![]() ![]() ![]() The lead in the novel is a young woman named Sophia who knew that her fate was to be sold by her father. “His Virgin Queen” by Mink is a steamy, sweet and a little dark happily ever after novel best read curled up with your favorite kitty. When she is not writing her novels, she can often be found with a kindle in hand, a cat in her lap and a cup of coffee on the table beside her. She dreams of one day becoming Cat Fancy’s Editor in Chief. She has made a name for herself writing salty and sweet romances that will always end with a satisfying happily ever after. Mink has since become one of the most prolific authors in the romance genre with more than fifteen novels and more than two dozen novellas to her name in addition to contributions to several series. She would then follow that up with “Snow Angel,” a single standing novel in the same year. She made her debut when she first published “HitMan’s Prey,” a novella in 2019. Mink is a bestselling author of romance novels that is best known as the author of the “Blushing Brides” series of novels. 202 Cherry Popper Way (By:Penelope Wylde) ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I first read The Crying of Lot 49 many years ago, about the time I was reading all kinds of weird conspiratorial shit like the Illuminatus! trilogy and Arkon Daraul's A History of Secret Societies and The Principia Discordia. So, if any of you have ever wondered where I got my icon or my username, it was this book. As she diligently carries out her duties, Oedipa is enmeshed in what would appear to be a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge. The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, who is made the executor of the estate of her late boyfriend, Pierce Inverarity. ![]() Inverarity One-line summary: Alice goes down the rabbit hole in 1960s San Francisco.Īmazon: Average: 4.0. ![]() ![]() ![]() My god did I have fun reading this prequel to the musical, Descendants. Magic all around the Kingdom and isle is gone, but the Descendants’ quest is to bring it back and free themselves from their eternal punishment. The Descendants are the children of the villains we see in our classic fairytales: Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Cruella de Vil and Jafar.Īll evil perpetrators were exiled to a not-so-isolated isle enclosed by a dome, to keep them from ever ruining happy ever afters. ![]() Well color me surprised, because this was better than I imagined. Only the cleverest, evilest, nastiest little villain can find it…who will it be? It is a dirty, decrepit place that’s been left to rot and forgotten by the world.īut hidden in the mysterious Forbidden Fortress is a dragon’s eye: the key to true darkness and the villains’ only hope of escape. The island is surrounded by a magical force field that keeps the villains and their descendants safely locked up and away from the mainland. ![]() Twenty years ago, all the evil villains were banished from the kingdom of Auradon and made to live in virtual imprisonment on the Isle of the Lost. Genres & Themes: Middle Grade, Fantasy, Fairytales, Family, Adventure, Friendship The Isle of the Lost by Melissa de la Cruz ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s where we come in - we’ve taken this huge field and narrowed it down to the 75 best manga stories. From fantasy adventure to autobiographical comics to historical fiction to, yes, superheroes and monsters, manga has stories for readers of every genre and age.īut if you’re new to manga, the sheer number of stories available can feel overwhelming. With all that history to pull from, it’s no wonder the world of manga is such a varied literary landscape. While the Western literary canon was largely confined to prose-centric novels until the rise of comics in the 1930s, Japanese storytellers have been embracing the power of combining pictures and words for centuries. Many Western readers understand the term “manga” to simply mean “Japanese comic books” - but in fact, manga has an incredibly rich history that stretches all the way back to the 12th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() Including Toto!įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. Originally silver in the 1900 novel by L. The narrative depicts the voyage to the Land of Oz taken by Dorothy, Toto, the Shaggy Man, Button-Bright, and other anthropomorphic foxes. Item 1507293 First edition, first issue, Very good in the publishers original black, brown. Santa Clause is a surprise guest at Ozma's Birthday Party along with many Queens, Kings and and a wonderful time is had by all. The ruby slippers were famously worn by the young Dorothy Gale, played by Garland in the 1939 MGM classic, as she follows the yellow brick road on her way to Emerald City. But the adventurers make their way to the Deadly Desert and cross it in a novel way to reach the Land of Oz. Along the way they meet Button Bright, a little boy who is not really very bright at all, The Rainbow's Daughter, the Fox King and many other curious creatures including the deadly Scoodlers who want to make soup of them and the Musicker who can't stop making music. ![]() FRANK BAUM.