![]() My Summary: A retelling of Sleeping Beauty with a Lesbian romance between Maleficent and Aurora. Perhaps, together, we could forge a new world.īecause we all know how this story ends, don’t we? Aurora is the beautiful princess. If my power began her curse, perhaps it’s what can lift it. Even though it was a power like mine that was responsible for her curse.īut with less than a year until that curse will kill her, any future I might see with Aurora is swiftly disintegrating-and she can’t stand to kiss yet another insipid prince. Aurora says I should be proud of my gifts. Humiliated and shamed by the same nobles who pay me to bottle hexes and then brand me a monster. One who isn’t bothered that I am Alyce, the Dark Grace, abhorred and feared for the mysterious dark magic that runs in my veins. Not the way they care about their jewels and elaborate parties and charm-granting elixirs. Let me tell you, no one in Briar actually cares about what happens to its princesses. ![]() You’ve heard this before, haven’t you? The handsome prince. A curse that could only be broken by true love’s kiss. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who, in an act of vengeance, cursed a line of princesses to die. But in this darkly magical retelling of “Sleeping Beauty,” true love is more than a simple fairy tale. Minda’s drunk review of Malice (Malice Duology #1) by Heather WalterĪ princess isn’t supposed to fall for an evil sorceress. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Good thing Meriwether Hunter is there to spare him from being roadkill. So Gabe’s riding through town, showing off his new ride when he almost gets creamed by a car because he’s not paying attention (probably a big ol’, heavy, solid metal car too since it’s 1946). Not just any bike, mind you, but a Schwinn Autocycle Deluxe WITH a built-in electric light. Our main protagonist Gabriel is super excited when he receives a bike for his twelfth birthday. It’s slightly depressing to admit that I’ve gotten to an age where everyone younger than me is, “like, twelve”.īrenda Woods made me like a Middle Grade book and that’s so awesome! Now, down to the nitty gritty. Furthermore, since I do not have children of my own, I usually have a hard time connecting in even a secondhand, roundabout sort of way. I often find myself too far removed from the trials and tribulations of the preteen protagonists and can never quite relate. I don’t usually read too many Middle Grade books. This book is scheduled to be released on Januby Nancy Paulsen Books. Disclosure: This book was provided to me by Edelweiss free of charge in return for an honest and unbiased review. ![]() ![]() Flanders was virtually shunned from the Reorganized Church after his book, Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi (Illinois, 1965), appeared because his research showed that polygamy’s origins laid firmly at the feet of Joseph Smith. Brodie’s arguments, therefore, really set off adherents to the church. Instead, it had been the innovation of Brigham Young and his lieutenants, and was evidence of their apostasy. This set off other historians of Mormonism and they have been debating it ever since.įor instance, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (now the Community of Christ), the second largest of the Mormon factions and my original place of faith, officially denied until the 1980s that Joseph Smith Jr., Mormonism’s founder, had originated the practice. ![]() ![]() 1971), she characterized the origin of polygamy as sexual licentiousness manifested as religious piety. Brodie published her path-breaking biography of Joseph Smith in 1945, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, Mormon Prophet (Knopf, 1945, rev. ![]() Assignment of responsibility for the origination of the doctrine, with all of its overtones of sexual impropriety, has been hotly contested. The place of plural marriage in the early history of the Mormon church has been an important topic of analysis for historians since it first appeared in Nauvoo, Illinois, in the 1840s. It has also been one of the most contentious issues in Mormon history. ![]() ![]() While doing community service at Briar Park Community Center, he meets Regan London, his supervisor's daughter. In her sophomore novel, Grandison (A Love Hate Thing) writes a second-chance story for 17-year-old Guillermo Lozano, whose family moves to a new neighborhood, "quiet and clean" Briar Pointe, after he is granted probation following time in juvenile detention for simple assault. "An accepting, endearing romance built on respect between partners." -Publishers Weekly ![]() ![]() But when it comes to the heart, sometimes you have to break the rules and be a little bit reckless. ![]() Being together might just get Guillermo sent away. But when the walls start to cave in and she finds unexpected understanding from the boy her parents warned about, she can't ignore her feelings anymore. The pressure to stay in her "perfect" relationship and be the good girl all the time has worn her down. But when his work at the local community center throws him into the path of the one girl who is off-limits, friendship sparks.and maybe more. He's done his time, and now he needs to right his wrongs. ![]() New town, new school, and no more reckless behavior. Guillermo Lozano is getting a fresh start. They were supposed to ignore each other and respect that fine line between them. When they meet, one golden rule is established: stay away. ![]() ![]() Here are just a few examples of Black inventors and their solutions. ![]() ![]() Makers identify a problem and invent the solution. President Gerald Ford officially recognized Black History Month in 1976, and February has been designated as Black History Month by every American president since. Learn more of the story of Black History Month and about other celebrations in and of African American culture in African-American Holidays, Festivals, and Celebrations by Kathlyn Gay. Yearly proclamations recognizing Negro History Week were soon issued across the country, and by the late 1960s Negro History Week had become Black History Month on many college campuses. When the group sponsored the first national Negro History Week in 1926, it chose the second week of February to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Moorland founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) - now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) - to celebrate the achievements of Black Americans and individuals of African descent. Celebrate stories of invention and leaders in technology that will motivate you to get making this February. