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Ariane, A Russian Girl
by Claude Anet&“Men speak freely of the women they&’ve had, and we&’re condemned to silence. Why? Aren&’t we as free as you? Don&’t we, like you, have the right to take pleasure wherever we find it? . . . They praise seducers in art, poetry, and literature and put a mask of infamy on any woman who&’s had many lovers. This is the point where the fight must be fought. Women&’s morality must triumph, and that&’s what I&’m working at . . .&”Thus Ariane, unconventional, irrepressible, and irre-sistible, at seventeen the queen bee of the provincial Russian town where, after her mother&’s early demise, she lives with her freethinking aunt. But Ariane is tired of breaking hearts in the sticks. Her father may wish to marry her off, but she means to go to the university in Moscow, and she will do whatever it takes to make her way the way she likes.In Moscow, Ariane is in her element. She loves the glamour of the big city. She&’s undaunted by its dangers. Before long, she meets Constantin Michel, businessman, man of the world, man-about-town. A new struggle begins.The inspiration for Billy Wilder&’s Love in the Afternoon, Ariane has the perverse glitter of Nabokov and the disabused curiosity and keen emotional intelligence of Colette. It is a brilliant exploration—engrossing, unnerving, comic, and cunning—of the matchless cruelty of desire.
Arid Dreams: Stories
by Duanwad Pimwana“One of Thailand’s preeminent female writers . . . Each of her stories poses its own moral challenge, pleasurable and unsettling at once . . . phenomenal.” —NPR.orgIn thirteen stories that investigate ordinary and working-class Thailand, characters aspire for more but remain suspended in routine. They bide their time, waiting for an extraordinary event to end their stasis. A politician’s wife imagines her life had her husband’s accident been fatal, a man on death row requests that a friend clear up a misunderstanding with a sex worker, and an elevator attendant feels himself wasting away while trapped, immobile, at his station all day.With curious wit, this collection offers revelatory insight and subtle critique, exploring class, gender, and disenchantment in a changing country.“Arid Dreams is stark, sly, and unsparingly brilliant. Here is a writer unafraid to pick up the scalpel of her prose and use it to cut to the bone. Each story is more compelling than the last, each combines dark humor with deeper truths about human desire and depravity. I couldn’t look away.” —Preti Taneja, author of We That Are Young“Pimwana’s characters, whether they are truck drivers or farmers, doctors or prisoners, are realized with depth, affection, and a good degree of humor. The petty concerns of their daily lives—frustrated careers, infidelity, reconnecting with distant family—are hypnotically rendered in Pimwana’s telling. This is an exciting debut.” —Publishers Weekly“A deep and thoughtful exploration of human psyches and the dreams of ordinary Thais in an ever-changing socio-economic environment.” —Bangkok Post“An exacting look at the moments of joy and tragedy, of hope and desire.” —Independent Book Review
Arid Dreams: Stories
by Duanwad Pimwana Mui PoopoksakulIn thirteen stories that investigate ordinary and working-class Thailand, characters aspire for more but remain suspended in routine. They bide their time, waiting for an extraordinary event to end their stasis. A politician's wife imagines her life had her husband's accident been fatal, a man on death row requests that a friend clear up a misunderstanding with a prostitute, and an elevator attendant feels himself wasting away while trapped, immobile, at his station all day. With curious wit, this collection offers revelatory insight, subtle critique, and an exploration of class, gender, and disenchantment in a changing country.
Arido Americano (1 #1)
by R. David SimpsonCinco personas en cinco áreas de Canadá y Estados Unidos se ven envueltas en una guerra por las necesidades estadounidenses de agua. Esta es la historia de una guerra ecológica internacional, entrelazada con la política de poder, el amor y la muerte. El agua, el recurso más valioso de la humanidad, une a Canadá y Estados Unidos en la guerra. Desde la Casa Blanca, la oficina del gobernador de Sacramento, Flint Michigan, En el Parlamento canadiense, Ottawa, Vancouver y Atlin BC, los combatientes enfrentan las consecuencias de sus actos y fechorías al enfrentarse entre sí por el derecho a tomar o proteger el agua.
