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Angel with broken wings
by Ronyfer Federico RenziStories of struggle and perseverance of one of the many political refugees who had to leave their Latin American country to try their luck in one of the countries called "first world". Juan Ramon emigrated from his native Guatemala to take refuge with his wife Flor de Maria, escaping from the institutionalized repression, to face the cold and xenophobic Canadian society.Then; he suffers, as so many thousands of displaced and dispossessed who have lost everything. Or almost everything; because it perseverance, courage, love of life and capacity for solidarity is.
Angel with the Sword (Merovingen Nights Prequel)
by C. J. CherryhWELCOME TO MEROVINGEN NIGHTS! With ANGEL WITH THE SWORD, you are taking your first journey to a brand-new shared world universe. In future volumes of this action, intrigue-and-adventure-packed series, MEROVINGEN NIGHTS, C.J. will be joined by such top authors as Anne McCaffrey, Robert Asprin, Lynn Abbey, and many others, whose characters, especially created for this series, will roam the dark waterways and prowl the high bridges, forming unexpected alliances, fighting battles for survival and mastery, and pitting their cunning and quickness against one another and against the many perils of this most dangerous and intricate of cities, Merovingen. So welcome now to ANGEL WITH THE SWORD, and watch for MEROVINGEN NIGHTS, coming this spring.
Angel with Two Faces (Josephine Tey #2)
by Nicola UpsonExhausted and disillusioned with the world of theater in May 1935, Josephine Tey has traveled to Cornwall to spend the summer with her friends the Motleys at their run-down but beautiful country estate. Ready to begin work on her second mystery novel, Tey finds much to inspire her in the landscape and its legends. Meanwhile, the Motleys have become involved in an amateur production at the nearby Minack Theater. Detective Inspector Archie Penrose has returned to his roots in Cornwall to attend the funeral of a family friend, a young estate worker who died in a tragic riding accident. Penrose has a few questions about the circumstances surrounding the fatal occurrence. And when the Minack Theater proves to be the stage for a real-life tragedy, Penrose and Tey together must investigate an audacious murder and confront an evil suggesting that there are darker things than death.
Angel with Two Faces
by Nicola UpsonExhausted and disillusioned with the world of theater in May 1935, Josephine Tey has traveled to Cornwall to spend the summer with her friends the Motleys at their run-down but beautiful country estate. Ready to begin work on her second mystery novel, Tey finds much to inspire her in the landscape and its legends. Meanwhile, the Motleys have become involved in an amateur production at the nearby Minack Theater.Detective Inspector Archie Penrose has returned to his roots in Cornwall to attend the funeral of a family friend, a young estate worker who died in a tragic riding accident. Penrose has a few questions about the circumstances surrounding the fatal occurrence. And when the Minack Theater proves to be the stage for a real-life tragedy, Penrose and Tey together must investigate an audacious murder and confront an evil suggesting that there are darker things than death.
Angel Without Mercy (Agnes Carmichael #1)
by Anthea CohenShe jabbed the pen angrily into the paper on which she was writing. No woman should bring as much unhappiness into a place as this woman does, she thought. The people she'd reported. Dear old Jones on the geriatric ward, he'd been up on a complaint, in front of the Committee, because of Miss Hughes. He'd nearly lost his job. Then there was the night cook, the one before Mrs. Upton. She'd been chucked out because Miss Hughes said she'd found her stealing food. She had too, but it was only the remains she'd been taking out. She had said it was for her cat or her dog, but Miss Hughes hadn't listened, she'd reported her, and she'd got the sack. There was no end to the harm Miss Hughes could do. Why? Why was she always on the look-out for something to report? She supposed to make herself look more efficient. There was the Creasey scandal and that man with the angina. There was one thing after another . . . I could kill her, she thought . . . from ANGEL without MERCY
Angel Without Wings
by Mari ManningA war widow at twenty-six, Linnea Reyes is haunted by the soul-shattering fight she had with her husband just before he led his detachment into the ambush that killed him. When one of the wounded soldiers asks her to help save his family's farm, she jumps at the chance for redemption. Unfortunately, she runs straight into a six-foot roadblock--the soldier's older brother who has plans of his own.After resigning from a promising army career to help his mother and wounded brother, Jesse McCormick is at the lowest point in his life. Now they are about to lose the family's organic farm and only one plan will earn him enough money to get his family out of debt and him out of the field--a dangerous assignment with a paramilitary group. He can brush aside the protests of his worried family, but the good intentions of Linnea Reyes prove too much to overcome.Sensuality Level: Sensual
