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Aggressive Princess: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Qing Hanonce through she became a humiliation will be killed by the poor princess and the dog worship hall soak in the pig cage poison assassination p p du jiuyue angry really really this reason too no natural reason with what you between the destruction of the crucial innocent woman s life p p du jiuyue refused come on the girl is not a vegetarian although you have countless schemes step by step this girl will not sit and wait for the death see the action what beg me to detoxify can ah a letter of divorce for my life freedom this girl give you detoxification .He a nation proton body bear mother enemy originally want to recruit a detoxification holy hand do not want to be attracted to her deeply unexpectedly his life should be a beautiful intelligent beauty side by side
Aggressive Princess: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Qing Hanonce through she became a humiliation will be killed by the poor princess and the dog worship hall soak in the pig cage poison assassination p p du jiuyue angry really really this reason too no natural reason with what you between the destruction of the crucial innocent woman s life p p du jiuyue refused come on the girl is not a vegetarian although you have countless schemes step by step this girl will not sit and wait for the death see the action what beg me to detoxify can ah a letter of divorce for my life freedom this girl give you detoxification .He a nation proton body bear mother enemy originally want to recruit a detoxification holy hand do not want to be attracted to her deeply unexpectedly his life should be a beautiful intelligent beauty side by side
Aggressive Princess: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by Qing Hanonce through she became a humiliation will be killed by the poor princess and the dog worship hall soak in the pig cage poison assassination p p du jiuyue angry really really this reason too no natural reason with what you between the destruction of the crucial innocent woman s life p p du jiuyue refused come on the girl is not a vegetarian although you have countless schemes step by step this girl will not sit and wait for the death see the action what beg me to detoxify can ah a letter of divorce for my life freedom this girl give you detoxification .He a nation proton body bear mother enemy originally want to recruit a detoxification holy hand do not want to be attracted to her deeply unexpectedly his life should be a beautiful intelligent beauty side by side
Aggressive Princess: Volume 6 (Volume 6 #6)
by Qing Hanonce through she became a humiliation will be killed by the poor princess and the dog worship hall soak in the pig cage poison assassination p p du jiuyue angry really really this reason too no natural reason with what you between the destruction of the crucial innocent woman s life p p du jiuyue refused come on the girl is not a vegetarian although you have countless schemes step by step this girl will not sit and wait for the death see the action what beg me to detoxify can ah a letter of divorce for my life freedom this girl give you detoxification .He a nation proton body bear mother enemy originally want to recruit a detoxification holy hand do not want to be attracted to her deeply unexpectedly his life should be a beautiful intelligent beauty side by side
Aggressor
by Andy McNabFormer covert operator Nick Stone seems to be living his dream in book eight of the best-selling series - not a care in the world as he steers his camper van around the surfing and parachuting paradise of Australia. But when he sees a news report of the massacre of women and children in a terrorist outrage on the other side of the world, long-suppressed memories are triggered, and Nick knows he must risk everything to repay a longstanding debt of friendship.As events unfold in the teeming streets of modern Istanbul and the bleak, medieval villages of Georgia, Nick finds himself catapulted once more into the murky, clandestine world he thought he’d left behind – a world in the grip of nameless enemies who linger in the shadows, and stalk the corridors of power…
Aggressor
by Andy McNabFormer covert operator Nick Stone seems to be living his dream in book eight of the best-selling series - not a care in the world as he steers his camper van around the surfing and parachuting paradise of Australia. But when he sees a news report of the massacre of women and children in a terrorist outrage on the other side of the world, long-suppressed memories are triggered, and Nick knows he must risk everything to repay a longstanding debt of friendship.As events unfold in the teeming streets of modern Istanbul and the bleak, medieval villages of Georgia, Nick finds himself catapulted once more into the murky, clandestine world he thought he’d left behind – a world in the grip of nameless enemies who linger in the shadows, and stalk the corridors of power…
