Her choice will lead La Cendrillon and Raoul toward their destiny - a choice that will challenge their understanding of family, test their loyalty and courage, and, ultimately, teach them who they are. His wife has died in childbirth, leaving him alone with an infant. When an invitation to a great ball reaches the family, La Cendrillon's new stepmother will make a decision with far-reaching effects. Before Midnight ONCE UPON A TIME IS TIMELESS Etienne de Brabant is brokenhearted. The lady has married La Cendrillon's father, and her arrival changes their lives. The girl, La Cendrillon, and the boy, Raoul, pass sixteen years in the servants' care until one day a very fine lady arrives with her two daughters. But before he abandons her for king and court, he brings a second child to be raised alongside her, a boy whose identity he does not reveal. His wife has died in childbirth, leaving him alone with an infant daughter he cannot bear to name.
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6/24/2023 0 Comments Medusa Jones by Ross CollinsThen, to top it all off, the worst possible thing happens. There's her nerdy buddy Chiron the centaur and Mino the Minotaur (perpetually late due to his maze-like house) but they're no more popular than she is. It's not like Medusa doesn't have friends. She's particularly loathed by "The Champions", Perseus, Theseus, and Cassandra. You would think that being a Gorgon would have certain advantages, wouldn't you? Yet for Medusa Jones, the fact that she has snakes instead of hair makes her nothing but a freak in the eyes of her fellow students. It's a fabulous concept! Taking everyone's favorite myths and plopping them smack dab in a middle school muddle, author Ross Collins creates new humor from very VERY old material. I look at it this way if you can't find humor in the idea of a kid with snakes coming out of her head then you're not considering it properly. Maybe, just maybe, I should read something fun and funny and well written and just downright bizarre. And that's all well and good for a while, but after months and months of it, a person begins to crack. When you review books for children there's a sort of assumption that if you want to be familiar with the cream of the yearly crop then you need to immerse yourself in a smattering of dead moms, deadbeat dads, anger issues, historical fiction, etc. I read a lot of "meaningful" books without wanting to. But Kenneth's secret mission comes between them, unleashing a danger that threatens Rebecca's life even as passion sweeps them into a river of fire that transforms their very souls. A beautiful woman is saved from a terrible marriage forced upon her by a good man who has lived in isolation for his entire life due to a childhood accident that burned part of his face and hands. Warily, they slide into a duel of desire that brings both searing risks and shattering fulfillment. Mary Jo Putney, 'The Black Beast if Belleterre' 5 stars This is a classic retelling of the Beauty and the Beast story. Then Kenneth Wilding sweeps into her life with his pirate's face and poet's soul. Her reputation ruined by a disastrous elopement, tempestuous Rebecca Seaton withdraws to her attic studio and buries herself in her painting. Everything he has always wanted - and can never have. Instead, he discovers something infinitely more dangerous: a tantalizing new way of life and an irresistible woman. But nothing can save his heritage when he returns from the wars to an empty title and a ravaged estate. Reluctantly Kenneth enters the household of the greatest artist in England to unmask a terrible crime. The Diabolical Baron By: Mary Jo Putney Publishers Summary A Desperate Lord As rebel, soldier, hero, and spy, Kenneth Wilding had never known defeat. Nothing - until a stranger offers a devil's bargain: financial salvation in return for Kenneth's special subversive skills. As rebel, soldier, hero, and spy, Kenneth Wilding had never known defeat. 6/24/2023 0 Comments Edvard Munch by Gary GarrelsThe haunting Self-Portrait between the Clock and the Bed, finished one year before his death, represents a culmination of the themes of mortality, isolation, and anxiety that he explored repeatedly, and provides, in these pages, a perfect lens through which to view the artist's entire oeuvre. Following a nervous breakdown in 1908, Munch underwent electroshock therapy, which prompted a marked change in his art work. A penetrating reassessment of Munch's memorable painting and profound artistic legacy This engaging book offers a fresh look at the exceptional works of Edvard Munch (1863-1944) by examining them in the light of his precarious mental state. 6/23/2023 0 Comments Raiser of galesThe series has also spawned anime, audio drama, manga, comic adaptations, a video game, as well as a short story collection, art books, and a supplemental guide book. They have sold over 17 million copies worldwide, making Vampire Hunter D one of the best-selling book series in history. Vampire Hunter D ( Japanese: 吸血鬼 ( バンパイア )ハンターD, Hepburn: Banpaia Hantā Dī) is a series of novels written by Japanese author Hideyuki Kikuchi and illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano since 1983.