![]() ![]() ![]() Hozar expertly weaves people in and out of Aria’s life and crafts a living, breathing environment for her heroine to inhabit, and brings things to a charged climax. As Tehran grows more violent, Aria realizes Hamlet is in love with her, and she must navigate his affections while they both become entangled in the growing uprising against the Shah. An extraordinary, cinematic saga of rags-to-riches-to-revolution that follows an orphan girl coming of age in Iran at a time of dramatic upheaval It is the 1950s in a restless Iran, a country rich. Years pass, and Aria, along with childhood friends Hamlet and Mitra, completes high school and enrolls in university, where she crosses paths with disciples of Ayatollah Khomeini, who they claim will create a better Iran. After Aria contracts trachoma at age six, Behrouz arranges to send her to live with Zahra’s former employer, the wealthy Fereshteh, who takes in the girl as her own daughter, enrolls her in school, and forces her to visit the home of the less-fortunate Shirazi family to teach the household’s children to read. ![]() ![]() Abandoned by her mother in Tehran as a baby in 1953, Aria spends her early years raised by a military driver, Behrouz, and his abusive wife, Zahra, who often locks the girl outside and denies her food. Hozar’s towering bildungsroman debut, already an international bestseller, spans three decades, capturing the maturation of the novel’s protagonist, Aria, amid the Iranian Revolution. ![]()
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![]() ![]() With the queen in pursuit of Menander, and Nostradamus aiming to destroy it, the terrible head still manages to prevent Sibille from marrying her love, Nicolas. ![]() Sibille and her aunt, the remarkable, independently wealthy Pauline Tournet, endeavor to rid themselves of Menander, with assistance from Nostradamus. Through a series of clever plot twists, Menander winds up in the hands of Sibille Artaud de La Roque, a gritty girl from the provinces, who refuses to make a wish, thereby halting Menander's destructive path. ![]() Anyone in possession of the sharp-tongued, mean-spirited and unpleasant head may have their wishes granted, selling their own soul in the process. This is a centuries-old box that contains the living head of Menander the Undying-a magus who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for eternal life. Driven nearly mad by jealousy, the queen, who is ""very fond of do-it-yourself magic,"" is frustrated with her sycophantic, possibly duplicitous court astrologer's ineffective powers, until he reveals his knowledge of the magical object called the Master of All Desires. In 1556 France, Queen Catherine de Medici spies on her husband, King Henri II, and his lover, Diane de Poitiers, in a vain attempt to learn how Poitiers has ensnared her husband's heart. ![]() Again mixing history and fantasy with lan, the author of The Oracle Glass and The Serpent Garden offers a tightly woven, suspenseful and fiendishly funny novel. ![]() ![]() I am an Amazon affiliate and earn a tiny commission for purchases made through the Amazon links in this post. It’s hidden from the outside world in a fog and unless everyone works together to find a way to escape, they won’t survive long. But when a lake monster destroys their boat, they end up shipwrecked on a deserted island. They haven’t had the best of luck on their recent trips and even worse their frenemy Phil is on the boat as well. So when Ollie’s dad and Coco’s mom plan a “fun” boat trip on Lake Champlain, the three are apprehensive to say the least. By staying together and avoiding remote places, they’ve steered clear of him so far but their constant worry and stress is taking a toll on their lives and friendship. ![]() Having met and outsmarted the smiling man in Dead Voices but fearful of when he’ll come again, Ollie, Brian, and Coco are anxiously searching for a way to defeat him once and for all. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has been through so much, and even more during this one, yet she stays true to herself. ![]() She is strong willed, kind, capable and loyal. She knows her own mind and even when she is told not to do something, if it's the right thing to do, she will do it no matter the consequences. Can she do it, or will her story end tragically? I fell in love with Senna and Joshen after book one, and this one just cements it. All the while trying to have a life with Joshen. She has to defeat a much more dangerous foe and try to save her fellow witches. She thought that after defeating the dark witch, her life would be easier now, but she is wrong. May contain spoilers for book 1!! Brusenna is once again in a fight for her life. They have caused me to cry, to gasp, to shout out and to have a book hangover! This one is no different. Every one of her books has been action packed and intense. She has never failed to grab me right from the start and take me on a magical, often times tragical, journey. ![]() Her writing is amazing and her attention to detail is phenomenal. Amber Argyle has, without a doubt, become a firm favourite of mine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Out of nowhere comes a wave, and Candy, led by a man called John Mischief, leaps into the surging waters and is carried away to the Abarat - an archipelago where every island is a different hour of the day.