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Author : Sarah Porter
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547482514
As a mermaid versus human war looms on the horizon, Luce falls in love with her sworn enemy Dorian and assumes her rightful role as queen of the mermaids.
Author : Sarah Porter
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780765386229
“A dark, thoroughly modern fairy tale crackling with wit and magical mayhem.” —Leigh Bardugo, New York Times bestselling author of Shadow and Bone “An enchantingly twisted modern fairy tale, perfect for those who prefer Grimm to Disney. Inventive, darkly magical, and beautifully written, it will stay with me for a long time.” — Kendare Blake, New York Times bestselling author of Three Dark Crowns Vassa in the Night is a powerful and haunting modern retelling of the Russian folktale “Vassilissa the Beautiful” for teen fans of urban fantasy, fairy tales, magic, and horror who enjoy books by Leigh Bardugo, Kendare Blake, Catherynne Valente, and V. E. Schwab. In the enchanted kingdom of Brooklyn, the fashionable people put on cute shoes, go to parties in warehouses, drink on rooftops at sunset, and tell themselves they’ve arrived. A whole lot of Brooklyn is like that now—but not Vassa’s working-class neighborhood. In Vassa’s neighborhood, where she lives with her stepmother and bickering stepsisters, one might stumble onto magic, but stumbling out again could become an issue. Babs Yagg, the owner of the local convenience store, has a policy of beheading shoplifters—and sometimes innocent shoppers as well. So when Vassa’s stepsister sends her out for light bulbs in the middle of night, she knows it could easily become a suicide mission. But Vassa has a bit of luck hidden in her pocket, a gift from her dead mother. Erg is a tough-talking wooden doll with sticky fingers, a bottomless stomach, and a ferocious cunning. With Erg’s help, Vassa just might be able to break the witch’s curse and free her Brooklyn neighborhood. But Babs won’t be playing fair.... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Varla Ventura
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609258771
The author of The Book of the Bizarre presents an enchanting collection of classic mermaid stories and historical anecdotes from around the world. From Homer's Odyssey to Pirates of the Caribbean, mermaids have fascinated popular culture for centuries. Varla Ventura explores the wealth of literature about these mythical creatures in this charming anthology. This volume includes turn of the century tales of merfolk from Bret Harte, T. Crofton Croker, and W.B. Yeats, along with tantalizing trivia, facts, first-hand accounts, and speculations about mermaids in popular culture. In these pages, you will discover: · Many people today believe that early explorer sightings of mermaids were actually manatees. · The legendary pirate Blackbeard was afraid of his crew being lured into a watery grave by mermaids, so he ordered his ships to avoid areas where they were said to be. · Since 2009, the town of Kiryat Yam, Israel, has offered a prize of $1 million dollars to anyone who can prove the mermaid off their coast is real. The prize remains unclaimed.
Author : John Clare
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Rebekah Fitzsimmons,Casey Alane Wilson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496827159
Contributions by Megan Brown, Jill Coste, Sara K. Day, Rachel Dean-Ruzicka, Rebekah Fitzsimmons, Amber Gray, Roxanne Harde, Tom Jesse, Heidi Jones, Kaylee Jangula Mootz, Leah Phillips, Rachel L. Rickard Rebellino, S. R. Toliver, Jason Vanfosson, Sarah E. Whitney, and Casey Alane Wilson While critical and popular attention afforded to twenty-first-century young adult literature has exponentially increased in recent years, classroom materials and scholarship have remained static in focus and slight in scope. Twilight, The Hunger Games, The Fault in Our Stars, and The Hate U Give overwhelm conversations among scholars and critics—but these are far from the only texts in need of analysis. Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction offers a necessary remedy to this limiting perspective, bringing together essays about the many subgenres, themes, and character types that have until now been overlooked. The collection tackles a diverse range of topics—modern updates to the marriage plot; fairy tale retellings in dystopian settings; stories of extrajudicial police killings and racial justice. The approaches are united, though, by a commitment to exploring the large-scale generic and theoretical structures at work in each set of texts. As a collection, Beyond the Blockbusters is an exciting entryway into a field that continues to grow and change even as its works captivate massive audiences. It will prove a crucial addition to the library of any scholar or instructor of young adult literature.