ĭorothy and Toto set out to help the Shaggy Man (who really is very shaggy) and end up lost, following a strange new road. LibriVox recording of THE ROAD TO OZ, by L. ![]() ![]() ![]() Motherhood is still associated more with mind-numbing tedium than with civilizational genius. ![]() In novels, poems, memoirs, academic studies and self-help books, motherhood became a topic of sustained, widespread, and rigorous examination for perhaps the first time in history.ĭespite the rich and nuanced accounts developed in such books, however, many old biases and taboos have persisted. Over the last century or so, as medical advancements have revolutionized birth and as women started writing and publishing with greater frequency, a remarkable body of work has grown up around motherhood. ![]() We should be able to reach them without magical keys or devilish guides. Mothers are indeed “the Mothers!” The good and bad, the biological and non-biological, the traditional and the trail-blazing-all are mothers and surely by now we shouldn’t be embarrassed to speak about them. “To speak of them embarrasses,” he continues, “They are the Mothers!” On the threshold of that dark pit, the devil explains that the Mothers “occupy a hell that’s all their own,” an unexplorable Void beyond existence itself and defined only by vast solitudes and waste. In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust, the hero is led by the devil to the realm of the Mothers, a place accessible only by a steep, downward staircase and a magical key. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Should I read …?’, ‘What’s that book?’ posts, sales links, piracy, plagiarism, low quality book lists, unmarked spoilers (instructions for spoiler tags are in the sidebar), sensationalist headlines, novelty accounts, low effort content. 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Thread!. ![]() Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.New Release: The Nigerwife by Vanessa Walters. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Still reeling from his betrayal and scheme to break the curse, Emilia agrees to marry Pride in the hopes of finding out which prince was controlling Antonio's actions and thus solving her sister's murder. Plot Įmilia arrives at the gates of the Seven Circles with Wrath. or is he keeping dangerous secrets about his true nature?Įmilia will be tested in every way as she seeks a series of magical objects that will unlock the clues of her past and the answers she craves. ![]() Can she even trust Wrath, her one-time ally in the mortal world. With back-stabbing princes, luxurious palaces, mysterious party invitations, and conflicting clues about who really killed her twin, Emilia finds herself more alone than ever before. The first rule in the court of the Wicked? Trust no one. even if that means accepting the hand of the Prince of Pride, the king of demons. She vows to do whatever it takes to avenge her beloved sister, Vittoria. Infinite deception with a side of revenge… Welcome to Hell.Īfter selling her soul to become Queen of the Wicked, Emilia travels to the Seven Circles with the enigmatic Prince of Wrath, where she's introduced to a seductive world of vice. ![]() ![]() They are meticulously honed and gorgeously crafted.”― Huffington Post “These poems are, as my students might say, hella intimate. Building on the legacies of forebears such as Frank O’Hara, Sharon Olds, and Mark Doty, Limón’s work is consistently generous and accessible-though every observed moment feels complexly thought, felt, and lived. Limón has often been a poet who wears her heart on her sleeve, but in these extraordinary poems that heart becomes a “huge beating genius machine” striving to embrace and understand the fullness of the present moment. ![]() ![]() “ Limón’s poems are like fires: charring the page, but leaving a smoke that remains past the close of the book.” - The Millionsīright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately “disorderly, and marvelous, and ours.”Ī book of bravado and introspection, of 21st century feminist swagger and harrowing terror and loss, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact-tracing in intimate detail the various ways the speaker’s sense of self both shifts and perseveres as she moves from New York City to rural Kentucky, loses a dear parent, ages past the capriciousness of youth, and falls in love. ![]() ![]() Told through intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the words of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history. Thus the United States seized control of the world market for cotton, the key raw material of the Industrial Revolution, and became a wealthy nation with global influence. ![]() Through forced migration and torture, slave owners extracted continual increases in efficiency from enslaved African Americans. Until the Civil War, Baptist explains, the most important American economic innovations were ways to make slavery ever more profitable. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. ![]() But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy.Īs historian Edward Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. ![]() Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution-the nation’s original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America’s later success. ![]() |