Īs Candy journeys from one amazing place to another, making fast friends and encountering treacherous foes, she begins to realize something - she has been there before. When the answers come it's not one she expects. A.There lives Candy Quackenbush, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold. It begins in the most boring place in the world - Chickentown, U.S. It is followed by Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War, which was published in 2004, and Abarat: Absolute Midnight, which was published in 2011. ![]() It was published in 2002 by HarperCollins. Abaratis the first of five planned novels in the Abarat Quintet by Clive Barker. ![]() ![]() He might look twenty to my eighteen, but Gabe had lived more than a century, and his experience with our powers surpassed mine. Gabe cursed and cut my amusement short when his muscles tightened and gathered under me. Never turn your back on the enemy, Protector.” I savored any opportunity I had to take his ego down a notch. With his sculpted features, Gabe never lacked for company, and he never let anyone forget it. “What is it you’re always yelling at me?” I pretended to think about it, enjoying my little victory over my boyfriend’s brother. ![]() And then I wondered if I might have given away my abnormal speed. Unwilling to loosen my hold for even a second, I considered biting him in retribution for the thousand times he’d insulted me. My height rivaled his, with me close to six feet and him just over, but he had a good sixty pounds of muscle on me. ![]() I took advantage of Gabe’s distraction to wrap an arm around his neck, putting the whole of my weight into pinning him. Gabe’s breath hissed out when Asher, leaning against a rack of weights, laughed at his older brother’s defeat at the hands of a gangly girl half his size. Our bodies hit the blue mat in the middle of the Blackwells’ gym with a thud that shivered from my teeth to my backbone. ![]() In the tick of a hummingbird’s wings, I had launched myself at his back, taking him down in a tangle of arms and legs. ![]() ![]() Lewis then became a staunch defender of Christian theology, writing many essays, books, and radio broadcasts that outlined the rational and emotional reasons that mankind needs Christian belief. ![]() Tolkien (the author of The Lord of the Rings) who eventually led Lewis back to his Christian faith in 1931. At Oxford, Lewis began a friendship with the writer J.R.R. He became a poet and focused on classic epic poetry from the Greek and Norse traditions, then won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. ![]() ![]() After years of English boarding school and the death of his mother from cancer, Lewis abandoned the Christian faith of his family and became interested in mythology. Clive Staples Lewis, one of the most famous Christian authors of the 20th century, was born in Belfast, Ireland and grew up fascinated by animals and fairy tales. ![]() ![]() ![]() The politician was responsible for Carroll's admittance to the public area of the House of Commons on 8 April 1867, and when Gathorne-Hardy visited Oriel College, Oxford, Carroll invited him to Christ Church to have The election prompted Carroll to write his Dynamics of a Particle (1865) comprising a satirical pamphlet masquerading as a mathematical treatise in which chapter two refers to the contest between Gathorne-Hardy and Gladstone. The final result was Heathcote 1331, Gathorne-Hardy 767, and Gladstone 735 votes. Carroll records signing a voting paper in his diary for 10 July and Jackson's Oxford Journal for 15 July notes that "Dr Dodson sic, of Christ Church" voted for Gladstone. There were three candidates: William Gladstone, William Heathcote, and Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy. Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook (1814-1906), became known to Carroll's Oxford circle in 1865 when he was nominated to stand in the Oxford University constituency. Christmas 1871" on the half-title of Through the Looking-Glass. The inscriptions comprise "Margaret Evelyn Hardy from the Author" on the half-title of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and "Margaret Evelyn Hardy from the Author. She is recorded in Carroll's listing of recipients of presentation copies of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as noted in his diary. First published editions of both Alice books, presentation copies inscribed by the author to Margaret Evelyn Hardy, the daughter of Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “No one rescues Pennyroyal princesses they rescue themselves.”-Reese Witherspoon Larson’s Pennyroyal Academy masterfully combines adventure, humor, and magical mischief. Set in Grimm’s fairytale world and ideal for non-princesses and princess fans alike, M.A. ![]() And with the witch forces moving nearer, she discovers that the war between princesses and witches is much more personal than she could ever have imagined. As Evie learns what it truly means to be a princess, she realizes surprising things about herself and her family, about human compassion and inhuman cruelty. There, given the name “Evie,” she must endure a harsh training regimen under the steel glare of her Fairy Drillsergeant, while also navigating an entirely new world of friends and enemies. She enlists at Pennyroyal Academy, where princesses and knights are trained to battle the two great menaces of the day: witches and dragons. It is a breathtakingly exciting novel.”- The New York TimesĪ girl from the forest arrives in a bustling kingdom with no name and no idea why she is there, only to find herself at the center of a world at war. “Comparison to the Harry Potter series seems inevitable. ![]() ![]() ![]() When, finally, Sebastian and Viola appear together, the puzzles around the mistaken identities are solved: Cesario is revealed as Viola, Orsino asks for Viola’s hand, Sebastian will wed Olivia, and Viola will marry Count Orsino. ![]() Olivia, meanwhile, mistakes Sebastian for Cesario and declares her love. When Viola, as Cesario, is challenged to a duel, Antonio mistakes her for Sebastian, comes to her aid, and is arrested. Malvolio is tricked into making a fool of himself, and he is locked in a dungeon as a lunatic.In the meantime, Sebastian has been rescued by a sea captain, Antonio. A confrontation between Olivia’s steward, Malvolio, and the partying Toby and his cohort leads to a revenge plot against Malvolio. Viola, in the meantime, has fallen in love with Orsino.At the estate of Lady Olivia, Sir Toby Belch, Olivia’s kinsman, has brought in Sir Andrew Aguecheek to be her suitor. Viola goes into service with Count Orsino of Illyria, disguised as a young man, “Cesario.” Orsino sends Cesario to woo the Lady Olivia on his behalf, but Olivia falls in love with Cesario. |