Zenda and the Gazing Ball

Zenda and the Gazing Ball PDF Author: Ken Petti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780448432236
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Book Description
Twelve-year-old Zenda of Azureblue, a magical planet, looks forward to her gazing ball ceremony to reveal the unique lessons to guide her through life, but when she breaks her gazing ball, the future seems lost.

Zenda and the Gazing Ball

Zenda and the Gazing Ball PDF Author: Ken Petti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780448432236
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Book Description
Twelve-year-old Zenda of Azureblue, a magical planet, looks forward to her gazing ball ceremony to reveal the unique lessons to guide her through life, but when she breaks her gazing ball, the future seems lost.

A Test of Mirrors

A Test of Mirrors PDF Author: Ken Petti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780448432588
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Book Description
On the planet Azureblue on the eve of her thirteenth birthday, Zenda finds the final three musings from her broken gazing ball and is able to attend the harana ceremony that will reveal her personal gifts and guide her life's work.

The Astral Summer

The Astral Summer PDF Author: Ken Petti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780448437453
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Having retrieved all the pieces of her gazing ball and learned that she has two powers--kani and aura sight, Zenda goes on a retreat led by her friend Persuaja to learn the value of her talents and the responsibilities that accompany them.

The Prisoner Of Zenda

The Prisoner Of Zenda PDF Author: Anthony Hope
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157

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Well then — and I must premise that I am going, perforce, to rake up the very scandal which my dear Lady Burlesdon wishes forgotten — in the year 1733, George II. sitting then on the throne, peace reigning for the moment, and the King and the Prince of Wales being not yet at loggerheads, there came on a visit to the English Court a certain prince, who was afterwards known to history as Rudolf the Third of Ruritania. The prince was a tall, handsome young fellow, marked (maybe marred, it is not for me to say) by a somewhat unusually long, sharp and straight nose, and a mass of dark-red hair — in fact, the nose and the hair which have stamped the Elphbergs time out of mind. He stayed some months in England, where he was most courteously received; yet, in the end, he left rather under a cloud. For he fought a duel (it was considered highly well bred of him to waive all question of his rank) with a nobleman, well known in the society of the day, not only for his own merits, but as the husband of a very beautiful wife. In that duel Prince Rudolf received a severe wound, and, recovering therefrom, was adroitly smuggled off by the Ruritanian ambassador, who had found him a pretty handful. The nobleman was not wounded in the duel; but the morning being raw and damp on the occasion of the meeting, he contracted a severe chill, and, failing to throw it off, he died some six months after the departure of Prince Rudolf, without having found leisure to adjust his relations with his wife — who, after another two months, bore an heir to the title and estates of the family of Burlesdon. This lady was the Countess Amelia, whose picture my sister-in-law wished to remove from the drawing-room in Park Lane; and her husband was James, fifth Earl of Burlesdon and twenty-second Baron Rassendyll, both in the peerage of England, and a Knight of the Garter. As for Rudolf, he went back to Ruritania, married a wife, and ascended the throne, whereon his progeny in the direct line have sat from then till this very hour — with one short interval. And, finally, if you walk through the picture galleries at Burlesdon, among the fifty portraits or so of the last century and a half, you will find five or six, including that of the sixth earl, distinguished by long, sharp, straight noses and a quantity of dark-red hair; these five or six have also blue eyes, whereas among the Rassendylls dark eyes are the commoner...FROM THE BOOKS.

The Dolly Dialogues

The Dolly Dialogues PDF Author: Anthony Hope
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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The " Dolly Dialogues " serve much the same purpose that the ballet does in an opera—they are a divertissement pure and simple. The winsome, irresponsible "Dolly" picks her steps amid the conversational pitfalls which the adroit " Mr. Carter" spreads for her, with as much dainty sureness as a premiere danseuse, and we cannot but admire and applaud her grace and vivacity. There is no hidden meaning to the "Dialogues " any more than there is to "Dolly." They but reveal the polished inanity of the modern ball-room, the fashionable frivolity of the five o'clock tea-table, and the harmless flirtations of the lawn-tennis court. As "trifles light as air," Mr. Hope offered them to us; as trifles we accept them, and who but the most nobly serious could refuse to smile over their gracefulness, their immaculate innuendo! As a hand-book on "Polite Conversations; or, The Art of Saying Nothing Gracefully," these " Dolly Dialogues " might almost take rank as a serious classic.

The Routledge History of Literature in English

The Routledge History of Literature in English PDF Author: Ronald Carter
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415243179
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 598

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Book Description
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.

Something Like An Autobiography

Something Like An Autobiography PDF Author: Akira Kurosawa
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030780321X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Book Description
Translated by Audie E. Bock. "A first rate book and a joy to read.... It's doubtful that a complete understanding of the director's artistry can be obtained without reading this book.... Also indispensable for budding directors are the addenda, in which Kurosawa lays out his beliefs on the primacy of a good script, on scriptwriting as an essential tool for directors, on directing actors, on camera placement, and on the value of steeping oneself in literature, from great novels to detective fiction." --Variety "For the lover of Kurosawa's movies...this is nothing short of must reading...a fitting companion piece to his many dynamic and absorbing screen entertainments." --Washington Post Book World

The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner PDF Author: Khaled Hosseini
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781594483172
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.

A College of Magics

A College of Magics PDF Author: Caroline Stevermer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466819480
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 427

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Book Description
Teenager Faris Nallaneen is the heir to the small northern dukedom of Galazon. Too young still to claim her title, her despotic Uncle Brinker has ruled in her place. Now he demands she be sent to Greenlaw College. For her benefit he insists. To keep me out of the way, more like it! But Greenlaw is not just any school-as Faris and her new best friend Jane discover. At Greenlaw students major in . . . magic. But it's not all fun and games. When Faris makes an enemy of classmate Menary of Aravill, life could get downright . . . deadly. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A New Dimension

A New Dimension PDF Author: Ken Petti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780448432540
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Book Description
When Zenda is transported to another dimension everything is so perfect that she is reluctant to go back to her magical home planet.