![]() ![]() What he isn't prepared for is the sacrifice he'll have to make to save the kingdom.This quest isn't what Rhianne and Werian believed it to be, and if they don't figure out how to rescue themselves and Lore, it won't only be a legendary love lost, the entire kingdom will disappear into the void. He was meant for adventure such as this and doesn't mind dodging dangerous spells. The ancients present a magical wand to Rhianne, setting the young woman on the path to raise a new Matchweaver.The Matchweaver sets a deadly darkness to spread across the kingdom, and Rhianne has days to raise the new Matchweaver or everyone in Lore will die.Although horrified at the darkness unspooling across the land, Prince Werian is rather delighted at the turn of events. The Matchweaver rages at the match, and her fit angers the ancients who crafted it. Sounds great to Rhianne, but the Matchweaver has big plans for the prince, and they don't involve a lowly cobbler. The Matchweaver witch's magical loom reveals Rhianne is fated for the most powerful fae prince in. ![]() ![]() When outcast cobbler Rhianne braves the enchanted wood to find her fated love, absolutely everything that could go wrong does. ![]()
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![]() The plain black font employs the use of bolding for emphasis this is a book meant to be read out loud. The letters slant to and fro as they climb the tree, giving the impression of movement. Lois Ehlert’s bright and eye-catching illustrations use hot pink and orange polka-dotted borders to decorate each page the coconut tree is a bright green and brown, and the letters are brightly colored, set against a stark white background so that they truly pop from the page. It is a playground collision put to paper! They can repeat the phrase, “Chicka chicka boom, boom, will there be enough room?” throughout a reading, and will enjoy the story’s rhythm as it proceeds, sympathizing with the lower case letters when they tumble to the ground and are comforted by their upper-case parents, aunts, and uncles. ![]() The story is an enduring classic, told in a rhyme that children will be able to pick up and repeat in no time. ![]() Upper-case parents and guardians come to the rescue. ![]() This award-winning classic sees the lowercase letters of the alphabet racing up a coconut tree, with a consequence that preschoolers can relate to. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ildiko and Brishen end up meeting each other before their wedding. In this story Ildiko and Brishen take up both roles of beauty and beast. ![]() This story is similar to that of Beauty and the Beast. “Had you crawled out from under my bed as a child, I would have bludgeoned you to death with my father’s mace.” ![]() And you? You don’t think me a handsome man?” The two couldn’t be anymore physically different from each other. While Ildiko would look like any normal human women, the Kai are grey skinned with all yellow eyes, claws, and fangs meant for tearing flesh. They find each other hideous to look at but are able to connect on a deeper level from the minute they meet. Although both come from Royal lines, neither are of much importance to their families other than to lock in an alliance between the kingdom of Gaur and the Kai.īoth Ildiko and Brishen agree to a marriage between the two. Brishen is prince of the Kai, where Ildiko is a human from the kingdom of Gaur. Radiance is the story of Brishen Khaskem and Ildiko. Radiance is a beautiful love story that will leave you breathless! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When misadventure strikes at a house party, these two are thrown together even as their lives are upended. Neither will be easy, given his past and the prejudices of the upper echelons of society to which he belongs. It's time to turn his life around to please his noble father-and that means restoring his abandoned legal career and making a marriage of convenience. A London riot awakens Edward to the responsibilities due his family name. Now she's determined to follow God's leading to make a better world for the poor and dispossessed around her. Rather than pining after his perhaps unworthy love, she decides to turn her focus toward living out her newfound faith. Yet despite his fondness for females, he never seems to see her as anything more than the quiet younger sister, and nothing Cecy does has changed that. ![]() Her love has persevered over many years, even when he grows to be a bit of a rake. Will a shrinking violet and a prodigal son come together to better their world? Cecilia Hatherleigh has many secrets in her shy, sweet heart-but none bigger than her unrequited love for Edward Amherst, the earl's son next door. ![]() ![]() Then she finds something unexpected: a four-year-old boy washes up on the shore, his dreadlocked hair matted with shells. Now when she has a hot flash and feels a tingling in her hands, she knows it’s a lost object calling to her. The second drama: she’s starting menopause. First is the death of her father, who raised her alone until a pregnant Calamity rejected him when she was sixteen years old. Calamity, a woman as contrary as the tides around her Caribbean island home, is confronting two of life’s biggest dramas. When objects begin appearing out of nowhere, Calamity knows that the special gift she has not felt since childhood has returned-her ability to find lost things. Followed by an entire grove of cashew trees. Then, a blue and white dish she hasn’t seen in years. ![]() First it’s her mother’s missing gold brooch. ![]() ![]() ![]() I could feel their discomfort as I tried to secure a seat, though it was uncomfortable for me, too, to have come searching for community and instead be seen as an interloper. In the gaming room, I found myself surrounded entirely by men. But even on this small scale, the activities were deeply segregated. ![]() I had attended a small convention when I was fourteen, a laidback production at a local polytechnic university where five classrooms had been converted to showcase manga and cosplay accessories. The truth was that I was going to Comic Con.