations, aims to provide readers with interpretation guides and practical ideas when they endeavor to make use of Asian international children’s literature in the classroom. It attempts to help readers interpret stories from Asia more authentically, and focuses both on international children’s literature and also on international literature read by young adults. In an increasingly interconnected world, understanding Asian international children’s literature and effectively using it are worthy goals for PK-16 classrooms and teacher education programs. The book is divided into two parts. Part I discusses how to authentically read children’s literature from four countries: India, Thailand, China, and Japan. These chapters provide guides for meaningful interpretations of cultural aspects of children’s stories from these countries. Part II consists of annotated bibliographies of international children’s literature from selected Asian societies: China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand. The editors believe that readers will find each author’s cultural insights fascinating and useful as they attempt to read with cultural authenticity.
Author : Richard Gravil
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 897 pages
File Size : 36,22 MB
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019101964X
The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-seven original essays to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. In addition to twenty-two essays wholly on Wordsworth's poetry, other essays return to the poetry while exploring other dimensions of the life and work of the major Romantic poet. The result is a dialogic exploration of many major texts and problems in Wordsworth scholarship. This uniquely comprehensive handbook is structured so as to present, in turn, Wordsworth's life, career, and networks; aspects of the major lyrical and narrative poetry; components of 'The Recluse'; his poetical inheritance and his transformation of poetics; the variety of intellectual influences upon his work, from classical republican thought to modern science; his shaping of modern culture in such fields as gender, landscape, psychology, ethics, politics, religion, and ecology; and his 19th- and 20th-century reception-most importantly by poets, but also in modern criticism and scholarship.
Author : Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Magnetical and Meteorological Observatory
Publisher :
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Meteorology
ISBN :
Author : Michael Bull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 1501305026
Sirens are sounds that confront us in daily life, from the sounds of police cars and fire engines to, less often, tornado warnings. Ideologies of sirens embody the protective, the seductive and the dangerous elements of siren sounds – from the US Cold War public training exercises in the 1950s and 1960s to the seductive power of the sirens entrenched in popular culture: from Wagner to Dizzee Rascal, from Kafka to Kurt Vonnegut, from Hans Christian Andersen to Walt Disney. This book argues, using a wide array of theorists from Adorno to Bloch and Kittler, that we should understand 'siren sounds' in terms of their myth and materiality, and that sirens represent a sonic confluence of power, gender and destructiveness embedded in core Western ideologies to the present day. Bull poses the question of whether we can rely on sirens, both in their mythic meanings and in their material meanings in contemporary culture.
Author : Corelli Marie Corelli
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 10,50 MB
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 1474441939
A new scholarly edition of a major late-Victorian scientific romance novelMarie Corelli's A Romance of Two Worlds is regarded as one of the most culturally important Victorian bestsellers. This critical edition offers instructive access to this multifaceted but still largely underappreciated novel that is a key text for scholars and students of late-Victorian women's writing. It also raises urgent questions about a wide array of textual and cultural concerns, especially the form and function of the Victorian 'bestseller'.Key FeaturesContains a thorough critical and analytical introduction, annotations and appendicesProvides context and underlines the aesthetic significance of Corelli's supernatural romanceEngages with the full range of secondary scholarship on this neglected late-Victorian author
Author : Roseanne Thong
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 33,21 MB
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1662620594
Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Honor Book In this powerful parable that explores the impact of paying it forward, a young girl named Mai inspires a chain of events that brings good things back to her. When you do a good deed, it will come back to you. Mai loves feeding the caged birds near the temple but dreams that one day she'll see them fly free. Then she meets a young girl named Thu, and shares the joy of feeding the birds with her. This sets a chain of good deeds in motion that radiates throughout her village and beyond. Set in Vietnam, Roseanne Thong's inspiring story is elegantly illustrated with watercolor on wood by Eujin Kim Neilan.
Author : Laurell K. Hamilton
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 48,10 MB
Release : 2004-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345472063
I am Meredith Gentry, P.I. and Princess Merry, heir to the throne of Fairie. Now there are those among me who whisper I am more. They fear me even as they protect me. And who can blame them? I’ve awakened the dazzling magic that’s slumbered in them for thousands of years. But the thing is, I can’t figure out why. My aunt, the Queen of Air and Darkness, is no longer distracted by her usual sadistic hobbies. Her obsession has turned unwaveringly to me. The mission to get me pregnant and beat my cousin Prince Cel to the crown is taking longer than expected. Even though I spend each night with the Queen’s Ravens, my immortal guards, no child has come of our decadent pleasures. But something else is happening. My magic courses through me uncontrollably. And as I lock my half-mortal body with their full-Sidhe blooded ones, the power surges like never before. It all began with the chalice. I dreamed of it, and it appeared, cool and hard, beside me when I awoke. My guards know the ancient relic well—its disappearance ages ago stripped them of their vital powers. But it is here with us now. My touch resonates with its force, and they’re consumed with it, their Sidhe essences lit up by it. But even as they cherish me for this unexpected gift, there are those who loathe me for it. Me, a mongrel, only half fey and part mortal. The Unseelie court has suffered for so long, and there are some who would not have it weakened further by an impure queen. My enemies grow in number every day. But they do not know what I am capable of. Nor, for that matter, do I. . . . In Seduced by Moonlight, Laurell K. Hamilton brings the dark, erotic reign of the immortal fey to a startling new depth. Full of sensuality and the consuming anticipation of latent powers unleashed, this world of gods, shapeshifters, and immortal souls is unveiled in all of its supreme magnificence and its treacherous deceits.
