Author: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Publisher: Tansy Rayner Roberts
ISBN: 0645702544
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
“Never speak the name of the Black Raven aloud. Never fail your sacred duty. Never trust magic. And never travel on the River Divine…” CALYX: Didn’t mean to bind 3 assassins to her eternal magical servitude, but leaning into it. Has places to be, and a daughter to protect. IKAROS: Priest of death. Hates this river. Hates boats. Hates that Calyx’s magic means he can’t kill her. Abandoned by his god. Having a bad week. DIO: Not even supposed to be here, but kind of into it. Surrounded by hot assassins. Having a great week. VALERIA: Priest of death. Ageless, deadly, better than all of you. Can kill with a shoe but it probably won’t come to that because she is carrying all the knives. MARDI: Priest of death. Pregnant. Dangerous. Too good for this. One day away from retirement. REYNARD KALDORAN: Going to kill every last one of you. THE RIVER DIVINE: Hold my beer. An action-packed adventure tale of unreliable gods and burnt-out assassins, from the award-winning author of The Creature Court.
Of Knives and Night-blooms
Author: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Publisher: Tansy Rayner Roberts
ISBN: 0645702544
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
“Never speak the name of the Black Raven aloud. Never fail your sacred duty. Never trust magic. And never travel on the River Divine…” CALYX: Didn’t mean to bind 3 assassins to her eternal magical servitude, but leaning into it. Has places to be, and a daughter to protect. IKAROS: Priest of death. Hates this river. Hates boats. Hates that Calyx’s magic means he can’t kill her. Abandoned by his god. Having a bad week. DIO: Not even supposed to be here, but kind of into it. Surrounded by hot assassins. Having a great week. VALERIA: Priest of death. Ageless, deadly, better than all of you. Can kill with a shoe but it probably won’t come to that because she is carrying all the knives. MARDI: Priest of death. Pregnant. Dangerous. Too good for this. One day away from retirement. REYNARD KALDORAN: Going to kill every last one of you. THE RIVER DIVINE: Hold my beer. An action-packed adventure tale of unreliable gods and burnt-out assassins, from the award-winning author of The Creature Court.
Publisher: Tansy Rayner Roberts
ISBN: 0645702544
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
“Never speak the name of the Black Raven aloud. Never fail your sacred duty. Never trust magic. And never travel on the River Divine…” CALYX: Didn’t mean to bind 3 assassins to her eternal magical servitude, but leaning into it. Has places to be, and a daughter to protect. IKAROS: Priest of death. Hates this river. Hates boats. Hates that Calyx’s magic means he can’t kill her. Abandoned by his god. Having a bad week. DIO: Not even supposed to be here, but kind of into it. Surrounded by hot assassins. Having a great week. VALERIA: Priest of death. Ageless, deadly, better than all of you. Can kill with a shoe but it probably won’t come to that because she is carrying all the knives. MARDI: Priest of death. Pregnant. Dangerous. Too good for this. One day away from retirement. REYNARD KALDORAN: Going to kill every last one of you. THE RIVER DIVINE: Hold my beer. An action-packed adventure tale of unreliable gods and burnt-out assassins, from the award-winning author of The Creature Court.
This Enchanted Island
Author: Tansy Rayner Roberts
Publisher: Tansy Rayner Roberts
ISBN: 0645702560
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Miss Metis Seabourne flees scandal and humiliation for a Continental sea voyage… and quite happily gets herself kidnapped by privateers. On board the Caliban, Metis finds a new family of misfit, piratical rogues including the handsome Captain Bones and his dazzling first mate, Calypso. She ditches the teagowns for britches, and learns to feel capable rather than ladylike. For the first time in her life, she is free to be herself. Her old world, of house parties and magical croquet, returns with a jolt when the crew of the Caliban join a caper with a runaway queen and the mysterious Isle of Dream with its mermaids, sea witches and whimsical wild magic. Caught between two people she loves, Metis must learn to be braver than she’s ever been before. The long-awaited sixth novella in the Teacup Magic series! If you enjoy queer pirates, ruffled white shirts, and chaotic magical adventures, you'll adore this off-the-rails cozy gaslamp fantasy.
