Author: Wendy Sparrow
Publisher: Entangled: Select Contemporary
ISBN: 1622664779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
With luck, they might survive their first date... Dear Reader, this letter is to inform you of Cupid’s curse, which will fall upon you if you don’t pass this email on to three friends within three hours. Tilly Morrow didn’t believe in the curse and now she hasn’t had a second date in three years...because all her first dates end in disaster. In fact, she just accidentally punched a guy in the face, leaving her without a date for Valentine’s Day! Bryant Murphy isn’t sure if the curse is real or not, but if dating Tilly means occasionally getting assaulted with a chocolate shake or nearly electrocuted, it’s worth the risk. Armed with more lucky charms than a bowl of cereal, Bryant will have to battle flying swords, Russian mail-order brides, and shrimp linguini if he’s going to win the girl. Previously released on Entangled’s Flirt imprint - February 2014.
Cursed by Cupid
Author: Wendy Sparrow
Publisher: Entangled: Select Contemporary
ISBN: 1622664779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
With luck, they might survive their first date... Dear Reader, this letter is to inform you of Cupid’s curse, which will fall upon you if you don’t pass this email on to three friends within three hours. Tilly Morrow didn’t believe in the curse and now she hasn’t had a second date in three years...because all her first dates end in disaster. In fact, she just accidentally punched a guy in the face, leaving her without a date for Valentine’s Day! Bryant Murphy isn’t sure if the curse is real or not, but if dating Tilly means occasionally getting assaulted with a chocolate shake or nearly electrocuted, it’s worth the risk. Armed with more lucky charms than a bowl of cereal, Bryant will have to battle flying swords, Russian mail-order brides, and shrimp linguini if he’s going to win the girl. Previously released on Entangled’s Flirt imprint - February 2014.
Publisher: Entangled: Select Contemporary
ISBN: 1622664779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
With luck, they might survive their first date... Dear Reader, this letter is to inform you of Cupid’s curse, which will fall upon you if you don’t pass this email on to three friends within three hours. Tilly Morrow didn’t believe in the curse and now she hasn’t had a second date in three years...because all her first dates end in disaster. In fact, she just accidentally punched a guy in the face, leaving her without a date for Valentine’s Day! Bryant Murphy isn’t sure if the curse is real or not, but if dating Tilly means occasionally getting assaulted with a chocolate shake or nearly electrocuted, it’s worth the risk. Armed with more lucky charms than a bowl of cereal, Bryant will have to battle flying swords, Russian mail-order brides, and shrimp linguini if he’s going to win the girl. Previously released on Entangled’s Flirt imprint - February 2014.
Lying, Cheating Heart
Author: Mindy Ruiz
Publisher: Mindy Ruiz Books
ISBN: 9780990480440
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
No More Lies! Cassie Vera thought the biggest threat to her life disappeared the night her boyfriend, A.J. Vasillios, used his one-time-use power and saved her from certain death. She was wrong. The mythological hit list she was on is nothing compared to her freshman year at the University of Las Vegas. Rooming with Vegas's future female royalty has pushed her estrogen tolerance to its limit. Worse, Cassie must take place in a time-honored tradition that tests her faith, while her boyfriend's new job threatens to shatter her heart. When age-old traditions change ... Cassie's school year is interrupted when the future queens are ordered to represent their Houses in an annual high-stakes competition. While at her ancestral home in Malaga, Spain, Cassie discovers the Greek gods have gifted her with new abilities. Cassie takes matters of righting an eighteen-year-old wrong into her hands. However, actions have consequences, and Cassie's may very well end up costing her and the House of Hearts everything. With her family's future at stake and the love of her life choosing sides, Cassie must cheat death one more time. When duty requires you to do the unthinkable, where will your loyalties lie? Only a Lying, Cheating Heart Knows.
