![]() If she loses, her wish is his to grant…and her soul is his to take.Īs Izael and Alex dance around each other, the stakes grow higher and higher. ![]() If she truly does not have a wish after those seven days, he’ll make sure she never goes poor again and will leave her alone. ![]() She knows better than to trust him, but he convinces her to take a wager-for seven days and seven nights, they will split their time between Earth and Tir n’Aill. As far as Alex is concerned, she doesn’t have one. Now she has a handsome Unseelie fae begging to grant her deepest wish. And now with no money in her account, and homelessness looming, she casts a spell and asks for help from anyone willing to listen. ![]() It was the last thing keeping her afloat. When he sets his sights on Alex, a destitute witch down on her luck, he sees a chance to gain everything he’s ever wanted.Īlex wasn’t expecting to lose her job. She delights in spinning stories of the sweetest nightmares to delight her readers with her unique twist of fantasy, horror, and romance. And to get it, he only needs one simple thing-a deal with a human. Kathryn Ann Kingsley As an USA Today Bestselling Author and award-winning designer, Kat has always been a storyteller. Izael, the serpentine Duke of Bones, a fae lord with a fierce reputation, finds himself desperate for freedom. ![]() In the twisted world of the Unseelie fae, dreams are currency and wishes are power. Enter a world of darkness and desire, where even true love comes at a deadly price. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Principal Consultant in CA Technologies (Nimsoft). ![]() Proactive Solutions Specialist JPMorgan Chase Bank in 2007 - 2010.134 Woodridge Ave, Toms River, Nj, NJ 08755.113 Augusta Dr, Moorestown, Nj, NJ 08057.33 Coral Tree Ct, Lawrence Township, Nj, NJ 08648.Common information about name Justin Kaplan Full Name ![]() ![]() “One act of courage has the power to clear the path for more.” I received a copy of this book from the author, all opinions, however, are my own. I cannot wait for more books in this series and to get to the bottom of what this bleeding curse is about. Both the characters were amazing, naturally Gunnar/Gawain was my favorite but that's a given. The plot was really great, kept me guessing and I'll never grow tired of just how Norse inspired this story world is (we've got some jottun in this one). Okay Imma stop talking now before I convince myself to start writing a book exclusively about Gawain □ (one of these days though.). ![]() ![]() He's the hero we both need and deserve □ Actually, every Arthurian story should star Gawain. Every retelling of King Arthur should have a Gawain. He's my favorite figure from Arthurian stories period. I don't know how many of you know this, but Gawain is my absolute favorite Knight of the Round Table. I read it in just two days (and if you guys are familiar with my reading speed you know that's a feat □). ![]() This one was the best yet! But then I didn't expect otherwise from Gawain's *cough* I mean Gunnar's story. ![]() ![]() ![]() "The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies" unites each of the eight "Flower Fairies" books in a single, beautifully presented, volume - ideal for a new baby or christening present! The eight titles in the "Flower Fairies" series, "Flower Fairies of the Spring", "Flower Fairies of the Summer", "Flower Fairies of the Autumn", "Flower Fairies of the Winter", "Flower Fairies of the Garden", "Flower Fairies of the Trees", "Flower Fairies of the Wayside" and "A Flower Fairy Alphabet", are also available as single editions. ![]() In a format that has enchanted readers for 90 years, each of Cicely Mary Barker's beautiful illustrations of the fairies of wild and familiar flowers is accompanied by a delightful poem. First published in 1923, "Flower Fairies of the Spring" and the subsequent series of "Flower Fairies" books by Cicely Mary Barker have become essentials of childhood. ![]() Only 1000 copies of the deluxe "The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies" have been made, making it the ultimate collector's piece for "Flower Fairies" fans. The book is printed on a luxurious linen effect paper with foil detail and special endpapers. ![]() The deluxe edition of Cicely Mary Barker's "The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies" is packaged in a vintage-inspired, foiled presentation book with two hand-numbered, limited edition prints. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When her sister, Molly, sends her a packet of letters from a great-great-aunt who lived at the fort with her husband, a career soldier, Anna's fantasy life is filled with visions of this long-ago time. Here, on this last lick of the United States, in a giant crumbling fortress, Anna has little company except for the occasional sunburned tourist or unruly shrimper. This island paradise has secrets it would keep not just in the present, but in shadows from its gritty past, when it served as a prison for the Lincoln conspirators during and after the Civil War. Running from a proposal of marriage from Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon takes a post as a temporary supervisory ranger on remote Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, a small grouping of tiny islands in a natural harbor seventy miles off Key West. ![]() The five-week New York Times bestseller, now in paperback. ![]() ![]() She's hopelessly smitten with a man who's convinced he can never return her affection. Esme's lessons in love seem to be working. Seducing Khai, however, doesn't go quite as planned. So when the opportunity arises to go to America and meet a potential husband, she can't turn it down. ![]() When he steadfastly refuses to consider a relationship, his mother takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect bride.