Publisher: Tansy Rayner Roberts
ISBN: 0645702560
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Miss Metis Seabourne flees scandal and humiliation for a Continental sea voyage… and quite happily gets herself kidnapped by privateers. On board the Caliban, Metis finds a new family of misfit, piratical rogues including the handsome Captain Bones and his dazzling first mate, Calypso. She ditches the teagowns for britches, and learns to feel capable rather than ladylike. For the first time in her life, she is free to be herself. Her old world, of house parties and magical croquet, returns with a jolt when the crew of the Caliban join a caper with a runaway queen and the mysterious Isle of Dream with its mermaids, sea witches and whimsical wild magic. Caught between two people she loves, Metis must learn to be braver than she’s ever been before. The long-awaited sixth novella in the Teacup Magic series! If you enjoy queer pirates, ruffled white shirts, and chaotic magical adventures, you'll adore this off-the-rails cozy gaslamp fantasy.
The Bloom
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago Heights (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago Heights (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Bloom and Doom
Author: Beverly Allen
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101609478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
As the co-owner of The Rose in Bloom, Audrey Bloom creates magnificent flower arrangements for brides to be. Though helping to plan a wedding can be stressful, it’s nothing compared to the groom turning up dead. A designer of eye-catching bridal bouquets—many of them based on the Victorian meanings behind each flower—Audrey Bloom is used to celebrations that end with happily ever after. In fact, every couple she’s worked with is still together, living in wedded bliss. But her perfect record is about to be broken. Her childhood friend Jenny Whitney has reeled in the most eligible bachelor in Ramble, Virginia, and she’s hired Audrey to design the bouquet. But before Jenny can walk down the aisle clutching her blend of anemone, scabious, and pussy willow (a floral disaster in Audrey’s mind), the groom is found dead—sprinkled with bits of a bouquet. This is bad for business—not to mention for Jenny, who has become the prime suspect. So Audrey decides to do a little digging herself, hoping she won’t be the next Ramble resident pushing up daisies…
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101609478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
As the co-owner of The Rose in Bloom, Audrey Bloom creates magnificent flower arrangements for brides to be. Though helping to plan a wedding can be stressful, it’s nothing compared to the groom turning up dead. A designer of eye-catching bridal bouquets—many of them based on the Victorian meanings behind each flower—Audrey Bloom is used to celebrations that end with happily ever after. In fact, every couple she’s worked with is still together, living in wedded bliss. But her perfect record is about to be broken. Her childhood friend Jenny Whitney has reeled in the most eligible bachelor in Ramble, Virginia, and she’s hired Audrey to design the bouquet. But before Jenny can walk down the aisle clutching her blend of anemone, scabious, and pussy willow (a floral disaster in Audrey’s mind), the groom is found dead—sprinkled with bits of a bouquet. This is bad for business—not to mention for Jenny, who has become the prime suspect. So Audrey decides to do a little digging herself, hoping she won’t be the next Ramble resident pushing up daisies…
The Years of Bloom
Author: John McCourt
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299169800
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Since the publication of Richard Ellmann's James Joyce in 1959, Joyce has received remarkably little biographical attention. Scholars have chipped away at various aspects of Ellmann's impressive edifice but have failed to construct anything that might stand alongside it. The Years of Bloom is arguably the most important work of Joyce biography since Ellmann. Based on extensive scrutiny of previously unused Italian sources and informed by the author's intimate knowledge of the culture and dialect of Trieste, The Years of Bloom documents a fertile period in Joyce's life. While living in Trieste, Joyce wrote most of the stories in Dubliners, turned Stephen Hero into A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and began Ulysses. Echoes and influences of Trieste are rife throughout Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Though Trieste had become a sleepy backwater by the time Ellmann visited there in the 1950s, McCourt shows that the city was a teeming imperial port, intensely cosmopolitan and polyglot, during the approximately twelve years Joyce lived there in the waning years of the Habsburg Empire. It was there that Joyce experienced the various cultures of central Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. He met many Jews, who collectively provided much of the material for the character of Leopold Bloom. He encountered continental socialism, Italian Irredentism, Futurism, and various other political and artistic forces whose subtle influences McCourt traces with literary grace and scholarly rigour. The Years of Bloom, a rare landmark in the crowded terrain of Joyce studies, will instantly take its place as a standard work.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299169800