Publisher: Mindy Ruiz Books
ISBN: 9780990480440
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
No More Lies! Cassie Vera thought the biggest threat to her life disappeared the night her boyfriend, A.J. Vasillios, used his one-time-use power and saved her from certain death. She was wrong. The mythological hit list she was on is nothing compared to her freshman year at the University of Las Vegas. Rooming with Vegas's future female royalty has pushed her estrogen tolerance to its limit. Worse, Cassie must take place in a time-honored tradition that tests her faith, while her boyfriend's new job threatens to shatter her heart. When age-old traditions change ... Cassie's school year is interrupted when the future queens are ordered to represent their Houses in an annual high-stakes competition. While at her ancestral home in Malaga, Spain, Cassie discovers the Greek gods have gifted her with new abilities. Cassie takes matters of righting an eighteen-year-old wrong into her hands. However, actions have consequences, and Cassie's may very well end up costing her and the House of Hearts everything. With her family's future at stake and the love of her life choosing sides, Cassie must cheat death one more time. When duty requires you to do the unthinkable, where will your loyalties lie? Only a Lying, Cheating Heart Knows.
Preserving the Spell
Author: Armando Maggi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022624301X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Fairy tales are supposed to be magical, surprising, and exhilarating, an enchanting counterpoint to everyday life that nonetheless helps us understand and deal with the anxieties of that life. Today, however, fairy tales are far from marvelous—in the hands of Hollywood, they have been stripped of their power, offering little but formulaic narratives and tame surprises. If we want to rediscover the power of fairy tales—as Armando Maggi thinks we should—we need to discover a new mythic lens, a new way of approaching and understanding, and thus re-creating, the transformative potential of these stories. In Preserving the Spell, Maggi argues that the first step is to understand the history of the various traditions of oral and written narrative that together created the fairy tales we know today. He begins his exploration with the ur-text of European fairy tales, Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales, then traces its path through later Italian, French, English, and German traditions, with particular emphasis on the Grimm Brothers’ adaptations of the tales, which are included in the first-ever English translation in an appendix. Carrying his story into the twentieth century, Maggi mounts a powerful argument for freeing fairy tales from their bland contemporary forms, and reinvigorating our belief that we still can find new, powerfully transformative ways of telling these stories.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022624301X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Fairy tales are supposed to be magical, surprising, and exhilarating, an enchanting counterpoint to everyday life that nonetheless helps us understand and deal with the anxieties of that life. Today, however, fairy tales are far from marvelous—in the hands of Hollywood, they have been stripped of their power, offering little but formulaic narratives and tame surprises. If we want to rediscover the power of fairy tales—as Armando Maggi thinks we should—we need to discover a new mythic lens, a new way of approaching and understanding, and thus re-creating, the transformative potential of these stories. In Preserving the Spell, Maggi argues that the first step is to understand the history of the various traditions of oral and written narrative that together created the fairy tales we know today. He begins his exploration with the ur-text of European fairy tales, Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales, then traces its path through later Italian, French, English, and German traditions, with particular emphasis on the Grimm Brothers’ adaptations of the tales, which are included in the first-ever English translation in an appendix. Carrying his story into the twentieth century, Maggi mounts a powerful argument for freeing fairy tales from their bland contemporary forms, and reinvigorating our belief that we still can find new, powerfully transformative ways of telling these stories.
Fantasy Lover
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN: 1429938978
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Dear Reader, Being trapped in a bedroom with a woman is a grand thing. Being trapped in hundreds of bedrooms over two thousand years isn't. And being cursed into a book as a love-slave for eternity can ruin even a Spartan warrior's day. As a love-slave, I know everything about women. How to touch them, how to savor them, and most of all, how to pleasure them. But when I was summoned to fulfill Grace Alexander's sexual fantasies, I found the first woman in history who saw me as a man with a tormented past. She alone bothered to take me out of the bedroom and onto the world. She taught me to love again. But I was not born to love. I was cursed to walk eternity alone. As a general, I had long ago accepted my sentence. Yet now I have found Grace--the one thing my wounded heart cannot survive without. Sure, love can heal all wounds, but can it break a two-thousand-year-old curse? Julian of Macedon
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN: 1429938978
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Dear Reader, Being trapped in a bedroom with a woman is a grand thing. Being trapped in hundreds of bedrooms over two thousand years isn't. And being cursed into a book as a love-slave for eternity can ruin even a Spartan warrior's day. As a love-slave, I know everything about women. How to touch them, how to savor them, and most of all, how to pleasure them. But when I was summoned to fulfill Grace Alexander's sexual fantasies, I found the first woman in history who saw me as a man with a tormented past. She alone bothered to take me out of the bedroom and onto the world. She taught me to love again. But I was not born to love. I was cursed to walk eternity alone. As a general, I had long ago accepted my sentence. Yet now I have found Grace--the one thing my wounded heart cannot survive without. Sure, love can heal all wounds, but can it break a two-thousand-year-old curse? Julian of Macedon
Cupid's Compass
Author: Ashley Weiss
Publisher: Ashley Weiss
ISBN: 1738934721
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Some say it’s a blessing. Others swear it’s a curse. Cupid’s compass is the enchanted tattoo that links soulmates and reveals when they will first meet. Most seekers, such as fifteen-year-old Lacey Baker, are thrilled to wake up to their sealed fate, but not everyone’s future is clear. Her best friend is cursed by a compass that never moves but she can’t figure out why. Her mother’s soulmate link spontaneously changes, leaving their family in shambles. And Lacey’s soulmate. . . that’s another story. A city away, Jaylynn Clare has a different problem. After a haunting prediction from a local psychic, her life becomes a high-stakes game of cat and mouse. Promised unavoidable tragedy if she meets her linked partner, she takes it upon herself to run at all costs. But can fate be avoided, or only prolonged? In a mad dash of love, lies, and long-forgotten curses, seekers across the globe weave together in this heart-wrenching narrative of entangled soulmates.
