Author: DK Marie
Publisher: DK Marie
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Someone so wrong shouldn't feel so right... Greta Meier's life is a meticulously crafted blueprint—excel in her studies, secure a coveted position at her father's firm, and find a suitable match from the right social circles. But one stormy afternoon, she throws caution to the wind, indulging in a passionate encounter with Jacob Grimm—a man whose tattooed arms and devil-may-care smile embody everything she's not supposed to want. Their steamy rendezvous, all heated touches and forbidden whispers, was meant to be just that—a fleeting moment of rebellion. But fate has other plans. Weeks later, as Greta settles into her dream job at her father's firm, she's shocked to find Jacob in the boardroom—not as an employee, but as their newest investment prospect. Suddenly, their secret affair threatens to unravel everything they've worked for—she could lose her hard-earned position, and her father might pull the investment from Jacob's fledgling business, destroying his dreams along with hers. Meanwhile, Jacob fights to prove his business acumen matches his entrepreneurial spirit, determined to show he's more than just a bad boy with a motorcycle from the wrong side of the tracks. Can Greta and Jacob find a way to balance their growing feelings with their professional relationship, or will the threat of losing everything they've worked for tear them apart?
Fairy Tale Lies
Author: DK Marie
Publisher: DK Marie
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Someone so wrong shouldn't feel so right... Greta Meier's life is a meticulously crafted blueprint—excel in her studies, secure a coveted position at her father's firm, and find a suitable match from the right social circles. But one stormy afternoon, she throws caution to the wind, indulging in a passionate encounter with Jacob Grimm—a man whose tattooed arms and devil-may-care smile embody everything she's not supposed to want. Their steamy rendezvous, all heated touches and forbidden whispers, was meant to be just that—a fleeting moment of rebellion. But fate has other plans. Weeks later, as Greta settles into her dream job at her father's firm, she's shocked to find Jacob in the boardroom—not as an employee, but as their newest investment prospect. Suddenly, their secret affair threatens to unravel everything they've worked for—she could lose her hard-earned position, and her father might pull the investment from Jacob's fledgling business, destroying his dreams along with hers. Meanwhile, Jacob fights to prove his business acumen matches his entrepreneurial spirit, determined to show he's more than just a bad boy with a motorcycle from the wrong side of the tracks. Can Greta and Jacob find a way to balance their growing feelings with their professional relationship, or will the threat of losing everything they've worked for tear them apart?
Publisher: DK Marie
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Someone so wrong shouldn't feel so right... Greta Meier's life is a meticulously crafted blueprint—excel in her studies, secure a coveted position at her father's firm, and find a suitable match from the right social circles. But one stormy afternoon, she throws caution to the wind, indulging in a passionate encounter with Jacob Grimm—a man whose tattooed arms and devil-may-care smile embody everything she's not supposed to want. Their steamy rendezvous, all heated touches and forbidden whispers, was meant to be just that—a fleeting moment of rebellion. But fate has other plans. Weeks later, as Greta settles into her dream job at her father's firm, she's shocked to find Jacob in the boardroom—not as an employee, but as their newest investment prospect. Suddenly, their secret affair threatens to unravel everything they've worked for—she could lose her hard-earned position, and her father might pull the investment from Jacob's fledgling business, destroying his dreams along with hers. Meanwhile, Jacob fights to prove his business acumen matches his entrepreneurial spirit, determined to show he's more than just a bad boy with a motorcycle from the wrong side of the tracks. Can Greta and Jacob find a way to balance their growing feelings with their professional relationship, or will the threat of losing everything they've worked for tear them apart?
