![]() With a wealthy best friend and a newly acquired doctor pal who is not susceptible to her formidable allure, she sets out to right wrongs but is abducted by Nostro, a tacky 500-year-old vampire who rules the undead roost. Her mother is glad she is back, albeit as a vampire, but her stepmother is enraged that Betsy has reclaimed her designer-shoe collection. Plot summary īetsy Taylor-former model, newly unemployed secretary, 30, and still single-wakes up after being flattened by a Pontiac Aztek in a tacky coffin wearing cheap knock-off shoes. The book was released on Mathrough Berkley Books and was on the Maclean's bestseller list for April 4, 2004. It is the first adventure of Elizabeth Anne "Betsy" Taylor in the Undead series after her transformation into a vampire. ![]() ![]() Undead and Unwed is a paranormal romance novel by MaryJanice Davidson. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Votive Crown takes the reader from the medieval nation of Visigothic Spain to the early Byzantine wars. But when corruption is king, friendship is fragile - and loyalty a choice. His friend, wild, silent Laelia, is unsure of her betrothal to the aristocratic Theo.Then Oppa, scheming son of the new Visigoth king, comes south, hungry for riches and for blood.The fate of their country hangs in the balance. As adults, their decisions will determine the fate of a crumbling kingdom.Yosef is preparing to leave Granada on a trading mission to the East. A despicable act by the king's bastard son changes their destinies forever. Spain, AD 687 In the southern province of Granada, three children form an unlikely friendship. From the author of Slow Journey South and Sahara comes the first in an epic series spanning the fall of Visigothic Spain and rise of Arabic Al Andalus. ![]() ![]() ![]() Having finally worked up the courage to leave her life in Massachusetts, she's determined to find a place where people will value her for more than her looks. ![]() Julia Lockwood has never been anything more than a pretty pawn for her father or a business acquisition for her former fiancé. She's the prettiest woman he's ever seen, and it's just not possible she's there to marry a simple homesteader like him. When a well-meaning neighbor goes behind his back to bring yet another mail-order bride to town, he has good reason to doubt it will work, especially after getting a glimpse at the woman in question. Although Everett Cline can hardly keep up with the demands of his homestead, he won't humiliate himself by looking for a helpmate ever again-not after being jilted by three mail-order brides. ![]() ![]() Destroy that egg! Today! Today! Today I say! Without delay!”Ĩ. I will not take them soft or scrambled/Despite an argument well-rambled. District Court Judge James Muirhead wrote. Writing in rhyme, the judge ordered the egg destroyed: “I do not like eggs in the file,” U.S. A federal judge used “Green Eggs and Ham” as an inspiration in a 2007 court order after receiving a hard-boiled egg in the mail from an inmate protesting his diet in prison. A number of famous chefs have been inspired to create recipes for green eggs and ham, including Martha Stewart, Rachael Ray and Paula Deen.ħ. 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When Ismene timidly refuses to defy the king, Antigone angrily rejects her and goes off alone to bury her brother.Ĭreon discovers that someone has attempted to offer a ritual burial to Polynices and demands that the guilty one be found and brought before him. Outraged, Antigone reveals to Ismene a plan to bury Polynices in secret, despite Creon's order. Furthermore, Creon has declared that anyone attempting to bury Polynices shall be publicly stoned to death. Outside the city gates, Antigone tells Ismene that Creon has ordered that Eteocles, who died defending the city, is to be buried with full honors, while the body of Polynices, the invader, is left to rot. Polynices and his brother Eteocles, however, are both dead, killed by each other, according to the curse of Oedipus, their father. Ritual and Transcendence in the Oedipus TrilogyĪfter the bloody siege of Thebes by Polynices and his allies, the city stands unconquered.The Power of Fate in the Oedipus Trilogy.Summary and Analysis: Oedipus at Colonus. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even though Mrs de Winter encounters Mrs. ![]() Danvers the day after the disastrous costume ball. There’s not much for you to live for, is there? Why don’t you jump now and have done with it? Then you won’t be unhappy any more. What’s the use of your staying here at Manderley? You’re not happy. This serves to produce an air of mystery around the house Manderley and forces the reader to question, “What is Manderley, and what is so special about it?” Manderley, the predominant setting of the novel is also introduced to us in this line, although we are not told anything more than its name. The heroine utters this line right at the beginning, and we sense that there is some amount of longing in her voice as she speaks of her dream. This line is written in poetic prose which immediately sets the romantic tone of the novel. This is the very first line of the book, ‘ Rebecca,’ and arguably one of the most famous quotes from the novel. Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again A hauntingly beautiful tale of suspense with a hint of macabre, this novel has a number of memorable quotes that capture the essence of the novel perfectly. ![]() As she moves into the wealthy and beautiful estate of Manderley, she begins to be haunted by the ghost of her husband’s ex-wife, Rebecca. A chilling tale of romance and mystery, ‘ Rebecca‘ narrates the story of a young female narrator who marries an older woman. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many have made it onto the CBC’s Diversity Bookshelf, and several have been listed as Amelia Bloomer Project Recommended Feminist Books for Youth. Goosebottom Books’ princesses, dames, and goddesses hail from around the globe and across different epochs of history. ![]() The Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Dastardly Dames was named a Top 10 Nonfiction Series of 2012 by the ALA’s Booklist Magazine, and Call Me Ixchel, Mayan Goddess of the Moon, one of A Treasury of Glorious Goddesses, was named one of Foreword Reviews’ Top 10 Middle Grade Novels of 2013. Since then, the press has won national and international awards and accolades for each subsequent series. Dedicated to fun non-fiction and the concept of “stealth education,” Goosebottom Books launched its first series, The Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Real Princesses, in 2010. Goosebottom Books is a small press founded by Shirin Yim Bridges, award-winning author of Ruby’s Wish and The Umbrella Queen. 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A great, hilarious new voice in fiction: the poignant, all-too-human recollections of an affable bird researcher in the Indiana backwater as he goes through. Even when he moves away from his home town, Nathan cannot quite escape the place that shaped him. Kimberling creates these unlikely anecdotes with a light touch, ensuring they are witty, observant and critical all at the same time. From Nathan's perspective, Indiana is an enchanting mess of contradictions, "my own lifelong imbroglio", a place where thumbs risk being nipped off by turtles, the Ku Klux Klan might invite you round for tea and where present requests to the town of Santa Claus always get an answer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is introduced to the family by twelve year old Edith Wharton, or E.D., as she Their creative passions seem to divide the family,īut when a theatrical crisis occurs, the Applewhites have to pull together and Each person in this extended family has suchĪ distinctive personality that their individual stories are quite interesting. Idiosyncratic is the word that expresses theĪ few members can even be described as egocentric. “Embrace everyone and everything that helps you become a better version of yourself and you will live a life uncommon.” – Matthew Kelly Īpplewhite family can be described as unique or extraordinary, but those words reallyĭon’t capture the nature of the family well enough. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gr 7 Up-For sophomore Lara Kelly, things are finally looking up-she's feeling more confident after losing weight and she made the varsity cheerleading team, which she never would have imagined two years earlier when she was overweight and severely depressed. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() Not even Bree.Īs online life collides with real life, the truth starts to come together and the backlash is even more devastating than anyone could have imagined. Lara's not nearly as great as everyone thinks.Īfter weeks of talking online, Lara thought she knew Christian, so what's with this sudden change? And where does he get off saying horrible things on her wall? Even worse - are they true?īut no one realized just how far Christian's harsh comments would push Lara. Bree's secretly glad that Christian's pointed out Lara's flaws to the world. She's worked really hard since starting high school to be happy and make new friends.īree used to be BBFs with overweight, depressed Lara in middle school, but constantly listening to Lara's problems got to be too much. It's been a long time since Lara's felt this bad, this depressed. She thought that Christian liked her, that he was finally going to ask her to his school's homecoming dance. ![]() |