Author: Richelle Mead
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101565888
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
The second thrilling installment in Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy spinoff series, Bloodlines Tough, brainy alchemist Sydney Sage and doe-eyed Moroi princess Jill Dragomir are in hiding at a human boarding school in the sunny, glamorous world of Palm Springs, California. The students--children of the wealthy and powerful--carry on with their lives in blissful ignorance, while Sydney, Jill, Eddie, and Adrian must do everything in their power to keep their secret safe. But with forbidden romances, unexpected spirit bonds, and the threat of Strigoi moving ever closer, hiding the truth is harder than anyone thought. Populated with new faces as well as familiar ones, Richelle Mead's breathtaking Bloodlines series explores all the friendship, romance, battles, and betrayals that made the #1 New York Times bestselling Vampire Academy series so addictive. In this second book, the drama is hotter, the romances are steamier, and the stakes are even higher.
The Golden Lily
Author: Richelle Mead
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101565888
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
The second thrilling installment in Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy spinoff series, Bloodlines Tough, brainy alchemist Sydney Sage and doe-eyed Moroi princess Jill Dragomir are in hiding at a human boarding school in the sunny, glamorous world of Palm Springs, California. The students--children of the wealthy and powerful--carry on with their lives in blissful ignorance, while Sydney, Jill, Eddie, and Adrian must do everything in their power to keep their secret safe. But with forbidden romances, unexpected spirit bonds, and the threat of Strigoi moving ever closer, hiding the truth is harder than anyone thought. Populated with new faces as well as familiar ones, Richelle Mead's breathtaking Bloodlines series explores all the friendship, romance, battles, and betrayals that made the #1 New York Times bestselling Vampire Academy series so addictive. In this second book, the drama is hotter, the romances are steamier, and the stakes are even higher.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101565888
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
The second thrilling installment in Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy spinoff series, Bloodlines Tough, brainy alchemist Sydney Sage and doe-eyed Moroi princess Jill Dragomir are in hiding at a human boarding school in the sunny, glamorous world of Palm Springs, California. The students--children of the wealthy and powerful--carry on with their lives in blissful ignorance, while Sydney, Jill, Eddie, and Adrian must do everything in their power to keep their secret safe. But with forbidden romances, unexpected spirit bonds, and the threat of Strigoi moving ever closer, hiding the truth is harder than anyone thought. Populated with new faces as well as familiar ones, Richelle Mead's breathtaking Bloodlines series explores all the friendship, romance, battles, and betrayals that made the #1 New York Times bestselling Vampire Academy series so addictive. In this second book, the drama is hotter, the romances are steamier, and the stakes are even higher.
Pursuit of the Golden Lily
Author: R. Emery
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781534632936
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Rose Jamieson is a writer whose day job doesn't involve much risk. But then her dying father asks her to identify an enigmatic stranger he'd encountered in Thailand in World War II and bequeaths her his wartime diary, which contains a cryptic riddle. Drawn in by the mystery, Rose leaves her home in Canada for Southeast Asia and begins to retrace her parents' wartime journeys through Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. That's when she finds the map. Hidden in an ancient Buddhist temple, it confirms the rumors she's heard about a secret Imperial Japanese operation called the Golden Lily. Suddenly, her promise to her father transforms into a hunt for billions of dollars' worth of gold, jewels, and other valuables. Yet she's not the only one looking for the treasure. Thrown together with an unforgettable cast of characters-including a Scottish museum curator and his beautiful Japanese lover, a corrupt Mafia don, and a quirky, ex-CIA American-Rose is on a journey she's never going to forget. Inspired by the author's true story of finding her British father's POW diary and following in his footstep, Pursuit of the Golden Lily is brimming with adventure, romance, and intrigue.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781534632936
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Rose Jamieson is a writer whose day job doesn't involve much risk. But then her dying father asks her to identify an enigmatic stranger he'd encountered in Thailand in World War II and bequeaths her his wartime diary, which contains a cryptic riddle. Drawn in by the mystery, Rose leaves her home in Canada for Southeast Asia and begins to retrace her parents' wartime journeys through Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. That's when she finds the map. Hidden in an ancient Buddhist temple, it confirms the rumors she's heard about a secret Imperial Japanese operation called the Golden Lily. Suddenly, her promise to her father transforms into a hunt for billions of dollars' worth of gold, jewels, and other valuables. Yet she's not the only one looking for the treasure. Thrown together with an unforgettable cast of characters-including a Scottish museum curator and his beautiful Japanese lover, a corrupt Mafia don, and a quirky, ex-CIA American-Rose is on a journey she's never going to forget. Inspired by the author's true story of finding her British father's POW diary and following in his footstep, Pursuit of the Golden Lily is brimming with adventure, romance, and intrigue.
Golden Lily
Author: Lijia Xu
Publisher: Fernhurst Books Limited
ISBN: 1909911798
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The fascinating autobiography from Asia's first ever dinghy sailing gold medallist. Learning to sail and becoming a full-time athlete at just 10 years old, Lijia Xu was taken away from her parents and enrolled on the gruelling Chinese training regime, a programme meticulously prescribed across all sporting disciplines to catapult the nation's talented youngsters to international champions. A rare insight into a shocking world of relentless physical training and unquestioning mental compliance, Lijia's honest and heart-felt account takes you on her journey from physical disabilities and debilitating injuries to learning to think for herself, eventually going on to achieve her dream of becoming an Olympic gold medallist. This is an inspirational story of a young woman's will to succeed despite all that her background threw at her.