Publisher: Ashley Weiss
ISBN: 1738934721
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Some say it’s a blessing. Others swear it’s a curse. Cupid’s compass is the enchanted tattoo that links soulmates and reveals when they will first meet. Most seekers, such as fifteen-year-old Lacey Baker, are thrilled to wake up to their sealed fate, but not everyone’s future is clear. Her best friend is cursed by a compass that never moves but she can’t figure out why. Her mother’s soulmate link spontaneously changes, leaving their family in shambles. And Lacey’s soulmate. . . that’s another story. A city away, Jaylynn Clare has a different problem. After a haunting prediction from a local psychic, her life becomes a high-stakes game of cat and mouse. Promised unavoidable tragedy if she meets her linked partner, she takes it upon herself to run at all costs. But can fate be avoided, or only prolonged? In a mad dash of love, lies, and long-forgotten curses, seekers across the globe weave together in this heart-wrenching narrative of entangled soulmates.
Arrowheart
Author: Rebecca Sky
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
ISBN: 1444940066
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
What if you had the power to make any boy fall in love with you? Addictive romance with a fantasy twist for fans of Holly Smale, Ally Carter, and Zoe Sugg. The gods are gone. The people have forgotten them. But sixteen-year-old Rachel Patel can't forget - the gods control her life, or more specifically, her love life. Being a Hedoness, one of a strong group of women descended from Greek God Eros, makes true love impossible for Rachel. She wields the power of that magical golden arrow, and with it, the promise to take the will of any boy she kisses. But the last thing Rachel wants is to force someone to love her . . . When seventeen-year-old Benjamin Blake's disappearance links back to the Hedonesses, Rachel's world collides with his, and her biggest fear becomes a terrifying reality. She's falling for him - a messy, magnetic, arrow-over-feet type of fall. Rachel distances herself, struggling to resist the growing attraction, but when he gives up his dream to help her evade arrest, distance becomes an insurmountable task. With the police hot on their trail, Rachel soon realises there are darker forces hunting them - a group of mortals recruited by the gods who will stop at nothing to preserve the power of the Hedonesses - not to mention Eros himself, who is desperate to reverse the curse . . . Prepare to fall under the spell of Wattpad star Rebecca Sky, in this compulsive romance.
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
ISBN: 1444940066
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
What if you had the power to make any boy fall in love with you? Addictive romance with a fantasy twist for fans of Holly Smale, Ally Carter, and Zoe Sugg. The gods are gone. The people have forgotten them. But sixteen-year-old Rachel Patel can't forget - the gods control her life, or more specifically, her love life. Being a Hedoness, one of a strong group of women descended from Greek God Eros, makes true love impossible for Rachel. She wields the power of that magical golden arrow, and with it, the promise to take the will of any boy she kisses. But the last thing Rachel wants is to force someone to love her . . . When seventeen-year-old Benjamin Blake's disappearance links back to the Hedonesses, Rachel's world collides with his, and her biggest fear becomes a terrifying reality. She's falling for him - a messy, magnetic, arrow-over-feet type of fall. Rachel distances herself, struggling to resist the growing attraction, but when he gives up his dream to help her evade arrest, distance becomes an insurmountable task. With the police hot on their trail, Rachel soon realises there are darker forces hunting them - a group of mortals recruited by the gods who will stop at nothing to preserve the power of the Hedonesses - not to mention Eros himself, who is desperate to reverse the curse . . . Prepare to fall under the spell of Wattpad star Rebecca Sky, in this compulsive romance.
