![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Girls of Fate and Fury Light blue Hachette logo with icon and text. ![]() ![]() With the two girls torn apart and each in great peril, will they reunite at last, or have their destinies diverged forever? The epic romance of Lei and Wren comes to a breathtaking conclusion in the explosive finale to the acclaimed, New York Times best-selling Girls of Paper and Fire series. The last time Lei saw the girl she loved, Wren was fighting an army of soldiers in a furious battle to the death. She cannot be trapped there with the sadistic king again, especially without Wren. The trauma and tragedy she suffered behind those opulent walls will plague her forever. There's one thing Lei knows - she can never return to the Hidden Palace. You're going home.' The jaw-dropping conclusion to Girls of Storm and Shadow left the fates of Lei and Wren hanging in the balance. ![]() It's time to take you back to the Hidden Palace. The epic romance of Lei and Wren comes to a breathtaking conclusion in the explosive finale to the acclaimed. The epic romance of Lei and Wren comes to a breathtaking conclusion in the explosive finale to the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling Girls of Paper and Fire series. ![]()
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With sharp and accurate arguments across a range of different text and formats, she applies the materialist feminist theory of sex and gender, for which she is best known, to questions of race and ‘othering’, and, in doing so, lays out the premiss for a new universal political project that sacrifices no one at the expense of others. ![]() Having co-founded the journal Nouvelles Questions feministes with Simone de Beauvoir over four decades ago, Delphy remains one of the most influential and controversial feminist thinkers in France. ![]() For those who are already acquainted with Christine Delphy’s work, Separate and Dominate is a long-awaited publication. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now the wealthy owner of Comanche Wells ranch, Jason has finally come back home, and discovered that the little girl he knew is all grown up. Though Gracie hadn’t seen him in years, when her mother passed away, Jason ensured that Gracie would be cared for. 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Gloryanne is smart, savvy, and fiercely independent, but her job has put her in danger from the same criminal Rodrigo is investigating. ![]() ![]() Rodrigo Ramirez is sent undercover as an itinerant laborer on Gloryanne Barnes’s stepbrother’s farm in Jacobsville, where he’s looking to bust a new and vicious cartel operating south of the border. ![]() ![]() The first half of the book focuses on Ephram's journey through town, the cake on full display, as he withstands the jeers and cruelty of the townspeople. ![]() All save Ephram Jennings, who promptly returns home, asks his sister to bake her famous white lay angel cake, and rises the next morning to bring it to Ruby. The book opens with Ruby Bell wetting herself in the street as the men circle on a center-of-town porch, jeering and judging. Certainly, Ruby by Cynthia Bond was all the talk of the Oprah airwaves in 2015, and I chose it for this twelfth installment. ![]() Compassion, community, family, love, magic realism, metaphor. 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No, they have to earn it by merit, and yes, sometimes I may bump up the rating a little because I just wanted a happy read and something made me happy-that’s just how I work. And, come on, let’s give me a little credit: I may hand out a lot of 4 and 5 stars, but those books aren’t ever given a 5 based solely on the boys I so fondly adore. before her fiance finds out and everything she's been working toward goes up in flames. Tripping her way through cow pies and country songs to meet up with a man who gets around places on horseback is her very last idea of how to have a good time, but if she's going to get married, make partner at the firm, and have two point five kids before she's thirty-five, she needs to get to the bottom of this snafu and fix it quick. Or someone with her name is married to a guy out in Oregon of all places, and the courthouse won't issue her a marriage license until it's all cleared up. 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The rules of social hierarchy seem an insurmountable barrier to their love, and yet Margarit – an ingénue and burfro or bourgeois – finds herself struggling to understand the feelings she develops for her armin or private duellist. ![]() Set in an imaginary central European state at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the narrative pivots around the actions of two young women brought together by the stipulations of an old aristocrat’s will. The novel is an exquisitely crafted romance, deftly paced and with engaging characters, exciting enough to keep you turning the page, cerebral enough to get you thinking deeply about the culture and politics of the world – or rather the country – which Heather Rose Jones has created. Let’s just say I’d already bought the sequel before finishing Daughter of Mystery simply because I knew I’d be paying another visit to Alpennia shortly. ![]() It’s quite hard to explain how much I loved this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Add to this the main character's desire for inner transformation, and you have a must-read page turner that haunts the reader for months. And it is impossible to determine who is a genuine ally in such a foreign setting. Unexpected changes back home have devastating impacts on the expatriates. ![]() Well-developed characters face life-and-death decisions, and are not always who they seem. The Kurdish Bike is a novel of love, betrayal and redemption. Theresa’s greatest challenge will be balancing respect for local values while trying to introduce more enlightened attitudes toward women - at the same time seeking new spiritual dimensions within herself. She experiences a female bonding that transcends cultures, and a generosity that staggers the imagination. ![]() When she is befriended by a local widow, Theresa is embroiled in the joys and agonies of traditional Kurds, especially the women who survived Saddam’s genocide only to be crippled by age-old restrictions, female genital mutilation (FGM), brutality and honor killings. It is 2010, and Theresa Turner responds to an online ad for “courageous teachers to help rebuild a war-torn country.” Landing in a repressive school for Kurd elites, she yearns to experience the "real” Kurdistan, buys a bicycle, and explores the nearby villages and countryside. Inspired by the incredible true story of an American teacher in northern Iraq, The Kurdish Bike is a gripping, compassionate and often wry tale of adventure set in one of the world’s least understood cultures. ![]() ![]() ![]() Along with the identification of thematic analysis units, the research data are divided into six themes. At the same time, the development of the concept of motherhood, its history, and the discussions of feminist theories on this issue has been included in the relevant literature. In this way, it has been determined how the authors examined are influenced by feminist theories (liberal, existentialist, radical). This study aims to is to reveal how the phenomenon of motherhood, which is a controversial issue, is processed through literary texts together with feminist theories. ![]() These novels are: Tante Rosa, Yürümek, Genç Kız ve Ölüm, Alnında Mavi Kuşlar, Üç Yirmidört Saat, Güz Şarkısı, Bir Yaşdönümü Rüyası ve Güneş Saygılı’nın Gerçek Yaşamı. In this context, two books of each author were considered, and the novels were evaluated using the qualitative content analysis technique. ![]() This research determined, how the representations of motherhood in the novels of Aysel Özakın, Erendiz Atasü, Peride Celal and Sevgi Soysal are processed has been discussed and these representations have been analyzed by feminist theories. ![]() ![]() ![]() Later, she spent some time working as a bookseller at Waterstones over Christmas. The experience during her teaching job made her realize what it meant to be a foreigner. She was employed in China as a teacher of English for 6 weeks. Following her graduation, Pulley began teaching English. ![]() Thereafter, Pulley obtained her master’s degree in creative writing from East Anglia University in 2012. She completed her education in English Literature from Soham Village College, New College, Oxford. ![]() She was born on December 4, 1988, in the United Kingdom. Author Pulley made her debut in the world of publishing in 2015. Winning this award became the highlight of Pulley’s career as she got noticed by the who’s who of the writing world. The first book of this series, having the same name as the series, has won the Betty Trask Award. She is well known for writing The Watchmaker of Filigree Street series. Natasha Pulley is a renowned British author of historical fiction and fantasy stories. ![]() |