![]() Normally I’m not into real people on book covers, but these models actually look like the diverse characters they portray! Hate to Want You (Forbidden Hearts #1) ![]() I love that the first cover featuring Nicholas shows him all “buttoned up” (to go along with his uptight nature), but the others (featuring slightly more bad boys) are displaying some perfectly well-crafted chests. The beautiful flowers-and-vine tattoo on Livvy’s arm is actually what drew me to this cover and, subsequently, the series, in the first place because: pretty! It’s a nice touch that they all have their tattoos prominently featured as the designs play into books multiple times. Lives were ruined and lost, but no matter how much the next generation tries, they just can’t stay away from each other. How do two families who once shared a business, friendship, and absolute trust become so utterly broken? TERRIBLE choices, that’s how. What to Expect: Lots of pining for what you can’t have, major family drama, angst, secrets and lies, tasty business ![]() From modern day to historical, we’ll get down and dirty with one series each week, and we hope you’ll join us for the ride. ![]() Friends, lovers, dukes and duchesses, welcome back to FYA’s Grown-Up Guide to Romance Novels, a four-week series during the horniest month, in which we’re exploring bodies…of work of some of our favorite romance authors. ![]()
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![]() ![]() To teach her filthy lessons while in the sanctity of my bedroom. Something about her, though, is just so sad and I can’t seem to stop thinking about her. I’m completely obsessed with the quiet, beautiful girl in my class.Īlways staring at her perfect lips when no one’s looking. He thinks teaching is beneath our family and I love watching him squirm. How can I be when they’re a daily reminder of what was stolen from me?īeing a teacher isn’t necessarily my passion but pissing my dad off is. Nearly two decades later and I’m still not over it. ![]() ![]() My dad not only slept with my girlfriend, but he knocked her up and made her my stepmom, too. She’s his much, much younger student who’s completely off-limits. Purchase: eBook | Paperback From USA Today Bestselling Author K Webster comes a new steamy age-gap, student-teacher forbidden romance! He’s a grumpy teacher with a chip on his shoulder. ![]() ![]() If he remains in love with the peaceful agrarian life in Arcadia and deeply attached to its residents, including Handy and Astrid's lithe and deeply troubled daughter Helle, how can Bit become his own man? How does he, a sensitive person, make his way through life and through the world outside of Arcadia where he must eventually live? While Arcadia rises and falls, Bit, too, ages and changes. What unfolds is an astonishingly beautiful novel about happiness and the impossible dream of perfection.Īrcadia's inhabitants include Handy, a musician and the group's charismatic leader Astrid, a midwife Abe, a master carpenter Hannah, a baker and historian and Abe and Hannah's only child, the book's protagonist, known as Bit, who is born soon after the commune is created. ![]() ![]() Arcadia follows this rollicking, tragic dream from its hopeful start through its heyday and beyond. In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding what would become a commune centered on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House. ![]() ![]() And though Olympia is impossibly naive, for reasons he can't fathom, she touches him in some obscure, half-forgotten place, until the thought of losing her becomes even more impossible. But Olympia, who comes to him with plump cheeks and eyes full of expectation, has money, something of which he is in great need. Sheridan has no patience for hero worshipers war is a game of survival, not gallant deeds. ![]() Except she cannot seem to get his deep, stirring gaze out of her head. In fact, nothing would make her happier than to forget him. Easily frightened, she is vastly relieved to have Captain Drake's help-until she discovers he's a scoundrel without a drop of honor in his body. ![]() Leger appoints the most celebrated man in England to escort her: recently retired war hero Capt. ![]() Summoned to rule the tiny nation of Oriens, Princess Olympia St. A scoundrel is transformed by the love of an innocent princess in this historical romance by the New York Times-bestselling author of Flowers from the Storm. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While Talleyrand agreed that girls should be educated among their male peers, he suggested they be taught only until the age of eight. She discusses the idea of “woman’s place” within society and reasoned that, instead of simply being regarded as domesticated housewives living in the shadow of their husbands, women could become “companions” to their male counterparts through the means of equal education prove beneficial for all of society.Ī Vindication of the Rights of Woman was initially published in London during the third year of the French Revolution, which had started in 1789 With all eyes on France, Wollstonecraft wrote her introduction as a response to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, a French politician, who had drafted The Vindication of the Rights of Men of 1790, a revised version of the French constitution. Wollstonecraft argued that women are entitled to an equal education, one which aligns with their position among society, as mothers, housewives, and laborers. It is one of the first texts by a female author that presented women’s educational as an issue of universal human rights. The visionary treatise, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was published by the English writer Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1897) in 1792. ![]() ![]() ![]() ISSNĪn ISSN is a standardized international code which allows the identification of a serial publication.Īn ISSN consists of eight digits in two groups of four, separated by a hyphen. The twelfth digit is a check digit and usually appears at the bottom right of the symbol.