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies
Author: Pauline Greenhill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814342220
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths explores connections and discontinuities between lies and truths in fairy-tale films to directly address the current politics of fairy tale and reality. Since the Enlightenment, notions of magic and wonder have been relegated to the realm of the fanciful, with science and reality understood as objective and true. But the skepticism associated with postmodern thought and critiques from diverse perspectives--including but not limited to anti-racist, decolonial, disability, and feminist theorizing--renders this binary distinction questionable. Further, the precise content of magic and science has shifted through history and across location. Pauline Greenhill offers the idea that fairy tales, particularly through the medium of film, often address those distinctions by making magic real and reality magical. Reality, Magic, and Other Lies consists of an introduction, two sections, and a conclusion, with the first section, "Studio, Director, and Writer Oeuvres," addressing how fairy-tale films engage with and challenge scientific or factual approaches to truth and reality, drawing on films from the stop-motion animation company LAIKA, the independent filmmaker Tarsem, and the storyteller and writer Fred Pellerin. The second section, "Themes and Issues from Three Fairy Tales," shows fairy-tale film magic exploring real-life issues and experiences using the stories of "Hansel and Gretel," "The Juniper Tree," and "Cinderella." The concluding section, "Moving Forward?" suggests that the key to facing the reality of contemporary issues is to invest in fairy tales as a guide, rather than a means of escape, by gathering your community and never forgetting to believe. Reality, Magic, and Other Lies--which will be of interest to film and fairy-tale scholars and students--considers the ways in which fairy tales in their mediated forms deconstruct the world and offer alternative views for peaceful, appropriate, just, and intersectionally multifaceted encounters with humans, non-human animals, and the rest of the environment.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814342220
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths explores connections and discontinuities between lies and truths in fairy-tale films to directly address the current politics of fairy tale and reality. Since the Enlightenment, notions of magic and wonder have been relegated to the realm of the fanciful, with science and reality understood as objective and true. But the skepticism associated with postmodern thought and critiques from diverse perspectives--including but not limited to anti-racist, decolonial, disability, and feminist theorizing--renders this binary distinction questionable. Further, the precise content of magic and science has shifted through history and across location. Pauline Greenhill offers the idea that fairy tales, particularly through the medium of film, often address those distinctions by making magic real and reality magical. Reality, Magic, and Other Lies consists of an introduction, two sections, and a conclusion, with the first section, "Studio, Director, and Writer Oeuvres," addressing how fairy-tale films engage with and challenge scientific or factual approaches to truth and reality, drawing on films from the stop-motion animation company LAIKA, the independent filmmaker Tarsem, and the storyteller and writer Fred Pellerin. The second section, "Themes and Issues from Three Fairy Tales," shows fairy-tale film magic exploring real-life issues and experiences using the stories of "Hansel and Gretel," "The Juniper Tree," and "Cinderella." The concluding section, "Moving Forward?" suggests that the key to facing the reality of contemporary issues is to invest in fairy tales as a guide, rather than a means of escape, by gathering your community and never forgetting to believe. Reality, Magic, and Other Lies--which will be of interest to film and fairy-tale scholars and students--considers the ways in which fairy tales in their mediated forms deconstruct the world and offer alternative views for peaceful, appropriate, just, and intersectionally multifaceted encounters with humans, non-human animals, and the rest of the environment.
Fairy Lies
Author: E. D. Baker
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408831929
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Sparks will fly when a fairy princess is kidnapped! From the author of The Frog Princess series
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408831929
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Sparks will fly when a fairy princess is kidnapped! From the author of The Frog Princess series
Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales - The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies
Author:
Publisher: READ BOOKS
ISBN: 9781446514054
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: READ BOOKS
ISBN: 9781446514054
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
There Will Be Lies
Author: Nick Lake
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408853825
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Shelby Jane Cooper is seventeen, pretty and quiet. It's just Shelby and her mom, Shaylene, a court stenographer who wears pyjama jeans, stitches tapestry, eats ice-cream for dinner and likes to keep Shelby safe. So safe she barely goes out. So safe she doesn't go to school. Because anything could happen, to a girl like Shelby. Anything. When Shelby gets knocked down by a car, it's not just her leg that's broken: Shelby's world is shattered. Her mom turns up to collect her and drives off into the night, like it's the beginning of a road trip, like two criminals on the run, like Thelma and Louise or Bonnie and Clyde. And somehow, everywhere she looks, there's a coyote watching her, talking to her, telling her not to believe. Who is Shelby Jane Cooper? If the person who keeps you safe also tells you lies, who can you trust?
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408853825
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Shelby Jane Cooper is seventeen, pretty and quiet. It's just Shelby and her mom, Shaylene, a court stenographer who wears pyjama jeans, stitches tapestry, eats ice-cream for dinner and likes to keep Shelby safe. So safe she barely goes out. So safe she doesn't go to school. Because anything could happen, to a girl like Shelby. Anything. When Shelby gets knocked down by a car, it's not just her leg that's broken: Shelby's world is shattered. Her mom turns up to collect her and drives off into the night, like it's the beginning of a road trip, like two criminals on the run, like Thelma and Louise or Bonnie and Clyde. And somehow, everywhere she looks, there's a coyote watching her, talking to her, telling her not to believe. Who is Shelby Jane Cooper? If the person who keeps you safe also tells you lies, who can you trust?