Īt the time, my experience with conventions was limited. A few nights after a former employee broke in and robbed the place, I called in to work and said I had a family emergency. ![]() I felt rootless, desperate not for religion, but for something adjacent to it-a congregation, a fervent, communal cause. I knew how to deescalate when they pulled knives or threatened to have me fired for insufficient whipped cream. I knew about their marriages and the make and models of their first cars. Serving coffee turned out to be less about coffee and more about managing customers’ emotional needs. In hindsight, I can see that I was depressed, but a public-facing job always complicates this. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() " Cooper offers interpretations of how the rule is stated in the holy books of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and other major religions. "Visually energetic paintings and a reassuring story fortify Cooper's (Jewish Holidays All Year Round) assertion (in an author's note) that the Golden Rule is an "underlying moral principle found in almost every religion and culture. Illustrated by Gabi Swiatkowska winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Best New Illustrator Award. Fortunately, following the Golden Rule is something everyone can do, which means that every person-old or young, rich or poor-can be a part of making the world a better place. It's golden because it's so valuable, and a way of living your life that's so simple, it shines." And though it may be a simple rule, it isn't easy to follow. But what does it really mean? And how do you follow it? In this gorgeously illustrated book, a grandfather explains to his grandson that the Golden Rule means you "treat people the way you would like to be treated. This book is a gentle reminder of a timeless rule for parent and child: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.Įveryone knows a version of the Golden Rule. ![]() ![]() The MIT Press has been a leader in open access book publishing for over two decades, beginning in 1995 with the publication of William Mitchell’s City of Bits, which appeared simultaneously in print and in a dynamic, open web edition.Ĭollaborating with authors, instructors, booksellers, librarians, and the media is at the heart of what we do as a scholarly publisher. Today we publish over 30 titles in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. MIT Press began publishing journals in 1970 with the first volumes of Linguistic Inquiry and the Journal of Interdisciplinary History. International Affairs, History, & Political Science. ![]() ![]() MIT Press Direct is a distinctive collection of influential MIT Press books curated for scholars and libraries worldwide. ![]() ![]() ![]() 21 in Tokyo, said Tracy Roberts, her studio manager. ![]() Ishioka, 73, a longtime New York City resident whose convention-defying, award-winning career expanded in the 1980s to include design work for Broadway and the movies, died of pancreatic cancer Jan. In a longer commercial, actress Faye Dunaway wearing black against a black background, silently gazes at the camera as she slowly peels a hard-boiled egg and then starts eating it as the camera moves in for a close-up. Then a voice-over says: “Life is short, the night is long.” ![]() In one 15-second spot, a silver-haired British rake nonchalantly tosses his champagne glass overboard and makes his move on a dainty young Japanese woman. As Japan’s preeminent graphic designer and art director in the 1970s and early ‘80s, Eiko Ishioka helped build her reputation by heading media campaigns for Parco, a major boutique shopping complex chain.īut instead of focusing on fashion or other merchandise in ads, promotional posters and commercials, Ishioka sold Parco to the public with attention-grabbing, often sensual visual images. ![]() ![]() ![]() "A double-double Whopper hot from the grill of "America's literary boogeyman," as he puts it in his introduction: four sizzling horror novellas sandwiched within the theme of "Time.and the corrosive effects it can have on the human heart." Sure, they're dripping with excess wordage and high-calorie sentiment, but cut away the fat and there's still more steak here than in any other horror book of the year. ![]() Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. ![]() Black cloth boards with embossed SK, title in gold on spine. There is a neatly inked gift inscription (1990) on FEP. All my copies from different sources show endpapers overglued to front flyleaf, so I assume this was a publishing run error and not a repair. ![]() Fine first edition in a fine dust jacket. ![]() |