Ariel
by Lawrence BlockThere is something scary about Roberta Jardell's Charleston home--and it's not just the presence of a ghost Every night the apparition of a woman with a baby visits Roberta Jardell in her room. And her adopted daughter, Ariel, leaves her cold. Now that she has given birth to a son she feels even more alienated from the girl. Is her imagination getting the best of her, or does the strange child know more than she lets on? Suspenseful and filled with vivid characters, Ariel is a spine-tingling read with twists, turns, and dreams that have the potential to become a terrifying reality. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lawrence Block, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from his personal collection, and a new afterword written by the author.
Ariel (The Change, Book #1)
by Steven R. BoyettPete Garey, a young loner who survived the Change and the madness that followed, spent two years wandering and scavenging the near-deserted cities and towns alone--until the day he encountered an injured unicorn. He nursed her back to health and named her Ariel, and an unlikely friendship was formed. But unicorns are rare even in a Changed world--and the power of their magic is highly prized. A necromancer in New York City covets that power and will stop at nothing to possess Ariel, dead or alive. Sought by bounty hunters both human and inhuman, Pete and Ariel decide to make a stand against their enemy--and journey to confront the dark sorcerer in the ruined heart of the city he has made his own twisted kingdom.
Ariel
by Steven R. Boyett&“Part post-apocalypse, part road-trip, part sword-and-sorcery . . . One of my favorite adventure novels of all time.&” —Cory Doctorow At four-thirty one Saturday afternoon the laws of physics as we know them underwent a change. Electronic devices, cars, industries stopped. The lights went out. Any technology more complicated than a lever or pulley simply wouldn't work. A new set of rules took its place—laws that could only be called magic. Ninety-nine percent of humanity has simply vanished. Cities lie abandoned. Supernatural creatures wander the silenced achievements of a halted civilization. Pete Garey has survived the Change and its ensuing chaos. He wanders the southeastern United States, scavenging, lying low. Learning. One day he makes an unexpected friend: a smartassed unicorn with serious attitude. Pete names her Ariel and teaches her how to talk, how to read, and how to survive in a world in which a unicorn horn has become a highly prized commodity. When they learn that there is a price quite literally on Ariel's head, the two unlikely companions set out from Atlanta to Manhattan to confront the sorcerer who wants her horn. And so begins a haunting, epic, and surprisingly funny journey through the remnants of a halted civilization in a desolated world.
Ariel: The Restored Edition (P. S. Ser.)
by Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath's famous collection, as she intended it.When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. When her husband, Ted Hughes, first brought this collection to life, it garnered worldwide acclaim, though it wasn't the draft Sylvia had wanted her readers to see. This facsimile edition restores, for the first time, Plath's original manuscript -- including handwritten notes -- and her own selection and arrangement of poems. This edition also includes in facsimile the complete working drafts of her poem "Ariel," which provide a rare glimpse into the creative process of a beloved writer. This publication introduces a truer version of Plath's works, and will no doubt alter her legacy forever.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Ariel: Poems
by Sylvia PlathThe poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy' and 'Fever 103 degrees', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity . . . the book is a major literary event. ' A. Alvarez in the Observer
Ariel
by Sylvia PlathThis all-new edition of Sylvia Plath's shattering final poems--with a foreword by Robert Lowell--will appear during National Poetry Month.