White Lies, Maori Legends and Fairytales
Author: Falstaff Dowling-Mitchell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473466060
Category : High schools
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
For teens 13 years and over - White Lies, Maori Legends and Fairytales is a powerful, engaging story about a boy called Petera, and his best mate Hone, growing up in small town Aotearoa. The book is full of childhood antics and adventure - surfing the sand dunes, dreaming of being an All Black, doing anything they can to stop a weirdo girl from joining their gang, and avoiding Wiremu, the school bully, who wants to smash their faces in any chance he gets! But meeting new people prompts the boys to ask questions about their world. What happened between Maori and Europeans over land all those years ago? Was it fair? What does it mean today? Why did there have to be a war where people died? Why did people sign the Treaty of Waitangi? How different are New Zealand Maori people, from New Zealand European people, and what do they think of each other now? The boys discover that not everyone views the world in the same way and that sometimes you have to fight for who you are in a world that seems to be changing around you About the author Falstaff is from Aotearoa/New Zealand. He is thirty-four years old and grew up in Huntly with his mum, dad, and five younger siblings. He used to spend the weekends at the brickworks, flying down the sand hills with his mate Tony, or playing Ninja Turtle gangs with his brothers and sister by the nearby lake. In 2011 he completed a Bachelor of Primary School Teaching at Waikato University. These days he spends some of his time teaching at Te Kura o Noera, and some of his time touring nationally and internationally as an actor, performing in a range of theatrical productions over the years.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473466060
Category : High schools
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
For teens 13 years and over - White Lies, Maori Legends and Fairytales is a powerful, engaging story about a boy called Petera, and his best mate Hone, growing up in small town Aotearoa. The book is full of childhood antics and adventure - surfing the sand dunes, dreaming of being an All Black, doing anything they can to stop a weirdo girl from joining their gang, and avoiding Wiremu, the school bully, who wants to smash their faces in any chance he gets! But meeting new people prompts the boys to ask questions about their world. What happened between Maori and Europeans over land all those years ago? Was it fair? What does it mean today? Why did there have to be a war where people died? Why did people sign the Treaty of Waitangi? How different are New Zealand Maori people, from New Zealand European people, and what do they think of each other now? The boys discover that not everyone views the world in the same way and that sometimes you have to fight for who you are in a world that seems to be changing around you About the author Falstaff is from Aotearoa/New Zealand. He is thirty-four years old and grew up in Huntly with his mum, dad, and five younger siblings. He used to spend the weekends at the brickworks, flying down the sand hills with his mate Tony, or playing Ninja Turtle gangs with his brothers and sister by the nearby lake. In 2011 he completed a Bachelor of Primary School Teaching at Waikato University. These days he spends some of his time teaching at Te Kura o Noera, and some of his time touring nationally and internationally as an actor, performing in a range of theatrical productions over the years.
Family of Lies
Author: Mary Monroe
Publisher: Dafina
ISBN: 0758294700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Vera Lomax uses every gold-digging trick in the book to land a rich, older husband. Now she balances a life of shopping and affairs with younger men with a major secret: the 16-year bribery of one of her husband's mistresses to keep her pregnancy under wraps. Unfortunately for Vera, Sarah Cooper is the child Kenneth Lomaz always wanted. When the father she never knew shows up to claim her, it's a fairy tale journey from the ghetto to a mansion on the hill. Neither woman can be sure who will win Kenneth's heart and fortune.
Publisher: Dafina
ISBN: 0758294700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Vera Lomax uses every gold-digging trick in the book to land a rich, older husband. Now she balances a life of shopping and affairs with younger men with a major secret: the 16-year bribery of one of her husband's mistresses to keep her pregnancy under wraps. Unfortunately for Vera, Sarah Cooper is the child Kenneth Lomaz always wanted. When the father she never knew shows up to claim her, it's a fairy tale journey from the ghetto to a mansion on the hill. Neither woman can be sure who will win Kenneth's heart and fortune.
A Cage of Gold and Lies
Author: Selina A. Fenech
Publisher: Fairies and Fantasy Pty Ltd
ISBN: 1922390429
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
In this modern day, urban fantasy retelling of Rumpelstiltskin, can a young woman escape a cage of gold and lies? Growing up on the streets, Zari used to dream of a fairytale ending. Until she found out that magic was real, and witnessed the horrible consequences. On that day she learned that the billionaire who lords over the city keeps people with the gift of magic as his personal slaves. And none can escape him alive. When Zari's drunken father boasts that "his daughter" has magic, Zari will do anything to protect her little sister. Even take her place as a slave. But how long can she survive the billionaire's cruel tests and tasks when she can't cast a single spell?