Agincourt
by Bernard Cornwell"The greatest writer of historical adventures today" (Washington Post) tackles his richest, most thrilling subject yet--the heroic tale of Agincourt.Young Nicholas Hook is dogged by a cursed past--haunted by what he has failed to do and banished for what he has done. A wanted man in England, he is driven to fight as a mercenary archer in France, where he finds two things he can love: his instincts as a fighting man, and a girl in trouble. Together they survive the notorious massacre at Soissons, an event that shocks all Christendom. With no options left, Hook heads home to England, where his capture means certain death. Instead he is discovered by the young King of England--Henry V himself--and by royal command he takes up the longbow again and dons the cross of Saint George. Hook returns to France as part of the superb army Henry leads in his quest to claim the French crown. But after the English campaign suffers devastating early losses, it becomes clear that Hook and his fellow archers are their king's last resort in a desperate fight against an enemy more daunting than they could ever have imagined. One of the most dramatic victories in British history, the battle of Agincourt--immortalized by Shakespeare in Henry V--pitted undermanned and overwhelmed English forces against a French army determined to keep their crown out of Henry's hands. Here Bernard Cornwell resurrects the legend of the battle and the "band of brothers" who fought it on October 25, 1415. An epic of redemption, Agincourt follows a commoner, a king, and a nation's entire army on an improbable mission to test the will of God and reclaim what is rightfully theirs. From the disasters at the siege of Harfleur to the horrors of the field of Agincourt, this exhilarating story of survival and slaughter is at once a brilliant work of history and a triumph of imagination--Bernard Cornwell at his best.
Agincourt, 1415: Field of Blood
by B. RenfrewA gripping fictionalized account of the landmark battle that turned the tide of history. On October 25, 1415, a trapped and vastly outnumbered force of exhausted and demoralized English archers and men-at-arms faced a colossal army of French knights on a desolate field in northern France. What took place that day became one of the greatest moments of the Hundred Years&’ War and English history. Based on chronicles of the times, Agincourt 1415: Field of Blood is a dramatic, minute-by-minute retelling of the battle as seen through the eyes of the commanders and soldiers on both sides. This is a brutal, bloody, and captivating retelling of a major British victory written by a Pulitzer Prize finalist. This work sets a new standard for historical fiction. &“If you look for a book to read on a chair next to the fireplace holding a glass of whiskey, this book is highly recommendable.&” —Historic Battlefield Tours
Agincourt: A Romance (Classics To Go)
by G.P.R. JamesExcerpt: "The night was as black as ink; not a solitary twinkling star looked out through that wide expanse of shadow, which our great Poet has called the "blanket of the dark;" clouds covered the heaven; the moon had not risen to tinge them even with grey, and the sun had too long set to leave one faint streak of purple upon the edge of the western sky. Trees, houses, villages, fields, and gardens, all lay in one profound obscurity, and even the course of the high-road itself required eyes well-accustomed to night-travelling to be able to distinguish it, as it wandered on through a rich part of Hampshire, amidst alternate woods and meadows."
Aging Earth: Senescent Environmentalism for Dystopian Futures (Elements in Environmental Humanities)
by Jacob JewusiakAlarmist demography often situates older people as natural disasters: images of the 'gray flood' and 'silver tsunami' imbue senescence with the destructive force of climatic proportions. This Element focuses on the demographic dread arising from the relative shift in younger and older populations: not of a world lacking children, but of one catastrophized by the overabundance of the old and aging. Drawing on examples of science fictional sterility dystopias, Aging Earth challenges the privilege of youth in ecocritical thought and practice, especially the heteronormative urgency to address climate change for the sake of children and future generations. By decoupling the figurative connection between futurity and children, senescent environmentalism attunes itself to the contingency of non-linear and non-teleological futures: drawing together the delicacy of ecosystems on the brink with the structural precarity of older people, queers, and people of color.
Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction (Global Masculinities)
by Josep M. ArmengolThis book focuses on representations of aging masculinities in contemporary U.S. fiction, including shifting perceptions of physical and sexual prowess, depression, and loss, but also greater wisdom and confidence, legacy, as well as new affective patterns. The collection also incorporates factors such as race, sexuality and religion. The volume includes studies, amongst others, on Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Toni Morrison, Ernest Gaines, and Edmund White. Ultimately, this study proves that men’s aging experiences as described in contemporary U.S. literature and culture are as complex and varied as those of their female counterparts.
Aging Moderns: Art, Literature, and the Experiment of Later Life
by Scott HerringWhat happens when the avant-garde grows old? Examining a group of writers and artists who continued the modernist experiment into later life, Scott Herring reveals how their radical artistic principles set out a new path for creative aging.Aging Moderns provides portraits of writers and artists who sought out or employed unconventional methods and collaborations up until the early twenty-first century. Herring finds Djuna Barnes performing the principles of high modernism not only in poetry but also in pharmacy orders and grocery lists. In mystery novels featuring Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas along with modernist souvenir collections, the gay writer Samuel Steward elaborated a queer theory of aging and challenged gay male ageism. The Harlem Renaissance dancer Mabel Hampton dispelled stereotypes about aging through her queer of color performances at the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Herring explores Ivan Albright’s magic realist portraits of elders, Tillie Olsen’s writings on the aging female worker, and the surrealistic works made by Charles Henri Ford and his caregiver Indra Bahadur Tamang at the Dakota apartment building in New York City.Showcasing previously unpublished experimental art and writing, this deeply interdisciplinary book unites new modernist studies, American studies, disability studies, and critical age studies. Aging Moderns rethinks assumptions about literary creativity, the depiction of old age, and the boundaries of modernism.
Aging, Duration, and the English Novel: Growing Old from Dickens to Woolf (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture #120)
by Jacob JewusiakThe rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a spurned lover. The realist novel uses these conventions to accelerate the process of aging into a descriptive moment, writing the passage of years on the body all at once. Aging, Duration, and the English Novel argues that the formal disappearance of aging from the novel parallels the ideological pressure to identify as being young by repressing the process of growing old. The construction of aging as a shameful event that should be hidden - to improve one's chances on the job market or secure a successful marriage - corresponds to the rise of the long novel, which draws upon the temporality of the body to map progress and decline onto the plots of nineteenth-century British modernity.
Agitando Texas: Um romance contemporâneo de segunda chance (O Calor do Texas #2)
by Kc KleinApenas uma pessoa em Oak Groves está feliz em ver a garota má Nikki Logan de volta à cidade... O solteiro mais amado de Oak Groves, Jett Avery, vive de acordo com um conjunto simples de regras, e se envolver com uma mulher complicada não é uma delas. Ele aprendeu isso da maneira mais difícil dois anos atrás, quando passou uma das noites mais incríveis de sua vida com Nikki Logan, mas então ela fugiu da cidade, para nunca mais ser vista - até agora. Talvez seja hora de quebrar uma dessas regras... Juntando os cacos de sua vida, Nikki está de volta a Oak Groves, cara a cara com o único homem que ela fez de tudo para esquecer. Mas ela tem suas razões para estar aqui – e elas não incluem terminar na cama de Jett. Especialmente porque ele nunca vai perdoá-la quando descobrir a verdade sobre por que ela está de volta... Elogios para Escancarado Para Todo o Texas de KC Klein "Apaixonado, corajoso e rápido... com um protagonista honrado de sangue quente para fazer os joelhos de todas as mulheres ficarem fracos." Diane Whiteside "Um protagonista torturado, um amor que desafia a distância e o tempo... este é um livro que você não esquecerá tão cedo." Cat Johnson Elogio para Agitando Texas de KC Klein "Atrevido, sexy, divertido." Lori Wilde
Agitar su Jaula: (Una novela de los Baxter Boys ~ Agitado)
by Jane CharlesDoce años ha esperado Dylan White. Doce años desde que su familia fue arrebatada. Doce años de estar solo, excepto por los amigos que conoció en Baxter, quienes ahora son su familia. Su hermano, Noah, ha desaparecido. Su hermana, Nina, acaba de cumplir dieciocho años, pero él no tiene forma de encontrarla. Mary Robins muestra su corazón en la manga. Y está tatuado en su pecho: las placas de identificación del hombre al que adoraba, rodeadas de hermosas cintas. Su único propósito en la vida es cuidar de aquellos que lo necesitan. Curar a los heridos y consolar a los heridos, esa es la razón misma por la que se está convirtiendo en enfermera. Excepto que nunca ha permitido que nadie cuide de ella. No desde hace mucho tiempo. Nadie ha querido cuidar de ella hasta que conoce a Dylan y a los chicos de Baxter. Son un grupo extraño, ferozmente leales y... suyos. Dylan está buscando algo, y también lo está Mary. Buscan familia, amistades y amor. ¿Podrán encontrar lo que necesitan desesperadamente en el otro? ¿Pueden Dylan y Mary encontrar lo que necesitan desesperadamente en el otro?