Ariel: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement
by Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath's famous collection, as she intended it. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. When her husband, Ted Hughes, first brought this collection to life, it garnered worldwide acclaim, though it wasn't the draft Sylvia had wanted her readers to see. This facsimile edition restores, for the first time, Plath's original manuscript -- including handwritten notes -- and her own selection and arrangement of poems. This edition also includes in facsimile the complete working drafts of her poem "Ariel," which provide a rare glimpse into the creative process of a beloved writer. This publication introduces a truer version of Plath's works, and will no doubt alter her legacy forever. This P. S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Ariel
by Lucius ShepardAriel brilliantly transmutes some traditional SF concepts - alien incursions, the mysteries of quantum physics - into an astonishing, often moving reflection on love and obsession, memory and identity, and the archetypal conflict that stands at the heart of an infinite multitude of worlds.
Ariel and the Curse of the Sea Witches (Graphic Novel)
by RH DisneyThis new graphic novel stars Princess Ariel from Disney&’s The Little Mermaid! It's perfect for kids ages 8 to 12 who love graphic novels and the Disney Princesses!Princess Ariel joins Prince Eric on his trip to the Arctic to oversee the construction of a new port. But when Ariel discovers that the project is endangering the coral reefs below–and the merfolk who live there–can she convince the team to stop work before the merfolk take matters into their own hands?This hardcover graphic novel contains exciting full-color comic panels, as well as pages taken from the princess&’s very own journals from their adventures.
Ariel Crashes a Train
by Olivia A. Cole&“A gorgeously kind, wonderfully gentle, and unfailingly compassionate depiction of OCD...bursting with light.&”— Ashley Woodfolk, critically acclaimed author of NOTHING BURNS AS BRIGHT AS YOUExploring the harsh reality of OCD and violent intrusive thoughts in stunning, lyrical writing, this novel-in-verse conjures a haunting yet hopeful portrait of a girl on the edge. From the author of Dear Medusa, which New York Times bestselling author Samira Ahmed called &“a fierce and brightly burning feminist roar.&”Ariel is afraid of her own mind. She already feels like she is too big, too queer, too rough to live up to her parents' exacting expectations, or to fit into what the world expects of a &“good girl.&” And as violent fantasies she can&’t control take over every aspect of her life, she is convinced something much deeper is wrong with her. Ever since her older sister escaped to college, Ariel isn't sure if her careful rituals and practiced distance will be enough to keep those around her safe anymore. Then a summer job at a carnival brings new friends into Ariel&’s fractured world , and she finds herself questioning her desire to keep everyone out—of her head and her heart. But if they knew what she was really thinking, they would run in the other direction—right? Instead, with help and support, Ariel discovers a future where she can be at home in her mind and body, and for the first time learns there&’s a name for what she struggles with—Obsessive Compulsive Disorder—and that she&’s not broken, and not alone.
Ariel Custer (Grace Livingston Hill Series #8)
by Grace Livingston Hill"Ariel Custer! Improbable name! Who could she be, coming alone to a strange city and hiring herself out as a secretary. If she really came from a fine old Virginia family, what was she doing living in a furnished room up north? Judson Granniss was far too handsome and well-bred to be wasted on a little nobody like Ariel Custer! Mrs. Granniss prepared a scheme to protect her son. She would make Judson see that Helena Boggs, from one of the best families in town, was the perfect wife for him. She would make him forget that frail, blue-eyed girl who called herself Ariel Custer! Or so she thought, until she, her son, Helena, and Ariel found themselves on trial for murder..." Through the characters, the author explores Christian themes.
Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope
by Sophia A. McclennenAriel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope is a critical introduction to the life and work of the internationally renowned writer, activist, and intellectual Ariel Dorfman. It is the first book about the author in English and the first in any language to address the full range of his writing to date. Consistently challenging assumptions and refusing preconceived categories, Dorfman has published in every major literary genre (novel, short story, poetry, drama); adopted literary forms including the picaresque, epic, noir, and theater of the absurd; and produced a vast amount of cultural criticism. His works are read as part of the Latin American literary canon, as examples of human rights literature, as meditations on exile and displacement, and within the tradition of bilingual, cross-cultural, and ethnic writing. Yet, as Sophia A. McClennen shows, when Dorfman's extensive writings are considered as an integrated whole, a cohesive aesthetic emerges, an "aesthetics of hope" that foregrounds the arts as vital to our understanding of the world and our struggles to change it. To illuminate Dorfman's thematic concerns, McClennen chronicles the writer's life, including his experiences working with Salvador Allende and his exile from Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, and she provides a careful account of his literary and cultural influences. Tracing his literary career chronologically, McClennen interprets Dorfman's less-known texts alongside his most well-known works, which include How to Read Donald Duck, the pioneering critique of Western ideology and media culture co-authored with Armand Mattelart, and the award-winning play Death and the Maiden. In addition, McClennen provides two valuable appendices: a chronology documenting important dates and events in Dorfman's life, and a full bibliography of his work in English and in Spanish.
Ariel Is Fearless/Jasmine Is Helpful (Step into Reading)
by Liz Marsham Suzanne FrancisDisney princesses Ariel and Jasmine create their own paths this Deluxe Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader featuring two stories in one!Princess Ariel from Disney The Little Mermaid needs to get medicine for her sister, but it can only be found in a deep, dark part of the sea. Princess Jasmine from Disney Aladdin wants to help the people of her kingdom, but her father and Jafar want her to stay within the palace walls and be a proper princess instead. This Step 2 Deluxe Step into Reading leveled reader features two books in one, plus a special poster! It&’s perfect for children ages 4 to 6. Disney's Dream Big, Princess campaign focuses on the amazing stories and leadership qualities of each Disney Princess and shows how they relate to today's girl.
Ariel Is My Babysitter (Little Golden Book)
by Andrea Posner-SanchezA Disney Princess makes the best babysitter! Children ages 2 to 5 will love this Little Golden Book, which tells a funny story about Princess Ariel, the Little Mermaid, taking care of a baby octopus.
Ariel Tachna's Greatest Hits - Contemporary (Dreamspinner Press Bundles #1)
by Ariel TachnaDon't miss this exclusive bundle of contemporary romance novels by best-selling author Ariel Tachna. Enjoy The Path, featuring two men falling in love while hiking the Inca Trail; Seducing C.C., a sexy romp between counselors while at summer camp that turns into something more; Her Two Dads, in which an unexpected baby brings two roommates together in life and love; Fallout, where blistering attraction flares between an engineer and a professor during a potential catastrophe; and Inherit the Sky, book one of the fan favorite Lang Downs series, a romance set on a sheep station in the Australian outback. Five stories in one volume!
Ariel's Brave Kitten (Step into Reading)
by RH DisneyGo on an adventure with Treasure, Princess Ariel's Palace Pet, with this Step into Reading!Welcome to the magical world of Palace Pets, where each Disney Princess has a furry pet to love and care for! Treasure is an adorable kitten that loves sneaking onto Prince Eric's boat, but what happens when she gets caught? She becomes Ariel's special Palace Pet! Young readers and Disney Princess Palace Pets fans ages 3 to 5 will love this book, which is full of sweet, cuddly pets! Step 1 readers feature big type and easy words. Rhymes and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story. For children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading.
Ariel's Crossing
by Bradford MorrowAriel Rankin seeks to locate and save her unknown father—a man deeply scarred by his secret and brutal role in the history of his countryIn the sequel to Bradford Morrow&’s heralded Trinity Fields,young New Yorker Ariel Rankin learns that her birth father is not the man who raised her but rather a soldier named Kip Calder who disappeared into the jungles of Laos during the Vietnam War. Hoping to preserve her otherwise happy life, she pushes the revelation out of her mind. But when Ariel finds herself confronting motherhood, she decides to pursue the parent she never knew—a dying man burdened by some of his country&’s most terrible secrets, who has returned home to New Mexico in search of redemption. Her quest will take her from the holy village of Chimayo to the highly restricted, pitiless deserts of the White Sands Proving Grounds as she goes straight to the heart of the American experience. Evoking the rugged beauty of the New Mexican landscape, Ariel&’s Crossing weaves social with magic realism while creating a moving portrait of that elusive thing we call home.
