![]() ![]() Torn between duty and dizzying emotion, Tania will have to decide where her loyalties lie…or risk losing everything she’s ever wanted. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s kind, charming-and might have information about what really happened to her father. But then she meets Étienne, her target in uncovering a potential assassination plot. With her newfound sisters at her side, Tania feels that she has a purpose, that she belongs. And they don’t shy away from a sword fight. It’s a secret training ground for new Musketeers: women who are socialites on the surface, but strap daggers under their skirts, seduce men into giving up dangerous secrets, and protect France from downfall. But L’Académie des Mariées, Tania realizes, is no finishing school. His dying wish? For Tania to attend finishing school. Then Papa is brutally, mysteriously murdered. Everyone thinks her near-constant dizziness makes her weak, nothing but “a sick girl.” But Tania wants to be strong, independent, a fencer like her father-a former Musketeer and her greatest champion. Tania de Batz is most herself with a sword in her hand. One for All is a gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers, in which a girl with a chronic illness trains as a Musketeer and uncovers secrets, sisterhood, and self-love. ![]()
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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() A place where ‘irrationality’ is a survival mechanism. In Gothic fiction, the truth of feelings is prioritised over the evidence of the senses for once, emotion is proved superior to reason. ![]() Highly overrated book in my opinion, with a goody-two shoes protagonist, a highly problematic romantic hero and a pretty repugnant dose of racism. Moody, evocative, Romantic, settings of tragically decaying grandeur and wonderfully flawed characters…I love the tropes of this genre (the only exception is Jane Eyre. I do, however, have a weakness for Gothic literature. I find a lot of it to be uncomfortable, exploitative and predictable. I like the occasional creepy Halloween episode, creature feature and Bioshock but it’s not my favourite genre in any medium. I’m not personally a connoisseur of horror, or any of its sub-genres. ![]() ![]() NOTE: This is a semi-spoiler free review – I will be talking about theme, characters and my thoughts on the book, which reveals a few details about the nature of the antagonist, but does not give away the ending. Sometimes on a hot, sunny day in Summer, what you really need is a chilling slice of gothic fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's all the same stuff I've come to expect from this title. Everything mentioned above? Great, good, awesome. They have something very precious of hers, and they know she'll do anything to get back.Īnyone who's been reading this title can probably guess what I'm talking about, but I'm trying not to be all spoilery. It seemed like a no-brainer that she'd refuse, but Bones had an ace in the hole. They want Batman unmasked, but it appears that this vigilante has all his bases covered. In the Killer Croc one-shot, you get a look at how Maggie is fully capable of not only taking care of herself, but also stepping up to help take care of Batwoman. And I liked how she immediately has her back. ![]() Now that Maggie knows that Kate is Batwoman, there's definitely a deeper layer to everything. ![]() It starts off with Kate and Maggie still struggling with the repercussions of the battle with Medusa, but their relationship seems strong enough to overcome it. This was another excellent volume of Batwoman, and you really have to credit the creative team that put it together. ![]() ![]() At book's end, Little Brownmouse proves she is indeed her mother's daughter. Brownmouse gives her daughter a piggyback ride home against a crimson sky, on their way back from a walk in the woods. His larger-scale pictures (which he varies with spot illustrations) speak of a safe, idyllic life. 11) sweet, downy watercolors exude the bottomless affection and unfettered glee shared by mother and daughter. Williams's ( Tumble Me Tumbily, Children's Forecasts, Nov. Brownmouse wisely doesn't acquiesce-she always responds with a calm but firm "Hmm, not now, because right now it's time for." another task on the day's agenda-but she clearly knows how to make a family "to do" list fun. Brownmouse responds with a playful splash, which prompts her daughter's favorite request: "Let's do thatĪgain!" Mrs. ![]() Little Brownmouse made a big splashĪnd soaked her!" Mrs. ![]() As she soaks in her teacup bathtub, "Just when Mrs. Just ask Little Brownmouse, who would like nothing better than a reprise of anything fun but never seems to get one. Repetition is the source of a child's delight in Oram's (the Princess Chamomile books) heartwarming if familiar tale. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Really, Leopold, marry the psychotic blonde, why don't you? Idiot. "Apparently even the mighty Duke of Villiers is susceptible to idiocy. ![]() But it is not until he's in a duel to the death, fighting for the reputation of the woman he loves, that Villiers finally realizes that the greatest risk may not be in the dueling field. Torn between logic and passion, between intelligence and imagination, Villiers finds himself drawn to the very edge of impropriety. Half the ton believes Lisette mad-and Villiers is inclined to agree. She's engaged to another man, and doesn't give a fig for status or title. Lisette, the outspoken daughter of the Duke of Gilner, cares nothing for clothing or decorum. Villiers betroths himself to her without further ado.