![]() ![]() There is a love triangle in this book, but it wasn’t bad. She has no problem getting in a man’s face and telling him off. She was a total badass! This girl really knows how to stand up for herself (and others). ![]() The best part about this book was easily Lia. ![]() The prince sets out to find her, doesn’t tell her who he is, and View Spoiler » ![]() A princess has an arranged marriage with the prince, but she’s never even met the guy so she certainly doesn’t love him, so she runs away. Overall, I adored The Kiss of Deception! The idea of the book is just so fabulous. Deception abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets-even as she finds herself falling in love. She settles into a new life, hopeful when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive-and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assasin sent to kill her. On the morning of her wedding, Lia flees to a distant village. As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight-but she doesn’t-and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighboring kingdom-to a prince she has never met. In a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia’s life follows a preordained course. In this timeless new trilogy about love and sacrifice, a princess must find her place in a reborn world. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Martin finds out that his glittering new friends are part of a secret society dedicated to the preservation of the institution of slavery - but this time around, the black men are called "Master." Joining them seems to guarantee a future without limits rebuking them almost certainly guarantees his death. But far from home and cut off from everyone he loves, he discovers a disturbing secret that challenges some of his deepest convictions. They invite him for a weekend away from it all - no wives, no cell phones, no talk of business. He's dazzled by what they've accomplished, and they seem to think he has the potential to be as successful as they are. Martin Grey, a smart, talented black lawyer working out of a storefront in Queens, becomes friendly with a group of some of the most powerful, wealthy, and esteemed black men in America. ![]() What if overcoming the legacy of American slavery meant bringing back that very institution? A young black attorney is thrown headlong into controversial issues of race and power in this pause-resisting and provocative new audiobook. ![]() ![]() Mead followed Vampire Academy with five more books in the series ( Frostbite, Shadow Kiss, Blood Promise, Spirit Bound and Last Sacrifice) that were published between 20. ![]() The book was a hit, and made the American Library Association's Top 10 list of books for young adults in 2008, alongside bestsellers like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Twilight instalment Eclipse and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. ![]() Her best friend is a Moroi named Lissa, and Rose also develops feelings for fellow guardian Dimitri. Her job is to protect Moroi (good vampires who take blood from donors and can harness one of the four elements) and kill Strigoi (evil vampires who drink and kill their victims). Laurie Sparham/Angry/Kintop/Preger/Reliance/Kobal/Shutterstockįor those unfamiliar with the books, author Richelle Mead's YA novel, Vampire Academy, was first published in 2007 and introduced readers to 17-year-old Rose Hathaway, a 'dhampir' (half-vampire and half-human) who is training to be a guardian at St Vladimir's Academy. ![]() ![]() Julie must get to the bottom of the mystery in order to keep them from being framed for the crime. Her memory of that day returns to her in pieces, and when a body is discovered, her new friends are caught in the crosshairs of long-held biases about Travelers. As Julie grows closer to this family, she witnesses firsthand some of the prejudices they've grown used to-a stark contrast to her own upbringing-and finds herself exploring thrilling new experiences that have nothing to do with a missing-person investigation. One of her family's employees is missing, and he disappeared on the very same day she landed in the hospital.ĭesperate to figure out what happened, she befriends Euan McEwen, the Scottish Traveler boy who found her when she was injured, and his standoffish sister, Ellen. And once she returns to her grandfather's estate, a bit banged up but alive, she begins to realize that her injury might not have been an accident. ![]() ![]() ![]() When fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in the hospital, she knows the lazy summer break she'd imagined won't be exactly what she anticipated. Don’t miss Elizabeth Wein’s stunning new novel, Stateless ![]() ![]() ![]() And one of Rogue Squadron's own is already her slave, a traitor hidden behind a mask of innocence, working to betray both colleagues and the Rebellion itself. But first Wedge Antilles and his X-wing pilots must infiltrate Coruscant to gain vital intelligence information.Ĭapture means death or, worse, enslavement by the vicious leader known as "Iceheart": Ysanne Isard, now Emperor in all but name. Wedges Gamble is the second novel in the nine part X-Wing series set as part of the Star Wars Expanded Universe. The Rebels will invade this mighty citadel in a daring move to bring the Empire to its knees. It is at the evil heart of a battered and reeling Empire: Coruscant, the giant city-world from whose massive towers the Imperial High Command directs the war. Now they must embark on a dangerous espionage mission, braving betrayal and death on the Imperial homeworld to smash the power of a ruthless foe! And as the battle against the Empire rages across the vastness of space, the pilots risk both their lives and their machines for the cause of the Rebel Alliance. They are the X-wing fighters: sleek, swift, and deadly. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “It must be a lot to take in,” Widin said. The wood creaked as someone sat beside her. If you like strong heroines, thrilling action, and rich historical detail, you’ll love Charlotte Jardine’s page-turning saga.Īfter the meeting broke up, Gelvira sat by the fire, mulling over everything she’d heard. Jaws of the Wolf is the exciting first novel in the epic Visigoth Chronicles series of YA adventures. Will Adafuns reunite with the exiles in time to free Gelvira from her loathsome vows? With her people starving, marrying the tribal elder’s spoiled son may be Gelvira’s only hope to save her family. Captured and carried off by the Huns, Adafuns’ dream of being a warrior could come true… at the cost of losing Gelvira forever. But as a slave in her father’s service, he has little chance of either. After a Hun raid sends her people into exile, her chance to master the ancient secrets of her craft are stripped away…Īdafuns yearns to become a great warrior and win Gelvira’s affection. But the arrogant son of a tribal elder wants her for a wife instead. Gelvira dreams of becoming a powerful jeweler. ![]() ![]() The few struggle for proportional equality for perpetual upgrading superiority in power and privilege.Ģ.Strong desire for justice becomes another feature of revolution. The proletariat are passionate to secure absolute equality for the availability of the same rights that are possessed by few. ![]() ![]() Equality has two characters-absolute and proportional. Aristotle was of the view that if the constitution remains the same, but the ruling party has been transferred from one man to another, it is also a revolution.ġ.The main feature of revolution is to be the craving of men for equality. For example, if in the state the constitution has changed from monarchy to democracy, it is a revolution. To Aristotle, if any change occurs in the existing system or constitution of the state, it means revolution. Aristotle’s theory is divided into two parts:ġ.First part is a practical manual of conduct advising democrats, aristocrats, monarchs and oligarchs and even tyrants as how to keep themselves in power.Ģ.Second part is a treatise on the philosophical basis of the good and stable governments. ![]() ![]() Decay and disturbance in political life brought crucial changes in the Governments of the city-state in Greece, made Aristotle to contemplate deeply and to stress the causes of the Revolution and its remedies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Smith accused the first president of the council in Jamestown of delaying the fort for reasons other than diplomacy. ![]() In all your passages you must have great care not to offend the naturals. Wingfield may have been trying to comply with instructions from the Virginia Company in London to maintain peaceful relationships with the Native Americans, a potential source of food and information about the territory and its resources: 1 John Smith complained that military defense after landing at Jamestown was delayed by the President of the Council, Edward Maria Wingfield. At the start of colonial settlement, the Europeans were perceived as the greater threat. The English faced two threats when they landed at Jamestown, fellow Europeans and Native Americans. Source: National Park Service, Jamestown - Sidney King Paintings Gallery First Forts At Point Comfort First Forts At Point Comfortīuilding the first fort at Jamestown, May-June 1607 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This way of reading could broadly be called deconstructive. Heath was appraising literature as Freud might have studied one of his patients, where “What is at stake for you in being here?” did not mean “What is at stake for you in wanting to get healthy or happy?” but almost the opposite: “What is at stake for you in maintaining your chronic unhappiness?” The enquiry is suspicious, though not necessarily hostile. He meant something like: what is the dilemma of meaning in this passage? What is at stake in maintaining the appearance of coherent meaning, in this performance we call literature? How is meaning wobbling, threatening to collapse into its repressions? Dr. ![]() Heath holding a sheet of paper-the hallowed “text”-very close to his eyes, the physical proximity somehow the symbolic embodiment of his scrutinizing avidity, while he threw out his favorite question about a paragraph or stanza: “what’s at stake in this passage?” He meant something more specific, professionalized and narrow than the colloquial usage would generally imply. I was taught how to read novels and poems by a brilliant poststructuralist critic called Stephen Heath. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There's a tinge of sexism in the way the girls and women desperately define themselves by whether they find true love and then go nuts and kill themselves when told they'll be alone. It's a dark comedy that reveals a very pessimistic view of humanity that's a common thread in Ito's stories. On a certain level, the situation and the characters are so over the top that they start to feel like players in a comedy. ![]() Reading the Lovesickness stories again after the initial sense of shock from the 90s can put them in a different light. Soon the entire town has gone insane, and the hero can only watch helplessly as things just go to hell. The women and girls who killed themselves frequently haunt the same crossroads as ghosts eager to drag you to hell. A surly teen moves back to town after a few years away and decides to hunt down and stop this ghostly man, only to be mistaken for him and chased by girls for love advice. His cynical advice often drives them to insanity and suicide. If they seek a ghostly handsome man in the fog, he can tell them if they will ever find true love. This series of stories is about an urban legend that high school girls and some adults believe in slavishly. ![]() |