Agitation
by Annia CarterSometimes we judge a book by its cover. Sometimes we come to regret that decision. First impressions are all-important, aren't they? But are they always right? Davy can look frightening. He has rages he can't control and a deep-seated frustration at the restrictions placed upon him. Silently resentful, he vows to one day show the world exactly what he is capable of. William is the most charming of men. Successful, good-looking and articulate, he draws others towards him like a magnet. People remember him for all the right reasons. Witty and generous, he certainly seems to be one of life's good guys. On the face of it, two very different men, each hoping his 40th birthday will herald the change that will transform his future, but maybe they have more in common than it first appears. Whilst Davy's aspirations are simple ones, William's are less easy to achieve. As agitation escalates, events take an unhealthy turn and only one man will come to realise that life really does begin at 40.
Agli albori dell'umanità
by Patrice MartinezSognatore impenitente, il giovane centauro Dryalos trascorreva le sue giornate a fantasticare: miti e leggende popolavano i suoi sogni, riempiendo di ogni granello la clessidra dei suoi giorni immutabili... Ma il tempo dei sogni era finito.
Aglutinado
by Frances Pauli Combo TranslationsMaera vive como uma marginal por escolha. Culpada por seu passado, ela espera apenas pelo castigo que merece. Mas quando um guerreiro gobelin aparece para reivindicá-la, Maera está dividida entre a dívida que ela deve ao seu povo e os anseios egoístas de seu próprio coração. Tal é o menor gobelin, o irmão amaldiçoado do maior guerreiro da horde. Quando ele tropeça em um castelo lendário, no entanto, ele acredita que sua sorte está prestes a mudar. Mas os inimigos da horda também encontraram o problema, e o irmão de Tal quebra a lei gobelin para perseguir um humano que é mais um problema do que vale a pena. Agora, Tal e Maera são os únicos que podem salvar seu irmão, a única pessoa que ambos adoram e a única coisa em que podem concordar. Se eles falharem, a horda nunca os acreditará, e o castelo da profecia cairá nas mãos inimigas. Se eles tiverem sucesso, eles terão que ficar juntos contra a fúria total da horda gobelin ...
Agnes
by Peter Stamm John CullenPeter Stamm's best-selling debut novel, Agnes, now available for the first time in the United States. "Write a story about me," Agnes said to her lover, "so I know what you think of me." So he started to write the story of everything that had happened to them from the moment they met. At first, he works with Agnes to create a narrative that is most true to life, but as time passes and he grows more enamored with the narrative he has begun, he continues writing on his own, imagining a future for them after he reaches the present. Happy couples do not necessarily make for compelling reading, and as Agnes sees the unexpected plot he has planned for her, the line between fiction and reality begins to blur. In this unforgettable and haunting novel Stamm incisively examines the power of storytelling to influence thought and behavior, reaching a chilling conclusion.
