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![]() The elixir is made from Moonflower petal and it’s becoming extremely hard to find. Tessa is an apothecary and has adapted her late fathers elixir to make it go further and help heal more people. ![]() Tessa and Wes live in the Wilds, or supposedly □. Tessa and Weston have seen the illness first-hand and have become determined to help those who slip through the cracks and cannot afford medicine. The kingdom of Kandala is on the brink of disaster and life-threatening illness. I was lucky enough to read a pre-release of this new book through work. I am officially a hard-core fan and will be reading any fantasy books she creates. If you are familiar to my reading tastes and blog, you will already know that I devoured Brigid’s trilogy ‘A Curse so Dark and Lonely’ not that long ago. ![]() ✅ The beginning of a new series (which I will become addicted too!)ĭefy the Night is a brand new novel from Brigid Kemmerer. ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. VERDICT Thanks to this faithful and accessible adaptation, this classic's tale of love, sin, and the strength of a single mother will reach a whole new audience.-Rachel Forbes, Oakville Public Library, Ontario, Canada Even in this more modernized narrative, the spirit of Hawthorne's eloquent language remains. Hester's principles, acknowledgment of her sin, and ability to endure the judgment and hypocrisy of others is worthy of admiration. The Scarlet Letter by Stacy King 3.88 1,962 Ratings 462 Reviews published 2015 5 editions A powerful tale of forbidden love, shame, and reve Want to Read Rate it: Sense and Sensibility by Stacy King 3. Close-ups of this crest best exemplify the finely detailed line art found throughout. ![]() Manga rarely has color, yet here, among these theatrical screentones, the letter A glares back in accusatory crimson. Hawthorne's text translates to this format perfectly, and readers will be able to infer the characters' internal struggles from this emotive art. ![]() Visually, this manga adaptation of the classic is stunning. It is her husband who eventually discerns the truth, and by causing Reverend Dimmesdale's guilt to fester, he poisons his own heart. Even when society denounces her and her daughter, she holds her head high and refuses to reveal the name of her child's father. For the crime of adultery, Hester must bear her shame upon her chest in the form of a scarlet A. Gr 7 Up-In 17th-century Puritan Boston, acts deemed a sin were severely punished. ![]() ![]() BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: Unsure about title author publisher etc. Books are without marks or writings pages are clean and books are tight and sturdy. The pages have started to age brown evenly throughout. All volumes have marble pastedowns with the endpapers being cut away probably from publisher. ![]() All volumes have what appears to be a pencil line on the bottom edge near the spine. The outsides are in good plus condition there is one volume ILLUSIONS PERDUES having a small chip to the top right edge of the spine. with the book being in French!!! Overall a good plus set. CONDITION: Unsure about title author publisher etc. with the book being in French!!! PUBLISHER - LOCATION / COPYRIGHT: SOCIETE D'EDITIONS LITTERAIRES ET ARTISTIQUES PARIS 1901 EDITION: First Edition assumed for this publisher ISBN: None CATEGORY: Foreign Decorative Literature BINDING/COVER: Hardbacks without dust jacket COLOR: Marble SIZE: 5 � x 8 � approximately PAGES: Various pages. DE BALZAC Unsure about title author publisher etc. ![]() ![]() PARIS: SOCIETE D'EDITIONS LITTERAIRES ET ARTISTIQUES 1901. United Kingdom Reino Unido Reino Unido Royaume-Uni ![]() ![]() ![]() They were not intended for sale, although this was exhibited in the Dudley Gallery, then given as a present to the young painter John Collier. On this occasion, the landscape is only in Surrey, but he also painted these when in mainland Europe. This shows his daughter Anna in what could be seen as the closest that he came to Impressionism, and was perhaps modelled after one of Monet’s paintings of the time. ![]() Sunny Days (1874) may come as a surprise to those who know Alma-Tadema for his Salon-style works, but during the 1870s he started painting small landscapes, typically of his family when they were on holiday. Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912), Sunny Days (1874), oil on canvas, 22.9 x 35.6 cm, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT. ![]() In the previous article, I looked at a selection of paintings by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) up to 1873, by which time he had settled in England and established himself as a successful painter, and was becoming well-known for his exquisitely detailed and thoroughly-researched paintings of classical Greece and Rome. ![]() ![]() The winding road that led me to that article began some time Guardian and was stuck on this idea of Americans really disliking theĭirtier scents in a perfumer's arsenal-the animalics, the really funky stuff.ĭoyle cited orange blossom as one of the favorite ingredients of American I had just read Jude Doyle's article " My quest to find the great American perfume" in The Q: What inspired you to write Base Notes, and how did youĪ: Base Notes started out as a short story called “Theĭirty American” written for an anthology themed around the color orange. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College and the Catapult Workshop in New York. She also has written the novel The Amberlough Dossier, and her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Strange Horizons and Escape Pod. ![]() ![]() Lara Elena Donnelly is the author of the new novel Base Notes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Since then, generations of "mermaids" in Simon's family have drowned-always on July 24, which is only weeks away.Īs his friend Alice looks on with alarm, Simon becomes increasingly worried about his sister. Fragile and water damaged, the book is a log from the owner of a traveling carnival in the 1700s, who reports strange and magical things, including the drowning death of a circus mermaid. One June day, an old book arrives on Simon's doorstep, sent by an antiquarian bookseller who purchased it on speculation. His younger sister, Enola, ran off six years ago and now reads tarot cards for a traveling carnival. His mother, a circus mermaid who made her living by holding her breath, drowned in the very water his house overlooks. Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. A tale full of magic and family mystery, The Book of Speculation will keep you up all night reading."―Isaac Fitzgerald, BuzzFeed "As Simon, a lonely research librarian, searches frantically for the key to a curse that might be killing the women in his family, he learns strange and fascinating secrets about their past. ![]() ![]() Yet when Olivia arrives, no one is expecting her. Then, a letter invites Olivia to come home to Gallant. Olivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for Girls, and all she has of her past is her mother’s journal-which seems to unravel into madness. The Secret Garden meets Crimson Peak in this stand-alone novel perfect for readers of Holly Black and Neil Gaiman. Schwab weaves a dark and original tale about the place where the world meets its shadow, and the young woman beckoned by both sides. ![]() ![]() A seam, where the shadow meets its source. And as with every shadow, there is a place where it must touch. ![]() “Unsettling and intriguing.”- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)Įverything casts a shadow. “Gripping worldbuilding, well-rounded characters, and fantastic horror.”- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) which fuses Shirley Jackson’s gothic horror sensibilities with the warmth and dark whimsy of Neil Gaiman.”- Publishers Weekly (starred review) ![]() ![]() In addition, the writing is overwrought, withĮxcessive amounts of groaning, growling, teeth-baring, and otherĭramatic gestures and expressions laced throughout long pages of angstyĭialogue. Qualities are a positive touch, this book ends as did the first one, onĪ frustrating cliffhanger. Buy from Amazon Search Sorry, weve not found any editions of this book at Amazon. Undoubtedly, teen girls will relish this fate-laden love triangleįeaturing a female character who is apparently irresistible to most of (The second book in the Nightshade series) A novel by Andrea Cremer. When reading Wolfsbane, and the other books of the Nightshade series, it is like time stands still. To whom she has been betrothed since birth. Read Wolfsbane by Andrea Cremer with a free trial. The supernatural politics and history are complicated, andĬalla must try to untangle centuries of lies-that is, when she is notĪgonizing over whether she loves Shay more than Ren, the alpha werewolf Pack over to their side in the war against the Keepers, whom she isįinally learning to regard as slave keepers rather than principledĬaretakers. When Wolfsbane opens, Calla awakesĪmong her former enemies, the Searchers, and agrees to try to bring her Of a pack that served the Keepers until Calla broke free after turning Series), Wolfsbane continues the adventures of Calla Tor, alpha werewolf ![]() ![]() ![]() Second in the Nightshade series (also called The Witches War Wolfsbane: Nightshade, Book 2." Retrieved from ![]() Wolfsbane: Nightshade, Book 2." The Free Library. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Sir, you have turned the fractured land into a united country that is beginning to have a single beating heart.' ![]() Philippe the Fair - as in 'pretty', and not 'just') - and into the thick of the events that eventually precipitated the Hundred Years' War between England and France. This book, the first in the Accursed Kings series, drops the reader smack into the middle of French palace intrigues that surrounded the last year (1314) of the reign of Philippe IV (a.k.a. I *inhaled* these books (figuratively) at the age of 11, completely entranced by the fascinating world of historical intrigue, for the first time having realized that history is not just the boring collection of dates, names and battles - that the wheel of history can be turned by people who are very much unaware of the overarching implications of their actions and scheming. ¹ Actually, 'read' is an incorrect description. Well, for once I'm the cool kid (ahem, I mean, nerdy overachiever, of course) who can say - Well, I first read¹ these books years ago, having spent every penny of my sparse pocket money on these tomes. Which pretty much means that soon everyone and their grandma will be reading these. Martin has apparently called The Accursed Kings, a seven-book historical novel series by Maurice Druon, 'the original game of thrones'. ![]() "During his reign, France was a great country, and the French were the most miserable of all people."George R.R. ![]() |