Īs of April 2022, 40 novels have been published in the main series, with some novels comprising as many as four volumes. Cover of the first and titular Vampire Hunter D novelĭying Earth, Horror, science fantasy, dark fantasy, post-apocalypticĪsahi Sonorama and Asahi Shimbun Publications 6/23/2023 0 Comments Elric seriesStockholm, Sweden-based Runatyr will work with development collective Aurora Punks and United Kingdom-based studio Upstream Arcade on the project. (Hillborg said he wasn’t yet ready to talk about the game’s art style, but he said the contributions of fans have been amazing.) Elric has also been drawn countless times. The Finnish version of Dungeons in Dragons in the 1980s had Elric’s sword, Stormbringer, on its cover. The band Blue Oyster Cult made songs about Elric. Over time, Elric has become a huge part of fantasy culture. But a year ago, he was contacted again by Moorcock’s agent, who said the rights to a game were now available. He was told at the time that the ancillary rights to the video game were tied up in a movie license that failed to come through. Hillborg said he inquired about the rights to Elric a couple of years ago after a chance conversation triggered the idea. But I got to ask that question of Yasin Hillborg, creative director at Runatyr, who talked to me about his long dream to turn the series into a video game. And I had the same question all the other fans had. This is pretty exciting for me, as I read the Elric series decades ago as well as many of the titles in Moorcock’s Eternal Champion series. Zhongmei became a famous dancer, and founded her own dance company, which made its New York debut when she was in just her late 20s. But her determination, talent, and sheer force of will were not something the teachers or other students expected, and soon it was apparent that Zhongmei was not to be underestimated. Without those all-important connections she was just a little girl on her own, far away from family. But getting in was easy compared to staying in, as Zhongmei soon learned. She traveled for three days and two nights to get to Beijing and eventually beat out 60,000 other girls for one of 12 coveted spots. But Zhongmei, whose name means Faithful Plum, persisted, even going on a hunger strike, until her parents agreed to allow her to go. She'd already taken dance lessons, but everyone said a poor country girl would never get into the academy, especially without any connections in the Communist Party of the 1970s. In 1977, when Zhongmei Lei was eleven years old, she learned that the prestigious Beijing Dance Academy was having open auditions. 6/23/2023 0 Comments Mind without fear book reviewAgain, reviews will boost my ranking on Amazon and make my book more visible in searches, etc. If you have read my book and would be so kind as to leave me an Amazon review, I would very much appreciate that as well. So, if you don’t mind, please share this link with your friends, colleagues, and family members who you think would benefit from reading my book. Hopefully this will boost my exposure and overall sales. The reason for this is that the more books I sell in the next few weeks, the higher my book will rank and will be more likely to come up in searches by amazon customers. My publisher has set the price for my ebook to $2.99 for the next 30 days. I’d like to ask you all for one more (well actually its two) favor. I should receive those in the next week or so and then I will begin shipping them to you individually. If you haven’t, please email me and let me know: those of you who ordered paperbacks, I put in my order for author copies this morning. Hey everyone, its finally official, my book is available for sale!įor those of you who pre-purchased an ebook, you should have received this by now. Oliver arrived home just as the smoke alarm went off. We're excited to offer you an exclusive sneak preview of one of this summer's hottest romances, from the leading man of the genre, one that will undoubtedly remind you of a glittering big-screen moment shared between Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in one of the most iconic movie scenes of all time! But it'll take more than four weddings, a funeral, and a bowl full of special curry to get these two from "I don't know what I'm doing" to "I do." Now it seems like everyone around them is getting married, and Luc's feeling the social pressure to propose. and somehow figured out a way to make it work. In "Boyfriend Material," Luc and Oliver met, pretended to fall in love, fell in love for real, dealt with heartbreak and disappointment and family and friends. An ode to classic rom-com movies of the '90s, such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "My Best Friend's Wedding," and "Pretty Woman," "Husband Material" is rom-com redux, as only Hall can do! With four queer romances slated for 2022, is it any wonder POPSUGAR called Alexis Hall "overachiever of the year"?! We're happy to share that chaos demon has returned once again! No, we're not talking about Hall himself, but his most iconic fictional hot mess: Luc O'Donnell, who stole readers' hearts in the bestselling "Boyfriend Material." Luc and Oliver return in "Husband Material" (on sale Aug. 6/22/2023 0 Comments Red platoon summaryIn 2009, Clinton Romesha of Red Platoon and the rest of the Black Knight Troop were preparing to shut down Command Outpost (COP) Keating, the most remote and inaccessible in a string of bases built by the US military in Nuristan and Kunar in the hope of preventing Taliban insurgents from moving freely back and forth between Afghanistan and Pakistan. “‘It doesn’t get better.’ To us, that phrase nailed one of the essential truths, maybe even the essential truth, about being stuck at an outpost whose strategic and tactical vulnerabilities were so glaringly obvious to every soldier who had ever set foot in that place that the name itself-Keating-had become a kind of backhanded joke.” The only comprehensive, firsthand account of the fourteen-hour firefight at the Battle of Keating by Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha, for readers of Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden and Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell. |