Ariel's Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics
by Monique AllewaertWhat happens if we abandon the assumption that a person is a discrete, world-making agent who acts on and creates place? This, Monique Allewaert contends, is precisely what occurred on eighteenth-century American plantations, where labor practices and ecological particularities threatened the literal and conceptual boundaries that separated persons from the natural world.Integrating political philosophy and ecocriticism with literary analysis, Ariel&’s Ecology explores the forms of personhood that developed out of New World plantations, from Georgia and Florida through Jamaica to Haiti and extending into colonial metropoles such as Philadelphia. Allewaert&’s examination of the writings of naturalists, novelists, and poets; the oral stories of Africans in the diaspora; and Afro-American fetish artifacts shows that persons in American plantation spaces were pulled into a web of environmental stresses, ranging from humidity to the demand for sugar. This in turn gave rise to modes of personhood explicitly attuned to human beings&’ interrelation with nonhuman forces in a process we might call ecological.Certainly the possibility that colonial life revokes human agency haunts works from Shakespeare&’s Tempest and Montesquieu&’s Spirit of the Laws to Spivak&’s theories of subalternity. In Allewaert&’s interpretation, the transformation of colonial subjectivity into ecological personhood is not a nightmare; it is, rather, a mode of existence until now only glimmering in Che Guevara&’s dictum that postcolonial resistance is synonymous with &“perfect knowledge of the ground.&”
Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters
by Erica Wagner"This erudite critical study...breathes new life into Plath scholarship."—Publishers Weekly, starred review When Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters was published in 1998, it was greeted with astonishment and acclaim, immediately landing on the bestseller list. Few suspected that Hughes had been at work for a quarter of a century on this cycle of poems addressed to his first wife, Sylvia Plath. In Ariel's Gift, Erica Wagner explores the destructive relationship between these two poets through their lives and their writings. She provides a commentary to the poems in Birthday Letters, showing the events that shaped them and, crucially, showing how they draw upon Plath's own work. "Both narratively engaging and scholastically comprehensive."—Thomas Lynch, Los Angeles Times "Wagner has set the poems of Hughes's Birthday Letters in the context of his marriage to Plath with great delicacy."—Times Literary Supplement
Aries: Los Arcángeles del Zodíaco (Los Arcángeles del Zodíaco #1)
by Virginie T.Me llamo Ariel y soy una arcángel. Bueno, lo era antes de que las Puertas de la Luz se cerraran tras de mí, para no abrirse nunca más. Ahora solo soy Ariel, miembro de una ONG que lucha por salvar especies en peligro de extinción. Al fin y al cabo, en el fondo sigo siendo la protectora de la flora y la fauna, a pesar de haber perdido mis poderes. Sin embargo, mis habilidades de arcángel no están tan perdidas como pensaba. Namibia va a transformar todas mis creencias, todo mi futuro incierto desde hace demasiado tiempo. Allí conoceré a Kanem, guardián de la reserva de Etosha. Con él, todo es diferente, y yo soy diferente. ¿Quieres saber por qué? Entonces sigue mi historia. Un volumen para cada arcángel del zodíaco. Los volúmenes pueden leerse por separado
The Aries-Libra Connection (Opposites in Love, Medical Zodiac Romances #1)
by Janet Lane-Walters Canada Jude PittmanCan these two find a way to uncover the underhanded events at the hospital? They’re on opposite sides but the attraction between them is strong. She’s a widow who fought to save her husband’s life during a code. She feels guilty because the love she and her husband shared had died before his death. He assisted at the code but he feels guilty since he was the one who was responsible for the short staffing the night her husband died. Now they face falling in love and trying to solve the problems between the nurse’s union and the president of the hospital’s Board who wants a take over of the hospital by his hospital group. Is their connection strong enough to survive?