Angel Without Wings
by Mari ManningA war widow at twenty-six, Linnea Reyes is haunted by the soul-shattering fight she had with her husband just before he led his detachment into the ambush that killed him. When one of the wounded soldiers asks her to help save his family’s farm, she jumps at the chance for redemption. Unfortunately, she runs straight into a six-foot roadblock—the soldier’s older brother who has plans of his own.After resigning from a promising army career to help his mother and wounded brother, Jesse McCormick is at the lowest point in his life. Now they are about to lose the family’s organic farm and only one plan will earn him enough money to get his family out of debt and him out of the field—a dangerous assignment with a paramilitary group. He can brush aside the protests of his worried family, but the good intentions of Linnea Reyes prove too much to overcome.Sensuality Level: Sensual
Angel Without Wings
by Mari ManningA war widow at twenty-six, Linnea Reyes is haunted by the soul-shattering fight she had with her husband just before he led his detachment into the ambush that killed him. When one of the wounded soldiers asks her to help save his family’s farm, she jumps at the chance for redemption. Unfortunately, she runs straight into a six-foot roadblock—the soldier’s older brother who has plans of his own.After resigning from a promising army career to help his mother and wounded brother, Jesse McCormick is at the lowest point in his life. Now they are about to lose the family’s organic farm and only one plan will earn him enough money to get his family out of debt and him out of the field—a dangerous assignment with a paramilitary group. He can brush aside the protests of his worried family, but the good intentions of Linnea Reyes prove too much to overcome.Sensuality Level: Sensual
Angel Without Wings
by Mari ManningA war widow at twenty-six, Linnea Reyes is haunted by the soul-shattering fight she had with her husband just before he led his detachment into the ambush that killed him. When one of the wounded soldiers asks her to help save his family's farm, she jumps at the chance for redemption. Unfortunately, she runs straight into a six-foot roadblock--the soldier's older brother who has plans of his own.After resigning from a promising army career to help his mother and wounded brother, Jesse McCormick is at the lowest point in his life. Now they are about to lose the family's organic farm and only one plan will earn him enough money to get his family out of debt and him out of the field--a dangerous assignment with a paramilitary group. He can brush aside the protests of his worried family, but the good intentions of Linnea Reyes prove too much to overcome.Sensuality Level: Sensual
The Angel Wore Fangs: A Deadly Angels Book
by Sandra HillNew York Times bestselling author Sandra Hill continues her sexy Deadly Angels series, as a Viking vangel's otherworldly mission pairs him with a beautiful chef who whets his thousand-year-old appetite . . .Once guilty of the deadly sin of gluttony, thousand-year-old Viking vampire angel Cnut Sigurdsson is now a lean, mean, vampire-devil fighting machine. His new side-job? No biggie: just ridding the world of a threat called ISIS while keeping the evil Lucipires (demon vampires) at bay. So when chef Andrea Stewart hires him to rescue her sister from a cult recruiting terrorists at a Montana dude ranch, vangel turns cowboy. Yeehaw!The too-tempting mortal insists on accompanying him, surprising Cnut with her bravery at every turn. But with terrorists stalking the ranch in demonoid form, Cnut teletransports Andrea and himself out of danger--accidentally into the tenth-century Norselands. Suddenly, they have to find their way back to the future to save her family and the world . . . and to satisfy their insatiable attraction.
Angela and Diabola
by Lynne Reid BanksWicked, hilarious magic in an acclaimed novel of good and evil twins, from The New York Times bestselling author of The Indian in the Cupboard. Twins "Angela and Diabola" are as different as day and night. From the moment they are born, Angela is beautiful, loving, and perfect in every way. Diabola is ugly, unpleasant, and troublesome in direct proportion. No one knows what to do about the horrid child, and only her twin Angela has the power to affect her -- but at a terrible price. "A wickedly comic novel....A modern fairy tale in form, arch in style".