Īs a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. ![]() His family knows better - that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. ![]() Well, not big, important emotions - like grief. ![]() ![]() I can still recall that feeling of dismay, when I opened it, and the look, almost of fear, on my mother's face as she watched me. ![]() They had the same type of box, so until I unwrapped it, I was convinced that I had been given the gift I wanted. I found myself thinking, as I read, of an incident from my own childhood, in which I desperately wanted a particular toy for Christmas, only to be given one that was less expensive. Lucy's behavior was so over the top, and her change of heart so late in the story, that I found most of the narrative here rather unpleasant. It is only when she makes Sparkle cry that she relents.Īlthough author/illustrator Amy Young's artwork in A Unicorn Named Sparkle's First Christmas was every bit as cute as in the previous installments of the series, I was so put off by the story that I found I couldn't enjoy it as much as those other titles. Sparkle however, is more interested in playing with the birds, and when Christmas morning comes and Lucy has no gifts from her unicorn friend, she reacts very poorly. ![]() As Christmas approaches, Lucy becomes quite concerned about presents, frantically shopping for gifts for Sparkle, and instructing him to do the same for her. ![]() ![]() Lucy and her pet unicorn Sparkle, who previously appeared in A Unicorn Named Sparkle and A New Friend for Sparkle, return in this third picture-book devoted to their adventures. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Famous Stanley Kidnapping Case: When Molly's uncle leaves her a substantial inheritance on the condition she must spend the money in Italy, the Stanley family is uprooted to the Italian countryside for a year. ![]() Eldest Stanley kid David suspects that Amanda is really out for Relationship Sabotage, particularly when Amanda seems to have raised a poltergeist that throws the Stanley household into chaos.except that the poltergeist might be real. The Headless Cupid: When serious, gruff college professor dad Jeff marries flighty artist Molly, she comes with a teenager in tow: Amanda, a surly would-be witch who recruits the young Stanley siblings into her coven.The series overall is noteworthy for being a bit of a Genre Roulette, with the Stanley family being the only common thread between their very different adventures. The other three books were published in 1979, 1985, and 1989, respectively. The first book in the series, The Headless Cupid, was published in 1971 and is the also the best-known, winning a Newbery Honor Award for its author, while also having the dubious distinction of being a frequently challenged book due to its themes of witchcraft and the supernatural. The Stanley Family series is a kids/YA series by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maupin ties the bonds of joy and heartache he shares with both his families (biological and “logical”), and in so doing he has crafted a nuanced reflection on what it means to love and be loved in a flawed but beautiful world. ![]() He had steamy trysts with Rock Hudson as well as a long-standing friendship with Ian McKellan, but the true prize here is the cleverness with which Maupin bares his soul. American actor Rock Hudson shares a joke with his latest date Marilyn Maxwell in Hollywood (Getty Images) It was only all the way in the year 1986 when some clarification was received on who exactly dated Hudson, and which alleged flings were just rumors. Maupin plays fast and loose with his timeline, jumping fluidly back and forth between decades, but never muddies his waters-in fact, the story is told with such clarity that even those unfamiliar with Maupin’s work can appreciate his life experiences. But after coming to terms with his sexuality while serving as a Navy officer, Maupin moved to San Francisco a few years before the dawn of the LGBTQ-rights movement, where he would eventually write his iconic queer series. Born in North Carolina into a bigoted family that revered its Confederate history, Maupin seemed set for a career working with Jesse Helms in the archconservative media. The celebrated author of Tales of the City series revisits his turbulent upbringing and path to self-actualization in this engrossing and emotional memoir. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jones brilliantly describes life in the Georgia lowcountry-what it was like to be a slave toiling in the disease-ridden rice swamps the strivings of black entrepreneurs, slaves and free blacks alike and the bizarre intricacies of the slave-master relationship. She explains how white elites, forestalling democracy and equality, created novel political and economic strategies to maintain their stranglehold on the machinery of power, and often found unexpected allies in northern missionaries and military officials. ![]() ![]() The book captures in vivid detail the determination of former slaves to integrate themselves into the nation’s body politic and to control their own families, workplaces, churches, and schools. Jacqueline Jones, prizewinning author of the groundbreaking Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow, has written a masterpiece of time and place, transporting readers to the boisterous streets of this fascinating city.ĭrawing on military records, diaries, letters, newspapers, and memoirs, Jones brings Savannah to life in all its diversity, weaving together the stories of individual men and women, bankers and dockworkers, planters and field hands, enslaved laborers and free people of color. A panoramic portrait of the city of Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War-a poignant story of the African American freedom struggle in this prosperous southern riverport, set against a backdrop of military conflict and political turmoil. ![]() |