![]() ![]() ![]() In The Guard, get an inside look at Aspen’s life as a palace guard-and the truth about his world that America will never know. 1 New York Times bestselling Selection series Aspen’s storyRaised as a Six, Aspen Leger never dreamed that he would find himself living in the palace as a member of the royal guard. ![]() Raised as a Six, Aspen Leger never dreamed that he would find himself living in the palace. The second novella set in the world of Kiera Casss No. In The Prince, follow Maxon from the week before the Selection begins through the first day of the competition. The Selection Stories also features bonus content, including an extended ending to The Prince, a Q&A with Kiera Cass, family trees, playlists, and more!īefore America arrived at the palace to compete in the Selection, there was another girl in Prince Maxon’s life. The Prince and The Guard offer captivating views into the hearts and minds of the two men fighting to win America Singer’s love. Discover the untold stories of two fan favorite characters in these novellas set in the world of Kiera Cass’s #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While the folklore and history might not be as smoothly incorporated as other mythological fantasies, it’s done well enough that middle grade readers won’t mind. The plot will draw readers in, but what will keep them is Zach’s struggle to belong, his journey to find himself and discover real friendship, as well as the highlighting of underrepresented mythologies. ![]() This is a creative, engaging story that will appeal to fans of ancient mythology and world history. Oh, and the First Emperor didn’t properly possess Zach, instead attaching to his AR headset, which means Zach might have to find his own warrior spirit, something he’s pretty sure he doesn’t have. Buy a cheap copy of Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor book by Xiran Jay Zhao. But a lot is riding on this: not only is his mom’s spirit hanging in the balance, but if Zach can’t seal the portal to the Chinese underworld in the next 14 days, the world will be overtaken by malevolent spirits. So when he learns that he’s meant to host the spirit of the First Emperor of China, he’s more than a little surprised. (May) Correction: The text of this review has been updated for clarity., Zach Ying has always had a hard time fitting in: he and his mom keep moving they never have any money and to top it all off, hes the only Muslim Chinese kid at school. Gr 5 Up–Zach Ying has always had a hard time fitting in: he and his mom keep moving they never have any money and to top it all off, he’s the only Muslim Chinese kid at school. ![]() ![]() ![]() That said, I have a few problems with the plot turns. If you read this book just to experience the world through Jace, it will have been well worth the read. The Space Between rests somewhere in between the styles of Frank Portman and John Green, with a heavier Green leaning. Aker threads the best use of dirty words and expletives I’ve read since King Dork. I could feel Don Aker channelling his teenage self through the character with a touch of his more objective, adult perspective. The excellence to this book is in Jace’s voice. But it doesn’t touch Jace’s real story, the one that unfurls slowly and takes on more colour as Jace learns what it really means to become a man. But the only person he seems to attract to his company is the jerk jock, Connor, who is travelling with his raucous team mates.Īnd that’s the plot in a nutshell. When his aunt rents him his own room at the resort, he can’t believe his luck. Jace loves his family but travelling with his mom, his lushy aunt, and autistic brother will make it near impossible for him to achieve his goal at the Mexican resort, the Mayan Empress. What soon-to-be-turning eighteen year-old Jace doesn’t know is that life has a way of churning up the best intentions, leaving him to sort through what’s left. I think that Don Aker took one of those creative writing classes which teach you to open your book with a bang:Īnd he does. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel references battles involving General Philip Sheridan, who is rumored to have proclaimed that “the only good Indian is a dead Indian,” General George Wright, who fought against the Spokane tribe in the Pacific Northwest, and George Armstrong Custer, who is most famous for his participation in the Battle of Little Big Horn-these three figures appear in the book in the thinly-veiled guise of Cavalry Records executives, but experience flashbacks from their time in the wars. More specifically, though, the novel makes many references to the period of the Indian Wars, particularly those that took place west of the Mississippi River in the nineteenth century. ![]() ![]() Reservation Blues examines the way that the past sufferings of Native Americans contribute to the hard conditions of life on the reservation today, so the historical context of the novel really begins with the arrival of Christopher Columbus to America in 1492-the beginning of a slow but systematic genocide perpetuated by white Europeans against Native Americans. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "The Quarantine Princess Diaries" PlotĪccording to Princess Mia's "personal biographer," Cabot, the new novel will touch on life in Genovia during the pandemic, power dynamics within the royal family, and a possible case of infidelity that stirs up more drama than expected. In partnership with human rights activists Vow for Girls and real-life royal Princess Mabel van Oranje of the Netherlands, Cabot will be donating a portion of the proceeds from all sales of "The Quarantine Princess Diaries" to help end child marriage. But now that Mia has a pandemic to handle and an entire country to run, it sounds like her romantic life might also be in disarray. Set during the COVID-19 pandemic, the book will detail Princess Mia's personal and professional struggles as the people of Genovia - including the "dysfunctional" royal family - attempt to navigate their rapidly changing environment.