Publisher: Fernhurst Books Limited
ISBN: 1909911798
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The fascinating autobiography from Asia's first ever dinghy sailing gold medallist. Learning to sail and becoming a full-time athlete at just 10 years old, Lijia Xu was taken away from her parents and enrolled on the gruelling Chinese training regime, a programme meticulously prescribed across all sporting disciplines to catapult the nation's talented youngsters to international champions. A rare insight into a shocking world of relentless physical training and unquestioning mental compliance, Lijia's honest and heart-felt account takes you on her journey from physical disabilities and debilitating injuries to learning to think for herself, eventually going on to achieve her dream of becoming an Olympic gold medallist. This is an inspirational story of a young woman's will to succeed despite all that her background threw at her.
The Golden Lily
Author: Mcgauran
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671543884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671543884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Paradise Pursued
Author: Alice Crawford
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838635735
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Paradise Pursued reinterprets the fiction of one of England's most important mid-century novelists. Knowledgeably yet accessibly written, it demonstrates the recurring obsession with paradisal pursuit that runs through all twenty-three of Rose Macaulay's richly varied fictions.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838635735
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Paradise Pursued reinterprets the fiction of one of England's most important mid-century novelists. Knowledgeably yet accessibly written, it demonstrates the recurring obsession with paradisal pursuit that runs through all twenty-three of Rose Macaulay's richly varied fictions.
Rossini and Post-Napoleonic Europe
Author: Warren Roberts
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580465307
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Warren Roberts has discovered a Rossini that others have not seen, a composer who commented ironically and satirically on religion and politics in Post-Napoleonic Europe.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580465307
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Warren Roberts has discovered a Rossini that others have not seen, a composer who commented ironically and satirically on religion and politics in Post-Napoleonic Europe.
West of the Moon
Author: Margi Preus
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1613125062
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
In West of the Moon, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Margi Preus expertly weaves original fiction with myth and folktale to tell the story of Astri, a young Norwegian girl desperate to join her father in America. After being separated from her sister and sold to a cruel goat farmer, Astri makes a daring escape. She quickly retrieves her little sister, and, armed with a troll treasure, a book of spells and curses, and a possibly magic hairbrush, they set off for America. With a mysterious companion in tow and the malevolent “goatman” in pursuit, the girls head over the Norwegian mountains, through field and forest, and in and out of folktales and dreams as they steadily make their way east of the sun and west of the moon.
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1613125062
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
In West of the Moon, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Margi Preus expertly weaves original fiction with myth and folktale to tell the story of Astri, a young Norwegian girl desperate to join her father in America. After being separated from her sister and sold to a cruel goat farmer, Astri makes a daring escape. She quickly retrieves her little sister, and, armed with a troll treasure, a book of spells and curses, and a possibly magic hairbrush, they set off for America. With a mysterious companion in tow and the malevolent “goatman” in pursuit, the girls head over the Norwegian mountains, through field and forest, and in and out of folktales and dreams as they steadily make their way east of the sun and west of the moon.
THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES
Author: Ernest Bramah
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
In the delightfully whimsical and fantastical world of Ernest Bramah's The Kai Lung Fantasy Series, readers are transported to ancient China, where they are met with a blend of humor, satire, and intricate storytelling. Through the use of clever dialogue and cunning wordplay, Bramah weaves together a collection of interconnected tales filled with cunning tricksters, mystical creatures, and cunning schemes. The series stands out for its unique narrative style that combines traditional Chinese folklore with British humor, creating a captivating and engaging read for fans of both genres. Each story within the series offers a glimpse into the rich tapestry of Chinese mythology, providing a fascinating blend of culture and entertainment. Ernest Bramah's proficiency in storytelling shines through in this collection, showcasing his talent for creating vivid and entertaining narratives that resonate with readers of all ages. As a pioneer in blending Eastern and Western storytelling traditions, Bramah's The Kai Lung Fantasy Series is a must-read for anyone looking for a charming and immersive literary experience that transcends cultural boundaries.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
In the delightfully whimsical and fantastical world of Ernest Bramah's The Kai Lung Fantasy Series, readers are transported to ancient China, where they are met with a blend of humor, satire, and intricate storytelling. Through the use of clever dialogue and cunning wordplay, Bramah weaves together a collection of interconnected tales filled with cunning tricksters, mystical creatures, and cunning schemes. The series stands out for its unique narrative style that combines traditional Chinese folklore with British humor, creating a captivating and engaging read for fans of both genres. Each story within the series offers a glimpse into the rich tapestry of Chinese mythology, providing a fascinating blend of culture and entertainment. Ernest Bramah's proficiency in storytelling shines through in this collection, showcasing his talent for creating vivid and entertaining narratives that resonate with readers of all ages. As a pioneer in blending Eastern and Western storytelling traditions, Bramah's The Kai Lung Fantasy Series is a must-read for anyone looking for a charming and immersive literary experience that transcends cultural boundaries.
The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Temple Bar
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 584
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