Publisher: Fairies and Fantasy Pty Ltd
ISBN: 1922390429
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
In this modern day, urban fantasy retelling of Rumpelstiltskin, can a young woman escape a cage of gold and lies? Growing up on the streets, Zari used to dream of a fairytale ending. Until she found out that magic was real, and witnessed the horrible consequences. On that day she learned that the billionaire who lords over the city keeps people with the gift of magic as his personal slaves. And none can escape him alive. When Zari's drunken father boasts that "his daughter" has magic, Zari will do anything to protect her little sister. Even take her place as a slave. But how long can she survive the billionaire's cruel tests and tasks when she can't cast a single spell?
Pinocchio, the Tale of a Puppet
Author: Carlo Collodi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781603033930
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Pinocchio, The Tale of a Puppet follows the adventures of a talking wooden puppet whose nose grew longer whenever he told a lie and who wanted more than anything else to become a real boy.As carpenter Master Antonio begins to carve a block of pinewood into a leg for his table the log shouts out, "Don't strike me too hard!" Frightened by the talking log, Master Cherry does not know what to do until his neighbor Geppetto drops by looking for a piece of wood to build a marionette. Antonio gives the block to Geppetto. And thus begins the life of Pinocchio, the puppet that turns into a boy.Pinocchio, The Tale of a Puppet is a novel for children by Carlo Collodi is about the mischievous adventures of Pinocchio, an animated marionette, and his poor father and woodcarver Geppetto. It is considered a classic of children's literature and has spawned many derivative works of art. But this is not the story we've seen in film but the original version full of harrowing adventures faced by Pinnocchio. It includes 40 illustrations.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781603033930
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Pinocchio, The Tale of a Puppet follows the adventures of a talking wooden puppet whose nose grew longer whenever he told a lie and who wanted more than anything else to become a real boy.As carpenter Master Antonio begins to carve a block of pinewood into a leg for his table the log shouts out, "Don't strike me too hard!" Frightened by the talking log, Master Cherry does not know what to do until his neighbor Geppetto drops by looking for a piece of wood to build a marionette. Antonio gives the block to Geppetto. And thus begins the life of Pinocchio, the puppet that turns into a boy.Pinocchio, The Tale of a Puppet is a novel for children by Carlo Collodi is about the mischievous adventures of Pinocchio, an animated marionette, and his poor father and woodcarver Geppetto. It is considered a classic of children's literature and has spawned many derivative works of art. But this is not the story we've seen in film but the original version full of harrowing adventures faced by Pinnocchio. It includes 40 illustrations.
Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses
Author: Ron Koertge
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0763644064
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Writing in free verse honed to a wicked edge, the incomparable Ron Koertge brings dark and contemporary humor to twenty iconic fairy tales. Once upon a time, there was a strung-out match girl who sold CDs to stoners. Twelve impetuous sisters escaped King Daddy’s clutches to jiggle and cavort and wear out their shoes. A fickle Thumbelina searched for a tiny husband, leaving bodies in her wake. And Little Red Riding Hood confessed that she kind of wanted to know what it’s like to be swallowed whole. From bloodied and blinded stepsisters (they were duped) to a chopped-off finger flying into a heroine’s cleavage, this is fairy tale world turned upside down. Ron Koertge knows what really happened to all those wolves and maidens, ogres and orphans, kings and piglets, and he knows about the Ever After. So come closer — he wants to whisper in your ear.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0763644064
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Writing in free verse honed to a wicked edge, the incomparable Ron Koertge brings dark and contemporary humor to twenty iconic fairy tales. Once upon a time, there was a strung-out match girl who sold CDs to stoners. Twelve impetuous sisters escaped King Daddy’s clutches to jiggle and cavort and wear out their shoes. A fickle Thumbelina searched for a tiny husband, leaving bodies in her wake. And Little Red Riding Hood confessed that she kind of wanted to know what it’s like to be swallowed whole. From bloodied and blinded stepsisters (they were duped) to a chopped-off finger flying into a heroine’s cleavage, this is fairy tale world turned upside down. Ron Koertge knows what really happened to all those wolves and maidens, ogres and orphans, kings and piglets, and he knows about the Ever After. So come closer — he wants to whisper in your ear.