Agnes Bernauer
by Friedrich HebbelThe son of the Duke Ernst of Bavaria-Munich Albrecht falls during a tournament in the Civil Agnes Bernauer, daughter of simple barber Caspar Bernauer from Augsburg. As Albrecht Agnes then hits a ball, he holds her hand. In order to protect them from the consequences of this wedding, Caspar tried to arrange a marriage with his journeyman Theobald, Agnes but refuses. <P> <P> Albrecht Ritter Nothafft and woman Hoven simultaneously trying Albrecht dissuade his idea. Nevertheless Albrecht eventually succeeded, Agnes and Caspar to convince them of the secret wedding. <P> <P> Ernst deplores the division of Bavaria and has a marriage between Anna of Brunswick and Albrecht arranged whereby peace would occur between these duchies again. He is convinced that Albrecht would accept this wedding and sent his chancellor Preising to inform him. Albrecht leaning against all objections Preisings from this marriage, but promises to appear at a tournament. In this tournament, actually wanted to announce the wedding in the Ernst Albrecht confirmed the rumors about his marriage with Agnes, and he is disinherited by his father in favor of his cousin Adolph. <P> <P> After three years Adolph dies however. Serious signs then despite doubt a death sentence against Agnes, which has already been made shortly after the tournament. Otherwise, he may have namely fear for the succession, as Albrecht - now his sole heir - the throne could not climb with a middle-class women. Also would erupt without heir a war for Munich-Bavaria, tried to prevent the Ernst. As Albrecht would never allow the death sentence, Ernst lures him with the invitation off to a tournament of her. Meanwhile storming soldiers his castle and take Agnes caught. Chancellor Preising then makes a last attempt to save Agnes before death, by requiring it to divest itself of Albrecht. This refuses, however, and is then drowned in the Danube. <P> <P> As Albrecht learns of Agnes's death, he lights several villages and will devastate even Munich. Only when a messenger from the emperor and an apostle of the Church order him to submit to Ernst, he calmed down and finally gets along well with his father, who then appointed him Duke and confidently to the monastery. [2]
Agnes Grey
by Acton BellThe novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works in several bourgeois families. The choice of central character allows Anne to deal with issues of oppression and abuse of women and governesses, isolation and ideas of empathy. An additional theme is the fair treatment of animals. Agnes Grey also mimics some of the stylistic approaches of bildungsromans, employing ideas of personal growth and coming to age, but representing a character who in fact does not gain in virtue.
Agnes Grey
by Anne BronteThe unsung jewel of the Brontë sisters' works. Agnes Grey, the daughter of a minister, finds work as a governess to help with her family's precarious finances. As she moves from family to family she is exposed to the darker side of the British aristocracy, and must figure out for herself how to find happiness. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
Agnes Grey
by Anne BronteA novel that addresses the precarious position of a governess, and how it affected a young woman in that position: some critics, in fact, feel that Agnes Grey deserves the reputation of a 'governess novel' far more than Jane Eyre, as it is decidedly more realistic and down-to-earth in its depiction of the life of a governess.
Agnes Grey
by Anne BronteA novel that addresses the precarious position of a governess, and how it affected a young woman in that position: some critics, in fact, feel that Agnes Grey deserves the reputation of a 'governess novel' far more than Jane Eyre, as it is decidedly more realistic and down-to-earth in its depiction of the life of a governess.
Agnes Grey
by Anne BronteIn her daring first novel, the youngest Brontë sister drew upon her own experiences to tell the unvarnished truth about life as a governess. Like Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë was a young middle-class Victorian lady whose family fortunes had faltered. Like so many other unmarried women of the nineteenth century, Brontë accepted the only "respectable" employment available — and entered a world of hardship, humiliation, and loneliness.Written with a realism that shocked critics, this biting social commentary offers a sympathetic portrait of Agnes and a moving indictment of her brutish and haughty employers. Separated from her family and friends by many miles, paid little more than subsistence wages, Agnes stands alone — both in society at large and in a household where she is neither family member nor servant. Agnes Grey remains a landmark in the literature of social history. In addition to its challenge to the era's chauvinism and materialism, it features a first-person narrative that offers a rare opportunity to hear the voice of a Victorian working woman.