![]() ![]() Eva is a twenty-four years old woman who has survived a sexual abuse when she a child. Both Eva and Gideon have had an abusive past. The plot of the novel is depicted in an erotic way by the author. ![]() The first novel of the series titled ‘Bared to You’ is an adult romance novel featuring the protagonists Gideon Cross and Eva Tramell. The descriptions of the first two novels in the Crossfire series are as follows: The first couple of novels of the Crossfire series were released in the year 2012 and were titled ‘Bared to You’ and ‘Reflected in You’ respectively. A popular production house named ‘Lionsgate Television Group’ has acquired the rights of the series to make a television adaptation based on the plot of the series. It has also ranked 5 on iTunes and 7 on Bookscan in the top ten books list in the adult fiction category. ![]() The series has been so successful that the first novel of the series has been ranked 4 on the list of top ten best-selling books by in the year 2012. More than 13 million copies of the series have been sold in 40 different territories. The novels of the series are based on romance and fantasy genres and written by RITA Award nominated Japanese-American author Sylvia Day. A next couple of novels are about to be released very soon. The Crossfire series consists of three novels that were published in 20. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Can she be the son her bitter father never had? Or will she become the strong young woman she was created to be? This fresh twist on the classic tale takes us to fifteenth-century Lithuania where both love and war challenge the strongest of heroes. When Mulan receives word of danger back home, she must make the ultimate choice. But war is an uncertain time and dreams can die as quickly as they are born. From rivals to reluctant friends, Mulan and Wolfgang begin to share secrets. Wolfgang is exasperated by the new soldier who always seems to be one step away from disaster-or showing him up in embarrassing ways. ![]() Disguised as a young man, Mulan meets the German duke’s son, Wolfgang, who is determined to save his people even if it means fighting against his own brother. ![]() If she can’t prove herself on the battlefield, she could face death-or, perhaps worse, marriage to the village butcher. ![]() As the adopted daughter of poor parents, Mulan has little power in the world. When Mulan takes her father’s place in battle against the besieging Teutonic Knights, she realizes she has been preparing for this journey her whole life-and that her life, and her mother’s, depends on her success. Can she manage to stay alive, save her mother, and keep the handsome son of a duke from discovering her secret? The Warrior Maiden is a reimagining of the classic Mulan tale in medieval Europe. She is expected to marry, cook, and have children-and instead she’s sneaking off to war. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Othello / William Shakespeare - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / James Joyce - Wuthering Heights / Emily Brontë - The House of the Seven Gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Woman in White / Wilkie Collins - Brave New World / Aldous Huxley - Les Liaisons Dangereuses / Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert - Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw - The Mysterious Affair at Styles / Agatha Christie - Moby Dick / Herman Melville - A Moveable Feast / Ernest Hemingway - Women in Love / D.H. ![]() But when the drowning of one of Hannah's friends and the shocking death of Hannah herself lead to a confluence of mysteries, Blue is left to make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instincts and cultural references to guide, or misguide, her Gallway School in Stockton, North Carolina, Blue falls in with a charismatic group of friends and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. In her final year of high school at the élite (and unusual) St. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever, deadpan, and possessed of a vast lexicon of literary, political, philosophical, and scientific knowledge, and is quite the cinéaste to boot. A darkly funny coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. ![]() ![]() Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery-poverty, prison ships and chains, and fights to the death-and has a colourful cast of characters who have entered popular culture. The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens's most celebrated scenes, starting in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict Abel Magwitch. In October 1861, Chapman & Hall published the novel in three volumes. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story). ![]() ![]() Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. ![]() ![]() Beyond the obvious question of should such a thing be compulsory, MacLeod ups the stakes in a couple of interesting ways: if exemptions are allowed to women who can articulate an objection (say, on the basis of religious faith), should exemption be allowed for women who have no specific objection? And what if, as well as preventing harmful genetic disorders, the pill also suppressed beneficial genetic variance as well? A fairly oppressive nanny-state government makes taking the Fix all but compulsory. The central premise of the book is that in the near future, a pill ("the Fix") is available to pregnant women that eliminates a wide variety of genetic disorders from their unborn children. ![]() However, as a novel, I found it absolutely wretched. ![]() ![]() Like my favourite kind of science fiction, it poses some really interesting questions about technology, society, and the interaction of the two. ![]() ![]() She was headed home from a dance in her escort's wagon when one of the Burdow boys fired a weapon meant to scare the team. Daughter Mary