![]() Empress Orchid is the story of this fascinating, strong-willed woman who, for generations has been vilified as a grand seductress and murderess. Little does she know that China will collapse around her, and she will be its last Empress. Determined not to be a victim of the jealousies and foul play, Orchid trains herself in the art of pleasing a man, bribes her way into the royal bed and seduces the monarch. The thousands of concubines will go to any lengths to bear the Emperor a son and become his Empress. The world inside the Forbidden City is erotically charged and highly ritualised, but beneath its immaculate face lie whispers of murder and ghosts. Orchid, a beautiful seventeen-year-old from an aristocratic, but impoverished family, is pushed into the maelstrom when she finds herself unexpectedly chosen to become a lower-ranking concubine of the Emperor. Trade in Opium with Europe is slowly corroding the power of the Ch'ing Dynasty. ![]() ![]() It is the final days of the Chinese Empire. "A stunning tale of power, love, politics and a world that is lost forever. Plan of the Forbidden City, xiii + 336pp, hardcover in fine dustwrapper. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work.ĭrawing on the black feminist tradition, including Audre Lourde’s invitation to use the erotic as power and Toni Cade Bambara’s exhortation that we make the revolution irresistible, the contributors to this volume take up the challenge to rethink the ground rules of activism. ![]() ![]() ![]() As these snarling, teeth-bared delusions begin to take shape in the sculptures she makes in a trance-like state, her fiancé is convinced she needs help from a professional. Soon Lila feels haunted from within, terrorized by a delicious evil that shows her how to find her voice-until she's in danger for using it.Ģ004: Caroline Sawyer sees dogs everywhere that no one else seems to notice. ![]() But when young women around her begin dying, wild speculation ensues. Young women who refuse to conform and don't know when to shut up.Ģ019: Thirteen-year-old Lila Sawyer has secrets she can't share with anyone. He's known as The Cur, and he leaves no trace-except for the victims he most viciously slays every fifteen years. In this biting and electrifying novel from bold horror talent Kristi DeMeester, there's something out there that's murdering young women-until an overwhelmed mother and her secretive daughter refuse to live without answers any longer. ![]() This one will cut you." - Christopher Golden Named one of Esquire's Best Horror of the Year One of Goodreads Most Popular Horror of 2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() Katharine is a poisoner, one who can ingest the deadliest poisons without so much as a stomachache. Mirabella is a fierce elemental, able to spark hungry flames or vicious storms at the snap of her fingers. In every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born-three queens, all equal heirs to the crown and each possessor of a coveted magic. Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns #1) by Kendare Blake ![]() So, I made up my mind, bought English version, re-read the first two books in English and finished the rest of the books.ġ. First, because Three Dark Crowns is one of my few earliest book when I started reading outside my comfort zone genre *cough* thriller *cough*īut aside from Three Dark Crowns and One Dark Throne, I haven’t finished the rest of the sequels because I bought the first two books in Indonesia language and decided to wait for Indonesian publisher to published the rest.īecause reading one series with two different language is confusing *duh*īut it has been years and there’s still no news about the publication in Indonesia. ![]() ![]() Basically, this series hold some special place inside my heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of my goals is to have done the research and made the connections between Brown’s fiction and the facts. Dan Brown actually mentions the two sites above along with the Princeton Dante Project in his acknowledgements. In the digital age one might begin with either The Digital Dante Project, or the World of Dante, a multimedia project for interested readers and scholars alike. What is the casual reader to do, especially one who has access to Dante only in translation, not in the original Italian?ĭante’s image also appears in one the Facebook page, and it will adorn the dustcover of the US version of the original publication. ![]() Scholars have spent lifetimes on this writer and the old card catalog of the Italian National Library contains two draws of references to works by and about him. With this new novel, I am excited to take readers on a journey deep into this mysterious realm… a landscape of codes, symbols, and more than a few secret passageways.” “Although I studied Dante’s Inferno in high school, it wasn’t until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante’s work on the modern world. Dan Brown has already referenced Dante and his Inferno. ![]() ![]() Only later, when she had time, would she think about her poor Briar Rose and how it was possible that none of them had seen this darkness within their adopted daughter. The golden sparks that represented her loosely held together consciousness barely glittered in the gloom that blanketed the world. Flora bounced through dream forests and nightmare castles, fogs of worry and large blank places of stark depression and madness. ![]() The sleeper tossed and turned and moaned because of whatever had happened in there, and her pricked finger had started bleeding again. It was a terrible place, this inside of her adopted niece’s head, with the evil fairy running rampant in it. She had broken off a piece of her soul and sent it into the sleeping nether realm Maleficent ruled. Flora stayed as calm as she could in the midst of it, hovering in the air, willing the universe to help her as she tried to reach Rose again. ![]() ![]() Nothing worked, and sometimes all it seemed to do was prolong their agony. Fauna and Merryweather flew around, frantically trying to tend to them, staunching the wounds with clean bandages here, trying a healing spell there. They thrashed and gasped and choked like fish thrown out on dry land. As midnight approached, first one and then another and then another court noble suddenly began to start bleeding. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her love of animals leads her into a rather sexy introduction to our hero Gabriel Duke. Lady Penelope loves animals.specifically wounded and abandoned animals. I cannot say a bad thing about any of her books and this one ranks top too. ![]() Tessa Dare has proven once again why she is one of the BEST historical romance writers of all nsistency. ![]() Now she’s set her mind and heart on saving him. Soon he’s covered in cat hair, knee-deep in adorable, and bewitched by a shyly pretty spinster who defies his every attempt to resist. How hard can it be to find homes for a few kittens?Įasier said than done, for a cold-blooded bastard who wouldn’t know a loving home from a workhouse. She will part with her precious charges, if he can find them loving homes.ĭone, Gabriel says. ![]() When her imposing-and attractive-new neighbor demands she clear out the rescued animals, Penny sets him a challenge. Loyal and passionate, Lady Penelope Campion never met a lost or wounded creature she wouldn’t take into her home and her heart. Wealthy and ruthless, Gabriel Duke clawed his way from the lowliest slums to the pinnacle of high society-and now he wants to get even. To an undaunted wallflower, he's just the beast next door. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() List of the best superheroes with beards: 10. Beast Boy has appeared in Teen Titans and Teen Titans in Tokyo. ![]() ![]() Jean Grey Storm Mystique Hope Summers Psylocke Destiny Jubilee All items (181) # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other A Adrienne Frost Amanda Sefton Amelia Voght Angel Salvadore Annalee Arclight Ariel Armor Astra Astrid Bloom Aurora B Beautiful Dreamer Bei the Blood Moon Bellona Big Bertha Birdy Black Womb Blindfold … 99+ Photos Adventure Comedy Sci-Fi A teacher is asked to be a superhero using a special alien suit with powers he can barely understand or control. According to some stories, his baldness first happened because Leo Nowak, the artist on the Superman newspaper comic strip, confused him with another bald character. ![]() ![]() ![]() The issue at hand is the arrival of thought that brings the animal nature to man to explain away religion, because religion is the only thing that explains what it is to be man. Man has always been man with his flaws, solutions, mistakes, and creativity. ![]() Human civilization just like wars are constructed by the victors – however that view is a modern one. Chesterton brings the argument away from the time battle to the issue of ‘Is there really a difference between us in the present and those in the past?’ Chapter 2: Professors and Prehistoric Men By changing the time-frame, playing the blame game, changing a optimizing decision to a sufficiency decision, the issue is left behind. In argumentation there is a tactic known as a time shift – a ‘red herring’ where the scope of an issue is trumped by the chronology of the issue. The slow development of man is in fact more illogical than a swift development, the time of the process has nothing to do with the process itself. The cave man is a man like us because of his art, it is only the misrepresentation of the man of science that makes the ‘pre-historic’ man an animal. Whereas Orthodoxy detailed Chesterton’s own spiritual journey, in this book he tries to illustrate the spiritual journey of humanity, or at least of Western civilization. The Everlasting Man is a two-part history of mankind, Christ, and Christianity, by G. Attributed work at: Introduction: The Plan of This Book ![]() ![]() ![]() "The Adventures of Ook and Gluk," published in 2010, was a spinoff of sorts of his popular "Captain Underpants" series that featured a time-traveling caveman who trains at Master Wong's School of Kung Fu. Pilkey publicly apologized and gave his full support to the halting of publication and distribution of the book. Now a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Selection A gripping mystery about a woman who thinks shes found the love of her life - until he disappears. Pilkey's publisher Scholastic pulled one of his books in March because it said the book perpetuated passive racism. The book became an instant 1 New York Times Bestseller and spent 65 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. ![]() Though, much like 2021 itself, the year didn't bring all good news for the author. The Last Thing He Told Me is a mystery-thriller novel by Laura Dave, published by Simon & Schuster. 28 and "Cat Kid Comic Club: Perspective" at No. 32 "Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls" at No. ![]() In addition to "Mothering Heights," Pilkey earned top spots for "Dog Man: Grime and Punishment" at No. 2021 was a pretty good year for author Dav Pilkey. Not only is his children's book "Dog Man: Mothering Heights" USA TODAY's bestselling book of the year, but he also followed up the achievement with four more of his books landing in the Top 1, more than any other author. ![]() |