![]() ![]() Moke does the Robin Hood tale justice, imbuing the legend with historical accuracy and a good dosage of the classic, jovial shenanigans of the Merry Men, outlandish disguises and cunning feats included. ![]() In Hood, author Jenny Elder Moke reimagines the world of Robin Hood in lush, historical detail and imbues her story with more breathless action than has ever come out of Sherwood Forest before. As she fights for her rightful place among the Merry Men in a desperate bid to stop the Wolf's merciless plans, can Isabelle find the strength to defy the crown and save the lives of everyone she holds dear? Isabelle races to stay out of the Wolf's clutches and find the father she's never known, thrusting her into a world of thieves and mercenaries, roguish young outlaws, new enemies with old grudges, and a king who wants her entire family dead. Who also happens to be Isabelle's father. To keep her daughter safe, Marien helps Isabelle escape and sends her on a mission to find the only person who can save them now: the infamous outlaw Robin Hood. But after she is arrested by royal soldiers for defending innocent villagers, Isabelle becomes the target of the Wolf, the ruthless right hand of the corrupt King John. ![]() Let it rise to meet the call.Isabelle of Kirklees has only ever known a quiet life inside the sheltered walls of the convent, where she lives with her mother, Marien. Description You have the blood of kings and rebels within you, love. ![]()
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![]() Tear jerking, jaw breaking, just a whole lot But it also demonstrates one young woman's strength as she navigates the disappointment and unbearable pains of adolescence, of first love and first heartbreak, of friendships broken and rebuilt, while learning to embrace a power of survival she never knew she had hidden within her heart. Told in four parts - freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years - this provocative debut reveals the deep cuts of trauma. ![]() Nothing makes sense anymore, and she knows she's supposed to tell someone what happened, but she can't. What she thought she knew to be true is now lies. What Eden once loved - who she once loved - she now hates. But the night her brother's best friend rapes her, Eden's world capsizes. Starting high school didn't change who she was. In the tradition of Speak, this extraordinary debut novel shares the unforgettable story of a young woman as she struggles to find strength in the aftermath of an assault.Įden was always good at being good. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nicholas, where she is under the protection of Father Jerome. With the help of Theodore, a peasant, Isabella escapes the castle through a secret underground passageway to seek sanctuary at the church of St. Despite her horrified protests, he grabs her, intending to rape her, but Isabella escapes, as Manfred is distracted first by the swaying feathers of the giant helmet, then by the moving portrait of his grandfather, then by his servants’ reports of the appearance of a giant leg in armor. Intending to divorce or kill Hippolita, Manfred approaches Isabella alone, proclaiming his intention to produce several sons with her. Realizing his only heir is dead and unable to produce more sons with his own wife, Hippolita, Manfred decides to continue his line by marrying his son’s fiancé Isabella. ![]() Rumors fly about Manfred’s impatience for the wedding, and the people believe that the marriage is in some way related to an ancient prophecy: “that the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it.” However, on the day of the wedding, Conrad is mysteriously crushed to death by a giant helmet falling from the sky. Manfred, the ruler of Otranto, is impatiently waiting for the marriage between his son Conrad and the princess Isabella, the daughter of Frederic the Marquis of Vincenza. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her arrest made the front page of the local news and landed her behind bars for nearly two years. ![]() Then, on a cold day during her senior year, the police caught her walking down the street with a Tupperware full of heroin. But when her skating career suddenly fell apart, that meant diving into self-destruction with the intensity she once saved for the ice.įor the next nine years, Keri ricocheted from one dark place to the next: living on the streets, selling drugs and sex, and shooting up between classes all while trying to hold herself together enough to finish her degree at Cornell. Growing up, that meant throwing herself into competitive figure skating with an all-consuming passion that led her to nationals. Keri Blakinger always lived life at full throttle. Inspiring and relevant.”