Įnter all digits found on the item (e.g., 008817006925). ![]() ![]() The next ten digits encoded in the symbol are below the bars.The first digit is the Number System Character (NSC) which appears on the left side of the symbol outside of the bars.Hyphens or spaces usually separate the elements of the The UPC appears as a barcode symbol with 12 digits printed below it. The Universal Product Code (UPC) is a barcode symbol that is used to track trade items in stores (e.g., audio and video products). Seller Rating: Contact seller Book Used - Hardcover Condition: Good US 4.47 Convert currency Free shipping Within U.S.A. Enter an OCLC number without leading zeros. Sloth's Birthday Party (Weekly Reader Children's Book Club edition) Massie, Diane Redfield Published by Learning Intl, 1976 ISBN 10: 0883752115 ISBN 13: 9780883752111 Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, U.S.A. OCLC assigns a unique number to each bibliographic record input into WorldCat. Thirteen-digit ISBNs must begin with either 978 or 979. An ISBN is a unique number assigned to an item by its publisher. ![]() ![]() ![]() A marriage is arranged with Shigeru, ostensibly to bring the Otori into alliance, but really to mask his murder. However his uncles, the lords of the clan, would prefer to see him dead, and so would his greatest enemy, Iida.įifteen year-old Kaede, a hostage of the Noguchi, allies of the Iida, has acquired the reputation of bringing death to any man who desires her. ![]() Defeated ten years before by the Dairyo, many of the Otori still want revenge and look to Shigeru, the rightful heir, to lead them. When his family fall victim to religious persecution at the hands of Lord Iida of the Dairyo clan, he is rescued and adopted by the warrior, Shigeru, of the Otori clan. ![]() A land of incomparable beauty torn by civil war An ancient tradition undermined by spies and assassins A society of rigid castes and codes subverted by love Takeo is raised among the Hidden, whose beliefs forbid them to kill. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is because forgetfulness of thyself hath bewildered thy mind that thou hast bewailed thee as an exile, as one stripped of the blessings that were his it is because thou knowest not the end of existence that thou deemest abominable and wicked men to be happy and powerful while, because thou hast forgotten by what means the earth is governed, thou deemest that fortune's changes ebb and flow without the restraint of a guiding hand. She determines that the narrator has forgotten his true nature: ![]() As the narrator writes his complaint against Fortune, a woman appears whom the author later identifies as Philosophy. Indeed, Machaut’s “remedy for Fortune” can be seen as an response to Boethius’s text: where Philosophy argues that the life of the mind is more important than the external gifts of Fortune, Machaut gives Hope as the lover’s remedy against the whims of Fortune.īoethius’s first-person narrator, like Boethius himself, is in prison, about to be executed for treason. The idea of a narrative with interpolated songs has deep roots, going back to Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy, which mixes prose and metrical verse. Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy and Machaut’s Remede de Fortune ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A sweeping story of tangled passion and courage, in the pages of Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell brings to life the unforgettable characters that have captured readers for over seventy years. This is the tale of Scarlett O’Hara, the spoiled, manipulative daughter of a wealthy plantation owner, who arrives at young womanhood just in time to see the Civil War forever change her way of life. A superb piece of storytelling, it vividly depicts the drama of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Widely considered The Great American Novel, and often remembered for its epic film version, Gone With the Wind explores the depth of human passions with an intensity as bold as its setting in the red hills of Georgia. 1949), who won the Pulitzer Prize for the book in. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. When new books are released, well charge your default payment method for the lowest price available during the pre-order period. Gone with the Wind, first published in May 1936, is a romantic novel written by Margaret Mitchell (b. ![]() Since its original publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind-winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the bestselling novels of all time-has been heralded by readers everywhere as The Great American Novel. MARGARET MITCHELL (1900-1949) was an American journalist and the author of one novel: Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel in 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. ![]() ![]() This startlingly original Middle-East-meets-Wild-West fantasy reveals what happens when a dream deferred explodes-in the fires of rebellion, of romantic passion, and the all-consuming inferno of a girl finally embracing her power. But though she’s spent years dreaming of leaving Dustwalk, she never imagined she’d gallop away on mythical horse-or that it would take a foreign fugitive to show her the heart of the desert she thought she knew. ![]() I have to admit: Alwyn Hamilton’s Rebel of the Sands made me a little nervous. ![]() Publication date 2015 Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks Digitizing sponsor Kahle/Austin Foundation Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Then she meets Jin, a rakish foreigner, in a shooting contest, and sees him as the perfect escape route. There’s something hauntingly beautiful about a book set in a desert. Rebel of the sands by Hamilton, Alwyn, author. She’s a gifted gunslinger with perfect aim, but she can’t shoot her way out of Dustwalk, the back-country town where she’s destined to wind up wed or dead. ![]() For humans, it’s an unforgiving place, especially if you’re poor, orphaned, or female. Amani Al’Hiza is all three. Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mythical beasts still roam the wild and remote areas, and rumor has it that somewhere, djinn still perform their magic. The New York Times bestselling novel by the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Debut Author of 2016, published in 15 countries! ![]() |