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Mesoamerican Saga is composed of three series – seventeen full-length novels all in all – and is covering the turbulent history of the 14-15th century Mesoamerica, the central Mexican Valley in particular, where the people we came to know as the Aztecs were busy carving their place among other local powers and empires. Years later and after close to two decades of exhaustive research and creative writing, poring through the available primary sources and sometimes modern-day scholars’ interpretation of those, I’m pleased to offer series of historical novels that cover the lively history of the American continent, tracing pivotal events that brought about the greatness of pre-contact North and Mesoamerica. Pre-contact America and its people and cultures were my obsession since I could remember myself, long before I knew what I wished or could do about it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The New Hampshire Institute of Art is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. ![]() Dedicated faculty promote intellectual and artistic development and teach students to respond artistically to contemporary social, political, and aesthetic issues. Its Certificate Programs and a Continuing Education program attract and engage community members from throughout New England. The Institute offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree drawing undergraduate students from across the United States and Canada. About the NH Institute of Art: Established in 1898 as the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences, the New Hampshire Institute of Art has had a firm commitment to educating diverse traditional and nontraditional students in the fine arts. ![]() ![]() ![]() The enemy is cornering me, daring me, Go ahead, Emmy, go for the window, Emmy. Still a chance to jump off the bed to the left and run for the window, the only part of the bedroom still available. The orange flames rippling across the ceiling above me, dancing around my bed, almost in rhythm, a taunting staccato, popping and crackling, like it’s not a fire but a collection of flames working together collectively, they want me to know, as they bob up and down and spit and cackle, as they slowly advance, This time it’s too late, Emmy. The putrid black smoke that singes my nostril hairs and pollutes my lungs. ![]() The searing oven-blast heat within the four corners of my bedroom. I don’t know how long it’s been going off, but it’s too late for me now. The house alarm is screaming out, not the early-warning beep but the piercing you’re-totally-screwed-if-you-don’t-move-now squeal. ![]() This time, it’s too bright, there’s too much smoke. THIS TIME I know it, I know it with a certainty that chokes my throat with panic, that grips and twists my heart until it’s ripped from its mooring. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As fresh today as it was then, Rand's provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction-that man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress. This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite.of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy.and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against a great creator. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies but against those who needed him most-and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world's motor-and the motive power of every man? The Fountainhead is the revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide acclaim. ![]() ![]() It is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world-and did. Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller. Two Ayn Rand classics- Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead- together for the first time in a boxed set. objectivism, philosophical system identified with the thought of the 20th-century Russian-born American writer Ayn Rand and popularized mainly through her commercially successful novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957). ![]() ![]() ![]() Realistically rendered advertisements or posters of pop stars contrast with cartoon sketches of iconic objects or droll vignettes, like a housewife walking her pet pig, a Godzilla statue in a local park, and an urban fishing pond that charges 400 yen per half hour. The artist mixes styles and tags his pictures with wry comments and observations. ![]() A temple nestles among skyscrapers the corner grocery anchors a diverse assortment of dwellings, cafes, and shops-often tangled in electric lines. Here you find business men and women, hipsters, students, grandmothers, shopkeepers, policemen, and other urban types and tribes in all manner of dress and hairstyles. It isn't the Tokyo of packaged tours and glossy guidebooks, but a grittier, vibrant place, full of ordinary people going about their daily lives and the scenes and activities that unfold on the streets of a bustling metropolis. This stunning book records the city that he got to know during his adventures. Each day he would set forth with a pouch full of color pencils and a sketchpad, and visit different neighborhoods. Florent Chavouet, a young graphic artist, spent six months exploring Tokyo while his girlfriend interned at a company there. This prize-winning book is both an illustrated tour of a Tokyo rarely seen in Japan travel guides and an artist's warm, funny, visually rich, and always entertaining graphic memoir. ![]() |