![]() ![]() 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 assassin 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. But Lia soon finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets. ![]() On the day of her arranged marriage, Lia flees to a distant village and settles into a new life. As First Daughter, Princess Lia is expected to have the revered gift of sightNbut she doesn't. ![]()
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![]() The large claws on her hands and feet allow Digger to dig pretty quickly in most soils, and she’s highly skilled at forming stable tunnels. Using a pickaxe is more efficient, though. Somehow, these claws do not seem to impair her fine manipulation abilities. Still, she presumably can’t do card tricks or stuff like that. ![]() ![]() Said pickaxe is made of particularly high-grade metal. Digger will occasionally leverage that to shatter her opponent’s melee weapons. Then leverage this to criticise their poor grasp of metallurgy and blacksmithing compared to wombats’. She is proficient at wielding her pickaxe as a weapon. That includes non lethal techniques favouring the handle as a coercion device, or even using it as a throwing axe. She is a good enough fighter to defeat several run-of-the-mill opponents by herself. Dig thisįor Digger, mining is more than her more-than-full-time job, it’s also her hobby. ![]() Though real-world wombats aren’t fans of daylight, Digger has no problem being on the surface whilst the sun shines. She also usually stands upright, coming at about diaphragm-level to a tall-ish human man or to the chin of a small human woman.ĭigger comes from a whole culture of sapient wombats, with a number of clans. Wombat people are huge on excavation, and primarily work as miners. They work real hard at their trade, which makes them both knowledgeable about geology and extremely strong for their size. Since they swing a pickaxe 12 hours a day. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When her “commitment-phobic” boyfriend Hugh proposes on national TV-not to Genie, but to an unknown mystery woman-Genie’s wise-cracking friend Patty doesn’t hesitate to give her some tough love: “You remind me of that idiot Sleeping Beauty, lying around like a zombie waiting for your prince. A wickedly funny fairy tale for modern women from Sarah Strohmeyer,the “laugh- out-loud funny” (Washington Post Book World) author of The Cinderella Pact and The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives.“Opening a book by Sarah Strohmeyer is like opening a box of chocolates – sweet, nutty, and absolutely irresistible.” -Meg Cabot, author of The Princess DiariesAt 36, Genie Michaels is beginning to feel that she has hit the snooze button on her life one too many times. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With three Fantastic Beasts films still to come, we should learn a lot more about this reluctant hero and have many of our questions answered. These facts are hopefully only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Newt Scamander. Together they traveled the world discovering new magical creatures, but alas, they found no Crumple-Horned Snorkacks. Instead, Luna wound up becoming a Magizoologist and she married Magizoologist royalty, Newt’s grandson, Rolf Scamander. However, those two did not ultimately end up together. The spacey and wonderful free spirit Luna Lovegood didn’t really couple up with anyone in the Harry Potter novels, but the films did play into her chemistry with the almost Chosen One Neville Longbottom. ![]() ![]() About my height, but a hundred pounds heavier. She was the one who shut me out of this case. Her hands are sweating, and she closes her eyes at the last second." Probably she's aiming for my neck or spine, but she's no pro-that's obvious from the mess she left behind. ![]() ![]() Lady Assassin tiptoes up behind me and plunges a big old kitchen knife deep into my left shoulder. I've got the water running full throttle because I'm Anthony Costello and I never do anything halfway. "The lady assassin approaches me from behind," I continued, "as I'm rinsing my mug. I wasn't going to let the department pin a murder on her-especially not when it was me who sent her to work for Costello in the first place. "As ticked off as I am right now?" Detective Heidi Haagen asked. I'm probably ticked off at having to do my own dishes." It's early in the morning, and either the help's asleep or they haven't arrived yet. "I'm Anthony Costello, accountant to the mob, nephew of top dog Vincent Costello. ![]() "Assume for a second that it was a female killer," I began. I took a coffee cup from the sink, started the faucet running. "LET'S KILL him again in slow motion," I said. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To get By the Book merch, head over to PodSwag. ![]() This episode is brought to you by: BetterHelp, Oscar Mayer, Tempest use code BTB, Indeed, and Windows & HP Ģ022 Stitcher & Jolenta Greenberg, Kristen Meinzer ![]() To get By the Book merch, head over to : Email us at or tweet us or if you haven't already, please join our By The Book Facebook community! We love hearing from you! CALL us at 302-49B-OOKS. A new book by Margareta Magnusson, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, calls for decluttering your home while youre still alive. You can subscribe to Jolenta and Kristen's show, We Love You (And So Can You) on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts , or wherever you listen to podcasts. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning - How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter Hardcover Book - By Margareta Magnusson A. Kristen and Jolenta's new book How to be Fine is available now . Jolenta likes to keep things tidy and Kristen likes to be practical about death, so what happens when they live by a book that combines both? Kristen and Jolenta are back with season 7, this time focusing on hearth and home! They start with The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Features magical illustrations by Cornelia Funke herself. The first book by the queen of middle-grade fantasy, Cornelia Funke, in the bestselling Dragon Rider series! Dragon Rider has now been adapted for the big screen in a major animation with a stellar cast including Felicity Jones and Patrick Stewart, now available on Sky Cinema. But the greatest enemy of all is never far behind - a heartless monster intent on destroying the last dragons on earth. Dragon Rider Cornelia Funke Item details Shipping and return policies Contact the seller 1,002 reviews More from this shop You may also like Explore. Along the way, he discovers extraordinary new friends and a courage he never knew he had. Cornelia Funke writes Dragon Rider which it is about a fun adventure fill of different creatures and a new kind of adventure and she uses a creative way to. Firedrake, a brave young dragon, embarks on a magical journey to find the legendary place where silver dragons can live in peace for ever. The very first dragon adventure from the legendary author of Inkheart, Cornelia Funke - now a major film, over 1 million English language copies sold worldwide and a New York Times bestseller! Now a Sky Original film, only on Sky Cinema 'A warm-hearted dream of a book.' THE GUARDIAN 'Funke is the queen of world-building. ![]() ![]() From there on out she continued to write more fictional and non-fictional novels, essays, and accounts about the struggles and lives of women. In 1970, Monique co-published what can be portrayed as the platform or manifesto of the French Feminist movement. It was in the atmosphere of male-dominated radical political action that she created her most influential works, including "Les Guérilléres." She then gained the inspiration to become one of the first theoreticians and activists of the new feminist movement. ![]() ![]() However, she later became aware that the radical men leading the revolt were not willing to share the 'spoils of war' with their female peers. Wittig was avidly involved in the events surrounding the revolt of students and workers in May of 1968. "L'Opoponax" was a lash at the Male-orientated power structure in France and surrounding countries at the time. The book was written in an unorthodox manner with minimal punctuation, and it depicted her childhood as a rebellious girl who did not conform to gender roles and norms. Wittig published her first novel, "L'Opoponax," in 1964, which immediately drew attention to her. She later wrote radio dramas and became involved in feminist protests. Monique Wittig worked in Paris in various semi-academic positions, including posts at the Bibliothèque Nationale and Les Éditions de Minuit, where she was a proofreader. ![]() ![]() ![]() Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library. Boards show light shelfwear, with toning and fading to spine. ![]() ![]() HarperPerennialClassics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Many of the characters depicted in Woolf’s The Waves are said to be inspired by the conversations and correspondences she shared with her peers friends and writing rivals such as T. Largely abandoning traditional plot structure, The Waves recounts the thoughts, feelings and perceptions of all six characters in a series of interwoven soliloquies that simultaneously span the course of their lives and the course of a single day. Set against the backdrop of a seaside dreamscape, Virginia Woolf’s experimental novel, The Waves, follows the lives of six children-Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis-from birth to death as they fleetingly unite around the elusive figure of a seventh child, Percival. ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s not because of the violence, which isn’t unreasonably graphic, or the themes (destiny, going home, being yourself no matter what other people want you to be, good versus evil - the usual), or the sex (there isn’t any). An axiom of children’s literature is that children want to read about children a little older than they are, so books about seven-year-olds usually target five-year-olds. ![]() It opens on Princess Alyss’ seventh birthday. She eventually met Carroll and told him her story, which he butchered in his novels.Īt first it’s hard to tell who the target audience of The Looking Glass Wars is. You know the sort of thing: “What if ‘insert name of story here’ was based on something that really happened?” In this case, the idea is that the Alice Liddell who inspired Lewis Carroll to write Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass was really Alyss Heart, heir to the throne of Wonderland, who ended up in Victorian England through a series of bizarre events that I will not spoil by explaining here, and was adopted by the Liddell family. ![]() The Looking Glass Wars is a revisionist fairy tale. ![]() |