Angela and the Broken Heart (Angela #3)
by Nancy K. Robinson[From the back cover] "Nathaniel seemed to be in another world. “Angela," he said in a dreamy voice. "Do you think two people can be destined for each other?" Angela had a funny feeling in her stomach. "Think of it," Nathaniel said. "Just one in five billion." Angela nodded. She had goose bumps on her arms. Ever since he started high school, Nathaniel has been acting like a different person. Angela wants him to meet her friend Mandy's older sister, but Nathaniel just doesn't seem to have time for her or her friends anymore. To make matters worse, her classmate Eddie Bishop hasn't returned to school this year, and Angela has something very important to tell him." You will be surprised to find that whether they are in second grade, middle school or high school, kids are thinking about having special girlfriends or boyfriends and they can help each other when their hearts are breaking in funny and amazing ways. RL 5, Ages 8-12. There are more books in the Bookshare Library about Angela and her family and friends. Look for: Mom, You're Fired!, Oh Honestly, Angela! and Angela, Private Citizen
Angela Borgia (Classics To Go)
by Conrad Ferdinand MeyerDie historische Novelle “Angela Borgia” ist Conrad Ferdinand Meyers letztes Werk vor seinem Tod 1898. Der Schweizer Dichter nahm sich für diese erstmals 1891 veröffentlichte Novelle die historischen Figuren der italienischen Fürstin Lucrezia Borgia, der mit ihr verwandten Angela und deren Verehrer Don Giulio zum Vorbild. Die Geschichte spielt in der Renaissance am italienischen Fürstenhof von Ferrara. Dort entwickelt sich die Liebesgeschichte zwischen der gesitteten, fromm-religiösen Angela Borgia und dem lasterhaften Don Giulio. Ihre Liebe zueinander wird bald auf eine harte Probe gestellt, denn Don Giulio ist nicht der Einzige am Hof, der sich für Angela begeistert. So geraten die beiden Verliebten in ein Netz aus Intrigen und Neid. Conrad Ferdinand Meyer gilt auch heute noch als einer der bedeutendsten Schweizer Lyriker und Erzähler des 19. Jahrhunderts, die in deutscher Sprache geschrieben haben.
Angela Carter: Surrealist, Psychologist, Moral Pornographer
by Scott DimovitzContributing to the conversation regarding Angela Carter's problematic relationship with what she viewed as the interrelated traditions of surrealism and psychoanalysis, Scott Dimovitz explores the intricate connections between Carter's private life and her public writing. He begins with Carter's assertion that it was through her "sexual and emotional life" that she was radicalized, drawing extensively on the British Library's recently archived collection of Carter's private papers, journals, and letters to show how that radicalization happened and what it meant both for her worldview and for her writings. Through close textual analysis and a detailed study of her papers, Dimovitz analyzes the ways in which this second-wave feminist's explorations of sexuality merged with her investigations into surrealism and psychoanalysis, an engagement that ultimately led to the explosively surreal allegories of Carter's later, more complex, and more accomplished work. His study not only offers a new way to view Carter's oeuvre, but also makes the case for the importance of Angela Carter's vision in understanding the transformations in feminist thinking from the postwar to the postfeminist generation.
Angela Carter and Decadence
by Maggie TonkinBy reading key Carter texts alongside their Decadent intertexts, Tonkin interrogates the claim that Carter was in thrall to a fetishistic aesthetic antithetical to her feminism. Through historical contextualization of the woman-as-doll, muse and femme fatale, Tonkin tests Carter's own description of her fiction as a form of literary criticism.
Angela Carter and Surrealism: 'A Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic' (Studies in Surrealism)
by Anna WatzIn 1972, Angela Carter translated Xavière Gauthier’s ground-breaking feminist critique of the surrealist movement, Surréalisme et sexualité (1971). Although the translation was never published, the project at once confirmed and consolidated Carter’s previous interest in surrealism, representation, gender and desire and aided her formulation of a new surrealist-feminist aesthetic. Carter’s sustained engagement with surrealist aesthetics and politics as well as surrealist scholarship aptly demonstrates what is at stake for feminism at the intersection of avant-garde aesthetics and the representation of women and female desire. Drawing on previously unexplored archival material, such as typescripts, journals, and letters, Anna Watz’s study is the first to trace the full extent to which Carter’s writing was influenced by the surrealist movement and its critical heritage. Watz’s book is an important contribution to scholarship on Angela Carter as well as to contemporary feminist debates on surrealism, and will appeal to scholars across the fields of contemporary British fiction, feminism, and literary and visual surrealism.
Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
by Angela CarterOnce upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world- from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls; enchantresses and midwives; rascal aunts and odd sisters. This fabulous celebration of strong minds, low cunning, black arts and dirty tricks could only have been collected by the unique and much-missed Angela Carter. Illustrated throughout with original woodcuts.
Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
by Angela CarterOnce upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world- from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls; enchantresses and midwives; rascal aunts and odd sisters. This fabulous celebration of strong minds, low cunning, black arts and dirty tricks could only have been collected by the unique and much-missed Angela Carter. Illustrated throughout with original woodcuts.
Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women
by Angela CarterThis bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all have one thing in common: the wish to restore adventuresses and revolutionaries to their rightful position as models for all womenReflecting the wide-ranging intelligence and deliciously anarchic taste of Angela Carter, some of these stories celebrate toughness and resilience, some of them low cunning: all of them are about not being nice.
Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women (Virago Modern Classics #71)
by Angela CarterThis bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all have one thing in common: the wish to restore adventuresses and revolutionaries to their rightful position as models for all womenReflecting the wide-ranging intelligence and deliciously anarchic taste of Angela Carter, some of these stories celebrate toughness and resilience, some of them low cunning: all of them are about not being nice.
Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus: A Routledge Study Guide (Routledge Guides to Literature)
by Helen StoddartA highly original and influential work of modern British literature, Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus combines a fantastically creative plot with a strong political undertone. The result is an emotive and provocative novel, which has attracted much critical attention from a range of perspectives including poststructuralism, gender studies, postmodernism and psychoanalysis. This guide to Angela Carter’s complex novel, presents: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Nights at the Circus a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present a selection of new critical essays on the Nights at the Circus, by Heather Johnson, Jeannette Baxter, Sarah Sceats and Helen Stoddart, providing a variety of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Nights at the Circus and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Carter’s text.
Angela Sloan
by James WhortonIn his latest novel, universally acclaimed author James Whorton, Jr., delivers a curious Nixon-era caper of broken men and stoic runaways who learn just how much there is to gain, and lose, when you go undercover. Angela Sloan, a seemingly average teenager living in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., is left to lie low and fend for herself when her father, a retired CIA officer, skips town in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Driving a Plymouth Scamp she has just learned to operate, Angela encounters strangers literally at every turn. A fugitive Chinese waitress won't get out of the car. A jaded lady spy offers up free therapy and roadside assistance. A restless pair of hippies keeps preaching about the evils of monogamy. And an anteater lurks in the unlikeliest of places. But through all of her outlandish adventures, Angela keeps focused on one urgent wish: to reunite with her father. Bold and quirky, Angela Sloan is a priceless coming-of-age story about stealing diner food and salvaging lost identities.
Angela's Airplane
by Robert Munsch Michael MartchenkoWhile looking for her lost father at the airport, Angela ends up in the cockpit of a plane. She decides to push just one button, and then another ... and another ...
Angela's Aliens (Investigators of the Unknown #4)
by Janet Taylor LisleWhen their best friend changes drastically, the Investigators suspect extraterrestrial troubleGeorgina and Poco should not be climbing an apple tree in the dark. But Poco, who talks to animals, has recently developed a serious crush on a robin, and she gets worried when the bird doesn&’t return to his nest one night. Poco convinces her friend to come with her to check on the nest, and while they&’re peering through the tree branches, they see strange glowing objects in the sky. The array of lights can only mean one thing: aliens. The next morning, Poco&’s robin returns and, more importantly, so does Angela. Angela had been the girls&’ best friend before moving to Mexico a year ago, but she comes back totally changed. Before, she was short, chatty, and imaginative. Now she is tall, sullen, and cold. When Georgina reminds her of their former club, the Investigators of the Unknown, Angela shrugs her off. Paco and Georgina realize that the aliens have claimed their first victim, and they will have to move fast to save their friend. This ebook features a personal history by Janet Taylor Lisle including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s own collection.
Angela's Aliens (Investigators of the Unknown #4)
by Janet Taylor LisleWhen their best friend changes drastically, the Investigators suspect extraterrestrial troubleGeorgina and Poco should not be climbing an apple tree in the dark. But Poco, who talks to animals, has recently developed a serious crush on a robin, and she gets worried when the bird doesn&’t return to his nest one night. Poco convinces her friend to come with her to check on the nest, and while they&’re peering through the tree branches, they see strange glowing objects in the sky. The array of lights can only mean one thing: aliens. The next morning, Poco&’s robin returns and, more importantly, so does Angela. Angela had been the girls&’ best friend before moving to Mexico a year ago, but she comes back totally changed. Before, she was short, chatty, and imaginative. Now she is tall, sullen, and cold. When Georgina reminds her of their former club, the Investigators of the Unknown, Angela shrugs her off. Paco and Georgina realize that the aliens have claimed their first victim, and they will have to move fast to save their friend. This ebook features a personal history by Janet Taylor Lisle including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s own collection.