A Concordance to the Poems of Edmund Spenser
Author: Charles Grosvenor Osgood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concordances
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concordances
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Clever, Cursed, & Storied
Author: Amy Trent
Publisher: Amy Trent
ISBN: 1956975756
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A damsel on a quest for magic… A terrible curse has transformed Kate’s stepsister, Annie, into a sheep. Kate knows the only hope of saving Annie is magic. With her "pet" lamb in tow, Kate flees to the North Mountains where she poses as a court storyteller, hoping to find magicians or anyone with knowledge of magic who can help. But when she becomes the personal storyteller to Prince Henry, who is bedridden and suffering from a mysterious wasting disease, Kate's plans are derailed. A prince in distress… Henry is demanding, rude, and completely captivated by Kate's stories. Despite her initial annoyance, Kate begins to see the wit and passion beneath Henry’s brusque exterior. When Kate discovers Henry dancing in the mountains, she realizes that he too is under a curse that only magic can break. As Kate races against time to save both her stepsister and the prince, she finds herself falling in love with Henry. But can she save both her stepsister and her prince before it's too late? Clever, Cursed, & Storied is a spellbinding tale of love, sacrifice, and the power of storytelling. A retelling of the classic Scottish fairy tale, Kate Crackernuts, it is sure to captivate all readers who enjoy a happily ever after with lots of banter and swoon (and no explicit content)!
Publisher: Amy Trent
ISBN: 1956975756
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A damsel on a quest for magic… A terrible curse has transformed Kate’s stepsister, Annie, into a sheep. Kate knows the only hope of saving Annie is magic. With her "pet" lamb in tow, Kate flees to the North Mountains where she poses as a court storyteller, hoping to find magicians or anyone with knowledge of magic who can help. But when she becomes the personal storyteller to Prince Henry, who is bedridden and suffering from a mysterious wasting disease, Kate's plans are derailed. A prince in distress… Henry is demanding, rude, and completely captivated by Kate's stories. Despite her initial annoyance, Kate begins to see the wit and passion beneath Henry’s brusque exterior. When Kate discovers Henry dancing in the mountains, she realizes that he too is under a curse that only magic can break. As Kate races against time to save both her stepsister and the prince, she finds herself falling in love with Henry. But can she save both her stepsister and her prince before it's too late? Clever, Cursed, & Storied is a spellbinding tale of love, sacrifice, and the power of storytelling. A retelling of the classic Scottish fairy tale, Kate Crackernuts, it is sure to captivate all readers who enjoy a happily ever after with lots of banter and swoon (and no explicit content)!
Familiar Quotations
Author: John Bartlett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quotations
Languages : en
Pages : 1484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quotations
Languages : en
Pages : 1484
Book Description
Kumārasambhava
Author: Kālidāsa
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120801615
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The Kumarasambhava of Kalidasa varies from the loveliness of spring and the delights of married love to the utter desolation induced by the death of beloved. The subject is unquestionably a daring one: the events which bring about the marriage of Lord Siva to Uma and the birth of Skanda. The prose order of each sloka has been given in the commentary by using bold type, the words not actually repeated by Mallinatha being enclosed within rectangular brackets. The notes explain allusions, grammatical peculiarities not noticed by Mallinatha, copious extracts from other commentaries being given for this purpose. The book includes text, the commentary of Mallinatha, a literal English translation, notes and introduction.
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120801615
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The Kumarasambhava of Kalidasa varies from the loveliness of spring and the delights of married love to the utter desolation induced by the death of beloved. The subject is unquestionably a daring one: the events which bring about the marriage of Lord Siva to Uma and the birth of Skanda. The prose order of each sloka has been given in the commentary by using bold type, the words not actually repeated by Mallinatha being enclosed within rectangular brackets. The notes explain allusions, grammatical peculiarities not noticed by Mallinatha, copious extracts from other commentaries being given for this purpose. The book includes text, the commentary of Mallinatha, a literal English translation, notes and introduction.