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Since the publication of Richard Ellmann's James Joyce in 1959, Joyce has received remarkably little biographical attention. Scholars have chipped away at various aspects of Ellmann's impressive edifice but have failed to construct anything that might stand alongside it. The Years of Bloom is arguably the most important work of Joyce biography since Ellmann. Based on extensive scrutiny of previously unused Italian sources and informed by the author's intimate knowledge of the culture and dialect of Trieste, The Years of Bloom documents a fertile period in Joyce's life. While living in Trieste, Joyce wrote most of the stories in Dubliners, turned Stephen Hero into A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and began Ulysses. Echoes and influences of Trieste are rife throughout Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Though Trieste had become a sleepy backwater by the time Ellmann visited there in the 1950s, McCourt shows that the city was a teeming imperial port, intensely cosmopolitan and polyglot, during the approximately twelve years Joyce lived there in the waning years of the Habsburg Empire. It was there that Joyce experienced the various cultures of central Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. He met many Jews, who collectively provided much of the material for the character of Leopold Bloom. He encountered continental socialism, Italian Irredentism, Futurism, and various other political and artistic forces whose subtle influences McCourt traces with literary grace and scholarly rigour. The Years of Bloom, a rare landmark in the crowded terrain of Joyce studies, will instantly take its place as a standard work.
Time's Language
Author: Margaret Randall
Publisher: Wings Press
ISBN: 1609405749
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Time's Language contains powerful poems of witness as well as personal poems, and autobiographical prose pieces (that read like prose poems), recounting a life of resistance, the life of a life-long literary and political revolutionary. As US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera writes, "Here are Margaret Randall's decades of love, ink, tears, contestation and light—let us bow in gratitude for this truth-telling, daring, border-breaking, pioneering long-time volume of soul fire."
Publisher: Wings Press
ISBN: 1609405749
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Time's Language contains powerful poems of witness as well as personal poems, and autobiographical prose pieces (that read like prose poems), recounting a life of resistance, the life of a life-long literary and political revolutionary. As US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera writes, "Here are Margaret Randall's decades of love, ink, tears, contestation and light—let us bow in gratitude for this truth-telling, daring, border-breaking, pioneering long-time volume of soul fire."
A Blossom in Bloom
Author: Tien Ngo
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Tien Ngo is diaspora Vietnamese. Whose family are post-Vietnam War survivor. She began her journey to first understand and then heal from her personal experiences over ten years ago. As she processed the experiences that made her who she is and ultimately led her down a different path, Tien felt called to guide others to move away from a volatile cancel culture, disrupt the model minority myth, and build a new community culture. Her healing path lead her to call onto her ancestors for strength and guidance, especially the Vietnamese women of her ancestry. In a candid story of self-discovery, Tien shares insight into what it is like to navigate through the unsettling feelings of not belonging to a country while facing discrimination, hate, expectations, violence, biases, assimilation, and erasure as a first generation Vietnamese woman living in the United States of America. As she leads others through her recollections, Tien reveals how she was able to accept and name her experiences, and then create a spacer to reduce her caretaking role for those who abused and oppressed her and allow her to become her real self. A Blossom in Bloom is the memoir of a first generation Vietnamese American woman determined to heal from erasure, assimilation, hate, and the model minority myth and help others be seen and know they are not alone.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Tien Ngo is diaspora Vietnamese. Whose family are post-Vietnam War survivor. She began her journey to first understand and then heal from her personal experiences over ten years ago. As she processed the experiences that made her who she is and ultimately led her down a different path, Tien felt called to guide others to move away from a volatile cancel culture, disrupt the model minority myth, and build a new community culture. Her healing path lead her to call onto her ancestors for strength and guidance, especially the Vietnamese women of her ancestry. In a candid story of self-discovery, Tien shares insight into what it is like to navigate through the unsettling feelings of not belonging to a country while facing discrimination, hate, expectations, violence, biases, assimilation, and erasure as a first generation Vietnamese woman living in the United States of America. As she leads others through her recollections, Tien reveals how she was able to accept and name her experiences, and then create a spacer to reduce her caretaking role for those who abused and oppressed her and allow her to become her real self. A Blossom in Bloom is the memoir of a first generation Vietnamese American woman determined to heal from erasure, assimilation, hate, and the model minority myth and help others be seen and know they are not alone.