Ellen's death is of major importance in the story. He also has the love of 14-year-old Jenny Creighton, and wants a marriage, which her father disapproves due to her youth. Shadrach Yale is the schoolmaster from Pennsylvania that has noted the potential of young Jethro. Three of their children died within four days in July 1852 of “Childhood Paralysis.” The deaths of the “three little boys” led Ellen to be more lenient on youngest son Jethro (main character) than with her older children. ![]() Matthew's orphaned nephew Ebenezer Carron also lives at the homestead. Four remain living at home (Bill, Tom, Jenny and Jethro) John lives nearby with his wife Nancy and their two boys. Matthew and Ellen Creighton have borne 12 children. Like Jethro, the book's protagonist, her grandfather was only nine when the Civil War erupted, so Hunt used him as a vehicle through which to imagine what a family must have gone through at that time. The Creighton family was documented in those stories and in letters and records. She researched the historical facts and integrated stories that were told to her by her grandfather. Hunt published her first book, Across Five Aprils, at age 57. Children of Matthew and Ellen Creighton. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I hope my readers walk away from the book feeling liberated and feeling like they don’t have to play by the older rules anymore”. Rasheed Newson Talks Activism and Sex Positivity in His New Book My Government Means to Kill Me ![]() Missing out on this joyous celebration of Lammy Award winners and honorees will be a thing of the past. ![]() While the ceremony will be celebrated in person at the Edison Ballroom, the Lammys will also be streamed, in its first ever hybrid format. This means funding for the LGBTQ Writers-in-Schools program, which has brought queer and trans authors to over 7000 students in New York City, and for the Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, the only multi-genre writing residency designed for emerging LGBTQ+ writers. All proceeds from the Lammys ticket sales will support LGBTQ+ storytelling all year round. 75 different judges spent 6 months reviewing a record-breaking number of submissions, including a consistent growth in submissions within the Young Adult and Speculative Fiction genres.Īll of the nominees and winners will receive their flowers at a celebration in New York City’s Art Deco classic, the Edison Ballroom, on June 9th. The Lammys, as they’re affectionately called, are the most prestigious award in LGBTQ+ publishing. The 2023 Lambda Literary Awards nominations are out and there’s plenty to celebrate in queer and trans literature. ![]() ![]() After Peggy's return to civilization, her mother begins to learn the truth of her escape, of what happened to James on the last night out in the woods, and of the secret that Peggy has carried with her ever since". ![]() When Peggy finds a pair of boots in the forest and begins a search for their owner, she unwittingly unravels the series of events that brought her to the woods and, in doing so, discovers the strength she needs to go back to the home and mother she thought she'd lost. They mark their days only by the sun and the seasons. They repair the hut, bathe in water from the river, hunt and gather food in the summers and almost starve in the harsh winters. Deep in the wilderness, Peggy and James make a life for themselves. ![]() "Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in London to a remote hut in the woods and tells her that the rest of the world has been destroyed. ![]() ![]() He later became a war correspondent, dying of tuberculosis at the age of 28. He used this experience as a starting point for his first novel ‘Maggie: A Girl of the Streets’ (1893), but his breakthrough as an author did not come until his novel ‘The Red Badge for Courage’ (1895). He wrote mainly for New York magazines and newspapers, with specific focus on life in the slums. He began writing as a child, but quit in favour of journalism following the death of his parents. Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was an American naturalist writer and journalist. As he delves into the black depths of both PTSD and trauma, Cranes’ striking descriptions and masterful prose make this captivating novel unmissable for fans of Jack London, John Steinbeck, and Edith Wharton. Stephen Cranes’ classic novel ‘The Red Badge of Courage’ offers us an insight into the mind of a young soldier. ![]() He carries on with the battle at hand, the only way he knows how - fight now, think later. There comes a time in the course of a battle when a soldier leaves his fate in the hands of the Gods of war. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There's a very large river which I hold near and dear to my heart and informs a lot of the things I write about. Nonetheless, the place I was born and raised is a very beautiful place. There's a lot of racial discrimination that happens, but also criminalization. I lived in a trailer park for most of my life in Chamberlain, which is a border town-a term used to describe the white-dominated settlements that ring Indian reservations. I had the fortunate opportunity to live near my dad's family and grow up knowing I was Native, knowing I was Lakota but also coming from a working-class background. My mom is white, and my dad is an enrolled member of the Lower Brule Sioux tribe. That's right across the river from the place where I'm enrolled, the Lower Brule Sioux tribe. ![]() Nick Estes: I was born and raised in a place called Chamberlain, South Dakota, which is on the Missouri River and about 20 miles south of the nearest reservation, Crow Creek Indian Reservation. This transcript has been edited for clarity. Please view them as open invitations to dive deeper into each resource and topic explored. Note: *Our episodes are minimally edited. ![]() |