Author : Lenora Mattingly Weber
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,81 MB
Release : 1999-11
Category : Malone, Beany (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 9781930009011
Beany Malone's life is complicated by her brother's new girl friend.
Author : Erin Swan
Publisher : Tor Teen
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 076539300X
Erin Swan's YA fantasy debut, Bright Star, is an action-packed adventure tale of rebellion, romance, and finding one's voice in the heart of a storm. Paerolia has been at peace for two centuries, and all is well in the land—or so it seems. Beneath the surface, a tyrant is rising to power. A traumatic experience in Andra's childhood has left her mute and subdued, a servant in the Chief Judge’s manor. But when an assassination team, led by the secretive and alluring Kael, infiltrates the manor and makes a quick escape, she takes her chance and flees with them. Andra is thrust into the ranks of a secret rebellion—a group of outcasts and believers seeking to overthrow the Chief Judge and replace the corrupt government with new members, ones who will restore and preserve the land they love. Now, the girl who was once an outcast must somehow become the leader Paerolia needs. But she is stronger than she believes—and with the help of a fiercely loyal dragon, she may just be the one to lead them all to victory. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Jonathan Bate
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 32,10 MB
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300262418
An immensely pleasurable biography of two interwoven, tragic figures: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald In this radiant dual biography, Jonathan Bate explores the fascinating parallel lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald, writers who worked separately—on different continents, a century apart, in distinct genres—but whose lives uncannily echoed. Not only was Fitzgerald profoundly influenced by Keats, titling Tender is the Night and other works from the poet’s lines, but the two shared similar fates: both died young, loved to drink, were plagued by tuberculosis, were haunted by their first love, and wrote into a new decade of release, experimentation, and decadence. Both were outsiders and Romantics, longing for the past as they sped blazingly into the future. Using Plutarch’s ancient model of “parallel lives,” Jonathan Bate recasts the inspired lives of two of the greatest and best-known Romantic writers. Commemorating both the bicentenary of Keats’ death and the centenary of the Roaring Twenties, this is a moving exploration of literary influence.
Author : Anna Todd
Publisher : Frayed Pages, Incorporated
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,8 MB
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : 9781732408609
#1 international bestselling author Anna Todd returns with a riveting novel about one woman's journey to finding love as she overcomes the obstacles thrown at her at every turn.
Author : Laura Troester
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465316353
Settled high on a Mountain. Mighty Arrow was Chief of his people and was married to Falling Leaf. They had a big family of four girls. Falling Leaf had given birth to another daughter. They named her Bright Star. Bright Star announced one day that she wanted to become the next medicine woman of her village. Falling Leaf knew only men were Shamans. That did not discourage Bright Star. As Bright Star grew up she had to battle an attack on her village and being captured. Almost being raped and the loss of her first child, she became ill. Almost every time something happened to Bright Star she underwent some kind of initiation. Every time she came back Little Eagle was right by her side. Together they could go through anything that got in their way.
Author : Jerrie Oughton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 13,72 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780395779385
A retelling of the Navaho legend that explains the patterns of the stars in the sky.
Author : Sungju Lee
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,39 MB
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 161312340X
Written for a young audience, this intense memoir explores the harsh realities of life on the streets in contemporary North Korea. Every Falling Star is the memoir of Sungju Lee, who at the age of twelve was forced to live on the streets of North Korea and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly recreates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, “his brothers,” to daily be hungry and to fear arrest, imprisonment, and even execution. This riveting memoir allows young readers to learn about other cultures where freedoms they take for granted do not exist.
Author : Lenora Mattingly Weber
Publisher : Image Cascade Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,48 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Denver (Colo.)
ISBN : 9780963960740
Further adventures of the Malone family in 1940s Denver, as sixteen-year-old Beany falls head over heels for a senior, Mary Fred tries to get into a sorority, and Don finally comes home from the war.
Author : Jane Campion
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 2009-11-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 014195972X
Published to coincide with the release of the film Bright Star, written and directed by Oscar Winner Jane Campion (The Piano, In the Cut), starring Abbie Cornish (Elizabeth: The Golden Age) and Ben Whishaw (Brideshead Revisited, Perfume) John Keats died aged just twenty-five. He left behind some of the most exquisite and moving verse and love letters ever written, inspired by his great love for Fanny Brawne. Although they knew each other for just a few short years and spent a great deal of that time apart - separated by Keats' worsening illness, which forced a move abroad - Keats wrote again and again about and to his love, right until his very last poem, called simply 'To Fanny'. She, in turn, would wear the ring he had given her until her death. So Bright and Delicate is the passionate, heartrending story of this tragic affair, told through the private notes and public art of a great poet.
Author : John Brunner
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0575101458
A hundred thousand years from now, it was discovered that a star was approaching the world on a collision course. Its discoverer, Creohan, figured there might be time to save the world if he could arouse everyone to the danger. But the Earth had become a strange and kaleidoscopic place in that distant era. Too many empires had risen and fallen, too many cultures had spread their shattered fragments across a planet whose very maps had long since been forgotten. People were too busy with their own private dreams to pay attention to one more new alarm. The story Creohan's effort to Catch a Falling Star is one of John Brunner's most colourful science-fiction concepts.
