Ravyn's Temptation [Ravyn Warriors 6]
Author : Jana Downs
Publisher : Siren-BookStrand
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
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ISBN : 1627400311
Author : Jana Downs
Publisher : Siren-BookStrand
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
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ISBN : 1627400311
Author : Elizabeth Hoyt
Publisher : Forever
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0759569495
A fiery lady must tame her brooding employer in this enchanting retelling of Beauty and the Beast from the New York Times bestselling author of the Maiden Lane series. THERE COMES A TIME IN A LADY'S LIFE The Earl of Swartingham is in a quandary. Having frightened off two secretaries, Edward de Raaf needs someone who can withstand his bad temper and boorish behavior. WHEN SHE MUST DO THE UNTHINKABLE . . . When Anna becomes the earl's secretary, it would seem that both their problems are solved. But when she discovers he plans to visit the most notorious brothel in London, she sees red-and decides to assuage her desires . . .
Author : Nicholas Kotar
Publisher : Waystone Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0998847917
An evil omen clouds the sky. A song of power returns. Can one man's quest save the world? Voran, a young warrior of Vasyllia, lives in a dying world. As blight ravages the countryside and darkness covers the sun, he can't avoid hearing the rumors of an ancient spirit that devours souls. He feels powerless to fight the oncoming devastation until a mythical creature entrusts him with a long-forgotten song. Legend has it that such a song can heal the masses, overthrow kingdoms, and raise humans to divine beings… Armed with the power of the song, Voran must hunt down the dark spirit before it achieves its goal of immortality. His quest takes him through doorways to other worlds and puts him on a collision course with seductive nymphs and riddling giants. With each step of the journey, the strength of the villainous spirit grows, as does Voran’s fear that the only way to save his world… is to let it be destroyed. The Song of the Sirin is an epic fantasy retelling of the Russian fairy tale Prince Ivan and the Grey Wolf. If you like complex characters, creative twists on mythology, and cinematic world-building, then you’ll love Nicholas Kotar’s sweeping tale. Buy The Song of the Sirin to begin the journey today!
Author : Donna E. Norton
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 33,1 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Education
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In its seventh edition, "Through the Eyes of a Child: An Introduction to Children's Literature" continues to be a visually stunning, theoretically sound, comprehensive overview of children's literature. It focuses squarely on selecting and evaluating quality literature to share with children and guiding them to appreciate and respond to that literature. This edition features multicultural literature and young adult literature in every chapter, expanded coverage of biographies and informational books and over 100 new children's titles referenced throughout. A children's literature CD-ROM accompanies the book and contains bibliographic information for thousands of titles, making it even easier to share quality literature with children and adolescents.
Author : Matthew J. C. Cella
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 29,23 MB
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1587299399
At the core of this nuanced book is the question that ecocritics have been debating for decades: what is the relationship between aesthetics and activism, between art and community? By using a pastoral lens to examine ten fictional narratives that chronicle the dialogue between human culture and nonhuman nature on the Great Plains, Matthew Cella explores literary treatments of a succession of abrupt cultural transitions from the Euroamerican conquest of the “Indian wilderness” in the nineteenth century to the Buffalo Commons phenomenon in the twentieth. By charting the shifting meaning of land use and biocultural change in the region, he posits this bad land—the arid West—as a crucible for the development of the human imagination. Each chapter deals closely with two novels that chronicle the same crisis within the Plains community. Cella highlights, for example, how Willa Cather reconciles her persistent romanticism with a growing disillusionment about the future of rural Nebraska, how Tillie Olsen and Frederick Manfred approach the tragedy of the Dust Bowl with strikingly similar visions, and how Annie Proulx and Thomas King use the return of the buffalo as the centerpiece of a revised mythology of the Plains as a palimpsest defined by layers of change and response. By illuminating these fictional quests for wholeness on the Great Plains, Cella leads us to understand the intricate interdependency of people and the places they inhabit. Cella uses the term “pastoralism” in its broadest sense to mean a mode of thinking that probes the relationship between nature and culture: a discourse concerned with human engagement—material and nonmaterial—with the nonhuman community. In all ten novels discussed in this book, pastoral experience—the encounter with the Beautiful—leads to a renewed understanding of the integral connection between human and nonhuman communities. Propelling this tradition of bad land pastoralism are an underlying faith in the beauty of wholeness that comes from inhabiting a continuously changing biocultural landscape and a recognition of the inevitability of change. The power of story and language to shape the direction of that change gives literary pastoralism the potential to support an alternative series of ideals based not on escape but on stewardship: community, continuity, and commitment.
Author : Miranda Lyn
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 30,12 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
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ISBN : 9781736833995
Stealing a prized jewel is nothing compared to a heart. Raised to be the perfect thief, Lyra is not above using her body or her siren's song to take exactly what she wants, when she wants it. But when she is attacked and her song is stolen, there's only one fae that can help her. The fae she'd sworn to stay far away from. Now, she must find a way to win over the commander of the Flame Court, even if it means sacrificing everything she's ever learned about being a siren. She thinks she can fool him, fool them all. But really, she is only fooling herself. This standalone spin-off will stow you away on pirate ships, lure you under the sea, and wrench the beating heart from your chest with this star-crossed lovers' tale. "A heart-wrenching, and lustful tale. This captivating series spin-off is a true diamond of the sea." -C.C. PEÑARANDA, author of the Heir Comes to Rise series
Author : Douglas Brode
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0292745575
While political liberals celebrated the end of “cowboy politics” with the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, political conservatives in the Tea Party and other like-minded groups still vociferously support “cowboy” values such as small government, low taxes, free-market capitalism, and the right to bear arms. Yet, as Douglas Brode argues in this paradigm-shifting book, these supposedly cowboy or “Old West” values hail not so much from the actual American frontier of the nineteenth century as from Hollywood’s portrayal of it in the twentieth century. And a close reading of Western films and TV shows reveals a much more complex picture than the romanticized, simplistic vision espoused by the conservative right. Examining dozens of Westerns, including Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Red River, 3:10 to Yuma (old and new), The Wild Ones, High Noon, My Darling Clementine, The Alamo, and No Country for Old Men, Brode demonstrates that the genre (with notable exceptions that he fully covers) was the product of Hollywood liberals who used it to project a progressive agenda on issues such as gun control, environmental protection, respect for non-Christian belief systems, and community cohesion versus rugged individualism. Challenging us to rethink everything we thought we knew about the genre, Brode argues that the Western stands for precisely the opposite of what most people today—whether they love it or hate it—believe to be the essential premise of “the only truly, authentically, and uniquely American narrative form.”
Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 1838
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Page : 649 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 1876
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Author : Louis Ginzberg
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 22,40 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Jewish legends
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