![]() ![]() Is Gideon Maddox the monster the world believes him to be? And can he stand to let the young seamstress see him as he really is? Her handsome young captor is arrogant and infuriating to the nth degree, and Raven can't imagine working for him, let alone sharing the same space for more than five minutes.īut nothing is ever as it seems. Gideon Maddox agrees, outlining an outrageous demand: Raven must live in his home for a year while she designs for Maddox Industries' clothing line, signing over her creative rights. So Raven volunteers to take his place and offers to repay the debt in order to keep the only father she's ever known out of jail, or worse. Instead of making things easier on the high school senior, her stepdad's drinking leads to a run in with the highly reclusive heir to the Maddox family fortune, Gideon Maddox.īut Raven's stepdad's drying out and in no condition to attend the meeting with Maddox. To make ends meet, Raven works after school as a seamstress creating stunning works of fashion that often rival the great names of the day. But after the death of her mother, seventeen-year-old RAVEN WEATHERSBY gives up her dream of becoming a fashion designer, barely surviving life in the South Carolina lowlands. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, Mandy found that she was just as drawn to the business side of publishing as she was the creative one. She considered a career as a literary agent, and tested the waters by interning for an established New York City agency. The internship confirmed she’d found her passion, and soon after she sought out an agency interested in adding a new agent to their roster. Her work has been translated into a half dozen languages and optioned for film. Her debut novel, Prada and Prejudice,was published by Penguin’s Razorbill books imprint in 2009, and went on to appear in TIME magazine and Entertainment Weekly. She has since written 10 other novels, published by Harlequin, Flux, and Bloomsbury. Mandy began her publishing career on the other side of the desk–as an author. Emerald City Literary Agency launched at the end of 2015, by agency founder Mandy Hubbard. ![]() ![]() “Based on a true story, with dark humour throughout, you will be hooked.” -Prima “Bruce uses a framework of fact to create fiction that horrifies… grisly historical thriller.” -Booklist “Mesmerizing…Fans of fictionalized treatments of notorious murderers will be fascinated.” -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review ![]() A glorious enterprise meant to raise her from the bleak, colorless drudgery of her childhood to the life she deserves. Belle Gunness learned a long time ago that a woman has to make her own way in this world. The good people of Indiana may have their suspicions, but if those fools knew what she’d given up, what was taken from her, how she’d suffered, surely they’d understand. No one sees them at all after they come to call on the Widow of La Porte. Men come to her with their hopes, their dreams–their fortunes. An audacious novel of feminine rage about one of the most prolific female serial killers in American history–and the men who drove her to it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So yes indeed, text-wise, I have definitely very much both appreciated and enjoyed Anthony Manna and Soula Mitakidou's The Orphan: A Cinderella Story from Greece (although I do wish that aside from having the utilised literary sources of this Greek Cinderella variant mentioned, there had also been some information and details regarding the genesis and development of Cinderella-type folktales in general provided, but hey, at least an author's note with more than adequate source acknowledgments has actually been included, and that the authors have also shown how and why they changed certain aspects of the original tales to make their own orphan more active and self-determined is definitely a bonus). ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon thereafter, however, he learns that this decision will delay by at least two years any chance of seeing any actual combat which he, stirred by patriotism and images of heroism on the battlefield, is eager to pursue. ![]() Upon his family’s advice, he takes advantage of the opportunity to enroll in officer training. One year after that that day of infamy, the Mobile, Alabama resident makes the decision to join enlist in the Marine Corps. ![]() Sledge is eager to enlist in the case of saving democracy from the fascist threat following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Įugene B. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() Williams chronicles the 56-million-year journey of horses as she visits with experts around the world, exploring what our biological affinities and differences can tell us about the bond between horses and humans, and what our longtime companion might think and feel. In The Horse, the journalist and equestrienne Wendy Williams brings that story brilliantly to life. Horses have a story to tell, one of resilience, sociability, and intelligence, and of partnership with human beings. The book horse-lovers have been waiting for Williams does a marvelous job." -Pat Shipman, The Wall Street Journal affectionate, thoroughgoing, good-hearted book." **-** Jaimy Gordon, The New York Times Book Review "Love is the driver for Wendy Williams's new book, The Horse. ![]() A New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceĪ Best Book of 2015, The Wall Street Journal ![]() ![]() The tree has been growing since the creation of Oz, and Valynn reveals that if the apples are picked or if the tree died, all magic in Oz would disappear. Exploring the castle, they find a woman named Valynn, the guardian of an enchanted apple tree. While taking a stroll, Dorothy Gale, the Scarecrow and Billina see a castle materializing in front of them. After First closed in 1991 a number of publishers took over their titles and The Enchanted Apples of Oz has been reprinted twice by Dark Horse Comics in 1993 ( ISBN 0915419041) and 1998 ( ISBN 1878574663). The book was released in 1986 as the fifth in First Comics' graphic novel series First Graphic Novel. In this, the earliest of Shanower's many Oz publications, the artist introduced the lushly romantic style of Oz illustration that would distinguish his work in the genre over the next two decades and win substantial critical praise. ![]() ![]() The book tells the story of Valynn, who protects a garden containing an enchanted apple tree, the fruit of which contains the essence of Oz magic. ![]() Frank Baum's Land of Oz world, written by Eric Shanower. The Enchanted Apples of Oz is the first of the modern graphic novels based on American author L. Cover to The Enchanted Apples of Oz ( First Graphic Novel #5), art by Eric Shanower. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tensions at home and school culminate when the band she plays in at her madrassa (Islamic school) is hired to perform at her 10th-grade formal. Passing as "Jamie" is fraught with difficulties: she can't invite friends to her house, lies to cover up her widower dad's strict rules and reveals her true self only to an anonymous boy she meets online (her e-mail address is "Ten_Things_I_Hate_About_Me"). Jamilah Towfeek hides her Lebanese-Muslim background from the other kids at her Australian school "to avoid people assuming I fly planes into buildings as a hobby." She dyes her hair blonde, wears blue contacts and stands by when popular kids make racist remarks. ![]() ![]() ![]() But not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a goo d time is beating up on “greasers” like Ponyboy. ![]() New material from the stars and director of the iconic film-including Francis Ford Coppola, Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon, and othersĬelebrating 50 years of the novel that laid the groundwork for the YA genre, this is the ultimate edition for fans of THE OUTSIDERS. A perfect way to honor this impressive milestone and a must-have for fans of all ages. Photos from the author’s personal collection Original review clippings and media coverage Never before seen photos and letters from the publisher's archives This special edition of the groundbreaking novel contains: ![]() 50 years of an iconic classic! The international bestseller and inspiration for a beloved movie-now with bonus content. ![]() ![]() ![]() Beginning in her sophomore year at the University of Pennsylvania and continuing through her graduate work at Princeton, she observed a group of young men in a neighborhood she pseudonymously called 6th Street. ![]() In the history of academic sociology, ethnographic immersion in social life on “the other side” has been an important contributor to political culture in the US, going back to studies of gangs and “vice” institutions in the 1920s, through Becker’s and others’ studies of “deviance” in the 1950s and 1960s… I see Alice in that tradition and fear that academic sociologists, the great majority of whom work at a much safer distance from the people they write about, who indeed spend virtually all of their research life within the halls of academe, will become very wary of fieldwork that takes the researcher intimately into social worlds that are rife with what the government considers crime. On the Run is the story of the six years Goffman spent conducting an ethnographic study in a poor black community in West Philadelphia. In On The Run, Alice Goffman focuses on a particular group of young Black men living in a poor neighborhood, struggling to live a good and fair life. As someone who, in order to inform policy and advance sociological knowledge, promotes close-up descriptions of social life through immersion fieldwork, I’m concerned about the potential of this controversy to quash the whole field of participant observation research in areas of social life that the government considers rife with criminality. ![]() |