īeyond managing political strife and complex family dynamics, Mia might become intertwined in a "suspected royal affair." For fans of the two-part Disney film series, Mia's love triangle between Nicholas Devereaux ( Chris Pine) and Andrew Jacoby (Callum Blue) was entrancing enough. ![]() 25, Princess Diaries author Meg Cabot announced that Princess Mia and the citizens of her fictional European country will be returning in the 12th installment of the book series, "The Quarantine Princess Diaries." The 300-page novel will be Cabot's first Princess Diaries release in seven years, preceded by "Royal Wedding: A Princess Diaries Novel" (2015). ![]() ![]() ![]() “Not a word of thanks?” Thomas asked indignantly. “If you want to view the elephant, you can pay tuppence and go through the entrance along with the other visitors.” “That’s enough,” the man declared, reasserting his dominance over the situation. Carefully he wrapped his trunk around her arm up to the elbow, a sort of elephant handshake. ![]() His trunk reached over the fence, and Beatrix extended her arm. ![]() He faced Beatrix, standing as close as possible to the fence to view her with clear, heavily-lashed brown eyes. It seemed none of them dared to speak, watching as Ollie got up one leg at a time. The man with the bull hook let out a bark of surprised laughter. “He’s doing it,” Thomas said in gratified wonder. The elephant reached for the apple, picked it up, and tucked it into his mouth.Ĭhewing slowly, he lurched to a sitting position, his bottom legs splayed in the manner of a young child. But for now, please get up and do as he asks.” After a moment, Ollie held his trunk up to her face, seeking the scent of her breath. She curved her fingers against the warm, rough skin. And I’m one of them.”Īs Beatrix spoke, an inquiring trunk crept toward her hand and touched her palm gently. ![]() ![]() Meadows delivers a powerful coming-of-age story. ![]() Mortain from Robin LaFevers’s “His Fair Assassin” series and other strong, vengeful female heroines will root for Wil. PRAISE FOR THE ORPHAN QUEEN: Fans of Katniss and the Sisters of St. If you haven’t read THE ORPHAN QUEEN, read it now.” (Amie Mechler-Hickson, Boswell Book Company) Jodi Meadows knows how to write engrossing fantasy worlds with layered characters and the perfect amount of romantic intrigue. ![]() “This book was just as good as THE ORPHAN QUEEN, if not better. For those eager to continue the adventure, there are four digital novellas situated in this same world: The Hidden Prince, The Glowing Knight, The Burning Hand, and The Black Knife.” (Booklist) “Tensions-both political and romantic-arise. ![]() PRAISE FOR MIRROR KING: “This story’s the perfect length, and though it’s hard to say goodbye to lovable, flawed, strong Wil, such a well-crafted, enjoyable, and immersive story helps ease the pain.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review)) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Try not to think about it,” Cardenia said. “This is, I’m afraid, all too foreseeable.” Everything is in maintenance mode for the foreseeable future.”īatrin laughed at that, weakly, as that is how he did everything at this point. “Everything right now is in the hands of the executive committee. I’m pretty sure every time you leave this room to go to the bathroom, you’re accosted by minions who need your signature on something.” “Don’t you have better things to do than to sit around here?” Batrin joked to his daughter and sole surviving child, as she sat to begin her morning session with her father. ![]() Cardenia, who had been aware for some time that the end was close, had cleared her schedule until further notice and had a comfortable chair installed near her father’s bed. For the week leading up to his death, Cardenia Wu-Patrick stayed mostly at the bedside of her father, Batrin, who, when he was informed that his condition had reached the limits of medical competence and that palliative care was all that was left to him, decided to die at home, in his favorite bed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Walker, Spiritual and Demonic Magic: From Ficino to Campanella (University Park: Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, trans. Ĭlaire Fanger, ed., Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic (University Park: Penn State Press, 1998). Richard Kieckhefer, Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century 3 ( The MiddleĪges) (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002). Out correspondences and discontinuities between medieval and Renaissance magic.īengt Ankarloo and Stuart Clark, eds., Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, vol. The first part of this course willĮxamine the magical texts and practices of medieval Europe. Practice and assumptions about the operations of magic. But shiftingĪttitudes toward mages are not necessarily correlated with shifting perceptions of magical Tendency for them to be intellectual property claimed by their actual authors. Pseudonymous (with exceptions) from the later fifteenth century onward there is a greater Texts written in Western Europe up to the fifteenth century tend to be anonymous or Jakob Burckhardt's celebrated but problematic notions of the Renaissance individual areīorne out no more and no less in the realm of magic than in that of art or politics. Kieckhefer: Medieval Magic & Renaissance MagesĮ-mail: 2:00-5:00 p.m., 4 April to 6 June 2003 ![]() ![]() ![]() Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. ![]() A three-week trip down the Brazos River, into which is woven a history of the people who have lived along its banks-Indians, settlers, warriors, and wanderers. ![]() |