Īn electric and unforgettable memoir about a young woman's journey-from the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroom-and how she emerged with a fierce determination to expose the broken system she experienced. a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. ![]() ![]() ![]() Along with us, the reader, we are also trying to find out the mystery with them. In a nutshell, they are trying to find out who they are and why this is happening to them. ![]() Both characters have lost their memory whilst they are in school and thus have no idea who they are, where they are, how they got there, where they live, who their family and friends are. The story is written in alternating POVs. ![]() This is about our two main characters Charlie and Silas who have been friends ever since they’ve were young and are supposed to be in love. I have nothing but good things to say about this book. I think I may be off to a good reading start this year. This is my first Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher read and wow, I was not expecting to enjoy this as much as I did! I am really gobsmacked. I wanted to put my hands on either side of face and say no! Like the emoji. Genre: Contemporary, Mystery, New Adult, Romance, Young Adultīest friends since they could walk. Published by: Hoover Ink, 7th January 2015 ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() ![]() ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn’t try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective. But he can’t stay on the side-lines forever. Charlie is attempting to navigate his way through uncharted territory: the world of first dates and mix tapes, family dramas and new friends the world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his year yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it. ![]() And while he’s not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. The category for this book is ‘a book set in high school’.Ĭharlie is a freshman. This book is part of my Popsugar Reading Challenge 2015. ![]() ![]() ![]() I had always loved YA fantasy, but hadn’t found one in a very long time that held my attention long enough to even finish it, much less binge a series back to back to back. I’ve struggled to identify with YA characters as I’ve gotten older and have kind of made the shift to adult romance, but then a group of friends pushed this on me and we read the series together and OH MY GOSH. and it will take more than a broken curse to save Harper, Rhen, and his people from utter ruin. But powerful forces are standing against Emberfall. And as Rhen realizes Harper is not just another girl to charm, his hope comes flooding back. ![]() A prince? A curse? A monster? As she spends time with Rhen in this enchanted land, she begins to understand what's at stake. Harper doesn't know where she is or what to believe. When she tries to save a stranger on the streets of Washington, DC, she's pulled into a magical world. With her father long gone, her mother dying, and her brother constantly underestimating her because of her cerebral palsy, Harper learned to be tough enough to survive. Before he destroyed his castle, his family, and every last shred of hope. But that was before he turned into a vicious beast hell-bent on destruction. Published by Bloomsbury YA on January 29, 2019Ĭursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year, Prince Rhen, the heir of Emberfall, thought he could be saved easily if a girl fell for him. A Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings trilogy - to make one of his first serious attempts at writing. This incident prompted Tolkien - now better known as J.R.R. His wife, who was struggling to restore his spirits, began to dance for him among the flowers. “By 1918,” he wrote later, “all but one of my close friends was dead.” As he walked with his wife, they came to a glade flowered with hemlock. The carnage continued after he left, decimating nearly his entire battalion. Both the condition and his harrowing experiences in the Battle of the Somme, which claimed the lives of some 600,000 allied soldiers, had weakened him. He’d recently returned to Britain from the battlefields of France, after acquiring a case of trench fever. A hundred years ago, at the height of the First World War, John Tolkien, a 25-year-old former lieutenant with the Lancaster Fusiliers, went walking with his wife, Edith, in the Yorkshire countryside. ![]() ![]() Housed in a custom half leather clamshell box. In 1904 he published Introduction to Economics in 1904, which he later developed into his main work Principles of Economics, published in 1913. Seager worked as economist was influenced by his training in “English classicism, in the German historical method and in the peculiar Austrian approach of the Austrian School” (Horton, 1968). In 1905 he moved to the Columbia University, where he was appointed professor of political economy. ![]() In 1894 Seager started his academic career as instructor in economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and got promoted assistant professor in 1896 and to adjunct professor in 1902. Bookplate and signature of economist Henry Rogers Seager dated Philadelphia. ![]() ![]() In very good condition with some rubbing and wear to the extremities. New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co, 1873.įirst edition of this “undying classic” (J.M. Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market.īAGEHOT, Walter. ![]() |