Author : Mary Kay Norseng
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780295998145
A love goddess who was imprisoned and betrayed by love, a wife who returned again and again to her childhood home, a mother who left her children, a writer who preferred silence, Dagny Juel Przybyszewska existed in a borderland between myth and reality. Born into an upper-class Norwegian family in 1867, she died at the age of thirty-three, estranged from everyone and everything she had known, shot by a neurotic young man in a hotel room in Tiflis near the Black Sea. He wrote, “She was not of this world, she was far too ethereal for anyone to understand her true nature.” Dagny Juel was one of four beautiful and talented daughters of a prominent doctor who was attendant physician to the king of Sweden. In 1893 she went to Berlin to study piano, and soon she became the central figure in an avant-garde group of writers, painters, and patrons of the arts known as Zum schwarzen Ferkel (“The Black Piglet). She was painted by Edvard Munch and was the model for the destructive woman of many of Strindberg’s writings. In the Berlin circle, she met and married the brilliant, mercurial Polish writer Stanislaw Przybyszewski. But Dagny was more than the mysterious and provocative muse of two of the major European cultural centers, Berlin and Krakow. She herself wrote revolutionary plays and poetry and acted as cultural agent for Scandinavian artists on the Continent. During her lifetime her plays and poems were published in Norwegian, Polish, and Czech, and a collection of her plays came out in Norway as recently as 1978. At once an engrossing, elegantly narrated biography and a work of meticulous scholarship, Mary Kay Norseng’s book is the first full-length study in English to examine Dagny’s writings and to explore her relationships. Attempting to sort fact from the sensationalized fiction that has grown up around this remarkable woman, Norseng has consulted all available letters and memoirs of Dagny, her husband, her family, and her acquaintances, as well as Dagny’s own writings and the wealth of material written about her. The book resulting from this intensive study will change the way the world has viewed Dagny Przybyszewska, while it provides new insights into the literary and artistic environment of fin-de-siecle Europe.
Author : Moan Lisa
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781312259287
A book of poetry. These are poems from the heart, much of this volume touches on questions of spirituality and faith through a darker lens; there is love lost and hopelessness. Nature's revolt against the flesh and spirit. It is a depressive work.
Author : Jaak Panksepp
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195178050
In Affective Neuroscience, Jaak Panksepp provides the most up-to-date information about the brain-operating systems that organize the fundamental emotional tendencies of all mammals. Presenting complex material in a readable manner, the book offers a comprehensive summary of the fundamental neural sources of human and animal feelings, as well as a conceptual framework for studying emotional systems of the brain. Panksepp approaches emotions from the perspective of basic emotion theory but does not fail to address the complex issues raised by constructionist approaches.
Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 3362 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317398448
This set reissues 8 books on the Brontë family, originally published between 1968 and 1999. The volumes cover the four Brontë children; Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Patrick Branwell, and provides an analysis and commentary of their most respected works. This collection also provides a comprehensive collection of Patrick Branwell Brontë’s works and the history behind his manuscripts. This set will be of particular interest to students of English Literature.
Author : Patrick Branwell Brontë
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0815302266
This volume covers 1837-1848 and depicts the end of the Angrian conflict, Branwell's abandonment of the Angrian saga, and his attempts to establish himself as a published poet and man of letters. During this period he produced approximately 80,700 words of prose, 65 new poems and verse fragments, 54 revised poems, and 37 translations of Latin odes. Along with his significant poems, sonnets and prose pieces, this volume also contains Branwell's notable translations of Horace's odes.
Author : Sarah Porter
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780547526287
Mermaids have been sinking ships and drowning humans for centuries, and now the government is determined to put an end to the mermaid problem—by slaughtering all of them. Luce, a mermaid with exceptionally threatening abilities, becomes their number-one target, hunted as she flees down the coast toward San Francisco. There she finds hundreds of mermaids living in exile under the docks of the bay. These are the Twice Lost: once-human girls lost first when a trauma turned them into mermaids, and lost a second time when they broke mermaid law and were rejected by their tribes. Luce is stunned when they elect her as their leader. But she won’t be their queen. She’ll be their general. And they will become the Twice Lost Army—because this is war.
Author : Patrick McNamara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781107171107
Introduces the neuroscience of sleep and dreams, including an investigation into their potential evolutionary and social functions.
Author : Sarah Porter
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781328707338
Twelve-year-old Ada is a Chimera, one of a number of children born with human and animal DNA thanks to a genetic experiment gone wrong. When she is shipped off to a quarantined school for other kids like herself, she senses that the facility is keeping a secret.
Author : Sarah Porter
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547482521
When humans declare war on mermaids, Luce swims to San Francisco Bay where she finds a group of "twice lost" girls, lost once when trauma turned them into mermaids and again when they defied mermaid law, and unites them into an army under her leadership.
Author : Charlotte Brontë
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015081197504