Īfter all, no other woman really qualifies. The Duke of Montague's daughter, Eleanor, is exquisitely beautiful and fiercely intelligent. Leopold Dautry, the notorious Duke of Villiers, must wed quickly and nobly-and his choices, alas, are few. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So far he doesnt do too much, but hes cute. ![]() Archy dropped thirty dollars of Aishas money on diapers, wipes, formula, bottles, and a package of Nuk nipples≺isha gave him a listthen sat down right there on the bus bench in front of the Walgreens, where he and Rolando English changed themselves some foul-smelling diaper, had a little snack, Archy working his way through a bag of glazed holes from the United Federation of Donuts, Rolando English obliged to content himself with a pony of Gerber Good Start. So he and Rolando had made an excursion up to Walgreens, Archy not at all minding the walk on such a fine August morning. Archys wife was expecting their first child, and it was Archys notion that, given the imminence of paternity, he might get in some practice before the first of October, their due date, maybe ease the shock of finding himself, at the age of thirty-six, a practicing father. Archy had offered to take Rolando off Aishas hands for the morning, maybe pick up a few items the baby required, and so forth. Rolando Englishs mother, Aisha, was a daughter of the King of Bling. Archy hefted Rolando English and heard a satisfying slosh from inside. ![]() Archy looked down at Rolando English, a rusty young man with a sweet mouth and soft brown ringlety curls all sweaty and stuck to the side of his head, stuffed into a blue onesie, then wrapped in a yellow cotton blanket. ![]() ![]() Olga Popova joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 2021. Her research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Public Economics, Economic Inquiry, Small Business Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, European Journal of Political Economy, and Ecological Economics. Popova’s research interests are health and environmental economics, economic history, regional and individual inequalities, and sustainable economic development. She has also served as a consultant for the World Bank and is currently a co-head of the Economics Section within the German Association for East European Studies (DGO). Popova is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Population Economics, Comparative Southeast European Studies, and the Journal of Happiness Studies. olgapopova6 23 views olgapizdova 2050 views Sounds Sviridov: Choral Concerto without Words in Memory of Alexander Yurlov (1973) - 2. RePEc ranks Olga Popova in the top 9% female economists globally (based on publications in the last 10 years).ĭr. ![]() She is also a Research Associate at CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences. Olga Popova is a Senior Researcher (with tenure) in the Department of Economics at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS, Regensburg). ![]() ![]() Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive, The Destiny of the Republic will stand alongside The Devil in the White City and The Professor and the Madman as a classic of narrative history. As his condition worsened, Garfield received help: Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, worked around the clock to invent a new device capable of finding the bullet. The pages that Millard devotes to the inner workings of the Republican Party. A team of physicians administered shockingly archaic treatments, to disastrous effect. Destiny of the Republic soars as serious presidential history: it’s intimate and compelling without being shallow. The unhinged assassin's half-delivered strike shattered the fragile national mood of a country so recently fractured by civil war, and left the wounded president as the object of a bitter behind-the-scenes struggle for powerover his administration, over the nation's future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. The drama of what happened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation in turmoil. But four months after his inauguration, a deranged office seeker tracked Garfield down and shot him in the back.īut the shot didn't kill Garfield. ![]() Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Garfield may have been the most extraordinary man ever elected president. ![]() ![]() He suggests that Identity Politics, a Western import, is congenial to Chinese Communist Party rule in Hong Kong. The author describes how, and explains why, journalists in Hong Kong acted with greater defiance than professors did. A case of surveillance in Lingnan University, the author’s former place of employment, is related and its implications considered. Students were the most defiant actors of all until university managements severed ties with their students’ unions, effectively defunding them. Faculty rapidly capitulated to government and management edicts, though locals showed more grit than expatriates did. Senior management responded to the new law by disciplining students, monitoring faculty, and cleansing universities of anything deemed hostile to the new order. ![]() ![]() The author examines the impact of that law on the conduct of university senior managements, on local and expatriate faculty, and on students. ![]() How did Hong Kong’s transition from a largely free, semi-independent city to a full-blown Communist Party dictatorship affect its academic life? A watershed moment was Beijing’s imposition, in June 2020, of a National Security Law. ![]() |