Instead of Whom Does the Flower Bloom
Author: Feri Lainšček
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
One Man's Garden
Author: Henry Mitchell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547345801
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
“Gardeners trapped inside on a rainy day need only two things to get by—a cup of chocolate in their left hand and One Man’s Garden in their right.” —Southern Living This “wonderful” essay collection from the former Washington Post columnist and author of The Essential Earthman (Horticulture) offers a harvest of sharp observations and humorous adventures gathered during a year in the garden—along with much down-to-earth advice. “A year’s worth of wry observations about the peculiarities and pleasures of gardening . . . His book, designed primarily for small town gardens of less than a quarter-acre, and written from the relatively balmy perspective of Washington, D.C. (climatic zone 5), is the perfect makings of a winter read for those planning next year’s garden. Mitchell’s chatty style is entertaining as well as informative . . . Water gardeners in particular will enjoy Mitchell’s obsession with water lilies, other aquatic plants and fish.” —Publishers Weekly “An experienced gardener/environmentalist who mixes solid gardening information along with the right blend of humor and human interest.” —Library Journal “Every page is filled with his irascible, wholly unpretentious voice. He never tries to be funny or erudite. He just is.” —The New York Times
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547345801
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
“Gardeners trapped inside on a rainy day need only two things to get by—a cup of chocolate in their left hand and One Man’s Garden in their right.” —Southern Living This “wonderful” essay collection from the former Washington Post columnist and author of The Essential Earthman (Horticulture) offers a harvest of sharp observations and humorous adventures gathered during a year in the garden—along with much down-to-earth advice. “A year’s worth of wry observations about the peculiarities and pleasures of gardening . . . His book, designed primarily for small town gardens of less than a quarter-acre, and written from the relatively balmy perspective of Washington, D.C. (climatic zone 5), is the perfect makings of a winter read for those planning next year’s garden. Mitchell’s chatty style is entertaining as well as informative . . . Water gardeners in particular will enjoy Mitchell’s obsession with water lilies, other aquatic plants and fish.” —Publishers Weekly “An experienced gardener/environmentalist who mixes solid gardening information along with the right blend of humor and human interest.” —Library Journal “Every page is filled with his irascible, wholly unpretentious voice. He never tries to be funny or erudite. He just is.” —The New York Times
The Year in Bloom
Author: Ann Lovejoy
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
ISBN: 9780912365114
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Gardeners from Northern California to British Columbia will find plenty to cheer about in The Year in Bloom, a celebration of one of the most ideal gardening climates on earth. This classic volume from Ann Lovejoy, the Pacific Northwest's favorite garden writer, offers year-round inspiration and instruction for gardeners of all abilities.
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
ISBN: 9780912365114
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Gardeners from Northern California to British Columbia will find plenty to cheer about in The Year in Bloom, a celebration of one of the most ideal gardening climates on earth. This classic volume from Ann Lovejoy, the Pacific Northwest's favorite garden writer, offers year-round inspiration and instruction for gardeners of all abilities.